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DISTANCE LEARNING The first time I visited Chaco Canyon, I was trespassing. Hidden under a smudge of thick black eyeliner, I looked like a girl out for trouble, not a hike around 900-year-old Native…
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ATLAS SHRUGGED A relative sent Dave Ring, of Albuquerque, a Maryland newspaper ad in which a local tour outfit offered a springtime Southwestern Adventure Tour of Texas, Arizona, New Mexico…
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THE AUDIENCE at a preview performance of Haunted America Suite wasn’t expecting actual ghosts. But as an eerie movement came to a close, everyone packed into Atkinson Recital Hall at New Mexico State…
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The Stars of the Show
(above) Visitors line up to see the moon and some of the visible planets at a Chaco Canyon star party. A view of the Milky Way above Fajada Butte in Chaco. Our jaw-dropping night skies are worth a…
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What's Happening | October
(above) Balloons are in high season in Albuquerque and Taos. OCTOBER 2–4 WEAVE GOT IT GOING ON Good luck resisting the cuteness quotient of the Taos Wool Festival’s “Fiber Critters Corner,” where kids…
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STARGAZING HAS long been a favorite pastime in these parts, going back at least as far as the ancient Puebloans who inhabited Chaco Canyon. A thousand years later, their petroglyphs are still…
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The Witter Bynner House: Writers in Residence
(above) These days, the Witter Bynner House is the Inn of the Turquoise Bear. In 1983, When I was 11 years old, I lived in a mysterious adobe mansion on the corner of East Buena Vista Street and Old…
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The Mills Mansion: Found and Lost
The Mills Mansion in Springer. UP IN NORTHEASTERN New Mexico, where the grasslands and the sky seem to have the run of the place, there’s a house at the end of First Street in Springer that stands…
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