Of course, Billy the Kid, is the focus of much of the fuss in old Lincoln Town.
Matt had a fire at his rental house, so he moved in with Ula Joe, a Texan who worked for The Trust. The Trust was an entity which owned a number of historical buildings in Lincoln. Joe later moved back to Midland/Odessa and resumed his career as a teacher. Great guy.
My lovely wife Ann and I are revisiting some spots in New Mexico next week where we honeymooned 25 years ago. So prior to our absence this week I am posting various scribblings from a sketchbook I kept while in Lincoln, NM in 1978. Here is my good old buddy, the late lamented Matt.
A woman of African ancestry, observed in a Tobago tavern.
Trinidad & Tobago has sizable population of ethnic Hindis, brought over by the British as laborers following the abolition of slavery.
Sandwiched around my sojourn to T&T, I visited with my friend Winkler. He was living his dream– or part of it, anyway: he had moved to Florida. Winkler was a character…13 years older than me, we worked together at the Glenrock Company when I was in college. He had been a cook in the navy during the ’50s and still used the same flapjack recipe, scaled down from thousands of servings to two or three.