Battle of Palmetto Ranch Diorama to be Rebuilt
It looks like the ordeal is over for the Highland High School students who donated an impressive diorama of the Battle of Palmetto Ranch to the Texas Military Forces Museum at Camp Mabry. Director of the museum at the Army National Guard post in Austin, Jeff Hunt, decreed the diorama inaccurate, and destroyed large portions of the work without discussing perceived problems with the students or their adviser, Glenn Frakes. Rather than acting responsibly to further the education of the students involved and to fix the diorama, Hunt first claimed that the piece was dismantled, and would be used in smaller exhibits. Later, Hunt fell back on his authority as curator of the museum to destroy the work or change it as he saw fit.
Most of the students involved in the original project have graduated, but Frakes and a new group of Gilbert, Arizona students, will build a replacement diorama of the battle for Forth Worth's Texas Civil War Museum, which is donating $25,000 for the project. I hope that this outcome will help some of the students who became victims of the debacle with the TMFM at Camp Mabry regain their enthusiasm for history, and that the opportunity to make things right will promote it in the group that builds to new diorama. it is obviously too late to hope that Jeff Hunt will face any sort of official censure from either the National Guard or the State of Texas.
Most of the students involved in the original project have graduated, but Frakes and a new group of Gilbert, Arizona students, will build a replacement diorama of the battle for Forth Worth's Texas Civil War Museum, which is donating $25,000 for the project. I hope that this outcome will help some of the students who became victims of the debacle with the TMFM at Camp Mabry regain their enthusiasm for history, and that the opportunity to make things right will promote it in the group that builds to new diorama. it is obviously too late to hope that Jeff Hunt will face any sort of official censure from either the National Guard or the State of Texas.
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Rather than acting responsibly to further the education of the students involved and to fix the diorama, Hunt first claimed that the piece was dismantled, and would be used in smaller exhibits.
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acting responsibly to further the education of the students involved and to fix the diorama, Hunt first claimed that the piece was dismantled, and would be used in smaller exhibits.
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This diorama depicts the critical moment of the Battle of Palmetto Ranch, the last land action of the Civil War, which was fought near Brownsville, by Union and Confederate forces well aware of the surrender of Robert E. Lee four weeks earlier.
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