Posts tagged ‘Terlingua’
BJ’s RV Park !!! Terlingua, Texas
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BJ’s RV Park !!!
Terlingua, Texas
From Hwy 118 in Study Butte, West on Hwy 170, 5 miles, on left.
One mile East of Terlingua Ghost Town.
Took a little while to get this one posted.
Check out BJ’s RV Park in Terlingua, Texas. Stay here once and you will not feel the need to go any where else.
BJ’s is like home but in the desert.
Friendly people, friendly on-site management, and friendly owners.
Always an active group of campers and residents.
Betty our next door neighbor. Wayne : big man, big smile, big laugh!
Bud and Irene Van Deusen – Owners
Evening gathering: sometimes before the dinner hour sometimes after.
Good place. Good people.
Hogan & Moss ~ Go Lightning
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Tough Lighting ~ Good Music
Terlingua Farmer’s Market & Community Garden
In recognition of the setting and the music being played (old-timey favorites from their album Go Lightning) Jon Hogan doffed his signature suit coat for a pair of bib overalls but not without the dress shirt and tie. Maria Moss quickly shed her dark long sleeved sweater.
A number of local musicians showed up to lend their voices and instruments to the cause.
Not only are these folks good musicians but they are great entertainers as well.
The Boat House Session ~ Fiddle Circle
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Bars and cafes may come and go in Terlingua but it seems like fiddle circles and open mic nights stay the course.
Mark Lewis’ ably organized and directed fiddle circle currently resides Tuesday nights 6 to 8 PM (maybe 9 PM if folks have some staying power) at the Boat House Bar in the Ghost Town section of Terlingua, Texas.
When not in Nome tending the rooming house, George ably tends the bar at the Boast House. George: Thank you for making me feel welcome.
Lots of fiddlers this year, some new faces and some that we remembered from the last time through.
It was nice to have our efforts remembered and welcomed.
12/27 2011 Post : Old Time Music Community ~ Ghost Town Cafe & Saloon ~ Terlingua, Texas
01/03 2012 Post : Viva Terlingua ~ Terlingua, Texas
Give and take, question and answer, show and tell, teachin’ and learnin’ going on: even an up out of one’s seat ‘Eureka’ moment.
And again the thread of photographers as musicians, musicians as photographers. It is good to stretch oneself.
Some things don’t change they just move across the street.
Do all drinking establishments in Terlingua house one or more motorcycles among their patrons?
Good energy, fellowship and community here.
Expanded Gallery : The Boat House Session
The Terlingua American Legion ~ The Last Outpost
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The Terlingua American Legion
The Desert
Terlingua, Texas
Legendary Legion Jam Night
No cover charge, instead aggressively raising funds for the local food bank.
Another excellent community potluck feed: some way good traditional tamales.
‘Gray Beards: Wild and wooly or neatly trimmed, you decide.’
Seems like everyone is either a musician or a photographer in Terlingua, some even professed to be both.
The musicians that took to the stage were good, thank you very much; from the first-timers, the folks from away (Dallas), the crowd favorites to the tight acoustic duo.
The Last Outpost ~ Viva Terlingua!!
Old Time Music Community ~ Ghost Town Cafe & Saloon ~ Terlingua, Texas
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A day of driving and short hikes into Big Bend National Park on the Castolon Road resulted in our first roadrunner sighting and much marvelous mountain and desert scenery. The visual scale here is so very different from the east coast mountains. The mountains here are younger relatively and the geology feels like it is still happening: Hearing rocks fall off the face of a butte and clatter down the detritus pile. Our first time in the southwest desert and would like to return when there has been some moisture in the system. Very brown, very dry: the rare pocket of oasis green where a spring or water source supports life.
The end of the day found us in Terlingus’s Ghost Town Cafe and Saloon listening to an old time music circle: very friendly people, very inclusive, all ages all stripes.
A spaghetti and fresh green salad dinner was served up for all: very nice!
Lots of musicians in Terlingua: pupil and teacher, protege and master, aficionados and hangers-on, fiddle, guitar, banjo, mandolin players.
The locals gracing the Ghost Town Cafe and Bar with their music were Mark Lewis, organizer of the Monday night gatherings, Jeff Brady, Sunny, Taylor, and Tim Callahan, with Austin from Florida wishing he had his fiddle along.
Taylor, the 12 year-old held his own, with the ol’ boys calling out the next tune whenever asked.
Jeff Brady played a classic 1926 vintage banjo ( wish I had written down the name).
He also brandished a custom built cherry red amplified acoustic guitar.
This man, and rightly so, was proud of his musical instruments!
There was a story with each.
