One of Our 50 Is Missing
GET OUT OF JAIL FREE CARD Eric Overbey, of Springfield, Missouri, shared a story his teacher told him when he was a student in Roswell. The teacher, a competitive fisherman, was driving through…
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The Song of the Hawk Moth
New Mexico never lets you forget where you are. In Albuquerque, where I live, there are sleeping volcanoes rising up at one end of town and, at the other, the grand Sandía Mountains jutting high above…
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Under the Cottonwood Tree
It was all about the trees. You’d think it would have been about the mountains, deserts, the apocalyptic sunsets, or the artists, poets, native peoples, the food, the chile, the something exotic. But…
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The Incredible, Edible Inkling
A recipe— a single recipe—enticed me to New Mexico. As I recall, it was 1969 and I was finishing up my high-school homework at the kitchen table of our family home, in Galesburg, Illinois. My dad sat…
Read MoreOne of Our Fifty is Found!
“One of Our 50 Is Missing” is one of the most popular and beloved pages of the magazine. But we’ve noticed something in our “Mailbag” letters, Facebook page, and Twitter feed: how powerfully our…
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Finding the Right Words
I grew up in northern New Mexico, spending most of my time in Los Alamos but making frequent trips to visit my grandmother and other relatives in Chimayó. Spanish was the common language down in “the…
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What’s Happening!
Bring Your A-Game If you’re driven by a competitive spirit and love to show it on fresh powder, then New Mexico’s ski areas are the places to be in January. Sipapu Ski and Summer Resort hosts its…
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A-ha! NM Found
You know that feeling when your eyes really open up to a place and something awakens inside you? Like your heart? And it says: “This is where I belong.” That happens all the time here—even to people…
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The Bard of the Duke City
Above: The sun sets over Albuquerque. Photograph by NMTD. ERNIE PYLE, ONE OF THE GREATEST war correspondents in history, wrote an article titled “Why Albuquerque?” that was published in this magazine…
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One of Our 50 Is Missing - January 2012
After more than two decades, thousands of you have shared their experiences of lost New Mexico in the "One of Our 50 is Missing" humor column. Tell us your experiences at fifty@nmmagazine.com. Not…
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