Adobe Walls, Open Doors
Sixty years of one family kitchen near Chimayó, and the people who kept walking through its door.
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Rosa Delgado Hart grew up in a three-room adobe house where the kitchen door was never locked. Aunts, cousins, farmworkers, a priest, two runaway teenagers and one lost tourist all ate at her mother’s table. This memoir follows that kitchen from the 1960s to today: the land, the recipes, the arguments and the long habit of making room for one more.
My mother did not believe in locks. She said a locked door only kept out the people you would have been glad to see. Our kitchen door opened onto the road to Chimayó, and in the sixty years she lived in that house it was never locked once, not even the winter somebody stole my father’s truck. I learned to set the table for one more than we had. Most nights somebody came. A cousin between jobs. A farmworker from the orchard down the road. Father Anselmo, who always said he was passing by and alwa
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I taught American history at Santa Fe High School for thirty-one years, and for most of that time my students asked me why the textbook never mentioned anybody they were related to. So I started writing it down. My family has farmed the same land near Chimayó since before New Mexico was a state, and the stories come with it: land grants, weavers, acequia disputes that lasted longer than marriages. I write memoir about my own life and historical fiction about the lives I only heard about. I live in an old adobe house with a leaking roof, a husband named Tom and far too many chile plants.
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