Guardian of the Gila
PERCHED IN A STEEL LOOKOUT tower on Mogollon Baldy, Sara Irving has kept eyes on the Gila Wilderness for 42 summers. A hike along the Continental Divide Trail in 1980 prompted her to apply for a…
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Tag: People & Places
Welcome to Blackdom
“BLACKDOM WAS A REAL PLACE,” Timothy E. Nelson insists. The Santa Fe–based historian introduces his book about the early 20th-century Black homesteader colony in Chaves County with the simple fact of…
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Kate Gerwin is Raising the Bar
KATE GERWIN’S LIST OF ACCOLADES are as long as the craft cocktail menu at her Albuquerque bar, Happy Accidents. A native of the Bay Area and 20-year mixologist, Gerwin advanced to the first-season…
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The 22nd Annual New Mexico Magazine Photos of the Year: People
1ST PLACE The Stare Down, (above), Bobby Gutierrez "This photo was taken in the Barelas neighborhood of Downtown Albuquerque during a cruise night where local custom car clubs line Fourth Street with…
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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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Del's Restaurant Serves Up Five-Star Experiences
ON A SCORCHING JULY AFTERNOON, a few dozen folks sit on the patio at Del’s Restaurant, in Tucumcari, listening to a local band perform classic country and rock hits. Others dance or admire the vintage…
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The 21st Annual New Mexico Magazine Photos of the Year
ON THE SCREEN, a massive elk with intimidating antlers and a tuft of grass hanging from his mouth moved over a ridge, keeping a watchful eye over two downslope females. We’d just begun debating images…
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Meet New Mexico's Makers
GREGORY SEGURA PEERS THROUGH his gray jeweler’s visor at the details of a silver sacred heart pendant. Wielding a hammer and torch in his Santa Fe workshop, the master silversmith fuses imagery and…
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"Why I Love New Mexico" Photo Contest
WE KNOW YOU LOVE NEW MEXICO. So we asked New Mexico Magazine readers on Instagram to show us why—and did they ever deliver. Close to 400 entries were submitted using #whyilovenewmexico and…
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