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| Louise Scott |
Louise was highly admired for her wisdom, tenacity, courage, and passion for life. She was a world-traveler, visiting and living in places such as Greece, Australia, and Mexico. She swam for her life when the ship she was traveling on from Bali to Java sank in the ocean.
Louise was a prominent figure in 1960's hippie culture in southern California. As a seamstress in Los Angeles, she designed and created 'trip clothes' for celebrity actors and musicians. Later, during the late sixties and early seventies, she experimented with communal living in communes near the Yuba River in California, and near Taos, New Mexico. She was a founding member of the Mimbres Hot Springs Ranch, near Silver City, New Mexico.
Louise loved nature and rustic living. She would often live off-grid in remote and wild places with no electricity or running water. While living in Holy Ghost Canyon, part of the Pecos Wilderness, she was asked to deliver a child for the family that lived in Terrero. Though she had never delivered a child before, she got some books at the library and began her practice as a midwife. Between 1971 and 1980, she delivered scores of children at home for women living in rural New Mexico.
Louise made her home in Santa Fe, New Mexico, for many years. She homesteaded and started an organic farm on land she leased from the Nambe Pueblo. She loved to keep goats and always had a flourishing vegetable garden.
I will always cherish your memory, Mom. Thank you for being my mother and all the great times we had together.
Davene
May Louise rest in peace. She sounded like quite an extraordinary person. When I read that she was a founding member of Mimbres Hot Springs Ranch, I almost jumped out of my seat. I spent a few weeks at Mimbres Hot Springs Ranch when I was about thirteen or fourteen years old. I think it had become a nudist colony by that time, because there were certainly a lot of naked people walking around there. I went there with one of my best friends whose step-father was hired to build a house for an elderly lady who had sold the ranch and she was having a new house built on some property that she had kept separate from the sale of the ranch. Was that your mother? Or, was she one of the other founding members of the ranch? This was back around 1977 or 1978 or so. I was living in Bisbee, Arizona at that time, so Mimbres wasn't really that far away. I love and miss the Desert Southwest. New Mexico is one of my favorite states and I especially love the Taos area.
ReplyDeleteI had no idea you were connected with Mimbres. Thanks for chiming in!
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