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 Who
We Are
On one of my
Saturday afternoon Winter walks not many months ago, I took this picture of a
bronze statue of Saint Francis. This statue of our Santa Fe patron
saint stands behind the City Hall building on Lincoln Street, not far from the
Plaza, the center and the heart of our city..
At first I was
struck by the humor of the normally hairless and hatless Saint as he stood
silently and piously observing the little animals at his feet and the snow
covered ground around him - with a knit hat on his head that was designed for a
child and not for our glorious Saint Francis.
My initial
reaction was that an obviously irreverent local had brought the hat to City Hall
to share his own brand of humor with other locals. And I laughed for
several minutes, touched by the
humor of it, convinced that even Francis himself would laugh with the rest of
us.
It is said that
Francis had a great sense of humor
I considered
all the reasons for capping the Saint with a knit cap on a snowy day, including
the obvious reason - somebody thought that the great Saint Francis might be
cold. And that made me smile.
Like my photo of
our patron, my Santa Fe, the City of Holy Faith, is a mixture of the sacred and
the secular, the very profound and the very profane.
And yes, its a
home for those who own many hats and a home for those who own few or none.
To a great extent
the reason for this site is to put a knit cap on Santa Fe - not only to keep her
head warm - but also to introduce you to the City of Holy Faith with
all of its cultural, commercial, regional and spiritual diversity, to encourage
you to visit or revisit it one day, and to provide a way for you to keep in
touch with an old friend.
We wanted to let
you discover the physical delights and the commercial side of this popular and
major tourist destination. That sophisticated side attracts visitors year
round to Santa Fe and its surrounding communities. But we also wanted you
to discover the less obvious aspects of our city, many of which don't appear in
the tour guides, some of which never, ever will..
Most travel
related websites are supported by paid advertisers and prominent placement on
the websites depends on the level of payment that the advertisers are willing to
invest.
In order to give a
lot more balanced view and to introduce you to the lesser
known aspects of our community, we decided to
build a site that included all potential advertisers without charge
to any of them.
And we decided to
build a site that was comprehensive, including those businesses and
organizations who could afford to
advertise on the Internet as well as those who could not - to include those who
could pay to get your attention and those that would barely get noticed at all
if dollars were the only criteria for inclusion on the site...
As well as
spotlighting and listing businesses and attractions that have great appeal to
our visitors, we have also spotlighted local organizations throughout the website who
put hats on Saint Francis and provide assistance to others on a daily basis.
More and more of
our non-profits and charities and cultural organizations depend on you as Federal and State subsidies dry up...
If you receive
benefit from this site with all of its tourist resources, or if you are one of
those resources who benefit from the free advertising, we encourage you to
support these organizations in any way that strikes your fancy and your heart.
The City of Holy
Faith is also known as the City Different.
In keeping with
that name, we ask you to help put a hat on the head of our Patron Saint... you
might just like being Different too.
The responsibility
for this website and for its few strengths and its too numerous weaknesses, its
blessings and its blasphemies, is solely that of a recent Santa Fe resident
(since 1999). He works in the local tourist industry and has been involved
extensively in tourism here and in Florida since 1986. He encourages you
to visit and to enjoy our wonderful high desert community with its beautiful
landscapes and beautiful people.
We offer a city of
great diversity and talent and beauty - but we are not just a pretty face - we
are the City Different.
If you would like to
add your Santa Fe related link to the Santa Fe EZ website, JUST
CLICK HERE for
more information and instructions about submitting your information.
We also encourage
anyone who feels a similar desire to spotlight all aspects of this community to
contact us. We could use the support of the internet design community...
and we envision this effort as a broader collaboration in the very near
future... with your help and support, that will happen. The ill-suited designer
and manager and organizer and implementer of this site is in his early 60's, but
he welcomes the support of others whether they be 10 or 100... green hair or
white hair or no hair at all, your help and your heart are welcomed.
Welcome to Santa
Fe EZ (Easy).
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