Category: Malakoff

Brookshire’s of Malakoff recently made a generous donation to Malakoff VFD. Brookshire’s celebrated its Grand Reopening last week. Also, through a special program by Brookshire’s, many customers have donated sports drinks for the fire department.

Well, we still don’t have our story about our famous boxers ready yet. We will get around to it. But in the meantime, I’ll tell you about a remarkable woman I met recently and about her home which I hope I get to see one day soon.

Her name is Paisley Robertson, and years ago, when they were hippy musicians in a band together, she was the bride of Billy Keith Bucher. I’ve written about Billy here before. He’s the fellow who came to Cedar Lake Nursing Home for Rehab, and stayed to help us with activities, especially of the musical variety. Even though they parted ways long ago, Paisley and Bill have remained good friends, and she came up to visit him last week.

Paisley is my kind of person, marching to her own drummer, bright, outgoing, laughing easily. We became friends right away. She told me a lot of interesting things. One of the most interesting things was about her house. And since I don’t have anything else to write about, I’m going to tell you about it.

It is named Southwind, and is, she says, “an acre of privacy in the middle of everything Austin.” It started out as a barn, albeit a very substantial barn, built in the late 1800’s by a Dr. Hachenberg, a physician, anthropologist, and inventor. It had fallen into disrepair when noted muralist and architect Seymour Fogel bought it in 1952, and remodeled it into his home and studio where he created some of his most significant works before returning to New York in 1960. Continue reading “Around the Town: New Friend in Paisley”