The B-29 Doc History Restored Tour will land in four cities in Texas during the month of April. The 18-day tour will include stops in Amarillo, San Marcos, Abilene and Sweetwater from April 13 through April 30.
Commander Stephanie Brown of Maurice T. Suttles VFW Post 3413 announced the winners of the audio/essay contest, Voice of Democracy at the March 7 School Board Meeting at San Marcos High School.
Top left, Bill Dumas, known as the Sausage Sensei, helped organize the boudin portion of the Backbone Boudin & Gumbo Festival. Top right, Cajun musician Jesse Lege will perform with Bosco Stomp. Bottom left, biographer and journalist Joe Nick Patoski of Wimberley will serve as a celebrity judge.
Bottom right, bluegrass musician Kevin Russell of Shinyribs will also serve as a
celebrity judge.
Submitted photos
This year, the bontemps of Mardi Gras gets an extension with the Backbone Boudin and Gumbo Festival Sunday, March 12 from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m., as many Texas favorite barbecue restaurants, pit masters and chefs will be sampling their best boudin dishes and gumbo at the Devil’s Backbone Tavern.
The San Marcos Daily Record suggestions for things to do in and around San Marcos
Tickets for Broadway in Austin’s performances of “Hairspray” are on sale now through Texas Performing Arts. The new North American tour will play at Bass Concert Hall June 13 - 18 as part of the Broadway in Austin 2022-2023 season.
I was quite pleased that one of the first birds I spotted in the new year was a yellow-rumped warbler.
Q.My birthday is coming up! What is the history of the birthday and how do people around the world celebrate them? A. Birthdays, of course, did not begin until ancient people began to take note of nature’s cycles — the moon, sun, stars, growth of plants, etc. This is what prompted humans to create calendar systems — the need to track the cycles of life and be able to identify when someone has lived for one cycle. Pagan religions were the first to notice and track these changes. In Western culture, Christians initially did not celebrate birthdays because they associated them with paganism and “original sin.” Pagans thought that evil spirits lurked on days of major changes, like the day you turn a year older. They often lit candles to scare off evil spirits — enter the birthday candle. The ancient Greeks believed that each person had a spirit that attended his or her birth and kept watch. That spirit “had a mystic relation with the God on whose birthday the individual was born,” says the book “The Lore of Birthdays.” (DeRusha) It wasn’t until the 4th century that Christians began to celebrate birthdays because they began celebrating the birth of Jesus. In the 18th century, in Germany, Kinderfest was celebrated, and included a cake, candles and blowing them out to make a wish. This started birthdays for children. The industrial revolution made birthday celebrations more accessible as the required ingredients for a cake — sugar, flour, eggs, etc. because they were more readily available.
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