Laurie E. Jasinski, a native of New Braunfels, Texas, is the author of Hill Country Backroads: Showing the Way in Comal County (TCU Press, 2001). She has written park histories for the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department and numerous features for popular Texas magazines. Jasinski also worked on the New Handbook of Texas and, recently, researched the Handbook Online edition and the Handbook of Texas Music for the Texas State Historical Association in Austin. She and husband, Gary S. Hickinbotham, live in New Braunfels.