Showing posts with label Presidio. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Presidio. Show all posts

Marfa Mondays #10: A Visit to Swan House

Listen in to the podcast here of my lecture for PEN San Miguel on January 29, 2013 in San Miguel de Allende's Teatro Angela Peralta, about literary travel writing in the digital age and-- starting at about 15:00--  "A Visit to Swan House," my article in the current issue of Cenizo Journal, about adobe visionary Simone Swan's mysteriously beautiful teaching house near Presidio, on the US-Mexico border in Far West Texas.





"A Visit to Swan House" is #10 in the 24 podcast series.


#9 Mary Baxter, Painting the Big Bend

#8 A Spell at Chinati Hotsprings

#7 The Marfa Lights: We Have Seen the Lights

#6 Marfa's Moonlight Gemstones

#5 Cynthia McAlister, the Buzz on the Bees

#4 Avram Dumitrescu, An Artist in Alpine

#3 Mary Bones on the Lost Art Colony

#2 Charles Angell in the Big Bend

#1 Introduction and welcome

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***UPDATE Jan 2014: "A Visit to Swan House" is now available on-line.

Marfa Mondays: Charles Angell in the Big Bend

Now live: The Marfa Mondays podcast, this month, an interview with Big Bend expert Charles Angell, which took place at the Hoodoos in Big Bend State Park, right on the Rio Grande, and in Fort Leaton, near Presidio, Texas. Listen in at www.cmmayo.com/marfa or directly at podomatic.com.

The Marfa Mondays Podcasting Project is a monthly podcast about Marfa, Texas and environs. It began last month (listen to the introduction here), and will run through the end of 2013.

Here's a mini-clip (a brief, edited video) about the Hoodoos:



>More mini-clips about Marfa and the Big Bend.