Tag: Small Towns

Corner of the World

By Kate Nelson on Mar. 09, 2020

FIRST THE OIL PUMP BROKE, then the semi’s electronic control unit killed the engine, and now Frank Felty and Ronald Woodruff are stuck in Clines Corners. They don’t yet know that they just joined a…

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Artisanal Roots

By Kate Nelson on Nov. 18, 2019

Above: Jane and Steve Darland outside their home. Photographs by Jay Hemphill. THE WATER OF ALAMOSA CREEK runs clear and constant and so warm that you could irrigate with it all year long. That, in…

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Between the Lines

By Alicia Inez Guzmán on Oct. 23, 2019

Above: Out in the plains around Roy and Mosquero, the Northeast Bookmobile might be the only vehicle you see for miles and miles. Photographs by Gabriella Marks. IT'S AN OPEN ROAD. A truck…

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A Town Reborn

By Elizabeth Miller on Aug. 14, 2019

Above: Questa abuts the wildlands of the Rio Grande del Norte National Monument. Photographs by Minesh Bacrania. THE VILLAGE OF QUESTA perches where the Sangre de Cristo peaks and ponderosa pine…

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The Oasis

By Lauren Villagran on Mar. 19, 2019

Above: Since 1992, the Hachita Food Mart has been an on-again off-again passion project for Jeff Cullum. Photographs by Andrés Leighton. Old buildings are often said to possess “character” or…

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Winter Warmth

By Andrew Collins on Nov. 13, 2017

Above: Pancho Villa State Park. Photography Courtesy New Mexico Tourism Department. HEAVENLY SOUL FOOD AND HOMEMADE PIES, the site of a 20th-century foreign invasion, a winery specializing in Italian…

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Caverns & Cow Towns

By Andrew Collins on Jul. 15, 2017

Two things keep cropping up during a drive beneath the big blue skies that dominate the vast high plains of New Mexico’s far southeast corner: cattle and pumpjacks. In rugged Lea and Eddy counties…

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