EDITED! WACKY WEST TEXAS WEATHER...and a museum story.

It's 82 degrees here today ...and will be 26 tonight.
How's THAT for a big temperature difference?
And this week has been REALLY windy still.

The museum lost one of their wonderful volunteers today. Mary Robinson passed away this morning. She was a volunteer for twenty something years.
Whenever I was working there she would always sit down and talk alot about everything...a very friendly lady who will be missed by everyone.

When I was at the museum today doing some look ups, one of the directors there...Dorinda... told me about the most interesting phone call that she'd gotten. It was from a woman who is writing a book about an african american lady named Lucy Lawson who was a cook for some years at the Orient Hotel...which is now the museum of course. Lucy was a VERY charismatic person who was loved by everyone in Pecos. She left town suddenly one day and I'll tell you why later in this story. Lucy moved to Oxnard, California and set up a very successful brothel. She was also quite popular there too. Evidently she just had the most colorful and endearing personality.
There 5 missing years in this story...no one knows where she was or what she did...the author of the book is trying to find out what happened then.
Anyway here's the shocker:
When Lucy died it was discovered that she was really a MAN! Can you imagine being a man living as a woman in the early 1900's? And being black as well?
Come to find out...the reason that she moved away from here suddenly was that some guys in Pecos got suspicious of Lucy and took her out in the boonies and lifted up her skirts and discovered the truth.
The person who is writing this book is coming to Pecos to visit.
The museum is looking in their boxes and files for pictures etc.

7/26/1941 From the Toyah city council notes: Notice is given to anyone operating a nickelodeon within city limits that they must tune machine down after 12 midnight.

One of my boss' bridge buddies died about 2 weeks ago. Her name was Eith hFletcher and was 93 and had lived here all her life. I bet she had some stories! Anyways at her funeral the first song they played was "IT'S FIVE O'CLOCK SOMEWHERE". Pretty funny huh?

Radio Hotline:
Found: donkey at 519 E. 6th st. (that's just a couple of blocks from us.)

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love,mary