Ken Nietenhoefer: The Voice of Local Tradition

Ken Nietenhoefer stands outdoors by a wooden fence, wearing a blue checkered shirt and glasses, featured in The Kendall Gentleman cover story.

Ken Nietenhoefer likes to say he’s lived six different lives. He even wrote them down once, in a manuscript he calls My 6 Lives. But listening to him tell it, those chapters don’t sit neatly side by side. They stack on each other, like wood grain running through a beam, all adding up to the … Read more

Albert Carl Riedel: Kendall County’s Unsung Storyteller

Tom Allred, a respected Kendall County leader and contributor to The Kendall Gentleman, photographed in classic Western attire.

In a world before instant gratification and digital archives, one man in the heart of the Texas Hill Country took it upon himself to ensure that the vibrant, hard-won stories of Kendall County’s past weren’t lost to the winds of time. Meet Albert C. Riedel (1851–1924), a name that might not be on every monument, … Read more