Whether you are a new resident or you are just visiting the Crestone/Baca area, the
thirty-nine drawings and maps in this book will guide you on a visual tour of the
history and significant attractions that shape this unique community.
About the Artist
James Joseph Roderick grew up on the very tip San Francisco, Mexico City, Cape Cod, and
of Cape Cod, in Provincetown, Massachusetts, here in Crestone. James felt drawn to'live here
an historic art colony and the birth place of in these majestic mountains that parallel the
Ameri~an theater. He attended the Art lnsti- power of the spirit of the ocean. He is a multi-
ture of Boston ih the early 1970s and has had media artist who allo~s each work of art to
numerous one-man shows on Cape Cod. His reveal the medium.
work is in private collections in New York,