Larry Crumpler's Mars Mission
VOLCANOLOGIST LARRY CRUMPLER has long studied New Mexico’s lava-filled past while working at the New Mexico Museum of Natural History & Science, in Albuquerque. Over the last 15 years, his research…
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Shop the Cricket Window for Local Treasures
IN THE SPAN OF ONE WEEKDAY HOUR, three clumps of shoppers see past the understated entrance of Ginny Roemer and Rachel Hensen’s shop and crowd into its four small rooms, each packed with pillows…
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The Many Faces of Malinche
AN INNOCENT CHILD, she wears a First Communion dress while performing with the Matachines dancers. Around the corner, she transforms into Eve, the progenitor of a new race of people. No, wait, she is…
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New Mexico Magazine Earns 16 IRMA Awards
N EW MEXICO MAGAZINE brought home 16 awards from the International Regional Magazine Association's recent conference in Ottawa, Ontario. The awards recognize excellence in writing, photography, art…
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Good Faith in a Miraculous Window
IN 1926, IN A CITY christened with the Spanish word for Bethlehem, Ramon Baca y Chavez and his wife, Eulalia Castillo Baca, replaced a pane in a dormer window. It turned their Belén home into a…
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Find the Old West in Magdalena
THREE YEARS IN, Fritz Kapraun and John Sakel were hitting their stride as gallery operators and bed-and-breakfast owners. So when the landlord pulled the lease on their La Posada de Maria Magdalena…
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What We're Reading: New Mexico Rocks!
NEW MEXICO ABOUNDS in geologic wonders, from Ship Rock to Carlsbad Caverns, Capulín Volcano to Rockhound State Park, and a zillion dunes, plains, mountains, and gorges in between. Wouldn’t it be nice…
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Datebook: May 2022
WILLIE WAS A HORSE WRANGLER and maybe a rustler, which might explain why, after the sheriff shot him dead, they tossed his bones aside. Willie now resides beneath the floorboards of the Victoria 913…
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New Deal Reckoning
IN THE DARKEST DAYS of the Great Depression, new roads, bridges, dams, hiking trails, and rock-solid schoolhouses appeared throughout New Mexico. The national goal was simple: Put people to work…
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Rail Yard Renaissance
ONE DECEMBER DAY IN 1920, Isadore Freed, a Russian émigré to New York and then Iowa, stepped off an Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway train at the Albuquerque depot. Behind him, the Alvarado Hotel…
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