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 she was Wendish.“We didn’t realize we were not German,” she says of her immediate family. “The word ‘Wendish’ was never introduced.” We’re sitting in the main building of the Texas Wendish Heritage Museum, a lacy white structure that looks like it belongs on the front of a Christmas card. On this late-September morning in Serbin, a blip-on-the-highway town an hour east of Austin, the sun is slowly baking the throngs of people milling around outside. It’s the day of the town’s annual Wendish Fest, and 35-year-old Mueller Reynolds, the Texas Wendish Heritage Society’s marketing director, is telling me how…
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