toured Western Europe, visiting museums
daily. In Amsterdam, the work of Van Gogh
made a life-changing impression. Isolated and
alone, he started taking pictures.
In the fall of 2000 he went to Russia, staying
in a dorm at Moscow University and taking
language classes. After a year, he followed his
Japanese girlfriend, whom met in Moscow, to
Japan for two years. He took a one-year lan-
guage course in Tokyo, then enrolled at the
Temple University in a Japanese school there.
Jagger returned to the USA in 2004 and
enrolled at Temple University, Philadelphia in
an Asian Studies course in 2005. He then
moved to New York and trolled the city look-
ing for a job.
He suddenly got lucky, landing the best job
he could have imagined - at the Chris Burke
Studio. Although Burke’s specialty was art pho-
tography, he had been impressed by Jagger’s
people portraits.
He stayed at the Chris Burke Studio for
three years, and became Burke’s head photog-
rapher. But in 2008, the illness of his grandpar-
ents took him back to Austin to look after them.
Watching them die he describes as the hardest
and best year of his life. He then joined his
mother in Terlingua, and started to take photos
again while working at local motels.
In 2010 Jagger moved back to Fort Davis
and got a job at the Stone Village Market.
Then, following the suggestion of his father, he
started visiting Pecos, 80% of whose residents
are Hispanic. Previously a moribund agricul-
tural community, Pecos is changing to an oil
patch town. From 2011 he made almost 150
trips, always with his dog, Baxter. In 2013 he
did a similar project in Jeff Davis County, pho-
tographing 110 persons in all walks of life. Next
are farmers and ranchers.
While Caleb Jagger has had a few shows, he
is more interested in building his portfolio, and
improving his skills while still young. He uses a
1950s Linhof 4X5 field camera and selflessly
gives away a framed copy of his picture to each
portrait subject (400 to date). Inspired by Van
Gogh’s portraits of people, he sees West Texas
as an ideal place to develop his own style.
Taking photos is fun, he says, but he adds,
“Gotta get the work done.” To view his portfo-
lio, go to calebjagger.com.
sArA BOw
Sara Lines was born in Alpine at Dr.
Wright’s clinic on December 30, 1946, one of
three daughters of Gus and Lope Lines. Her
sisters are Ginny, a retired nurse living in
Odessa, and Georgie, who is assistant manager
at the Maverick Inn in Alpine. Her paternal
grandfather, George Lionoupolus, immigrated
from Greece in the 1930s.
Sara was an A or B student in the Alpine
school system, “loving every minute.” (In those
years there was still separation of the schools.
Her husband, Jack Bow, was one of the persons
who later would help integrate the schools).
Meanwhile, for Sara, Alpine was a wonderful,
safe place to grow up in, and she made lots of
friends.
Gus announced in 1962 that after 16 years
he was selling the popular family business,
Georgie’s Drive-In on US 90, to go work as the
Alpine hospital’s engineer. Sara, who graduat-
ed in 1965, was likewise drawn to the hospital
but for different reasons.
At age 12, she underwent an appendectomy
and credits her nurse, Amparo Cobos, with her
recovery and the reason why she became a
nurse (“She saved my life.”). In 1966 she took a
one-year Licensed Vocational Nurse course at
Sul Ross State University, and 48 years later is
still nursing at the Big Bend Regional Medical
Center. As her radiant smile testifies, she is in
an occupation that she loves (and at which she
excels).
Sara married Jack Bow, long-time Alpine
pharmacist, in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico on
June 21, 1976, driving to and from the destina-
tion. They have three children: Kathleen
Burnett, a Dallas attorney, Chris Bow, a
builder in Austin, and Jacqueline Bow, a thera-
pist at High Frontier near Fort Davis. Also part
of the family are the two children from Jack’s
previous marriage: Jonathon and Ellen.
After 25 years as an LVN she heeded the
advice of Dr. Alan Bird and enrolled in the
BSN program at San Angelo State College to
obtain a RN qualification. Together with Ann
Schaeffler she embarked on four years of travel
and study: 1,000 miles a week, up at 4 a.m.,
back by 1 a.m. In 1997 they were each award-
ed Bachelor of Science in Nursing. She contin-
ued with a five-year Master of Science in
Nursing program online from Walden
University, MA, completing in 2009.
Sara’s community participation mirrors her
nursing career: non-stop and 100 percent. She
has served on the Alpine Chamber of
Commerce Board, and is presently an ambas-
sador. For 30 years she has been a member of
the Pilot Club, is an American Legion auxiliary
and a long-time member of the First Baptist
Church, an essential element in her life.
She can’t recall many vacations but is proud
that she never called in sick. She keeps fit by
exercising daily on the SRSU gym track.
Among her hospital duties is coordinating flight
details when patients need to be flown out –
which happens one or two times daily. As with
all her actions, this is done with a brilliant smile.
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