Recipes for a Thanksgiving Dinner Feast
A New Mexican Thanksgiving feast. NEW MEXICO'S MELTING POT of cultures delightfully graces our holiday dining tables. I can attest: The first time the plain pan gravy of my youth was replaced by red…
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Posts From: November 2020
Poeta de la Gente
New Mexico Poet Laureate Levi Romero sits under the portal of his family’s home in Dixon. HOW COME NOTHING IN the great american poetry anthology / reads like the america I know? That question, posed…
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Sacred Space
Photograph by Kate Nelson. JOE MASTERS REMEMBERS PIE SUPPERS, circuit-riding preachers, and his grandma playing hymns on the baby grand. Aside from a few town reunions, the 1908 Taiban Presbyterian…
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Sandhill Cranes are Taking Off at Bosque del Apache
THE MORNING TEMPERATURES at Bosque del Apache National Wildlife Refuge, near Socorro, can drop below freezing in the winter, when avid bird-watchers brave the chill to catch the show. They come to…
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Five Things to Do This Weekend
The Fred Harvey History Weekend explores the many aspects of his legacy, including the Castañeda Hotel in Las Vegas. Photograph courtesy Historic American Buildings Survey (Library of Congress). Get…
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Byland Is Back In ABQ
Alie Byland worked with childhood friends to create the new album Grey , which debuts November 12. Photograph courtesy of Byland. WHEN ALIE BYLAND MOVED home from Seattle to Albuquerque in January, the…
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White Sands Power Plants
Illustration by Jameson Simpson. AS THE DUNES AT WHITE SANDS SHIFT, the environment itself changes from dune to dune, enabling distinctive communities of plants on and between each one. “Every step…
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Picnic at the Dunes
Lyle E. Bennett designed these picnic shelters exclusively for White Sands National Park. Photograph by Tira Howard. LIKE SILVERY METAL SAILBOATS skimming a sea of blanched dunes, the picnic shelters…
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How to Photograph White Sands Like a Pro
THE MILKY DUNES ETCHED in wavy lines stand out in the foreground. Falling sharply away, a dune’s decline becomes shrouded in shadow. A pale hue delineates the horizon as it gives way to the San Andres…
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Learning To Fly at the Santa Fe Raptor Center
Santa Fe Raptor Center volunteer Mario Garcia releases a red-tailed hawk inside the mews. EARLY ON A WINTER MORNING in northern New Mexico, Lori Paras enters a series of slat-covered wood-and-wire…
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