The Painted Clock

Albuquerque, New Mexco: Wildflower Press, 2002. First Editon Stated . Trade Paperback. Fine. 5 1/2" x 8 1/2. Dickinson, Eleanor Hoge - Text Illustrations. 255 Pages. Very light wear to covers. Interior text pages are near flawless. he Painted Clock, Memoirs of a New Mexico Ghost Town Bride, is the true story of how a newly married couple, somewhat along in years, attempt to adapt themselves to the surprises of life in an almost uninhabited New Mexico ghost town called Mogollon. Husband and wife try to figure out each other as well as the character of their chosen home. The author explores her private responses to things--humorous or serious or quirky--and to the wonderful idiosyncrasies of the neighbors. The book offers a woman's often comic, sometimes moving, perceptions about a town she felt was a man's place and about a man and a woman who lived there. Contents in Twenty Chapters: Nine Miles up the Road, How Come Mogollon? Finding New Mexico, Moving In, Hooked, The Dog the Neighbors and a Pile of Feathers, Potluck, Juanita, Tourists and Real People, Fact and Moonlight, Summer: Easy Livin', A Man's Place, Fall, A World Out There, Winter Interlude, Aliens, The Summer of the Fires, Buckaroo and Other Departures, It's Not That Simple, and It Isn't Over till It's Over.