ON A QUIET STRETCH of Corrales Road shaded by cottonwoods, Forty Nine Forty feels unexpectedly cosmopolitan. Inside the low-lit dining room, where slate-gray walls display chic modern art, Tuesday and…
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WINDING UP THROUGH the trees toward our destination at 7,618 feet, my travel companions and I chatter about our favorite topics: ghosts, UFOs, and Bigfoot. We compare notes on recent podcast episodes…
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HISTORIC ST. FRANCIS DE SALES INN, HATCH Owner Celeste Zimmerman restored the 1860 adobe church, just outside Hatch, into lodging after visitors began saying, “It would be great to get married here…
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IN THE SHADOW of El Morro National Monument, where soft Zuni sandstone cliffs rise against the New Mexico sky, a small hub of mutual aid quietly sustains a community of aging artists and homesteaders…
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THE CEDAR BEAMS of Violet Lucero’s loom stretch across a room that should be too small to hold it. Tools handmade by her father and bundles of wool yarn rest nearby. At the heart of this world of…
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EVERY DAY IS DIFFERENT at the front desk of the Embudo Valley Library and Community Center, in Dixon. Volunteers like Shel Neymark help the local mayordomo book the community room for an acequia…
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S HELLY C. LOWE glows with excitement from her seat as the new president of the nation’s most influential institution for Indigenous arts and higher education. A citizen of the Navajo Nation from…
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NOT MUCH CHANGES in Magdalena. So people took note when Tumbleweeds Diner, with its colorful storefront mural, opened on US 60 in March 2021. The owners, Osiris Navarro and Michal Gola, had come from…
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EARLY LAST WINTER, the fresh snowfall was melting, mixing with the red earth and caliche to become a thick, treacherous mud. The air was bitter cold in the way it gets around Gallup, where…
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A DINÉ WOMAN wields a lightsaber on a black and turquoise T-shirt by Reclaim Designs. She is powerful, elegant, and a little intimidating, not unlike the Indigenous matriarchs she represents. Another…
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