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Meet the Woman Preserving Texas History
While hundreds of Texans gathered in November to celebrate the much-anticipated reopening of the Washington-on-the-Brazos State Historic Site after a two-year, $54 million renovation, Amanda Cagle was closely examining the seams of centuries-old clothing at the on-site Star of the Republic Museum. Could visitors see the tiny holes in the pleats where a dress had been let out? Would they notice the threadbare imprint of a man’s pocket watch in his striped-silk waistcoat?“Every dress is like a fingerprint,” says Cagle, who oversees about 10,000 objects, mostly from the 1830s and 1840s, at the museum, which is operated by the Texas Historical Commission. As regional collections manager, she’s also in charge of items at the Barrington Living History Farm, which is on the grounds, and the…The post Meet the Woman Preserving Texas History appeared first on Texas Monthly.