Spring Happenings around Town

What a great Spring it is rolling out to be!  The wildflowers are bountiful and early.  Projects are being completed all over town.  The waterways are filling up and the ducks are everywhere.  …..and Bear Moon Bakery Cafe is taking their Centennial Celebration both on the road and in-house with several events that we are participating in soon:

Sunday April 1 – City Easter Egg Hunt:   how Old Fashioned is the annual HUNT of the egg?  This year over 18000 eggs and a new location (City Lake Park) will make this event the BEST.  And we donated 500 coupons for free cookies for egg swag.  Who needs the lottery?

Saturday April 20:  We are going to be at the Webb Party in San Antonio.  A San Antonio Aids Foundation fundraiser and a ticketed Fiesta event, we are looking forward to this new tasting venue for Bear Moon.  The soiree  is called “Let Them Eat Cake”….and we will be serving our great petit fours….how appropriate!!

Saturday April 28:  Kendall County Sesquicentennial Celebration  and we thought the Joe Vogt Bldg was old!  Kendall County is 150.  Come have FREE German Food, Music, Mock Trial and more at the historic courthouse 10:30am.  Pick up a passport to attend (and get stamped) loads of events throughout the year in Kendall County.  Bear Moon will be there with Apple Strudel for all.

Saturday May 5:  So much to do in Boerne this weekend.  You simply must have your friends and family plan a whole weekend stay.

1. (8:30 am)  Start with the Farmers Market at the Cibolo on the grounds of the historic Herff Farm.  Get your passport stamped (see above) at the Inauguration of this weekly summer market with farmers, artisan food producers, restaurants and more.  Bear Moon will have a booth every  weekend with special Market only products and more.
2. (9 am)  Quiltfest.  Annual hanging of historic and modern quilts all over town – outside.  Such great picture opportunities.  The reason we love old buildings in Boerne – they make great background for stunning quilts. Look for some hanging from our historic Joe Vogt Bldg – 401 S Main.
3. (5pm)  Trailblaze.  (BoerneFest)  A combination Chamber festival and dedication of our new Heart of Boerne Trail along the Cibolo Creek.  Fire in the creek…  music… food and local business booths and displays…  shops open late along the Hill Country Mile (Main Street).  Come by Bear Moon in the evening to roast marshmallow and make smores out on our front porch.

Also look for lots of Bear Moon community participation throughout the Summer.  ”…the Mission of the Community Bakery is to nourish the Community Heart…”

Lets Have a Virtual Centennial Film Fest

Lately the Bear Moon Baker has become a Downton Abbey tv series nut.  Why?  Because it takes me back to how it must have been in 1912 during the Edwardian Era when our building was built.  The food, the clothes, the lack of things (telephone/toilets).  How much of this could have been seen in Boerne at the time?  Of course Boerne is not the palatial British countryside, however I imagine women coming in to the Joe Vogt Dry Goods Store with clippings from magazines showing the finery you see in Downton Abbey to try to replicate a bit of sophistication in the Hill Country of Texas.

I have also found a great collection of Edwardian Era movie posters on a blog:  http://enchantedserenityperiodfilms.blogspot.com/2010/10/edwardian-period-films-1880-1914.html

In going over the list I have seen about twenty – many favorites from my childhood – and there are loads that I haven’t seen.  It is going to be my personal assignment to try to watch as many as possible to help get into the SPIRIT of the what our historic address was like a century ago.  Join me in this Centennial Film Fest of sorts… and let me know how you think it may have been to open the unique angled doorway to 401 S Main in 1912 Boerne.

 

What was it like 100 years ago when the Joe Vogt building in Boerne, TX was completed?

1912 was a leap year.  New Year’s Day in 1912 was on a Monday, and the United States was in the middle of a great cold wave called the “1912 cold air outbreak.”  In January, Sioux Falls, S.D., recorded a low of 38 below zero and Niagara Falls froze over so hard that people could go across the falls on ice bridges.

January: New Mexico became the 47th state

February: Arizona was added as 48th state.

Feb 3:  New U.S. football rules were set: the field was shortened to 100 yds.; touchdown became six points instead of five; four downs were allowed instead of three; and the kickoff was moved from midfield to the 40 yd. line.

Feb 24:  Italy bombed Beirut in the first act of war against the Ottoman Empire.

March 7: Roald Amundsen (Norwegian) announces discovery of South Pole on previous Dec. 14, beating out English explorer Robert Scott by one month. On Nov. 12, 1912, Robert Scott’s diary and dead body are found at Antarctica.

Mar 23:  Dixie Cup was invented.

March: The first Japanese cherry trees were planted in Washington, D.C.

April 15: The English liner Titanic sank at 2:20 a.m. in the Atlantic Ocean.  The sinking of the proclaimed “unsinkable” English liner Titanic probably is the most remembered event of 1912.

May:  The first US feature film, Oliver Twist, was released.

Aug 15:  Julia Child (d.2004), American chef and television personality, was born.

Aug 24:  NYC held a ticker tape parade for Jim Thorpe and victorious US Olympians.

Aug. 27: Edgar Rice Burroughs published “Tarzan of the Apes.”

November:  Arizona, Kansas and Wisconsin passed laws permitting women to vote.

Nov. 5: Woodrow Wilson, a Democrat, was elected president over incumbent Republican President William H. Taft and Bull Moose candidate Teddy Roosevelt.

Dec. 16: Austria-Hungary and Serbia engage in conflict leading to opening of World War I in 1914.

1912 also brought the first use of the zipper in clothing and the work of Madame Curie with xrays to medicine.  Also prizes were added to boxes of Cracker Jacks and the Oreo cookie developed.

Those who welcomed in the new year of 1912 could not imagine what our life is like in 2012, and we cannot imagine life in 2112 – one hundred years from now.

Join Bear Moon Bakery Cafe as we CELEBRATE the Centennial of the Joe Vogt Building (1912-2012) with events throughout the year.  Check out our facebook, blog and web pages often.  

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Happy Birthday to Us!

So what do you do when you are 100 years old…and have a bakery hanging around?  Cake… lots of CAKE !

Join us this for the FIRST of our monthly Happy 100 Year Birthday weekends celebrating the Centennial of the Joe Vogt Building at 401 S Main in Boerne,TX.

We will have special pricing on Birthday Cake slices, Cupcake Lattes, Handmade Oreos and More!!

Friday Jan 13 thru Sun Jan 15

Bear Moon Bakery Cafe

Hello world!

Thank you for checking out our FIRST Centennial Celebration blog post!

We are so excited to celebrate being in the Joe Vogt Building in Boerne, Texas.  Since 1912, this beautiful dame of a building has been home to a Dry Goods Store, a Grocery, a Meat Market, a Cafe and most important to us… a bakery since the 1960′s.  It looks majestic and gently loved.  It feels like a good old chair inside – quirky and comfortable.  It has seen alot and still keeps us in a circle of friends and daily happenings in Boerne – much like it must have in 1912.

Join us on a journey this year to find out more about the life and times of the Joe Vogt Building and to celebrate Bear Moon style with events, recipes, contests, trivia and more.  Lets have an Old Fashioned Centennial Year at 401 S Main Street in Boerne Texas.