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Wurstfest

by Rebecca Persons

Caught in a whirlwind of twirling dirndls led by lederhosen-wearing partners, while chicken hats bob atop a crush of sausage lovers, visitors to New Braunfels’ Wurstfest might find themselves temporarily transported to another time and place. This beloved annual festival celebrating a continent-hopping, generations-deep love of all things sausage, sour and steeped-in-tradition, is in full swing, and music and dancing are ubiquitous. Cries of “Prost!” are jubilant, loud and frequent, and over the course of this five-decades-old, ten-day hurrah, tens of thousands of visitors will fill dance halls, the biergarten and the many, many lines leading to authentic German delicacies....

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Terlingua

by Whitney Arostegui

Terlingua, Texas, is what anyone might call a ghost town—a term particularly apt because of the town’s proximity to the Chisos (Spanish for “ghosts” or “phantoms”) Mountains of Big Bend State Park. In the early 1900s, the town was a quicksilver mining hub and promised steady work to immigrants. Citizens enjoyed regular mail service, an ice cream shop, a theater and the occasional weekend dance. The industry slowed down dramatically after World War I, however, and the mining company eventually went bankrupt. By the 1970s, the population barely topped 20 residents, but the West Texas landscape is both resilient and enchanting, and that number has been steadily on the rise e...

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Marching On

by Layne Lynch
Photography by Chasity Ann Noel

Twenty years ago, Saint Arnold Brewing Company (named for the patron saint of hop-pickers and brewers) set out to establish itself in Houston’s Warehouse District. Fast forward to the present day and the award-winning craft brewery has accomplished that and much more. The urban brewhouse’s sales have soared over the past few years (reaching an average of nearly 55,000 barrels last year), but it’s the widespread influence the ale enterprise has bestowed upon the Texas brewing industry as a whole that makes Saint Arnold’s headquarters a traveler’s destination. 

When Brock Wagner launched Saint Arnold Brewing Company in 1994 with just a simple am...

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