The history of Santa Fe’s people, places and events continues to amaze me. For instance, take that three-story building at the corner of Garfield and
I was a student of St. Francis parochial school from 1960 to 1963. I remember being at school the day that President John F. Kennedy
Today is the one-year anniversary of the death of my dear friend and colleague Sam Adelo. Sam was born in 1923 in the village of
The Sisters of Loretto came to Santa Fe in 1852. Archbishop John Baptiste Lamy invited them to found an academy for girls. For the next
Located at 420 Camino Don Miguel, Johnnie’s Cash Store has been in business since 1946. Since that time, seven generations of families have traded with
Bud Kelly, died on August 18, 2020 at the age of 99. Even into his late nineties, Bud remained active. I used to see him
Alternative medicine is almost synonymous with the name Santa Fe but back in the 1940s the Cradle Home stood on its own. It was started
Just about everyone is feeling lost without baseball this summer. The few televised “no-fans-allowed” games can’t make up for the live in-person experience. Simply put,
For more than a century Loretto Academy educated generations of girls and young women in Santa Fe. The Allison James school for girls founded by
In Santa Fe in 1926 if your wife was having labor pains, if you needed some moonshine, or if your neighbors were disturbing the peace,
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