A Weekend in the Biggest Antiques Playground in Texas

I had barely taken a bite of breakfast when the interrogation began. I’d ordered myself a sausage, egg, and cheese taco at Round Top Coffee Shop, housed in a quaint green cabin right off the main drag, the older of the town’s dedicated coffeehouses. I just so happened to set my stuff down next to a table of local retirees who were meeting for their standing Thursday-morning group hang. Quickly sensing that I was a foreigner, they invited me to join their table—which I would soon learn had been hand-carved by one of them—and began peppering me with questions. Where was I from? What was I doing in town? Had I tried the blueberry muffin? When I told them I was a writer working on…

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