Deep Ellum Arts Festival
Dallas, Texas
Deep Ellum, Dallas, Texas
Deep Ellum, Dallas, Texas
Deep Ellum, Dallas, Texas
Deep Ellum, Dallas, Texas
Giant Jenga
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George Bannerman Dealey
“The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery.”
― Anaïs Nin
Statue of George Bannerman Dealey
Dealey Plaza
Dallas, Texas
George Dealey
Dealey Plaza
Dallas, Texas
“The world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes.”
― Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles
Blacksmith
“ARMOR, n. The kind of clothing worn by a man whose tailor is a blacksmith.”
― Ambrose Bierce, The Unabridged Devil’s Dictionary
I walked around the Dallas Heritage Village during the Jazz Age Sunday Social. I always like seeing the blacksmith shop. It was the same, with the same blacksmith as it was when I saw it almost two years ago.
I never have taken lessons there like I wanted to. Something I need to think about. Looks like fun.
Blacksmith forging a cross, Dallas Heritage Village
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In this world a man must either be anvil or hammer.
Henry Wadsworth LongfellowIt is better to be the hammer than the anvil.
Emily DickinsonIf you only have a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.
Abraham Maslow
Water and Stone
The angry water rose until the earth was scrubbed down to bare stone. Still the flood mounted – but all they could do was stand around, watch, and engage in surprisingly upbeat, pleasant, and polite conversation.
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On the Dance Floor
Dallas Heritage Village
Dallas, Texas
Dancers
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Cruising By the Worth Hotel
Dallas Heritage Village
Dallas, Texas
Dallas Heritage Village
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Dancers
Dallas Heritage Village
Dallas, Texas
Dancers
Are You Lonesome Tonight?
Last Sunday I met some friends for a nice bike ride to the Jazz Age Sunday Social at Dallas Heritage Village. We packed picnic lunches on our bikes and it was a glorious day to sit around and relax.
The point of the event was to dress up in costumes from the roaring twenties (with various degrees of success) and dance to tunes of the time. I enjoyed the music a lot – there is something about a live band…. The first group – The Singapore Slingers were an especial bunch of fun.
The Singapore Slingers
The Singapore Slingers
The Singapore Slingers
The Singapore Slingers
A lot of people don’t realize this Elvis Song Are You Lonesome To-Night was written in 1926.
Jazz Age Dancing
At the Jazz Age Sunday Social
Dallas, Texas
“Artists use frauds to make human beings seem more wonderful than they really are. Dancers show us human beings who move much more gracefully than human beings really move. Films and books and plays show us people talking much more entertainingly than people really talk, make paltry human enterprises seem important. Singers and musicians show us human beings making sounds far more lovely than human beings really make. Architects give us temples in which something marvelous is obviously going on. Actually, practically nothing is going on.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Wampeters, Foma and Granfalloons
Entropy
Exposition Park, Dallas, Texas
Exposition Park, Dallas, Texas
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“The American Dream has run out of gas. The car has stopped. It no longer supplies the world with its images, its dreams, its fantasies. No more. It’s over. It supplies the world with its nightmares now: the Kennedy assassination, Watergate, Vietnam…”
— J.G. Ballard
Bill Chance 