Route 66 Through Vintage Postcards
TUCUMCARI MOUNTAIN (ABOVE), 1938 “This card is pure Americana,” Lambert says. “As indicated by the messages on many other cards, heading west on Route 66 and seeing Tucumcari Mountain for the first…
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Tag: San Miguel Chapel
Five Things to Do This Weekend
1 Ring in the New Year. Las Cruces Chile Drop In apropos New Mexican style, Las Cruces rings in the new year by dropping a massive 19-foot light-covered chile pepper over the Plaza de Las Cruces. The…
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Five Things to Do This Weekend
1 See an artist blend memory and tradition. The IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Arts in Santa Fe opens Jordan Ann Craig: My Way Home , a new exhibition highlighting the work of the Northern…
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San Miguel Chapel Sets the Stage
LAURIANNE FIORENTINO IS SPEAKING TO A GROUP of tourists on a warm summer morning at San Miguel Chapel. Fiorentino, chapel director since July 2022, explains how the original 1610 structure was built…
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San Miguel Chapel's Historic Treasures
LAURIANNE FIORENTINO PULLS OUT HER PHONE and calls up a photo. We’re standing in the 1710 rebuild of San Miguel Chapel, first constructed by Santa Fe’s earliest settlers around a century before then…
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Keeping the Faith for New Mexico's Historic Churches
THE LITTLE CHAPEL IN THE PASTORAL Gallinas River Valley had seen decades of cherished rites before it began to crumble. In 2019, historic preservationists undertook lifesaving actions to firm up San…
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