Here is Robert Earl Keen's "No Kinda Dancer," a song about a dance hall in the Texas Hill Country. I think the song is about Cat Springs, but the story could just as easily be set in Limburg.
Tuesday, September 19, 2017
A Waylon County Town
Prince Carl of Solms-Braunfels and a band of German colonists started out for the land they would settle on Good Friday in 1845. The town they founded was called New Braunfels, in honor of the prince's ancestral home. For Waylon County, I chose to name the main German town after Limburg, which is about 17 miles away from Braunfels on the Lahn River. This makes the name seem plausible in historical and geographical terms, and it also opens the door for some bad-smelling cheese jokes. Cheese jokes aside, the people of Limburg, Texas, are proud of their heritage, and much of the town's culture revolves around the old traditions.
Here is Robert Earl Keen's "No Kinda Dancer," a song about a dance hall in the Texas Hill Country. I think the song is about Cat Springs, but the story could just as easily be set in Limburg.
Here is Robert Earl Keen's "No Kinda Dancer," a song about a dance hall in the Texas Hill Country. I think the song is about Cat Springs, but the story could just as easily be set in Limburg.
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