LIVE MUSIC AND 80S DRAG
Tonight at 5:30 p.m. there will be live music on the square as part of the Music on the Square concert series. The event is free and family friendly and occurs every Friday in May on the lawn of the Hays County Courthouse. This is an outdoor, picnic-style event, and guests are encouraged to order to-go from a local business and bring a chair, blanket and drinks but no glass. I recommend getting a mouth watering burger from the Showdown to-go along with a cool beer to drink at the bar before the event. If you haven’t had one of their burgers you are seriously missing out. They are mine and my Mom’s favorite burger in town. The music lineup for tonight is Michael Milligan & Texiana Bluez, Kelany & the All-Nighters and DJ Alpha. Anyone interested in helping out with the event can sign up at forms.office.com/g/0dgGZii3LQ. Also, the Porch, located at 129 E. Hopkins Street, is having a “Totally 80s Bitch*n Drag Brunch” from 2 to 5 p.m. on Saturday that will be hosted by Malibu Imported. Watch the drag queens of San Marcos take on the divas of the 80s.
Shannon West Staff Reporter
GHOST TOWNS IN HAYS COUNTY
Dalton Sweat Publisher There is a paper written by Maude M.
Walling in 1978 in the San Marcos Library's Historical Collection called Ghost Towns in Hays County, Texas. I stumbled upon it once looking for local ghost stories, which – if you have any – please do share. This paper goes over the small communities that once were in Hays County but have since faded into the ether only be talked about in history books. There are places like Stringtown, which is essentially where Kissing Tree is now located, or San Marcos de Neve, which is actually the original San Marcos established in 1807. There is a historical marker on Old Bastrop Road near where it crosses the San Marcos River.
While not entirely a ghost town, Fischer holds on to its roots here in Hays County near the line with Comal County towards Canyon Lake. The famous Fischer Store and Fischer Hall are still functional in some capacity. On Saturday, May 25 at 10 a.m. Terry Fischer, a descendant of the family that founded Fischer, Texas, will give a talk about the history of the community. His ancestors filed the first deed in the community in 1853 that eventually became Fischer Store. The talk will go over the settlement of the community, the additional families that followed and the evolution of life in the area as well as the history of their family.
This educational talk is expected to last about 2 hours and will be held at the Fischer Store School Community Center off RM32.
SO... WHAT IS A DEATH CAFE?
Thursday and Friday of this week, we are traveling to my old hometown in East Texas to celebrate the graduation of my nephew, Elliot, who will walk across the stage with high honors and a full scholarship to the engineering program at Lamar University. Having already interned at NASA, he wants to continue working there in the future, thus proving what we already know about him: The kid is out of this world! We’ll return home on Saturday, exhausted and most likely covered in mosquito bites, but that means we’ll require some nice San Marcos recovery time. I’m looking forward to stopping into Wineaux’s on Hutchison Street to split a charcuterie tray and a bottle of pinot noir. Then on Saturday at 2 p.m., Wake the Dead is having something called Death Cafe. I’m not sure what that entails, but I’m eager to get home to San Marcos in order to find out.
Celeste Cook Features Editor
