James Lee Burk
It has been a centre for artists since the 1890s. Dennis Hopper used it for scenes in Easy Rider (ride-throughs round the plaza and over the bridge, and skinny dipping in the hot springs north of town) that he settled here.
Donald Rumsfield ,though hardly artistic has a summer place, Freda Lawrence had a place and D H Lawrence, of whom more in a later blog, has his ashes interred nearby. Aldous Huxley got ideas for "Brave New World" here and Agnes Martin and R C Gorman lived here as does Julia Roberts. The famous frontiersman Kit Carson had his home here with his last wife and it is now a small museum although the most informative part of it is the History programme DVD.
It's really an attractive little town in a modern adobe, cutesy Wild West sort of way.
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