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KEEP MANHATTAN JUST GIVE ME THAT COUNTRYSIDE Anne Lee Phillips raises a glass. Photography Cameron Clark, Cameron & Kelly Studio. 166 Bobby Rauch Ann Rauch Seen: Round Top Inn's Susanne Maida and husband James; Round Top Real Estate's Charlotte Hillbolt and Frank Hillbolt; Denise Jacobs; The Compound's Mark Massey; Heritage Texas Country Property's Frank Johnston and wife Kathy; Red and White Gallery proprietors/Fayetteville restorers Joan and Jerry Herring; Rancho Pillow's Sheila Youngblood; chef Monica Pope, whose beloved pop-up dinners at Rancho Pillow and The Annex are hot tickets; Maison Miral antique shop owner Pierre Miral; Round Top Register's Katie Stavinoha; Back Porch BBQ & Grill owner Korin Burnett; Night Bird Ranch's Kiki Teague and daughter Madison Teague; Ron Moore; Tomas Romero; Kelly Truesdell; Shelly and Don Fincher; Townsend Provision's Nick Mosley and photographer Ryann Ford; Pam and Tom Langford; The Red Door Antiques' Tricia LeTempt- Gray; Chris Robbins; Susie Kelly, in from Austin; Daniel Marks; Danette and David Scheffler; Dempsey Malone; and Randy Jordan. T he chores. The stores. Fresh air. Bybee Square … On a perfect evening among pecan and oak trees, Round Top Inn, Prost wine bar, and PaperCity hosted a country affair — a launch party for PaperCity's second biannual Round Top special section. Susanne Maida, owner of Round Top Inn and Prost wine bar, proved she's not only a wonderful innkeeper but also a swell party host. Mary Beth Burrow of Mary Beth Events and Design tented the Prost patio for the festivities and brought in a decked-out vintage Airstream trailer to serve as a de facto cocktail lounge. It seems the entire town of residents (90, says the city limits sign) and weekenders turned up, from the owners of Round Top Real Estate (Hillbolt family) to Townsend Provisions proprietors (Mosley family); the Big Red Barn's Susan Franks; weekend settlers Beverly and Tommy Jacomini; Bobby and Ann Rauch; The Vintage owners, Smoot and Paige Hull, with their children Pierce and Eisley; Walter Bering and Linda Plant with Martha Turner Sotheby's; Paris Texas Apparel owner Paul Hotze. Canopy restaurant came in to cater the evening's affair. Round Top folk know how to get a little rowdy in just the right way: drinking Round Top Inn's signature drink, Citrus Thyme Cocktail, and Deep Eddy cocktails while gossiping about how times are a-changing in the bucolic region. Charlotte Hillbolt Kathy Johnston Dempsey Malone Randy Jordan David Scheffler Danette Scheffler Chris Robbins Susie Kelly Frank Hillbolt Katie Stavinoha Tomas Romero Ron Moore Korin Burnett Frank Johnston Linda Plant Walter Bering Tricia LeTempt-Gray Susan Franks Monica Pope Daniel Marks Paul Hotze Jerry Herring Mark Massey Joan Herring Pierre Miral Mary Lou Marks Mary Beth Burrow Smoot Hull Prost wine bar Airstream bar Susanne Maida James Maida Paige Hull Sheila Youngblood