portraits

Portraits from Life is much more touching and thought provoking than I thought it would be.
I love how the characters portrayed are kooky pioneers and real, honest, rough-hewn people. None of them are perfect or even necessarily charming and pleasant to be around.
History forgets the oddballs just as soon as they fade from front page recognition – if they ever make it there at all.

So, in the spirit of Collier’s book, here are a few more interesting little-known people:

Byron LeRoy Godbersen transformed an entire town in Iowa into a medieval wonderland.

Tom Mix, a superstar in the world of early western movies, was killed by a suitcase in the Arizona desert (near a town called Florence which still has a plaque marking the spot where the accident occurred).

Maybe by Wednesday I'll have more of them or something more profound of my own to say. We'll see.