Summary
From sleepy spa town to game-show darling to artists' haven, Truth or Consequences learns to reinvent itself
Most people end up in Truth or Consequences -- a dusty, sleepy town on the banks of the Rio Grande -- when the car breaks down. Susan Morrongiello Koenick's story is a little different.See the full content of this document
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Land of Eccentrics
In September of 2001, the art therapist was living within blocks of the Pentagon when American Airlines' Flight 77 plowed into the building. Deeply traumatized by the tragedy and unnerved by subsequent anthrax scares and color-coded terror alerts, two months later Koenick found herself at a work-related conference in Albuquerque.
Instead of sitting in seminars, though, she ended up driving out into the desert "knowing I was going to live there," she says. Back in D.C., Koenick and her husband, graphi...See the full content of this document
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