Fruit of Labor
Apple Boy stands 12-feet tall, just outside the Old Apple Bar, in Mountain Park. Photograph by Douglas Merriam. BILL AND BEVERLY NIFFENEGGER BOUGHT A 1941 apple barn in Mountain Park with plans to…
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Pillars of Strength
The Veterans Memorial in Gallup honors those who served from the Gallup area. Photograph by Gabriella Marks. FOURTEEN ILLUMINATED POSTS LINE A WALKWAY honoring military veterans from the Gallup area…
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Albuquerque's Giant Red Arrow Hits the Mark
The giant red arrow sculpture was constructed outside a shopping center on Carlisle Boulevard. Photograph by Alamy / Richard Ellis. HERE’S THE LEGEND: IN 1961, CHARACTERS FROM the short-lived Little…
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The Mighty Miner of Ratón
Untitled Coalminer #1 , by artist Maye Torres stands before the Miners' Colfax Medical Center. Photograph by Kate Nelson. TEN FEET TALL, HE RISES BEFORE the Miners’ Colfax Medical Center, his bronze…
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Albuquerque's Guadalupe Chapel Draws the Faithful
Visitors can marvel at the lunar-calendar window crafted by Sister Giotto Moots. Photograph by Kate Nelson. SISTER GIOTTO MOOTS, a nun of the Dominican Order, believed that an alley in Albuquerque’s…
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Tree of Knowledge
The Tree of Knowledge in Roswell focuses is crafted of metal leaves encompassing powerful words. Photograph courtesy of Susan Wink. RISING NEARLY 18 FEET in front of the Roswell Public Library, the…
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Sacred Space
Photograph by Kate Nelson. JOE MASTERS REMEMBERS PIE SUPPERS, circuit-riding preachers, and his grandma playing hymns on the baby grand. Aside from a few town reunions, the 1908 Taiban Presbyterian…
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Roadside Stop: Pistachioland
ON THE NORTH END OF ALAMOGORDO, McGinn’s PistachioLand draws a crowd with its nut orchard, country store, winery, ice cream parlor—and a whopper of a roadside attraction. The 30-foot-tall…
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UNM's Best-Kept Secret
Above: Taken around 1940, this image shows the steps to the Estufa’s roof. The windowless adobe sits at Redondo Drive and Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard. Photograph courtesy of Center for Southwest…
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