
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: SUNDAY, September 18, 1994                   TAG: 9411010055
SECTION: TRAVEL                    PAGE: F8   EDITION: METRO 
SOURCE: BOB WILLIS
DATELINE: SANTA FE. N. M.                                 LENGTH: Short

SANTA FE BOASTS BEAUTY AND MYSTERY FOR THE AGES

For several hundred years, New Mexico has been a crossroads, where conflicting cultures meet and, sometimes, pass one another by. The Spanish were the first Europeans; centuries later, other settlers following the Santa Fe Trail westward.

Long before the conquistadores, the area was fertile ground for art - starting in pre-Christian times with the Anasazi and their descendants, who fashioned beautiful and graceful pottery and jewelry, and decorated their homes and temples with intricate petroglyphs. The Spanish also left their mark; but it was during the early 20th century that the state became a mecca for painters, sculptors and writers.

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