Katherine Wells: Life on the Rocks: One Woman’s Adventures in Petrogylph Preservation
Light always abounds within us: celebrate! photo by Mary MacIntyre
You may see a theme here. Katherine Wells may not be as well known as some of the writers I discusss here. In fact I found no youtube videos here. However, after several careers, she started a new project about a concern and love she’d carried for years. If you are nearby, (NM), you can hear her tell her own story. She will be on tour as well. Each of us may create our own way to change or protect the world around us. Read on…
Life on the Rocks: Katherine Wells
Katherine Wells talks about her life and her exploration of the petroglyphs on her new land from her book “Life on the Rocks: One Woman’s Adventures in Petroglyph Preservation”.
Book signing/reading Tuesday, June 2, 7pm
Bookworks
4022 Rio Grande Blvd. NW
(505) 344-8139
bkwrks.com
Time: Tuesday, June 2, 2009 7:00 p.m.
Location: Bookworks
Phone: 505-344-8139
Life on the Rocks: One Woman’s Adventures in Petroglyph Preservation (UNM Press, $21.95)
Katherine Wells’s obsession with petroglyphs (images pecked on stone) began in the 1960s. Three decades later, after careers as a teacher, a businessperson, and an artist in Southern California, Wells and Lloyd Dennis, her partner, purchased almost two hundred acres near Espanola in northern New Mexico. The large boulders on the property contained many examples of rock art from previous Native inhabitants and the lure was overwhelming. Wells describes the beginning of her new life and her exploration of the petroglyphs on her new land. Meeting New Mexico archaeologists and local rock art aficionados, and locating previously published information about petroglyphs and the prehistoric inhabitants of the Espanola area, Wells learned to identify the time periods when the glyphs were made and to understand many of the motifs found among the more than six thousand petroglyphs on the site.
Life on the Rocks: One Woman’s Adventures in Petroglyph Preservation(Trade Paperback)
by Wells, Katherine
Format: Trade Paperback
Price: $21.95
Published: University of New Mexico Press, 2009
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Katherine Wells’s obsession with petroglyphs (images pecked on stone) began in the 1960s. Three decades later, after careers as a teacher, a businessperson, and an artist in Southern California, Wells and Lloyd Dennis, her partner, purchased almost two hundred acres near EspaAola in northern New Mexico. The large boulders on the property contained many examples of rock art from previous Native inhabitants and the lure was overwhelming.
Wells describes the beginning of her new life and her exploration of the petroglyphs on her new land. Meeting New Mexico archaeologists and local rock art aficionados, and locating previously published information about petroglyphs and the prehistoric inhabitants of the EspaAAola area, Wells learned to identify the time periods when the glyphs were made and to understand many of the motifs found among the more than six thousand petroglyphs on the site.
In addition to discovering all she could about her surroundings, Wells worked with Dennis to design and construct three buildings on their property, each constructed of straw bales. Each of their experiences introduced these transplanted New Mexicans to the oft-cited definition of “maAAana”: “not today.” However, …
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