In the age of Etsy.com, fabric art has become commonplace. But in the 1960s, when Franz Erhard Walther started creating fabrics to be “activated” by volunteers, his fellow artists made fun of him.

David Lloyd Walther, who was the pastor of Faith Baptist Church in Round Rock, Texas, for 18 years, pleaded guilty to downloading ”BDSM” and bestiality-themed child pornography.

he Walther general store in Gibson, a one-stop source of everything from hardware to fresh produce for close to a century, did a thriving cash and credit business and also engaged, from time to ...