Santa Fe History
Baseball of Yesteryear
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,
August 14, 2020
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,
During a career that spanned more than half a century, Alfonso Alderete spent much of his time listening to people. He consoled them when they
Doña María Gertrudes Barceló was a legend. In the 1840s and ’50s she operated a gambling hall and brothel in Santa Fe. Doña Tules had
If you’re an old-timer here in Santa Fe you’ll remember the White Swan Laundry that was located on Cerrillos Road. The business proprietor, Henry Pick,
The wedding of Catherine McCarty and William Antrim took place on March 1, 1873. The ceremony took place in the chapel at the First Presbyterian
By all accounts Angelina Jaramillo was a good girl, she was also a student at Loretto Academy. That’s what made the news of her murder
Beverly Ireland and her identical twin sister Bernette Jarvis worked as Harvey Girls at La Fonda in 1955. The twins were hired because they had
Through the mid-20th century Hispanics in Santa Fe continued to practice the funeral traditions of medieval Spain, which included the superstitions associated with death. In