Jim & I visited a Living Museum South of Santa Fe today. Some of the buildings and artifacts are original to the area and many were imported/donated from other regions of New Mexico. Together they tell the history of New Mexico from the 1700s through the 1800s, before New Mexico became a state. The ranch was originally comprised of a Placita (Enclosed space) with a double door entrance to a courtyard and access to individual rooms from the courtyard where the inhabitants lived, worked, and worshipped. Later, there were separate buildings for these things, spread across the ranch. Water was provided by a fresh water spring from up on the hillside and directed downhill to irrigate the crops and feed the wells. Of the donated items, one was a weaving loom that was then replicated exactly to create a working loom. Today the replicated loom is responsible for many rugs, blankets, and tapestries created on the ranch.
