EAGLE NEST— In Sarah Stark’s new novel “Out There”  her main character Jefferson Long Soldier never makes it to the Moreno Valley during his journeys across New Mexico and Mexico. But if he ever did Stark said that her protagonist, who had done two tours of duty in Iraq, would have felt a special peace in the surrounding Sangre de Cristos and Vietnam Veterans Memorial State Park.

“He probably would have been very moved,” she said. “He would have spent a lot of time in the chapel looking at those pictures.”  Read the full article in the Sangre de Cristo Chronicle

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