One of Our 50 Is Missing: July 2026
BAD ROMANCE CAITLIN KUNDRAT and her fiancé were nearly denied a marriage license at New York City Hall after handing over their state IDs. “The marriage bureau does not accept foreign driver’s…
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Posts From: July 2026
Thomas Zunie Leads Zuni Trail Stewardship
W HEN PUEBLO OF ZUNI members decided to establish a trail system, they began with what already existed, reshaping roads into trails and adding links to different parts of the community or the…
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Trace the Goodnight-Loving Trail
WHERE LONGHORNS ONCE kicked up red dust, oil pumpjacks known as “nodding donkeys” now pepper the land along the Pecos River, from the Texas border to up past Artesia. The opportunity to turn hard work…
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DeeDee’s Finest Beef Jerky Carries On
“CARNE SECA HAS been around for centuries,” says Pablo Lujan, owner of DeeDee’s Finest Beef Jerky. “We’re keeping that tradition alive.” The Española jerky outfit started 25 years ago, when founder…
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High Times at Elevated Pour
AS US 64 DROPS OUT of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains, it winds through aspen and pine forests and deposits you in a peaceful valley. At 8,880 feet, the quiet village of Angel Fire features a ski…
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The Heroes of Bataan
ACROSS THE LAND OF ENCHANTMENT, memorials honor New Mexicans who survived or died in the 1942 Battle of Bataan, the subsequent death march, and prisoner-of-war camps in the Philippines during World…
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Explore Río Grande del Norte National Monument
MY WIFE SEES IT BEFORE I DO. As we mount the cerro in silence, wind hisses across the sage and rocks and into the piñon and juniper. Above, ravens and vultures play on rising thermals. Below, pinyon…
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Five Things to Do This Weekend
1 Jump into the page. Get ready to geek out about the latest books and discover local authors this weekend at the second annual Book Fest at the ABQ Collective. “Last year we had a turnout of 600…
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San José de Gracia Church at 250
FOR FREQUENT TRAVELERS of the High Road to Taos, the image of San José de Gracia church is stamped into the mind’s eye in two ways. Heading north on NM 76, the road climbs into the isolated mountain…
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A Santa Fe Mystery Returns
ILAN STAVANS VISITS northern New Mexico cemeteries to see how Jewish and Catholic symbols mix on some of the headstones. “The Star of David with a cross or a kabbalistic hand,” says the Amherst…
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