It feels as if everyone in Lockhart knows Donna Blair and Tamara Carlisle personally. I just happen to be visiting the town of 18,000 or so residents on the night of a disco-themed party celebrating the birthdays of Blair and a friend. Throughout the day, as I saunter through the main square and dip in and out of enchanting galleries and boutiques—many of them housed in late nineteenth-century buildings with stunning original masonry—I overhear people talking about the fete and planning their outfits. “What are you wearing?” I catch one shopkeeper asking a younger guy in his store. “You better dress on theme.” I see him later; he did.Blair is a real estate broker, a general contractor, an Airbnb host, a founding board member of…
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