Monthly Archives: December 2011
Let There Be Luminarias!
Updated in December 2023 Since 1994, luminarias have been a highlight of the holidays in our neighborhood, and this year is no exception. Thanks to the generosity of many Brentwood and Crestview neighbors, Arroyo Seco once again will glow with candlelight on the evenings of December 22-25, 2023. Brentwood neighbors started the luminaria project to celebrate the 1993 planting of more than 250 trees along Arroyo Seco and Hancock Creek between Koenig and Justin. (More … Read more
A Few Stories About Street Names, Part 2
Updated September 25, 2023 Copyright 2011-2023 Susan Burneson. All rights reserved. Please talk with us before reproducing any website content. Our series on Central Austin street names—how they were named and what some of them once were called—continues. KAREN AVENUE—Named for a niece of Dr. Joseph S. Koenig. (See Koenig Lane, below.) KOENIG LANE—The first known description of the street appeared in the Austin American-Statesman on November 21, 1936: “the public lane sometimes known as … Read more