WITHIN A FEW DAYS OF ARRIVING in New Mexico’s Embudo Valley, my wife, RoseMary, and I were inspecting a rental property in the upper end of the narrow valley. It was an old adobe, sans bathroom or…
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Above: The bounty of the garlic harvest. Photographs by Douglas Merriam. IN THE LATE 1970S, I was lent an apartment on Canyon Road in Santa Fe for a month, where I wrote the first draft of a…
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Above: A Dixon Studio Tour visitor relaxes at painter Eli Levin's stop. Photography by Inga Hendrickson. CLEAN UP THE yard. Put away garden tools. Rake up the bones and kindling that the puppy…
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IN ORDER TO BECOME a bona fide New Mexican, it is best to submit to a number of initiation activities. A short list would include: hunting for piñon nuts in scrubland hillside forests of the north in…
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