April 2012-April 2013
As part of our Real County Centennial Countdown, each month County Progress will check in with the Real County Centennial Steering Committee. This month we find the committee tracking the whereabouts of the Centennial T-Shirt.
Sporting a Centennial T-Shirt in front of the Taj Mahal while on a trip to India last spring, Real County Judge Garry Merritt initiated a new game for county residents. “Where in the World Did You Wear Your Real County Centennial T-Shirt?” became a weekly column in the Hill Country Herald and on the Centennial website, www.RealCounty1913.com.
Sara Breshears, a junior at Trinity University in San Antonio, took a three-
week trip to China in early June with other students from Trinity, Baylor, Rice, and Missouri University of Science and Technology. She proudly wore her Centennial shirt in China, stopping in front of several attractions including the Great Wall and the “Birds Nest” at Olympic Park in Beijing.
Gerry Bridges and Mary Jones of Rio Frio show off their Real County Centennial T-shirts on a beach in Kauai, Hawaii in May.
Centennial Steering Committee Chairman Willis Springfield poses in front of the Price Mausoleum in Lakey. Thomas Price, owner of Price Confectionary, his wife, Missouri Ann “Suki” Horton Price, and their son, Charles, are all three entombed in the mausoleum. The Price family came to Real County in the early 1900s. The three family members died within two years of one another.
As of press time, former County Judge G. W. Twilligear and his new bride, Sarah, were on a honeymoon cruise to Alaska, T-shirts in hand. Other Real County folks plan to their pack their shirts on trips to California, England, France, and Akumal, Mexico,
in the Riviera Maya. Regardless of their wanderings this year, everyone will be home in January when a year-long centennial celebration commences with a Prayer Breakfast at Alto Frio Baptist Encampment.