Recent repeated excursions to New Mexico (if only in my mind and photo archives) resurrected thoughts of another essay long wanting to be written. If you remember the listing of literary luminaries who enjoyed Mabel Dodge Luhan’s hospitality and patronage from my post If These Walls Could Talk, Willa Cather’s name was among them. Willa … Continue reading Willa Cather and New Mexico
During an April road trip with Taos in New Mexico as our destination, my husband and I revisited San Luis, Colorado’s oldest continually inhabited town, founded in 1851. Like many settlements in southern Colorado, it carries a Spanish name, as this part of the state once lay in the territory of New Spain. The farther … Continue reading Welcome to San Luis
It is a truth universally acknowledged that to the victor go the spoils. In the wake of Christopher Columbus’s “discovery” of America in 1492 for the King and Queen of Spain, the colonial realm “New Spain” supplanted the Aztec Empire. It comprised much of the land mass north of the Isthmus of Panama and included … Continue reading Traces of New Spain
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