VOLUME 18 ISSUE 11
Sat.,Nov. 3rd
Dedicated to Peter Cedarstacker
Sun.,Nov. 4th Sat.,Nov. 17th
HUNTERS BALL
1pm - Kimberly Dunn
&
William Clark Green
Cody Canada &
the Departed
Kevin Welch
Slaid Cleaves
Ed Jurdi &
Gordy Quist
9pm
CHRIS
WALL
BAND
November 2012
1pm
9pm
Benefits :
Fredericksburg Food Pantry
Admission :
Non-Perishable Food items
Saturday, Nov. 24th
8pm
Robison FamilyThanksgiving
+ Uncle Lucius
1pm - Stewart Mann
& the Statesboro Revue
Happy Thanksgiving
from Luckenbach Texas
closed - Thursday, Nov. 22nd
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Inside
“THE MOON”
Cedar Creek Clippings ................................Page 3
Bruce Robison
Charlie Robison
Kelly Willis
1pm - South Austin Moonlighters
Robyn Ludwick
Everybody’s Somebody ............................Page 4-5
Three Full Bands
Luckenbach Store & More ..........................Page 6
Check website or call for ticket info & details
www.luckenbachtexas.com
You Can’t Forget Memories ........................Page 7
Luckenbach Upcoming Events ....................Page 8
October 20, 2012
The LUCKENBACH MOON is published monthly by Luckenbach Texas, Inc.
Opinions expressed in The LUCKENBACH MOON do not necessarily reflect
the opinions of the owners, directors, or staff of Luckenbach Texas, Inc. We
would like to acknowledge and thank the following “Somebodies” who made
this month’s MOON possible: Peter Cedarstacker aka Hondo Crouch, Becky
Crouch Barrales, John Raven, C. P. Vaughn and Robbyn Dodd.
Help us keep Luckenbach legal, Please do not bring alcohol or take it off the grounds when you leave.
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Note: From 1961-1973, Hondo (nom
de plume, or alias, or AKA Peter
Cedarstacker) wrote a social satire column for the Comfort News. The fictional town of Cedar Creek and all of its
characters eventually became the real
town of Luckenbach and all of its characters (and Luckenbach has some real
characters!) The MOON reserves a special corner for Peter Cedarstacker,
Writer, as a corner of wit and human
insight for us today.
-Becky Crouch Barrales
And more.....
The local and social news are many this week
followed by next week.
Trapper Gutowsky was secretly married to the
little run-away cedar shopper that’s been rattlin’
‘round in the canyon for the last month. He
doesn’t come to town anymore because he has
nearly everything he needs at home. There’ll be
more on this next week once after I talk to my
society editor.
Cedar Creek held its Thanksgiving feast early
this year because everyone was going home for
a Thanksgiving feast.
Mr. Gutowsky started drinkin’ a drink of
tequila, bourbon, scotch, wine and clabber. I
asked him what you call it and he grunted
"Breakfast."
It was a pleasant day, warm and windy and
senator Garble made a speech. He convinced us
that senators are underpaid after he bought us 4
rounds. Mama took head cheese and old, old
Mr. Jones showed up with possum jerky. He get
‘round more lately, because he feels more independent. He gets a welfare check now.
Trapper Gutowsky brought an armadillo on
the half shell but not his new wife. Dogs, yes.
Jesus (pronounced Hey-soos) brought sauerkraut enchiladas and Miguel Schultz (pure
Indian) brought some honest to goodness pemmican.
We all ate, danced, laughed and thanks gave.
December Events
Mark Your Calendar
Dec. 1st – Roger Creager + Bri Bagwell
Dec. 8th – Tejas Brothers
Dec. 15th – Asleep at the Wheel
Christmas Show + Chris Wall
Dec. 22nd – Christmas Ball w/ Gary P. Nunn
Dec. 29th – Eleven Hundred Spring
+ Thomas Michael Riley
Remember: Fight antinomianism.
Peter Cedarstacker
Writer
Dec. 31st – New Year’s Eve w/ Dale Watson
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up in her white Ural motor cycle – with a side car –
every weekend and frequents the dances. Scootin’
around on the dance floor in her cowgirl boots and flirty skirt she’s been known to leave any partner breathless
and gasping for a break.
EVERYBODY’S
SOMEBODY
by
Becky Crouch
Barrales
"Everybody Needs A Rock "
says Anita Stone
Anita Stone (known to many as Jones) talks in puns,
rhymes, and catchy sayings, usually in a loud gasping
voice sprinkled with laughs and giggles. Anita’s colorful wedding at Luckenbach on horseback to singer
Jimmie Lee Jones is part of history now. She changed
her name to Stone just to go with her rock business.
She single-handedly started, built up, and owns a
rock/brick/wine bottle engraving business started 17
years ago by merely picking up and selling rocks out of
her little Isuzu truck. Texas Rock Art Company is located on Main St. in Fredericksburg across from WalMart. You’ll notice it by the mountain of rocks and the
garden of already-engraved monuments.
Remember the crazy days of the Seventies when hoards
of people came to Luckenbach to take or leave something for a souvenir? They took signs, longnecks, even
rocks. They left their names all over the buildings. Anita
gave them something to buy as a keepsake. Her
engraved rocks were sold in the store. The Willie
Nelson rock (face with braids) lays next to the dead
antique possum in the display case.
Like bumper stickers or t-shirts bearing any message,
Anita chisels and sandblasts Biblical or literary phrases, ranch names, or big boulder business signage. But a
tiny wordless stone with a granite heart speaks volumes.
She’s the brainstorm behind the brick pavers in front of
the dancehall. Bearing names of people who wanted to
get laid in Luckenbach on the patio, memorialize a date,
or just be counted as being there to add to the legend.
The Paver Engravers raise money to maintain
Luckenbach’s grounds – like trimming the ball moss
out of the oaks which are the "roof" for people and roost
for the chickens.
Anita has been a Luckenbach Regular since it was refounded by Hondo. Her bubbly personable blue-eyed
presence is missed if she’s not there. She usually drives
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What amazes me is that she started this little business with
her son and daughter engraving rocks under a tent at
Alamo Springs; keeping them warm in a roasting pan in
the oven to facilitate engraving. She finally made enough
money to buy an old fork lift called "Old Smokey" that
only turned right. Like the Egyptians moving big pyramid
stones, little Anita put big boulders on pipes and rolled
them with the leverage of a crow bar. Now, much machinery, more buildings and a better fork lift later, she’s proud
of her growing business run on pure rocks and passion.
It’s a Jewish custom at funerals for friends to bring a small
rock to place at the grave instead of perishable flowers.
The more rocks shows the more friends one had. Rocks
make lasting little monuments.
When Anita offered to lift me up three stories high in her
fork lift I hightailed it out of there.
"What day is it?" asked Pooh.
"It’s today," squeaked Piglet, "my favorite day!"
Anita’s rock in the children’s bathroom
at HEB’s Laity Lodge in Leaky.
I don’t think she’ll ever hit rock bottom with accounts like
the Market Platz (1500 bricks), Oklahoma University, and
the museum shop of the Texas State Prison.
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23rd - Josh Peek Band
9th - Chris Story Band
30th - Drew Womack
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Mama did most of the work but Daddy helped when he had a
free minute.
Early in the game, the turkey was walking around in the yard
a day or two before the big day. A little later he came frozen
from the frozen food locker the doctor had rented. Daddy had
rendered the gobbler into frozen treat the previous year.
Mama’s dressing was labor intensive, as were most things
she did. A pan of cornbread had to be baked the day before.
Giblets had to be boiled to make stock for the dressing, onions
and celery had to be sautéed . Of course the giblets had to be
diced.
Thanksgiving Day, the turkey went in the oven about four in
the morning. While the bird was cooking, Mama would make
big bowl of her famous potato salad. That required peeling,
dicing and cooking the potatoes. The onion and pickle had to
be diced. I think I remember the salad having boiled egg in it.
All this had to be done early enough that it would cool in the
ice box before noon. It was best to make it the day before.
If Mama had an hour or so of slack time, she would make a
pair of her famous lemon pies. These pies did not come in a
box nor did the crust come ready made from the cooler.. Mama
made the filling from:
milk, eggs, cornstarch and
lemons, fresh.
On the big day,
the company would start
arriving around 10:30 or
11:00. Every family
brought a contribution for
the table. There were
always candied sweet
potatoes, green beans
(thank someone that the
ubiquitous green bean
casserole never showed
up). There were mashed
potatoes for those who
preferred them over those
candied or saladed. Of course there was the gravy. Daddy was
the gravy expert in the house. He did whip up a pretty fair
giblet gravy.
Dessert ran toward cakes and pies. There was always at least
one apple pie. My cousin Winona made the best devil food
cake ever made. This was no "Just open the box" deal either.
The cake was past excellent.
There was either ice tea or coffee. No vino de jour at our
table.
When everyone had been fed, the womenfolk cleaned up the
table. There was a period of visitation and then about 3 in the
afternoon the leftovers were served and everyone ate again..
The women cleaned up everything and everyone went
home until the next time the family met up at "Uncle John and
Aunt Dailey’s" place.
You can’t
forget
Memories
November 2012
Copyright John Raven
Every year at Thanksgiving I remember back to the days of
growing up on the farm at Taylor, Texas. I lived on that farm
from age 4 to age 18.
The main focus of the farm was having a dairy to provide
milk for the hospital the doctor who owned the farm also
owned. On the side, to provide work for the employees during
the non-dairy hours, we raised a lot of hogs, chickens and the
occasional sheep. ( Dairy hours ran from 2 in the morning
until about 9, then they took up again 2 in the afternoon and
lasted until about 7. )
Growing up in this atmosphere I thought people working 18
hours a day was normal.. I
was shocked when I found
that some city people only
worked 8 hours a day.
The farm was not all
drudgery. My mama was
from the Meyer family
and she was oldest in the
family, that sort of made
her "Mama" to her siblings. Her name was
Adelia Emma Mathilda
but she was known as
"Aunt Dailey".
On most Thanksgivings
and on Christmas, the
Meyer family gathered at
our house. These gatherings are fondly remembered by all the
family.
While Daddy was running the farm, Mama did the household chores. (There was a short period when the "Big Dairy"
was running that Mama worked there as bottle washer and butter maker. )
Today’s simple things like washing clothes was a bit more
labor intensive on the farm. Mama and her sister Clarice, who
lived nearby, did their laundry together on Monday mornings..
This involved the big, black pot of boiling water, the galvanized wash tubs and the wire clothes lines strung across the
yard. It was pretty much an all day job.
All the chores were everyday things. The holiday gatherings
were special. Thanksgiving required turkey and dressing. As
hosts, Mama and Daddy "fixed" the turkey and dressing.
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7th
Bo Porter-Picker Circle
5pm
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8th
ShAnnie-Picker Circle
5pm
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9th
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