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Moving Pictures

THE OLD MAN was ambling through the throng of the Navajo Nation Fair in Window Rock, Arizona, last fall when he caught a glimpse of a 1970 step van—an erstwhile Wonder Bread delivery truck—parked…

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Becoming New Mexican

IN ORDER TO BECOME a bona fide New Mexican, it is best to submit to a number of initiation activities. A short list would include: hunting for piñon nuts in scrubland hillside forests of the north in…

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New Mexico Was Our Fate

Above: Two of many curious, free-roaming feral mustangs near Nageezi, in San Juan County. This image was a finalist in our 16th Annual Photo Contest . March 1957 More and more the beauty, mystery, and…

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Books | March 2017

THE CARVED LINE Block Printmaking in New Mexico By Josie Lopez (Museum of New Mexico Press, 2016) Grade-schoolers often get an art lesson that involves a carved potato, stamp pad, and piece of paper…

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Taste Test

ROWLEY FARMHOUSE ALES 1405 Maclovia St., Santa Fe (505) 428-0719; rowleyfarmhouse.com Chef and co-owner Jeffrey Kaplan calls Rowley’s a “gastropub featuring farm-to-table comfort food.” A restaurant…

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Oddly Enough

I WAS BORN IN Roswell in 1964, the 11th of 12 children—eight girls and four boys. We didn’t join Girl Scouts or Boy Scouts. We didn’t play Little League baseball or peewee football. We were our own…

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Industrial Evolution

AFTER FOOD TRUCKS proved the concept that just about any old tin can with a kitchen can turn out quality food, maybe it made sense that Albuquerque’s hippest new dining destination would be made out…

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Co-Starring New Mexico

It all starts, as many things do, with Thomas Edison. In autumn 1897, his train steamed into New Mexico Territory, and shortly thereafter, the Wizard of Menlo Park captured the first moving images of…

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