Re: Re: [Texascavers] Jim White statue to be unveiled at NCKRI :

2009-11-02 Thread tbsamsel
What about abstract art that no one understands? T. Terry Allen's "Truckload of Art": Recitation:Once upon a time...Sometime ago back on the east coastIn New York City, to be exact...A bunch of artists and painters andsculptors and musicians andpoets and writers and dancersand

Re: [Texascavers] Jim White statue to be unveiled at NCKRI :

2009-11-01 Thread John Brooks
I think the TCMA should ammend it's by laws to prohibit statues on it's preserves Sent from my iPhone On Oct 31, 2009, at 8:33 PM, jerryat...@aol.com wrote: I'd nominate Bob Hudson, pioneer Texas caver from the early 1950s. He was one of the first serious cavers in Texas and was a

Re: [Texascavers] Jim White statue to be unveiled at NCKRI :

2009-11-01 Thread speleosteele
Actually, I disagree. I think the TCMA should go the other way and seek to recruit one of those yard art sculptors, those guys who make slip molds and those plaster statues, and have a garden of them at Punkin and Deep. Just think of how much fun it would be to have statues of the 200 Texas

Re: [Texascavers] Jim White statue to be unveiled at NCKRI :

2009-10-31 Thread speleosteele
I wonder if there are any other statues of cavers in the world? Are there of E.A. Martel or Norbert Casteret in France? There ought to be one of Stephen Bishop at Mammoth Cave, Kentucky. Maybe with Roger Brucker's new book about Bishop such a thing could happen. I would think the

Re: [Texascavers] Jim White statue to be unveiled at NCKRI :

2009-10-31 Thread Gill Edigar
Well, now, lookity here, Bill, Carol is getting together a bronze foundry. I suspect we could make statues of damned near any caver we wanted--and maybe even some we didn't. The question is: Where would we set them up? In some cave(s)? NSS HQ? On some Cave Preserve--like Stonehenge? --Ediger On

Re: [Texascavers] Jim White statue to be unveiled at NCKRI :

2009-10-31 Thread JerryAtkin
I'd nominate Bob Hudson, pioneer Texas caver from the early 1950s. He was one of the first serious cavers in Texas and was a founder of the UTG. He explored hundreds of caves, some of which have not been visited since. He also established the first cave files for the state and wrote some

[Texascavers] Jim White statue to be unveiled at NCKRI :

2009-10-30 Thread JerryAtkin
Caverns explorer's statue awaits unveiling By Reid Wright Current-Argus Staff Writer Posted: 10/29/2009 09:04:16 PM MDT CARLSBAD — Jim White has returned to Carlsbad. Tucked under blue plastic tarp in a dark corner of a county garage, a stately 13-foot-tall bronze statue of the