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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One of Our 50 Is Missing: November 2024
FOUR-LEGGED FLUB Albuquerque resident SABRINA DENNING grew up in Germany. She still reads the German magazine Bunte, where she saw an article on Disney’s 2019 live-action Lady and the Tramp remake…
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One of Our 50 Is Missing: October 2024
BON VOYAGE As a Santa Fean looking to take a vacation, ALAN HILL was intrigued by a recent piece of clickbait advertising on Yahoo.com. “Empty Alaska Cruises Departing from New Mexico that Seniors Can…
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One of Our 50 Is Missing: September 2024
WHEN IN ROAM Several years ago, JUSTIN MORRIS received an unusually high cell phone bill, so he called his carrier. “Did you travel last month?” the representative asked. “I did spend some time in New…
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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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