My grandfather and the artist Thomas Hart Benton were part of the back to earth movement. This is the history Lane county needs. Instead it will own the history of Big Nurse and his Coo-Coos who took over the art scene and got way too much coverage for breaking the law.
On the inside of Royal Rosamond’s novel ‘Ravola of Thunder Mountain’ we find a dedication to my aunt Bonnie:
“To Bertha May Rosamond (now Mr’s Bigalow), my second daughter, who has steadfastly clung to the belief that her Father would leave Literary Footprints in the SANDS OF TIME.”
Royal Rosamond”
In the last two days I have had bright conversations with two Keepers of History, who happen to be women, not unlike Mary Celestia Parler, who worked with Otto Rayburn and Vance Randolph to collect and preserve the vanishing history of the People of Missouri and the Ozarks. Peggy Buhr and I talked about the DMZ that was created in Missouri over the slavery debate that resulted in wholesale murder and the removal of all the folks in certain regions – along with their historic records that were taken to Kansas – and never returned. This history is lost forever…
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