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Contributed by J. R. Ransom
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 Lou Kohl Morgan "I would like to show you two lovely adobe homes. One is over a hundred years old and perched on the edge of a mesa rim. The other is a modern pueblo style home with its own magnificent views.
"Step back in time with me a we enter the charming Territorial farmhouse built over a century ago. Look at these beautiful thick interior adobe walls and this beautiful hand azed wood surface. The major source of heat in the old adobes is a kiva fireplace, and this is a traditional example.
Many old adobes have unique and sometimes crazy things like this charming stairway. What a beautiful example of a remodel of an old Territorial Adobe. This is the original wood box and this is oilcloth painted over covering the adobe walls..." |
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Contributed by Bruce Burnett
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 Ledoux Street
By Bruce Burnett
"For art to exist," wrote Nietzsche, "for any sort of aesthetic activity or perception to exist, a certain physiological precondition is indispensable: intoxication."
But not necessarily intoxication of the alcoholic kind, which may or may not have stirred the muse of such great writers as Dylan Thomas, Ring Lardner and Malcolm Lowry.
The English novelist, D.H. Lawrence, became intoxicated with New Mexico early in this century and he may have explained why, for over 100 years, artists have flocked to Taos in northern New Mexico at the southern tip of the Rocky Mountain chain. |
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Contributed by J. R. Ransom
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 Surfing the Gorge The Rio Grande Gorge runs from northwest to southeast of Taos, New Mexico, and cuts through the basalt flows of the Taos Plateau volcanic field. The gorge reaches a depth of 800 feet just south of the Gorge Bridge, now a popular Taos tourist attraction, which was completed in 1966 and spans the gorge ten miles northwest of Taos. |
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