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PHONE MESSAGES, 1996

 File — Box: 132

Scope and Contents

118 pages. During this year I went to Sevilla, Spain in February, got divorced in July, climbed Lake Fork Peak for the first time, worked on screenplays, and struggled (unsuccessfully) to write a novel, The Voice of the Butterfly.

Some name identifications not mentioned previously: Elizabeth Mono, ran Taos program called "Talk Back;" Demetria Martínez, author of "Mother Tongue;" Tania Nichols, my daughter; Letty Naranjo, director of S.Fe Literacy Program; Jim and Mary Ciletti, owners of Colorado Springs bookstore; Karen Vargas, Taos writer, friend; Ken Kahn, arts administrator, friend from Hamilton days; Mary Marphisee, Burque medical student (later a doctor); Debby Halpern, Taos counselor; Courtney White, Sierra Club, later Quivira Coalition; Doug "D.C." Terry, ski shop mogul in Taos and Steamboat Springs, also fishing buddy; Gene Weisfeld, Taos lawyer (whose first case was Conservancy and Indian Camp Dam back in early 1970s); Jack Smith, Taos artist; Patty Limerick, author, Univ. Colorado prof; Reiko Bradley, L.A. film producer; Luke Nichols, my son; Doc Driskell, my Taos mechanic for 30 years; Ron Kalom, Taos friend; Pete Warzel, Denver cinema manager, writer; Kathryn Eastburn, C.Springs Independent newspaper editor; Christine Hemp, Taos poet and fly fisher; Judy McClenhagen, Child-Rite (adoption agency) director; Barb Dutrow, LSU geologist; Mary Powell, director of Ancient City Press in S.Fe (who reissued my books "Autumn" and "On the Mesa"); Billy Hayes, subject of original Midnight Express...we worked together on a sequal, Midnight Return; Karla Kuban, writer, Taos friend; Mimi Polk Gitlin, L.A. producer of Amazonia and Midnight Return; Michelle LeBrun, wife of Mel Howard, she made a movie about Mel dying; Véronique Robert, my French cousin from Alicante and Madrid, Spain; Maureen McCoy, novelist, Cornell prof, and Taos hiking companion; Tim Knowlton, my film agent at Curtis Brown; Eliot DuBois, a relative who lived in Taos; Burt Lippa, Taos duck and grouse hunter; Jillian Kogan, L.A. producer on the film, Katu, written by documentary film director, Jean-Pierre Dutilleux (I almost rewrote the picture); Clare Swanger, director of Taos Land Trust; Michael McCormick, Child-Rite organizer, Taos gallery owner; Anne MacNaughton, Taos poet, teacher; Mike Kimmel, my best friend from NY (died September 1997); Judy Morita, Taos artist; Enriqueta Vasquez, Taos author, activist. Blue binder.

Dates

  • 1996

Language of Materials

From the Collection: English

Access Restrictions

The collection is open for research, however, researchers must sign consent form prior to gaining access to materials. Calavera drawings, proofs, and etchings as well as "little diaries" (Boxes 14, 125, 126, 129, 142) are housed in high security and may require up to 24 hours for retrieval. Enlarged photocopies and typed transcriptions of "little diaries" in Box 142 are located in Box 184.

Extent

From the Collection: 184 boxes (172 cu. ft.)

Repository Details

Part of the UNM Center for Southwest Research & Special Collections Repository

Contact:
University of New Mexico Center for Southwest Research & Special Collections
University Libraries, MSC05 3020
1 University of New Mexico
Albuquerque NM 87131
505-277-6451