Peak Season in Red River
AS THE JEEP TIRES scrape near the edge of the gravel road, driver Gary Swinford prompts, “See how steep it is?” You can’t miss it. The gravel slope drops so precipitously that the ridgeline on the far…
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Tag: Northern New Mexico
Sangre Joven Keeps Norteño Music Alive
I F YOU’VE CAUGHT Sangre Joven rocking a hometown show at Plaza Park in the center of Las Vegas, you probably understand why the longtime band titled their latest release El Orgullo de Las Vegas (The…
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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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Farm-to-Can Sparkling Water
SINCE THEY GROW LAVENDER in the often-dry Río Grande Valley, Kemper Barkhurst and Elizabeth Arnold are always conscious about water—where it comes from, how much is available, how it’s transported…
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Nurturing Community in La Madera
LA MADERA TUCKS INTO A NOOK OF green surrounded by sun-burnished canyons. A few houses perch on gnarled, rocky slopes dotted with dark piñon and juniper trees, but most line the valley floor along the…
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A New Home in New Mexico's Ski Scene
LAURA SPECTOR COMPETED at the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics in biathlon, which requires skate skiing then shooting targets with a .22-caliber rifle. Now settling into life in Los Alamos, Spector…
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True Heroes 2022: Dr. Jodi Casados & Dr. Levi Maes
DOCTORS JODI CASADOS AND LEVI MAES remember their first Covid-positive patient at La Clínica del Pueblo de Río Arriba, in Tierra Amarilla. Maes put on every piece of the clinic’s personal protective…
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Churches to Visit in New Mexico
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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