Time Travel with Historical Tours
Pecos National Historical Park. Among the free tours, the daily Ancestral Sites Tour teaches visitors about Ancestral Pueblo and Spanish Colonial history. Three times a week, the Civil War Walking…
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The Anatomy of Zozobra at 100
SANTA FE’S FAVORITE 50-foot marionette, Zozobra, is gussying up to attend a special 100th celebration in his honor this month. How little he’s learned after all these years! In the time-honored…
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Explore Indian Market and Beyond
THE SANTA FE PLAZA can hardly contain it all. Featuring over 1,000 artists from more than 200 tribes, the Southwestern Association for Indian Arts Santa Fe Indian Market bursts at the seams with…
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Try These Four Essential Art Tours
Las Vegas murals. The self-guided walking tour of more than a dozen murals includes the hand-painted images of heroes of medicine located on the side of the El Centro Family Care building (emblazoned…
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Tour Georgia O'Keeffe's New Mexico
“THERE, SEE THOSE FLOWERS,” calls Susan Cross from the front of the small bus. “Those are mariposa lilies. This is a special sight; they don’t bloom every year.” Cross, our guide on the Ghost Ranch…
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What We're Reading: A Luminous Uplift
NORTHERN NEW MEXICO poet John Brandi traverses three continents and 40 years in A Luminous Uplift: Landscape & Memory (White Pine Press). Brandi divides his tome into travelogues of places he’s…
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A Ranch on the Ruidoso
A LONE MAN ON HORSEBACK crosses a dry wash, approaching a bare-bones ranch with a couple of shade trees. Before him, a broad chiaroscuro mosaic of rolling golden foothills, distant purple mountains…
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Tales of the Southwest
MANY BOOKSTORES throughout the state have a Southwest section. But Books of the Southwest, in the original Las Vegas, is completely devoted to the special category of used and rare regional…
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Three Artists Inspired by Water
SASHA VOM DORP Taos Sasha vom Dorp set out to see sound. After learning that sounds had form, he started searching for its shapes and for a medium that would respond to its waves. The answer was…
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Tularosa's Eye-Catching Cars
THEY’RE HARD TO MISS while driving through Tularosa: five pairs of enormous eyes peering from the windshields of vintage vehicles parked on an otherwise vacant lot. The rusty but still colorful fire…
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