Dorothy L Pillsbury
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Pub. Date
[1959]
Description
To readers of Dorothy Pillsbury's books, the residents of Tenorio Flat in Santa Fe are old friends. The forty sketches that make up this volume, first published in 1959, reintroduce the author's Spanish-American, Indian, and Anglo neighbors, describing their ingenuity in adapting to the modern ways of life that have come eyen to tradition-steeped Santa Fe. Roots in Adobe brings us the further adventures of the delightful Apodaca family. We see Mrs....
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Pub. Date
1952
Description
Following on from the first in this series, No High Adobe, which was published in 1950, in this 1952 follow-up, Adobe Doorways, author Dorothy L. Pillsbury takes the reader on a journey into the heart-and often the soul-of Northern New Mexico. We visit Teronrio Flat, as well as friends in the Indian Pueblos and Spanish-American villages in the mountains. As with No High Adobe, this exuberant collection of thirty-six tales emanate from the author's...
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Description
Mrs. Apodaca, her muchachos prima, and amigos are composites of hundreds of Spanish-Americans who live in adobe settlements all over the Southwest. In these poignantly written stories of Tenorio Flat, the Apodacas, the Abeytas, and Archaletas...Carmencita, Manuelito, and Tomasito…with hundreds of others of Hispanic origin go about their lives at an unhurried pace. Indeed, Mrs. Apodaca is sympathetic toward the "Anglo ladies…busy, busy…with the...
