Editor’s Notes
The
Enlightened Bean
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Café
’m not sure there’s any-
thing to say about this
past spring in the Big
Bend except that we all got
through it! And as I write
this, the forecast is begin-
ning to mention a
“chance” of rain. Can it be
that help is on the way? My
hat is off to our advertisers
who, once again, have
made another issue of Cenizo possible through
their advertising dollars. Please give them your
business and help keep our local economy grow-
ing and going.
This issue, we are all over the map – literally.
Starting with the Shooting West Texas Photography
Symposium coming up in September at Sul Ross
in Alpine. Here’s a chance to meet some of the
best photographers around, learn how they do
what they do and have photos you’ve already
taken evaluated. William Darby explains the ins
and outs.
You’ve danced to Craig Carter’s music, but do
you know what else he does – just to keep on liv-
ing in the Big Bend? Marathon writer Barbara
Novovitch tells all.
The perfectly round tortilla has more than gus-
tatory implications – it’s also a physics problem.
Follow Alyce Santoro’s revelation of Enrique
Madrid’s theories.
Down in Big Bend National Park are the rem-
nants of one of the ranches that became the park
– Sam and Nena Nail’s place. Most of the ranch
is gone, but the windmill still pumps water for the
local wildlife, making it a place to sit and watch
the creatures that come to drink. Ron Payne
shares his experience.
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Aguayo and Avram Dumitrescu show and tell.
And Bob Miles reveals the true story of anoth-
er Big Bend denizen – Milton Faver.
Three lively women from Alpine, Marathon
and Terlingua tell Jim Glendinning how they
have come to steward the quality of living in this
part of Texas.
Phyllis Dunham has a trace of Comanche
blood, and in this issue she shows us why the
People, as her ancestors called themselves, came
to own vast stretches of the Great Plains and to
terrorize the people of Northern Mexico and
anyone else who got in their way.
Three Shooting West Texas photographers,
Russell Graves, Laren Bridges and Adam Jahiel,
share their photos in the Photo Essay.
Long and short poems from Cynthia
McKaughan, K.B. Whitley and Mary Locke
Crofts bring moments down south, on the high-
way and in Langtry to life.
You may have heard of Carolyn Ohl’s incred-
ible feat of building an oasis in the Christmas
Mountains. In this issue, her friend Bill
Lindemann explains how that happened and
then describes how one visitor to the oasis, the
Lucifer hummingbird, courts his mate.
Get out your binoculars and see if you can
answer Charlie Angell’s trivia quiz on birds!
Hope you enjoy this issue and that we’ll have a
summer that finally breaks the drought! Here’s to
that!
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