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Mon - Sat
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Mon-Fri 10-6
203 E Holland Ave, Alpine
432.837.1055
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Hardware
Presidio’s favorite hardware store for almost a century
tools • plumbing supplies • home & garden
Monday - Saturday 7:30 am to 6 pm
701 O’Reilly Street • Presidio • 432-229-3256
C ONTRI B UTORS
Rani Birchfield is a freelance writer who
lives in the Big Bend region. Prior to coming
to Far West Texas, she lived in Dallas and
wrote for businesses, helping them create and
market their stories. She’d love to hear from
you. e-mail: rbirchfield44@hotmail.com
Daisy Gallo-Trehus has a wide vaiety of
interests, including gardening and raising
chickens, as well as drawing and jewelry mak-
ing. As a life-long resident of Big Bend, she has
an excellent amateur knowledge of dinosaurs.
Jayne Gallo recently moved to Marathon
from Wake Forest, North Carolina. She is a
retired auditor from North Carolina State
University and enjoys travel, time with her
grandchildren and being involved in her faith
community. She looks forward to exploring
the Big Bend. e-mail: jaynegallo@aol.com
Voni Glaves is an artist, a writer and a rider.
After 31 years as a teacher of students with
special needs in the Midwest, she retired and
found her heart’s home in a modern Adobe in
Big Bend. She writes and photographs for the
Big Bend Gazette. She is one of two women to
have ridden over a Million Miles on BMW
motorcycles. Her photography is featured at
the Earth and Fire Gallery in the Ghostown of
Terlingua. e-mail: voni@bigbend.net
Jim Glendinning, an Oxford-educated
Scot, lives in Alpine. The story of his travels,
Footloose Scot, has just been published, as has
Legendary Locals of the Big Bend & Davis
Mountains for Arcadia Press. e-mail:
jimglen2@sbcglobal.net
A magical
oasis in the
Chihuahuan
Desert
of Texas
Off the
Pinto Canyon Rd
near Ruidosa
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Cenizo
Nelson Sager is a partially retired Professor
of English who still teaches part-time at Sul
Ross State University. He has lived in Alpine
since 1971, and is a native Texan, born and
raised in San Antonio. He is currently inter-
ested in the transition of poetry to song lyric.
e-mail: nsager5@sbcglobal.net
rustic lodging
camping
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required
432.229.4165
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Dan and Dianna Burbach,
Managers
First Quarter 2017
C. W. (Bill) Smith is a writer, historian and
curator of the Terrell County Memorial
Museum. e-mail: wsmith1948@yahoo.com
Jim Street has spent more than 50 years in
journalism, including broadcast, newspaper,
magazine writing and public relations. He has
written about aviation for many years, and
owned the Terrell County News Leader in
Sanderson for 11 years before coming to the
Alpine Avalanche, and he now contributes to the
Big Bend Sentinel and the Cenizo Journal. e-mail:
jimstreet475@yahoo.com.
Tonya Tiday is the mother of two daughters
who motivate her to be a better version of
herself daily. At the age of five she was intro-
duced to the world of Theatre and the rest is
history. She says that the Big Bend Region
houses her soul, and she’s blessed to be among
a community of such perfection. e-mail:
tonyaleetiday@gmail.com
Larry D. Thomas, a member of the Texas
Institute of Letters and the 2008 Texas Poet
Laureate, has resided in Alpine since 2011.
His most recent book is Bleak Music: Photographs
and Poems of the American Southwest, which pairs
20 of his poems with photographs by Jeffrey
C. Alfier. e-mail: karlpeterson57@yahoo.com
Debbie Wahrmund is a freelance writer from
Austin, Texas who loves West Texas. e-mail:
debbie.wahrmund@gmail.com
Carolyn Brown Zniewski started her
publishing career at age nine, publishing a
one-page neighborhood newsletter called The
Circle. From 1992 – 2006 she wrote a recipe
column for two neighborhood newspapers in
Minneapolis, MN. In 2013, she started
publishing the Cenizo. e-mail: publisher@cenizo-
journal.com
Maya Brown Zniewski is an herbalist and
soapmaker who enjoys frequent visits to the
Big Bend area. Her handmade salves, soaps
and tinctures are available at: mayamade.net.
e-mail: mayamadeapothecary @gmail.com
Cover: Monarchs, Sam Esparza, colored
pencils. www.samesparza.com
Copy editor: Rani Birchfield
SUBSCRIPTIONS
Cenizo Journal will be mailed direct for $25.00 annually.
Make checks payable to: Cenizo Journal, P.O. Box 2025, Alpine, Texas 79831,
or through Paypal at cenizojournal.com
SUBMISSION
Deadline for advertising and editorial for the Second Quarter 2017 issue: February 15, 2017.
Art, photographic and literary works may be e-mailed to the Editor.
For advertising rates or to place an ad, contact: advertising@cenizojournal.com