Mountain VillagesAlice Bullock says, "We can't go back." Thomas Wolfe said it and has been quoted ever since. Yet it bears repetition, especially today and in reference to Alice Bullock's Mountain Villages of New Mexico. Times change and as Bullock laments in this book of memoirs, commentaries and anecdotes, it is too late to do much about it except what she herself has done: write it down. We can't go back...we can only, hopefully, remember. And that is what this book does for all of us who have either lived in a mountain village or dreamed of living in one. This collection of tales of Cimarron, Lamy, Galisteo, Wagon Mound, Watrous, Rayado and other northern New Mexico towns and locales makes a perfect companion to her book "Living Legends of the Santa Fe Country," also from Sunstone Press. Alice is also the author of "Loretto and the Miraculous Staircase" and "Monumental Ghosts," both from Sunstone Press. Includes Teacher's Manual. |
Contents
| 1 | |
Las Trampas | 7 |
Cundiyo | 13 |
Cimarron | 19 |
El Rito | 25 |
San Buenaventura de Chimayo | 31 |
Lamy | 37 |
Truchas | 41 |
Valley of the Stolen Saint | 65 |
Valiant Village | 71 |
Rociada | 75 |
Watrous | 81 |
Galisteo | 87 |
Arroyo Hondo | 91 |
Rayado | 97 |
Always in Hot Water | 101 |
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