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Half a day’s detour to Gran Quivira—and we arrive, near sunset,to find a locked gate across the road.We climb the fence and leave exact changefor maps of the ruins....

It assaults the eye, the Ponder familygraveyard, with twin obelisks visiblehalf a mile away. Inside its fence,weeds, sawbriar, two monoliths inscribed—in ivy wreaths—“George L.” and “His wife,Sarah.” Beyond these...

No angel with uplifted hand, no symbolof the Holy Spirit, gliding down ongilded beams—and for all we know the woman is no virgin. Still, any woman readingis an annunciation....