NM's Smartest Ski Area
There's room to spread out on the beginners' hill at Pajarito Mountain Ski Area. Photograph by Stephen Shankland. MY HEART BURSTS WITH JOY AS I follow a gangly 11-year-old boy down an easy run at the…
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Category: January
Storytellers | January 2018
CAROLYN GRAHAM Chief Executive Officer Something untangles in my head when I catch my first glimpse of the Organ Mountains,” says Las Cruces native Carolyn Graham, who recently joined the staff of New…
Read MoreFinding the Way Home | Editor's Letter | January 2018
I squandered 19 years of my life before laying eyes on New Mexico. A spring-break trip to the Gila National Forest unexpectedly connected my body and soul to the state I eventually called home. A few…
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Rooted in Place
SANTA CLARA PUEBLO artist Roxanne Swentzell’s 30-year exploration into permaculture farming techniques gave rise to the Pueblo Food Experience, a program that promotes a pre-Columbian diet of simple…
Read MoreOne of Our 50 Is Missing | January 2017
THE GREEN (AND RED) HOUSE After living in New Mexico for 12 years, Andrea Hill and her family moved to a rural part of Wisconsin where they knew no one. That didn’t stop residents from asking the…
Read MoreThe River of Life | Books | January 2017
RIO A Photographic Journey down the Old Río Grande By Melissa Savage (editor), with essays by Wiliam DeBuys, Rina Swentzell, G. Emlen Hall, Juan Estevan Arellano, Estalla Leopold, Norma Elia Cantu…
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Trip of the Month: Old Fort Union
Above: The eroded buildings at Fort Union National Monument still stand on New Mexico’s high plains northeast of Las Vegas. Learn about family-friendly events and activities at nps.gov/foun. January…
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The Calling
THE MORNING SUN is just warming up Mount Taylor when 44 students gather in the chapel at St. Joseph Mission School, east of Grants. Gregorian chant flows from an iPod as the students—some so young…
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It Don’t Mean a Thing If It Ain’t Got That Sting
YOU CAN LEARN a lot about a state, I would posit, by considering the attributes of its official insect. State insect ? you ask. Is that even a thing? Indeed it is. Rhode Island’s is the American…
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The Godfather
AND WITH ULTIMA came the owl … On a starry night in September 2016, I am camping near the New Mexico–Colorado state line and reading Bless Me, Ultima in the shadowy light of a kerosene lamp. I am…
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