Growing Up In Bandera

Many changes have taken place around the old neighborhood where I grew up in Bandera. Very few refer to the area as Polander Town these days. Not too many even know how the term came into being. Because of my last name they will scratch their heads when they hear someone call me “Polander." They just don't know.
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Keep in Beat with the Bandera Library

A new book available to check out at the library is Anne Perry’s A Truth to Lie For. This novel is the fourth novel in Perry’s Elena Standish series. It is summer 1934, and Hitler is teetering on the edge of supreme power.
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East End Events

Tickets for the Medina Lake Cajun Festival, Sept. 24, are now available for online purchase. Go to http://www.cajunfestival-medinalake.com/Tickets.html. For more information, go to http://www.cajunfestival-medinalake.com/
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See the latest Caddo Kuntree, by Larry Haddad

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The Royal Mystery

I feel the need to pause a moment to remember Queen Elizabeth II, the longest ruling monarch the Brits ever had. Everyone, including us across the pond, felt she was their royal and classy grandmother. But after an amazing 70-year reign, one question remains: what the heck did she carry in the Royal Purse? 
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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.
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This month at the Medina Library

A Community Conversation on Covid 19 will be Tuesday, Sept. 6, from 3:30-4:30, in the Rodney Camp Pavilion.
A panel of medical professionals will have a structured conversation followed by Q&A open to the public.
Regular weekly events include free Chair Yoga, every Thursday at 1:15 p.m.; Yoga on Tuesdays at 8:45 a.m.; and story time for the little ones on Wednesdays at 10:30 a.m.
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Frontier Tales
Back to School

A wonderful recollection of schooldays was written by Ida Babcock Hall which appeared in the Frontier Times magazine, entitled Early Schools and School Books. Mrs. Hall recounts how her father, who came to Texas in 1850, remembered his one-room log cabin school. School desks and chairs consisted of a split log with a bare log to sit upon. She began school in Burnet County and recalls the pleasure of wearing a new plaid dress with home-knit stockings to start the school year.
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This month at the Medina Library

Join us for the Summer Reading Challenge for young adults and adults. Sign up now, and turn it back in by Aug. 31. 
Regular weekly events include free Yoga on Tuesdays at 8:45 a.m.; and story time for the little ones on Wednesdays at 10:30 a.m.
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The Buzzard's Roost, by Juan Meauxtime

Featuring Lefty and Riff

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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.
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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.
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