The Story of the Santo Niño of Chimayó
FOR MORE THAN A CENTURY AND A HALF, a diminutive Christ Child has been the focus of prayers from visitors to the small village nestled between the Río Grande and the Sangre de Cristo Mountains. His…
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Travel the High Road
ON THE HIGH ROAD to Taos, the landscape keeps changing. Back in Santa Fe, the earth felt hot and dry. But as I approach Nambé on NM 76, the scenic byway’s unofficial starting point, sandy ground…
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The Magic of Chimayó
MAGICAL REALISM WAS NOT SIMPLY a literary genre when I spent summers in Chimayó during my youth. It was a lived experience. I’d venture into the hills behind my grandmother’s home, just a stone’s…
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Five Things to Do This Weekend
1 Honor a holy tradition. The pilgrimage to Chimayó, which happens every year during Holy Week, sees more than 30,000 people walk to the northern New Mexico village to visit its legendary church and…
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Gravel Biking in New Mexico
NOT ROAD CYCLING and not mountain biking, gravel riding is something in between, often mixing paved roads, dirt roads, and nontechnical trails. “It’s about open-ended possibilities, going out your…
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A Look at Kevin Bubriski’s New Mexico
KEVIN BUBRISKI drove cross-country to Santa Fe in 1981, fresh from a stint with the Peace Corps in Nepal. The aspiring documentary filmmaker fell in love with still photography in northern New Mexico…
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Emily Trujillo’s Modern Take on Weaving
AT 31 YEARS OLD, Emily Trujillo is the heir apparent to a textile legacy that began eight generations ago, when Mexico-born Diego Trujillo settled in the village of Chimayó in the mid-1600s. Over the…
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Five Things to Do This Weekend
1 Visit artist studios. Santa Fe Studio Tour With an abundance of creative power to showcase, the Santa Fe Studio Tour includes mediums from photography to sculpture and textile art. “We’ve been…
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A Deeply Practical Magic
"YOU HAVE A GHOST ATTACHED TO YOU," Marisa Santos tells me matter-of-factly. We’re standing in what she calls her “healing casita,” nestled into a quiet neighborhood in Albuquerque’s South Valley…
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Why We Love NM: We Express Ourselves On Wheels
AS A CHILD SPENDING SUMMERS IN CHIMAYÓ with my grandmother, I felt a great deal of excitement about the lowriders that rolled by on the dirt roads on weekends and during the annual Good Friday cruise…
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