Cenizo Journal
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CONTR I B UTOR S
Erin Caro Aguayo is the editor at the Center
for Big Bend Studies and has worked as a writer
and editor for a variety of publications in Texas
and Virginia. [email protected]
Crystal Allbright is an artist and nature pho-
tographer regularly found in the field docu-
menting the blooms of native plants, including
the Cenizo on the cover. High Water 2008,
her film of community members’ images of
the Rio Grande flood, will be at the
April 11 Terlingua Green Scene Festival.
crystalallbright.com
Charles Angell grew up in the Dallas/Fort
Worth area and has been a resident of the Big
Bend for eight years. He works to know as much
Texas trivia as possible in conjunction with his
business, Angell Expeditions. He lives near
Ruidosa. angellexpeditions.com
Karen Bernstein, Emmy and Grammy
award-winning producer, is now a resident of
Marfa where she sets her sights on producing,
editing and writing short documentary films
on the area and its people for the web and
television. bernsteindocumentary.com
Denise Chávez has roots in Las Cruces, N.M.
with her father’s family and in Far West Texas
with her mother’s family and learned to love art,
literature and tacos in both places. She is the
author of A Taco Testimony: Meditations on Family,
Food and Culture (Rio Nuevo Press).
William “Trey” Darby is currently the editor
of the Sierra Club’s newsletter, the Big Bend
Sierran. A senior at Sul Ross, where he has been
the editor of the campus newspaper and the lit-
erary magazine, Trey is majoring in English
with hopes of becoming an editor.
Avram Dumitrescu’s art has been featured
in the Southern Review, Gastronomica and MFK
Fisher among the Pots and Pans (University of
California Press). Visit his gallery in Alpine or
onlineavram.com.
Beth Francell has been a landscape designer
for 20 years. A many-generations native of the
Big Bend, she lives in a house once owned by
her grandmother, surrounded by a garden that
three generations of her family have
planted. [email protected]
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Jim Glendinning was born on a Scottish farm
and educated at Oxford University. Widely trav-
eled, he currently plans and escorts tours to
Mexico and Scotland and writes local travel
guides. mexicosmallgroups.com.
Petei Guth is a multi-talented local artist. She
studied art at the Dallas Art Institute and is a
Texas Master Naturalist.
Roy Hamric, former editor of the Big Bend
newspaper The Desert-Mountain Times, lives in
Chang Mai, Thailand where he edits a maga-
zine, writes travel pieces and poetry and reads.
Books & Beads & Rocks
O COTILLO E NTERPRISES Y
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Beads, wire, tools and fancy stones for making jewelry
Lessons by arrangement
Mineral specimens from West Texas, Old Mexico and beyond
Lots of books on these and other subjects
Open afternoons 1 - 6, except Tuesdays and 1st and 2nd Sundays
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205 N. 5th, Alpine •
Mark Kneeskern’s art takes many forms:
illustration, photography/photo manipulation,
graphic design, painting and sculpture. He often
uses pen and ink in a way that looks like wood-
cut. Mark lives in a bus in the desert outside
Terlingua and has a studio in the Terlingua
Ghost Town.
Patty Manning, owing to her background in
art and botany, had the good fortune to be asked
to help various researchers at Sul Ross State
University
by
providing
particular
scientific illustrations. Hopefully, she will take
up this endeavor again in the future.
[email protected]
Bob Miles is a third-generation native of the
Davis Mountains area and a retired Texas Parks
and Wildlife Department park superintendent.
He studies and writes about area history and
lives with his wife Edith in Fort Davis.
Blair Pittman, a photojournalist since 1978,
has traveled the world with his camera. He lives
in Terlingua where he writes stories about its
people and history. His current book is Tales from
the Terlingua Porch II.
Ellen Ruggia co-operates Vast Graphics in
Alpine with her husband Chris. She has a BFA
from UT Austin. Among other things, she
enjoys illustrating aspects of their garden.
vastgraphics.com
Nora Seymour is a writer and editor with a
background in magazine publishing. She lives in
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