This blog has served its purpose, and this will be the closing post.
When I started this blog in 2008 it was to document the Wonder Valley Homestead Cabin Festival and to continue to explore the themes of the Festival: discovering the history, celebrating the culture, and strengthening the community of Wonder Valley through the arts.
Since that time, the high-desert homestead cabins have gained a visibility and vitality as a subject and theme in our arts to such an extent that they no longer need our support or highlighting here. Our humble homesteads have even found their way to a featured exhibition at the Autry Museum in Los Angeles.
I am gratified to know that the Wonder Valley Homestead Cabin Festival played a key part in that vitalization. When a community is not visible in art, it cannot be recognized in life. We are no longer invisible.
Christine Carraher/magicgroove, July 2015