Big Bend Quarterly

09/11/2024

Javelinas by morning........

06/15/2024

36 years ago we ate lunch at Raul’s BBQ in Fort Davis, TX. Kirby had just finished the Prude Ranch Triathlon and I was pregnant with Roland. Today we went back.
It is now Rock N Raul's Smokehouse, and the food is incredible. We stood in the same spot and got this photo.

12/26/2023

Happy Birthday today to Miles Warnock.
He would have been 68. Here he is at his birthday party back in 1958!

My brother, Miles', birthday party out at the ranch near Fort Stockton on Dec. 26, 1958. Shot on gorgeous 16mm film, by my father, Dr. Frank Warnock. There...

12/10/2023

The Longhorn Ballroom has been a lot of things to a lot of people. It has been a venue for Black artists to perform during the Jim Crow era. It has been host to counterculture movements before they found their footing. It has been a country bar, and a gathering place

12/08/2023

Kirby still getting mileage out of his rock and roll days.

The Longhorn Ballroom has been a lot of things to a lot of people. It has been a venue for Black artists to perform during the Jim Crow era. It has been host to counterculture movements before they found their footing. It has been a country bar, and a gathering place

08/16/2023

Join us in Fort Stockton this Saturday night for a special screening of the documentary, RETURN TO GIANT. It will show at the Fort Stockton Community Theater at 7:00 pm, doors open at 6:30. Producer Kirby Warnock will be on hand to introduce the film and perform a Q&A afterwards. As always it is FREE!

06/10/2022

Wonderful night in Marfa last Monday at the screening of RETURN TO GIANT. Marcus Winslow, who is James Dean's cousin and the executor of the Dean estate, couldn't attend in person due to health reasons, but he made this video of himself in the James Dean Museum in Fairmount, Indiana, with some GIANT items that belonged to Jimmy. Marcus' son, Chuck, sent it to us to show to the crowd in the Hotel Paisano.
Enjoy! The James Dean Museum

04/01/2022

We've been asked to screen RETURN TO GIANT at the Hotel Paisano on June 6 in their ballroom. All info and ticket sales may be found here:

On June 6 1955, Warner Bros. descended on Marfa to make GIANT, "the national movie of Texas". RETURN TO GIANT is the story of that summer

06/14/2021

We said goodbye to a mainstay of the Big Bend, Travis Roberts. He served as the chair of the Brewster County Historical Commission for many years and was a fount of knowledge about the Big Bend region. I corresponded via e-mail with him many times and he never failed to answer my questions. They gave him a really fine farewell in Marathon yesterday, fitting for a Texan of his caliber. He will be missed.

06/07/2021

And just to keep it historical, today (June 6) is the day that Warner Bros arrived in Marfa to shoot their first footage of GIANT. Here's the production report.

06/06/2021

Just to illustrate how much Marfa has changed in my lifetime, here's some photos of the abandoned Hotel Paisano in 1978, and how it looks today.
Kudos to Joe and Lanna Duncan for the outstanding job they have done to save this treasure in west Texas.