December 4 Deadline for Tannenbaum Ball Tickets

Guests wanting to reserve a seat at the Gillespie County Historical Society’s Tannenbaum Ball have until Dec. 4 to purchase a ticket for the Dec. 11 fundraising event at Fredericksburg’s Pioneer Pavilion in Lady Bird Park.

Reservations for the Tannenbaum Ball are $100 per person, and can be purchased online at www.pioneermuseum.net or by any of the following methods;

By phone - 830-997-2835

By mail - GCHS, 312 West San Antonio Street, Fredericksburg, TX 78624

By email - info@pioneermuseum.net

In person - Pioneer Museum, Vereins Kirche, Historical Society office, Gastehaus Schmidt, Journey Lane Scrapbooking, Crenwelge Motors (Kerrville)

This year’s theme is “Partridge in a Pear Tree.” Guests will enjoy a formal dinner service catered by Dawn Gentle featuring prime rib and elegant dessert assortment, live music by the Bill Smallwood Band, and silent and live auctions. Live auction items include a Crawfish Crawl for 30 people, Piper Cub flyover of Gillespie County, Houston Grand Opera package including hotel accommodations and dinner, Murder Mystery dinner, and a week-long Santa Fe retreat for 12.

Tickets are also still available for the Holiday Home Tour and the Candlelight Tour of Homes.

The Holiday Home Tour opens up nine exclusive Fredericksburg properties decorated for the season on Saturday, Dec 12 from noon until 6 p.m. Tickets are $25 per person.

The popular Candlelight Tour returns on Saturday evening from 5:30 to 8:30 p.m. Visitors can view three historic houses decked in period decor and lit with candlelight. The tour includes the buildings and grounds of the Pioneer Museum, where carolers will sing while volunteers serve hot cider and traditional German cookies. Candlelight Tour tickets are $15 per person.

The public can still buy tickets to win one of three unique $2500 prizes offered by the Gillespie County Historical Society: a new motor scooter from Scootique, VISA gift card, or a custom painted gun. The winner’s name will be drawn the night of the Tannenbaum Ball.

Preservation Weekend is the largest fundraiser for the Gillespie County Historical Society, whose mission is to preserve and tell the story of Fredericksburg’s unique cultural heritage.

Thanksgiving Invitational Art Show

Artists from the Texas State Arts & Crafts Fair will exhibit on Marktplatz, November 27th and 28th, from 10 am to 6 pm. Admission is free. Please call 830/896-5711 for more information.

Restaurants open today

ANDY’S STEAK & SEAFOOD GRILL

413 S. Washington St (830) 997-3744

Open 11 AM – 2 PM Traditional Buffet

AUGUST E’S

203 E. San Antonio (830) 997-1585

Seatings 12 PM, 2 PM, 4 PM

Traditional Meal – Reservations recommended

AUSLANDER

323 E. Main (830)997-7714

Open 5 PM – Midnight

AUSTIN’S-The RESTAURANT at ROSE HILL MANOR

2614 Upper Albert Rd (Stonewall) (877) 767-3445

Seatings 1 PM & 4:30 PM

Prix fixe 5 Course Dinner – Reservations only

CABERNET GRILL

Hwy.16 South ~ 1.5 mi. (830) 990-5734

Open 11 AM – 4 PM Traditional Buffet

DENNY’S

1035 S. Adams (Hwy. 16 South) (830) 990-2806

Open 24 hrs regular menu

DOUBLE JADE ISLAND

504 E. Main (830) 990-0988

Open 11 AM – 8 PM Buffet

FREDERICKSBURG BREWING CO

245 E. Main (830) 997-1646

Beergarten open 7:15 PM for Football Game



FREDERICKSBURG GOURMET COFFEE & TEA

321 W. Main (830) 997-8327

Open 8 AM – NOON

HILL COUNTRY DONUTS & KOLACHES

605 E. Main (830) 990-2424

Open 5 AM – 2 PM

HILL TOP CAFÉ

10661 US Hwy 87 North (830) 997-8922

Open 11 AM – 3 PM

LONGHORN CAFÉ

23624 US Hwy 290 W. (Harper) (830) 864-4328

Open 11 AM – 2 PM Traditional Buffet

LONGHORN STREET CAFÉ

621 Longhorn Street (830) 997-4805

Open 8 AM – 2 PM Traditional Meal

MAHALEY’S CAFÉ

341 E. Main Street (830) 997-4400

Open 6:30 AM – 2:30 PM

RATHSKELLER – HILL COUNTRY BISTRO

260 E. Main (830) 990-5858

Open 11 AM – 3 PM

Traditional Meal - Reservations recommended

THE PEACH PIT BBQ

324 W. Main (830) 997-7753

Open 11 AM – 5 PM

SILVER CREEK RESTAURANT

310 E. Main (830) 990-4949

Open Noon till sold out

Traditional Meal

SUBWAY SANDICHES – WALMART

1435 E. Main (830) 997-7444

Open 10 AM – 10 PM

TAQUERIA JALISCO

1410 E. Main (830) 990-8554

Open 6 AM – 3 PM

TOP DONUTS

915 E. Main (830) 997-9976

Open 5 AM – 1 PM

WILLIE’S FULL MOON BBQ & STEAKHOUSE

3234 Luckenbach Rd (830) 997-0444

Open 11 AM – 6 PM Traditional Meal

WINSLOW’S

106 E. Main (830) 990-0168

Open 8 AM – 3 PM

Note: Information provided by above restaurants.

Please call to confirm hours. As of 11/3/09

HEB Food Store (830-997-9950), 401 S.
Adams, will be closed on Thanksgiving Day. Super S Foods
(997-4346), 206 N. Milam, will be open 7 am - 2:30 pm on Thanksgiving Day.

All restaurants are smoke free unless over 50% of their
business is derived from alcohol sales.

"Ranchwomen of the Texas Hill Country" at Photography 414

"Don't Make Me Go to Town: Ranchwomen of the Texas Hill Country" will be shown at Photography 414 Saturdays and Sundays in November, noon to 6 p.m. The project includes platinum prints and oral histories of ranchwomen from this region. The photographer, Rhonda Lashley Lopez, began the work more than a decade ago as a graduate student in photojournalism at UT Austin, and the work will be published by UT Press. The signed and numbered prints are for sale, but everyone is welcome to view the exhibit and learn about these remarkable women. Photography 414 Gallery is at 414 East Main Street.

"Storytelling in Texas" - 11/28

A Thanksgiving Holiday Weekend Event for the Family and Audiences of All Ages. “Storytelling in Texas” will host storytelling concerts at 2:00pm and 7:30pm at Steve W. Shepherd Theater, 1668 Highway 87 South. Three nationally recognized storytellers will evoke laughter, stimulate the imagination and recall fond memories. General admission seating - tickets are $8 for children under 13 at both concerts, and $15 for adults for the matinee and $20 for the adults for the evening concert.

Scooter, gun, and gift card part of 2009 Preservation Weekend prizes

The public can now buy tickets to win one of three unique $2500 prizes offered by the Gillespie County Historical Society: a new motor scooter from Scootique, VISA gift card, or a custom painted gun.

Tickets are being sold in conjunction with Preservation Weekend, the Society’s biggest fundraiser of the year. The events include the Tannenbaum Ball on Friday evening, Dec 11, the Holiday Home Tour on Saturday, Dec 12 from noon to 6 p.m., and the Candlelight Tour on Saturday evening, Dec 12, from 5:30 to 8 p.m.

The winner’s name will be drawn the night of the Tannenbaum Ball, Friday, Dec. 11. The winner will choose one of three prizes, each a $2500 value:

• Buddy Scooter from Scootique


• Baretta 391 shotgun from Smith Guns


• VISA gift card - $2500

Prize tickets are $30 each or four for $100. Tickets are on sale now at the Society office, 312 West San Antonio St; at the Pioneer Museum store on the corner of Main and Milam; and from any member of the board of directors. Tickets are also being sold in front of the old Crenwelge store and Chase Bank on weekends.

Preservation Weekend is the largest fundraiser for the Gillespie County Historical Society, whose mission is to preserve and tell the story of Fredericksburg’s unique cultural heritage.

Cheeses for Thanksgiving Class at Fromage du Monde - 11/21

Learn about Cheeses for Thanksgiving at Fromage du Monde, 226 West Main, on Saturday November 28 from 12:30 pm to 2:30 pm. Please RSVP to 830/992-3134. Class will cost $10.

Thanksgiving in Luckenbach - 11/28

Thanksgiving in Luckenbach, Texas starts at 8 pm on Saturday. Join Bruce Robison and The Trishas and boot scoot away all those Thanksgiving calories in the world famous Texas dancehall. Please call 830/997-5881 for more information.

Cabernet Grill Thanksgiving Menu

Thanksgiving Day Buffet

Thursday November 26, 2009

$27.95 per person plus tax and gratuity

11:00 AM to 4:00 PM

Open Seating / No Reservations Needed

From the Carving Board

Bourbon & Molasses Glazed Pit Ham

Honey Sage Roasted Turkey with natural gravy

Rosemary & Pepper Crusted Prime Rib of Beef

Soup of the Day

Caesar Salad with Pecorino Croutons

Iced Gulf Shrimp and Raw Half Shell Oysters with South Texas Red Sauce

Hearth Baked Rolls with sweet cream butter

Butter Pecan Candied Yams

Southern Cornbread Sausage Dressing

Ginger Lime Carrots

Petite Green Beans

Cheddar Scallion Smashed Potatoes

Dessert Bar

Cinnamon Granny Smith Apple Pie, Toasted Pecan Pie, Pumpkin Pie with Chantilly Cream, Sticky Pecan Cheesecake

Death by Chocolate Cake

Tannenbaum Ball Tickets On Sale Now!

Everyone can help celebrate the season with an elegant meal, live dance music, auction, and raffle while raising money for a good cause by attending the Tannenbaum Ball on Friday, Dec 11 in Fredericksburg, Texas.

The Ball is sponsored by the Gillespie County Historical Society and is one activity of Preservation Weekend. Other events include the Holiday Home Tour and Candlelight Tour on Saturday, Dec 12.

Guests at the Tannenbaum Ball will enter a world of "Partridge in a Pear Tree,” with colorful birds perched in delicate silver branches at the Pioneer Pavilion in Lady Bird Park. At 8 p.m. Dawn Gentle serves a formal dinner service of baby spinach salad with roasted walnut dressing and blue cheese crumbles, choice cut prime rib, garlic potato mashers drizzled with balsamic cream sauce, and grilled vegetables. Dessert will be a mini-cake assortment of chocolate-mocha-raspberry, strawberry-cream cheese, and lemon blueberry, plus chocolate almond truffle and apricot streusel bars.

The Bill Smallwood Band will perform for the Ball. This well-known group is a crowd favorite, playing tunes from standard country to rock classics to big band numbers designed to appeal to all musical tastes and dancing styles.

During the evening, guest can buy chances to win one of three unique prizes, choosing from a new motor scooter from Scootique, VISA gift card, or a custom painted rifle.

Tickets are $30 each or 4 for $100.

One highlight of the Ball is the live and silent auction. Notable live auction items include a Crawfish Crawl for 30 people, Piper Cub flyover of Gillespie County, Houston Grand Opera package including hotel accommodations and dinner, Murder Mystery dinner, and a week-long Santa Fe retreat for 12.

Reservations for the Tannenbaum Ball are $100 per person, and need to be made by Dec 4.

During Preservation Weekend, visitors can also participate in the Holiday Home Tour and the Candlelight Tour on Saturday, Dec 12.

The Holiday Home Tour runs from 12 noon until 6 p.m. and features nine distinct properties in an around Fredericksburg, dressed up in holiday decor. The Candlelight Tour follows on Saturday evening from 5:30 to 8:30 p.m. Visitors can view three historic houses decked in period decor and lit with candlelight. The tour includes the buildings and grounds of the Pioneer Museum, where carolers will sing while volunteers serve hot cider and traditional German cookies.

Tickets for the tour are $25 per person, or $43 for the Tour by Trolley. Trolley seating is limited to 27 and requires reservations by December 4, 2009. The Candlelight Tour is $15 per person. This year the public can purchase tour and ball tickets online at www.pioneermuseum.net.

Patrons also can order tickets by any of four methods:

By phone - 830-997-2835

By mail - GCHS, 312 West San Antonio Street, Fredericksburg, TX 78624

By email - Vickibeasley@austin.rr.com

In person - Pioneer Museum, Vereins Kirche, Historical Society office, Gastehaus Schmidt, Journey Lane Scrapbooking, Crenwelge Motors (Kerrville)

Preservation Weekend is the largest fundraiser for the Gillespie County Historical Society, whose mission is to preserve and tell the story of Fredericksburg's unique cultural heritage.

Rockbox Christmas Show Times

The Rockbox Christmas Show opens Nov 20 and runs through Dec 27 with regular showtimes Fri-Sun PLUS additional showtimes 7pm Thursdays and 4:30 Fridays:

7pm Thursdays:
Free Youth Ticket (17&under) with regular price Adult ticket
20/20 Group Discount - 20 or more tickets at $20 plus tax

4:30 Fridays:
Free Youth Ticket (17&under) with regular price Adult ticket
20/20 Group Discount - 20 or more tickets at $20 plus tax
8pm Fridays
4:30 Saturdays
8pm Saturdays

Sundays at 1:30p
Here are the 7pm Thursday and 4:30 Friday dates:

7pm Thursday shows on December 3, 10 & 17

4:30 Friday shows on Nov 27, December 4, 11, & 18
Other important dates:

No shows December 24 & 25
Final show on Sunday, December 27 at 7pm
Call toll-free 1.866.349.6688 to confirm schedule and for reservations.

"BBQ" Tennis Social - 11/15

The Fredericksburg Tennis Association (FTA) is hosting their monthly tennis social at Lady Bird Johnson Park Tennis Courts 5pm on Sunday. The event is free to members, with guests playing and eating for $5. Memberships to the FTA are available. Please call 990-7503 for more information.

Art Past Dark 2009 - 11/13-14

ART PAST DARK 2009
Art Past Dark, the celebration of Arts and Antiques, is scheduled this year for November 13-15, and will feature exhibits and artist demonstrations at ten galleries in the historic shopping district and the annual show of Die Künstler von Fredericksburg, a large, long-standing organization of local artists. Receptions with food and wine will celebrate the shows at most galleries, open to the public, free of charge.

Visit the official Art Past Dark website to get a detailed schedule of events and other information.

Veteran's Day Program - 11/11

Annual recognition of veterans from all wars and actions with music, color guard, taps, 21-gun salute and a noted speaker, held at the National Museum of the Pacific War Plaza of the Presidents at 311 E. Austin Street. Admission for the program is free. Please call 830/992-2765 for more information.

Christmas Home Tour Tickets On Sale

The public can now purchase tickets for the Gillespie County Historical Society's 2009 Preservation Weekend activities, set for Dec 11 and 12 in Fredericksburg, Texas.

The Society has three special activities planned for the fundraising weekend, including the return of the popular Candlelight Tour on Saturday evening from 5:30 to 8:30 p.m. Visitors can view three historic houses decked in period decor and lit with candlelight. The tour includes the buildings and grounds of the Pioneer Museum, where carolers will sing while volunteers serve wine and traditional German cookies.

The Holiday Home Tour is earlier on the same day, from 12 noon until 6 p.m. This year nine “never before seen” properties are on the tour, featuring historic homes, restored buildings, and unique architectural structures.

On Friday, Dec 11, the Society celebrates “Partridge in a Pear Tree” for the exclusive Tannenbaum Ball at Pioneer Pavilion starting at 7 p.m. Guests will enjoy an elegant meal catered by Dawn Gentle, the Bill Smallwood Band, and silent and live auctions.

Tickets for the tour are $25 per person, or $43 for the Tour by Trolley. Trolley seating is limited to 27 and requires reservations by December 4, 2009. The Candlelight Tour is $15 per person.

Reservations for the Tannenbaum Ball are $100 per person, and must be made by Dec 4.

Patrons can order tickets by any of four methods:

By phone - 830-997-2835

By mail - GCHS, 312 West San Antonio Street, Fredericksburg, TX 78624

By email - Vickibeasley@austin.rr.com

In person - Pioneer Museum, Vereins Kirche, Historical Society office, Gastehaus
Schmidt, Journey Lane Scrapbooking, Crenwelge Motors (Kerrville)

Tickets for the Home Tour and Candlelight Tour can be purchased online at www.pioneermuseum.com.

The Home Tour and Ball are the largest fundraisers for the Gillespie County Historical Society, whose mission is to preserve and tell the story of Fredericksburg's unique cultural heritage.

Wüsthof Day at Der Küchen Laden - 11/7

Chefs and family cooks alike will enjoy this opportunity to meet Harold Wüsthof, of 7th generation family ownership of the exclusive German Wüsthof knife company on his American visit to Fredericksburg retailer, Der Küchen Laden, 258 East Main from 10 am to 2 pm. This festive event will include music, a knife signing and plenty of food and drink.

Fredericksburg Salutes our Wounded Warriors - 11/7

Fredericksburg Salutes Our Wounded Warriors. Our community will host several busloads of "Wounded Warriors" and their families from Brooks Army Medical Center (BAMC), Audie Murphy VA Hospital in San Antonio and Ft. Hood. The FSOWW provides transportation to Fredericksburg, lunch and tickets to the National War of the Pacific Museum and to the RockBox Theater. All of Fredericksburg is invited to come out between 10:00 and 10:30 Saturday morning to greet our soldiers and their families when the busses arrive at Marktplatz. Please join us to show our support and say "Thanks" to these men and women who have given so much to ensure our freedom.

Boot Scootin' For A Cause - 11/7

The second annual dinner/dance series organized to benefit Hill Country Memorial Hospice and the Hill Country Memorial Cancer Resource Center will take place on September 12 at Marktplatz from 5 pm to 12 am. The benefit is a gift from a local family who organize and work the event to honor the memory of their beloved grandmother and mother who died of lung cancer. Featured are Tejas Brothers and David Finley. There will be prizes, food and a full evening of dancing and music. Dance and raffle tickets are on sale now. Please call Veronica or Joe at 830/992-0083 or 830/992-1514 for tickets.

Texas Wine Tours

Texas Wine Tours would love to take you out to the wineries on the Texas Hill Country Wine Trail the first three weekends in December. Tour prices include basic wine tasting fees at the various wineries. You can travel safely while you enjoy the wines and the Holiday spirit along the trail. Call (830) 997-TOUR for more information.