“I BEG GOD FOR MY MEMORY,” begins the Spanish ballad “Corrido de Plácida Romero.” On August 8, 1881, Romero was captured at her home near Grants, in one of the last Apache war raids into the…
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IN JULY 1923, the New Mexico Highway Journal launched with a mission to elevate “the attractions of New Mexico as a national playground.” That journal—America’s original state magazine—became the…
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“YOU GOT EYES,” Jack Kerouac wrote to photographer Robert Frank in 1958. Anyone exiting Journey West: Danny Lyon—an exhibition at the Albuquerque Museum, on view through August 27, 2023—might say the…
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IT’S NEARLY 4 A.M. in the Chama River Canyon, which means it’s time for the morning vigils at the Monastery of Christ in the Desert, near Abiquiu. I launch myself out of my cozy guest chamber, bundle…
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IT WAS SAID THAT HE SAW KEENLY THROUGH BLIZZARDS, that he’d studied the stars, that he was curious about archaeology and had an aptitude for buffalo hunting. This skill set had served the Crowfoot…
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Brennen Matthews, his wife Kate, and son Thembi needed a vacation after a difficult move from Nairobi to Toronto. So they took a road trip west across the U.S., driving from Chicago to California. In…
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CHEF GRAHAM DODDS is waxing poetic about squash. “It’s called Autumn Frost, and it’s spectacular. A butternut and kabocha cross.” Even the veggie’s origins sound romantic—it’s grown in La Puebla by a…
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IMAGINE A THOUSAND NEEDLES PRICKING your entire body at the same time. That’s how retired San Miguel County magistrate judge Philip J. Romero—who helped originate Storrie Lake State Park’s annual…
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IF NOT FOR THE PAPER-BAG LANTERNS snaking over the sand dunes, I might’ve been afraid of the dark. Last December’s quarter moon was still rising on the 2021 Elephant Butte Luminaria Beachwalk when I…
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THE BELOVED RITUAL of Las Posadas returns to the Santa Fe Plaza at 5:30 p.m. on December 11. “It’s a wonderful opportunity for locals to share this tradition with visitors, as we engage in a rich…
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