SERBIN — I expected quaint. Instead, the Texas Wendish Heritage Museum in this hamlet of 37 people is smart, illuminating and — rare for a small-town history museum — vital to a living community that ...

In the Year of Festivals, Texas Monthly writers gamely join community celebrations across the state. Bring on the pageants, cook-offs, and parades! Until she was 22, Amy Mueller Reynolds didn’t know ...

Europe’s 175,000 Wends (also known as Lusatian Serbs) are an ancient Slavic people who settled in Germany more than 1,000 years ago. Many of them now live on islands in the Spree River and its web of ...

SERBIN — In a light-filled 19th-century Lutheran church with red stenciling above the blue and white balcony, worshipers prayed and sang in German. It was the closest the visitors to this Central ...

Even longtime Central Texans might not realize the small community of Serbin, about an hour’s drive east of Austin, was established in the mid-1850s by a group of Wendish people who crossed an ocean ...