Docent in Training First Class

Hello!

Welcome to my adventures as a volunteer or keeping a senior out of trouble.

I have been accepted to be a docent (teacher, tour guide) at the Amon Carter Museum of American Art in Ft Worth, Texas. This blog will be the journey it takes to achieve this wonderful opportunity. This is the first week of several months of study at the museum. As a class we had to introduce each other as if we were art works. Interesting to say the least.

My mind is in overtime with all I have to read and retain. The Amon Carter Museum has been in existence since 1961 which makes it young in the museum world; however it is a museum well endowed and has been under excellent leadership. This has allowed it to grow and expand from the western art collection, notably works by Frederic Remington and Charles Russell, given by Amon G. Carter to start a museum for the people of Tarrant County, Texas.




Charles Russell

Frederic Remington

Today spouse and I attended a themed tour at the museum of the exhibition "In Our Own Words": Native Impressions by artists Daniel Heyman and Lucy Ganje. Also included in the tour was the exhibit The Theatrical Wild West about William F. "Buffalo Bill" Cody. The native impressions is both very sad and yet hopeful. Mr. Heyman and MS. Ganje interviewed several Native Americans in North Dakota and created works of art based on what they heard. The most interesting part of Buffalo Bill is the fact that he was able to keep the show running for 30 years and had hundreds of people working for him, including Sitting Bull, Wild Bill Hickok, and Annie Oakley. Not to mention the hundreds of animals. Imagine the logistics that went into transporting all of them.



In Our Own Words



The Theatrical Wild West

There will be much, much more on this adventure and, if accepted, my adventure in becoming a master gardener certified by Texas A&M AgriLife Extension. Have to wait to see if I am accepted into that program. Why did I wait until age 77 to start all this? Well the business of life took up the first 76 and if not now it will never happen.

As Roy used to say,
Happy Trails

Caroline