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Another Spring Rain
 
A small oil of the Alamo's backside taken from the Sketchbook of Captain Seth Eastman from a pencil drawing made in 1848. He was posted to Texas with an infantry company near San Antonio only a dozen years after the legendary seige.
9 x 12 oil on canvas

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Old Chapel on the Plaza

Wings and Prayers
 
This historic view shows a Wright B Model flown by Katherine Stinson as she completes another day of instruction in 1916. She and sister Marjorie had established their flight school a little over a mile from San Jose, the "Queen" of San Antonio's five missions. At Stinson Field they taught dozens of young Canadian men the basics of flight during WW I.
 

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Wings and Prayers

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Stinson Field 1940

The small municipal airport for my hometown, San Antonio, Tx. was begun by two pioneering aviatrix sisters, Marjorie and Katherine Stinson in 1915. Here is the WPA built terminal at its busiest about 1940 when scheduled airline service was just being established with names like Braniff and TWA. Now a general aviation site, it continues today much the same, making Stinson Field the second oldest continually operating airport in America. I grew up nearby, took Piper Cub flight lessons there in high school and visit whenever in the area. The old terminal building features a great little Mexican cafe and three of the historic Missions of San Antonio are just minutes away; its a history nut's delight. 24 x 36 oil on linen

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