Betty Williamson grew up just outside the town of Pep, in southeastern New Mexico. Photograph by Andrew Kornylak. BETTY WILLIAMSON’S GRANDPARENTS HOMESTEADED a piece of land 10 miles outside the town…
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The Sacred Heart Church in Bueyeros still holds Mass the first Saturday of each month. AFTER SERVICES IN SACRED HEART CHURCH, Mary Libby Campbell remembers, folks gathered in the old WPA schoolhouse…
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WHERE CR 279 BREAKS SOUTH from US 550, between San Ysidro and Cuba, centuries of history emerge. The craggy knob of Cabezón Peak, the remnant of a 1.5-million-year-old volcanic eruption, looms to the…
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Duran might look like a ghost town, but community members have plans for preservation. Photograph by Andrew Kornylak. Read up. Web searches yield a host of info on older towns, along with…
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An old adobe homestead sits in Lake Valley, just southwest of Truth or Consequences. Photograph by Andrew Kornylak. A CENTURY'S WORTH OF PRAYERS bolster the restored adobe chapel at the Lake Valley…
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Visitors to Chloride can see former mining buildings. HAD DON EDMUND NOT TAKEN A WRONG TURN on Labor Day weekend in 1977, the town of Chloride might have fallen faster. Instead, Edmund fell for the…
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GOOD HAUNTS Abandoned, barely there, or rebounding with new purpose, towns, hotels, and restaurants all across the state hold secret treasures: the stories of past lives. Chloride After the…
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Karen Haughness owns the always popular No Scum Allowed Saloon, in White Oaks. Photograph by Andrew Kornylak. ALBUQUERQUE NATIVE KAREN HAUGHNESS MOVED AROUND before settling in the tiny town of White…
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A storm brews over an abandoned home in Yeso. FOR LONG MINUTES, THE ONLY SOUND is the wind rising and falling as it blows across New Mexico’s eastern plains. From somewhere along a street of empty…
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Once a ghost town, Madrid has rebounded as a place for galleries, boutiques, and live music. Photograph by Steve Gleydura. MADRID LOOKS LIKE ANYTHING BUT a ghost town on a sunny Sunday in May. A…
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