Images of a forgotten America brought ‘back to life’ at Lone Tree Arts Center - Lone Tree Voice

Images of a forgotten America brought ‘back to life’ at Lone Tree Arts Center - Lone Tree Voice

As he leads a visitor along a row of ancient sepia-tone photographs hung in the lobby of the Lone Tree Arts Center, Paul Unks pauses at each one to offer a personal note about the subjects captured by Edward S. Curtis more than a century ago — a young Indian boy gazing blankly at us, a woman sitting under a tree weaving a blanket, a distant group on horseback moving easily below the rocky grandeur of Canyon de Chelly, an Indian chief with full f…