The Eastside View

The Mohave Desert THE GLORIOUS FOURTH dawned with the scent of distant rain; we took our breakfast in the hotel dining room; we packed and s...

Summer, 1944. We had been driving from Flagstaff or thereabouts, at the speed limit -- 35 mph -- and it was hot and dusty. Below us lay the ...

R ESONANCE IS AN OVERUSED word, and that's too bad, because I do like resonance. I like the kind that set in when, a week after taking ...

The Rio Grande at Embudo Station T WO ROADS LEAD TO TAOS from Santa Fe: the slow high road through Tesuque and the highway along the Rio Gr...

A room at Las Golondrinas I 'VE BEEN READING Harvey Fergusson's history of the Rio Grande valley -- sorry, Deborah; I'll send i...

Galisteo: the old cemetery G ALISTEO IS AN OLD TOWN twelve or fifteen miles southeast of Santa Fe -- a very old town, now hardly more than ...

fourth day, Green River-Durango, Mesa Verde Colorado D URANGO SEEMED LIKE a nice town. Moab is too Twentysomething Sportminded; Cortez is t...

The "Cliff Palace," Mesa Verde L ET'S SEE, NOW, how long has it been? I'm a week behind, and things that seemed important...

Lindsey looks over the San Rafael seabed T HE COUNTRY CHANGES once you leave Delta, Utah, driving east on Highway 50 -- "the loneliest...

Austin, Nevada T HE CALIFORNIA MISSIONS, as I understand it, were built a day's journey apart -- a day by foot and mule, of course. The...

Sand Mountain, Nevada T HE EYE LIKES CONTINUITY-- continuity of line but also continuity of grain, and when it cannot have continuity it tr...

Reno, June 22 The drive is a familiar one: down 101 to Novato, across the Black Point cutoff past Mare Island, onto highway 80 at the improb...

Every great civilization has its theater. The Greeks, the Romans, the Japanese, the Chinese, the Elizabethans, the French court -- all those...

from left to right: “ the Etruscan Warrior,” a welded-steel-rod sculpture by Mel Strawn (I believe) bought from Contemporary Arts in Berkele...

A LL MOZART'S MUSIC arrived a couple of days ago in a box five inches square and a foot long -- 179 CDs: all the authenticated work: op...

I T’S LIKE THIS : A number of years ago a couple of people we knew decided to go into the bakery business. She’d interned, I think, at Chez ...