Maggie's Farm Book

I picked up this book when I was petsitting a neighbor's cat--mainly because of the photographs accompanying the text. Then, I started to read John Nichol's text and was hooked--so hooked that I recently went to the library and borrowed the other two volumes making up his "New Mexico Memoir Trilogy." The book is the first book in the series written nine years after John Nichols left New York City and settled in Taos, New Mexico. It is the work of a passionate liberal much influenced by the radicalizing 1960s, so it must be read as a chronicle of the times. But the book also extols the virtues and disappointments of living in a beautiful but poor and gentrifying landscape. The text is accompanied by many large-scale color photographs of the landscape and details of the forests and streams of northern New Mexico.