Christmas Carolers
Above: Sandhill cranes gather at the Bosque del Apache in this image, a submission to our 2017 Photo Contest. Photography by Michael Garcia. December 1941 Janice and I arose early on Christmas morning…
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Category: 2017
Cross Cultural Holiday
“KETCHUP? A HALF BOTTLE of ketchup?” Martín Rios quizzes his wife, Jennifer, about the beef brisket her paternal grandmother made for Hanukkah and other Jewish holidays. Guadalajara native Martín, a…
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Take The Scenic Route Through New Mexico
IN A STATE AS LARGE AND lightly populated as New Mexico, it’s uncommonly easy to find yourself on lonesome roads with spectacular, unadulterated views. Highways and byways unfurl through seemingly…
Read MoreMade in NM | Editor's Letter | August 2017
THE MAKER MOVEMENT is a 21st-century phenomenon based on applying new technologies to good old do-it-yourself ingenuity, creativity, and entrepreneurial spirit. It’s about producing things rather than…
Read MoreStorytellers | August 2017
CARMELLA PADILLA Great Scott Literary icon N. Scott Momaday told contributing writer Carmella Padilla about his trepidation knocking on Georgia O’Keeffe’s Abiquiú door: “I was about to meet one of…
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Go. See. Do | August 2017
Above: The Angel Fire Food and Wine Roundup includes music and dancing. Courtesy The Angel Fire Food and Wine Roundup. GUNS BLAZING All year, Lincoln Historic Site visitors meander through a town…
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Caverns & Cow Towns
Two things keep cropping up during a drive beneath the big blue skies that dominate the vast high plains of New Mexico’s far southeast corner: cattle and pumpjacks. In rugged Lea and Eddy counties…
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Made in the Heart of NM: Thinking Small
ZANE FISCHER IS NOT AN architect, nor is he an engineer. He just got his contractor’s license this spring, which makes the small structure outside his Santa Fe workshop all the more remarkable. It’s…
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An Appreciation of the New Mexico County Fair
COME AUGUST AND SEPTEMBER, after the warm summer breezes have played through but before the first snaps of cool autumn air arrive, our state enacts a certain ritual—a rite of passage, really, one…
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Stories From a Legend: N. Scott Momaday
N. SCOTT MOMADAY is laughing. With a deep, resonant, throw-your-head-back belly laugh, his pleasure fills the roundness of his face and the rectangular space of his southeast Santa Fe living room. He…
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