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Senior Connections is the perfect remedy for boredom and loneliness for people aged 55 and up. Membership is free, and yes, the food is fine, and the friendship cannot be beat. We have three locations: our central hub in Schulenburg; satellites in Weimar and Flatonia; and one in La Grange, coming soon.

The Colorado Valley Chamber Players 2nd Concert is July 25 Once upon a time, there was a famous dinner in Leipzig. The guest list included none other than three of the greatest composers of the Romantic era: Russia’s Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Norway’s Edvard Grieg, and Germany’s own Johannes Brahms.

Studio Texas will host a dinner and a public lecture July 23 on historical forensic sculpture as part of its first Annual Art Escape, a threeday event celebrating art, history, and community. The event begins with a Member’s Art Show on the porch of The Hall at the Farmstead from 1–4 p.m. July 23, followed by the featured presentation “Love is the Difference” at 4 p.m.

College students prepare tirelessly this summer to put on three full-length Shakespearean plays, adding to the long legacy of performers who have participated in Shakespeare at Winedale since 1970. Over the course of nine weeks, the ensemble of performers practice their lines, learn fight sequences, and build props for their productions, preparing for their fiveshow weekends they perform the last four weeks of the program.

The Fayette County Retired Teachers Association (FCRTA) met on June 8 at Robert’s Steakhouse in Flatonia. The meeting was called to order by Co-President Peggy Halamicek at 1:28 p.m. Twenty-five members were present including three new members.

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La Grange girls athletic director Ryan O’Neal, his wife Tiffany, and their four kids took The Fayette County Record along on their visit to a number of historic American sites over the July 4th weekend, including Virginia’s Historic Triangle formed by the Jamestown, Colonial Williamsburg and Yorktown. Shown above is the family at the American Revolution Museum in Yorktown. To the right they are shown at Mount Vernon, George Washington’s home.

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In the Round Top Parade Saturday, the historic wagon representing the Smith-McMillan Chapter of the National Society Daughters of the American Revolution was pulled by Wagon Master Ricky Lowe and Indian George of Hempstead and their beautiful Belgian draft horses. DAR members riding in the wagon and dressed in Revolutionary era attire included Carolyn Caflisch, Laurie Patterson, Marie Watts, and two multi-generational family members of DAR members. One was Jackie Head with her son Derek and his wife Kayli Head, who’s also a chapter member, and their 3 year old daughter, Holly Head. The other was Sherry Hebert and her eight-year-old granddaughter, Claire Stewart, who is the daughter of Rebecca and Forrest Stewart. A wide variety of candy and America 250 promotional items such as slap and wrist bracelets, white pearl beads, assorted red-white-blue beads, colorful cylinders of bubbles, rubber duckies and squeeze balls, patriotic sunglasses, and more were tossed to revelers along the entire parade route with just enough remaining to toss to the revelers on the final stretch through the pasture behind the Rifle Hall.