[Letter from Bob Brandon's parents, Lynda and Bob, to Janie Bush, January, 2003] (open access)

[Letter from Bob Brandon's parents, Lynda and Bob, to Janie Bush, January, 2003]

Letter from Lynda and Bob Brandon to LSR event manager Janie Bush discussing their appreciation for Janie and their sons' friendship and thanking her for the gifts and pictures. The note is handwritten in blue ink on a Hallmark thank you card with pastel pansies on the cover and was sent in a lavender envelope.
Date: January 27, 2003
Creator: Brandon, Lynda & Brandon, Bob
Object Type: Letter
System: The UNT Digital Library

[Group of 7 standing by an LSR banner in a park, 2: Lone Star Ride 2003 event photo]

Photograph of a group of seven cyclists and crew members striking various poses in front of a narrow LSR banner hung between two trees. The group forms two rows with the first row all squatting down on the balls of their feet. The banner is hung in a shaded area of a park surrounded by multiple trees.
Date: [2003-09-27..2003-09-28]
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The UNT Digital Library

[Group of 7 standing by an LSR banner in a park: Lone Star Ride 2003 event photo]

Photograph of a group of seven cyclists and crew members striking various poses in front of a narrow LSR banner hung between two trees. The group forms two rows with the first row all squatting down on the balls of their feet. The banner is hung in a shaded area of a park surrounded by multiple trees.
Date: [2003-09-27..2003-09-28]
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The UNT Digital Library

[Group of nine standing in front of an LSR banner: Lone Star Ride 2003 event photo]

Photograph of nine crew members and riders posed together in front of a narrow white LSR banner hung between two trees. All nine individuals are men of varying ages wearing shorts in a heavily shaded park area. The man third from the left in the camo bucket hat is crew member Andrews Fortenberry.
Date: [2003-09-27..2003-09-28]
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The UNT Digital Library

[Group of nine standing in front of an LSR banner, 2: Lone Star Ride 2003 event photo]

Photograph of nine crew members and riders posed together in front of a narrow white LSR banner hung between two trees. All nine individuals are men of varying ages wearing shorts in a heavily shaded park area. The man in the camo bucket hat is crew member Andrews Fortenberry.
Date: [2003-09-27..2003-09-28]
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The UNT Digital Library

[Group of cyclists posing in a parade: Lone Star Ride 2003 event photo]

Photograph of nine cyclists standing next to their bicycles on the side edge of a parade route. The cyclists all wear various helmets with six of them wearing the blue, white, red, and yellow LSR cycling jersey. The shot captures other vehicles and individuals standing around the area with a tall building with balconies in the background.
Date: [2003-09-27..2003-09-28]
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The UNT Digital Library

[A group of cyclists in matching jerseys in a parade: Lone Star Ride 2003 event photo]

Photograph of a large group of cyclists with their back to the camera astride their bikes waiting in line for a parade. The cyclists all wear watching red, white, and blue cycling jerseys patterned with the LSR bike and star logo. The bottom of the back of the jersey is printed with the Texas flag. The shot captures multiple cars and individuals standing in the street ahead of the cyclists waiting to ride and walk in the parade.
Date: [2003-09-27..2003-09-28]
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The UNT Digital Library

[Two cyclists riding side by side down a main road: Lone Star Ride 2003 event photo]

Photograph of two cyclists biking down a main road taken from a moving vehicle in front of them. The cyclists appear wearing matching yellow, red, blue, and white LSR cycling jerseys and dark sunglasses. The cyclist to the right has a Hello Kitty horn attached to the handlebars of his bike.
Date: September 27, 2003
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The UNT Digital Library

[Cyclist giving a thumbs up: Lone Star Ride 2003 event photo]

Photograph of lean male cyclist stopped astride his bike giving a thumbs up to the camera. He appears wearing sunglasses and the yellow, red, blue, and white LSR cycling jersey with a single strand of green plastic beads around his neck. Behind him along the edge of the pavement are multiple bikes laying scattered on their sides.
Date: September 27, 2003
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The UNT Digital Library

[Janie Bush and cyclist posing by a red Volkswagen bug: Lone Star Ride 2003 event photo]

Photograph of event manager Janie Bush posing with a cyclist near the front end of a red convertible Volkswagon bug. The car is parked on the edge of a forest area with its top folded down. The driver's side door is covered in two vinyl stickers advertising for Boardwalk Volkswagon of Richardson and one for LSR.
Date: September 27, 2003
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The UNT Digital Library

[Four people posing by a red car with its hatch open: Lone Star Ride 2003 event photo]

Photograph of four individuals posing and smiling together in front of a small red car with its hatch open. Two of the four individuals are cyclists wearing matching red, blue, and white Texas cycling jerseys, sunglasses, and microphone headsets. The two other individuals are older women both wearing dark sunglasses. In the background, a rural grass field stretches out on the other side of a road.
Date: [2003-09-27..2003-09-28]
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The UNT Digital Library

[Janie Bush and eight others standing in a parking lot: Lone Star Ride 2003 event photo]

Photograph of event manager Janie Bush and others standing in a parking lot as a group. The group of crew members wears red, green, orange, and yellow LSR t-shirts with various accessories. A man with buzzed silver hair in a white collared shirt, khaki pants, and dark sunglasses stands at the center of the group.
Date: [2003-09-27..2003-09-28]
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The UNT Digital Library

[Cyclist #26 holding a bread snack: Lone Star Ride 2003 event photo]

Photograph of a cyclist in white short-sleeved cycling jersey posing with a Ms. Baird's Harvest Pecan Pie bread snack held in both hands by his face. His bike is leaned against the edge of the pit stop loading dock and sports a marker for rider #26.
Date: September 27, 2003
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The UNT Digital Library

[Two volunteers, one in a grass skirt costume: Lone Star Ride 2003 event photo]

Photograph of two crew members wearing matching Starbucks hats pose with their arms around each other. The man on the left wears an orange LSR crew t-shirt and jeans with a grass costume skirt and yellow lei. A black walkie-talkie hangs hooked to his left jeans pocket. He appears with his arm around a smiling woman with glasses wearing a yellow LSR t-shirt and Spongebob pajama pants. The couple is posed in a parking lot with a Chevy suburban and red Volkswagon beetle parked behind them.
Date: September 27, 2003
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The UNT Digital Library

[Two crew members smiling leaned against a loading dock: Lone Star Ride 2003 event photo]

Photograph of two crew members smiling and leaning up against the entrance to a loading dock stacked with cases of bottled water. The crew member on the left is a black woman wearing a red shirt and holding objects in both hands while the individual on the right wears a yellow t-shirt, black bowtie, and orange-tinted glasses.
Date: September 27, 2003
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The UNT Digital Library

[Trio of cyclists sitting and snacking by loading docks: Lone Star Ride 2003 event photo]

Photograph of three cyclists lounging in lawn and folding chairs while they snack at a pit stop located from an open loading dock. On the loading dock boxes of loose snacks, Cliff bars, and cases of water bottles, sit on the ground. Behind the trio, a crew member leans against the edge of the loading dock staring off to the distance while he fiddles with a piece of costume around his neck.
Date: September 27, 2003
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The UNT Digital Library

[Janie Bush and other crew women in orange: Lone Star Ride 2003 event photo]

Photograph of event manager Janie Bush posing shoulder to shoulder with a taller crew member in an orange LSR crew t-shirt and leather vest. The pair stands with their backs facing a corner of the Decatur Townsquare with two white vans parked in a V.
Date: September 27, 2003
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The UNT Digital Library

[An individual giving a cyclist a shoulder adjustment: Lone Star Ride 2003 event photo]

Photograph of a crew member wearing event manager Janie Bush's silver taira lifts his face to smile coyly at the camera as he presses his hands into the shoulder blades of a cyclist laying on a massage table. The cyclist has his face turned away from the camera and appears wearing the official yellow, blue, and red LSR cycling jersey.
Date: September 27, 2003
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The UNT Digital Library

[Cyclists mounting their bikes in Decatur: Lone Star Ride 2003 event photo]

Photograph of two cyclists posing astride their bikes wearing different cycling jerseys and helmets. Behind them, a group of four congregate to talk around a parked motorcycle. Down the street, a red truck is parked in front of an attorneys at law office located next to an antique store.
Date: September 27, 2003
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The UNT Digital Library

[Janie Bush and cyclist at the Decatur lunch pit-stop: Lone Star Ride 2003 event photo]

Photograph of event manager and ride queen Janie Bush under the arm of a smiling cyclist in a blue head covering. Both stand in the parking spaces around the Decatur courthouse pit stop. Janie Bush appears wearing a bright green crew t-shirt, various lanyards, beads, and her silver costume tiara while the cyclist wears a lightweight white quarter zip cycling jersey. Behind the two are scattered bikes, other cyclists, and motorcycles being parked.
Date: September 27, 2003
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The UNT Digital Library

[A man in a tiara giving a hip adjustment: Lone Star Ride 2003 event photo]

Photograph of a cyclist groaning in pain into a massage table while he receives a hip adjustment from a crew member in a yellow tank top and silver tiara. Other tables are set up behind the pair with other cyclists receiving massages. All three tables that are visible appear on the porch of a granite building with arched stonework around the windows.
Date: September 27, 2003
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The UNT Digital Library

[Crew member wearing a tiara: Lone Star Ride 2003 event photo]

Photograph of a smiling crew member who appears wearing a yellow LSR t-shirt with the sleeves cropped at the shoulder and a large silver tiara. A sticker on his right chest reads "I got to wear Janies crown on the Lone Star Ride Fighting AIDS 2003". The sticker refers to event manager Janie Bush.
Date: September 27, 2003
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The UNT Digital Library

[Crew member giving a shoulder adjustment: Lone Star Ride 2003 event photo]

Photograph of a crew member wearing event manager Janie Bush's tiara and a yellow LSR t-shirt concentrates on moving a cyclist's arm up to press on their shoulder and chest. This photo was taken on the covered porch of the Decatur courthouse which was the location of the lunch pit stop for day one of the race.
Date: September 27, 2003
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The UNT Digital Library

[Cyclist in a neon yellow and black accented jersey: Lone Star Ride 2003 event photo]

Photograph of a rider in a neon yellow cycling jersey wearing a large silver costume tiara and eating a sandwich. The rider is seated on the steps of a large granite building with his sunglasses set to the right.
Date: September 27, 2003
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The UNT Digital Library