Maggie Duval: “I’m writing a lot about sense of place – like everywhere I’ve lived, and I’ve been transient all my life, because of my Dad, his work, but also my own moving around. But I’ve lived everywhere from a town of thirty to Austin, which is like a bazillion now, or whatever. And then the Bay Area, too, and everywhere in between. But everywhere I’ve lived, I’ve made it a point to learn everything I possibly could about the geology – like, what made this place? And then, who’s lived here? You know, from indigenous to pioneers or whatever…”

Our foreign correspondent Maggie Duval returns to the Plutopia podcast, updating us on her move from Austin to Taos, New Mexico. We discuss the differences in those two cities, also Covid, the invasion of New Mexico by Texas developers, and much more.

Maggie Duval has spent 30 years at the intersection of arts and technology within the industry as a manager, as a web developer, and as an experience designer. She was a witness to the birth of the Web as we know it today and was involved in the early days of the Burning Man festival as a media manager. Maggie is also a board member for EFF-Austin, the Austin chapter of the nationwide independent non-profit civil liberties organization. A year ago, she moved from Austin, Texas to Taos, New Mexico.

Relevant Links:

La Coalición de Taos’

The New Mexico Trilogy by John Nichols:

Enchantment and Exploitation: The Life and Hard Times of a New Mexico Mountain Range by William deBuys

The Man Who Killed the Deer by Frank Waters

People of the Valley by Frank Waters

And if you want to know my family connection (via the Santa Fe Railway and the Indian Detours) – R. Hunter Clarkson – my grandfather’s work in helping to create a tourist mecca Southwestern Disneyland, check out this book by D.H. Thomas: The Southwestern Indian Detours, the Story of the Fred harvey/santa Fe Railway experiment in “detourism”

And this one:

Relevant videos:

The post Milagro de Taos first appeared on Plutopia News Network.