Historic Downtown San Angelo - Fall 2023

Fall 2023

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Welcome to Historic Downtown San Angelo, where a mix of modern art and Western heritage create a socially inclusive experience. Explore, celebrate, play, shop, dine, and relax with our family and friends. The words used to describe Historic Downtown San Angelo are as numerous and diverse as the people who live and visit here!

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The San Angelo Hispanic Heritage Museum's journey began in 2019 with the creation of a Facebook page during Hispanic Heritage Month, aiming to honor the Hispanic community's contributions to the city, state, and country. The page garnered over 90,000 visitors within its first month, highlighting the demand for such information.

Founding members, including Del Velasquez, Suzanna Valenzuela, and Monica Ramos, and Monette Molinar, organized an event at City Hall to kick off Hispanic Heritage Month. The event featured captivating performances by Ballet Folklorico Azteca, Lakeview Mariachis, a speech by Dr. Flor Madero, and the reading of the inaugural proclamtion for Hispanic Heritage Month by Mayor Brenda Gunter.

In 2020, the group planned its first annual Dia de los Muertos celebration, a cherished holiday rooted in Mexican tradition, it provides communities with San Angelo, Texas, established in 1867, carries a rich an opportunity to come together and celebrate the lives of their loved ones who Hispanic heritage dating back to its namesake, have passed away. Due to COVID-19, the event went virtual, hosted on the San Angela de la Garza Dewitt, wife of the city's founder, Angelo Hispanic Heritage Museum's Facebook page. It spanned three days, Bart Dewitt. It's a heritage that remained largely delivering educational content about the traditions of Dia de los Muertos. Allowing unrecognized for years. In 2020, the San Angelo the community to social distance, the live component to the event featured a community altar on the steps of the San Angelo Museum of Fine Arts where the Hispanic Heritage Museum and Cultural Center, a community could bring photos of their lost loved ones to display and a Virtual 5K/1 Mile local non-profit, emerged with a mission to Walk to walk at their own pace along the Concho River Walk to honor lost loved ones. educate and raise public awareness about the This free to the public celebration has evolved into one of San Angelo's signature events, significant contributions of the Hispanic now in its fourth year, expanded to a two-day festival with a car show, 5k/10k, Catrina contest, community to the past, present, and future art, educational workshops, mercado, food trucks, live music, and free entertainment. One of San Angelo. The organization aims to of the most visually stunning aspects of the celebration is the Catrina contest. The Catrina is a seize opportunities such as events and long-standing symbol of Dia de los Muertos. Participants transform themselves into works of art, painting their faces and creating ensembles that pay homage to their lost loved ones. In 2022, San venues to promote Hispanic culture, Angelo’s Dia de los Muertos received the prestigious bronze level Best in Texas award from the Texas history, and achievements, with the Festival and Events Association.

goal of establishing a groundbreaking Hispanic Heritage Museum and cultural center, a first in west Texas. This museum will illuminate the history of the Hispanic community in the Concho Valley, showcase art, and offer an event space for cultural and local gatherings.

Celebrating the contributions of the Hispanic community in San Angelo remains a key focus for the local Hispanic Heritage Museum. In September 2023, the organization marked this commitment by hosting its inaugural Hispanic Heritage Month Banquet at the McNease Convention Center. The event, a vibrant tribute to Hispanic leaders' significant contributions to San Angelo, featured captivating cultural entertainment and a presentation

by Jessica Serna, one of Texas' top Latina travel influencers and an awards presentation. The awards, named in honor of esteemed community leaders like Angela de la Garza Dewitt, Captain Albert Tijerina Jr., and Eva Camunez Tucker, shone a spotlight on individuals who exemplify their legacies of innovation, community dedication, and lasting positive impact. Notably, Elma Jaques, Ernest Perez, and Tony Villarreal received the Angela de la Garza Dewitt Legend award, a testament to their outstanding contributions. The Captain Albert Tijerina Jr. award celebrated Manny Campos for his unwavering commitment, leadership, and determination, while the Eva Camunez Tucker Service Award recognized Dorothy Borden for her tireless dedication to preserving San Angelo's rich Hispanic culture. The event stood as a joyous celebrtion of past and present contributions.

Continuing its commitment to acknowledging the Hispanic community, the San Angelo Hispanic Heritage Museum and Cultural Center organizes a variety of events aimed at fostering cultural understanding and unity throughout the entire community.

If you're interested in getting involved as a volunteer or collaborating with us, we invite you to explore opportunities at sanangelohispanicheritage.org. We look forward to the day when both our local community and visitors can delve into the rich history of our Hispanic heritage, discovering its substantial contributions and savoring the art and events we will proudly host. Until then, Adelante, amigos!

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Four Centuries of Seduction

In Pursuit of the Pearls of the Conchos

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Concho pearls . . . San Angelo folks are generally familiar with those pretty little oddities. I say “oddities” because of their rarity, their coloration and their frequent misshapenness. Jewelers have a lovely term for irregular pearls: baroque, from the Portuguese “barroco,” meaning imperfect. Texas Highways Magazine called it “Irregular Radiance,” and as late as 2015 noted that

only two strands of spherical Concho pearls have ever been strung.

Indeed, these freshwater pearls are rarely uniformly round; they range in color from pink to lavender to purple and are found in the freshwater Tampico pearlymussel (cyrtonaias tampicoensis), native to the “purling water of the pearly Concho,” as D. C. Broyles of the Concho Herald so eloquently put it in 1916. Certainly, the mussels were prolific - the river was named the Concho from the Spanish for shell, “concha,” but only about 4 of every hundred mussels contain pearls.

But what hopes have rested in their rarity and imperfect beauty! In 1650, following earlier Spanish explorations by Cabeza de Vaca, Coronado and others in the 1500’s and Father Juan de Salas in 1629 and 1632, an expedition led by Captains Hernando Martín and Diego de Castillo arrived in the Concho Country, intent on exploring what was then called the

“river of nuts,” or Nueces. Martín and de Castillo stayed in the region for around six months, living among the friendly Jumano Indians who “took from the river, later called the Concho, a quantity of shells, which after being burned, yielded pearls.” Though not of the “finest variety,” the pearls were considered of sufficient value to the Spanish viceroy to commission further expeditions to the area, an early interest that led to trade in pecans and buffalo hides and fed into the Spanish desires of conquest and Christian conversion of the native Indians.

Native Pecans along the Conchos were a source of food and valuable trade.

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S.T. Allen of San Angelo Read more about him following this article.

Accounts of such early Spanish exploration abound; a Google search for “concho pearls” led to a dissertation called Early Settlement of the Concho Country, quoted above. The author, one S. T. Allen of San Angelo, prefaced the dissertation (in pursuit of a Master’s of Science degree at then North Texas State Teachers College, now the University of North Texas) with the following: “For the past seventeen years I have lived and taught school in the Concho Country.

The region has always appealed to me, not only because of its interesting present, but also because of its romantic and fascinating past. I have listened, with interest, to the stories told about it by the old-time cowboys, by the old settlers, and by some of the old Fort Concho soldiers themselves. As a result of this experience, I have wanted to go into its past more carefully and search for more facts regarding the region, its first inhabitants, and its early history in general.”

The dissertation was dated August 1941, accounting for the fact that the author could indeed have encountered old soldiers from Fort Concho, which ceased operations as an active military fort in June 1889.

“Nothing came of the pearl trade, however, as the jewels found were of little value,” Allen wrote of those early explorations, but from time to time, hope that Concho pearls would provide rich pickings and bring commerce to the area surfaced again. In 1909, The Comanche News proclaimed,

“Concho pearls are valuable, and some day pearl hunting will be quite an industry,” a prediction that sorely failed Courtesy, West Texas Collection, Angelo State University but for a scant handful of intrepid mussel hunters and creative jewelers. Local jewelers have long been creating unique pieces with these rarities. W. E. Heald advertised “Concho pearl mounting” in The San Angelo Press newspaper in 1902, and in 1923, Silas H. Keeton was selling Concho pearls along with Indian pottery and baskets, beaded moccasins, and something called a King Tut scarf, “a wonderful gift,” according to the advertisement in the Devil’s River News. Most renowned of those jewelers was Bart Mann, whose creative and lovely jewelry found buyers around the globe in the 1960’s with the help of his business partner, Jack Morgan.

Following a 1979 article in Texas Highways Magazine, there was again

a little bit of a “pearl rush,”

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with treasure hunters hoping to make their fortunes by finding bagsful of the little gems. Today, Mark Priest of Legend Jewelers is our resident expert on Concho pearls, and he will enthusiastically share his knowledge about these lovely anomalies and tales about pearl hunting, which has dramatically decreased in recent years.

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For one thing,

it’s not easy going after the mussels - you have to wade in 3 to 4 feet of

murky water, hoping you don’t encounter any broken glass, snapping turtles, or worse, venomous water moccasins, and feel for them with your feet. And mussels look very

much alike to the untrained eye, so you need to know you’ve got the right variety when you do pull

one out of the muck. It’s illegal to use dredges, and you must have a permit for freshwater fishing and abide within species, size and weight limits. According to a recent email from Kirk McDonnell of the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department, there are currently

only 3 commercial

license holders since many varieties of mussels are protected and the Department is working to better understand the basic ecology of freshwater mussels in the

clam and mussel

interests of conservation. Overfishing, stormwater runoff and the attendant chemical pollution from

drought and flood

have all agricultural activity, damming of the rivers, and cycles of contributed to the decline of freshwater mussels. Finally, the Tampico pearlymussel is not even fit for

why bother, as most recent pearl hunters describe their

human consumption. Really, earnings as mere “beer money?”

Image edited to generate super-imposed clam shells, a water moccasin, and snapping turtle on the river bank by the Media Advantage team.

Still, Concho pearls are prized for their variety of color, which derives from the unique alternation of double and single carbon bonds of polyenic, the binding organic material which holds the stacks of nacre, or mother-of-pearl, together.Yes, that’s probably more than the average person might want to know when they pick out a piece of pearl jewelry, but according to a Harvard Science in the News blog from 2019,

nacre has incredible tensile strengthpossibly nature’s “toughest material.”

Because of this strength and light weight, scientists and engineers have long wanted to find an efficient method of synthesizing nacre, not, like cultured pearls, for mere decorative purposes, but for manufacturing, building and even medical uses. Most methods have been too expensive, involving toxic chemicals and excessive hazardous waste. However, Anne S. Meyer, a biologist at the University of Rochester has discovered how to make an artificial nacre using only calcium carbonate, two strains of bacteria and urea - yes, urea, the main component of human urine.

According to the University’s online News Center article published in April 2019, Meyer’s synthetic nacre is biocompatible, ideal for medical applications like joint replacement and as an alternative to metal plates and pins. And it could have important uses in space exploration and colonization of other planets. “Tougher and stiffer than most plastics, it is very lightweight . . . especially valuable for transportation vehicles like airplanes, boats, or rockets, where The Seductive Pearls on the Concho every extra pound means extra fuel.” In fact, building on the Photo: Facebook/Jolene Haney to Texas Naturalist & Natural History moon might mean bringing only two things, the astronaut and a tube of bacteria: “The calcium’s already there. The astronaut brings the bacteria, and the astronaut make the urea, which is the only thing you need to start making calcium carbonate layers.” Like the innovations made possible when the Romans combined quicklime and volcanic ash, inventing concrete, perhaps one day history will look back at this singular discovery as the doorway to humans conquering whole new worlds. Time will tell.

Meanwhile, take a stroll along the river, then visit one of our fine jewelers here in San Angelo and claim your own Concho pearl, indeed “a wonderful gift” and it seems, an increasingly rare and valuable treasure.

Specials Thanks to West Texas Collection, Angelo State University, The University of North Texas, Portal to Texas History, & Newspapers.com

S. T. Allen The dissertation was dated August 1941, accounting for the fact that the author could indeed have encountered old soldiers from Fort Concho, which ceased operations as an active military fort in June 1889. Intrigued by this and impressed with the extensive research - more than 40 books and some 20 newspaper and other articles are listed in the bibliography of this fine, condensed account of the Concho Country’s early history - I wanted to know more about the author. There was no indication as to the author’s gender or where in the “Concho Country” he or she may have taught. After a little research, I learned that Mr. Allen had been “head” of Grape Creek schools for 5 years and Knickerbocker for 13 and had been promoted to Superintendent in Barnhart. He’d taught, coached and acted as principal in these small West Texas communities, rural education being his specialization, and was popular among his students and his peers.

Unfortunately, Mr. Allen committed suicide by shotgun at age 45 in Barnhart not quite two years after receiving his Master’s.

Newspaper articles from the time merely stated that “Mr. Allen had complained of restlessness during the night but had lighted the fires that morning and passed through the house to the back . . . death was believed to be instantaneous.” He was survived only by his wife Verda, also a teacher, and a brother. They’d been unable to have children. This tragic end for a well-liked, seemingly successful man in the prime of his life was shocking, even to a stranger 80 years after the event. I wondered what became of his wife¬- she would still have been relatively young, in her early forties and, well, it could not have been easy for her to have remained in Barnhart. What I discovered confirmed in me the sense that there is a connective tissue that runs through our collective histories or, as a favorite lawyer friend of mine says, “San Angelo really is the center of the universe.”

Verda is not a common name today, nor was it in the early 20th century, but I did get one glimmer, a “Verda Allen Beck” who was buried in Fairmount Cemetery in 1978. “Beck.” Now, if that rings a bell with you, it did for me, too, because the “Pearl of the Concho” mermaid statue near Celebration Bridge is based on a model created by Jayne Charless Beck. I had known her widower, Bernard, from around the neighborhood and various cultural events, as you do in San Angelo. Was there a connection leading from S. T. Allen and his love for the Concho Country to Jayne Beck and her love for the same place?

Sure enough, there was. Verda had left Barnhart and moved to San Angelo, where she taught at Santa Rita Elementary. She later married Edward Albert Beck, one of seven children of Fred and Teresa Beck. Fred, a butcher nicknamed “the Flying Dutchman,” migrated to San Angelo with the railroad, becoming one the city’s earliest merchants in the 1890’s. Teresa, in a 1958 Standard-Times article marking her 90th birthday, still remembered encountering Indians from the family’s wagon as a child. Their son, Ed Beck, also a butcher, ran Caddo Grocery and Ice near Central High School from the 1950’s. Ed’s brother, Max Beck, was Bernard’s father. In short, dissertation author S. T.’s widow married artist Jayne Beck’s uncle-by-marriage in 1961, a tenuous but connective thread that seems to wind through many of the tales of our region, and which leads us back to the Conchos and their nacreous treasures.

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The unveiling and dedication ceremony consisted of a three-day event beginning on the anniversary of the order which Congress established for all Black military regiments.

Each year, July 28th is marked around the country as the anniversary of this historic order. Black men were organized into regiments to serve in the United States Army, July 28, 1866.

Throughout the three-day event, members of the public were able to interact with members of a core committee learning more from the huge panels along the pathway of the Paseo. Additional activities included Living History Presentations from national historians and Buffalo Soldier Living History Presenters from Arizona, a film festival highlighting the stories of the soldiers, games of checkers, and

dominoes, storytelling at the San Angelo State Park, and a wonderful evening banquet catered by Texas caterer Perini’s.

Interactive storytelling can be found on the 8-foot pillars found at the site, where visitors can scan bar codes to learn more at the Buffalo Soldiers West Texas website. The experience is fresh and exciting.

In addition to the informational panels on the pillars, visitors can relax on beautiful benches under the tree-lined pathway at the memorial site or visit the garden area adjacent to the pathway. The original regiments were the 9th and 10th Cavalry and the 38th, 39th, 40th and 41st Infantry. These soldiers worked various campaigns of the U. S. Army and served in critical roles to settle the western frontier. Eventually, the U. S. government combined the Infantry regiments into only two- the 24th and 25th. All these regiments served west of the Mississippi and participated in various battles.

While serving, these soldiers became the first park rangers as America established national parks across the west; built roads, protected the new parks, protected, and delivered mail stations and deliveries and fought in various battles. The first National Park Superintendent was a member of the Buffalo Soldiers, in the person of General Charles Young. In the city of San Angelo, the first Black church was organized by a Buffalo Soldier and during the weekend celebration, a service was held to honor that history.

The memorial site is located directly across the street from the National Historic Landmark, Fort Concho. The space was once a part of the original land used as the district headquarters for the 10th Cavalry and there was no better place to build this memorial.

During the service years of these soldiers, it is recorded that the Plains Native Americans gave them the name Buffalo Soldier because of their fierce fighting.

The name has remained a part of their history and is widely accepted as the name of these soldiers.

Spears received a vision to create this memorial to honor the Black soldiers, all of whom served at Fort Concho at one point or the other. Noted Lt. Henry O. Flipper, the first Black graduate from West Point, served at Fort Concho as the first Black officer.

Until Flipper, all officers were white. These officers managed the assignments of all soldiers.

She formed a team of historians, community leaders and Living History Presenters to make the vision a reality. All work was performed and completed by local businesses consisting of small business owners, minority owned and women-owned businesses.

To close out the years, Spears is planning a special sale of products that can be purchased by the public. Specifically, efforts to host a sale of memorial trees and benches will be held.

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The memorial is a 24-hour free site for everyone to enjoy.

Lighting along the pathway allows for visits after dusk in a comfortable setting.

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Julie Raymond is a Texas native and long-time resident of San Angelo. In 1991 she received her Bachelor’s degree from Angelo State University, where she majored in education and minored in art.

She was an educator for 23 years, including 16 years as an art teacher. Upon her retirement she has devoted much of her time and talent as the founder of Art in Uncommon Places (AIUP).

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Our Goal

To strengthen community ties by enhancing the visual presence of public art in San Angelo and the concho valley, thus continuing to brand us as a creative city.

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