For much of my writing life I've been working on various versions of the stranger-than-fiction story of the theft of La Conquistadora* that took place in Santa Fe the spring of my senior year of high school (with an actual connection to our school and class, as it turned out)—an event which rather shook the town. My most recent version, now at "novelette" length, has just been published by Eclectica Magazine. It's been fun to spend time in Santa Fe as it was then, performing conjuring tricks with restaurants etc. which have since ceased to exist, and with devices, songs, and objects which have only afterwards come into being.
* "the oldest continuously venerated image of the Virgin Mary in the U.S., which arrived in Santa Fe on a wagon train in 1626"
See also La Conquistadora (Version One)
and La Conquistadora (Version Two), Beginnings
and Statues, my first novel, somewhere here in my writing archive.
images: Fiesta de Santa Fe
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