BISHOP CA WITH A VISIT TO LONE PINE CA FILM MUSEUM

This is definitely a lovely area and the weather just keeps improving. I decided to stay a whole week here before heading to my son's in Santa Rosa California. It's a casual comfortable little town. I did do some window-shopping and stopped by a very beautiful gallery of photographs by a famous photographer of this area, Galen Rowell who tragically died , along with his wife, in a plane crash about 10 years ago. It's called Mountain Light gallery.. He is the master of capturing the light in all of his pictures. It's hard to believe that he didn't do something to enhance them. What a persevering and visionary artist. Apparently his children manage his art display and sale. I will include one picture from a brochure. Also, I got to stop by the local Indian museum.  It was very well displayed and much of their customs, artifax, and history were available.  Today I drove over 50 miles back to Lone Pine California to look at this famous film history museum. It was quite a display of memorabilia. They were costumes, props, posters and much written information regarding the famous stars and movies that were filmed in this region of the country. I took some pictures and got a few printouts but I saw lots of pictures of Roy Rogers, Tom Mix, John Wayne and The Lone Ranger to name a few. The amazing part also is that some science fiction movies like Tremors was filmed in that region as well as one of the Star Wars movies. One are the most significant things that I read today, however, was a statement from the movie company that acknowledge the era that some of the movies made representing Arabs as bad or enemies of the heroin or heroes in the movies. They realized that at that time no one was thinking of the long-term impact towards cultural negativity that it supported. I will include a copy of that picture of the writing for you to see. Anyway, I'm spending time and I still plan to try to do a little bit of sightseeing up at the Lakes. I'm basically really enjoying living a slow pace and visiting with some of the neighboring RVers who come and go here.