Tag: Chimayo

Hot Shots

By Gwyneth Doland on Jul. 02, 2019

Above: Tsimayó hot sauce. Photograph by Douglas Merriam. Finally, you can get a jab of tang and heat from a local hot sauce, made with cherished heirloom red chiles grown in the village of Chimayó…

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The Museum That's Saving a Community

By Don J. Usner on Apr. 09, 2019

Above: Visitors dance at the Chimayó Museum's fiesta. Photographs by Don J. Usner. MARTA TRUJILLO MARTINEZ LABORS to lift herself up from her folding chair in the shade of a giant cottonwood along…

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High Art

By Andrew Collins on Sep. 01, 2016

Right: El Santuario de Chimayó church. Left: Weaving at Centinela Traditional Arts in Chimayó. PHOTO CREDIT: DOUGLAS MERRIAM, MINESH BACRANIA “WE GET LOTS OF LOOKERS, and some very serious buyers…

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Lowriders: Riding High

By Don J. Usner on Jul. 01, 2016

Above: Mike Montoya applies a finishing touch for the 2012 MainStreet ShowDown car show in Española. IT WAS A HOT SUMMER DAY in Chimayó, cicadas buzzing in the junipers and dogs panting in the…

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The High Road, Taos, Mora

By Cheryl Alters Jamison on Aug. 28, 2013

Download Road Trip Listings Road Trip Key Chimayó El Rincón Farm More than three centuries ago, the Trujillo family was among the founding families of Chimayó. Since the earliest years, the…

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Churches to Visit in New Mexico

By Lindsey Padilla on Sep. 25, 2012

Northern Road Trip Begin your journey in Ranchos de Taos, just four miles south of Taos, at the San Francisco de Asis Mission Church [60 St. Francis Plz]. The church’s four-foot thick adobe buttresses…

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