I must say, this has come as something of a surprise.
Phil Collins has been a keeper of artefacts from the Alamo due to a childhood fascination with historical events that took place at the adobe mission fort way back. He became hooked via related TV programmes he saw as a kid. The John Wayne movie is what did it for me. Only thing is, I don't have keepsakes/memorabilia.
Now Collins is giving it all away, quite rightfully I think, to San Antonio - where it belongs.
The article stops short at the reasoning behind his motives. History used to mean something to me when I was a youngster, but any significance to past events has been thinned out by the colossal happenings that have taken place in just my own lifetime. I wonder if Phil Collins feels something similar so that it is somewhat easier to relinquish the once powerful talismanic hold the artefacts had over him?
I've always found it fascinating when I find out that famous artists have these oddball hobbies that have nothing whatsoever to do with their chosen profession -- like with John Williams and trees.
