Editor,

Having family at Whidley Island, I read the News-Times’ opinion piece: “Taos and Whidbey share different but special love for art and artists” (Aug. 26 issue). I made my first trip to Taos, New Mexico, when I was 41 years old. I had been to New Mexico before; yet, Taos seemed off-the-beaten path of my normal journeys from when I lived in Kansas. It wasn’t until I moved to Texas when I finally decided to drive to Taos. Frankly, it seemed like a long, remote and zig-zagging drive. My only real purpose was to visit the house and grave of the frontiersman Christopher “Kit” Carson, who was a cousin to my great grandmother.

When I got to Taos, I was mighty happy to have reached my destination. I visited the Kit Carson Home and Museum, which was then owned and operated by the Masons. I

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