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13 color snapshots with me and Tootie, Luke, Ruby, Solana, Sierra, Marco, Lucinda, and 1 larger photo of me with kids all around me. Sierra and Solana Harris (Marco and Tania's daughters), Lucinda Nichols (Luke and Dale's daughter), and Coby and Eben, the sons of Luke's friend Tanya Feher.

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14 color photos of a SOMOS party giving me a Fender Strat guitar as a "Lifetime Achievement Award." At Melissa Serfling's house (my old Upper Ranchitos house). Charlie Strong, artist and philanthropist, paid for the guitar. 3 years later I played it at his memorial service in the Harwood Museum garden. My guitar pals Sean Murphy and Rick Smith were at the party. Much fun. Album includes my written journal about the event.

Scope and Contents This album has 26 color photos and 2 B&W pictures relating to our service for Mike at the Chawaluna Overlook above Big Arsenic, where we scattered his ashes into the gorge 13 years after he died. "We" was his wife, Karen Krause Kimmel, me, Ruby Nichols, our kids Tania and Luke, Tania's hubby Marco, their kids Solana and Sierra, and Luke's daughter, Lucinda. We had a picnic at the Chawaluna Overlook area, then sat on the edge of the cliff, talked about Mike, and then got his ashes over...

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1 color photo of me beside my truck with a typewriter and books piled on the 1980 Dodge Truck that I'd had since 1982. Photo by Kim Treiber-Thompson for a Taos Truck Calendar that she put out in 2012. I've also thrown in the entire calendar so y'all can see the other 11 famous trucks and their owners in Taos for 2012.

Scope and Contents 1 large B&W photo and 1 large color photo of me in my yard on Valverde Street, Taos, taken by Jim Bensfield, one of the guys who ran the NM Review in early 1970s. Folder includes 3 blurry color photos of me, Jim Bensfield, Jim Rowen and his wife, Susan McGovern, in the Guadalajara Grill, Taos. Jim Rowen edited the Review in 1970 before I took it over later that year. This was first time Jim Bensfield had seen Susan and Jim...

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5 large B&W photos of me in the kitchen of my house at 116 Valverde Street, signing pictures for the photographer, Jim Bensfield. I really look really old. My house looks like a crash pad for homeless people. Folder includes 2 large B&W photos of our (Jim and my) dear pal, Em Hall, at his table in Cundiyó. He looks old also! Age alert: We are old! Photos by Jim Bensfield, May 2013.

Scope and Contents 15 pages in this album with many snapshots, lots of them pretty bad, but they had connections I didn't want to throw away. I've tried to identify each photo by writing on the back of it. Page 1: Letter from Diana Simon, lawyer when Reies Tijerina sued "Milagro"...she visited Taos with her husband, July 1990, 2 photos. Page 2: Dave, John, Luke, and Tania Nichols in Colorado Springs beside my Dad's Chevy Impala, July 1973, 1 photo. Page 3: Sylvia Landfair, JTN, Michael Martin Murphey, Mary...

Scope and Contents 17 pages in this album with various notes and snapshots, most pretty bad, but I saved them...so here they are. Cover: Photo of JTN using two water glasses as binoculars; and photo of JTN at Sheep Trailer in Carson on wedding day, September 13, 1985. Page 1: 2 photos of JTN with Miel Castagna in Taos, July 1993; and 2 photos of me in Taos with Adam Jamson and Mark Stevens, from Pittsburg, Kansas, July 1993. Page 2: 1 note from Regina Sowell, and 1 photo of me with Regina Sowell and Susan...

Scope and Contents This album contains color Xeroxes of 11 color photos of the party at Elizabeth Nichols house after a memorial service for my younger brother, David Nichols Jr. (65) who drowned in Hawaii, on Kauai, on February 2, 2013. He got caught in a rip tide. I flew east with my ex-wife Ruby Nichols to attend the memorial in Mt. Kisco with much family on April 13, 2013. During that trip Ruby and I also went to the American Museum of Natural History where a curator, Aja Marcato, showed us drawers of...

Scope and Contents 185 color photos of many events. Thanksgiving in Albuquerque, 1996, when my dad (age 79) and his wife Jackie visited me, Luke, Ruby, Tania and her fiance Marco Harris, and Luke's girl Janine. Then there's Tania and Marco's May 11, 1996, graduation from UNM, with me, Luke, Ruby, Tania, Marco's mom Judy Harris, Luke's girl Shaleena, and many of Ruby's siblings and our friends rooting Marco and Tootie on. The after-graduation party features friends like John Randall, Ellen Souberman, Emily...

Scope and Contents Black album with LIVE * LAUGH * LOVE on the cover. 110 color photos of: John and Juanita, in Taos, and in Europe autumn of 1987, including a visit to my French family's home in Port-Blanc, Brittany, where I got to meet my French Aunt Lo Bouchage Weymouth (mother of Tina Weymouth, bass player for Talking Heads!), her sister Mayette Bouchage Meneng Collos, and Lo's husband Ralph Weymouth, at their house in Port-Blanc, where my great-grandfather Anatole Le Braz lived, and my mother, Monique,...

Scope and Contents Black album with LIVE * LAUGH * LOVE on the cover. 79 color photos in this album. My son Luke is a builder. He learned his trade building earthships for Mike Reynolds in Taos, Japan, Texas, Montana, Colorado. This album has a couple shots of one of his first dwellings, circa 1986. Construction of another house down in Pilar; a third house he worked on with John Hunt in Arroyo Hondo; and many photos of his building an earthship on a cliff for himself at the "Reach" Community in Valdez just...

Scope and Contents 126 color snapshots taken on the set of the filming of my novel, The Wizard of Loneliness, in Bristol, Vermont, first week of December, 1987. Featuring the director, Jenny Bowen; her husband, Dick Bowen, the cinemaphotographer; Chuck Myers, the first assistant AD (who also worked with Redford on "Milagro"). Child actor, Lukas Haas, and other kid actors, and longtime actors John Randolph, Anne Pitoniak, and Lea Thompson. Also my wife Juanita, and my...

Scope and Contents The 70 pages in this folder contain the written information about The Wizard of Loneliness movie. First 30 pages have information about the cast, the crew, the screenwriters, their bios, and the story of the novel. Pages 31-42 display the addresses, phone numbers, and agents' addresses for all the cast, crew, producers, and others involved with the movie. Pages 43-66 are my diary of witnessing the filming for the week of December 2-8, 1987. Pages 67-70 are...

Scope and Contents 23 full-page color Xeroxes almost exclusively of family, with a few friends thrown in. Pictures of me playing guitar; on snowshoes feeding a gray jay; of Solana and Sierra Harris (my granddaughters from Tania and Marco in Albuquerque); of Luke with his daughter Lucinda; of me with Lucinda, Sierra, Solana, and Ruby; of Luke, Marco, me, and Luke and Lucinda in the Sagebrush Inn (Taos) hot tub; of Solana, Lucy, and Sierra sitting on large balls; of me with Xmas socks beside a Xmas tree taken by...