Child of a Rainless Year
“Certainly the Santa Fe eyed the books that always seemed to be in the red. —F. Stanley,The Montezuma (New Mexico) Story INSIDE THE LINES We got a later start the next morning, but as we hadn’t made it back to Las Vegas until after midnight, this was only reasonable. I’d lost track of the places we’d been, the galleries we’d seen, the interesting people we’d talked with. Domingo seemed to know someone just about everywhere, and from just about every level of society. We’d visited with hotel cler...ks and bartenders, with the owners of posh galleries, and with popular musicians. Many of them lived in Las Vegas, since they were unable to afford the increasingly high price of Santa Fe real estate. When they learned I had been born in Las Vegas, even if I had grown up elsewhere, I instantly became a neighbor rather than an outsider. On our drive back, I asked Domingo about this friendliness. “It doesn’t seem to go with what you told me about two towns and old rivalries,” I explained a bit apologetically.MoreLess
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