Comfort Food Meets History
FOR DECADES, the southwest corner of the historic Belén Harvey House Museum was an afterthought. While the front and upstairs of the Spanish Revival–style railroad building are a carefully curated…
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Posts From: October 2024
Join the Fred Harvey Nation
ON THE FINAL FRIDAY of October, as Santa Fe’s air took on its first fall chill and the sweet smell of piñon smoke, the New Mexico History Museum lobby filled with an eclectic set of history buffs…
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23 Must-Visit Saloons and Roadhouses in New Mexico
BYRON T’S SALOON Las Vegas Named for Byron T. Mills, the former owner of the Plaza Hotel and one-time Las Vegas mayor, this saloon is a chameleon of a place. “Las Vegas has always been a melting…
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Five Things to Do This Weekend
1 Cozy up to fiber arts. The Murray Hotel Ballroom in Silver City hosts the Southwest Women’s Fiber Arts Collective’s Fall Fiber Arts Sale on Saturday (10 a.m. to 5 p.m.) and Sunday (10 a.m. to 2…
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Don Silviares, El Verdulero
MY PRIMO INTRODUCES me to the barber. “So you’re from Embudo?” the barber asks me, the snip of his scissors rhythmically slicing through the slow afternoon. “When I was a kid growing up in Dawson…
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The Fechin House Builds on Its Past
FOR THOSE WHO spend a fair amount of time in northern New Mexico, entering the historic Fechin House in Taos brings a sense of welcome familiarity. The home of the Taos Art Museum is known as an…
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New Mexico’s Lost Watering Holes
Thornton-Curry Saloon. George Curry, a former Rough Rider and governor of New Mexico Territory, briefly operated a Lincoln saloon with cattleman J.Y. Thornton. Built around 1887, the adobe building…
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This Coffee Is Brewing Up a Storm
WHEN TOM PATTON’S roommate showed him how to use a hot-air popcorn popper for roasting coffee in their University of New Mexico dorm room, Patton found his passion. “I thought it was the coolest…
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Fall into Fun at McCall’s
FOR SIX WEEKS every fall, people from throughout New Mexico flock to McCall’s Pumpkin Patch and Haunted Farm, in Moriarty, to pick pumpkins, wander the corn maze, taste delicious treats, and, if…
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Barelas Is for the Gente
A CALICO CAT LOUNGES ON THE PATIO in front of La Mexicana Tortilla Co. Cleo and her two cohorts are street cats in their golden years that the crew of the historic Albuquerque establishment treat with…
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