Growing Up In Bandera

Bandera has gathered quite a reputation for being a live music town where we have lots of young and not-so-young musicians and song writers performing songs in local venues. I still recall earlier times when some of the the big name Nashville stars were performing at the Cabaret, while some of the local talent would be at the Purple Cow, Silver Dollar and Mansfield Park, as well as the American Legion Hall. 
Click for More

August at the Bandera Library

The Bandera Kronkosky Public Library regular events include Watercolor class; Books & Blooms Garden Club; Bandera Pokémon League; Country Music Group; Mahjong Club; Monthly Book Club; Children's Story Time; Girls Who Code; Young Readers Club; Fiber Art Group; and Dungeons & Dragons.
Click for More

Lakehills Area Library presents photographer Delaney Joe Morrison  

Delaney Joe Morrison considers herself a “long time” and a “part-time resident of Pipe Creek.
Click for More

This month at the Medina Community Library

The Medina Community Library is thrilled to announce that New York Times bestselling author Lisa Wingate will be at the library on Oct. 22. The YA/Adult Summer Reading Challenge is due Aug. 31.
Click for More

Sublime Rambling
Marry My Horse

The night Hubby asked me to marry him, I said, “Marry me, marry my horse!”
He said, “Okay.”
Then I said, “Yes.”
Click for More

Paul Petersen Ponders
A Few Random Ramblings

As for Chuck Norris “Facts,” here’s my all-time favorite: “A cobra bit Chuck Norris on the leg. After writhing in excruciating agony for five days, the cobra finally died.”…
Click for More

Six Vets Over Texas

What a fun day in the Big City! The VA invited My Future Husband (I’ll figure out a name later) to come for a glorious day in their Indoor Park. Gates opened at 8:30 a.m., so we had to hitch up the Black Cadillac Stallion early for a gallop to town.
Click for More

The Bull Pen

Click for More

Sailing the Pacific
How the Manila galleon shaped international trade

In March of 1521, Portugese explorer Fernando de Magallanes docked off the coast of Cebu in the Philippines, achieving the first European navigation from the Atlantic Ocean to Asia. The same year, Spanish General Hernán Cortés conquered the Aztec empire, expanding the Spanish-owned territory from California to South America.
Divided by the Pacific Ocean, the Spaniards needed a way to commute between their newly-established sovereignty. Thus was the birth of the Manila galleon.
Click for More

A Walk Down History Lane
with the Bandera Natural History Museum
How Juan de O'Donojú y O’Ryan helped end the Mexican War for Independence

Mexico's independence from Spain took a decade of war. None expected a Spanish general of Irish descent to play an integral role in achieving peace.
Click for More

It’s a bird, it’s a plane, it’s a Quetzalcoatlus
Life-size replica on display at the Bandera Natural History Museum

Taller than a giraffe, wider than a city bus, and able to soar over tall buildings in a single bound, the Quetzalcoatlus (pronounced Ket-sol-coh-aht-lus) ruled the skies about 80 million years ago.
Click for More

*The views expressed by our columnists, writers and artists do not necessarily reflect the policy, position or opinion of the Bandera Prophet.