Today, when people stroll along River Road in Boerne, watch ducks on Cibolo Creek or stop beside the dam at River Road Park, few probably realize that they are looking at a surviving piece of one of Boerne’s earliest business enterprises. Long before restaurants, shops and automobiles lined the creek, water flowing through that same … Read more
During the war years (WWII) I worked after school for Bert Coryell at the old Riverside Grocery. There was never a finer man than Bert. We sold groceries, gasoline, livestock feeds, sodas, and meats. If Bert could have ever collected all the money owed him he would have been a wealthy man. He never refused … Read more
Glynn Praesel won his first buckle in Kendall County on the seventh bucking horse he ever climbed on. Forty-three years later, he’ll tell you he has failed more than he has succeeded, and that he is still more afraid of not living than of dying. Glynn Praesel was 19 and on the seventh bucking horse … Read more
Kendall County has a growing, amazing cocktail scene, with local bars, nearby distilleries, and stores offering great options. The number of places to grab a cocktail with a meal or sit at a bar sipping a concoction has increased dramatically in the last few years. After a long day of work and sitting in traffic, … Read more
For Officer Brady Lastinger, moving to Boerne was a decision made by faith. Becoming a Boerne police officer was the fulfillment of a calling he had carried much longer. Lastinger grew up in Newport Beach, California, where he earned a business management degree from Chapman University and began working in commercial real estate, construction project … Read more
When a passion project is mentioned, most people think big: a project car, a non-profit organization, or petitioning their local government. However, this is not always the case. Passion projects can be as simple as a tomato garden on the back porch, educating yourself on a new subject that you might be interested in, or … Read more
Around here, “self-reliant” is about the highest compliment you can pay a man. We say it about the rancher who fixes his own fence, the business owner who made payroll in a bad year without telling anyone how close it was, and the father who never let his kids see him worried. We mean it … Read more
When Friedrich “Fritz” Holekamp and his young wife, Betty, left Germany in 1844, Kendall County did not exist. Boerne had not been founded, Comfort had not been surveyed, and Sisterdale was still several years in the future. Yet the Holekamp family would eventually become woven into the history of all three communities. Their story is … Read more
The railroad was built through Boerne sometime in 1887. I remember when the train used to come through Boerne every morning at about ten o’clock going north. At the depot, which was located at the east end of Theissen Street, there was an arm that extended out and the crew would attach a mailbag to … Read more
Wes Holekamp left Comfort to build a career. Years later, he came home to raise his family in the same Hill Country community that raised him, and found there was still work to be done. There are a lot of ways to measure the distance between Comfort and Fort Worth. On a map, it is … Read more