James Talbot is one of the guides profiled in “Meet the Texperts! The State’s Best Tour Guides Want to Show You Around.” A car door slams outside, and James Talbot is suddenly alert. “When I see certain people, I get the sense that they’re out-of-the-neighborhood people. I’m like a dog,” he says, leaping up to get a better look at the group now mustering in the street—a family that has arranged a tour. Talbot, who is 75, is an artist, but one of his most interactive artworks is his Austin home, called Casa Neverlandia. For $15 cash per person, with an appointment made via email (talbot@talbotworld.com), Talbot shepherds visitors around the house, narrating its infinite wonders, from the forty doorbells at the entryway to the…
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