Addendum to Coast To Coast Trip!

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Again going from left to right:

The Eiffel Tower on The Strip in Las Vegas

Me observing The Grand Canyon

UCLA's  Hammer Museum in Los Angeles.

Grandson Henry (script assoc for Maher,) Lynn, Grandson Elliot (husband of PHD recipient,) PHD Lizzy, yours truly and granddaughter Emma - Elliot's artist sister who lives in New York.

Restaurant in next town after Amerind Museum

PHD Lizzy and Husband Elliot

Lynn and myself at Entrance to Tuscon Museum

Amerind Museum Sign

Restaurant on way to Grand Canyon

Stark Museum in Orange, Texas

Galveston Barbecue

San Antonio Art Museum

Lynn at Alamo - San Antonio

Yours truly beside two decker sightseeing bus in San Antonio

Yours truly dining at canal restaurant in San Antonio

Entrance Sculpture at McNay Museum in San Antonio

Texas flooding condition

Matt Ford with daughters and Jen behind Lynn in Austin

Fabulous Kimbell Museum in Ft Worth

Amon Carter Museum around Corner from Kimbell in Ft Worth

Lynn beside entrance Sign to Ft Worth's Modern Museum of Art

RTE 66 Restaurant

Tom and Nancy Gates - Former Landings Residents now living in Tuscon

Mike and Dorothee Bryman, former Landings Residents  now living in Palm Desert

Mike Peters, president St John's College - Santa Fe Campus

Fabulous Cowboy Museum in Oklahoma City

Admiral Chester Nimitz Statute in front of Pacific War Museum Fredericksberg, Texas

Marfa, Texas - Judd Museum

Water Fall  Park In  downtown Ft Worth

Texas Road Scene

Entrance to Gilcrease Museum, Tulsa Oklahoma
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Patriotic All American  Blake - our youngest grandson holding flag!
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In seeking to finish the last phase of our trip I forgot to include our visit to The Gilcrease Museum in Tulsa which is located outside of downtown and connected to the University of Tulsa.

This is one of the finest museums in our country and like so many of the other museums we visited, it has an unbelievable collection of Western Art and Artifacts.

In fact, Henry Kravits' brother and wife donated enough money to have the museum's storage wing constructed so visitors can enter this area and pull draw after draw of much of the museums  priceless collection of artifacts and view them up close.  The items are placed in Styrofoam and covered in sealed glass.  An example of what I am talking about is the museum probably has at least five or more Native American Moccasins displayed but you can see and study over 50 or more rare moccasins in these observable cases.

Among the most significant problems museums face, beyond funding, is storage, space for displaying their collection(s) and areas and money for conservation. The Amerind Foundation has well over 60,000 objects in storage for example.

The Gilcrease was established by a collector who made a fortune and who was part Native American.

Tulsa has more Art Deco buildings than any city in our nation. Downtown Tulsa is graced with some of the most beautiful and unique churches I have seen in any city I have visited.

I previously commented about the magnificent neighborhood sections surrounding The Phillips Museum's primary location.