Content

Get Stories Straight to Your Inbox

 Stay up-to-date with what's happening in New Mexico

Stay up-to-date with what's happening in New Mexico

Sign-up now

Kelly Koepke
Author
Kelly Koepke

As an Air Force kid, Kelly Koepke lived in eight states and a foreign country before coming to Santa Fe for the Great Books program at St. John’s College. She left after graduating, but felt the irresistible pull of the light, culture, and green chile. “I returned with my Midwest-born-and-bred husband and hung out a freelance shingle. They don’t call it the Land of Entrapment for nothing,” she says. Celebrating 21 years as a writer (and of marriage) this year, she jumped at a chance to cover the Cumbres & Toltec Scenic Railroad’s restoration of a historic steam engine and several passenger cars. As for her own summer, she plans plenty of travel “and sharing exceptional views with friends on our Santa Fe patio.” 

Elevate Your Holiday Decor

NAVAJO STAR PORCELAIN ORNAMENTS Winter was a special time for Navajo artist Lei Thomas, who grew up in Shiprock learning to draw and create traditional bead and feather work from his mother and…

Read More

Fired Up for the Holidays

S ARAH HART LOVED THE ANNUAL Bonfires On Bent Street even before she opened Ennui Gallery on a small street lined with shops and galleries north of the Taos Plaza. A printmaker, painter, and graphic…

Read More

The Pecos River Shines Bright

B OAT TOURS ALONG THE PECOS RIVER through a wonderland of twinkling light displays, a Christmas Village arts and crafts market, and visits with Santa have enchanted Carlsbad for more than three…

Read More

Built to Last

Casa Blanca Inn and Suites Built in the 1950s for lumber magnate H. Merrill Taylor in Spanish Colonial Hacienda style and renovated in the early 2000s by the current owners, the nine-room Casa Blanca…

Read More

Back at the Ranch

HIKERS CRESTING THE TOOTH OF TIME see a sprawling white house below the apex of the ridge on the Philmont Scout Ranch. They might wonder why it’s not part of the ranch, which entirely surrounds its…

Read More

Dig Deep at the Black Range Lodge

A "FIT OF NAIVETE" COMPELLED Catherine Wanek to purchase the Black Range Lodge, in Kingston, in 1984. Never did she suspect that what she wanted—a writer’s retreat from Hollywood screenwriting—would…

Read More