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Hayden's father was a Connecticut Yankee who came down with "lung fever," headed West, took the Santa Fe Trail from Independence and finally settled in Arizona. There, on the Salt River, eight miles from a farm village that is now Phoenix, he built a flour mill, started a ferry, opened a general store, a blacksmith shop and a freighting business. Young Carl swam in the Salt River, rode a pet bull while driving cows, recalls seeing Apache fire signals burning at night on nearby Four Peaks. He went to Stanford in 1896 and, as a strapping...
...lighted candles. The tradition is that the luminarias guide the Christ Child to every home. The custom is Spanish, and it started when Spain had dominion over our Southwest. The use of luminarias at Christmastime is a custom followed all along the Rio Grande River, from Taos and Santa Fe in New Mexico to the Gulf of Mexico, and also in Texas. Though it is not too important, I think that your readers would like to know the correct spelling of the word: luminarias rather than liminarios, as it was spelled in the article...
...thirty people who attended Wednesday evening's concert in Paine Hall by John Wiseman, baritone, and Michel Singher, piano, heard by far the best of the three Harvard-Radcliffe Music Club recitals this year. Wiseman, an apprentice artist with the Santa Fe Opera Company this past summer, sustained a splendid resonance from a Handel lyric through the complete cycle of nine songs by Faure...
...sent for his wife and children. For a few months he spent his time looking at every one of the 150,000 old-master prints in the Met's collection. Then, in a single day, he got three job offers-from a school in Santa Fe, another in Chicago, and the State University of Iowa. He asked Henry Allen Moe, the secretary of the Guggenheim Foundation, which was the most American. Answer: "Iowa...
Fumed Santa Fe President Ernest...