So where else will you find great food, a day and evening full of live music, arts and crafts, kids’ games, and a chance to give back to those who have given so much? Wimberley’s annual Crawfish Boil, that’s where. Sure, the festival celebrates those miniature lobsters, those freshwater crustaceans, and you’ll have plenty of opportunity to munch on as many mudbugs as you’d like. Read More

By Allan C. Kimball You can count on it: Wimberley always has something going on. The most unusual event for the whole year happens in May at the Duck Race. Yes, a duck race and not just with any old common ducks. These racers are little yellow rubber duckies. Hundreds of them race down Cypress Creek, herded along by members of the Wimberley Emergency Medical Service. “This is the 19th year for the Duck Race,” says EMS Director Ken Strange. Read More

Dirk Bauer looks like a guy who likes to make things by hand and the wooden porch swing he’s crafting in his workshop seems natural. But the delicate frame of the beginnings of a violin, lying next to the porch swing, seem a little out of place for the big guy. But Dirk loves cutting wood into extremely thin strips about two millimeters thick and bending them over heated pipes to get the shape he’s looking for because he’s a luthier. Dirk handcrafts violins, dulcimers, mandolins, guitar ... Read More

The Wimberley Arts Fest at Blue Hole, sponsored by the Wimberley Valley Art League, welcomes fine artists to their 5th Annual Arts Fest on April 27 & 28. This year the Fest has been expanded to a two-day event in a new setting at the beautiful Blue Hole Regional Park. Blue Hole is the perfect backdrop for quality artwork to be viewed and purchased. Read More

I know a place where you can get a half-pound, open-faced hamburger on sourdough bread covered to overflowing with fries and smothered with brown gravy. I knows a place you can get a salad topped with teriyaki chicken, noodles, mandarin oranges, and almonds. I knows a place where you can watch the latest game on a wide-screen TV or ducks and geese waddling around the grounds by a scenic creek. Read More

Lee Coleé Atnip loves working with kids and they love working with her. “They’re so enthusiastic,” she says. “They’re like a sponge. I like to nurture that spark and that natural talent.” Talent for what? Performing. It’s what Lee has been doing since the age of three and still does when she’s not teaching dance or acting in several venues. She attended the American Academy of Performing Arts in New York City, and since then it seems she has done just about everything in the ... Read More

The Wimberley Players presented their first performance 33 years ago and they continue to amaze the village with the quality of their productions today. “We’re always striving to amaze,” says Players’ vice president Julie Ray. “In fact that’s our new slogan: ‘Amazing Theater.’” That first performance back in 1979 took place in an elementary school auditorium with lighting hidden in coffee cans above the makeshift scenery. Read More

Imagine a world where artisans in developing countries get a fair return on their creative work. Imagine a world where profits from retail sales go to help fund orphanages. Imagine a world where profits help your neighbors in need. You don’t have to imagine all that anymore. Just visit the Imagine shop in Wimberley. “I was at a crossroad in my life and I wanted to do something I believed in,” says Kami Turner, owner of Imagine. Kami and husband David moved from Michigan to the Texas Hi ... Read More

Uh, oh. I’ve visited more than half the 50-plus destinations in travel writer Allan Kimball’s newest book, Texas Redneck Road Trips. Does that make me one, too? Not that there’s anything wrong with that. After all, we’ve all got a tad of redneck somewhere in our blood. You know, that who-cares, let’s-have-some-dirty-fun, “glorious lack of sophistication” attitude, as Kimball so eloquently describes in his pocket-sized guide recently published by Great Texas Line Press. No matter ... Read More

Winter’s Eve is an old fashioned Christmas celebration in Wimberley featuring festive foods, holiday lighting, music, and late night shopping as all the merchants around the Square stay open late to accommodate Christmas shoppers. The festival takes place from 5 p.m. to 10 p.m. on December 8 around the Wimberley Café on the Wimberley Square, according to Cissy Yates, president of the Wimberley Merchants Association, which is sponsoring the event. Santa Claus will, of course, be available f ... Read More