Wimberley, Texas

At seven in the morning, Wimberley runs on strong coffee and familiar faces. The square wakes up slow — a truck backing in, somebody's dog tied up outside, the first pot on. That's the rhythm of this town, and it starts at a table at Wimberley Cafe.

Then there's the water. Cypress Creek runs cold and green right through town, down past the Blue Hole, where the cypress trees lean over water cold enough to reset your whole day. The Blanco River slides along the edge of town. In the summer the swimming holes fill up, the rodeo lights come on, and Market Days turns a field into the biggest front yard in the Hill Country. Wimberley is part artist, part river rat, and completely unbothered about picking one.

This is where Small Town Locals started. And last week, this town got hit.

For the folks who feed Wimberley

Early Tuesday morning, a kitchen fire closed Wimberley Cafe indefinitely. Nobody was hurt, and that's the miracle. But the damage runs past a million dollars, and around 80 people — at the cafe and the businesses around it — are out of work heading into the holidays.

Jen and Jay Bachman, the cafe's owners, founded the Service Industry Relief Fund to give direct support to Wimberley's service workers facing hardship. From November 16 through November 29, 100% of the profits from our Wimberley collection go to SIRF. SIRF supports service workers across the whole town — that's who this helps: the entire community the cafe sits in the middle of.

Your turn

The comments are open, and this is the part that matters most: post your Wimberley.

• Your cafe order, your table, the server who knows it by heart
• Your spot on the water — the creek, the river, the Blue Hole
• The person who makes this town home

Locals, homesick locals, and anyone who visited once and never quite got over it — all of you. The best stories will find their way into the future stories we tell here.

The pieces we made for Wimberley live in the Wimberley collection — souvenirs of the story, not the other way around.