Books: Publishing, Reading, Writing
This is the third of a 3-part series written by Gordon Cope who has been previously featured on Reading Recommendations. Gordon has offered to give us an “insider’s look” into the writing conference held annually in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico.
THE CITY OF SMA
The city of San Miguel de Allende has experienced tremendous wealth, virtual abandonment and a phenomenal rebirth. Established as a mission in the 16th century, it grew prosperous as the midway point between silver mines to the north and Mexico City to the south. It reached its heyday in the 18th century, when merchants and hacienda owners built impressive mansions and commercial buildings in the Baroque and Neoclassical styles.
But the Mexican War of Independence that broke out against colonial rule in the early 1800s was the beginning of a century of decline. Although the city itself was one of the first municipalities to…
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