True Scandal in Santa Fe
By
Arthur Scott
This is the factual account of my father’s life. It is at tale of wasted wealth and opportunity. That I was a son of an ex-con was a deep, dark, family secret that I had to live with, hide, and never mention. A few times it was used as a weapon in childhood fights which sent me into a crying rage. I only had bits and pieces of stories by my mother from my childhood. All of my older relatives are now dead so it took a great deal of archival research to determine and document the facts of a dark story.
The true facts are somewhat in opposition to the stories of my father recalled by interviewees discussing “Scandals” in Pen LaFarge’s book about Santa Fe, “Turn Left at The Sleeping Dog. A friend told me:
“En todos los árboles de la familia, hay filiales torcidos”.
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