Posts from Austin, Texas
Posted by West MobileBooth on May 1, 2006, from Austin, Texas
On the road from Austin, Texas
Posted by West MobileBooth on May 1, 2006, from Austin, Texas
Posted by West MobileBooth on April 29, 2006, from Austin, Texas
Nope. Snake on terrain in Pedernales State Park.
Posted by West MobileBooth on April 29, 2006, from Austin, Texas
Nope. Tree roots.
Posted by West MobileBooth on April 29, 2006, from Austin, Texas
Following their interviews, Danny Terry, Jani “Alligani” Schofield, and Cowboy Doug Davis raise a farewell toast to StoryCorps. Incidentally, Jani has the distinction of being the first woman to win, in 1971, the first-place trophy in the Terlingua Chili Cook-off, an event that previously had been open only to men.
Posted by West MobileBooth on April 29, 2006, from Austin, Texas
Facilitator Jackie Goodrich gets in a few practice rounds after a day of interviews in Luckenbach Texas.
Posted by West MobileBooth on April 29, 2006, from Austin, Texas
Neal Brown interviewed his friend, Cowboy Doug Davis, in the “Hondo Hilton” at Luckenbach Texas. Looks like they had a good time…wonder what they talked about?
Posted by West MobileBooth on April 29, 2006, from Austin, Texas
Helen "Shatzie" Crouch (left) with her daughter, Becky Crouch Patterson, and StoryCorps facilitator Jackie Goodrich (center). Shatzie recalls a blissful childhood on her family’s ranch, where sheep and goats thrived on native underbrush and you had to pass through 23 gates to reach Fredericksburg, 12 miles away. She roamed the hills and canyons with her dog, "afraid of nothing and free to use my imagination."
Posted by West MobileBooth on April 29, 2006, from Austin, Texas
Shatzie Crouch and her late husband Hondo were among the group that bought Luckenbach in 1970, founding a musical and cultural haven that thrives today. In the dance hall the band room becomes a StoryBooth.
Field recording in Luckenbach Texas
Posted by West MobileBooth on April 29, 2006, from Austin, Texas
Originally a trading post and meeting place for the ranching folks in the area, Luckenbach also hosted shooting competitions and song fests. By the late 1960s, the general store, dance hall, and other buildings had fallen into disrepair. “Downtown Luckenbach” was put up for sale and subsequently purchased by a cohort of imaginative friends, who made this “living museum” a vibrant center of music and entertainment.
