Fredricksburg has always seemed rather a poodle-like town.  Highly mannered and manicured as befits a town founded by disciplined German settlers whose inner agenda was to replicate the Deutschland in the most unlikely of places, frontier Texas.

But nothing in nature is just two-dimensional, no matter how much we humans try to pack it into a neat box.  Good or bad, right or wrong, black or white, poodle or pound puppy.  [Read more…]