‘The Other Place’ celebrates 100th birthday next year

By Myra Lee Adams Goff In 1910 Professor F.  E.  Giesecke was teaching architecture at A&M College. He was the son of Capt. Julius Giesecke who was at one time former owner of the “Neu Braunfelser Zeitung”. Intending to buy property for a summer home, Prof. Giesecke bought 60+ acres 

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New book will detail county’s Civil War history

By Myra Lee Adams Goff Did you know that April was declared “Confederate History Month” by the Texas Legislature in 1999? I have little knowledge of Comal County’s involvement in the Civil War. That, however, is about to change because Wilfred Schlather has written a book about that very subject

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