the jack knife and mesquite
for carving tools and doors.
continued from page 4
Maisie is well known all
over the Southwest for the
Mae Kane in
beautiful carved
Australia,
doors on houses
Maisie immi-
of worship, bed
grated
to
and breakfasts,
America
in
and a sure sign
1925 with her
of welcome as
family. After a
the front door
few years in
of folks’ homes.
Florida
the
Most of her
family settled
work has been
in El Paso,
done on con-
where Maisie
signment.
graduated
Maisie still lives
from
high
her life “Like a
school.
Stink in a
Traveling
Whirlwind” as
and working
the title of her
with her older
autobiography
brother in the
tells us in the
cattle business,
Colonia style
Maisie landed
adobe
home
in Marathon
under the giant
in 1939 where
fir trees she
she met and
herself planted
married Guy
when she and
Lee, cowboy,
her husband
rancher and
built the house
agriculturalist.
on the West side
In 1947, while
of Marathon
living near the
many years ago.
border
at
If you are in
Boquillas Hot
Marathon you
Springs Maisie
can see some of
picked up a
her work your-
jack knife and
self on the
started carving
churches there.
figures out of
You can find
mesquite.
her autobiogra-
That was
phy, Like a Stink
70 years ago,
in a Whirlwind,
and she spent
Lee,
St. Mary’s C atholic Mission, Marathon. Photo courtesy Danielle G allo Maisie
the rest of her
CreateSpace
life carving. One of her early
a few years developing her
Independent
Publishing
works is in the art collection
self-taught skills she traded in
Platform, 2013 for sale online.
of Lady Bird Johnson. She
started selling her “stump fig-
ures,” as she calls them, at
local shops in Big Bend. After
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