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D.H. Lawrence's New Mexico ranch in disrepair University fails to keep up property it promised wife of writer it would maintain

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From: The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Date: 19980322
Author:REBECCA ROLWING

Wind whispers through the pinon trees dotting the 160-acre mountaintop ranch that inspired writer D.H. Lawrence during a New Mexico sojourn more than 70 years ago.

The scene is peaceful yet melancholy: The property, where Lawrence wrote "St. Mawr," given to the University of New Mexico with the promise that it be forever maintained, is falling apart.

Paint curls off the walls and doors dangle from their hinges in the mausoleum that holds Lawrence's ashes. Cobwebs hang from the ceiling inside his rustic cabin. Visitors complain that the caretaker is cantankerous and rude. An alumni committee ...

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