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Article: Sprawl unravels a 25-year memory.(TRAVEL)
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- Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN)
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- September 15, 2002
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Byline: Catherine Watson; Staff Writer
I had remembered Otavalo, Ecuador, with fondness for 25 years - had savored it, in fact, because it was so authentic, so charming, so traditional.
The town was one of the highlights of a South American sojourn in the mid-70s. It was a weaving center then, picturesquely full of old Spanish-colonial buildings and prosperous local Indian people in distinctive clothing.
Men wore snow-white pajamas and navy-blue ponchos. Women and girls wore full black skirts, white blouses, dark-blue shawls and lots of beads - red coral on their wrists, hanks of golden glass around their necks.
The Indians are still ...