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Publisher: Charles Fischer Editor: Rey Berrones Ad Design: Sandra Martinez, Steve Stone Columnists: Donald Burleson, Stu Pritchard Roswell Daily Record Staff Writers: Ilissa Gilmore, Vanessa Kahin, Jill McLaughlin, Amy Vogelsang

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Vanilla Ice

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History

Billy the Kid gets locked up.

UFOlogy

The FBI's interest in UFOs

Correction: On the page 4 article on the April 4 edition, the names of the two brothers, Jose and Santiago were swapped in error. We apologize for this mistake.

The Roswell Museum and Art Center is opening an exhibition by Natasha Bowdoin on April 26.

Photographer: Rey Berrones

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CULTURE

Courtesy Photo Leeann Sandoval and Suzy Stubbs pose for a photo with the Dexter school-based littles.

Peace, Love and Bowling

A yearly bowling party celebrates the Big Brothers Big Sisters of Southeastern New Mexico.

By Rey Berrones Vision Editor and Vanessa Kahin Vistas Editor

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he 10th annual Bowl For Kids’ Sake is set to take place April 20 at City Center Lanes, 3905 S.E. Main. There will be two sessions that day — from 11 a.m.-1 p.m. and from 1:30-3:30 p.m.

An affiliate of Big Brothers Big Sisters of America, the Southeast New Mexico faction is a nonprofit organization that connects good mentors with children who need them the most.

Although there are Bowl For Kids’ Sake events taking place around the country this time of the year, funds from Roswell’s event will remain in Southeast New Mexico and help children ages 5-17, known as “littles,” who could benefit from spending quality time with a positive adult role model, known as a “big.”

The dedicated staff members at BBBSSNM help establish and foster two types of mentorship interaction.

There is the community-based program, in which the “big” picks up the “little” at his or her home to go out and enjoy quality time in the commu-

nity. There is also the site-based program, in which the “big” meets with a “little” at school once a week to do a more structured activity. The goal of either type of match is the same — to model a positive lifestyle to an at-risk child, so that the child will have an increased chance of growing up to become a productive member of society.

The primary fundraiser for BBBS of Southeastern New Mexico, Bowl For Kids’ Sake is also an opportunity for “bigs” and “littles” to interact in a family-oriented, safe environment; entirely for free.

“The fundraising is about over then,” Wolf explained. “It’s just a big party to celebrate.”

As nice as it is to give money, it turns out that one of the things that is needed this time around, is time. The BBBSSNM currently has a waiting list that needs to be filled. According to Stacy Heacox, match supervisor, “The community wait list in Roswell is particSEE BOWL ON PAGE 14

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Hairspray hits the stage

The ENMU-Roswell Theater Department is presenting the song and dance extravaganza “Hairspray.”

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Jenci Huebner plays Tracy Turnblad.

he energy level is high in the Performing Arts Center at Eastern New Mexico University-Roswell.

No one can stand still: feet are stomping, microphones are being checked, the band tunes up and the cast run through dance sequences one more time, trying to reach perfection for a musical performance like no other.

“Hairspray,” a musical about integration in the sixties, will be performed at ENMURoswell’s Performing Arts Center, 64 University Blvd., on April 18-20 and 25-27 at 7:30 p.m. and April 21 and 28 at 2:30 p.m. Tickets are $10 for adults, $8 for seniors and children and $5 for ENMU students with an ID or groups of 10 or more. Tickets can be

Rey Berrones Photo purchased at the Performing Arts Center Box Office Monday through Thursday from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. or online at www.showtix4u.com.

Originally a 1988 John Waters film as well as a book

by Mark O’Donnell and Thomas Meehan and later adapted into a musical in 2002, “Hairspray” takes place in 1962 where an overweight teenage girl, Tracy Turnblad, seizes the opportunity to dance on her favorite television program, the Cor ny Collins Show. She is not the typical dancer for the show, and this angers dance queen Amber Von Tussle but attracts attention from heartthrob Link Larkin.

Following her dream ends up engaging her with a group

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Amy Vogelsang Record Staff Writer of African American men and women who are also amazing dancers, but cannot hope to be on television because of segregation. Fighting against racial prejudice and the “status quo” expectations, Tracy and Link, with the help of their friends, speak their beliefs aloud, fighting for equal rights and integration on national television.

“The whole show is full of everything,” Jenci Huebner, playing Tracy Turnblad, said. “[There are] funny parts and sad parts that can make you cry. It really hits home.”

All the choreography and dancing with such a large cast makes this musical one of the most challenging, director Dallas Jeffers-Pollei said. The largest musical number is at the end, and the cast has to find the energy to finish strong. With all the dancing “these kids are exhausted.

After the first 20 minutes they’ll all be glistening,” he said with a dramatic flair of spirit fingers.

The actors, although finding the amount of choreography challenging, say the play is a lot of fun. They are portraying caricatures of the already dynamic characters seen in the 2007 film, actor Dominic Batista said. He is playing the part of Link Larkin, and one of the challenges is being over the top, but still believable, he said. They want the audience to believe in the cheesiness.

Starting rehearsals back in mid February, Batista said it hasn’t felt like long enough to pull everything together, but “the magic will happen when it needs to happen.”

Batista’s confidence comes from the outstanding troupe.

The girls cast for the leads

are impeccable.

“It’s crazy they found the voices and how [the girls] look is picture perf ect,” Batista said. Other roles were filled perfectly as well, particularly the part of Edna Turnblad who is traditionally played by a man, so Eric Johnston-Ortiz, previously the Beast in “Beauty and the Beast,” was cast for the role.

“It’s a comedy for me,” Johnston-Ortiz said. “I want people to laugh at me.” He even admits that although different, the dresses he wears are more comfortable than pants.

Not only do the actors resemble and embrace their roles, but they bring in the audience as well. With dancing that utilizes the entire auditorium and not just the stage, the audience is immersed and drawn into the performance. The vibrant set emphasizes the energy felt and creatively uses the limited stage space. Every set turns and has three sides, the band stand moves and all of it was made by Pollei and a team of volunteers for 12

hours a day over spring break.

“I haven’t had a spring break in seven years,” Pollei said, laughing. He is clearly not just a director, but a “jack of all trades,” as Batista put it.

Although there are many funny parts as well as emotional sequences, one of the strongest scenes is when Motormouth Maybelle, played

by Natasha Mackey, sings a song about overcoming prejudice called “I Know Where I’ve Been.” This powerful song “teaches and pleases,” Pollei said. “[Theatre performances] are supposed to teach and please. The whole show pleases, and this song teaches.”

A play for everybody of all ages, “Hairspray” is about “Letting everyone know it’s OK to be different,” Huebner said. “You don’t have to fit into the cookie cutter mold.”

For more information call the ENMU-Roswell Performing Arts Center Box Office at 624-7398.

Eric Johnston-Ortiz plays Edna Turnblad.

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Shroud Exhibit and Museum The Turin Shroud interactive exhibit at White Sands Mall in Alamogordo offers a backlit, full-sized picture, the only interactive VP8 Image Analyzer 3D experience. The exhibitʼs goal is make Turin Shroud available to all including the vision impaired. Hours are Sunday from 2 p.m. -4 p.m., Tuesday - Friday from 1 p.m. 6 p.m. and Saturday from 10 a.m. - 6 p.m. Free admission.

For more information, call 4462113, or visit ShroudNM.com.

Alto

April 20

The Texas Tenors Seasoned performers through and through, The Texas Tenors return by popular demand to the Spencer Theater stage.

The ruggedly handsome trio, whose soaring vocals have mesmerized listeners from Piccadilly to Pasadena, first gained renown when appearing before 100 million viewers being voted 2009ʼs Vocal Group of the Year on the show “Americaʼs Got Talent.” The performance starts at 7 p.m.

For more information and tickets, call 1-888-818-7872 or visit spencertheater.com.

April 28

Elvis Lives “Elvis Lives; The Ultimate Elvis Tribute Artist Event” is getting rave reviews from across the country and capturing the hearts of Elvis aficionados.

The nationwide tour, presented

Jahva House at 105 N 5th St in Artesia will be the hot spot for specialty car owners and anyone that enjoys the sounds of revving engines. Classics, Muscle, Exotics, and Street Mods will be filling up every parking spot in downtown Artesia. Everyone will be racing to get their spot at Cars and Coffee, a weekly grass roots-style auto show, akin to show and tell, dedicated to uniting the collectors while embracing those who simply have a passion for cars.

Sunday April 28

Carrizozo April 19

Spencer Theater

“Elvis Lives; The Ultimate Elvis Tribute Artist Event” is getting rave reviews from across the country and capturing the hearts of Elvis aficionados. The nationwide tour, presented with special permission from Elvis Presley Enterprises, now hits Spencer spotlights, bringing the likes and sounds of the King of Rock ʻnʼ Roll to the Alto hall. The performances start at 2 p.m. and 7 p.m., with a southern fried chicken buffet at 5 p.m. Tickets for the performance are $53 and $56. Buffet tickets are $20. For more information, call 1-888-818-7872 or visit spencertheater.com.

with special permission from Elvis Presley Enterprises, now hits Spencer spotlights, bringing the likes and sounds of the King of Rock ʻnʼ Roll to the Alto hall. The performances start at 2 p.m. and 7 p.m., with a southern fried chicken buffet at 5 p.m. Tickets for the performance are $53 and $56. Buffet tickets are $20. For more information, call 1-888-818-7872 or visit spencertheater.com.

Artesia April 27

Cars and Coffee Beginning Saturday, April 27 at 9 a.m., auto enthusiasts in Artesia, Roswell, Carlsbad, and all over the Pecos Valley will have a new reason to wake up on a Saturday morning. Starting at 9 a.m., The

Carrizozo Music in the Parks On Friday, April 19, at 7 p.m., Anne Eisfeller, concert harp, and Valerie Potter, flute, will present an evening of harp and flute duets at the Trinity United Methodist Church on 10th at D Ave. in Carrizozo.

This Carrizozo Music in the Parks concert is free and will be followed by a reception and opportunity to meet the performers. In keeping with the Renaissance Festival, the Carrizozo Womanʼs Club has planned a pre-concert Medieval Feast at the historic WPA clubhouse on 11th and D. Avenue, just a short block from the Trinity United Methodist Church. The dinner will cost $8 with proceeds to go toward the Womanʼs Club scholarship fund. Doors open at 5 p.m. with service until 6:30 p.m.

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on D Avenue and walk to both venues. For more information about either concert or the dinner please check www.carrizozomusic.org or call Elaine Brannen at 575-648-2757.

Hobbs

April 18 - 28

The Importance of Being Earnest Tickets are now on sale for the hilarious farcical comedy “The Importance of Being Earnest”, an Oscar Wilde play directed

by Jonathan Bertschinger (“Line”). Working within the social conventions of late Victorian London, the characters maintain fictitious personae in order to escape burdensome social obligations. A long time audience favorite, “Earnest” has been revived as recently as 2011 on Broadway, and been adapted three times for the silver screen. All seats $10.

Tickets can be purchased via the ticket icon on the left side of our website, or by clicking here. Show dates are April 18, 19, 20, 26, 27 at 7 p.m., and matinee show April 28 at 2 p.m.

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The ENMU-Roswell Theatre Department will present Hairspray April 18-21 and April 25-28 in the Performing Arts Center on campus. The high-energy production will include a cast of 20-plus members and a live band. Tickets are $10 for adults and $8 for seniors and children under 10. ENMU students with ID and groups of 10 or more are $5 each.

Show tickets can be purchased at the Box Office located in the Performing Arts Center Monday through Thursday from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Cash or credit cards are accepted. Discounted tickets must be purchased through the Box Office.

Tickets can also be purchased online at showtix4u.com For more information, call the Performing Arts Center Box Office at 575-624-7398.

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April 26

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Years This Walker Aviation Museum display will remain through the end of the year. This exhibit features a short history of the base and many items from the WWII era, as well as information about the planes that flew at Roswell Army Airfield from 1941-1945. For more information, call 247-2464 or visit wafbmuseum.org.

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Vanilla Ice Van Winkle will perform as Vanilla Ice at Lea County Event Center April 26. Doors open at 6:30 p.m. and the show starts at 8 p.m. To get tickets, visit www.selectaseatlubbock.com or go to the event center at 5101 N. Lovington Hwy., Hobbs. For a VIP package, call 575-390-8547 or 575-318-3337.

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April 19, 20, 26, 27 and May 3, 4

Those Unforgettable Black Rims “Those Unforgettable Black Rims,” premieres 7:30 p.m., Friday, April 19, at the C.A.T.S. Playhouse, 2257 34th St., Lubbock. Subsequent showings are Saturday, April 20, Friday, April 26, Saturday, April 27, Friday, May 3 and Saturday, May 4. All show times are 7:30 p.m. Tickets are $10 for adults, $8 for students, and for groups of 10 or more, $8 per person.

For more information, visit www.catsplayhouse.net, or call 806-792-0501.

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Peace Through Strength This Walker Aviation Museum exhibit is a tribute to the 579th Strategic Missile Squadron assigned to Walker Air Force Base during the early 1960s.

The squadron was responsible for operating and maintaining 12 Atlas missile silos around the greater Roswell area. The exhibit was funded through a grant from the Association of Air Force Missileers. For more information, call 247-2464 or visit www.wafbmuseum.org.

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Karaoke at Billy Rayʼs Restaurant and Lounge Karaoke at Billy Rayʼs Restaurant and Lounge at 118 East Third St. from 9 p.m - until people stop singing.

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Ritmo Latino at El Toro Bravo Ritmo Latino plays El Toro Bravo at 102 S. Main St. from 6 p.m. - 8 p.m. For more information, call El Toro Bravo at 622-9280.

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David and Tina at El Toro Bravo David and Tina plays El Toro Bravo at 102 S. Main St. from 6 p.m. - 8 p.m. For more information, call El Toro Bravo at 622-9280.

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Los Band Dʼ Dos at Los Cerritos Mexican Kitchen Los Band Dʼ Dos playing Latin Pop and Country music at Los Cerritos Mexican Kitchen at 2103 N. Main from 6 p.m - 9 p.m. For more information, call Los Cerritos Mexican Kitchen at 622-4919.

Feb 8 - Sept 28

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Open Mic at Ginsberg Music Ginsberg Music opens up the stage every Saturday from 1 p.m. - 4 p.m. P.A. system and drums are provided, all other instruments must be brought by the musician.

Sept 22, 2012 - May 26, 2013

Eddie Dominguez: Where Edges Meet Where Edges Meet is the first major museum exhibition devoted to a comprehensive view of Eddie Dominguezʼs artistic journey that spans over thirty years of studio practice. The exhibition features many types of work that Dominguez has created including mixed media, works on paper, performance, and the ceramic sculpture environments that he is well known for. For more information, visit roswellmuseum.org.

Friday April 26

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Los Band Dʼ Dos playing Latin Pop and Country music at Tia Juanaʼs Restaurant 3601 and N Main St from 6 p.m - 9 p.m. For more information, call 627-6113.

Jan 18 - Aug 4

Martie Zelt: In Spaces Between The Roswell Museum and Art Center presents the exhibit Martie Zelt: In Spaces Between. Zelt is a Roswell printmaker who has lived in the community since 1989 after completing a second fellowship with the Roswell Artist-inResidence Program. Over thirty assemblages produced during the last twelve years are contained in the exhibition that runs through August 4.

Zelt makes her own paper, and

starts with a printed ground―either a collagraph, monoprint, or photo etching―to which she adheres fabric scraps, plant materials, and other media including stitched thread and graphite or pastel markings. The finished works are playful, highly nuanced abstractions that speak of the natural and manmade worlds through which she has traveled. Many allude to her flower garden and surroundings in southeastern New Mexico.

Zeltʼs work is represented in the collections of the Albu-

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Vision: 2013 Invitational Exhibition On Friday, February 8 from 5-7 pm the Roswell Museum and Art Center opens the exhibition Vision, featuring the work of five artists from northern New Mexico who practice traditional techniques, yet make their art relevant to todayʼs society.

Kevin Burgess de Chávez (tinwork), Drew Coduti (tinwork), Catalina Delgado-Trunk (papel picado), Damian Velasquez (furniture), and Frederico M. Vigil (true fresco) are represented in the exhibition that continues through September 28, 2013. For more information, vall 624-6744

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Bruce Berman: Border Stories This exhibition at the Roswell Museum and Art Center features Bruce Bermanʼs collection “Border Stories,” which chronicles the life on a border torn apart by the drug war. A

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April 18 - 21

Hairspray The ENMU-Roswell Theatre Department will present Hairspray April 18-21 and April 2528 in the Performing Arts Center on campus. The highenergy production will include a cast of 20-plus members and a live band. Tickets are $10 for adults and $8 for seniors and children under 10. ENMU students with ID and groups of 10 or more are $5 each. Show tickets can be purchased at the Box Office located in the Performing Arts Center Monday through Thursday from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Cash or credit cards are accepted. Discounted tickets must be purchased through the Box Office.

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one are the blond pompadour and the colorful, baggy pants. Rob Van Winkle, aka Vanilla Ice, has even dropped the iconic name that sold 160 million records.

Van Winkle is a strippeddown version of his former self—brighter, smarter and better than ever. But the iconic 90s rapper-turned reality TV home-improvement star can still get the party jumping.

He will bring the song that started it all, “Ice, Ice, Baby,” and his energetic road show to Lea County Event Center in Hobbs on April 26.

Naughty By Nature, Grammy Award-winning hip-hop group will also entertain the audience with crossover hits, including their 1991 chart-topper “O.P.P.” Treach, Vin Rock and DJ Kay Gee reunited recently and are touring the world.

Born in Dallas on Halloween Day, Van Winkle’s life story reads like walking through a haunted house at night, surrounded by ghosts. Luckily for those of us who are still fans, the story keeps

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Vanilla Ice gets better with time.

getting better with time.

He found fame quickly and lost it so fast it nearly killed him. He reached for new goals as a musician, and as a motocross and jet ski champion, and recently reinvented himself as the coolest home improvement show host with The Vanilla Ice Project on the DIY Network.

Talking to Van Winkle was like having coffee with a good friend, not a star who once was selling half a million records a day.

“I’m very happy today,” Van Winkle, 44, said recently during a phone interview. “And it’s a great thing. We are who we are because of who we were.”

He is in command of his own work now. As Vanilla Ice, he

released his sixth album “WTF – Wisdom Tenacity & Focus” in 2011 with Random Records and recently signed on with Psychopathic Records.

Q: Do you still perform?

VW: I do perform a lot, but for the past three years, when I’m remodeling homes, it takes six months of the year. I used to play over 100 shows a year. Now, I’m playing close to 50. So, I cut it down in half, but I’m working on construction. I take these homes sitting in beautiful neighborhoods, these McMansions around here where I live in Palm Beach (Fla.). So, I take those and bring them up and beyond what they were before, like that rotten house that’s been sitting there for years, and tur n them into these diamonds in the rough.

Q: Of all these different things you’ve done—the singing and writing music, the athletics, and now this—what’s your favorite?

VW: I don’t favor any of them. I don’t have a favorite. I enjoy it all. It’s just … you go through the adventure and you enjoy the ride. All of it is part of it. I’m very happy today. And it’s a great thing.

We are who we are because of who we were. Everything

that’s happened in my life has turned out pretty well. Yesterday’s history, tomorrow’s a mystery. Take life day by day enjoy it and ride it like a roller coaster.

Q: With the show you perform in Hobbs, will you take all the different songs you’ve written over the years and perform them?

VW: When I go on stage, expect the unexpected. I’ve played so many shows that I’ve got to keep it interesting to myself to enjoy it. What really helps me do that is just to get out there and really not have a set list. We just kinda throw songs out there, people yell songs out. Somebody will say, “Play Ninja Rap, go Ninja, go Ninja go!”

That’s because I did a song for Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and it’s legendary with the people that are basically running the world right now.

It’s our generation.

I laugh at it so much because it’s so big today and I remember it when I was a kid. It’s awesome. I’ll play that song. And of course, we could play a number of different “Ice, Ice, Baby” mixes. We’ve got the dub step version. I have hardcore version. I have the original vision. I can make it sound exactly like it was old SEE

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Courtesy Photos Mary Anne D'Arcangelis & Della Kate Graham are the featured soloists for the show on April 20.

The Roswell Symphony Orchestra

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By Rey Berrones Vision Editor

The April 20 musical performance features Albinoni’s Concerto for Two Oboes. he Roswell Symphony Orchestra (RSO) is celebrating the 40 years of Maestro John Farrer working with the RSO. Their latest concert will be Saturday, April 20 at 7:30 p.m. at Pearson Auditorium.

Led by Maestro John Farrer, they will be playing Giuseppe Verdi's Overture to La Forza del Destino, Opus 72, Tomaso Albinoni's Concerto for Two Oboes in C major, Opus 9, Number 9, Maurice Ravel's Le Tombeau de Couperin, Richard Wagner's Prelude to

Act I, Lohengrin, and Nikolai Rimsky-Karsakov's Capriccio Espagnol, Opus 34.

The Albinoni piece features Mary Anne D'Archangelis and Della Kate Graham on oboe.

D'Archangelis is the principal oboist with the Albuquerque Philharmonic Orchestra and the RSO. She received her Bachelor of Music Education from Crane School of Music at SUNY Potsdam and her Master of Music in Oboe Performance from the University of New Mexico (UNM).

Graham has been the second chair oboe and English horn player in the Roswell Symphony Orchestra for twelve seasons. For the past ten years, she has “commuted” from the Chicago area for concerts. In January 2013, she made a move, is now a member of the Roswell community.

Graham holds a Bachelor of Music in Oboe Performance from Lawrence University Conservatory of Music in Appleton, Wisconsin. She also has a Masters of Music in Oboe Performance from UNM.

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Together, this duo fills the Pearson Auditorium with symphonic music that is a delight to music lovers.

This concert is made possible in part by New Mexico Arts, a division of the Department of Cultural Affairs, the National Endowment for the Arts and Pioneer Bank. For more information, or to purchase tickets to the show, visit roswellsymphony.org or call 623-5882.

On Friday, April 19, at 7 p.m., Anne Eisfeller, concert harp, and Valerie Potter, flute, will present an evening of harp and flute duets at the Trinity United Methodist Church on 10th at D Ave. in Carrizozo.

This Carrizozo Music in the Parks concert is free and will be followed by a reception and opportunity to meet the performers. They will perform some renaissance music to coincide with the Third Annual Renaissance Festival.

In keeping with the Renaissance Festival, the Carrizozo Womanʼs Club has planned a pre-concert Medieval Feast at the historic WPA clubhouse on 11th and D. Avenue, just a short block from the Trinity United Methodist Church. The dinner will cost $8 with proceeds to go toward the Womanʼs Club scholarship fund. Doors open at 5 p.m. with service until 6:30 p.m. Take-out also available. Park on D Avenue and walk to both venues.

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>>7 cluding Best Musical, Hairspray is a family-friendly musical piled bouffant high with laughter, romance, and deliriously tuneful songs. Itʼs 1962 in Baltimore, and the lovable plus-size teen, Tracy Turnblad, has only one desire — to dance on the popular Corny Collins Show. When her dream comes true, Tracy is transformed from social outcast to sudden star. She must use her newfound power to dethrone the reigning Teen Queen, win the affections of heartthrob Link Larkin, and integrate a TV network, all without denting her ʻdoʼ! Based on a book by Mark OʼDonnell and Thomas Meehan, and on the 1988 John Waters film, Hairspray features music by Marc Shaiman and lyrics by Scott Wittman and Shaiman. The film was remade in 2007 starring John Travolta, Christopher Walken, and Michelle Pfeiffer.

April 19

Roswell Symphony Orchestra Shadow Concert The Roswell Symphony Orchestra presents a Young Personʼs Concert for the fourth grade students in the Roswell Independent School District, private schools and home school students. The 2012-13 concert will be presented on Friday, April 19th at 1 PM in Pearson Auditorium. The concert features a Shadow Orchestra made up of students

from Roswell, Goddard, Artesia and other area high schools. The concert, under the direction of Maestro John Farrer, is sponsored in part by the Roswell Independent School District, Otero Federal Credit Union, Robert E. and Evelyn McKee Foundation, and New Mexico Arts. For more information call 6235882.

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April 19

Johnny and the Crashers Johnny and the Crashers will play their energetic rock and roll at 8:30 p.m. at Billy Rayʼs located at 118 East Third Street.

hold our annual Bowl For Kidʼs Sake fundraising event April 20th, 2012 at the old Bowling Center located at 3905 SE Main Roswell NM 88201.

Please call (575) 627-2227 for more information.

April 21

April 19

Make Time For Kids Created and Sponsored by Dr. Mike Taylor of Taylor Orthodontics, Make Time For Kids is an auction event to benefit the Chaves County CASA Program. Artists, craftspeople, and community members are invited to create and donate unique clocks to be auctioned at the April 19th event to be held at the Roswell Civic Center at 5 p.m. The event will feature auctioneers Larry Hobson & Shawn Hall. The event is being catered by Chef Mariano of Lovelace Regional Medical Center. A live auction of deluxe items and a raffle of unique gift baskets will also be held. For more information, visit maketimeforkids.com.

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Jason Eady plays Pecos Flavors Winery at 7:30 p.m. In addition to his own albums, his talent for prose has been embraced by his peers landing him two cuts on Micky and The Motorcarsʼ latest record Raise My Glass, one cut on Eleven Hundred Springsʼ forthcoming record and two co-written cuts on The Trishasʼ forthcoming record. Eady also copenned The Trishasʼ latest single “Drive.” Although the radical departure that is AM Country Heaven is sure to strike fans like a storm without warning, it seems that Eady is merely living up to his reputation for the element of surprise as perfectly stated by USA Today who said, “This Mississippi nativeʼs blues-rocker creeps up like gathering thunderheads.” Admission is $10. For more information, call 627-6265.

April 20

Roswell Symphony Orchestra Subscription Concert The Roswell Symphony Orchestra Subscription Concert is at 7:30 p.m. at New Mexico Military Institute, Pearson Auditorium. The Concert features: Verdi “La Forza del Destino” Overture, Albinoni “Concerto for Two Oboes”: Soloists To Be

Announced, Ravel “Le Tombeau de Couperin”. For more information call 6235882. Tickets can be purchased online at www.roswellsymphony.org or by calling 623-5882.

April 20

Bowl For Kidʼs Sake Big Brothers Big Sisters will

16th Annual Knowledge Bowl In order to support literacy in the community, teams will compete in two rounds of trivia at the 16th annual Knowledge Bowl, hosted by the Roswell Literacy Council and sponsored by Proliteracy America and United Way of Chaves County. Team check-in is at 2 p.m. and the game will start at 2:30 p.m. in the Chaves County J.O.Y. Center, 1822 N. Montana. Entry fee for the first team from an organization is $100, and subsequent teams can enter for $80 per team.

For more information call Andre England at 625-1369.

April 21

The Old Time Gospel Hour The Old Time Gospel Hour is the third Sunday of every month at First Assembly of God Church, located at 1224 W. Country Club Road. The music starts at 4 p.m. and runs until 5 p.m. For more information, call 910-7102.

April 21

Cesar Tovar Cesar Tovar from Oklahoma will sing and minister at Vision Celestial located at 1405 S. Garden at 5 p.m. For more information, call 625-0885.

April 25

Jason Eady Jason Eady plays Pecos Flavors Winery at 7:30 p.m. For more information, call 6276265.

April 26

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April 26

Band DʼDos at Tia Juanaʼs Los Band Dʼ Dos playing Latin Pop and Country music at Tia Juanaʼs Restaurant 3601 and N Main St from 6 p.m - 9 p.m.

For more information, call 6276113.

April 26, 27

Cinderella and the Substitute Fairy Godmother What do trains, llamas, potato salad and candles have to do with the cruel fates and Cinderella? Come and find out! A comedic take on a classic tale, “Cinderella and the Substitute Fairy Godmother,” will be put on by the Kids Arts Program at the Roswell Community Little Theatre, 1717 S. Union Ave., on April 26 at 6 p.m. and April 27 at 2 p.m. Tickets are $3 and it is best to buy tickets in advance by calling 575-6224910.

April 26 - June 2

Natasha Bowdoin There will be a lecture on Friday, April 26, 5:30 p.m. and reception from 6 p.m. - 7 p.m.

Roswell Artist-in-Residence fellow Natasha Bowdoinʼs work is built intuitively from layers of paper culled from a variety of sources from botany illustrations to “wisps of text” as the artist pushes “the boundaries

Friday April 26

What do you get when you put together two of country musicʼs most legendary divas? You get a show that only the inn of the mountain gods stage is big enough to handle when supserstars Pam Tillis and Lorrie Morgan bring their fabulosity and legendary careers togther for the first time! It will be a night of fashion, fun, memories and incredible music! Disclaimer: Minors must be accompanied by an adult. Tickets, start at $25. For more information, call 4647777 or visit innofthemountaingods.com.

between drawing, sculpture, and installation.” The exhibition will be in the RMAC until June 2. For more information, visit roswellmuseum.org.

April 27

Slow Art Day Join the RMAC from 11 a.m. 1 p.m. for this global art day celebration and look at art slowly. We will view art in the

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April 27

Roswell Community Yard Sale The second semi-annual, Roswell Community Yard Sale is from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the Roswell Wool Bowl Soccer Complex 1500 N Grand Ave. 50 to 100 Yard sales are at one location. Clean out your House, Barn, Garage or whatever and sell your stuff at our event. Only $25.00 per booth space. Sell your items and you keep 100% of the money you make. Businesses, Arts and Crafters, Food Vendors, and Farmers Market are also welcome to participate. Event permits are now available for both event dates by visiting the Roswell Humane Society at 703 East McGaffey Street Roswell, or by calling them at 575-622-8950 for more details.

April 27

galleries for 45 minutes and then enjoy lunch in the Bassett Auditorium where we will discuss what we have seen. We will look at the works of Peter Hurd, Marsden Hartley, B.J.O. Nordfeldt, Eddie Dominguez, and Catalina Delgado-Trunk.

Call the Museum at 624-6744 to register and order lunch, or brown bag it.

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April 26

Pam Tillis and Lorrie Morgan What do you get when you put together two of country musicʼs most legendary divas? You get a show that only the inn of the mountain gods stage is big enough to handle when supserstars Pam Tillis and Lorrie Morgan bring their fabulosity and legendary careers togther for the first time! It will be a night of fashion, fun, memories and incredible music! Disclaimer: Minors must be accompanied by an adult. Tickets, start at $25. For more information, call 4647777 or visit innofthemountaingods.com.

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An annual fundraiser helps ensure that every child in Chaves County is given a chance to have a safe and loving home.

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Ilissa Gilmore Record Staff Writer

t’s that time again when the Chaves County CASA program asks the community to join it 5 p.m. Friday, April 19, at the Roswell Civic Center, for Make Time For Kids, its annual clock auction.

Created by Dr. Mike Taylor of Taylor Orthodontics, the event benefits CASA’s services and will feature more than 200 one of a kind clocks made by artisans, crafters and community members.

There also will be a live auction of luxurious and recreational items and activities.

All items are donated by community members and organizations, said CASA Executive Director Carrie-Leigh Cloutier.

For more than 25 years, the non-profit has worked to repair the lives of high-risk, abused and neglected children and provides resources that enable them to lead safe, healthy lives.

“We change the world here; we change people’s lives,” Cloutier said.

Make Time For Kids is one of two annual fundraising events for the organization.

After more than ten years, one would think it becomes routine, but Cloutier said the event gets “bigger and more exciting every year.”

“Auctions are always fun,” she said. “We have a blast putting it on.”

The organization receives much support and many donations from all over the community, she said.

“Every year, the clocks that people bring are such a surprise,” Cloutier said. “It’s amazing how people come up with things that are so unusual, so crazy!”

One clock, titled “Animalia,” is an all-white menagerie of

Rey Berrones Photo A splendid tea set, handmade by Geneva Bailey is one of the many items on auction on April 18.

animal figurines and other objects. On its face are green clock hands and its black second hand is tipped with a small mouse.

The clock is as fun and playful as a typical day in the CASA office, where the staff keeps the mood light with high spirits and events such as theme parties for volunteers.

Days before the event, Cloutier’s office was a mess of merchandise for auction, including artwork and gift baskets stuffed with goodies from Maker’s Mark Whiskey, Chi Hair products and CocaCola. In a box on the floor, a $500 pair of colorful Old Gringo boots—a live auction item.

“There is something for every price range,” Cloutier said. “You don’t have to be wealthy to help abused kids.

We’re just asking people to come and have fun and learn more about us.”

Admission for the event is free. In addition to Taylor Orthodontics, other sponsors include Bullock’s Jewelry and Bank of the Southwest. The event also will feature auctioneers Larry Hobson and Shawn Hall.

Chef Mariano of Lovelace Regional Medical Center will provide the food and Pecos Flavors Winery will provide drinks.

For more information and to see auction items, visit maketimeforkids.com. The online auction ends at noon, Thursday, April 18. Bids may be made by phone, 420-4164. For more information about CASA, call 625-0112 or visit www.casakids.org.

IN THE SPOTLIGHT

Rey Berrones Photos Bowdoin at work in her studio at the Roswell Artist-inResidence compound.

Natasha Bowdoin

The sprawling and elaborate art of Natasha Bowdoin will take over a portion of the Roswell Museum and Art Center on April 26.

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By Vanessa Kahin Vistas Editor ooks on nature and poetry far outnumber the art tools, scrap materials and unfinished works in current Roswell Artist-in-Residence Natasha Bowdoin’s local art studio.

Strewn about her studio where she has placed the final touches on the work to be featured in “Thornappleflower,” an exhibition that will open April 26 at the Roswell Museum and Art Center, these books are left opened on what could only be strategically purposeful pages. One is “Bar num and Bailey’s Greatest Show on Earth,” opened to a page with a cartoon-like illustration of pigs doing circus tricks. Another is a book all about plants, left

opened on a page with pictures of araceae (described as mainly caladiums) and araliaceae (ivies, ginsengs).

But aside from looking up attention-grabbing illustrations or old botany pictures, Bowdoin, who completed a double major in classics and studio art at Brandeis University in Waltham, Mass., is irredeemably in love with poetry.

She is also deeply interested in nature. With a copy of Ralph Waldo Emerson’s “Essays on Nature,” poet Gary Snyder’s “The Back Country” and a little bit of Borges for good measure, she has gotten inspiration—and even words and phrases—for the works in “Thornappleflower.”

“All of the work that will be

in the show is directly inspired by nature,” Bowdoin said. The upcoming exhibition has collage-like work made from cut paper. The paper starts out as illustrations of patter ns found in nature, such as snakeskin, or the surface of cacti.

After drawing these patterns in pencil and painting the drawings, Bowdoin carefully cuts them out and places them on a “canvas,” creating the illusion that the work of art is a 3D painting.

Bowdoin’s work is not limited to how she sees nature— she has also researched how others have interpreted the patterns in nature, such as in the case of antique fabric patterns, she said. There is also a

nod to how writers have interpreted nature in their words, words that Bowdoin has copied from books directly onto her work.

Interlaced amongst these patter ns are the words of Emerson, Snyder and Borges.

But don’t expect to be able to “read” Bowdoin’s works just as easily as reading a text, as many of the words are buried in the nature-based patterns, leaving only some at the forefront.

This, Bowdoin said, would allow her viewers to navigate her art whichever way they choose.

“A lot of it is trying to get at an experience of language that defies our expectations,” she said. “I feel (poets) are already doing this in the way they write, I’m just taking it to a more visual level.”

She is careful to note she is not recreating nature, but rather capturing its rhythm and content; inviting others “to look at nature to understand ourselves.”

Much like the elements of nature, Bowdoin’s works adapt to their environments. The pieces are site-specific, appearing to be growing from where they are placed.

Since the works are collages, Bowdoin can easily add to them, lending the artwork the quality of plantlike growth and change. Bowdoin’s works further emulate plants by the fact that she often uses scraps of paper in new pieces; as when one grows a new plant from a piece of another.

In f act, although it is cur rently known as “Thornappleflower,” the name of the exhibi-

tion itself might change, “evolving” into something else.

Collages made from pieces of paper are part of an idea that Bowdoin has been developing and working on for the past five to six years. Bowdoin’s professional training is mostly in painting—she attended the Tyler School of Art in Philadelphia and Rome to pursue a Master’s of Fine Arts in the subject. She completed her MFA in 2007.

Although she completed this degree, she wasn’t doing much painting during her second year of graduate studies, which she completed in Rome and had—due to distance—the freedom to break from painting and pursue paper cutting instead.

“I got fed up with the boundaries of painting,” she said, adding that the typical painting canvas began to feel too strict for her.

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A new take on an old tale Amy Vogelsang Record Staff Writer

A comedic take on a classic tale, “Cinderella and the Substitute Fairy Godmother,” will be put on by the Kids Arts Program at the Roswell Community Little Theatre, 1717 S. Union Ave., on April 26 at 6 p.m. and April 27 at 2 p.m. Tickets are $3 and it is best to buy tickets in advance by calling 575-622-4910.

Directed by Lynetta Zuber, “Cinderella the Substitute Fairy Godmother” is a completely wrong version of the traditional fairy tale.

Although fairy godmothers appear in multiple tales such as the Grimm Brotherʼs “Sleeping Beauty” or the cartoon “The Fairly OddParents,” one of the original and still best known examples of a fairy godmother comes from Charles Perraultʼs “Cinderella,” later made more popular by Disney. But what would happen if Cinderellaʼs fairy godmother didnʼt show up, or worse, was replaced?

“Cinderella and the Substitute Fairy Godmother” creates a story around this very idea. When the fairy godmother is poisoned, a candle maker who is a godmother on the side must step in. But she does everything all wrong, from giving Cinderella an ugly dress for the ball to using pigs instead of mice to make horses.

Zuber said her favorite part is a conversation between Cinderella and the replacement fairy godmother just after the ball: “Wait! You still have your shoes on. You were supposed to leave one of your shoes. Why didnʼt you?” the godmother asks. To which Cinderella responds: “Well you didnʼt tell me to!”

The play will feature students from third- through 12th-grades so it is perfect for children of all ages. Little lines of comedy and the spunkiness of the kids on stage is sure to draw laughs from the audience, no matter their age.

“Itʼs a fun-filled twist of Cinderella that is just as entertaining for adults as it is for kids,” Zuber said.

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Continued from Page 8 school. We really enjoy ourselves onstage. It’s a live performance.

Q: Do you have anyone who is still with you from way back when, or have you evolved?

VW: A couple of people are still with me. I have a (new) drummer.

He’s a younger drummer. He’s a good kid and he loves to play the drums.

He’s just awesome. DJ Chuck’s been with me for 20 years. DJ Dirty Chopsticks, that’s his name, he’s awesome, that’s him. It’s all good, man. We have all kinds of pyrotechnics.

We have these clowns come out and spray water on everybody. It’s a really cool experience. We carry this whole theme. It’s different because I was born on Halloween. So I carry this whole theme with me. I have these props with me.

I have a song called “Born on Halloween.” It’s like a whole circus. It’s pretty jazzical.

We have fun with it. It’s like this whole surge of things.

Q: How has your style changed over the years?

VW: My style changes just because I live for the day. Music is your diary.

Music is expression and that’s how I look at it. Wherever I am at the moment, that’s probably where I am at musically. So I don’t really predetermine. There are music executives that will put together Rhianna on a hook and Eminem on 16 bars or let’s take Rhianna on another hook on 56 bars. And the songs are good. But to me, it’s to me it’s starting to seem a little bit artificial and fabricated by music executives who really shouldn’t be dictating music. I look at it pretty deep as a musician because we call it entertainment. I sit back and enjoy it. But some stuff starts to seem a little bit artificial, that’s all.

That’s why with me, it takes me five years to make a whole new record, because I have to sit back and marinate and really absorb everything that’s going on and portray that out verbally.

Q: Tell me about your new record company?

VW: It’s Psychopathic Record Company. Those are some real people.

Really good friends of mine, that I’ve done songs with in the past. They’ve have a long, long career, sort of like

the Grateful Dead of hip hop. They’ve got a huge following. I’m honored to be a part of it all it.

Q: Have you ever played in New Mexico before? What did you enjoy about it?

VW: I’ve played in New Mexico many times, actually. I came through there with my hardcore band in 98. It was a great show. It was underground. I had this hardcore band I was touring with for a while. Huge sound produced by Ross Robinson of Korn and Limp Bizkit. It was an amazing adventure. What I’m doing now is a flip the script. It’s a little bit of everything. It’s an experience, you know? I really have a lot of passion on stage.

Q: Do you still do water sports and all of those things?

VW: I’m the highest ranked on the (DIY) network. I’m so busy with Vanilla Ice, this is all I do from 6 a.m. to Sunday morning. I have to keep producing and building these big McMansions. It is not easy. In real life, demolition of a whole house and building stuff up to state-of-the art takes time. It’s a lot of work. When I need therapy, I go ride dirt bikes. I still have my Kawasaki KX450. It’s very athletic. I love it. I take the whole family out there. It’s awesome.

Q: Is it different being a dad and still performing your music?

VW: It’s the greatest thing on Earth.

It’s not really about red carpets and this larger-than-life celebrity-ism out there today. It’s about family and friends. It’s not about money and glamour. It’s about family and friends. That’s it. At the end of the day, that’s what means the most. Without that, you could be the Bill Gates of money out in the desert all alone and you would trade it for some family and friends. You’ve got to have people to share it with. Smile as much as possible because it is contagious. The words of the wisdom.

Van Winkle will perform as Vanilla Ice at Lea County Event Center April 26. Doors open at 6:30 p.m. and the show starts at 8 p.m. To get tickets, visit www.selectaseatlubbock.com or go to the event center at 5101 N. Lovington Hwy., Hobbs. For a VIP package, call 575-390-8547 or 575-3183337.

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ullary big and the list is still growing. We are not getting children off the list fast enough with mentors before we get new ones referred.

"A volunteer doesn't need to have a lot of money, they just need to be able to invest time in a kid.

"We are asking four hours a month from a volunteer, who is willing to take the child out into the community and maybe learn to re-discover their own youth a little bit. We had a volunteer write us a letter about how it was good for her to do some community stuff and re-discover the simple joys of eating ice cream in the park, or sitting on a swing.

Things that you don't do when you join the workforce. These are things that you forget about if you don't have kids.

"Four hours a month of showing kids a different side of life.

"It can be anybody over the age of 18, that can commit to four hours per month, that has reliable transportation. We are looking for people that are big kids at heart, but with adult values that can show a kid what stability looks like. Possibly someone that has something that they are passionate about that they want to share with kids."

Amanda Ware, chief operating officer continued, "Our specialists provide training and on-going support for our volunteers. The time from application to match can take two to three months. The lengthy time is due to a multi-layered background check. We do stay in contact with possible volunteers during this process."

The BBBSSNM is looking to start a lunch buddies program in Roswell that is modeled after the Dexter program, which has been very successful. Suzy Stubbs, match support specialist said, "That program has been really successful so far. The school councilor, Ms Sandoval, loves it. She sees the difference in the kids, because their attitudes change, and their grades improve."

For that program, the BBBSSNM is looking for junior and senior high school students that have good grades and are comfortable being good role models.

If you would like to volunteer as a big, or if you want more information on Bowl For Kids Sake, visit bbbssenm.org, or call 627-2227.

HISTORY

By Stu Pritchard Roswell Historian

Billy the Kid gets locked up

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Part five in a series on Billy the Kid.

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arrett took the prisoners to Las Vegas the day after Christmas, preparatory to traveling by train to Santa Fe. As they entered the town they encountered a surley crowd who wanted the person of Dave Rudabaugh for a "small" lynching in return for Rudabaugh's earlier murder of a local jailer during a prison break.

Rudabaugh was a recent recruit to Billy's gang and, although completely immoral and ruthless, he is best known for not having bathed within anyone's memory. But he was Garrett's prisoner and Garrett was not to be deterred from delivering him to the justice of a proper court. When the mob took possession of the train next mor ning, Garrett, pistol in hand, ordered the local deputy sheriff, leader of the gang, off the train. Rifles were poked out of stacked crossties aimed directly at the train. The engineer and the train hand deserted their

Stu Pritchard Illustration posts and the small mob was getting noisier and nastier.

Just as it looked as if the mob would stage a takeover, two deputy United States marshalls arrived and offered help. One of them, J.F. Marley, stomped through the crowd, climbed into the locomotive, guessed at which levers to pull and laughed at the crowd as the train lunged forward. A grim Garrett stood over his prisoners, pistol ever in hand, as they eased out of Las Vegas bound for Santa Fe. In Santa Fe the Kid tried tunneling out of the Santa Fe Jail to add to his amazing record of escapes from the law, but the sheriff heard rumor of the attempt, bribed a prisoner to spy, discovered a tunnel and foiled the escape. Worried, the Kid wrote the governor a note on New Year's Day of 1881, stating that he "would like to see him if he could spare the time." Apparently Wallace had no time for the Kid. In March the Kid wrote again, stating that he had letters containing important

information he would make available to the gover nor.

Wallace ignored the letter.

Again and again the Kid wrote, reminding Lew Wallace of previous promises of clemency for testimony in the Houston Chapman murder.

But the governor was saving his written expressions for the penning of Ben Hur. The Kid was transferred to Mesilla for trial in the murder of Sheriff Brady. The odd selection of Brady's death as the crime for Billy's trial is ironic. The other men involved in Brady's death had all been granted amnesty and certainly Billy, alone, had not fired the fatal bullets that killed Brady.

The trial in Mesilla lasted two days. No record of it exists. Judge Warren Bristol, whose name had previously been linked with Billy's enemies in the House of Murphy, gave the jury, all Mexicans, two possible verdicts of guilty. Bristol granted no appeal. He ordered Sheriff Garrett to take the prisoner to Lincoln and on Friday, May

18, to "hang him by the neck until his body be dead, dead, dead."

It was April 10, 1881, in old Mesilla when Judge Warren Bristol's ster n words rang through the old adobe building that did duty as both a school and courthouse: The final acts were begun.

The Kid, under heavy guard, was transported to Lincoln and locked in the upstairs room of the courthouse which served as a jail. There were no bars on the doors or windows. Instead chains were f astened to his ankles and wrists and then secured to the floor.

He was guarded by Pecos Bob Ollinger, a locally wellknown man-slayer, part Cherokee Indian, known by some a bully and brute, but said by others to be a man who did his duty even though blood was at times unnecessarily spilled in the process, Ollinger was clearly tough. It is probable that Ollinger taunted the Kid, for the Deputy Jim Carlyle who died at Greathouse Ranch was Ollinger's close friend.

Ollinger was said to have dared the Kid to run and even implied, "Ole Pecos Bob will be flippin' the trap door on hangin' day."

The Kid was also guarded

by Deputy Sheriff J.W. Bell, a sensitive, quiet individual well liked locally - who, unlike Ollinger, who loved to use a shotgun, only wore a holstered 6-shooter.

It was the moment of destiny for three men - a time of death for two. For Billy the Kid, until now a cat with nine lives, would escape again but only one more time.

(paper) was, it was easily transformable,” Bowdoin said. “It can move beyond the boundaries of the canvas. ... I don’t want (my artwork) to ever be fixed.”

Her love of literature began fusing with her art about five years ago, around the same time she began to use cut paper.

Born in West Kennebunk, Maine, Bowdoin is currently based in Houston. As someone who draws much of her inspiration from nature, she said the opportunity to come to the Southwest with the RAiR program has allowed her to experience a new ecosystem she was not accustomed to.

“It has been great to have the opportunity to work and live here,” Bowdoin said.

Set to open April 26 at the Roswell Museum and Art Center, Bowdoin’s opening will feature a 5:30 p.m. lecture and a reception from 67 p.m. Bowdoin’s exhibition will be available at the RMAC through June 2.

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UFOLOGY

Looking Up

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By Donald Burleson ecently, the Federal Bureau of Investigation posted a UFOrelated document on its website an inter nal memo that dates from March 1950 which has tur ned out to be their most frequently viewed document.

There are two things about

The FBI's interest in UFOs the posting of this document that we have to regard as ironic. First, the memo has been known to UFO researchers for a long time.

UFOlogist Bruce Maccabee discusses it in detail in his book UFO FBI Connection, published thirteen years ago.

Second, the purported UFO events described in the memo are now known to have been a hoax, though the FBI didn't know this at the time.

The memo itself was written

by Special Agent Guy Hottel, informing FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover that an Air Force investigator had told Hottel that "three so-called flying saucers had been recovered in New Mexico."

These objects were described as being 50 feet across, containing three

diminutive human-shaped bodies each, and as probably having crashed due to highpowered radar setups interfering with their controls.

These supposed crash retrievals do not match up with known details from the Roswell and Aztec UFO incidents, and in fact UFO investigators have determined that the whole report was a hoax deriving from a notorious con man named Silas Newton.

Nevertheless, the memo did have the effect of piquing J. Edgar Hoover's interest in the subject of UFOs. Soon after receiving this document, Hoover ordered Special Assistant D.M. Ladd to ask the Air Force what the facts were concerning flying saucers.

There is another FBI memo discussing these matters,

where Hoover penned a note on the bottom, complaining that when a recent UFO retrieval had been accomplished, the military people had squirreled away the wreckage without letting the FBI have a look at it. Ironically, this one had been a hoax too, a prank pulled off when someone tossed a mockup “flying saucer” into someone else’s yard in Louisiana. Evidently Hoover was again unaware that the particular incident was a hoax.

The whole picture we get from all this is that like the rest of us, the FBI was on the outside looking in, not privy to the sort of highly classified UFO information possessed by the military, possibly a question of “need to know.”

But the fact remains that FBI

files over the years have contained massive correspondence relating to the UFO phenomenon. Bruce Maccabee spent years pestering the FBI, via numerous Freedom of Inf ormation Act requests, to release some of these files, but the Bureau maintained repeatedly that it had no interest in UFOs. Finally, though, Maccabee went to his mailbox one day and found that the FBI had released some 1600 pages of UFO-related documents to him.

Much of this correspondence is between the Air Force and the FBI. In one series of memos, for example, the military asked the FBI to help determine whether UFO witnesses were sincere people or were perhaps troublemakers, subversives, or communist sympathizers. A fresh twist on Cold War paranoia.

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