"A Visit to Swan House" in Cenizo Journal

My article about adobe visionary Simone Swan's teaching house in Presidio, TX (on the US-Mexico border, about an hour's drive south of Marfa), "A Visit to Swan House," appears in the winter issue of Cenizo Journal. 

Download the complete issue as a PDF here.

Learn more and view photos of Swan House at www.adobealliance.org

UPDATE: A family emergency has knocked back my monthly podcasting schedule, but I will resume. There will be 24 podcasts and I have several interviews already recorded, so stay tuned.



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Podcast #9 Mary Baxter, Painting the Big Bend

Just posted: My October 2012 interview with painter Mary Baxter about her luminous landscapes in her Marfa, Texas studio. This is #9 in the 24 podcast series, "Marfa Mondays."

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Mary Baxter came to Marfa years ago for the horses and cattle business and stayed to paint the sky-haunted landscapes. Recently returned to Marfa after a decade in (relatively nearby) Marathon, Texas, Mary Baxter talked to C.M. Mayo in her sun-filled studio in October 2012.

The Marfa Mondays podcasts are apropos of a work-in-progress about far West Texas.


Recent Marfa Mondays Podcasts include:

>A Spell in Chinati Hot Springs

>We Have Seen the Lights (about the Marfa ghost lights)

>Marfa's Moonlight Gemstones, an Interview with Paul Graybeal

>The Buzz on the Bees, an Interview with Cynthia McAlister

>Avram Dumitrescu, An Artist in Alpine

>Mary Bones on the Lost Art Colony

>Charles Angell in the Big Bend

>Ye Olde Introduction and Welcome

Read all about the Marfa Mondays Podcasting Project here.

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Lonn Taylor's TEXAS, MY TEXAS: Musings of the Rambling Boy

Though a collection of columns as "The Rambling Boy" for the Big Bend Sentinel, Lonn Taylor's Texas, My  Texas: Musings of the Rambling Boy is far from the usual mashed potatoes newspaper fare.  Taylor is a wise and lyrical writer with a background as a professional historian and his mammoth love for Texas is infectious. This is a book to savor in a rocking chair on a hot day with a tall glass of spiked lemonade at your side. Get ready to howl with the one about the in-law aunts's oodles of poodles.

(This one made my top 10 for 2012.)

September Update

A family emergency, but I'll be back podcasting as soon as possible.


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Podcast #8 A Spell at Chinati Hot Springs

Elvis. The private art gallery. Lithium. And even better: no email.

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Podcast #7 We Have Seen the Lights (Marfa Ghost Lights)

Podcast # 7 in the 24 podcast series has been posted, listen in anytime:

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My experiences with the eerie and as yet unexplained phenomenon of the Marfa Lights; a brief discussion of some of the literature and recent research, and interviews others. 




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Podcast #6 Marfa's Moonlight Gemstones

Now live: my podcast interview with Paul Graybeal, owner of Marfa's Moonlight Gemstones, the 6th is a series of 24 podcasts about Marfa, Texas and environs apropos of a book-in-progress (as yet untitled).

It was no exaggeration for historian Walter Prescott Webb to describe the Big Bend region as "an earthwreck in which a great section of country was shaken down, turned over, blown up, and set on fire." In short, there is ample evidence of millions of years of dramatic geological activity, with the craggiest of mountains to rocks of all kinds, from mammoth piles of boulders to pebbles. In this interview with Paul Graybeal, owner of Marfa's magnet for rock hounds, learn about agates, thundereggs, and more. 

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Related links to surf:

Moonlight Gemstones

www.moonlightgemstones.com

The etsy.com video, "There's No Place Like Here: Marfa, Texas" 

in which Graybeal makes a brief appearance. 

About the Marfa Mondays Podcasting Project:

www.cmmayo.com/marfa

Listen to more Marfa Mondays Podcasts

Geology of Big Bend National Park

On flybigbend's YouTube channel:

Flying over La Junta
Flying over El Solitario

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