THIRD QUARTER 2016 FREE “Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on earth.” Muhammad Ali The Last Prehistoric Buffalo Hunt • Big Bend Eats • Chandler Ranch • Folkways Voices of the Big Bend • Little Explorers in the Big Bend • Photo Essay • Poetry • Stylle Read Coming soon... A Flicker of the Soul LYRICS, STORIES AND WRITINGS A new book by Ken Whitley Available at Front Street Books, Paisano Hotel and Amazon Books Cenizo 2 Third Quarter 2016 DAVID LOREN BASS El Polvo Adobe, 2016 Oil on Canvas 12 x 16 Inches Paintings of New Mexico and Texas Greasewood Gallery V-6 Collection Hand Artes Gallery El Paisano Hotel Gage Hotel Truchas, NM Marfa, TX Marathon, TX davidlorenbass.com • [email protected] Cenizo Third Quarter 2016 3 STYLLE READ Story and photos by Rani Birchfield exas native Stylle Read is known Murals are usually agreements between the throughout the state for his murals property owner and an artist. Payment is ren- Tdepicting local history and lore. His pic- dered to the artist, and the art itself is oftentimes torial histories grace the insides and outsides of licensed and owned. Street art is more demo- commercial buildings across the South and the cratic – art for the public not limited to galleries Southwest, but he’s most prolific in Texas. and unable to be “owned” by just one person, Read has become one of our documentarians, although murals have the same overall effect in illustrating our past and present on oversized terms of who can view them. Graffiti is typical- venues. ly spray art done without permission from the Painted walls go by many names, the most building owners. The basic difference is permis- common being murals, street art or graffiti. sion – with permission, it’s art; without, it’s van- What’s the difference? Perhaps it’s money and dalism. (There are, of course, gray areas – think intent, but Wikipedia (yes, Wikipedia because Banksy and Shepard Fairey.) it’s simple and clear) defines Street Art as: Humankind has been painting on walls for “visual art created in public locations, usually unsanctioned artwork executed outside of the context of continued on page 25 traditional art venues.” Cenizo 4 Third Quarter 2016 Table of Contents 4 Rani Birchfield Stylle Read 15 Johanna Nelson Salsa Stories 6 Carolyn Brown Zniewski Cenizo Notes 16 Bill Smith Cyrus M. “Charlie” Wilson Danielle Gallo Carol Townsend Photo Essay 8 Howdy-Nocoma Fowler The Last Prehistoric Buffalo Hunt 20 Jim Glendinning Voices of the Big Bend 9 Maya Brown Zniewski Folkways 22 Danielle Gallo Little Explorers in the Big Bend Julia Kennedy Kirkland Poetry Larry D. Thomas 27 Carolyn Brown Zniewski Big Bend Eats Jim Wilson Danielle Gallo Trans-Pecos Trivia 12 Jeremy Gonzalez Rebirth of Chandler Ranch Cenizo Third Quarter 2016 5 HARPER’S Cenizo Journal Hardware Volume 8 Number 3 CONTRIBUTORS Presidio’s favorite hardware store for almost a century Rani Birchfield is a writer and traveler West Texas fiercely. She’s currently working tools • plumbing supplies • home & garden experiencing the small-town, big-sky life of the on a book of Salsa Stories. e-mail: salsastories@ Big Bend region. She’s a coffee addict and gmail.com beach lover who’s coming to face the reality Monday - Saturday 7:30 am to 6 pm Carol Townsend With 35 years of experi- that normal days don’t always consist of such 701 O’Reilly Street • Presidio • 432-229-3256 ence, Carol’s portfolio is filled with the flora things. Ok, maybe the coffee. Feel free to email and fauna of Big Bend. She sells her work on- her and tell her a story. e-mail: rbirchfield44@ line or at the small photo and crafts shop she hotmail.com shares with her daughter, Bonnie: Cactus Julia Kennedy Kirkland is a writer, poet, Flower on Hwy 90, in Marathon. e-mail: and fifth generation Texan. She lives in Austin [email protected]. with her husband and four children, but much Larry D. Thomas is a member of the Texas of the dust of West Texas - where her folks live Institute of Letters and was privileged to serve - has found its way into her soul. e-mail: as the 2008 Texas Poet Laureate. His Larry D. [email protected] Thomas: New and Selected Poems (TCU Press, Howdy-Nocona Fowler was born and 2008) was a semi-finalist for the National Book raised on the Klamath Indian Reservation in Award. e-mail: [email protected] SE Oregon. He has contributed to The Rocky Jim Wilson is a 66-year-old retired Mountain News, Western Horseman, Mules and More Veterinarian living in the country between and Cowboy Magazine. e-mail: [email protected] Austin and Houston. He grew up in Lobo Danielle Gallo is a writer who is proud to be Valley south of Van Horn. He began writing WHITE CRANE the editor of the Cenizo Journal. She came to the poetry in 2000. He has published five books CUPUNCTURE area in 2002 and currently lives in Marathon of poetry. He loves the Big Bend country A with her family. e-mail: [email protected] more than any place on earth. e-mail: jwil- LINIC [email protected] C Jim Glendinning, an Oxford-educated Scot, lives in Alpine. The story of his travels, Footloose Carolyn Brown Zniewski started her Acupuncture Scot, has just been published, as has Legendary publishing career at age nine, publishing a • Locals of the Big Bend & Davis Mountains for one- page neighborhood newsletter called The Herbs Arcadia Press. e-mail: [email protected] Circle. From 1992 – 2006 she wrote a recipe • column for two neighborhood newspapers in Jeremy Gonzalez is a staff reporter for the Bodywork Minneapolis, MN. In 2013, she started Fort Stockton Pioneer. He always has a cup Eve’s Garden publishing the Cenizo. e-mail: publisher@cenizo- of coffee on his desk. His wife is his cure for Bed and journal.com Breakfast writer’s block, and if he were an animal, he Shanna Cowell, L.Ac. would be a chameleon: colorful, adaptive and Maya Brown Zniewski is an herbalist and NEW LOCATION: chill. e-mail: [email protected] soapmaker who enjoys frequent visits to the 432.386.4165 Big Bend area. Her handmade salves, soaps 303 E. Sul Ross • Alpine C. W. (Bill) Smith is a writer, historian, and and tinctures are available at her website, 432.837.3225 Ave C & N 3rd • Marathon, TX curator of the Terrell County Memorial mayamade.net. e-mail: mayamadeapothecary [email protected] Museum. e-mail: [email protected] Mon. - Fri. by appointment www.evesgarden.org @gmail.com Johanna Nelson was born in far East Texas Cover: Road Rules by Billy L. Keen at Brothers and moved to far West Texas when she was Fine Art in Marfa. Photograph by Rani 19. Currently she lives a bit north up the Rio Birchfield. AYN FOUNDATION Grande in Santa Fe, NM. She paints, works in (DAS MAXIMUM) economic development, cooks salsa and misses Copy editor: Rani Birchfield ANDY WARHOL MARIA ZERRES SUBSCRIPTIONS “The Last Supper” “September Eleven” 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 Brite Building 107-109 N Highland, Marfa SUBMISSION Open weekends noon to 5 pm Deadline for advertising and editorial for the Fourth Quarter 2016 issue: August 15, 2016. For hours, please call: 432.729.3315 Art, photographic and literary works may be e-mailed to the Editor. or visit www.aynfoundation.com For advertising rates or to place an ad, contact: [email protected] Cenizo 6 Third Quarter 2016 Cenizo Notes Feel better when you by Carolyn Brown Zniewski, publisher and Danielle Gallo, editor learn to move better! Guild Certified Feldenkrais Practitioner t’s summer and love summer in the Certified Movement Intelligence Teacher/Trainer July 4th has always Big Bend, when you Certified Massage Therapist BCTMB, TX License # MT 121615 Ibeen the most sum- Istep outside and you Serving Brewster, Presidio and Jeff Davis Counties mer of holidays. It is can smell the caliche the day each year our baking. I love the blast [email protected] country has set aside to of radiation off the 107 N. 6th, Alpine • 832-314-8103 celebrate the scrappy white clay, how the heat beginnings of a democ- awakens every cell of racy. skin, the sunburns on My history profes- the underside of my sor, who taught nostrils, the shrunken American Colonial History, used to say old tiles of desert I can lift and crumble between Tom Jefferson, Ben Franklin and Jamie my fingers. Running a hand over the crackling Hamilton didn’t know what they were really bark of a juniper in July. Sipping water spiked getting us all into when they wrote and with pink salt from a plastic milk jug gone all signed that Declaration of Independence. pliable in the heat, the water sometimes too hot They just wanted to be in charge of their own against my lips. The way small creatures sound affairs. Rather like a teenager telling his mom like rampaging buffalo in the dry grasses. and dad, “I’m 18 now and you can’t tell me Now that I have little ones, I find myself what to do. I’ll make my own decisions.” insisting on all the things I used to scorn. Hats, Now we’ve traveled 240 years down the long sleeves, sunglasses, sunscreen. Siesta in road and it turns out there is a lot more to the shade until evening, morning expeditions running our country than Tom and Ben and cut short by ten-thirty, drinking from jelly jars Jamie could have ever imagined.