For example, the chain's private-label Hill Country Fare is named after the Central Texas Hill Country region ...
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There's Hill Country Barbecue in New York and DC, a Hill Country Chicken in Manhattan, the Hill Country Food Park in Brooklyn, a pie shop, and even a concert calendar that books a variety of rockabilly, alt-country, and bluegrass acts (just like Austin's Stubb's Amphitheatre, the premiere combination BBQ-pit-and-soundstage).
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Hyatt Regency Hill Country Resort & Spa - San Antonio, TX
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Strange things are afoot out in the Texas Hill Country.
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Until recently, many hill-country Tamils were not entitled to vote.
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Texas Hill Country has grown steadily since it was founded in 2009.
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Hank's at Hill Country will have snacks and craft beers on tap.
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Hill Country Food Park 345 Adams Street (Fulton Street), Downtown Brooklyn, October.
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Read Florence Fabricant on the Essex Market and Hill Country Food Court.
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The radio spots will air in the Texas Hill Country and New Braunfels.
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Lyndon Johnson made his name bringing electricity to the hill country of Texas.
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Deadly bus crash Here's a real tragedy coming out of Texas' Hill Country.
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We're going to have to move to the Hill Country and live there.
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HILL COUNTRY BROOKLYN The barbecue restaurant and its adjoining chicken spot have closed.
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There are Johnson's products as well as lower-priced Hill Country Fare equivalents.
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These hill-country farmers defied the greedy plantation masters who split the Union.
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On a Sunday morning at the Hill Country Veterans Center in Kerrville — a town of around 20,000 in Texas Hill Country, and the first of three stops for the day — there are 600 people's body heat to outstrip the air conditioning.
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The owners of Hank's are working with Hill Country to achieve the right vibe.
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Hill Country Dog Center won the contract awarded by the U.S. Embassy in Mexico.
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Some 11% of hill-country Tamils are poor, well above the national figure of 7%.
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But in this stretch of the Texas hill country, that is hardly cause for alarm.
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The ongoing need points up two consistent features of life and politics in the hill country.
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Every year an incredible array of bluebonnets paint themselves across Hill Country, just northwest of Austin.
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H-E-B's brands, like Hill Country Fare, are a big hit with the chain's customers.
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A breakfast stall will serve coffee and new Hill Country items like doughnuts and breakfast tacos.
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Just southwest of Austin, TX sits a 14,000 square-mile region known as the Hill Country.
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Bethany Arazoza and Leonard Fishman were married July 29 at Oak Hill Country Club in Rochester.
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Book the Hyatt Regency Hill Country Resort & Spa starting at $219 per nightThe Hyatt Regency Hill Country Resort & Spa is 20 minutes from downtown San Antonio and makes a strong case for staying outside the center with sprawling grounds and a curated slate of programming and activities.
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Officials with the local Hill Country Baseball team took to Facebook, posting a tribute to the pair.
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Alexa will make a personal appearance at Hill Country Chicken in NYC on January 26 and 27.
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At first, she brushed it off as the enthusiasm of a hunter in the Texas hill country.
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Caro insists that the three years he and Ina spent in the Hill Country weren't a sacrifice.
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And you can pick up a Hill Country Fare carton of a dozen eggs for 88 cents.
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And Roy Williams, their down-home coach, finds himself celebrated for hill-country wit and hoops acumen.
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The Hill Country Food Park in downtown Brooklyn seems to have been designed to make Austinites hallucinate.
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We've been together about 20 years now, and we have a residency at Hill Country Barbecue [in Manhattan].
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"Das Barbecü" by On Site Opera, Hill Country Barbecue Market, 30 West 26th Street, downstairs, 7:30 p.m.
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This year, it established "outreach" festivals in Kandy, in Sri Lanka's hill country, and in Jaffna in the North.
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When they call Austin "hill country," this luxury home overlooking other tasteful, uniform luxury homes is what they mean.
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Driving out to the Texas hill country, he filmed himself shooting the 3D-printed gun at a few targets.
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Front Burner Hill Country Barbecue Market is transformed into a wonderland of food stalls in its Downtown Brooklyn location.
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New tourism initiatives encourage hikers to visit the border's hill country, and I walked many stretches of unexpected beauty.
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Mr. Caro lived in the Texas Hill Country while writing and researching the first volume, which covered Johnson's youth.
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The attention to detail was to be expected, given how convincingly Hometown conjures a Texas Hill Country barbecue palace.
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The first 21,2000 "hill-country Tamils" came to work in the island's nascent coffee plantations in 20030 as indentured labourers.
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"It kept nagging on me after I said no at Hill Country that I was making a mistake," she said.
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Austin has also earned another moniker in recent years: Silicon Hills, named after the Central Texas region's signature hill country.
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She and Mr. Garza were married April 2 at the Red Corral Ranch, in the Hill Country near Wimberley, Tex.
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So for the past four summers, a version of the Hill Country summer camp has been taken to South Texas.
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So for the past four summers, a version of the Hill Country summer camp has been taken to South Texas.
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Brodie played for the Hill Country Reds as a pitcher and second baseman, often spending three weekends a month at games.
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"The third time, we were at a co-worker's birthday party at a place called Hill Country Barbecue," Mr. Keenan said.
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A cemetery like this doesn't exist yet, but she says the Texas hill country has lots of available – and beautiful – space.
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The 21st contains the heavily Republican Hill Country, conservative-but-turning-purple San Antonio suburbs, and a deep blue slice of Austin.
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Texas Hill Country was the creation of J. Bruce Bugg, a tax lawyer who put himself through college with jobs in banks.
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It was about a young man who follows his girlfriend to the hill country of northern Thailand, where she takes a job.
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IV. Sam Houston Johnson Living in the Hill Country also allowed me to get to know Lyndon's younger brother, Sam Houston Johnson.
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The 10,000-square-foot space occupied by Hill Country Barbecue Market in Brooklyn has been reconfigured as a collection of food stations.
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Areas in far South Texas, the Texas Hill Country and southwest and central Louisiana could see 5 to 15 inches of rain.
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I put on makeup and change so we can go see friends play a show at a local distillery in the hill country.
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In his 1995 debut at Oak Hill Country Club outside Rochester, N.Y., he was a perfect 3-0-0 in a losing cause.
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Austin's Cook-Walden Funeral Home, whose ambulances were used to transport victims 50 years ago, provided funding for the Hill Country granite marker.
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Participating restaurants include everything from Burger Joint and Dylan's Candy Bar to Hill Country Chicken, and Celeste, which previously didn't even offer delivery.
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Broker: CORE Next up is the Rock Harbor Hill Country Lodge, outside San Antonio, described as a top-ranked and profitable vacation property.
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Regardless of where it was grown, much wine from Texas producers is sold out of tasting rooms in Hill Country in central Texas.
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The news traveled quickly in this Texas Hill Country town, which holds a yearly barbecue cook-off and antique car and tractor festival.
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Front Burner A nontraditional take on Wagner's "The Ring" retells the magical saga as a country and western tale at Hill Country Barbecue.
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"Those precious little girls would still be here today if this had not happened," said Judge Keith Williams, according to Hill Country Breaking News.
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With its ancient Buddhist temples, surf-worthy beaches and lush hill-country tea plantations, Sri Lanka was named Lonely Planet's top destination for 2019.
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In this new play, old friends return to Texas Hill Country for a wake at which neither the dead nor the past rest easy.
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Off the Menu Smoked duck and chopped chicken livers from a Hill Country Barbecue alumnus, a vegan diner in Brooklyn, and other restaurant news.
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"He enjoys watching football, basketball and panda videos, and can put away an admirable amount of pork belly from Hill Country BBQ," writes one.
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The floor plan here is open, with a great room with a tiled floor and walls of windows overlooking the lake and the Hill Country.
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But Ms. Errington had backpacked in Sri Lanka 20 years ago, and knew that the hill country was far from the sites of the attacks.
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A deer's antlers scraped the passenger-side windows like fingernails on a chalkboard as I nicked the animal on a Hill Country road near Austin.
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Growing up, Bill Murray and his five brothers (Ed, Brian, John, Joel and Andy) worked as caddies at Indian Hill Country Club in Winnetka, Ill.
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I took a $3, 7-hour train ride through Sri Lanka&aposs hill country — and it was unlike any travel experience I&aposve ever had
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His young son Brodie, who played baseball for his local Hill Country Baseball league, was mourned in a tribute posted on the league's Facebook page.
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A story from Texas Hill Country by our Houston bureau chief, Manny Fernandez, was also a stunning visual package, driven by a photo editor, Meghan Petersen.
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Collective Hill Country, the second opening this summer of a glamping resort by Collective Retreats, will spring up on a 222-acre ranch near Austin, Tex.
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The accolade was a breakthrough for her upstart distillery an hour southwest of Austin, in Hill Country, an area flush with breweries, wineries and other distilleries.
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The 50-odd corpses that dot this 26-acre stretch of hill country belonged to people who donated their bodies so that scientists may better understand decomposition.
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The 50-odd corpses that dot this 26-acre stretch of hill country belonged to people who donated their bodies so that scientists may better understand decomposition.
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Drew Taylor, who runs Hill Country Visitor, told HuffPost that little Genie was born on Friday at a Kerrville ranch that's owned by a local steakhouse worker.
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She now focuses on raising her three children with her husband in the hill country outside Austin, Texas, where she does freelance writing and public affairs consulting.
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Yepez, who was continuing her travels to the Texas Hill Country, said traffic was constantly slowing down and coming to a stop during the 230-mile drive.
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It sounds as if the right buttons have been pressed with three floors of 'cue engineered by the pitmaster Lou Elrose, formerly of Wildwood and Hill Country.
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When I was growing up, well-heeled Texans had summer homes in the Hill Country, which isn't that far from — or much cooler than — our major cities.
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The long way to Austin took us through the towns of Hico, Hamilton, and Lampasas and into the rolling oak-and-limestone hill country of central Texas.
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Robert Caro's descriptions of electrification coming to the Texas hill country and Margaret Frost trying to register to vote in Alabama still send chills up my spine.
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He and Ina moved from their home in New York to the Texas Hill Country in 1978, living there for three years to better understand Johnson's childhood.
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Nelson said he got the idea for the picnics from the 1969 Woodstock music festival and wanted to bring that feeling to the Hill Country west of Austin.
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Rose Yepez told CNN it took her twice as long as usual to drive 140 miles from Corpus Christi to San Antonio, en route to Texas Hill Country.
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The Pour Forced to leave the North Fork of Long Island after a zoning dispute, Southold Farm and Cellar, a groundbreaking producer, has started anew in Hill Country.
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And a national lab in California's lumpy hill country is home to a 10-story building where scientists are using laser beams to try and figure out nuclear fusion.
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H-E-B is recalling 6003 cases of Hill Country Fare brand chunk light tuna in oil sold in Texas stores between February 24, 2016, and March 16, 2016.
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As I arranged the vintage patio furniture on the balcony and looked out over our 15 acres of rolling Texas Hill Country terrain, I thought, Who wouldn't love this?
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Benjamin is left with the care of his half sister, Samantha (or Sam), who has become obsessed with killing the giant panther — think Ahab in the Texas Hill Country.
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The eldest of eight children, Mr. Cuellar lived on what he called "a ranch in the hill country" managed by his father, who kept guns for hunting and protection.
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The names of the stalls themselves are full of winky references for those in-the-know: South Congress (named for the touristy thoroughfare that juts over the Rio Grande river) serves the breakfast tacos and donuts; Nickie's does the Tex-Mex chili and cotija-sprinkled nachos; and the company's two parent brands, Hill Country Barbecue and Hill Country Chicken, roll out the butcher paper for dreamy, juicy, Central Texas-style smoked meats.
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In the Hill Country region that encompasses both San Antonio and Austin, shallow limestone bedrock impedes the flow of water, resulting in rapid runoff that quickly overflows narrow creek beds.
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After initial indifference to Southold's arrival, Austin, Houston and the Hill Country have embraced the Meadors as Long Island never did, and Mr. Meador can now see a future clearly.
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The Essex Street Market moves to a larger space across Delancey Street, Hill Country sets up a grazing hall in Downtown Brooklyn, and more reasons to go out to eat.
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A photo of Brodie playing in French Riviera waters was posted on Facebook by his youth baseball league, Hill Country Baseball, which said it received it hours before the attack.
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In 2014 he published his first novel, "The Devil's Backbone," about a boy named Papa who searches for his estranged mother in Texas Hill country in the late 19th century.
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Conard wrote that Alton worked at the Short Hill Country Day School from 1972 to 1974 and stayed on the faculty when the school merged with Pingry in 1974 until 1978.
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His books are also about New York, Tammany Hall, the Senate, the Texas Hill Country, American individualism and, above all, political power, how it is wielded and what it can achieve.
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The hurricane center said some inland areas like the Texas Hill Country could see 5 to 33 inches, while much of the coast will see 15 to 25 inches of rain.
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The Project: The Permian Highway Pipeline would be the first new oil or gas pipeline constructed through the Hill Country in more than 50 years, according to advocates fighting the project.
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I love the way he can spend 100 pages describing the workings of the U.S. Senate, or the loneliness of the isolated hill country of central Texas where Johnson grew up.
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Oscillating dots in Kathleen Petyarre's painting "Mountain Devil Lizard Dreaming-Sand-Hill Country (after Hailstorm)," (2000) embody the tracks of an ancestor who takes the form of a lizard crossing the desert.
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THE single-storey main branch of the Texas Hill Country Bank, in Kerrville, sits at the back of a tired shopping centre, in the shade of a six-storey Wells Fargo building.
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As you pull up to the Dry Creek Saloon, a tree house-like bar perched in the Hill Country of Austin, Texas, bartender Angel Altenhofel will warmly eye you from the bar.
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A tentative answer to that question took shape on a recent morning in a giant artificial body of water within 160 acres of cactus-studded former ranch land here in Hill Country.
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This no-frills horror film about a murderous psycho who terrorizes people unlucky enough to wander into his corner of California hill country has no fancy special effects or supernatural goings-on.
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The Hill Country is, for most of its residents, a state of mind, and its inhabitants relish its solitude and silence, finding the area to be not only enchanting but spiritually nourishing.
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Sinhala communities now make up 75% of Sri Lankans, while Muslims, Sri Lankan Tamils and Hill-Country Tamils (a separate community often referred to as "Indian Tamils") form the country's largest ethnic minorities.
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The recording does not show the collision between the northbound pickup and the southbound bus, which was returning from a retreat in the Hill Country, when the pickup crossed over into its lane.
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Four Atlanta businessmen (Jon Voight, Burt Reynolds, Ned Beatty and Ronny Cox) get in over their heads during an outdoor adventure in Georgia hill country in James Dickey's screen adaptation of his novel.
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"People in our community take better care of their pets than you took care of your kids," Judge N. Keith Williams told Amanda Hawkins last week, according to the Hill Country Breaking News.
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This year's rodeo, held in October at the Longhorn River Ranch here in Dripping Springs, in the Hill Country outside Austin, left me with a new appreciation for the word truck-a-thon.
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In the basement of Hill Country, a barbecue joint in the Flatiron district in Manhattan, Lester Holt, the NBC News anchor, struggled to recall the name of a musician popular in his youth.
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In the basement of Hill Country, a barbecue joint in the Flatiron district in Manhattan, Lester Holt, the NBC News anchor, struggled to recall the name of a musician popular in his youth.
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Though I lacked enough detail or a sense of what the Hill Country was like, I thought I could provide that detail through some interviews, and that was all I would need to do.
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The "NBC Nightly News" anchor got out from behind the desk Sunday night and took center stage at the Hill Country BBQ joint in NYC to sing his face off -- and it's pretty good!
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Stationed at what became Lackland Air Force Base in San Antonio, he developed a fondness for the Texas hill country and met the woman who would become his first wife, Mona Pierce, in Lubbock.
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To Trump's backers here in northern Kentucky — the small cities, affluent suburbs and rolling hill country that fans out just across the muddy Ohio River from Cincinnati — that is just how they like it.
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This year, several hotels are offering holiday packages, including the Hilton San Antonio Hill Country where rates start at $89 and include complimentary s'mores kits, outdoor movies and shuttles to SeaWorld through Jan. 13.
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By the time the main course arrived — a bird smoked during after-hours at Hill Country BBQ near the Flatiron Building, by a friend of Mike's who works there — my thoughts were starting to ricochet.
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FOLLOW US ON FACEBOOK FOR MORE FOX LIFESTYLE NEWS Sinya on Lone Man Creek; Wimberley, Texas This safari-inspired glamping retreat overlooks Lone Man Creek in Texas Hill Country, about 45 minutes southwest of Austin.
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After a raft of troubles, Nelson moved the picnic in 1979 to his country club in the Texas Hill Country, much to the annoyance of his neighbors, who complained of the noise and clogged roads.
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So I've been venturing all over the New York metro area, to catch The Human Karaoke Experience at Slane, Rock Star Karaoke at Hill Country and Crash Course Karaoke at Yonkers Brewing Co. and Rudy's.
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There is abundant anecdotal evidence that breakfast tacos—that is, tacos served for breakfast—were served by grandmothers and mothers in South Texas, San Antonio, and later, the Hill Country, decades before Austinites got hooked.
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On Sunday the enterprising On Site Opera company, which presents scaled-down versions of works in site-specific settings, opened a run of "Das Barbecü" in an ideal location: Hill Country Barbecue Market in Chelsea.
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About a 15-minute drive from the bridge, the Wild Basin Creative Research Center, co-managed by St. Edward's University and Travis County, makes 227 acres of Texas Hill Country habitat open to the public.
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On Friday in Lakeway, an affluent Hill Country community, many neighbors of the Copelands were stunned that an act of violence in Europe could reach thousands of miles across the Atlantic to invade their peaceful town.
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As soon as we moved there, as soon as the people of the Hill Country realized we were there to stay, their attitude toward us softened; they started to talk to me in a different way.
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He noted the dedication she displayed in agreeing to move with her husband to the Texas Hill Country, where President Johnson was raised, back when Mr. Caro was looking for insights into his subject's early years.
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The bond between Mr. Xi and Mr. Wang goes back about five decades to Mao's turbulent Cultural Revolution, when they were both sent from Beijing to work in the dusty, poor hill country of northwestern China.
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A new featurette from the California Academy of Sciences follows bat biologists Nickolay Hristov and Louise Allen into the field near Hill Country in central Texas, to document the twilight flights of Brazilian free-tailed bats.
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Weighing 62 pounds and able to collapse into your SUV, the Tailgater ($450) can grill your burgers and dogs with the best of them, but can also smoke that brisket like you're down in Texas Hill Country.
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Weighing 240 pounds and able to collapse into your SUV, the Tailgater ($248) can grill your burgers and dogs with the best of them, but can also smoke that brisket like you're down in Texas Hill Country.
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The festival, which will take place September 7-10, 2017, is usually the final fling in the UK's summer festival calendar, and has been held at Robin Hill Country Park on the Isle of Wight since 2004.
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After all, says Ed Bridges, retired director of the state's Department of Archives and History, the hill-country yeomanry were the "descendants of the serfs and peasants of Europe" and "feared the rise of a new aristocracy".
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This 2018 blend of 60 percent grenache, with roughly equal parts merlot and mataro (another name for mourvèdre), all grown at Robert Clay Vineyards in Hill Country, is herbal and crunchy, lightly fruity and just plain delicious.
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Five years ago, Anne Washburn headed to the Texas Hill Country for a ten-day silent playwriting retreat at a refabbed ranch, where she cranked out the first draft of "Antlia Pneumatica," currently up at Playwrights Horizons.
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Forestry officials had hoped to use domestic elephants to guide the elephant to the nearest road, at which point he could have been loaded onto a truck and returned to the hill country of Assam in eastern India.
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Looking back on my work on Johnson, I think I realized on my very first drive into the Hill Country—or should have realized—that I was entering a world I really didn't understand and wasn't prepared for.
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Jared Male, who has been schooled in the techniques of slow smoking at Hill Country Barbecue, Dinosaur Bar-B-Que and the Big Easy in London, now has his own rig on the Lower East Side to monitor.
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The first gig we played three years ago was at Hill Country BBQ and there was nobody in there except the wedding party who didn't give a fuck about what we were doing on a Saturday night in Manhattan.
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Out of the perfect storm that is Hill Country barbecue, a love of live music, and a city of weirdos that knows how to party, emerged Hot Luck Fest—a celebration of Texas culture, family traditions and rock 'n' roll.
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Villagers from the steep hill country around Chongqing found a living using their stamina to carry loads in the city, and the streets and docks teemed with men in faded blue coats and canvas shoes clutching poles and bundles of rope.
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From the 1960s on, breakfast tacos as we know them increased in popularity and moved north from the border into a ring around Austin in towns as far apart as Kerrville in the Hill Country and Seguin in Central Texas.
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We worked from nine to five, when the library closed, and then I would hurry out to my car and drive to the Hill Country to interview one of the men or women who had grown up with Lyndon Johnson.
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He had to imagine a Hill Country family of five collecting 200 gallons a day, carried back to the house two buckets at a time, with the people yoked like cattle to a heavy bar of wood across the shoulder.
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On top of that, the Social Democrat has installed street lighting, mains gas and water supplies, as well as paving muddy roads in their community of Dragomiresti, which lies in lush hill country about 90 km (45 miles) northwest of Bucharest.
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Because of the massive amounts of prejudicial publicity, the trial had been moved from suburban Rowlett to Kerrville, a conservative Hill Country town where Routier's rather routine suburban life was more easily portrayed as an "outsider" tale of glitzy spending and suspicious superficiality.
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Yates declined to speak with PEOPLE, but Yates's defense attorney, George Parnham, says she will likely spend the rest of her life at the Kerrville State Hospital, a low-security facility about 70 miles outside of San Antonio in the Texas Hill Country.
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In a paper presented last year to a government task force looking at how to defuse communal tensions in the wake of the civil war, local activists demanded an apology from the state for the disenfranchisement, deportation and neglect of hill-country Tamils.
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The singer and her fiancé, Dallas-based entrepreneur Tommicus Walker, tied the knot on Sunday evening in a lavish ceremony in Austin, TX. The intimate wedding was held at Villa Antonia, a sprawling mansion in the canyons of the Texas Hill Country.
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Its proximity to a flow of moist air from the Gulf of Mexico sets the stage for heavy rain, and the high potential for rapid runoff in the Hill Country makes it vulnerable to flash floods, said Lamont Bain, a Weather Service meteorologist.
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As we bumped along a dusty road in the Texas Hill Country, the struts of my Volkswagen hatchback bucking under the weight of five passengers, four guns, and several boxes of ammunition, I was tempted more than once to call it off.
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The first retreat was held at a luxury hotel in Austin with yoga mats in every room, and a wilderness retreat with yurts and cabinsSoulCycle held a three-day kick-off retreat in Austin and Texas Hill Country at the end of October.
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"I'm willing to take risks, you've got to try things," Mr. Meador said as we drove in his big white pickup truck past fields of bluebonnets on our way to visit Robert Clay Vineyards in Mason, on the northwestern edge of Hill Country.
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Last, another Houston-based firm proposed a markedly similar project, a pipeline that would have cut through the Texas Hill Country, and most controversially, deliver crude oil under the recharge zone for the Edwards Aquifer, which supplies drinking water for San Antonio.
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Non-Texans are too often possessed of a romantic notion of our state as a desolate and lonely territory, forlorn in its isolation, but the Hill Country is no more lonely or forlorn than the Adirondacks or the Atlantic shoreline of New England.
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Amy Beckmann, a certified nurse-midwife who splits her time between the Texas Hill Country and the Rio Grande Valley, said that she and her husband pay $1,500 a month for their medical insurance, plus a $13,000 annual family deductible: $603,000 a year.
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WHAT: A lodge with five bedrooms and six bathrooms HOW MUCH: $2,195,000 SIZE: 3,128 square feet PRICE PER SQUARE FOOT: $702 SETTING: Spicewood is an unincorporated community of about 7,0003 people in Hill Country, about a 40-minute drive northwest of Austin.
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Carnatic hymns in praise of Jesus and Allah have been sung for over a century: the "Bethlehem Kuravanji", also known as "The Girl from the Hill Country of Bethlehem", is a well known 19th-century composition by Vedanayagam Sastriar, a musician and court poet.
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In February, by sheer happenstance, a convoy of C8 Corvettes — out testing in the hill country east of San Diego — got caught up in the same, freak snowstorm as a convoy of automotive journalists who were running the same road in the new Kia Soul.
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Read more: I took a $3, 7-hour train ride through Sri Lanka's hill country — and it was unlike any travel experience I've ever hadHowever, after the Easter bombings this year, the government cited an 80% drop in foreign visitors, as reported by AP.
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At the end of it would be a house, the only one for miles, and in it a couple (or a widow; there seemed to be a disproportionate number of widows in the Hill Country) who weren't accustomed to having long conversations with strangers.
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Most Texas grapes are grown in the High Plains, a farming epicenter where grapevines are often treated like another type of row crop, rather than in Hill Country, which, though it might have more potential for making interesting wines, was historically the province of ranchers.
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Oil and gas operators working in more industrial parts of the state have typically looped their pipelines around the Hill Country rather than go through it, such as the Cactus II pipeline that started shipping crude oil from Midland to the Gulf last year.
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"It should cause most Texans to be ashamed of the fact that we give private industry a blank check and be able to run roughshod over private landowners, our cities and towns and counties," said Katherine Romans, the Executive Director of the Hill Country Alliance.
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For nice displays, try McKinney Falls State Park, Brushy Creek Lake Park or head down Highways 71 or 290 west toward the Hill Country, Willow City Loop near Fredericksburg and Burnet, the "Bluebonnet Capital of Texas," which attracts 30,000 people each year to its festival.
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Even though Sarah is long gone and the Austin Hill Country surrounding this space is disappearing into the city's most expensive real estate, the spirit of Dry Creek remains unchanged with Angel tending bar—only the third bartender to have ever worked here since the 22015s.
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On one occasion, when I ran into the couple in the driveway, they informed me that they'd found an insect they suspected was a "kissing bug" (which they claimed was poisonous though I'd never heard of it in my 20 years in the Texas Hill Country).
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At the time I started, there were already seven biographies of Johnson in print, and they all related the same anecdotes, which portrayed young Lyndon as a sort of Horatio Alger hero of the Hill Country, smiling and popular, who had risen through ambition and hard work.
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Just two vintages in, Southold is again making exciting wines, using an assortment of grapes purchased from both the High Plains, a flat, fertile, high-elevation area in the Lubbock area, the state's primary growing region, and Hill Country, which contains perhaps Texas's most promising growing areas.
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A U.S. federal judge has denied a bid by a coalition of four Texas cities and counties to temporarily halt the construction of a section of the $2 billion Permian Highway Pipeline in Texas Hill Country on grounds that it posed a threat to an endangered bird.
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You can't visit this state and not encounter ethnic and cultural diversity, whether it is Middle Easterners, Asians, and Latinos in the Delta, a thriving gay and lesbian bookstore in the Hill Country hamlet of Water Valley, or the mingling of bohemian and traditional communities in its college towns.
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He had to work out how Johnson got it done and won the adulation of more than 287,21948 Texas Hill Country people — what their lives had been like working "dark to dark" before "the lights" arrived at their isolated homes, with maybe 240 miles of dirt road to the next place.
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It was destined to be this way from the beginning, since Sam Adams egged on northern New England yeoman farmers to war against the British at Bunker Hill, and not long after when Davy Crockett egged on his rugged hill-country settlers from Tennessee and Virginia to take on the Mexicans at The Alamo.
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During Johnson's Presidency, journalists from all over the United States, from every major magazine and newspaper (and a lot of minor ones), had come to the Hill Country, had spent three or four days there (or as much as a week), and had gone home to explain this remote place to the rest of America.
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She invited me to meet her at a neighborhood bar not too far from my apartment — but neglected to mention that one Sunday a month, this familiar sleepy haunt transformed into a meeting place for a cohort of female bikers, who used it as a starting point before beginning their weekly expeditions into the hill country.
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She also posted a photo of the beautiful waterfront view from the restaurant — "a well-known jewel nestled in the Austin hill country," according to the website, which is "best known as The Sunset Capital of Texas because most days, hundreds of guests from all over the world come to see the breathtaking views" — that overlooks the lake.
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In the case of Lyndon Johnson, two settings played a crucial role for me in grasping him and understanding his role in history, in understanding how he came to power and how he wielded power: the place he came from, the Texas Hill Country, and the place he went to when he was still a young man, Capitol Hill.
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She fell in love with him, her sister and her best friend (and Posh Oltorf and others) told me, because, deeply idealistic herself, she was entranced by his stories, told over the dinner table and around the swimming pool at Longlea, of how hard life in the Hill Country was, and how he was getting the dams built and the electricity brought to make that life easier.
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A prolific recording artist (19 studio, live, and compilation albums since 1984) and live-performance act (he's currently taking a breather from touring in support of his 2015 album Happy Prisoner: The Bluegrass Sessions), the 59-year-old Keen remains a bit detached from the industry, living with his family on a ranch in Kerrville, a small town in the Texas Hill Country about a hour's drive northwest of San Antonio.
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Luckily for you, some of New York City's top chefs and pitmasters were on hand at the New York City Wine and Food Festival (NYCWFF) to dole out some handy tips to make sure that your tailgate goes smoothly: Tip #1: Get everything ready early "One of the problems I often think with tailgates is that you get overambitious and people are waiting too long for food," says Ash Fulk, head of culinary operations for Hill Country, one of the oldest barbecue restaurants in New York City.
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