Editor’s Letter: Ghost Tales
GROWING UP IN SMALL-TOWN OHIO, I heard plenty of ghost stories and urban legends: the creepy old man who patrolled the woods of Snake Hill, the haunted graveyard directly behind my buddy’s backyard…
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Editor’s Letter: Small Wonders
THE MOUNTAIN AIR FELT like snow was on the way. We’d been blessed with sunny skies and warm temps for most of our long weekend in Cloudcroft, but it was mid-November at 9,000 feet. So on our last…
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Editor's Letter: Fair Play
AS A KID, Nathaniel Tetsuro Paolinelli had one goal at the New Mexico State Fair: to win a goldfish. “They never lasted that long,” he recalls with a laugh. The fair was just part of Paolinelli’s…
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Editor's Letter: Turn It Up
CAMP CHAIRS and blankets pack the sloping lawn of Ashley Pond Park for the opening night of the Los Alamos Summer Concert Series. Wearing a white cowboy hat, a rodeo-size belt buckle, and cowboy boots…
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Editor's Letter: Trout Bitten
A SILVERY FLASH in the narrow Whitewater Creek pool meant that I was close. But the shadowy fish disappeared along the rocky canyon wall just as quickly. The tight quarters under the Catwalk National…
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Editor’s Letter: Game On!
SUMMER IS SHORT, with just 108 days from Memorial Day to Labor Day. But it’s also the most elastic of seasons, bending and stretching like something out of a superhero movie. As a kid growing up in…
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Editor's Letter: Pit Stop
TWO HUNDRED THIRTY MILES. That’s the distance I’d go for Mad Jack’s Mountaintop Barbecue. Add another hour and a half waiting in line just to get inside the Cloudcroft BBQ joint in mid-November…
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Editor's Letter: Long Views
“IT’S ALMOST LIKE a meditation,” says Ranger Corey Lycopolus, as members of our group pause to compose photos with their Polaroid instant cameras. We’ve hiked about a half mile from the Valles Caldera…
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Editor's Letter: Hotel Perks
“WHAT ARE THOSE?” a woman from California asks as our six-person tour group moves from La Fonda on the Plaza’s lobby into an alcove near the registration desk. She motions toward a display of more…
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Editor’s Letter: Lens Craft
ANDY JONES LOVES NEW MEXICO. He appreciates the variety of the landscapes, finds beauty in the sunsets and dark skies, and enjoys exploring the outdoors. And yet. When the St. Louis transplant hears…
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