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G-d’s Angels Today, as on the last couple of Sundays, I hitched my bike rack to the rear of my car to load my bike and then pick up my riding partner and hit Israel’s trails. I inadvertently over-loosened a mechanical arm that holds the bike in place, and it came apart. Not being mechanical, I was at wit’s end. It “just so happened” that a fellow wearing a kippa and a spotted mask walked by, and, although I didn’t know him, I asked if he could help me put it back together. He gave it a try and succeeded! He literally

  As a public service, public health stories are free to Central Texans during the coronavirus crisis. Please support our local journalists by subscribing today. Call 512-392-2458. Members of the Wimberley Parent – Teacher Association in 1968 who put the finishing touches on the Christmas scene on top of the Wimberley School. They are, as named in the paper in 1968, left to right; Mrs. Walter Kidd, Mrs. Curlo Morris, Mrs. Bob Mauldin, Mrs. Brett Burns and Mrs. John Devenport. Photo from San Marcos Daily Record archives Christmas weaves through history of Wimberley Thu, 12/24...

Its the most popular Christmas record of all time. And, it has quite a history. There are several versions of this classic.  But this now-classic song was seen and heard for the first time, in the movie "Holiday Inn" in 1941. On a warm day in 1940, Irving Berlin (who was Jewish) penned this song that defines the term classic in "Christmas Classic." The first public performance of the song was by Bing Crosby on his NBC radio show "The Kraft Music Hall," on Christmas Day, 1941. Bing recorded a studio version of "White Christmas" in just 18 minutes, on May 19,1942. As you can see on my 78-rp...

As I write this letter, we mark the 79th anniversary of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. Two thousand, four-hundred, three Americans were killed in the attack. In his address

We want to you buy extra war bonds. >> when the war started, bob hope became the voice of america. people turned to him to make jokes about what was going on. he was not the first topical comedian. but what bob did was take that topical monologue and add to it the vaudeville rhythms, the joke-telling rhythms. >> how do you do, fellows? this is bob "command performance" hope telling each nazi that's in russia today that crimea doesn't pay. >> it was a very dark time, generally. but bob could always shrug his shoulders and say, well, let's tackle this. all right. let's talk about it. and somewhe...