· Oct. 9, 2003 Reception Honoring Texas Poet Laureate and Prominent Author Dr. Jenny Lind Porter-Scott
The Chisholm Trail Heritage Museum, the Cuero Cultural and Heritage Foundation, and the
Cuero Chamber of Commerce and Agriculture invited the public to attend a ribbon cutting
ceremony opening the very special exhibit "Photographs and Paragraphs -
The Images of I.N. Hall, The Imagery of O. Henry," as prepared by the Institute of
Texan Cultures. The opening ceremony took place Thursday, October 9, 2003 at
3 o'clock in the afternoon at Cuero Heritage Museum.
A reception honoring Dr. Jenny Lind Porter Scott was held 4 to 5 o'clock
in the afternoon at the home Dr. Ivy and Sandy Ramirez at 218 Terrell St. in
Cuero. Dr. Jenny Lind Porter Scott is the author of "O. Henry, Witter Bynner,
And 'A Fog in Santone.'"
After the reception, there was a lecture by Dr. Jenny Lind Porter Scott at
Cuero State Bank
in the Community Room starting at 5:30 in the afternoon. Dr.
Scott, O. Henry's niece, lectured about his life and literary work in
Texas between 1886 and 1900. Dr. Porter was available to autograph copies of
her book following the lecture.
If a picture is worth a thousand words, the words of O. Henry deserve the best
pictures. The paragraphs he wrote from his memories of life in southwest Texas find
their equal in the photographs of I.N. Hall, artistic photographer of Cotulla, Texas.
While O. Henry and I.N. Hall both applied their talents in the same area of Texas during
the late 1800's, the two men never met.
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