{"id":9349,"date":"2018-04-25T16:28:10","date_gmt":"2018-04-25T22:28:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=9349"},"modified":"2018-05-31T12:50:31","modified_gmt":"2018-05-31T18:50:31","slug":"the-southwest-follows-us-to-salem-salem-follows-us-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=9349","title":{"rendered":"The Southwest Follows Us to Salem & Salem Follows Us Home"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Yet another addition to the Peabody Essex Museum is under construction.<\/p><\/div>\n

Before M. and I left on this trip, someone mentioned a Georgia O’Keeffe exhibit at the big Peabody Essex Museum<\/a> in Salem. As it happened, the exhibit ended just before we arrived, but that’s all right \u2014 we can visit a whole museum devoted to her painting<\/a> in Santa Fe whenever we are down there.<\/p>\n

We live in southern Colorado \u2013 within the province of New Mexico, if you follow a pre-1821<\/a> map.((Not that the Spanish ever settled this far north, although Gov. Juan Bautisa de Anza’s epic 1776 pursuit of Comanche raiders ended in a battle not far away.)) So we often feel that Santa Fe, more than Denver, is our cultural capital.<\/p>\n

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T. C. Cannon, self-portrait, 1975 (Wikipedia).<\/p><\/div>\n

And what did the PEM have to replace O’Keefe:<\/strong> an exhibit devoted to the artist T. C. Cannon.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n

Cannon (1946-1978) was an enrolled member of the Kiowa tribe, born in Oklahoma. He studied at the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe, then joined the Army, fought in Vietnam, returned to the US and painted up a storm until dying in a car crash in Santa Fe.<\/p>\n

There’s almost another connection \u2014 a high-school friend of mine taught at IAIA, but not until a time after Cannon had finished there.<\/p>\n

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Coming soon, Kakawa in Salem! Photo made a few yards to the right of the one above.<\/p><\/div>\n

No trip to Santa Fe is complete without a stop<\/strong> at Kakawa chocolate house<\/a>, tucked away between some state government offices and the art galleries on Paseo de Peralta, where you can take your chocolate the way that Marie Antoinette drank hers<\/a> or \u2014 my preference \u2014 the way that the emperor Moctezuma II\u00a0<\/a> drank his, with chiles.<\/a><\/p>\n

Imagine our surprise to see this storefront on Essex Street next to the museum: Kakawa is coming! Sure, I’d believe it in Aspen, Colo., or Scottsdale, Ariz., but Salem? I would love to know how they picked Salem, but I suspect that their new outlet will do well, being perfect for someone seeking a historical “elixir” after a morning of museuming. A Salem-Santa Fe axis \u2014 who knew?<\/p>\n

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Artemisia Botanicals<\/p><\/div>\n

Further east on Essex Street sits<\/strong> Artemisia Botanicals,<\/a> the serious herb shop in town (as opposed to the jars of herbs in some of the witch shops that have probably sat there for years and years), offering herbs, teas, oils, jewelry, and, of course, psychic readings.<\/p>\n

We picked up a few things \u2014 for me it was a package of copal incense sticks. I have copal resin and like to use it for certain things, but there are times when sticks are just convenient. I looked at the label: They were from Fred Soll’s Incense<\/a> in Tijeras, N.M., which is just east of Albuquerque. According to Mapquest<\/a>, Tijeras is 358 miles (573 km) from my house, whereas Salem (had I chosen to drive), is about 2078 miles (3325 km).<\/p>\n

But at last we are home. Then I see an unfamiliar car in the driveway. <\/strong><\/p>\n

Two nicely dressed men are at the bottom of the stairs, one middle-aged, one twenty-something. The older man holds a small, leather-bound book. When I step out onto the porch, he starts into a spiel about visiting the neighbors((Never saw you before, buddy.)) and conducting a survey about how to find happiness.<\/p>\n

\u00a1Madre de dios! \u00a1Los puritanos!<\/em><\/p>\n

I tell him that I never talk about religion before breakfast, and I am just about to sit down at the table. And that the best way out of the driveway is to pull toward the garage door, then cut your wheels hard as you back up.<\/p>\n

Maybe they were just evangelicals, not Calvinists, but we live on an obscure road in the woods, and this was only the second missionary visit in twenty-five years.<\/p>\n

The mystery of why the Kakawa chocolate house is coming to Salem has been solved!<\/em> <\/strong>You can read the rest here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Before M. and I left on this trip, someone mentioned a Georgia O’Keeffe exhibit at the big Peabody Essex Museum in Salem. As it happened, the exhibit ended just before we arrived, but that’s all right \u2014 we can visit a whole museum devoted to her painting in Santa Fe whenever we are down there. 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