Beyond the Walls at Chaco Canyon
THE SUN IS JUST STARTING to bake through crisp morning air as Jon Ghahate strides to the overlook to Fajada Butte, the pillar of rock near Chaco Culture National Historical Park’s entrance. Light…
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Tag: Chaco Canyon
Chocolate Charms
THE SEDUCTIVE AROMA of roasting cacao beans draws me to Chokolá, a jewel of a bean-to-bar chocolate shop just off Taos Plaza. Inside the intimate space, eager chocolate connoisseurs and novices alike…
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24th Annual Photo Awards: New Mexico Experience
Thank you to our sponsors for the 24th Annual Photo Awards: Muench Workshops, New Mexico Department of Game & Fish, New Mexico Department of Transportation, the Hatch Chile Store, World Balloon, the…
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Five Things to Do This Weekend
1 Float into an artist’s dreamy world. Stella Maria Baer’s unique and ethereal style makes her paintings feel like portals into a dreamworld of rabbitbrush-laden fields where horses enjoy pastel…
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A Brief Timeline of Native History
850: First great houses built at Pueblo Bonito and Una Vida in Chaco Canyon. 1050: Chaco culture reaches its height. 1068–1072: First Chacoan structures built at what is now called Salmon Ruins. 1105:…
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Ancient Enigmas
IN THE 17TH CENTURY, the Four Corners region turned cruel. Chaco’s Ancestral Puebloan people had fled three centuries earlier, their elaborate social structure abandoned as the culture’s various…
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Dig Into Ancestral Chocolate at Chaco Canyon
More than 100 rare black-and-white cylindrical vases were found in Room 28 of Pueblo Bonito. Photograph courtesy of the American Museum of Natural History Library, ptc-3521. ENTOMBED IN AN EARTHEN…
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Chile Thrives On Native Soil
Above: A Jemez Pueblo family with a chile ristra, ca. 1905. Courtesy of Simeon Schwemberger collection at the Center for Southwest Research, UNM Libraries. LOOKING AT HIS FIELD in early July, Jemez…
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Five Things to Do This Weekend
Above: The Burning of Zozobra starts to heat up with an online art show. Illustration by Joshua Gonzales. Prep for the Burning of Zozobra with art. When the Santa Fe Kiwanis Club was considering…
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Five Things to Do This Weekend
Above: Emmalee Hill and Anna Robinson make up the Americana-folk-blues duo 3,000 Miles. Photograph by Bob Wilson, Frogworks Photography VIGILANCE ISN'T EASY. But it’s necessary if we want to keep our…
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