By Myra Lee Adams Goff Activities at the Sophienburg have finally slowed down a little bit after the holidays. After Weihnachtsmarkt, St. Nicholas made his presence known to a huge crowd of children and their parents. Everyone is now getting back to the work of the archives. Last column about

By Myra Lee Adams Goff It’s the end of December and this pesky little song has entered my head again and won’t leave. “Let’s remember Pearl Harbor as we did the Alamo”. I’m back in Julia Odiorne’s fourth grade class at Lamar School. Earlier, on December 7th in 1941 a

By Myra Lee Adams Goff Have you seen our beautiful lighted Comal County Courthouse? The Grand Dame of Main Plaza buildings is 108 years old (1898). In December of that year the courthouse was inspected and given the seal of approval by the Commissioners Court. A translation of the Neu

By Myra Lee Adams Goff Jolly Old St. Nicholas will be at the Sophienburg for a party in his honor next Tuesday, December 5th. Keva Boardman has planned a fun family time for only $5.00 a family. Beginning at 6:00 p.m. there will be goodies, entertainment by the Kinderchor, and lots

By Myra Lee Adams Goff November is the time to start thinking about Christmas. After all, a White Christmas is just around the corner. Well, we can dream. Weihnachtsmarkt, the Sophienburg’s biggest event of the year is this Friday, Saturday, and Sunday at the Civic Center. Tune in to Cable

By Myra Lee Adams Goff Get ready to celebrate New Braunfels’ heritage. Long before the Chicken Dance entered the city limits, the Wurstfest was held in a hole in the ground next to Main Plaza. Of course, this wasn’t the first location. The brainchild of veterinarian and city meat inspector

By Myra Lee Adams Goff The Sophienburg Museum has a display featuring the early physicians Drs. Frederick and Bertha Frueholz who were a husband and wife team here in New Braunfels from the time they arrived in 1926. Their son, Dr. Frederick Frueholz, Jr. (known as Dr. Fred) revealed some

By Myra Lee Adams Goff After hearing laughter outside the Sophienburg’s collections building, I went inside and sure enough, there were those ladies that I had noticed before having so much fun: Helen Hoffmann, Georgia Banta, Virginia Nowotny, Yvonne Rahe, and Ora Mae Pfeuffer. Remember when they were refolding flour

By Myra Lee Adams Goff When New Braunfels was settled by German immigrants in 1845, the land across the Comal and between that river and the Guadalupe river was not part of NB, but a settlement called Comaltown. The land was granted to Juan de Veramendi by the State of Coahuila

By Myra Lee Adams Goff Have you ever eaten white paste? If you have, you probably went to school in the ‘30s and ‘40s. I never ate paste myself because I was told it was made out of horses’ hooves, and that did it! No paste for me, but I