Where to start.....? Two months ago we had made plans to hear Sally's favorite country artist, Jason Eady perform at Devil's Backbone Tavern, which happens to be the oldest dive bar in central Texas. John and Kara Barber(Spicewood) and Bruce and Ann Forester (Lockhart) were joining us. Meanwhile, one of my ex-students, Jimbob Barker, had contacted me about starting a beehive. I knew Jimbob lived on the edge of the "backbone" so I gave him a call that he should come hang out at the tavern that evening and we could catch up on our lives and I could start answering his beekeeping questions. We had an hour to visit before the concert and it flew by as we relived some our shared adventures in the 1970s.
What I could have never expected was the connections that we both had with Devil's Backbone Tavern. I'll tell my connection first,,, " my favorite teacher was hands down Mrs Lillian who lived in an old log house just down the road from the tavern. She was quite a character ( I wrote a short story about her in my book to my grand kids.). It was well known that if you were looking for her on Saturday evening, she would be at the Tavern indulging herself. After she retired, I would stop by and visit with her on occassion until her death in 1999.
Jimbob's connection goes like this.... his grandfather did rock and concrete work in this area and built the tavern's devil fireplace back in the 1930s. Inlaid in the rock is a single special rock that when you get just the right angle you see a devil face. Devil's face at Devil's Backbone has led to many scary haunting tales through the years. That was interesting enough by itself but then came the clincher. Jimbob knew Mrs Lillian because she was his grandmother's best friend.
Jason put on a hell of a performance and Sally was enthralled but still left with the one she came with.
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