All Archive Highlights
Proclaim liberty throughout the land
By Keva Hoffmann Boardman — It was a comfortable warm...
Read MoreNew Braunfels’ Fourth of July celebrations, then and now
(This is a special edition of Around the Sophienburg for...
Read More2026 Myra Lee Adams Goff Scholarship Award
2026 Myra Lee Adams Goff Scholarship Award Essay – by...
Read MoreRemembering a time of war, air raid drills, victory gardens and sacrifice
I really haven’t lived through a major war, but my...
Read MoreTrue Crime Series: Murder of a First Founder
By Myra Lee Adams Goff — “Have you heard? Old...
Read MoreDenson-Dedeke’s dedication to historic preservation
By Tara V. Kohlenberg — Shopping for a wedding gift...
Read MoreDowsing for water and switching for graves
By Keva Hoffmann Boardman — Divining. Dowsing. Witching. Switching. These...
Read MoreOne hundred years and counting for St. Paul Lutheran
By Tara V. Kohlenberg — When I was 6 years...
Read MoreA joyful Christmas of Lions, angels and firemen
By Tara V. Kohlenberg — Have you ever experienced a...
Read MoreOak or cedar Christmas trees?
By Keva Hoffmann Boardman — Christmas lights and decorations are...
Read MoreTraditional sausage making: a time-honored process
By Tara V. Kohlenberg ─ One might think that New...
Read MoreHermann Sons #21 celebrating 135 years
By Tara V. Kohlenberg — This year, the New Braunfels...
Read More“What’s in a name?” — William Shakespeare
By Keva Hoffmann Boardman — What if New Braunfels was...
Read MoreRemembering popcorn, parakeets, and Big Chief tablets
By Tara V. Kohlenberg — By the time I sat...
Read MoreJahn and Haas: History of water conservation
PHOTO CAPTION: Photo of LCRA Comal Power Plant spray heads...
Read MoreScholl Peters house gone missing
By Tara V. Kohlenberg — I watch rooftops multiply daily...
Read MoreSophienburg History Award: Voice of the forgotten
By Tara V. Kohlenberg — For more than 90 years,...
Read MoreRabbits, eggs become mainstay Easter traditions
(Reprint of AROUND THE SOPHIENBURG article published March 31, 2009,...
Read MoreThe Timmermann house: Memory of its haunting beauty is all that is left
By Tara V. Kohlenberg — We are fortunate to live...
Read MoreWest San Antonio Street — Now and then
By Tara V. Kohlenberg — While scouring an old Herald-Zeitung...
Read MoreThe Golden Songbook and Herr Schmidt
By Tara V. Kohlenberg — Some stories write themselves. Some,...
Read MoreSpicy German Christmas cookie traditions
By Tara V. Kohlenberg — Most families have holiday traditions,...
Read MoreNew Braunfels Music Study Club celebrates 95 years
By Tara V. Kohlenberg — Of the many things that...
Read MoreAlbert C. Fischer, in his own words
By Keva Hoffmann Boardman — This autobiographical sketch was written...
Read MoreNew Braunfels treasures — social, fraternal and otherwise
By Tara V. Kohlenberg — Reaching a certain age and...
Read MoreThe Hinman House: First stone house in New Braunfels
By Tara V. Kohlenberg — The Hinman House, the first...
Read MoreOscar Haas, the Battleship Texas and the “Spirit of the Spanish-American War”
By Keva Hoffmann Boardman — How great is this photo...
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