Posted on 01/29/2006 8:32:24 PM PST by woofie
Wow.
They have a museum with a bunch of that really crappy artwork where someone makes a big concrete block and calls it "The Sorrow of Third World Chilren" and other such dreck.
Art Ping
Ya want on this List? Buy some art then notify Sam Cree, Republican Professor, or me
Wow. This will piss Dad off, almost as much as "a study in white."
"All made out of ticky-tacky and they all look just the same ... little boxes ... "
Thanks for the pix. Saw the boxes long ago in TX Monthly but had not gotten to feast my eyes and fix my gaze upon the lovely Prada left-shoe store. How nice.
Perhaps it's good they have the MarfaFest in October, so that visitors can also spend their evening time looking for the Marfa Lights--that's prime time. I hope to be so lucky some day.
Another 100 miles or so south and they can also make the Terlingua Chili cookoff in time for the Halloween contest and then the championship cookoff first weekend of November.
Marfa is also where they filmed "Giant" with Rock Hudson, Elizabeth Taylor and James Dean
My dad lives near Marfa and says about this: they wish.
If you've never been to Marfa, you don't realize how small and poor it is. It has a store, but it's not much better than a 7-11. None of the infrastructure they need to become a real art colony - interesting place. And you do best to have some Spanish.
Harper Springs, VA
I haven't heard of it.
Little place my folks wanted to buy into, years ago. Turned into a huge art colony. Can't touch it for a million, now.
But I oopsed - it is in WVA.
aaaaarrrrrrgh - Harper's Ferry, WVA. Late, and I just got home from NY.
I know! One of my all-time faves. Shall I run some lines of it for you? LOL
Bick and Leslie and Luz and Jordy and Jett Rink. Bick meeting Leslie in Maryland and their beautiful showplace of a horse farm. The train ride to Texas.
The Shamrock Hotel opening was one of my favorite scenes, I think. No, wait, the part where Liz Taylor is given the honor of scooping the brains out of the calf skull at the BBQ on the Reata. No, maybe when Jett hit the first gusher. Or, no, when Sal Mineo came home in the flag-draped coffin on the train after the war. Or when the little diner (probably in Marfa) refused to serve Bick because of Jordy's little babies and grandaddy Bick decked somebody.
Maybe not a great movie to everyone else, but I love it.
Marfa is near the Mexican border. It's a small community like most things in Jeff Davis County. My dad's town's on it, and it's just a wide spot in the road that wouldn't be mentioned if there were more people there.
The real draw is Ft. Davis and various dude ranches and the the UT-McDonald Observatory. There are not much more than 2200 people in the entire county. About half of them are in Ft. Davis.
http://www.mapquest.com/maps/map.adp?city=fort%20davis&state=TX&zoom=4
http://community.txed.state.tx.us/communities/commpages/364.htm
http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/states/48/48243.html
If they could make it it would be good for the county, but I am not holding my breath. What they do have going for them is the Ft. Davis draw, and the Big Bend park traffic and the reputation of the Marfa lights, and that right now it is cheap to live there.
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