Recipe: Radish Salad with Wild Arugula
From the Down the Earth article in August 2016 issue. Jonathan Perno prepared the following menu using the garden’s late-summer bounty. Radish Salad with Wild Arugula Serves 6 4 ounces French…
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Category: 2016
The Years of Lincoln Town
Above: Headwaters of the Río Bonito in Lincoln National Forest, 1979. August 1975 They found the valley, the clean mountain valley, and they named their settlement La Placita del Rio Bonito—The Little…
Read MoreOne of Our 50 Is Missing | August 2016
BORDER CROSSING Stephen F. Austin University recently issued a news release headlined “New Mexico artist wins first in Texas National.” The release went on to say that winning photographer Daniel…
Read MoreNew Mexico to Brazil
MY JOURNEY STARTED the day after a southern New Mexico thunderstorm created a massive flash flood. My brother Lucas and I wanted to go swimming. Micki, our mom, took us firmly in hand and stopped us…
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No Way Out
THE APACHE WARS: The Hunt for Geronimo, the Apache Kid, and the Captive Boy Who Started the Longest War in American History BY PAUL ANDREW HUTTON (Crown, 2016) Reaching the midpoint in The Apache…
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In His Own Skin
Above: Santa Fe artist Frank Buffalo Hyde explores charged issues in bright, playful images. “THAT'S MY REAL NAME, by the way,” Frank Buffalo Hyde announces out of the blue. “A lot of people think I…
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Down to Earth
Above: A luscious steak entrée includes fresh arugula and radishes, along with sculptured potatoes. THE STEAK TASTED OF CAMPFIRE, the salad of dewy garden, the peaches of lazy August afternoons. As we…
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Art for the Sake of Park
Above: Cavates, North Wall of Frijoles Canyon, 2014. IHAD TURNED 77 and figured my days as a national park artist-in-residence were behind me. I’d been lucky enough to earn 11 such postings, enabling…
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Living the Dream
Left: The Big Skylight Cave, in the Big Tubes Area at El Malpais National Monument. Right : White Sands. PHOTO BY KENNAN HARVEY, LAURENCE PARENT WHEN I WAS A KID, my family squeezed every penny. This…
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People Power
Hiroshi "Hershey" Miyamura is revered in his hometown for Korean War heroics (right) and displays the Medal of Honor that President Eisenhower gave to him in 1953 (left). THERE'S A REASON the…
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