Showing posts with label CATHER. Show all posts
Showing posts with label CATHER. Show all posts
Wednesday, April 25, 2018
Sunday, April 22, 2018
DEATH COMES FOR THE ARCHBISHOP
DEATH COMES FOR THE ARCHBISHOP - Bishop Jean Baptiste Lamy envisions a yellow stone church on the Santa Fe plaza. The book follows his life and the construction of the Cathedral Basilica. In Willa Cather’s ‘Death Comes for the Archbishop’, she gracefully describes the haunted beauty of New Mexico. The landscape is desolate and rich in culture, including gluttonous priests, along with sympathetic descriptions of the Hopi and Navajo. The book (which appears on several best-of lists) is episodic in scope. The author successfully describes grand visual details of the region that are like nowhere else. Such that New Mexico culture becomes a character in its own right.
Wednesday, October 22, 2014
SANTA FE PLAZA
SANTA FE PLAZA - The history of the plaza dates back to
the era of the Spanish conquistadores along the El Camino Real. The
architecture is traditional adobe, with the exception of the Cathedral Basilica,
built of yellow limestone chosen by Archbishop Lamy. Like much of New Mexico,
there are a combination of cultural influences, including Spanish, Native
American, New Mexican and European. Fantastic art, jewelry, galleries and food
are a feast for the senses. The literary influences of Santa Fe are rugged and
individualistic, such as ‘Death Comes for the Archbishop’ by Willa Cather, one
of my favorite books. Visit at Christmas, when the night time plaza glows with farolitos
and luminarias.
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