Church Picnic in Hostyn

This was a picnic that we had never attended before. It was at the Lutheran Church in Hostyn, about two hours drive from home.

We arrived in good shape, weather was good and not too warm.
The food was as bit different, having been heralded as sausage and pork with all the usual trimmings. The usual trimmings means green beans and sauerkraut. The pork was a surprise. At picnics, we only know pork as BBQ pork---but this was small cubes of pork of which more than half was fat. It was in a liquid broth and scooped out onto the plate. Others later told us that it was pork belly cooked in water with seasonings. Need to avoid this next year.

We sat alongside a lady who was from the area many years ago and now lives in Dripping Springs. She was a wealth of information, and did show us a lot of her work as an artist. Did not get her name---should have. She was on the lookout for any one she might have known from her childhood in the area, but saw none in spite of a rather large crowd.

They had a nice picnic spot and it was all covered. Had a band which played German/Czech music and an area for dancing.
They also had the usual fundraising activity of silent auction and live auction.

We spoke with a local group of men about any one room schools in the area, and they pointed us to a road which sounded like rathouse road, when in fact it was Radhost Road. Its just south of Hostyn. Went there, found nothing. The road deadended to the west.

We then went into Schulenberg for a cup of coffee, but the coffee house was shut down. Had coffee at the gasoline station, but it was bad tasting due to the water, we presumed.

Went north again to get back on the track to go home and decided to check out Abbots Grove School Road , named on the map. Found this sign where there was a school, maybe still is, behind the brush.

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