Posts From: September 2016

New Mexico State Fair

By Parley Jensen on Sep. 01, 2016

Above: New Jersey native Wyatt Davis began working for the State Tourism Bureau in the late 1930s. His archive includes this 1956 image of the State Fair. September 1948 The New Mexico State Fair is…

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One of Our 50 Is Missing | September 2016

By Our Readers on Sep. 01, 2016

DRAWL TOGETHER NOW Wes Wilson moved from Cerrillos to North Carolina and applied for college. His mother, Tish Wilson, says the intake person asked him if he’d ever had any English courses. He…

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Bending Time in Taos

By Theo Pauline Nestor on Sep. 01, 2016

LAST SUMMER, I SUDDENLY became acutely aware of the swift passing of time. My younger daughter, Grace, would be a high school senior in just a few months and then headed to college. The inevitability…

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Books

By Kate Nelson on Sep. 01, 2016

CHASING THE CURE IN NEW MEXICO Tuberculosis and the Quest for Health BY NANCY OWEN LEWIS (MUSEUM OF NEW MEXICO PRESS, 2016) Given its monumental toll on victims and their families, tuberculosis could…

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Global Villager

By Tania Casselle on Sep. 01, 2016

Above: Matthew Thomas. ON A WARM SEPTEMBER WEEKEND last year, the Taos Historic District was transformed from quaint to cool when an avant-garde carnival of arts lit up the streets. A giant sculpture…

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Storytellers | September 2016

By The Staff on Sep. 01, 2016

PAUL G. ZOLBROD The College of the Cosmic Drama In 1969, Paul Zolbrod, an English professor at Pennsylvania’s Allegheny College, drove up the Río Grande looking for Native American oral traditions. A…

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Editor’s Letter | September 2016

By Dave Herndon on Sep. 01, 2016

THIS YEAR WE ARE spotlighting people we call Movers & Makers—entrepreneurial folks whose efforts contribute to an improved economy, quality of life, or visitor experience in New Mexico. In this issue…

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