Plus Luther Hotel updates, Elephant Rock petition, more
No fooling: April is a great time to see sand sculptures on the Gulf Coast, drive through West Texas, or pick strawberries in Marble Falls.
Benoit Dutherage & Sue McGrew won first place in the Master Duo division at the 2023 SandFest with “Wish You Were Here.”, April 19-21, in scope and creativity. Artists from around the world converge on the beach town to compete for juried and audience awards. The festival began in 1997 as a local event to raise funds for theand has grown into an internationally recognized phenomenon with music, vendors, and lots of fun.
In the meantime, a group of volunteers have worked diligently to clean out the years of accumulated furniture, kitchenware, and bedding so that the next phase of assessing the building’s condition can begin. It will be at least two and a half years before the first guests check into the restored Luther Hotel under a nonprofit/for-profit ownership and management arrangement, says
Neither the supporters nor opponents of changing the name of Elephant Rock to Cibolo Rock seem to acknowledge that the lonely rock formation on US-67 south of Marfa doesn’t really resemble an elephant or a bison.on the horizon. Proponents of the name change say that the rock is on the Cibolo Ranch, was called Cibolo Rock as far back as at least the 1880s, and elephants have nothing to do with the area. The term “cibolo” means “bison” in the local Spanish vernacular.
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