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POTD: Sunset 2.0

Posted on August 26, 2021

I’ve posted several sunsets over the years but, this one isn’t mine. ~Vic

Ray Tutterow IBM Image — My buddy Ray’s handiwork.
IBM/RTP
12-23-2016
Click for a larger view.

Picture of the Day

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Shutterbug Saturday: Old Fort Sumner Museum

Posted on August 15, 2020 Updated on August 15, 2020

I lived in Texas for nearly a decade. My ex-Marine and I did some traveling through the west when we had opportunities. I’ve been digging around in some old stuff and found some photos from a visit to the Old Fort Sumner Museum in New Mexico in December of 2008. We were on our way to Liar’s Lodge. The museum closed in 2017. ~Vic

Old Fort Sumner Museum Image One — A terrible shot of the front of the museum.
It was so overcast.
It never occurred to me to take pictures **inside**.

Historic Marker Image Two — Official Marker
Lucien Maxwell
Fort Sumner
Bosque Redondo

Elusive Tombstone Image Three — They kept stealing it.
Joe Bowlin
Notice the reference to Texas International Airlines
Jarvis P. Garrett is Pat’s son.
UPI Article on the 1981 Recovery

Stone Marker Image Four — Group death record.
Charlie Bowdre **December 23, 1880**
Tom O’Folliard **December 19, 1880**

Billy's Tombstone Image Five — Henry McCarty
AKA William H. Bonney
AKA Billy The Kid
July 14, 1881
“The boy bandit king,
he died as he lived.”

Late Add:

Fort Sumner Cemetery Panorama Image Six — Fort Sumner Cemetery
Photo Credit: Erans World
02-11-2014
Click to view full picture.

Additional Reading:
BTKOG (Billy the Kid Outlaw Gang Site)
Whiskey and the Devil: Taiban, New Mexico (City of Dust Blogspot January 10, 2012)
Billy the Kid’s Two Graves (Roadside America August 15, 2020)
Caught With His Pants Down: Billy the Kid vs Pat Garrett (True West Magazine August 1, 2010)
Brushy Bill Roberts (Wikipedia)

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30-Day Song Challenge: Day 23

Posted on December 23, 2018 Updated on June 3, 2020

Music Challenge Image — Photo Credit: goodreads.com

A song you think everybody should listen to…

I have to keep in mind, for this category, that people have their own tastes in music. One man’s dream is another man’s nightmare. I’m posting these not only because I like them but, because they are fairly unknown. And, I happen to like it very much when someone else introduces me to music I’ve never heard, before. So, I hope that anyone listening to these might enjoy them.

I don’t recall ever hearing this on the radio though, Billboard charted it as high as #29 on the Hot 100.

Vox Humana

I picked this up from a college radio station associated with the University of Texas back in 2010. It never got any regular airplay anywhere else. Billboard has no chart record of it. And, it is the only song I have ever encountered that, the live version(s) (and there are many on YouTube) is better than the studio version. I’m also fascinated with her bassist playing the drums at the same time.

In Sleep