Editor’s Notes
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write this with snow
falling and the tempera-
tures in the teens – and
you may be reading it in
the same weather. Winter –
the perfect time to sit and
read. Glad you’re here!
Spring will come and
with it the blooms and bugs
of the season. Among the
most important – our West
Texas native bees. Who they are and how you can
help increase their population is explained in
Cynthia McAlister’s story.
We get used to the scenery as we drive from
town to town out here. Tom Gaffeney’s poetic
approach to approaching the Big Bend may help
you see things a bit differently.
Now, more than ever, the Starlight Theatre in
Terlingua is a destination not to be missed. Phyllis
Dunham tells us what’s cookin’ – in the kitchen
and out – in this favorite South-County hang out.
New Voices from a nature writing class at Sul
Ross are heard beginning in this issue. Mary
Baird profiles Allie Townsend, not only a West
Texas pioneer, but the first female Texas Ranger.
Angela Greenroy explains the tradition of the
Desk on Hancock Hill behind the Sul Ross
Campus, and Jim Miller goes with Woody Guthrie
to the lost mines of the Big Bend – an experience
for Guthrie that shaped his music forever.
Another New Voice, but this time with a cam-
era, is John Daniel Garcia, a Marfa native who
takes us under the bridges of Marfa to explore the
graffiti he’s found there – not something the aver-
age tourist, or local, is likely to see.
The moonlit cattle crossing depicted in Style
Read’s mural in Alpine shows Milton Faver bring-
ing his herd across the Rio Grande into Texas. It’s
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more to it, as Barbara Novovitch tells us.
Back with “Voices of the Big Bend” is Jim
Glendinning and three community leaders you’ll
want to know more about – Mike Barclay, Tom
Barnes and Marcos Paredes.
Poetry – new contributor Angela Fritz and the
reappearance of Bill Stough and Clarence
Wolfshohl – often explains the Big Bend experi-
ence better than any other way.
If you drive to Fort Davis at all regularly, you’ve
passed the remnants of Manuel Musquiz’ 1854
ranch time after time – and the cottonwoods said
to have grown from a later rancher’s fence posts.
Learn the details in Bob Miles’ story.
And Charlie Angell tests your mettle as always
in “Trans-Pecos Trivia.”
Our thanks, as always, to our advertisers, who
make Cenizo possible. Shop with them. Tell them
you saw their ad in Cenizo. And thank you for
keeping your spending local!
And as we plan for future issues, here’s a note
from Charlie Angell about a new feature: Cenizo
Journal is accepting submissions for a future column fea-
turing unique stories from persons who have relocated to the
region via unusual circumstances. Submit to:
charles@angellexpeditions.com. Please keep correspondence
to less than 100 words; follow-up interviews will allow for
more in-depth details.
Everybody’s got a story! Let’s hear yours!
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