One of Our 50 Is Missing: August 2024
Illustration by Chris Philpot. TYPOGRAPHICAL ERRORS PAUL CRAWFORD of Rio Rancho pointed us to the May 13 issue of The New Yorker, in which John McPhee rails against copyediting failures. The famed…
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One of Our 50 Is Missing: July 2024
Illustration by Chris Philpot. A CUT ABOVE ... THE BORDER A recent trim got hairy for REBECCA SCHULTZ in Waukegan, Illinois, when she mentioned an upcoming trip to the Land of Enchantment. “I wish I…
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One of Our 50 Is Missing: June 2024
Illustration by Chris Philpot. SOUTH BY SOUTHWEST As KARIN EDWARDS of Estes Park, Colorado, was reading Joan Didion’s South and West, one sentence stopped her cold: “Out in Colorado … or out somewhere…
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One of Our 50 Is Missing: May 2024
Illustration by Chris Philpot. RUNNETH OVER THE STATE LINE In February, at the Saudi Cup, longtime New Mexico trainer TODD FINCHER and his stallion Senor Buscador took home the $20 million prize from…
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One of Our 50 Is Missing: April 2024
Illustration by Chris Philpot. MARRIAGE OF INCONVENIENCE KATHLEEN DAVENPORT and her husband-to-be got tied in knots when they tried to procure a marriage license in northern Florida. After handing…
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One of Our 50 Is Missing: March 2024
DELIVERING THE GOODS A resident of greater Boston, BETSY MILLANE wrote to chronicle the struggle she encountered while trying to send an expedited package through the United States Postal Service…
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One of Our 50 Is Missing: January/February 2024
Illustration by Chris Philpot. GIVE AND LET LIVE During the holiday season, Albuquerque’s V. ORGANICK ordered a gift for her husband from Amazon. The item’s two-day Prime shipping originated in…
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One of Our 50 Is Missing: December 2023
Illustration by Chris Philpot. IT COULD HAPPEN TO ANYONE CAROL MOHOLT moved to New Mexico three years ago. “I enjoy reading your monthly reports,” she writes. “But I couldn’t believe it could happen…
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One of Our 50 Is Missing: November 2023
Illustration by Chris Philpot. DEEP SOUTH Both BRUCE MORRISON of Elephant Butte and CATHARINE STRINGFELLOW of Rio Rancho wrote to apprise us of a web article making the rounds titled “The Best Lake…
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One of Our 50 Is Missing: October 2023
Illustration by Chris Philpot. FULL PLATE White Rock resident STEVE FOLTYN was getting ready to register a “year of manufacture” license plate for an antique car when he fell into a rabbit hole about…
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