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My City Different (Paperback)
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My City Different (Paperback)
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Loot Price R368
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You Save R73 (17%)
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"Santa Fe is known as The City Different. But not just because of
its beautiful scenery, its rich traditions or historical heritage.
I think it's the people-those wonderful individuals whose
proclivities have labeled them a little the other side of center
and who have added the spice to the life I enjoyed there for so
many years. I hope the reader will enjoy some of my memories." With
that, Betty Bauer turns us loose to ponder over why streakers never
bothered to streak in Santa Fe, why one prominent publisher found
solace in the lid of an ornate cigarette box, and how Santa Feans
solve the problem of trees standing in the way of building sites.
Did you know that one restaurant owner attracted customers by
having a full-grown bobcat prowl the premises? Or that Santa Feans
still have a yearly celebration that started in 1712 and includes
the burning of a thirty-foot dummy? What about the "five nuts in
adobe huts"? Not to mention the mysterious and color-coded
worshipers of St. Germain, or what happened when a zealous cop
insisted a local landscaper's station wagon was filled with
marijuana plants. One man even had a dream of building a major
opera house just outside of town Its all here-fifty years spent in
soaking up everything that truly makes Santa Fe "The City
Different." Betty E. Bauer arrived in Santa Fe in 1948 and lived
there from 1953 to 2000. She and her partner, Marian F. Love,
founded and published The Santa Fean Magazine from 1972 to 1994.
She was very active in civic, municipal and cultural pursuits,
having served as the first woman President of the Santa Fe Press
Club (now defunct), the first woman President (now Chairman of the
Board) of the Santa Fe Chamber of Commerce, and President of the
Santa Fe Festival of the Arts, as well as on numerous civic and
municipal committees. She now lives in Scottsdale, Arizona.
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