Mary Cable

Mary Cable lives in Santa Fe, among the scenes that Sloan painted. Recently she published a novel, Avery’s Knot, based on a nineteenth-century murder.

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John Sloan’s New Mexico, April/May 1982 | Vol. 33, No. 3

The famous painter of Eastern city life also captured the sunny, spacious world of the Southwest

Buildings For Sale: Unexpected Beauty From A City Archive, August/September 1979 | Vol. 30, No. 5

S•x Education, October 1974 | Vol. 25, No. 6

“Your body is a temple,” our ancestors told their pubescent youngsters. ‘Now go take a cold bath”

Bringing Up Baby, December 1972 | Vol. 24, No. 1

Main Street Of America, February 1969 | Vol. 20, No. 2

It runs from the site of David Burnes’s farmhouse across old Goose Creek to Jenkins’ Hill. Linking the White House and the Capitol, it is Washington’s grand avenue, the

She Who Shall Be Nameless, February 1965 | Vol. 16, No. 2

“It’s a picture of your father’s mother’s mother’s mother,” was my mother’s explanation when at twelve I asked about the faded daguerreotype in the breakfront. But she would not say any more

“damned Plague Ships And Swimming Coffins”, August 1960 | Vol. 11, No. 5

On the long voyage from Bremen to America, the promised land, emigrants from eastern Europe endured a cramped, dangerous, and disease-haunted pilgrimage

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