One of Our 50 Is Missing: July 2023
Illustration by Chris Philpot. A PRESCRIPTION FOR FRUSTRATION Former Rio Rancho resident NANCY BELL once traveled from New Mexico to Cape Cod, Massachusetts. While there, she needed to refill a…
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One of Our 50 Is Missing: June 2023
Illustration by Chris Philpot. ROAD TRIPPER A 1972 graduate of St. Pius X High School, in Albuquerque, LOUIE CASTORIA was hanging out at the Ace Hardware in Half Moon Bay, California, when a…
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One of Our 50 Is Missing: May 2023
Illustration by Chris Philpot. SALAMI SHENANIGANS In 1966, RAY GOLDSTEIN was a graduate student in Las Cruces. As a native New Yorker in the land of green chile, he was also sorely missing the taste…
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One of Our 50 Is Missing: April 2023
Illustration by Chris Philpot. OFF THE BEATEN PATH JAN AND LEE RADER sent us a snapshot of the International Travel section at the Barnes & Noble bookstore in Manassas, Virginia. What was shelved…
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One of Our 50 Is Missing: March 2023
Illustration by Chris Philpot. MIDWEST NOT-SO-NICE After a visit to Tucson, JANICE JONES was returning to the Midwest via Amtrak, on the Sunset Limited, set to change trains in San Antonio, Texas…
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One of Our 50 Is Missing: Jan/Feb 2023
DON'T MESS WITH MARYLAND Reader JOEL GALLANT notes that while many “One of Our 50” stories involve people confusing New Mexico for Mexico, our state can go missing in other ways, too. Before he moved…
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The 22nd Annual New Mexico Magazine Photos of the Year: New Mexico Experience
1ST PLACE Recalling the Santa Fe, (above), Ann Walton 2ND PLACE Pecos Underground , Grayson Kemp "A beam of light helps illuminate an underground kiva near the main pueblo adobe structure at Pecos…
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The 22nd Annual New Mexico Magazine Photos of the Year
JIM STEIN STILL OWNS THE OLYMPUS OM-2 his parents bought him as a kid. For more than 35 years, he’s toted the single-lens, 35-millimeter camera with him, while growing up in Los Alamos, attending…
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One of Our 50 Is Missing: December 2022
DESTINATION UNKNOWN On his way back to Santa Fe from a visit to New Orleans, Patrick Murphy needed to check in for his flight at an airline desk. When he got to the front of the line, the clerk saw…
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One of Our 50 Is Missing: November 2022
Roll Those R’s National media had a field day over a spelling error too large to miss. In July, the New Mexico Department of Transportation upgraded a truck-size directional sign on I-40 that told…
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