Julie, if you know the artists in the Ruidosa area, do you know Dale or Ted Robertson? Dale used to play the best blues harmonica along with being a prety good artist, and Ted was a basic drunk artist....incredibly talented. Back 25 years ago Ted, me, Gary Freudenberger (a Roswell artist), and Michael Hurd used to hang out a bit. I saw Freudenberger two years ago....he lives in Knoxville KY now, I suppose Mike still lives down in Hondo, but I lost track of Ted. I also heard Jim White ( I think it was) bought Riverside.....guess I need to head back down that way one of these days and see who all is still kickin........
While I am asking about some of those guys around there, do they still play polo on the Circle Diamond? They had that enclosed arena that was a lot of fun. Peter Hurd put together some of the local cowboy types (this would have been around 1975-1980) as a polo team and tried to get us to play Robert O's professional team.....it was fun but we got our ass kicked. I suppose the Hurd place still has the polo field in their front yard as well.
Is Louise Massey's adobe hacienda still standing? Last time I was in that area was in the late 80's. I've only been back to Roswell once since then, for my dad's funeral five years ago, but never made it up the valley.