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The Wimberley Way
By Doug Lytton
PHOTOS COURTESY OF DOUG LYTTON
Author, historian, WWII veteran and community leader Bill Johnson has been a Wimberley resident since the 1940s. Along
with his wife M.F., the Johnsons ensure the memories of this Hill Country town are not lost to the years.
When I decided to write about Cypress Creek Café, suggested that my or more. Bill, 95, and his lovely wife M.F.
Wimberley, I contacted old wife Terry and I come on down and make are the keepers of much of Wimberley’s
friend and resident of the now- a day of it, beginning with Sabino Ranch. colorful history, having lived in and
famous Hill Country town, Bruce Calkins. around Wimberley most of their lives.
I wanted to get an impression of Wimber- The home of Bill and M.F. Johnson, Sa- In the stories of his youth, Bill describes
ley that differed from the typical tourist bino Ranch is picturesque acreage that hunting for rabbits and swinging from a
pieces or the many articles on the 2015 borders the Blue Hole. Its entrance is rope on a Cypress tree, plunging into the
Memorial Day floods. Bruce, a well-known hidden right in the middle of Wimberley’s icy blue water at Blue Hole.
community pillar and former owner of The town square, where a dirt road winds past
a ranch house that has stood for a century On the day of our visit, Bill was giving
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