The Coryell Museum and Historical Society in Gatesville, Texas, has quite a collection. Let’s start with some of Pancho Villa’s artifacts.
From Wikipedia: Pancho Villa was a Mexican revolutionary general and one of the most prominent figures of the Mexican Revolution. Villa helped fashion his own image as an internationally known revolutionary hero, starring as himself in Hollywood films and giving interviews to foreign journalists. He was assassinated 20 July 1923.
From Swords to Plowshares: Metal Trench Art from World War I
Second set of photos from the exhibit at the Bell County Museum in Belton, Texas. I’d love to see the exhibit again.
From Swords to Plowshares: Metal Trench Art from World War I
I went to see the Trench Art exhibit at the Bell County Museum in Belton, Texas. It was beautiful, fascinating, and heart-wrenching. These photos do not do it justice.
Art is everywhere, all the time.
The Friday Fictioneer Challenge: Write a 100-word story based on the photo.
Photo copyright Ted Strutz
Two Universes
Mark drove his car onto the ferry, the last one to board. They pulled away from the dock as the engines revved up. Those powerful rumblings always brought him peace, allowing him space and time to hear his own thoughts.
He wondered if the other passengers appreciated this sliver of time between two shores; a time of transformation. He agreed with Heraclitus: Rivers and men are not the same from day to day, regardless of the appearance of similarity.
Mark believed all lives embrace two universes: the one behind, the one ahead. He was grateful for this safe passage between.
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This is my 150th Friday Fictioneer story. Thanks to Rochelle Wisoff-Fields for all her time and effort in facilitating this online community of writers.
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