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Full Circle: Boston one-hole wonder

How many of you know what I’m talking about? What if I say Boston L? Or Boston wall-mounted? ...

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Full Circle: Splendiferous Junque

Kitsch: an object of tawdry design, appearance or content; gaudy, sentimental, tacky — with the intent of appealing ...

Columnists

Peggy Keener: Churn, baby, churn

I have only eaten lutefisk once. It was … well … frankly … delicious! I loved it!! That ...

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Full Circle: Do I know you?

Recently I was standing on Main Street looking with astonishment at a hopeless snarl of traffic. At the ...

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Full Circle: Spart-town, USA

Our town is so rigidly ingrained with the Spam mindset one would think Austin’s city borders were rigidly ...

Columnists

Ma, me and soap bubbles

No, I’m not crying. The tears running down my cheeks are from an Oxydol soap bubble that popped ...

Columnists

Full Circle: Maid to the rescue

My arm ached like blue blazes. More specifically, my right arm ached like blue blazes. Why? Because for ...

Columnists

The sounds of summer

Summer. 1940s. Austin. Here’s the truth. Though the days were glorious; the nights were not. How well I ...

Columnists

Full Circle: Humble man gave much to the library

Editor’s note: This is the second of a two-part series by Herald columnist Peggy Keener on Austin Public ...

News

Full Circle: The story of Carnegie Public Library

If you have the farcical notion that the Austin Public Library magically appeared one day, then you, my ...

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Hip-hip-away; Girdles stifled all attempts at moving or living normally

I am sitting in the very cramped seat (think fetal position) of a reconfigured C-54 military aircraft on ...

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Full Circle: No more Mr. and Mrs. D

For 40 years the folks in Austin have been hooked on Hookers. But, alas, the time has come ...

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Full Circle: Let’s eat Gramma

Come on now! Scaring Gramma like that isn’t very nice. But, more than anything, it just goes to ...

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Full Circle: We give S&H green stamps

How our hearts revved up upon hearing those words. Why, no woman with a half brain in her ...

Columnists

Full Circle: The world cried as one after JFK’s death

Back here in Austin, you folks already knew. Your world had already been shattered into a thousand pieces; ...

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