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52 HEH I was shocked that because of The Barking Dog I actually became one of the arbiters of art and a recognized promoter of arts happenings in Tulsa. Everything was fairly new to me, but everything went well. The gallery won me a job as hostess on a weekly arts show at a local television station. On the show we had guests from all over the world, all sorts of artists, dancers, rock bands, sculptors. I tried to make my show into an ongoing party, with the artists speaking out on their chosen subjects. Sometimes they brought up things dealing with the occult and my station manager never liked that. About a year after we opened the show, two well known Tulsans, Martin and Margaret Wiesendanger who were noted art critics and art restorers, spoke with me about a form of art they’d seen so I invited them to speak on my i. e show. On air they told about looking at petroglyphs. (Editor’s note: Petroglyphs are drawings, paintings and/or carvings, usually on cliffs or cave walls. The pictures and symbols often tell a story.) They’d seen petroglyphs on a cave wall in the Great Gallery in Horseshoe Canyon in Utah. The markings and drawings which they’d seen, seemingly validated the couple’s idea of UFOs extraterrestrials as being among the first Art explorers. What the being among the first Art explorers. What the Wiesendangers felt when they looked at the drawings and paintings in the petroglyphs, was that they’d found proof of extraterrestrials visits to earth. first Art What the The first panel they’d discovered was comprised of seven huge spirit figures which float six feet off the ground. To their right an even longer panel shows other spectral figures floating above smaller images of men and animals, almost like gods lording over their subjects. In addition, right here in Tulsa, they’d seen a cigar shaped craft hovering above their own home. For some Barbara Bartholic as told to Peggy Fielding