New Mexico’s Wisdom Keepers
SHANNON CARR-STEVENS WANTED to find a way to photograph the stories of her parents. Like her dad’s boyhood memories of being a lonely shepherd at a camp on Laguna Pueblo in the monsoon-rich days of…
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Tag: Levi Romero
La Nueva Resolana
IN 2001, New Mexico Magazine published my article “La Nueva Resolana: Norteños Find Respite in New Gathering Places.” In the manito traditions of northern New Mexico, resolana is synonymous with…
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Don Silviares, El Verdulero
MY PRIMO INTRODUCES me to the barber. “So you’re from Embudo?” the barber asks me, the snip of his scissors rhythmically slicing through the slow afternoon. “When I was a kid growing up in Dawson…
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La Nueva Resolana
A FEW SUMMERS AGO l shared a bench with three elderly gentlemen outside the Wal-Mart in Taos. Although I had come into their company as a complete stranger, they seemed oblivious to my presence and…
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Five Things to Do This Weekend
1 Beware the bumps in the night. Halloweekend A haunted mansion full of scary (and fun!) events invades Los Alamos for Halloweekend, including Trick-or-Treat on MainStreet, spooky science events at…
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Why We Love NM: Our Adobe Homes Are Timeless
ARTISTS’ PAINTINGS AND OLD PHOTOS IN BOOKS capture the soft forms of adobe houses, melding like loaves of horno bread into the New Mexico landscape. Their scale and proportion in these depictions are…
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