Issues of concern to people who live in the west: property rights, water rights, endangered species, livestock grazing, energy production, wilderness and western agriculture. Plus a few items on western history, western literature and the sport of rodeo... Frank DuBois served as the NM Secretary of Agriculture from 1988 to 2003. DuBois is a former legislative assistant to a U.S. Senator, a Deputy Assistant Secretary of Interior, and is the founder of the DuBois Rodeo Scholarship.
Wednesday, February 01, 2017
Real storytellers tell tales
Three cultures came together last night in the Western Folklife Center’s G Three Bar Theater in the form of “Real Stories. Straight Up.”
Narratives from the Australian Outback, the Nevada high desert and the Texas-Oklahoma borderlands were mixed in with memories of Jack and Irene Walther, local ranchers and Cowboy Poetry enthusiasts who died last year.
Jack was a respected poet and Irene was known for her whit and her cowgirl ways. Their nephew, Tom Walther, recounted many stories of the couple including a time when Irene stopped by to visit and a neighbor was there with her children.
“You know,” she said, “I feel the same way about kids as I feel about sheep. I don’t have any and I don’t want any.”...more
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