Front Street Books owner Jean Hardy-Pittman is originally from Houston but visited the Big Bend National Park as a kid in 1954. West Texas made such an impression on her that it never quite left her imagination.
Carrying her Brownie camera on that family vacation, Hardy-Pittman photographed the native plants, exotic to the native Houstonian. This would foreshadow the future journalist’s later endeavors and passions in photography of native plant life. Little did she know that the unforgettable scenery of the West Texas region would eventually be her home for good.
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