A continuation of my interview with renowned western author, Elmer Kelton, and his wife, Anni, about how they met in Austria at the end of World War II and eventually married.

Ted Gray showed up in the Alpine area with no money and a saddle on his shoulder around 1939. Since then he’s worked harder than most folks, used his wits and made himself wealthy.

Elmer Kelton was a young man when he was in Austria at the end of World War Two. He was barely 20 years old. He was in the infantry and was helping to clean up the mess Hitler and his henchmen had made across Europe in that sad part of the 20th century. Anni Lipp was a slight Austrian girl wandering down to the boat dock in her town of Ebensee to check the boat schedule for her parents, who wanted to cross the lake the next morning.

The Cactus Hotel is an icon in San Angelo and is a vestige of a bygone era in Texas history that warrants attention and recognition even though it’s getting a little frayed around the edges

Laura Trione is one of the best kept secrets in the Indie music world; probably because she’s wanted it that way …until now …maybe.

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