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OTHER SHEEP LOCATIONS IN SAN ANGELO, TX South/SouthWest Sheep Locations
Hope for “Ewe” by Mejo Okon Rivercrest Hospital 1636 Hunters Glen Rd Baa Baa Bass Bunch by Jim Bass Paint Crew Jim Bass Ford 4032 W Houston Harte Expy Pat by Mejo Okon Family Powersports 4160 W Houston Harte Expy RAM Bank-ous by Lesa Whitehead San Angelo Banking Center 5710 Sherwood Way HEB “ewe”tifully Woven by Julie Ramirez Jena Bernard 5502 Sherwood Way The Lady In BI“ewe” by Amber Alexander Shannon Clinic Southwest 4450 Sunset Dr Wool Gatherings by Judith Lester Woolin Cotton Shop 3301 Southwest Blvd L.T. San Angelo Mohair by Anamarie Perkins & Sarah Elizabeth Perkins US Army Recruiting Station 4001 Sunset Dr Lending “Ewe” Money by Rebel Dowdle Trans Texas SW Credit Union 3401 W 306 Loop Mary by Crystal Goodman Sierra Vista United Methodist Church 4522 College Hills Blvd Ram Chop by Clay Hejl Market Street 3121 Sunset Dr Boots for Me and “Ewe” by Raul Ruiz Cavendar’s 2520 Southwest Blvd Don’t “Ewe” Mess with Texas by Todd D’Spain Dianne Burnett/TXDOT 4502 Knickerbocker Rd Jesus Loves “Ewe” by Trinity Lutheran Staff Trinity Lutheran Church 3536 YMCA Dr Double “Ewe”TMA by Scott Sustek West Texas Medical Associates 3555 Knickerbocker Rd We Support “Ewe” by Treva Boyd & Crystal Goodman First Financial Bank 3471 Knickerbocker Rd Sheebo by Brush N Brag West Central Wireless
3389 Knickerbocker Rd Lending “Ewe” Money by Rebel Dowdle Trans Texas SW Credit Union 3401 W 306 Loop Mary by Crystal Goodman Sierra Vista United Methodist Church 4522 College Hills Blvd Ram Chop by Clay Hejl Market Street 3121 Sunset Dr Boots for Me and “Ewe” by Raul Ruiz Cavendar’s 2520 Southwest Blvd Don’t “Ewe” Mess with Texas by Todd D’Spain Dianne Burnett/TXDOT 4502 Knickerbocker Rd Jesus Loves “Ewe” by Trinity Lutheran Staff Trinity Lutheran Church 3536 YMCA Dr Double “Ewe”TMA by Scott Sustek West Texas Medical Associates 3555 Knickerbocker Rd We Support “Ewe” by Treva Boyd & Crystal Goodman First Financial Bank 3471 Knickerbocker Rd Sheebo by Brush N Brag West Central Wireless 3389 Knickerbocker Rd Enrique II by Raul Ruiz Henry’s Original Diner 3015 Sherwood Way HEB 1st Sheep by Andrea Thomas HEB/Jene Barnard 3301 Sherwood Way “Ewe”sella by Laurel Dane SA Association of Realtors 1902 Pecos (Travels for Events) Duke by Scott Sustek 1st Community Federal Credit Union- 1 3505 Wildewood Dolly by Scott Sustek 1st Community Federal Credit Union- 2 3505 Wildewood “Ewe”schke by Kim Leabo Binnie Dierschke 3245 Vista Del Arroyo Unidad Park Sheep-Poat-Lay by Gabriel Luckey Chipotle 1702 Knickerbocker Rd Bl”ewe”y by Ashley Perales Velocity Tire Co. 506 San Jacinto St
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North/NorthEast Sheep Locations A Brave N“ewe” Maiden San Angelo by Amy Lindeman Lincoln Middle School 255 Lake View Heroes Dr UNKNOWN by LVHS Art Students Lake View Highschool 900 E 43rd St Steel Wool Fab “ewe”cator by Susan Williams Hirschfield Steel 112 W 29th St Faith in “Ewe” by Scott Sustek Cornerstone Christian School 1502 Jefferson St Ba-ba-baptist Sheep by Julie Raymond Baptist Memorial 902 N Main St Eartha by ASU Art Students Republic Services 1422 Hughes St UNKNOWN by Lake View High School Art Club & Central High School Art Club Holiman Elementary 1900 Ricks Dr Dr. S”ewe”ture by Mejo Okon Ethicon 3348 Pulliam St Breaking N”ewes” by Crystal Goodman Nexstar Media Group 2800 Armstrong St 4H and “Ewe” by Dr. Loree Branham West Texas Agrilife Extension 3168 N US HWY 67 Ed”ewe”cate by Crystal Goodman West Texas Training Howard College 3501 N US HWY 67 Pending Name by Raul Ruiz First State Bank of Paintrock 402 Smith Blvd
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THE LADY IN BLUE ON THE CONCHO RIVER Historical San Angelo By Dr. Linda Thorsen Bond What does it take to bring a legend to life? One of San Angelo’s leaders, Tilly Chandler, knew it takes a whole community, vision and lots of prayer. Tilly and the members of San Angelo’s Historic Beginnings had worked for five years to create an oasis on the Concho River where people can find peace and relaxation, meditation, and inspiration when Tilly passed away March 22, 2022. The vision started, in fact, hundreds of years ago. In the 1600s, the nun María de Ágreda wrote about her vision of visiting Native American tribes although she never left Spain. At the same time, members of the Jumano tribe said the Lady in Blue came to them in a vision near present-day San Angelo. Hundreds of them were baptized after their vision of the Lady in Blue.
stop when they see the bronze sculptures of Maria de Ágreda in her blue cape with a little girl from the Jumano tribe and the chief of the Jumanos. Designed and created by sculptor Vic Payne, the sculptures are beautiful by themselves. Tilly and the committee didn’t stop there. They created an environment around the sculptures. In her final interview in April, she explained, “We’ve added a walled area to create a place for people to sit and enjoy the vision of the landscaping and the river. Or they can find solace and enjoy a quiet endeavor. For a person of faith, this can be a place to meditate. People can commune with the spirit of the Jumano and recognize the part they played in history.”
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Tilly said, “Yes, Marie de our town and our children should know that part of our Ágreda was a nun; yes, she bilocated, but in addition she history. This is a significant was the first woman evanaddition to downtown, both in gelist. The baptism of the the art and in the story.” Jumanos was the first bapBISHOP MICHAEL PFEIFER, WHO tism in Texas, so this is both WAS IN SAN ANGELO FOR 29 YEARS religious and historical, and BEFORE HE RETIRED, SAID THAT certainly an important part MARIA DE ÁGREDA IS ALREADY A of our history. The original SAINT, “WE’RE JUST WAITING FOR anonymous who paid 14 Historicdonor Downtown San Angelo THE CHURCH TO CATCH UP!” for creation of the statues felt
San Angelo architect Craig Kinney, KFW Architects, designed the layout for the sculptures and for the new environment. He said, “The hope is that once you walk through the entry portal, you will have entered a different world. A low wall encloses you. As you turn right you will discover the Jumano man looking down the river
Sor Maria de Jesus de Agreda, a Franciscan nun who lived in Spain. toward Paint Rock. To the left you encounter the Lady in Blue and she looks somewhat upstream. She is in her own space, time and place but there is a communication between her and the Jumano child. Their visions intersect, and that’s really what this story is about.”
Three taller slabs of rock at the back of the scene are painted with pictographs resembling paintings the Jumanos did in the 1600s. They are based on historic paintings on rocks on the Campbell Ranch in Paint Rock, 33 miles from San Angelo. Ranch owner Kay Campbell did the painting. Although Tilly didn’t get to see the pictographs, she had a clear vision of how they would look.
paintings. There are over 1,500 recorded pictographs, in many different styles and created at varying dates by different nomadic tribes. I am fast approaching my 95th birthday so my family members will help me. I’m interested in making paint like the tribes did, using bear grease and hematite mixed together to make paintings on the stones that recreate some of the paintings on the ranch.”
“I thought it would be wonderful if Kay herself could bring those pictographs to town,” Tilly said last April. “I’m excited about the principle painting she will recreate. On the back side of the mountain on the ranch is a painting of a Jumano cross with boots at the bottom and a nun with a blue cape. That’s our Maria de Ágreda. That will be Kay’s key picture along with two smaller ones. We’ll have unobtrusive QR codes by the paintings and the statues so people can get information about them.” The artist Kay said her grandfather, Dunlap Edwards Sims, came to Texas to do research for the University of Missouri in 1876, and was appalled at the graffiti on the rock paintings. Kay said, “My grandfather bought the ranch so he could take care of the DowntownSanAngelo.com 15
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Kay explained, “Tilly wanted beautiful artwork displayed in a meaningful way. I told her I’m too old, but she said, ‘Kay, you can do it!’ When Tilly sets her mind, that’s the way it was.” Masonry contractor Dan McCrea created an archway using rocks that appear to be old and brought in a mixture of concrete and crushed gravel to stabilize walkways inside the walled area. He put in a small fountain where people can sit on rock benches and hear gurgling water. David Mikulik with Scherz Landscape Co. planted the area, using native and lowmaintenance plant material. Kinney said, “When the vegetation grows it will make it very different. The sculptures won’t unfold all at once, they will be discovered. I think when you walk in and the scene begins to unfold, the vegetation will play a large part of that. I hope you will not see it all at once; each
character will have its own space that you discover.” Other plans include a plaque giving condensed information about the state leg-
islature acknowledging the presence of Jumanos in this part of the country and some information about how Vic Payne made the sculptures.
“Caleb Kattner and Lon Albert with the Reece Albert Company have put such a huge amount of resources into the site,” said Tilly. “What they’ve done and what it would have cost us is incredible. We owe a debt of gratitude to them for continuing to do what needed to be done.”
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A documentary about the life of Maria, “The Needle and the Thread,” was partially shot in San Angelo in conjunction with the Jumano tribe, members of the committee and Victor Mancilla of Eravision. It was presented to Pope Francis in 2019 by an entourage of 52 San Angelo supporters and the Jumano Tribe. The hope is that Maria de Ágreda, the Lady in Blue, will be considered for canonization. Architect Kinney said, “I do think that our river is a real jewel in Texas. Along the river walk there are all kinds of gems—activities—scattered on the pedestrian trail. l like that the Lady in Blue area will own its separate place next to the river. It is one more jewel along our river trail.” The sculptures are east of Centennial Bridge just past Oakes Street in downtown San Angelo. They are a clear testament to the vision of Tilly Chandler, who set her mind to it and created an oasis on the Concho River.
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