Santa Fe, New Mexico, a charming 400 year old city set at the base of the Rocky Mountains is a place of art, history and culture surrounded by stunning natural beauty.  Numerous and varied attractions, world-class performing and visual arts, expansive outdoor life and surrounding historic towns and villages make Santa Fe a place for refined relaxation. With more than 250 art galleries, it is the third largest art market in the U.S. In addition, the city has more than a dozen museums housing some of the finest collections of their kind. Santa Fe has long been a destination for food lovers with a savory regional cuisine, more than 200 restaurants and a long list of noted chefs.  Ranked as one of America’s top 10 travel destinations for the twelfth straight year, Santa Fe will be a delightful location for the next IBNS annual meeting. 

Photos from Santa Fe, Hilton and Bandelier can be viewed on the IBNS website.  http://www.ibnshomepage.org/SantaFePhotos/index.htm.

From H. Moore Arnold:

On the North side of Albuquerque is the Sandia Peak Tramway. Used for Skiing in the winter; but "breathtaking views" and mountain biking in summer. There is a restaurant at the top. It is the "Worlds Longest Tramway" and takes you up to 10,378 feet.  http://www.sandiapeak.com/

About 30-45 min drive further north from Santa Fe lands you in Los Alamos, NM (where I grew up). This is where the Atomic Bomb was invented and one can learn about this and more at the Bradbury Science Museum http://www.lanl.gov/museum/ . A few minutes further and you're at Bandelier National Monument http://www.nps.gov/band/, the site of ancient Native American ruins, and the Jemez Mountains. In addition, The Jemez Mountains offer many opportunities for summer sports, hiking, and scenic touring.

Here is a website for someone who took a trip past some of these areas. http://www.worldlynx.net/theplace/nm/nm.htm

Between Albuquerque and Santa Fe is Cochiti Lake (great golf course) and outdoor fun. Here's a link: http://www.newmexico.org/place/loc/hunting/page/DB-place/category/Array/place/1854.html


From Caroline Blanchard:

SANTA FE AND VICINITY

Bob and I have been through Santa Fe many times, in part because we have family in Colorado and the Albuquerque airport is closer than Denver, but also just because we like it very much. Here is some information on its history and present attractions.

A BRIEF HISTORY

The City of Santa Fe was originally occupied by a number of Pueblo Indian villages with founding dates between 1050 to 1150.  The "Kingdom of New Mexico" –part of the Spanish Empire— was first claimed for the Spanish Crown by the conquistador don Francisco Vasques de Coronado in 1540, 70 years before the founding of Santa Fe. The second Governor and Captain-General of New Mexico, don Pedro de Peralta, moved the capital to Santa Fe in 1610 (the Palace of the Governors dates from this time). During the next 70 years, Spanish soldiers and officials, as well as Franciscan missionaries, sought to subjugate and convert the Pueblo Indians of the region. The indigenous population at the time was close to 100,000 people, who spoke nine languages and lived in an estimated 70 pueblos, many of which exist today.

In 1680, Pueblo Indians revolted against some 2,500 Spanish colonists, killing 400 of them and driving the rest back into Mexico. The conquering Pueblos sacked Santa Fe and burned most of the buildings, except the Palace of the Governors. Pueblo Indians occupied Santa Fe until 1692-93, when don Diego de Vargas reestablished Spanish control.

When Mexico gained its independence from Spain, Santa Fe became the capital of the province of New Mexico. In 1821 William Becknell opened the 1,000 mile-long Santa Fe Trail. During the Mexican American War, an American army general, Stephen Watts Kearny, took Santa Fe and raised the American flag over the Plaza. Two years later, in1848, Mexico signed the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, ceding New Mexico and California to the United States.

In 1851, Jean Lamy, Vicar Apostolic, and later Archbishop, arrived in Santa Fe. Saint Francis Cathedral, one of 45 churches he built in New Mexico, is in the French Romanesque style. It was constructed of locally quarried stone, on the site of an adobe church destroyed in the Pueblo Revolt. Portions of the old adobe parish church remain in the form of the Chapel of Our Lady of the Rosary, which houses a wooden stature of the Virgin know as La Conquistadora, Our Lady of the Conquest. La Conquistadora was first brought to Santa Fe in 1625 and was returned to the city by the armies of don Diego de Vargas during the reconquest of 1692-93.

For 27 days in March and April of 1862, the Confederate flag of Brigadier General Henry H. Sibley flew over Santa Fe until he was defeated by Union troops. With the arrival of the telegraph in 1868 and the coming of the Atchison, Topeka and the Santa Fe Railroad in 1880, Santa Fe and New Mexico underwent an economic revolution. Corruption in government, however, accompanied the growth, and President Rutherford B. Hayes appointed Lew Wallace as a territorial governor to "clean up New Mexico." Wallace did such a good job that Billy the Kid threatened to come up to Santa Fe and kill him. Wallace wrote “Ben Hur” in Santa Fe during his tenure as territorial governor; part of a continuing Santa Fe tradition of artists and writers.

New Mexico gained statehood in 1912 and Santa Fe has been the capital city since statehood. It is the oldest capital city in the United States and the oldest European community in the U.S. west of the Mississippi. The Palace of the Governors, on the north side of the Plaza, is the oldest public building in the United States.

Santa Fe has been a seat of government under the flags of Spain, Mexico, the Confederacy, and the United States of America.

. . . AND SOME CURRENT ATTRACTIONS.

Santa Fe is absolutely chock a’block with culture. It has nine museums, including the Governors’ Palace; the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum; The Wheelwright Museum of the American Indian; the Santa Fe Children's Museum; the Museum of International Folk Art; and the Museum of Indian Arts and Culture/Laboratory of Anthropology. There are always some interesting musical events going on, although the world famous Santa Fe opera will not be open while we are there (an important factor in the low room rates at the Hilton!). Santa Fe is also famous for its art galleries and antique stores, old (rare) book stores, and upscale shopping, as well as for its restaurants. I have particularly been asked to say a few words about the last of these.

. . . Restaurants.

During the course of perhaps half a dozen visits to Santa Fe over the course of a quarter of a century, I have familiarized myself extensively and expansively with the food of this city. More than most towns, this is one in which bad restaurants simply don’t survive.

Santa Fe is the home of the Southwest, chile-inspired, version of “fusion cuisine.” This is well represented in an upscale and elegant (and expensive) manner at the Coyote Café and Geronimos (about $60.00 per person, all inclusive). Pasquales is also very good, and a little less expensive. Coyote Café and Pasquales’ (haven’t eaten at Geronimos, but it is very well reviewed) dishes are sometimes pretty spicy. Ask if worried. Each of these 3 restaurants has had one or more cookbooks published, so you can try things you really liked at home later.
For plain Tex-Mex, our favorite is Tomasitas, about 4 blocks from the Hilton. It is huge, does not take reservations, and is always full. You sign in and they give you a pager. Try the tequila gold margaritas while you are waiting, or walk around the area (it is right beside the Sanbusco shopping center). Dinner with drinks, taxes and tip will be about $20.00 per person. There are lots of other Tex-Mex choices, all pretty good to excellent, and few of them expensive.

Indian (Asian) food is represented by two very good restaurants, one on Cerrillos Road and harder to get to without a car, while the other is 3 or 4 blocks from the Hilton, along Water Street, on one side of the municipal parking lot. Both have excellent buffet lunches for substantially less than ten dollars and their night-time fare is also very reasonable. There are also good Chinese and Japanese restaurants within easy walking distance of the Hilton.

This is just scratching the surface. Go to any restaurant where you can see lots of people at appropriate times, and you are very likely to have a good meal.

. . . Shopping.

Shopping is outstanding. Our particular favorites (yes, we are a little odd) are the mineral and fossil shops, but there are also excellent clothing, jewelry, and pottery stores, as well as both antique and contemporary Santa-Fe style furniture. It has been estimated that there are over 200 art and antique stores in the city. Architectural antiques are a particular feature, in case you need an old (and often very large) carved wooden door, stair railing, or molding. Old maps, prints, and books are also to be had in many galleries. All of these tend to be high quality and expensive, but there are also street vendors, especially of southwest jewelry and pottery, and these are less so.

Another, and more reasonable, shopping venue is the flea-market several miles north of town. While it requires a car, its worth the trouble….has been named the #2 flea-market in the country, with scores of more or less permanent booths selling art works, jewelry and beads, minerals and fossils, antiques, junk and just about everything else under the sun. Well worth a visit!

THE HILTON (CONFERENCE HOTEL)

. . . incorporates an historic hacienda. Some of our meeting and dining rooms, as well as the 3 casitas, are part of this earlier structure. It is low-rise and relatively small; as, indeed, is the entire town: Buildings within the city limits can be no more than 3 floors, and must be adobe. The public rooms of the Hilton feature a number of antiques, which can be immediately detected because they really are old and often battered; in Santa Fe this is considered a big plus. The restaurants in the hotel are the el Cañon, open for a quite inexpensive lunch and also serving as a bar at night; and the Pinon grill, open for dinner.

The Santa Fe Hilton has a fantastic location for shopping, restaurants, and sight-seeing. It is downtown, about 3 blocks from the Plaza and the old Palace of the Governors. Many if not most of the town’s attractions can easily be reached on foot. I mention proximity to food, shopping, and cultural sites as a major plus because you don=t need a car in Santa Fe, if staying at the Hilton. There is a true bargain shuttle ($43 round trip) between the Albuquerque airport (about 50 miles away) and several Santa Fe hotels, including the Hilton. A car is only necessary if you opt for pre- or post-conference visits to the Pueblos or other interesting sites in the area; in which case rent a car only when needed. However, the Hilton has agreed to waive the ten dollar/day parking fee for guests registered at the hotel, so although a car is not necessary it is also not going to result in a lot of parking fees.

AND ENVIRONS….

Santa Fe is near the center of an area of intriguing sites, from Carlsbad Caverns (south); through Los Alamos and Bandelier Ruins, Albiquiu (Georgia O’Keeffe’s home), Chaco Canyon, and Durango, Colorado (all northwest); Taos (north); and Pecos Pueblo (northeast). A number of Native American pueblos are also located north and northwest of Santa Fe, some of which may be visited. The landscapes of the high plains areas northeast of Santa Fe (many of which are familiar through the paintings of Georgia O’Keeffe) are haunting. More later on specific destinations I hope you will explore, and be sure to visit the Santa Fe website: http://www.santafe.org/.

Caroline Blanchard


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