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2018-10-13		Boerne				Mex-Am Folk Tales		Event Website Link	Patrick Heath Public Lib - A part of the Kendall County`s ce
2018-11-23		Boerne		MAP		Dickens on Main		Event Website Link	Fire and Ice weekend of the 19th Annual Dickens on Main! Fes

Saturday Sept 15 schedule in Comfort Texas

Richard Caldwell interviewing Herff decendents

Thank you to Boerne's Patrick Heath Public Library for much of our information and imagery - click to their newsletter... or click to the library...

Mi Cultura Y Tradiciones
A Community Celebration of Hispanic Culture
Sept 15 in Comfort, Texas - Comfort Park 10 am to 3 pm
Come to Comfort, Texas for exhibits, demonstrations, traditional food, music, arts, audtion and raffle!!!
Click the poster for more details!

Additional events:
Wednesday, Sept 19, 6pm - Patrick Heath Public Library (Boerne) `The Changing Dynamics of the Missions in the Late 18th Century` by Susan Snow - Archaeologist for the San Antonio Missions
Tuesday Oct 2, 7pm Cibolo Nature Center - A part of the Kendall County`s celebration of National Hispanic Heritage Month. - Native Plant Society of TX by Benito Trevino ethnobotanist
Saturday Oct 13, 2pm Patrick Heath Public Lib - A part of the Kendall County`s celebration of National Hispanic Heritage Month. History of Mexican-American Folk Tales, by Xavier Garza
Sept 1 - Oct 20 Patrick Heath Public Lib - A part of the Kendall County`s celebration of National Hispanic Heritage Month. - Exhibit `The Missions - 19th Century Cyanotype` by Michael Tidwell

	The beginnings of Kendall County: In 1847, when Bavarian emigrant, Nicolaus Zink, settled on Pinta Trail land, he established himself as Kendall County's first settler and the first in the future Latin community of Sisterdale. Others followed, mostly German immigrants, bringing with them a strong desire for opportunity and the ideals of freedom. Tusculum predated Boerne, which was plotted in 1852. The same year that Comfort was laid out, 1854, George Wilkins Kendall, an accomplished writer, publisher, and the founder of the New Orleans Picayune, expanded his new career of raising sheep, to a ranch near Boerne. Click here to read more....
	Click here to... learn more about the Kendall County Historical Commission... ...and here for links to our county's heritage-related non-profits

Boerne Village Band - 1890 - Event in/near Boerne
Click photo to enlarge Photo Credit: Dietert Historical Archives - Patrick Heath Public Library (Boerne) click to their website	Boerne Village Band - 1890 Boerne Village Band - 1890 This is the oldest continuous German band outside of Germany that still plays outdoor concerts each summer in the Boerne park. Music was very important to the German settlers - many bringing their instruments with them when they came from Germany. Chat with Col. Bettie Edmonds - Sept 2013 Click here to view Today's Five

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Boerne Village Band - 1890