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Editor’s Notes
L ots of good things
happening in the Big
.Bend of Texas in the
next few months.
To start, the Museum of
the Big Bend has an exhibit
of paintings and other art
from the art colony that
brightened the Sul Ross
campus during the 30s and
40s and a bit into the 50s
and then, like Brigadoon, disappeared. Read
Mary Bones’ story and then head to the Museum
on the SR campus to see the real thing.
Henry Beth Hogg has been a fixture in
Sanderson since the late 40s. Dubbed “Henry the
Riveter” by the Sanderson newspaper editor for
her WWII factory work, Henry Beth has been a
town legend for more than 60 years. Meet her in
Barbara Novovitch’s story.
Among our regular features – Jim Glen -
dinning is back with “Voices of the Big Bend”
after a summer in France writing his travel memoirs,
Charlie Angell tests your cinema mettle in
“Trivia,” and Bob Miles recounts the many lives
of the “City Building,” an old adobe building in
Alpine that has had more incarnations than you
could wish for. Two poets you’ve read here before
– George Bristol and W.K. Stratton – return with
more poetry. Thanks, guys!
Another bright spot this spring will be the reopening
of the border at Boquillas. Ron Payne,
who spends summers in the park, tells us how the
closing of the border has affected the region and
gives us a preview of what the border might be
like with the crossing restored.
Aviation came to Alpine in 1911 as the Alpine
chamber celebration of the event tells us. Lonn
Taylor starts there and comes forward as he
recounts the adventures of pilots and planes that
have flown in and out of the Alpine airport over
the last century.
And if planes aren’t your thing, there are
trains. While many parts of the country were settled
around rivers and other bodies of water, the
railroad was the lifeline in Texas that brought
goods and settlement west. Historian Matt Walter
shows and tells.
Several years ago, historian and museum
director Larry Francell entertained local newspaper
readers with his observations “from the
porch.” In this issue, Larry brings us his wry
observations on book writing as he creates a book
about his hometown, Fort Davis.
It’s hard not to want to “keep” moments in the
Big Bend – thus the photos and poems and stories
that seem never to stop about this place. William
Darby has another way of holding and remembering
moments as he hikes and travels – an illustrated
journal. Maybe it’s the perfect way for you
to keep a singular moment in your adventures in
the Big Bend.
And Jim Work has captured six local dogs who
ride in pickups – who will leave you laughing and
looking at other dogs in pickups in a new way.
So in this year of freezing weather, heartbreaking
fires, frazzling heat and ground as dry and the
proverbial bone, be of good cheer – we’re here
and healthy! Thanks as always – and especially
after all that – to our advertisers who keep Cenizo
going and make this a great place to live – and
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