Taos

Roberta Myers is a woman of many personalities and she shared some of them with us on our tour of Old Taos. Here is the history of Taos according to Roberta:

The town was founded in the early 1700s by Sephardic Jews fleeing the Spanish Inquisition. When they got to the area, they found the Spanish had gotten there first, so they converted in order to survive.

Though Santa Fe was the major trading post, Taos had long been a trading center for pueblo people. In the 1897, artists, enchanted by the light, formed a visual art colony. With over 1800 resident artists, Taos has the highest number of visual artists per capita in the US. Among the founders of the colony were Joseph Sharp who turned a chapel into his studio and the Couse family who acquired his studio and the land.