Northshore magazine showcases the best that the North Shore of Boston, MA has to offer.
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171 Here on the North Shore, we live in a seaside world of rocky coastlines, maple trees, and the vestiges of Puritanism. But in Santa Fe, New Mexico, everything felt arrestingly foreign and beautiful to my East Coast sensibilities. As I wan- dered around the city's central Santa Fe Plaza, which is flanked by the centuries-old Santa Fe Trail, I couldn't get enough of the low- slung, ruddy adobe architecture and of the Jemez Mountains that rose mistily in the west. I loved the dry, crisp 7,000-foot-altitude air and the red and green chiles that somehow find their way into everything from cheeseburgers to chocolate truffles. That's why I was eager to bring home with me every reminder I could of my beautiful adventure in northern New Mexico. Here's what I stashed in my carry-on bag before the trip back home: DECORATIVE WOODEN SAN PASQUAL BOWL Colonial Spanish Catholicism suffus- es the culture in New Mexico, from the centuries-old mission churches that dot the landscape to people's devotion to the saints. So a small, decorative wooden bowl, painted with a rustic image of San Pasqual, the patron saint of cooks and kitch- photograph by Ch.L/Shutterstock.com