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San Angelo, TX
Cadena’s Wall - Tomas Cadena
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There is little in the way of ornamental plants or a cultivated garden. Instead, Mr. Cadena has dedicated his attention and creativity to the stone and iron fence that encloses the front of his property.
The fence took Mr. Cadena more than thirteen years to build. He traveled as far as Minnesota to pick asparagus, sugar beets, and corn before returning to the Concho Valley to pick cotton. Along with the cotton sack, he always carried another sack to hold any special rounded stones that might catch his eye. Most of his eight children also worked in the fields and were recruited to gather stones, to mix the mezcla(mortar), and to paint when the wall was being built. Mr. Cadena knows the origin of each stone in his wall, including the ones from California and Canada sent by his grandchildren.
"Yard Art and Handmade Places: Extraordinary Expressions of Home" by Jill Nokes, with Pat Jasper
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Bibliography:
"Yard Art and Handmade Places: Extraordinary Expressions of Home" by Jill Nokes, with Pat Jasper, University of Texas Press, Austin, TX, 2007.
"Rare Visions and Roadside Revelations Coast to Coast Travel-o-Pedia" by Randy Mason, et. al., Kansas City Star Books, 2009. |
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