San Miguel de Allende, in addition to being a World Heritage Site, has long been a mecca for artists from all over the world. Conversations with Artists in San Miguel de Allende offers an intimate look at a rapidly changing city that remains suspended between the past and the present, at some of the artists who have lived there for much of their lives, and at art. Why is it that some men and women are compelled to make art and why did so many choose to go to a high desert plateau in central Mexico to do it? The answers to these questions reveal some surprising secrets about a most unusual,...

A love story and a call to action, this story of a young woman's relationship with a tree is intended to inform and impassion all those who care about our natural world. The main character May returns home to her grandparents' farm where she meets an unusual young man who asks for her help in saving himself and the aspen root from which he springs. At the same time an oil company is threatening to begin drilling for natural gas near the aspen grove. May and her fellow activists mount a campaign to stop the proposed fracking and are ultimately aided by knowledge that had been lost a century...