What a fun day! This morning, I was joined by Janne B., Jackie D., Jacque A., Joan B. and Effie N. on a visit to the Bob Bullock Museum to see the Texas From Above exhibit. The exhibit features the photographs of Jay Sauceda who was both the pilot and the photographer. Texas Monthly commissioned Jay to photograph the entire perimeter of Texas from the air. Jay took over 44,000 photographs in his effort to capture the 3,822 miles of Texas border lands. Here is the link to the brief Texas Monthly article https://www.texasmonthly.com/the-culture/photography-texas-from-above-jay-b-sauceda/ Here is the link to a longer piece with some of the lovely photographs. https://features.texasmonthly.com/editorial/3822-miles/
I particularly like the second link because there are some captions for the pictures. At the museum, there were not any captions to inform us but the photographs were grouped by geographic areas. After browsing the exhibit, we watched clips depicting the history of Austin City Limits and then we viewed the La Belle. This expedition ship sank in Matagorda Bay in 1686. It remained there for over 300 years until it was located in 1996. Archaeologists worked for decades to excavate the hull and preserve more than 1.6 million artifacts.
The Bob Bullock museum is full of treasures including amazing and dedicated volunteers who devote their time and energy to sharing their love of Texas history. We barely scratched the surface and exhibits are always changing so we will have to go back. After seeing Texas From Above, we decided to head underground, specifically to have lunch at Arturo’s Underground Cafe. None of us had ever visited the restaurant, which is in easy walking distance from the museum, and we were delighted with the fresh salads, sandwiches, quesadillas, and coffee.
A special “thank you” to Judie T. who let us leave several cars at her house so that we could carpool to the museum and minimize parking costs.
Hope to see you out and about soon!
Lisa Sands