The Divine Powers of “Chicken Linda”

The Divine Powers of “Chicken Linda”

I visited Linda Mary Montano at her home in Saugerties, New York, on a snowy morning in late January. When I entered, I was transported into a living shrine, and the octogenarian artist gracefully hovered about as if she were the resident angel. After a warm welcome, she floated upstairs to put on her “Chicken Linda” outfit, which allowed me a moment to take in the scene. Montano views chickens as divine in disguise, and she gave herself the nam…