"The Pumpkin Papers." Los Tortugas!

The "Pumpkin Papers" are current in the discussion on M.M.'s 1960's art studio dinner.  These are the 'collective' if you like of a group representing old Albuquerque's  former occupiers of the New Mexico landscape.  Los Pacificos!  Made up of senior citizens and creative spirits.  The chracters are John, Allen, Cornelia and Mike representing that era of disobedience, anti-establishment values and the hated Vietnam War of Johnson.  The Spanish nik-name comes from the Pintores of turn of the century (20th) New Age people like Mabel Dodge Luhan/DH Lawrence etc.  And the streets are covered in gold-colored coins copper pennies which stick in the melted tarmac in the roads - sometimes there are nickles and dimes!  So the Los Tortugas meet for dinner in a clannish manner perhaps like a cult or a religious coven of magicians - that's the impression we get as a listener.  Somewhat in opposition to the idea of a Hippie revival.   Nevertheless a circus of a subculture.

Los Pacficos/Los Tortugas = street names.