Only in NM
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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Only in NM
FOR THE BIRDS! As a transplant from Los Angeles, California, to Las Cruces, I’m in a position not to take the only-in-NM menu offerings for granted. One of my favorites is green-chile frozen custard…
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It started in the winter of 1998, after I’d read People of Darkness , a Tony Hillerman murder mystery set in New Mexico, in Navajo country. A local policeman goes to the Crownpoint Navajo Rug Auction…
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ONE PICTURE, 1,000 WORDS Over cups of hot tea on this chilly morning, my husband, Ross, sat reading aloud from random articles out of the May issue of New Mexico Magazine . We were both struck by the…
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Borderline Loco
NEED TO KNOW Pancho Villa State Park’s 12th Annual Camp Furlong Day will be held on March 7 in Columbus. The battle’s centennial will be celebrated there March 12, 2016. (575) 531-2711;…
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WHAT DOES ‘ONLY IN NM’ MEAN TO YOU? If we print your letter, you’ll get a cool cap with this clever logo: “New Mexico: not really new, and not really Mexico.”TM (You can also buy the hat at…
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Snow Place Like Home
After I had lived in New Mexico for three years, I was offered the “dream job” back in Colorado. My parents and siblings still lived in Denver, and so did most of my friends. The salary was twice as…
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Everything Intertwined
I had just moved to Albuquerque, and I was exhausted and sore from carrying boxes and furniture all day. I decided to treat myself to a massage. I plopped down my 70 bucks, a huge indulgence for me…
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NEED TO KNOW The annual Nuestra Música concert will take place at the Lensic Performing Arts Center in Santa Fe on Friday, April 10. Featured musicians will include Frank McCulloch y sus Amigos;…
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Candlelight Vigil
I am 4 or 5 years old. It is Christmas Eve in Isleta Pueblo, and I lie in bed in our living room, too excited to sleep. My family of nine—seven children and our parents—lives in an adobe home of five…
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