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Stay 2 consecutive nights,

Friday-Sunday, Sept 13-15

and get the 2nd night for

50% off!

Go Texan

Downtown Hillsboro Courthouse Square

BBQ cook-off
Arts & crafts booths
Car Show
Entertainment

Festival opens at 10 AM!!!

10 AM - Pet & Tractor Parade
     Washer & Domino Tournaments
11 AM - HS & JH Cheerleaders
     Hillsboro Twirling School
Noon - Judging Chicken BBQ
     Horseshoe Tournament
     Hillsboro Karate School

 

1 PM - Whitney Tumblers
1:30 PM - Judging Spareribs BBQ
3 PM - Judging Brisket BBQ
      Classic Car Show Awards
3:30 PM - Judging Go Texan BBQ
5 PM - BBQ Cookoff Awards
 

6 PM - Free Street Dance
      Bailey Latham
      Becky Kinnibrugh
      Casey Pillgreen & Born South
      Westbound

 

- The Spring And The Fall

In the spring of the year, in the spring of the year,
I walked the road beside my dear.
The trees were black where the bark was wet.
I see them yet, in the spring of the year.
He broke me a bough of the blossoming peach
That was out of the way and hard to reach.  

In the fall of the year, in the fall of the year,
I walked the road beside my dear.
The rooks went up with a raucous trill.
I hear them still, in the fall of the year.
He laughed at all I dared to praise,
And broke my heart, in little ways.  

Year be springing or year be falling,
The bark will drip and the birds be calling.
There's much that's fine to see and hear
In the spring of a year, in the fall of a year.
'Tis not love's going hurt my days.
But that it went in little ways. 

Edna St. Vincent Millay

 


I Meant To Do My Work Today

I meant to do my work today,
But a brown bird sang in the apple tree,
And a butterfly flitted across the field,
And all the leaves were calling me.

And the wind went sighing over the land,
Tossing the grasses to and fro,
And a rainbow held out its shining hand--
So what could I do but laugh and go?

- Richard Le Gallienne

 
 

- A Song of an Autumn Night -

Under the crescent moon a light autumn dew Has chilled the robe she will not change --
And she touches a silver lute all night,
Afraid to go back to her empty room.
- Wang Wei
 
Fabulous Fall!
 

If you were coming in the Fall,
I'd brush the Summer by
With half a smile, and half a spurn,
As Housewives do, a Fly.  

If I could see you in a year,
I'd wind the months in balls --
And put them each in separate Drawers,
For fear the numbers fuse --  

If only Centuries, delayed,
I'd count them on my Hand,
Subtracting, till my fingers dropped
Into Van Dieman's Land.  

If certain, when this life was out --
That yours and mine, should be
I'd toss it yonder, like a Rind,
And take Eternity --  

But, now, uncertain of the length
Of this, that is between,
It goads me, like the Goblin Bee --
That will not state -- its sting.

Emily Dickinson

 

 

 

 
 
Thank you for your interest in
The 1895 Tarlton House!

David & Teresa Stoops
House Phone: (254) 582-3422
E-Mail: Innkeeper@1895TarltonHouse.com

The 1895 Tarlton House
211 N Pleasant St.
Hillsboro, TX 76645-2115
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In Autumn, trees shed their leaves, showing a host of yellow, orange and red hues prior to falling. Autumn is the season during which most crops are harvested, and is the season during which days get shorter and cooler, the nights get longer. 'Autumn' is derived from the french word 'automne.'
Our Autumn Tree
on the left!
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Come away with me!

Come stay with me at the 1895 Tarlton House.

Come light the candle of our love. Kindle joy with me, and I with thee!
    

Fall
matures;

Shall I?

Outlet mall shopping,
20 antique stores,
2 excellent historical museums.

I see your tender heart and feel your dancing love.

    
The best time to love is now.

A true love is that one who really know you but loves you anyway.
If I have you with me, and all else is a darker hue, I will count my joys and speak my bliss. I cherish your love.

Fall, leaves, fall; die, flowers, away;
Lengthen night and shorten day;
Every leaf speaks bliss to me
Fluttering from the autumn tree.  

I shall smile when wreaths of snow
Blossom where the rose should grow;
I shall sing when night's decay
Ushers in a drearier day.

Emily Bronte

A Romantic Retreat at the 1895 Tarlton House. Come stay with your love in the Heart of Texas. Celebrate the best of life!

T

- The Autumn Tree - 1895 Tarlton House Dining Room -

To Autumn

  Autumn, laden with fruit, and stain'd
With the blood of the grape, pass not, but sit
Beneath my shady roof; there thou may'st rest,
And tune thy jolly voice to my fresh pipe,
And all the daughters of the year shall dance!
Sing now the lusty song of fruits and flowers.  

'The narrow bud opens her beauties to
The sun, and love runs in her thrilling veins;
Blossoms hang round the brows of Morning, and
Flourish down the bright cheek of modest Eve,
Till clust'ring Summer breaks forth into singing,
And feather'd clouds strew flowers round her head.  

'The spirits of the air live in the smells
Of fruit; and Joy, with pinions light, roves round
The gardens, or sits singing in the trees.'
Thus sang the jolly Autumn as he sat,
Then rose, girded himself, and o'er the bleak
Hills fled from our sight; but left his golden load.

William Blake