A period piece souvenir photograph of Cecile and I atop a colorful wooden mural of a donkey in the lobby of the Crazy Water Hotel in Mineral Wells, Texas, where guest and family were staying for our nephew, Michael Augustine and his beloved wife, Lauren’s wedding that took place at Clark Gardens Botanical Park in Weatherford, the next town over . This meme represents a reenactment of the visitors to Mineral Wells, around the twentieth century seeking entertainment. Legend has it they found it in part, by donkey rides up a trail that crossed a 1000-step staircase, built in 1905 to the top of East Mountain. About half way up, photographers, J.C. McClure and later J.L. Young, took souvenir photographs of visitors at this popular crossing.
