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Indlæser... Turn Left at the Sleeping Dog: Scripting the Santa Fe Legend, 1920-1955af John Pen La Farge
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Anglos have been coming to Santa Fe for centuries, and early in the last century the city's beauty and exotic cultural mix became particularly attractive to artistic immigrants looking for freedom from the greed and competitiveness of mainstream American culture. By the late twentieth century, many New Mexicans felt, Santa Fe's unique charm was nearly overwhelmed by the evils that people had moved there to escape. The interviews collected in this book preserve the old Santa Fe, the one people are still looking for. The interviewees represent a cross-section of Santa Fe during the best of times: native Santa Feans, both Spanish American and Anglo, artists, immigrants, those who came by accident, those who came intending to stay, those who fought to preserve the older cultures' traditions and values. The author, unlike most journalists, has known the people he interviewed his entire life. Most of these men and women were old timers when the interviews took place, and many have since died. Most readers of this book will not remember the good times it evokes. But the lively stories told here will enthrall all Santa Feans and would-be Santa Feans, as well as visitors who can only dream of living in the City Different. Interviewed in Turn Left at the Sleeping Dog are Amalia Sena Sánchez, Consuelo Bergere Mendenhall, Fray Angélico Chávez, Katherine "Peach" Mayer, Anita González Thomas, Josephine E. Baca, Chuck Barrows, Hazel Frederickson, Alice Henderson Rossin, Calla Hay, Letitia Evans Frank, Paul Frank, Tom and Doris Dozier, Samuel Adelo, Richard Bradford, J. I. Staley, Miranda Levy, Jerry West, Margaret Larsson, and Carol Smith. Interlaced with the interviews are comments from other Santa Feans: historian Myra Ellen Jenkins, cultural geographer J. B. Jackson, and anthropologist Oliver La Farge, the author's father. No library descriptions found. |
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This book is a collection of 23 narratives and reminiscences of Santa Fe residents, all talking about their city and their life in it. Some of the contributors are from families that have been in New Mexico for generations; others came in the early to mid-twentieth century - some Hispanic, some Anglo. They tell a mostly loving story of a special place that has been formed by three cultures (Hispanic, Native American and Anglo) and has attracted artists and counter-culture types for much of its history.
The entries are mostly lightly edited transcripts of the taped descriptions and rememberings of Santa Feans. A few chapters are previously published writings. The collector and editor is John Pen La Farge, son of Oliver La Farge, a New Mexican writer of note. The editor has a very light hand. The repetitions, non sequiturs and contradictions of the narrators remain; any questions or prompts by the editor during the recording sessions are omitted.
Humble citizens are described, as are politicians and renowned artists and others such as Gustav Baumann, Aaron Copeland, Randall Davey, Mabel Dodge Luhan, Robert Henri, Peter Hurd, Christopher Isherwood, Stephen Spender, Oliver La Farge, Frieda and D. H. Lawrence, Charles Lindbergh, Georgia O'Keefe, John Sloan, Igor Stravinsky and Thornton Wilder.
The birth and early travails of the Santa Fe Opera in the '50s are recounted. The changes that came to the region after World War II and the nearby Los Alamos Manhattan Project are mostly lamented, as is the surge in tourism that came mid-century.
After reading this collection, I feel I am an intimate of Santa Fe and privy to its secrets, blemishes and triumphs. ( )