By At Pioneer Bluffs just north of Matfield Green along K-177:
March 7, 2009 at 2:00 pm, Minta Van Nortwick, Cottonwood Falls, presents A Chase County Cowgirl.
One of the top women trick riders from the 1930s through the 1950s. Learn more about Marge Roberts (1916-1982) in this first-person debut performance.
For more information and directions, check out the Pioneer Bluffs website.
I’ve so much been enjoying the photos and links here on the site. It’s turned into a bit of an evening ritual to head one direction or the other, “just for a peek”.
A friend from Dripping Springs, Texas, Debbie Little-Wilson, has done wonderful cowgirl art for years, and has helped to “rehabilitate” and make familiar women whose histories might otherwise begin to fade. Above my desk is one of her prints entitled, “Saint Helen Bonham, Protector of Email”. Helen Bonham, of course, was quite real, and quite accomplished as a cowgirl. As Debbie describes it, “While rodeo cowgirl Helen Bonham corresponded religiously back home, she would never have imagined that one day letters would travel at the blink of an eye. She would have ridden cyberspace with the same daring as she did her horse. Saint Helen protects the sending and receiving of email
and the mystery of it all.” The print is of Helen, writing a letter on her saddle.
On another front entirely, I happened to talk with one of my cousins today. He lives in Kansas City, but had been working in Lawrence. I got curious enough to ask what he’d been up to there, and discovered he did the rehabbing of a Civil War-era building on Massachusetts street. Who knew?!
“Protector of E-mail.” Sounds like a great print.
Glad you stop with regular visits. 🙂
Did any FOP go to the presentation today about our Dear Family Friend Marg Roberts Hart??????
I didn’t make it. One of my optional routes was to come back through Matfield and watch, but then I wandered too far west and stayed too long.