Your Guide To Marble Falls, Burnet, Kingsland, Llano, Spicewood, Horseshoe Bay, and ALL of the Highland Lakes.
BY BRANDI JO NEWMAN SPECIAL TO 101 HIGHLAND LAKES The Highland Lakes is the golf mecca of Texas. The vistas and dynamic landscapes along with the welcoming, friendly people of Marble Falls and the surrounding area make it a golfer’s Read more…
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Marble Falls may be a small town, but it offers so much to see and do. All of the locals know each other, and they treat newcomers with warmth and respect — more commonly known as “Texas hospitality.” In terms Read more…
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The final night in November, I went to Walkway of Lights in Marble Falls. Maybe it’s cliche or maybe it’s just the Christmas spirit getting to me, but I felt like I was living in the song “Walking in a Winter Wonderland” Read more…
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Shopping for antiques and vintage items can be exciting and rewarding. Although it also can be tedious, the fun is when you find what you’ve been looking for. It really does feel like a treasure hunt. Follow these tips for Read more…
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JOHNSON CITY — Along a stretch of U.S. 281 south of Johnson City toward Blanco, a car rockets along. The driver, nodding his head along with a song on the radio, keeps his eyes on the highway as the sun Read more…
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MARBLE FALLS — ’Tis the season for frights, and one of our favorites is a good scary story. The timing is perfect to gather everyone around the camp fire, get in close on the hayride or hunker down on the Read more…
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LLANO — One night more than 100 years ago, a man traveling between Llano and Fredericksburg on one of the old byways looked to the east of the Six Mile community. With few trees at that time to impede the Read more…
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FREDERICKSBURG — Jack C. Hays probably thought the legends of Enchanted Rock were true one fall day in 1841 as he did his best to hold off a band of Comanche warriors hunting him among the granite outcropping. Earlier that Read more…
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Vincenzo Fantozzi Petrick epitomized the entrepreneurial immigrant who helped build a community. The Italian arrived in Llano County in the early 1900s and quickly saw a need and a resource to meet it. Not one to shun hard work, he Read more…
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Blake and Karen DeBerry never set off to create a boutique winery overlooking Inks Lake on their Burnet County property. They bought the land with the idea of building their retirement home. But life sometimes makes you ask, “What if?” Read more…
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