Author with deep Burnet County roots to speak to HLDW

Highland Lakes Democratic Women will welcome Suzanne Freeman, author of Hidden History of Burnet County, to their July meeting. Suzanne is also the editor of The Picayune Magazine in Marble Falls.

Freeman’s family roots sink deep into the hard scrabble of Central Texas. Her mother grew up on Broadway in Marble Falls, just blocks from the Old Granite School, and her father on Pierce Street, two blocks from downtown Burnet.

In the 1980s, she was editor of The Highlander newspaper. Under her guidance, The Highlander was named the Best Community Weekly in the state in 1988 by the Headliners Club in Austin, the first time weeklies were included in the organization’s prestigious annual journalism awards.