The weekend is filled with the sound of music, and the crack of the old bat, and the crunch of the old chip. And pie. Or pie. We’ve seen more loaded weekends around here, and they’ll be coming back in a hurry.
The spunky and charming Ollie Giles is the subject of the “Voices of Hays County” video to be shown at Jackson Chapel on Sunday. “Voices of Hays County” is an ongoing project of the Hays County Historical Commission.
The weekend has so much music to see that you’ll be as confused as a novice Olympic curling observer. But we have suggestions, because there is some extraordinary music going on.
Long-time Hays County resident Gwen Smith received the Spirit of San Marcos Award from San Marcos Mayor Susan Narvaiz after the screening of her interview on “Voices of Hays County” recently at the Price Seniors Center.
The subject is the memories of Dr. Gwen Smith when the Hays County Historical Commission (HCHC) debuts the fourth video in its series “Voices of Hays County History” at the Price Seniors Center, 220 West San Antonio Street, on Feb. 4 at 5:30 p.m.
Having acquired additional funding, Hays County officials are poised to proceed with restorations to one of its old jails, a 19th century, two-story limestone structure nestled in the Historic Dunbar District a few blocks from the courthouse square in downtown San Marcos. The Hays County Commissioners Court accepted a $25,000 grant Tuesday for the jail’s restoration from the Texas Historical Commission (THC), a state agency headquartered in Austin.
You have to get up pretty early in the morning to catch Hays County law enforcement officers to give them some breakfast. That’s just what the Hays County Historical Commision did.
The Hays County Historical Commission recently donated its recently released documentary historical DVDs to San Marcos school libraries.
Popular demand to see “Captain Jack,” the film documenting the life of Jack C. Hays done by the Hays County Historical Commission, has led to a second screening of the movie at Dripping Springs City Hall.
The old Hays County Jail in San Marcos is soon to be restored as a museum.
