One of Our 50 Is Missing: December 2020
Illustration by Chris Philpot For Land’s Sake Indianapolis resident Malia Storrer-Handlon (who vows that she’s merely a New Mexico resident-in-waiting) was reading the book Polaroid: The Complete…
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One of Our 50 Is Missing: November 2020
Illustration by Chris Philpot. HAVE A NICE FLIGHT Mary Ellen Capek received a package from the state of New Jersey’s Department of Health that was correctly addressed to her Corrales home. But it…
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One of Our 50 Is Missing: September/October 2020
Illustration by Chris Philpot Oh, No, Flo! Andy Robertson was perplexed. The Albuquerque resident received a bit of snail mail from Progressive, home of the chipper insurance spokeswoman Flo, who…
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One of Our 50 Is Missing: August 2020
Illustration by Chris Philpot How to Mix Up Hatch Chile “First Colorado, now Arizona?” asked a fuming Tamara Casias-Shope upon spying a curious web recipe. On the heels of New Mexico’s good-natured…
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One of Our 50 Is Missing: July 2020
Illustration by Chris Philpot Your Mileage May Vary J.K. Smith lives in tiny Ramah and is presumably accustomed to the U.S. mail taking an extra day or two to arrive, but one missive set a record. A…
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One of Our 50 Is Missing
Above: Illustration by Chris Philpot. WELL, THEY ARE WORLD FAMOUS Kateri Osburn lives in Silver Spring, Maryland, where she thought she had struck gold upon finding a jar of Hatch chopped green…
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One of Our 50 Is Missing
Above: Illustration by Chris Philpot. STICKY SUBJECT T-shirt faux pas have been legion of late, at least when it comes to transplanting saguaro cacti in our enchanted midst.Despite the fact that the…
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One of Our 50 Is Missing
Above: Illustration by Chris Philpot. “NEW” AS IN NEW MEXICO? Sue Keefer’s husband works as a wildlife officer in southeastern Colorado. One night, he heard a state trooper call the dispatcher based…
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One of Our 50 Is Missing
Above: Illustration by Chris Philpot. DOWN THE RÍO GRANDE Carlsbad native Mary Beth Christy lives in South Carolina now, but in 1961, she and her husband drove from New Mexico to Long Island, New…
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One of Our 50 Is Missing
Above: Illustration by Chris Philpot. AIN'T THAT A KICK IN THE HEAD Mark Gruen lives in Albuquerque, so it seemed pretty reasonable to him that he could watch “our awesome” New Mexico United soccer…
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