Robert Redford enjoyed his time overseeing a training facility for the arts in northern New Mexico, working on movie productions, and spending time in the Land of Enchantment.

Redford first visited New Mexico with his family when he was 6 years old and returned years later, never quite able to get enough.

"I have a great love for this state. It has a soul that I connect to. In a lot of other states, the soul is gone," Redford said.

He used Truchas, New Mexico, as the setting for one of his movies he directed in 1986, "The Milagro Beanfield War."

"Being able to use so many people from the villages there, some didn't even speak English. To use their faces in the film, pretty big deal for me," Redford said.

Redford called New Mexico home, spending more than six months out of the year in

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