Box 136
Container
Contains 62 Results:
JUNE 16-23, 1976
File — Box: 136, Folder: 1
Scope and Contents
4 typed pages. (True pagination at top center of page.) About Stephanie Sonora in Denver hospital. And the first heart attack (at 35) of my best friend, Mike Kimmel, his bawdy story of the attack. (A second attack killed him at 57 in 1997.) And my goofy miscues in two Taos slowpitch softball games.
Dates:
1956-2007
JUST ANOTHER BOOK PARTY, DEC. 6, 1976
File — Box: 136, Folder: 2
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I met Stan Crawford on way to NY and he invited me to this party to celebrate the Strand Bookstore's Burt Britton. Afterwards I had dinner with Kate Lyman (of Taos) and the author Richard Yates. Folder has Xerox of party fotos in Harper's Bookletter. I'm with Ted Hoagland, a friend.
Dates:
DEC. 6, 1976
DECEMBER 16-25, 1977
File — Box: 136, Folder: 3
Scope and Contents
8 typed pages. (True pagination at top center of page.) Falling on boulders in the Rio Grande Gorge; Taos social life; busywork with book deals, screenplays, a speech, film option; family shenanigans; asthma; obligations; wandering cows; 19-inch trout on Christmas day.
Dates:
1956-2007
JANUARY-JUNE 1978
File — Box: 136, Folder: 4
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18 typed pages. (True pagination at top center of page.) Continuation of journal just above. My chaotic life in Taos. Visit of Milagro producers and writers. Work on novel and non-fiction. More visitors. Traditional Easter party. Several relationships. Asthma. Publication of Magic Journey. World Affairs Conference. Speeches, workshops. Broken cars. Car trip east with my dad to Grammie's memorial at Mastic. Rapping with cousins. Vists to New York and Philadelphia. Money from Mamita's will.
Dates:
1956-2007
AUGUST-DECEMBER 1978
File — Box: 136, Folder: 5
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27 typed pages. (True pagination at top center of page.) Continuation of journal just above. Writing on various projects (Nirvana Blues, If Mountains Die). Little League baseball. Goofy trip to Latir Lakes. Visitors galore. Fred and LaDonna Harris. Summer with kids. Asthma. Taos politics. A Ghost in the Music accepted for publication. Taos movidas. Crazy cats. Wood runs. Stephanie Sonora. **Funny 5-page riff on Typical Day on September 5. Question archives to UNM? More broken cars. Disorganized...
Dates:
1956-2007
APRIL-AUGUST 1979
File — Box: 136, Folder: 6
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10 typed pages. (True pagination at top center of page.) Bizarre daily life. Ivan Rosequist's life. Saki Karavas in his La Fonda office. Women. Obligations. Speeches. Work on Nirvana Blues. Asthma. Pigeon keeping. Land in Carson. Calaveras in Rocky Mountain Magazine. Summer with kids. Wonderful moment with daughter Tania on August 21, page 9. Home movies. Blues guitar.
Dates:
1956-2007
SPEECH
File — Box: 136, Folder: 7
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Folder includes three hand-written pages of a speech from June 1979.
Dates:
1956-2007
TAOS TROUT FISHING, SEPTEMBER 1-DECEMBER 22, 1979
File — Box: 136, Folder: 8
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54 typed pages (actually, last 2 pages are handwritten). Paginated in pencil on top right of page. At start of journal, on Sept. 1, 1979, Charley Reynolds took me down a bajada to the Rio Grande and showed me how to fish it. One of the great gifts anyone ever gave me. For years afterwards Charley and I fished that river together. He taught me all the bajadas. This journal covers September 1 to December 22, 1979. My friend Mike Kimmel came out from Philadelphia, and he, Charley, and I had great...
Dates:
SEPTEMBER 1-DECEMBER 22, 1979
TAOS, MAY-AUGUST 1980
File — Box: 136, Folder: 9
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These 20 typed pages and 5 handwritten pages from May 5-August 28, 1980 (25 pages in all) are excerpted from an otherwise restricted journal. (True pagination at top center of page.) Covering: 1.) A trip with Andrés Martínez to Tres Orejas Mountain in search of blowholes and rattlesnakes. (Pages 6-10 are a handwritten description in Spanish of our hike.) 2.) Interviews with Isabel Vigil and her daughter, Evelyn Mares (later Valerio). 3.) Visit with my dad to my mesa land in Carson. 4.) Visiting...
Dates:
MAY-AUGUST 1980
TAOS, SEPTEMBER-OCTOBER 1980
File — Box: 136, Folder: 10
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50 typed pages and 1 handwritten page (p.42). True pagination at top center of page. Continuation of journal just above, running from September 4 to October 30, 1980. About a wonderful autumn, much fishing on the Rio Grande, wandering the western mesa, a camping trip in the mountains among the aspens, dove hunting on the Colorado border. My girlfriend breaks her ankle down in the gorge. I actually carried her out of the canyon piggyback.
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SEPTEMBER-OCTOBER 1980
TAOS, NOVEMBER 1980-FEBRUARY 1981
File — Box: 136, Folder: 11
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38 typed pages, true pagination at top center of page, an edited continuation of my journal just above, beginning on Nov. 4, 1980 (Reagan's election) and ending Feb. 17, 1981 (with a p.s. page, Nov. 18, 1981). Lots of fishing the Rio Grande, schmoozing friends, and wandering the western mesa. Some pages are notes especially for The Last Beautiful Days of Autumn. My diary for December 22, 1980 describes BIG MOMENT IN MY LIFE WHEN EVERYTHING CHANGED, MY TRIP TO L.A. TO TALK WITH COSTA-GAVRAS...
Dates:
NOVEMBER 1980-FEBRUARY 1981
SUNDANCE INSTITUTE, JUNE 18-24, 1981
File — Box: 136, Folder: 12
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I was slated to work on a script for "The Milagro Beanfield War" with Robert Redford at his first Sundance Institute. Then the Writers Guild went on strike, killing our talks. Redford invited me to Sundance anyway. So I went, it was fascinating, but we never talked about Milagro. This folder includes 52 pages of information about, and schedules for, the 1981 Sundance Institute from June 19 to June 26. Including: Declaration of purpose by Redford and Robert Geller; program policies and...
Dates:
JUNE 18-24, 1981
NIRVANA BLUES BOOK TOUR, September 1981
File — Box: 136, Folder: 13
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My first book tour ever was for this novel, third in the New Mexico Trilogy. From September 6 to September 27, 1981. Arranged for the publisher Holt, Rinehart, and Winston by publicist Selma Shapiro and her assistant Meryl Zegarek. This folder includes 38 pages of schedules for travel to Houston, Austin, Dallas, L.A., San Francisco, Berkeley, Oakland, and Chicago (where I even plugged The Nirvana Blues on Studs Terkel's radio show). Also an article by Brian Woolley of Dallas, and several...
Dates:
September 1981
"MISSING" SNEAK PREVIEW, N.Y. AND PHILADELPHIA, December 1981
File — Box: 136, Folder: 14
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I went to Philadelphia with director, Costa-Gavras, and producer, Eddie Lewis, for a sneak preview of "Missing." My friends Alan Howard and Mike Kimmel, their wives, and my girlfriend Sylvia Landfair also came. Afterwards, I took a limo with Costa and Eddie Lewis to N.Y. My 15 seconds of the "big time." Costa and I stayed in the Westbury Hotel a few days working on script of The Magic City. I also visited the William Floyd estate out on Long Island with Mike Kimmel. This folder has 5 pages of...
Dates:
December 1981
MASTERCARD APPLICATION, FEB. 2, 1982
File — Box: 136, Folder: 15
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To work in movies I had to obtain a credit card, for hotels, rental cars, food. I applied several times for a Mastercard and was rejected even though I was earning maybe 80Gs a year. I had no debts and no credit rating. Finally, I wrote a 6-page outraged letter to the bank manager who rejected my application. This folder contains: 1.) A January 23, 1982 rejection of my application. 2.) My February 2 insanely outraged 6-page response. They finally gave me the damn card!
Dates:
FEB. 2, 1982
PARIS WITH COSTA-GAVRAS, MAY 5-13, 1982
File — Box: 136, Folder: 16
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I spent a week in May with director Costa-Gavras in Paris working on film project, "The Magic City." This folder contains plane schedules and receipts for all my expenses. Also my worksheet for translating expenses from French francs to American dollars so I could get the studio to pay me back.
Dates:
MAY 5-13, 1982
JOURNAL NOTES FOR "ON THE MESA", 1982
File — Box: 136, Folder: 17
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95 typed pages. True pagination at top center of page. This folder contains my typed journal/diary notes for January 19, 1982 (pages 1-4), and from June 30, 1982 to August 9, 1982 (pages 5-15), and from November 1, 1982 to December 20, 1982 (pages 16-95). Over many pages I was describing the mesa west of Taos with a book in mind. I wandered and photographed the mesa between 1981 and 1986 when On The Mesa (see ARCHIVAL BOXES 28-30) was published. In this folder many paragraphs are crossed out or...
Dates:
1982
RAFTING THE RIO, May 30, 1983
File — Box: 136, Folder: 18
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5 typed pages. I've taken one raft trip on the Rio Grande, this is it. With 5 friends. Weird, hilarious trip. I used these 5 pages for an article (in Albuquerque Journal Impact Magazine, June 23, 1983) titled "Rafting the Rio." Article was reprinted in UNM Press's Dancing on the Stones, titled: "Rafting? Schmafting! I Want My River Back!" This folder also includes a copy of the rafting article in the June 23, 1983 Impact Magazine. (See also RAFTING NOTES, MAY 30, 1983 in my Activities Files,...
Dates:
May 30, 1983
NICARAGUA, December 1983
File — Box: 136, Folder: 19
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I spent 9 days in Nicaragua during the Purisima celebrations of December 1983, a very important experience in my life. It was during the height of the Sandinista revolution. My Manuscript Files, BOX 27, FOLDERS 12-17, contain my diary notes, articles, and a short book I wrote about the experience. This folder contains only an Albuquerque Journal Impact Magazine from February 28, 1984, with an article I wrote on the trip called "After the Triumph." The same Impact Magazine has a photo-essay on...
Dates:
December 1983
NEW YORK WITH COSTA-GAVRAS, APRIL 20-28, 1984
File — Box: 136, Folder: 20
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I spent a week in N.Y. with Costa-Gavras working on a script for the film "Warday." We were lodged by the studio at the Helmsley Palace. This folder contains 5 letters, Xeroxes, and calculations regarding my expenses from me to the office of producer, Eddie Lewis, also plane tickets and receipts, a pamphlet touting the lavish Helmsley Palace, and their marvelous itemized bill for my stay when the studio was paying $180 a night for my room. Talk about excess!
Dates:
APRIL 20-28, 1984
JULY-DECEMBER 1984
File — Box: 136, Folder: 21
Scope and Contents
34 typed pages. True pagination at top center of page. Much wandering around western mesa stock pond alone and with friends. Great Stock Pond riff on September 1. Description of Yilmaz Guney (Turkish filmaker, of Yol) funeral in Paris, September 13 (one of the most powerful events in my life). Dove hunting on Colorado border. First ever grouse-hunting expedition, September 21, 1984. Running around my back field at night. Fishing on Rio Grande. Mesa botany lesson with a biologist November 10....
Dates:
1956-2007
JANUARY 2-4, 1985
File — Box: 136, Folder: 22
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7 typed pages. True pagination at top center of page. A WONDERFUL diary of one of my favorite moments of all time, skating in daylight (and at midnight) on the Martinez Stock Pond on the mesa west of Taos and the Rio Grande Gorge. An experience later featured at the end of my book, On The Mesa.
Dates:
1956-2007
JANUARY-APRIL 1985
File — Box: 136, Folder: 23
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14 typed pages. True pagination at top center of page. Wandering on the mesa in snow. Down Rope Trail to the Rio Grande. Expedition down Big Arsenic trail with Game and Fish to put trout fry in Rio Grande. Burying animals at Isabel Vigil's. Trip to Moreno Valley. Work with neighbors on Pacheco Ditch compuerta. Son's operation in Albuquerque. Visit of Constance Coiner, working on PhD. (Years later Constance died in TWA 800 crash.)
Dates:
1956-2007
CREEL COUNT, BIG ARSENIC, 1985
File — Box: 136, Folder: 24
Scope and Contents
Just one typed page. Of two fishing trips I took to the Big Arsenic Springs in the Wild Rivers section of the Rio Grande, July 14 and July 17, 1985.
Dates:
1985
DOVE HUNTING, TROUT FISHING, AUTUMN 1985
File — Box: 136, Folder: 25
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5 typed pages. I got married for the second time on Friday September 13, 1985. These journal pages describe dove hunting with my wife and 4 friends September 15-18 that year, and the second Anal Arsenic Fishing Contest on the Rio Grande with my friends Mike and Doug on October 1, 1985.
Dates:
AUTUMN 1985