Ok. Now you have my attention for a bit. The grounds have a few interesting things going on here…
…but dinosaurs and tracks are all over the place here! The town bandstand is the coolest of all!
Not only that, but Ivan Stang, cofounder of the Church of the SubGenius lives here! Sure, Glen Rose is small, but I might have spent an hour here were there world enough and time. But world decreases with time in this project, and time was quickly descending.
I grabbed a virtual across the street at the old post office/museum/ giant dinosaur track. Because the solution involved details of them, I got a far shot from across the street instead of a close up of cooler stuff. But they had to be left behind. I set off on the penultimate leg of the trip, landing myself in…
Geocaching While Black 
Rev. Ivan Stang here. (Human street name, Douglass Smith.) Just for the paranoia of it I googled “Glen Rose SubGenius” — to see if I had been “outed” in this town yet in some way I didn’t know of — and your page came up. I greatly enjoyed reading the Glen Rose one and a few more. You have a very engaging writing style. Funny! I’ve never geocached but I have been tempted.
I noticed you didn’t want to go to Dallas County. Neither do I. I grew up in Ft. Worth and Dallas, and worked in the Dallas crappy film business until 1999 when I got divorced and went to Cleveland Ohio, where SubGenius was MUCH better respected (and where I got remarried).
I fucking HATE Dallas and the only time I’ve been there since 1999 was to see my son get married in 2004 and then when they showed the SubGenius doc at a film festival there in 2019. “Going down to Dallas, take my razor and my gun. ‘Cause there’s so much shit in Texas, you’re bound to step in some.” — Johnny Winter song
The Glen Rose connection is that after I’d left home, gotten married etc., my parents suddenly got rich and bought a big ranch property just outside of town and built a nice house on it. That was the end of the money. My brother and sister lived here too and became goat ranchers. I never thought that my Yankee wife and I could live in rural Texas, but after we’d nursed my dying dad here we decided living in the woods beat the hell out of Cleveland. Plus, I’ve been a dinosaur nut since I was a child so this place is perfect.
Back when, there was a Black Lives Matter demonstration in Glen Rose, believe it or not. It was well attended, in front of the old courthouse, but they had to bring a Black lawyer in from Arlington as a speaker because there are only like five or six Black families in this town. Ironically, a Black guy just happened to be driving home and saw this crowd of white people doing Black Lives Matter, and he ran up to the mic and did a very touching little speech.
He didn’t know it but he had interrupted the very beginning of the 8 minutes of silence — I was thrilled because I’m old and it would really be uncomfortable for me to sit still that long! (Much less to be strangled by cops.)
The Trumpie types hung around across the street being snarky but nothing terrible happened. They had predicted piles of bricks left by Soros to be thrown through windows. That was a nasty week on the GR Facebook page, but only there, thankfully.
I mention all this because after 20 years in East Cleveland I was very interested to see a Black person’s written reactions to Glen Rose. In Cleveland Heights, I was the minority, as it were. It’s funny but many places I’ve lived and worked, I was the only white guy for miles around. (Lakota Reservation, Beijing, Mexican neighborhoods in Dallas…) Gives a feller perspective. And of course I was the only SubGenius for miles around for all of my early life!
You somehow seemed to know about the Church and me being here!
If you come through again, email me stang@subgenius.com and if the weather is right I can show your kids some dinosaur tracks en situ in our creek.
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