THE MAKER MOVEMENT is a 21st-century phenomenon based on applying new technologies to good old do-it-yourself ingenuity, creativity, and entrepreneurial spirit. It’s about producing things rather than…
Read MoreCARMELLA PADILLA Great Scott Literary icon N. Scott Momaday told contributing writer Carmella Padilla about his trepidation knocking on Georgia O’Keeffe’s Abiquiú door: “I was about to meet one of…
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Above: The Angel Fire Food and Wine Roundup includes music and dancing. Courtesy The Angel Fire Food and Wine Roundup. GUNS BLAZING All year, Lincoln Historic Site visitors meander through a town…
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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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ZANE FISCHER IS NOT AN architect, nor is he an engineer. He just got his contractor’s license this spring, which makes the small structure outside his Santa Fe workshop all the more remarkable. It’s…
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COME AUGUST AND SEPTEMBER, after the warm summer breezes have played through but before the first snaps of cool autumn air arrive, our state enacts a certain ritual—a rite of passage, really, one…
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N. SCOTT MOMADAY is laughing. With a deep, resonant, throw-your-head-back belly laugh, his pleasure fills the roundness of his face and the rectangular space of his southeast Santa Fe living room. He…
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OF COURSE HIS FEET found the mountains. Striding into the Jémez backcountry, Herbert Ungnade could finally recall the beloved Alps he fled at 20 years old when 1931 Germany grew too cold, too cruel…
Read MoreI WAS ONLY A LITTLE BOY in 1953 when the great Western movie Shane was released, so I didn’t see it until after it aired on television 15 years later. What I remember vividly is the tension building…
Read MoreUNIFORMLY IGNORED After growing up in Los Alamos, David Anderson put in a 22-year career as an Air Force officer and, despite the official uniform he wore, still encountered his share of “Missing”…
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