Author Tim Amsden will sign copies and read from his new book, Love Letter to Ramah: Living Beside New Mexico’s Trail of the Ancients, at a launch party on Sunday, September 15.
The party, hosted by the El Morro Area Arts Council, will be held at the Old School Gallery at 1:00 pm.
In 1998 Tim and Lucia Amsden left their familiar lives in Kansas City and moved to the Ramah Valley in northwestern New Mexico. Love Letter to Ramah recounts their two decades of experiences there, nestled among an eclectic and diverse community of loving, earth-rooted people. It is also an evocation of the rich human and natural history permeating the area and the importance central to the traditional beliefs of Indigenous people of living in concert with the living earth.
“A book of gentle wisdom and quiet inspiration. . . . If you want to understand both the land and the culture of northern New Mexico, you couldn’t find a better source.”—Glenn Aparicio Parry, author of Original Politics: Making America Sacred Again