A New View of the Alamo

The Alamo exhibit at the Walker Education Center was not what I expected.  A few panels with a few pictures and essays tacked to them is not what I think when I think of a museum exhibit.  But once I started to read, and examine it, I began to appreciate it more.  As a native Texan, I have always seen the same John Wayne movie story of the Alamo.  It's almost impossible to think of it as anything other than a place of battle.  Intellectually, I know it was a mission long before that, and later was empty, although the information that it was used as a warehouse was new to me.  I just don't think of it as anything else.  But the exhibit showed a lot of the other sides of the Alamo.  From the earliest known image of it, to the cartoon from the Mexican perspective, it examined the story from another viewpoint.