Tree of Knowledge
The Tree of Knowledge in Roswell focuses is crafted of metal leaves encompassing powerful words. Photograph courtesy of Susan Wink. RISING NEARLY 18 FEET in front of the Roswell Public Library, the…
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Category: Road Trips
Sacred Space
Photograph by Kate Nelson. JOE MASTERS REMEMBERS PIE SUPPERS, circuit-riding preachers, and his grandma playing hymns on the baby grand. Aside from a few town reunions, the 1908 Taiban Presbyterian…
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Roadside Stop: Pistachioland
Above: PistachioLand's giant nut is a tribute to owner Timothy McGinn's father, Thomas. Photograph by Megan Dailey. ON THE NORTH END OF ALAMOGORDO, McGinn’s PistachioLand draws a crowd with its nut…
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UNM's Best-Kept Secret
Above: Taken around 1940, this image shows the steps to the Estufa’s roof. The windowless adobe sits at Redondo Drive and Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard. Photograph courtesy of Center for Southwest…
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Odd Fellow
Above: The lumberjack stands just south of Central Avenue on Louisiana Boulevard atop the May Cafe. Photograph by Kate Russell. An ax-holding lumberjack looms atop the May Cafe, near the intersection…
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Take The Scenic Route Through New Mexico
IN A STATE AS LARGE AND lightly populated as New Mexico, it’s uncommonly easy to find yourself on lonesome roads with spectacular, unadulterated views. Highways and byways unfurl through seemingly…
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Peak and Prairies
Above: Meadows reach up to mountains outside of Las Vegas. PHOTO BY INGA HENDRICKSON IN LAS VEGAS and the adjoining Mora Valley, New Mexico’s vast high plains meet the soaring Sangre de Cristo…
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25 Reasons to Love Route 66
COME TAKE A RIDE. The passenger door is open. We have a 19-foot-long shell-pink and iridescent-lavender American automobile to take us down the road. Some days, as the early-summer sun shakes down…
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