School closings recalled in Hill Country life and supper gossip
Rural communities held annual school closings with afternoon rodeos and lantern plays led by teachers. The event combined courting, barbecue dinners, and homemade potato salads, cakes, and pies as neighbors shared recipes and stories before heading home.
Street Cars Roamed Early Llano Streets
Llano Texas in the turn of the century featured horsedrawn traffic and a small ranching community with a sand filled river nearby. Burro drawn streetcars ran along a wooden bridge before modernization brought an end to the era about two decades later.
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