Seguin Magazine - March 2020

G u a d a l u p e C o u n t y l i v i n g

MARCH 2020

Cricket Chirps Celebrating 100 years of Texas’ oldest, continuous, student newspaper

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ON THE SCENE 10 WINTER FIRES

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CULINARY CREATIONS

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14 IRISH SODA BREAD

UNDER THE HOOD 18 1969 CHEVROLET CAMARO SS

FEATURES 22 HANDCRAFTED CIGAR BOX GUITARS

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26 CRICKET CHIRPS CELEBRATES 100 YEARS 30 AARON & ANNIE PERRY’S DREAM HOME 34 THRIFTING AT TWIN FLAMES

AROUND TOWN 08 SIZZLIN’ FIVE 38 FACES OF SEGUIN 40 SHAMROCK SAVINGS 42 FAVORITE FINDS

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FROM THE

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elcome to the newest edition of Seguin Magazine. Many of you wont remember me, but this is my second go round as a member of the Seguin . and Magazine team. I am thrilled to be part of the team that is bringing you a variety of interesting and intriguing stories each month.

I’m the mother of two wonderful boys who keep me on my toes and laughing every day.

My first day back at the Seguin Gazette felt like home, like family surrounded me. And that’s what I feel like any time I do anything in Seguin.

The smiles are a little brighter, just like Kayla Colwell’s bright blue ’69 Chevy Camaro that is featured in our Under The Hood. A handshake is a little more welcoming, like how Aaron and Annie Perry welcomed us into their home. And a simple “hello friend” is a little warmer, just like the music from Winter Fires.

Being here in Seguin I find inspiration all around me. This town is full of great people, their stories and events they create all waiting to be highlighted.

I can’t wait for you to see what else we have in store in this month’s issue, and those future magazines to come.

It’s an honor to bring family and creativity together in one place. I hope when you flip through these pages, you’ll feel at home as I do.

It’s good to be home, Seguin!

Desiree Gerland

Desiree Gerland, Editor

Vol. 6, No. 10 Seguin magazine is published twelve times a year by the Seguin Gazette.

PUBLISHER Elizabeth Engelhardt EDITOR Desiree Gerland WRITERS Felicia Frazar Dalondo Moultrie Joe Martin PHOTO EDITOR Lizz Daniels GRAPHIC DESIGNER Bethy Male ADVERTISING Delilah Reyes Gay Lynn Olsovsky Laurie Cheatham WANT TO ADVERTISE IN SEGUIN MAGAZINE call 830-379-5402 STORY IDEAS seguinmagazine@seguingazette.com

on the cover Photo by Lizz Daniels Briana Miranda models a vintage dress from Twin Flames Thrift. The dress was discovered at an estate sale, and is a 60’s era treasure in mint condition.

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“Having the opportunity to meet with, and interview, Winter Fires was great for me. They are young, hip and like a lot of the same bands as me so writing this story was a great opportunity to explore the music that I love more deeply, and discover a new band in the process.”

– Lizz Daniels It’s the assigned stories that usually are the most surprising. Such was the case this month when the powers that be assigned me to write about a man who not only plays but builds cigarbox guitars. Myself being a person who has any quantifiable knowledge of cigars, cigar boxes nor guitars, initially I thought I would be out of my realm in reporting the story. I was. But with David Nyberg’s help, I learned a bit about cigar boxes, and a bit more about cigar-box guitars and their construction. Nyberg was patient and made this reporter with no knowledge about the subject feel at ease enough to enjoy tackling the subject. Cigar-box guitars and their history seem fascinating and I hope to get more information about them in the future. Hope the article sparks your interests as well.

– Dalondo Moultrie The Cricket Chirps is the state’s longest, continuously run student publication. It’s pages have stories of hope, love, and those of tragedy. It’s fun getting to hear how the students take pride in their work on newspaper and the advisor’s thoughts looking back at the past. The Cricket Chirps has seen its share of journalist through its tenure, some who continued on in the field and those who used those skills in a different career path.

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TOAST TO TEXAS

The Daughters of the Republic of Texas are honoring the state’s independence at the annual Toast to Texas at 1:30 p.m. Monday, March 2 at the Sebastopol House. The event will include a salute to the state with Texas spring water, the reading of William B. Travis’s letter from the Alamo and patriotic songs.

March 5th

GUADALUPE COUNTY BRAS FOR A CAUSE

Bras For A Cause benefits the Guadalupe Regional Medical Foundation’s Cancer Assistance fund as local first responders strut their stuff on the runway modeling elaborately decorated bras to help the community’s fight against cancer. The event is slated to start at 6:30 p.m. on Thursday, March 5 at the Seguin Events Complex and will include heavy hor d’oeuvres and a Pick of the Litter raffle.

March 20th

HOTSHOT’S FISH FRY & WASHER TOURNAMENT

The Seguin Area Chamber of Commerce brings to life an old tradition with the Hotshots Fish Fry at 5 p.m. on Friday, March 20 at the Starcke Park Pavilion. The event will include Hotshot’s famous cod dinners with, French fries, Eileen’s green bean salad, cole slaw and all of the trimmings. Desserts and drinks will be available for purchase and the dance slab will be open for dancing with a local band taking the stage.

March 21st

SPRINGTIME FUN RUN/WALK

The Seguin Sunrise Lions Club is inviting the community to join them for a stroll in the park with the third annual Springtime Fun 5K Run/Walk beginning at 8:30 a.m. on Saturday, March 21 at Walnut Springs Park. This year’s theme “I Survived The Jungle.” Awards are given to the Best Costume Theme, Sponsorship Team, Best Finish and Most Members. The free event is open to walkers, runners, riders of all ages. Sponsorship opportunities are available. For more information, visit Sunrise Funrunwalk on Facebook or email marvel. maddox@gmail.com.

March 28th

12TH ANNUAL CAJUN JAMBOREE

The Irma Lewis Seguin Outdoor Learning Center looks to put a little Cajun spice into life with the 12th annual Cajun Jamboree, 6 to 9 p.m., on Saturday, March 28. The event brings a crawfish, shrimp and sausage boil to the area with Zydeco music, as well as live and silent auctions, and bucket and bead raffles as a fundraising venture.

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OntheSCENE

Creating A Sound of their own STORY & PHOTOS BY LIZZ DANIELS

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n a region dominated by Texas country music, band Winter Fires strikes a dissonant chord with its experimental approach to music-making. By mixing electric guitar and cello with folk staples like mandolin and banjo, the group crafts a sound that they describe as progressive neo-folk.

“It’s like Indie folk, but we also play electric instruments,” band member Aaron Rendon said. “We also have a lot of classical influences too because we have Kiana Burciaga who plays cello, and then we have a flute and clarinet players too sometimes.”

While the musical influences of Modest Mouse and Fleet Foxes are immediately apparent, the band’s sound is still original and fresh.

Like many musicians, they find inspiration in just being together and working through their creative process. Anthony Castilleja plays guitar, drums and mandolin,

I personally find music to be fairly cathartic...I tend to use it as I’m feeling sad, so I put that into my music.

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and describes his friendship with Aaron as the band’s foundation.

“Aaron and I have been jamming for years and at some point, we just started a band with a bunch of friends,” Castilleja said. “Usually, Aaron and I will come up with the bones of a song and bring it to everyone else. Then we will all jam on it for a while. From there, it’s just a process of refining until it’s right.”

This refining process takes time but is a major part of the process, said bassist Alejandro Pena.

“I think everyone brings their own instrumentation to it,” Pena said. “Everyone has their own voice on their instrument so when we come together, we are all able to add our own personal touch to the final product.”

This personal touch can be something as simple as a chord progression on which a melody is built, or as intimate as lyrics drawn from a painful personal experience. Many musicians use their work as a creative outlet, but Winter Fires boasts a deep emotional connection to their writing.

“I personally find music to be fairly cathartic because I don’t really

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tend to write happy songs,” Rendon said. “I tend to use it as I’m feeling sad, so I put that into my music. I can quarantine those emotions to music and hopefully be happier in the rest of my life. So, for me, music has always been very emotional in that way.”

Just because their lyrics include deep emotional ties doesn’t mean the band has no fun. The band’s lead singer, Rachel Ditzig, is usually their front man and keeps the audience engaged, but with her being on exchange in Prague right

now, they’ve learned to rely on their personalities and their sound.

“On the one hand, we are silly and have matching Aquateen Hunger Force shirts that Anthony drew with a Sharpie,” Rendon said. “But at the same time, we go for a really ambient, theatrical kind of presence.

It’s definitely a weird juxtaposition, but not everything is serious.”

With Ditzig out of the country, the band isn’t performing any shows right now, but they have big plans in mind for when their first album drops, hopefully later this year.

“I would like to put together a really elaborate show,” Rendon said.

“As of right now, there’s five of us here — we are kind of the meat and potatoes of the band, but we have a lot of auxiliary members who don’t play every show with us. It would be cool if we could get everyone together for the release show. It would be a milestone for us.”

With future goals in mind, Winter Fires is focused on jam sessions and creating new music, so that when they are ready to hit the stage again, they can do so without ever missing a beat.

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t. Patrick’s Day is often overrun by what Americans think Irish culture is like. They throw on shamrocks and “Kiss Me, I’m Irish” t-shirts but miss the deeper traditional connection some families feel to their Irish heritage.

This St. Paddy’s Day, instead of drinking green-dyed beer and eating leprechaun-themed bar snacks, try this Irish soda bread recipe.

This true Irish traditional bread is the product of poverty and is made of only the most simple ingredients, but when put together and baked, it turns into a dense bread that tastes great by itself and even better paired with Irish butter.

However, this bread really comes to life when layered in cheese and grilled on the stove. Try mixing cheeses like Swiss, smoked Gouda, Muenster and American.

The bread becomes crispy and is a perfect contrast to the thick and gooey cheesiness happening in the middle.

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UndertheHood

Three Pedal Pony STORY BY DALONDO MOULTRIE

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ver since she was young, Kayla Colwell has loved cars. She grew up eying and longing to own tough muscle cars of the 1960s and ’70s.

It wasn’t until a trip to an auction did that dream of owning a muscle car became a reality.

“There were two cars I always wanted: a Corvette and the ’69 Camaro; I didn’t really care which Corvette,” she said. “It really looked like a true muscle car to me, the ’69 Camaro.

I liked the front end, I liked the spoiler, I just wanted something sporty and I just loved the look of it. It’s just a good looking car.”

She fantasized about owning an orange one with a white stripe. But a few years ago when she and her husband attended an automobile auction and saw one

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a little different than she had imagined, Colwell said she had to have it.

“Even though it wasn’t orange, the color and the hockey stripe caught my eye,” she said. “It is a LeMans blue and I just loved it.”

Her husband got into a bit of a bidding war before actually casting the final bid winning the rights to the 1969 Chevrolet Camaro SS. She was nervous as the back and forth bidding dragged on and then shocked when the bidding ended.

“My husband looked at me and

Being a manual when most of the ‘69 Camaros were automatic makes this car stand out amongst other classics. To keep what makes it special, Colwell also has tried to maintain as much of the orignal interior look as possible though she did spring for a concealed sound system that gets almost as loud as the engine.

said, ‘You have a ’69 Camaro SS,’” Colwell said. “I said, ‘I do!’”

And that’s not all. The car of her fantasies sings to her like a dream, like a loud, roaring, demon of a dream. And Colwell said she just loves it.

“That thing was so loud. I was like I really do want this car,” she said. “It’s still loud.

It’ll always be loud. We’re not changing that.”

The source of that roaring is an X22 Code engine shelling out 500 horsepower. A 4-bolt main keeps the bearings tight to the engine block.

It boasts a rebuilt fourspeed M21 transmission, power disc brakes and a Holley 750 on a performance intake manifold.

Colwell likes the original look, feel and sound of the car and wants to keep everything as close to that vintage aesthetic as possible, she said. That’s why she hasn’t touched the restoration or new panels to bring the SS back to its original look. The factory console and vintage air help keep things close to the original, she said.

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that was put in the car when the car was built but it is the type of engine they put in the 396 SS Camaros,” Colwell said.

Also, it does have a new interior and a secret audio system, which is hidden from view and installed by Danny Jorgensen in the Seguin area, she said.

The audio system has a hand-held remote and a box built in the trunk to conceal what’s powering the stereo output, Colwell said. And the system installed gets loud enough to start a party, if you can crank it up over her favorite feature of her Camaro.

“If you can get it loud enough over the sound of the car, it has great sounds. It sounds like a drag car,” Colwell said. “It sounds mean. It sounds fast. The car gets attention.”

It sounds like a drag car. It sounds mean. It sounds fast. The car gets attention.

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Fromsmoking Cigarsto Sounds STORY AND PHOTOS BY DALONDO MOULTRIE

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hile en route moving from Phoenix to Texas, a vehicle wreck injured a Seguin man so badly, his body hasn’t worked the same since.

But, that hasn’t stopped David Nyberg from playing the guitar as he loved. It has just meant a need to refocus and change the type of guitars he plays.

“When I lost the use of my little finger on my left hand and I don’t have the feeling or the dexterity I used to have, that kind of affected my guitar playing,” Nyberg said. “I talked to a few people and they gave me some ideas that just didn’t feel right. I heard about the cigar-box guitars. That’s when I built my first one.”

And he hasn’t looked back ever since.

In addition to playing cigar-box guitar, Nyberg has built them for the past year or so. He said he needed to know more about the instrument and the art form before trying his own hand at building one.

“I’m the kind of person that I will research everything I can before I really get into it,” Nyberg said. “I did a lot of research before I started.”

There is a long, rich tradition that goes along with the less expensive musical instruments.

He found Shane Speal, whom Nyberg called the king of cigar-box guitar, in videos on his YouTube channel promoting the instrument. A sponsor of the channel is a company that sells parts, kits and things related to the guitars, Nyberg said.

Some world-renown guitarists are said to have once played cigar-box guitars, he said. Nyberg mentioned names like Jimi Hendrix, Carl Perkins, B.B. King, Billy Gibbons of ZZ Top and more.

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“If people want to play music, they’ll find a way to do it,” he said.

“The more I look into it, the more interesting it becomes. It’s something that was lost and it’s just starting to come back.”

Part of the history deals with other guitars being cost-prohibitive, Nyberg said. A cigar box, a few strings and a piece of wood were the relatively inexpensive materials needed to help anyone who wanted to be able to play a guitar.

Also, the way they are built make them easier to play than more traditional guitars, he said. That also was a key in helping him get back to playing even with his physical limitations, Nyberg said.

“I said well maybe I could do that because of the problems with my left hand and it’s only got three strings.

It’s a little easier for me to deal with,” he said.

“I made my first one and played around with that. I realized I could do a whole lot better if I focused on doing them my way instead of the way everybody else does them. That was the beginning.”

One big difference in his guitars is his use of the bottom of the box as the top of the guitar opposed to the other way around that other builders use, Nyberg said. The change gives his instruments a different, bigger sound.

Also, if the strings aren’t covering the top of the box, it’s free to open and be used to store sheet music and more, which Nyberg said he does with all of his instruments.

In fact, in guitars he’s built, Nyberg has added things like guitar picks, instructions on playing the cigar-box guitar and directions to learn a couple songs. He hasn’t sold any yet but hopes things pick up soon. His hobby keeps him busy but he also wouldn’t mind earning a little something doing 24 SEGUIN ~ GUADALUPE COUNTY LIVING

what he loves.

One of his guitars is on sale at the Funky Monkey in Seguin. Lincoln Bratcher, whose mother owns the shop, said the Funky Monkey started to offer community members and artists who couldn’t afford their own shop to be able to display and sell their art works and more.

Nyberg is one of more than 50 vendors with something in the establishment, she said.

People ask about Nyberg’s cigar-box guitar hanging behind the front counter, Bratcher said. She has admired the craftsmanship and artistry in the guitar, she said.

“It’ll be something nice to add to someone’s guitar collection,” Bratscher said.

Nyberg hopes someone realizes she is right and he can begin to move units. He said he’s built about a dozen so far and, once they begin selling faster, maybe he’ll be able to go the charitable route.

“One thing I want to do is every tenth guitar that I make, because I’m a veteran, I want to give them to a veteran,” Nyberg said. “I’ll sell nine and then I’ll give the tenth to a veteran. I’ll take it to the VA hospital in San Antonio and give it away. It’s part of who I am. I spent 11 years in the military.”

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Texas’ Oldest Student NEWSPAPEr Celebrates Centennial STORY BY FELICIA FRAZAR PHOTOS BY LIZZ DANIELS

A century ago, Seguin High School’s students gathered information, typed up their stories, and published the first Cricket Chirps.

In the span of 100 years, the newspaper produced stories from around the campus and the country as it affected students and made history.

This school year, the Cricket Chirps celebrates 100 years, and its recognition as the longest, continuously published student-run, high school newspaper in Texas.

“There were some others that had started their paper before Seguin, but a lot of them got interrupted by the war years and couldn’t afford to do it,” former advisor, Bobbie Maddox said. “Some how, Seguin managed to keep continuously publishing all of those years.

That is pretty amazing.”

Former advisor Roy Hall said a century’s worth of news coverage is quite the feat.

“I’m very proud of the fact that we are the longest, continuously printed student-led newspaper in the state,” he said. “A hundred years is quite the accomplishment. It would have been easy to stop at times,

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We try to help give students a voice, and share the opinions of people on campus along with reporting on the news.

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but they kept going.”

Maddox’s time as the advisor of the Chirps covers a third of the paper’s history. She started fresh out of college in 1974 and headed up Seguin High School’s journalism department for 33 years until she retired in 2007.

“We’ve seen a lot of changes,” she said. “When I first started being the advisor for the Chirps, we were literally cutting and pasting paper and photos, sort of scrapbook style. It was a very laborious process.

By the time I retired in 2007, everything was being done on Mac computers. That allowed more attention to be given to things like attractive, appealing design of pages, and composition and technical quality of photos. Now, anything goes!”

Maddox credits the advisor before her, Harlen Wood, for putting the Chirps on a more professional track.

When Maddox took over the Chirps, the Seguin Gazette published the newspaper for the students.

“We would do as much as we could at school, then we would go down to the paper and finish up,” she said. “It would be shot and ready for press. Now, they’re just sending it online to the press.”

Technology changed the game for the student journalists as they started with typewriters, scissors, glue and a dark room with chemicals to develop photos and moved up to word processors, computers and digital photography.

“I remember when we started, we had a number of manual typewriters and two electric typewriters,” Maddox said. “The kids

Editor-in-Chief Harley Bauer and Executive Editor Karen Ranft are a dynamic duo who work as a team to lead the oldest student publication in the state of Texas.

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used to fight over who would get to use the electric ones.”

While the advisors oversee the work, it’s the students who lead the newsroom, Maddox said.

“The kids did a great job,” she said. “They had to stay after school a lot. They always did even when the computer came into play.

There is so much to do to get a paper together, and there these kids are, on the football team, in the band and lead roles in the drama productions. They had to fill that in, and I had to work around their schedule.”

The stories the young journalists produced then and now went beyond school happenings, Maddox said.

“The school system as a whole in Seguin allowed those kids to have a very real experience,” she said. “They didn’t make them just stick to covering the chess club and singing the praises of the football team. The kids were allowed to decide what subject matter was important to their readers, and for the most part, we tried to cover it from the angle of how it affected the students at Seguin

High School.”

That included topics discussed nationally and locally, such as AIDS, drug problems, teen pregnancy and date rape, Maddox said.

Additionally, they continued to report the on-campus happenings of the high school like the theater department’s productions, athletic and academic achievements and other features.

“Sometimes people tell us they wish we only wrote good stories about the school, but that’s not what Cricket Chirps, or any student news publication, is for,” Seguin High School senior and Chirps Executive Editor Karen Ranft said. “We are not here to only report the positive stories; we want to write about what will make a difference.”

Allowing the students to branch out and cover a wide variety of topics gave them valuable skills for the future, Maddox said.

“It was a really good, critical thinking experience for any student who took journalism at Seguin High School,” she said. “Even though they may not have gone into the journalism field, after four years of journal-

ism, they were able to be critical thinkers and to question sources and to know the difference between fact and opinion.”

The students also learn to find their voice, a lesson Ranft said she’s enjoyed learning.

“I think over the last four years, we’ve improved a lot, and it’s been amazing to watch,” she said. “I think it’s important for students to have a voice and be able to speak their minds. Journalism has given me the opportunity to tell people what’s important to me while also being a community servant to my peers. We get to start conversations on campus that our readers might otherwise be unaware of.”

The young writers speak to more of their peers, and document their viewpoints on the issues, allowing more voices to be heard, SHS junior and Chirps Editor-In-Chief Harley Bauer said.

“We try to help give students a voice and share the opinions of people on campus along with reporting on the news,” she said.

“It’s important for students to have a voice because the school should be listening to them, and trying to cater to their needs. This year’s newspaper staff is striving to be more ‘real’ with our work. We are the oldest student publication in the state, and we are trying really hard to uphold that legacy by trying to produce as professional a publication as we can while still being students.”

The Chirps has seen hundreds of students who made their mark in archiving the history of the high school within the newspaper. Some of them carried those lessons on and continue that tradition of serving their communities in the journalism field.

“Some of the kids we developed, are still working in journalism now. They are

working in print media — newspapers, magazines, journals,” Hall said. “Through the years — through Bobbi’s years, through my years, through Lizz Daniels’ years — there has been some amazing journalists that have gone through our program.”

Among them are Pulitzer Prize winner and Houston Chronicle Editor of Opinion Lisa Falkenberg.

Hall stepped in when Maddox retired and headed up the journalism department for six years. During that time, he watched as his students flourished.

“You have kids for four years, so it is relationship building, and by the time your kids are seniors and are the editors and the leaders, they are part of you, your extension,” he said. “They’ve learned to trust me, and I’ve learned to trust them.”

Also, in those four years, the students became more well-rounded, Hall said.

“They need to be taught the who, what, when, where, whys and hows,” he said. “In journalism, we really emphasize that and emphasize where to put it.”

The need for a student press is just as prevalent today as it was when the Chirps began in 1919.

“A free student press is so very important, especially today,” Maddox said. “We need to keep training student journalists who know the difference between fact and opinion, who will press their sources, who will go to more than one source, who the American people can go to for a strong journalism product they trust. The newspaper in America has always been the bedrock of journalism.”

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A House isn’t Just a Home,

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n 1917, Dr. N.A. Poth commissioned the build of his home. The Georgian Revival house, that also doubled as his office, was crafted from a catalog plan but customized, homeowner Annie Perry said.

In the 103 years since, ownership of the residence on East College Street has changed. It includes the Flacks, Roger Sanipoli, Sherman Donegan — who restored the home — Tim and Alix Neeley, and most recently, Aaron and Annie Perry.

The Perrys bought the home in 2016 and moved in in July of 2017 after remodeling the house to include some modern amenities, but keep true to the home’s heritage.

“I have two little girls and a wife, and one upstairs bathroom,” Aaron said.

The couple converted one of the five upstairs bedrooms to a master bathroom and opened the room into another creating a new master bedroom.

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Their daughters share the original master bedroom.

However, Aaron said the real story is how the couple came to purchase the home.

“We bought it sight unseen,” Annie said.

The couple lived in Seguin between 2004 to 2005 before moving overseas for Aaron’s job. During that time, Annie worked for Jeff Koehler at Design Associates and had been in the house before, and in love, Aaron said.

“We were winding up our time over there, we were trying to figure out where we were going to land and she grabbed me one day and said ‘Aaron, you’re going to buy me this house,’” he said.

It just so happened the house was on the market and the couple was able to purchase the home.

Annie describes the house as formal, old-style home, through their work Aaron and Annie created a home a young family can grow in.

“I think houses should reflect the people that live in them, not necessarily what is on the outside,” she said. “I like eclectic and I just want the home to reflect the family inside.”

The five bedroom, one bath home — now four bedroom, two bath — home was built in 1917 by Otto Crawford, the brickwork — consisting of about 25,000 bricks and 8,000 tiles — laid by Louis Sebera.

The home decor features items collected while the family lived in China and the Czech Rpublic, as well as eclectic finds at estate sales.

When entering the home, guests are greeted by a table made from a Chinese monastery door.

At the left of the entrance the home opens into what was formerly the doctor’s office.

Monkey fabric purchased in Thailand was the inspiration for the room, with Annie choosing the color palate from the fabric.

The dinning room across the large entryway features a table that is perfect for a family with small children.

“I had this antique table that was from my grandmother and it was formal and it would have fit in here perfectly,” Annie said. “But I thought that is not how we live. It has upholstered seats and I would be afraid the kids would jam on it. This is the table that we had in our kitchen overseas. I love it. I love that there is ink marks and you can see all of the stuff. It is us. It might not fit the house and its style, but it is us.”

The walls in the dining room host a pair of posters the couple purchased at a Panjiayuan, or a dirt market, in Beijing, as well as some watercolor paintings from their favorite artist — Mr. Song.

In their renovation, the couple removed the stone that surrounded the fireplace in the backroom revealing the original bricks in the family room.

“We took the stone off the fire place, and we weren’t sure what we were going to do … when they got down to

the brick, I liked it, so we left it,” Annie said. “We saved some of the rocks, some people came and took some of the rocks that were sentimental to them.”

The duct work for the basement heating system that was no longer in the home was removed, giving the couple some extra space in the kitchen and their bedroom.

Aaron refers to the kitchen as the command center for the house.

“It’s the place where we all gather,” he said.

The stairs to the second story is split with steps on two sides leading to a landing in the middle of the stairwell.

The original master bathroom was remodeled to include a shower, and the new bathroom was crafted to host a shower and a bath tub.

“What I love about it is it is very old, formal house and we are a very informal family,” Annie said. “I knew that we had done a good job of taking this formal house and making it seem like something that a young family could have again.”

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Repurposing clothes when they don’t fit, or aren’t in style anymore, is nothing new. The threads of big brothers and sisters in families everywhere have been passed on as hand-me-downs to excited siblings for generations. Where once these articles of clothing might have been considered worn out or passé, in today’s world, “thrift” is the buzzword defining a movement.

Thrift shops come in all shapes, and for shoppers half the fun can be searching the racks of clothing and overflowing shelves to find that one perfect item at a price that can’t be refused. Shop owners are just as unique as the items they offer and Twin Flames Thrift Shop owner Tara Keohane is embracing her shop’s individuality by giving back to the local community in the building at 205 N. King St. “We offer free clothing to those who come to us in crisis,” she said. “People who 34 SEGUIN ~ GUADALUPE COUNTY LIVING

have experienced house fires, homelessness or that have left an abusive relationship can come to us and find clothes they need for an interview to get back on their feet. We also work with people on prices who are military, retired or low income and with parents who need a cheaper option for formal dresses.”

Keohane is the mother of four boys with autism as well as a 2-year-old girl, and has been through hard times herself.

When she needed assistance clothing her own family, the costs at big box stores were too high and even at local resale shops, prices weren’t negotiable. At that moment she saw a need in the community and decided to do something about it.

“I’m a nurse but couldn’t work with multiple kids in school,” Keohane said. “I went to shops asking for help with school

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When we give away items free to individuals in the community, we cannot write it off on the taxes, so we don’t get anything financially, but we do get the happiness of helping.

The money will come — God will provide.

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clothes, but couldn’t even get a discount. If I couldn’t get help with no job and multiple kids, then what are these non-profits for? Somebody needs to help, so that’s what I decided to do. So I connected with a group in San Antonio that does cleanouts in homes.”

When a house is closed down, the odds and ends of lives get left behind. Homes are turned into museums to be picked and pulled while abandoned Barbie houses sit collecting dust and vintage dresses waste away in plastic wrappers meant to protect, not suffocate.

“I started picking up items they would have thrown away and then started giving items such as clothing and furniture to families in need,” Keohane said. “Now we are going to auctions and buying lots. The vintage and antique items we get help pay expenses, but most of the things picked up from cleanouts are actually donated.”

Since beginning her journey, Twin Flames Thrift Shop has now connected with local churches allowing them to provide resources to those in need of help finding diapers, and even food all while also selling — and donating — clothing and other necessities.

“If I see somebody with holes in their clothes or a kid that

needs a jacket, I will give them clothes,” Keohane said. “I could sell them, but I’d rather help someone out because I know how hard it can be to get by. When we give away items free to individuals in the community, we cannot write it off on the taxes, so we don’t get anything financially, but we do get the happiness of helping. The money will come — God will provide. ” In time, Keohane wants to start a clothing closet in town, but the legal loops for a non-profit of the kind she’s planning are a lot to deal with, especially as a business-owning mom. In the meantime, a partnership with local church Divine Fellowship has opened up new ways to pursue her calling with an event in the works.

“We will be doing an event for back to school backpacks,” she said. “I will be giving them backpacks, supplies and nice, gently used clothing for the kids.

Hopefully parents will be able to pick up two or three outfits to go with their new backpacks.”

Keohane’s vision of an interconnected community that lifts each other up moves toward reality with each item of clothing she manages to put in the hands of someone in need. With a growing collection of casual and formal attire, the shop’s collection of treasures continues to grow, offering a thrifty alternative for locals hoping to save a few pennies and look good while doing it.

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