One of Our 50 Is Missing: October 2025
YOU’RE OUT! This summer, GARY BENN tried to buy a beer at a Los Angeles Angels baseball game. After presenting his New Mexico driver’s license, the concessions cashier asked: “Do you have a passport…
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One of Our 50 Is Missing: September 2025
WHAT A HOOT! In June, the trail camera at MICHÈLE SCHWAPPACH ’s San Pedro home captured four owls at a water station. To determine what type they were, Schwappach visited the New Mexico section at the…
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One of Our 50 Is Missing: August 2025
SNOW WAY! When he resided in Florida, Albuquerque’s BARRY WHITLEY promised a snow-filled Christmas vacation in northern New Mexico to his young daughters. Just before winter break, he picked up his…
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One of Our 50 Is Missing: July 2025
HOLD YOUR HORSES Recently, KIRK GULLEDGE of Fort Myers, Florida, was looking for information about the Pony Express—the 19th-century quadrupedal method for delivering mail in the West. The web search…
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One of Our 50 Is Missing: June 2025
FOUL BALL Back in 1980, the University of New Mexico men’s basketball team had an academic and gambling scandal that became a national story. “I can remember coach Norm Ellenberger telling Mike…
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One of Our 50 Is Missing: May 2025
ET TU, FARMINGTON? MICHAEL PADILLA says he could write a book about his “One of Our 50” experiences. A recent entry includes his payment being denied at an AutoZone in Farmington. “I tried to pay with…
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One of Our 50 Is Missing: April 2025
BANANA BRAIN When PATRICK ERCOLINO ’s grandmother passed away, he took his two young sons to a Banana Republic in New Jersey to buy suits for the funeral. To receive 50 percent off, he applied for a…
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One of Our 50 Is Missing: March 2025
COOKIE CRUMBLED In December, New York Times food columnist LISA DONOVAN created a stir with her bizcochitos recipe. The writer discovered our state cookie at a gas station “somewhere in New Mexico”…
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One of Our 50 Is Missing: January/ February 2025
HATS OFF Perhaps a record number of readers wrote in to express their dismay at some new offerings in the recent Southwest Indian Foundation catalog. The Gallup-based nonprofit enticed shoppers to…
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One of Our 50 Is Missing: December 2024
OH, CANADA In July, DANIEL ARREOLA of Placitas took a Canadian vacation in Newfoundland and Labrador. In Twillingate, a small fishing village in Notre Dame Bay, he visited the Isles Wooden Boat…
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