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In The Spotlight Area Farmers Markets...............................................................................................3 Isaac’s Gallery Art Collaboration.............................................................................4 Roswell Pride!.............................................................................................................3 Siobhan McBride ......................................................................................................13

History.......................................................................................................................15 John Chisum

UFOlogy....................................................................................................................16 After fifty years, Marilyn's murder still haunts us

V I S I O N M A G A Z I N E S TA F F Rey Berrones Editor Sandra Martinez and Steve Stone Ad Designers Charles Fischer Publisher

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IN THE SPOTLIGHT Area Farmers Markets

Alamogordo Location: 1987 White Sands Blvd, next to the Toy Train Depot Schedule: Wednesdays, 5 pm - sellout & Saturdays, 9 am sellout Season: June 2nd - October Contact: Diana & Robert Calkins, 682-3323 or alamedaparkfarmersmarket@gmail.co m

Rey Berrones Photo The aroma of fresh grilled vegetables from local vendors fills the air at the Roswell Farmers and Gardeners Market.

As the harvest season approaches, area

Farmers Markets grow Noah Vernau Record Staff Writer With the growing season under way, MainStreet Roswell's Farmers and Gardeners Market is back and better than ever.

The market, which began July 7, is held each Saturday from 7 to 11 a.m. on the Courthouse lawn on Main Street between Fifth and Sixth streets. Through the end of September, the market offers attendees everything from homegrown fruits and vegetables to crafts, recipes, feed, fertilTHURSDAY, AUGUST 2, 2012

izer, nutritional information and grilling demonstrations.

More than 25 local vendors assembled for the first market, a strong showing that MainStreet Roswell Director Dusty Huckabee says is a sign of good things to come this season.

"It's just been going strong and growing every year," Huckabee said. "...

When I first got into Main Street business, the old timers would say that they'd come to town and get their haircut, do their gro-

Capitan Location: Southwest corner of Smokey Bear Blvd. (Hwy 380) and Lincoln Ave (Hwy 48).

Schedule: Saturdays, 9 am 11 am Market Season: mid-July early October Contact: George Tippin, 3547021 or manager@ataclincolncounty.org ataclincolncounty.org

Carlsbad Location: Eddy County Courthouse Lawn, Mermod & Canal Schedule: Saturdays, 8 am 11 am Market Season: June 23rd TBD Contact: Amy Barnhart, 6283768 or carlsbadmainstreet@gmail.com cery shopping and then go to the Courthouse lawn and visit with friends. Well, for a while that just kind of died away. But now, we're seeing it all come back."

MainStreet Roswell's onsite grilling offers a chance for people to learn how to grill fresh vegetables, with demonstrations currently provided by the Department of Health's Women, Infants, Children program. Carrie Weems, nutritionist supervisor with the Department of Health, said WIC has been working with the Farmers Market for five years to help supply residents with the information VISION MAGAZINE

Clovis Location: Goodwin Lake Walking Trail parking lot, 3200 Block of N. Prince St. Schedule: Saturdays, 8 am sellout; Tuesdays, 5 pm - sellout Market Season: June 23rd October 30th Contact: Margie Plummer, 7600690 or mplummer@yucca.net

Fort Sumner Location: 25851 Hwy 60 Schedule: Saturdays and Wednesdays, 8 am - sellout Market Season: June 16th October 31st Contact: John Nuttall, 5126887 or billythekidsnuts@yahoo.com

Glencoe Location: 27489 Hwy. 70 Schedule: Wednesdays, 9 am - 11 am Market Season: mid-July early October Contact: George Tippin, 3547021 or manager@ataclincolncounty.org ataclincolncounty.org

Portales Location: Corner of W 1st & Ave. B Schedule: Mondays & Thursdays, 5 pm - sellout

they need to eat healthier.

"Working with WIC, we see a lot of nutrient deficiencies, especially in the fruits and vegetables," Weems said. "They're more expensive, so a lot of people

Market Season: June 25th October 29th Contact: Margie Plummer, 7600690 or mplummer@yucca.net Roswell Location: Chavez County Courthouse lawn Schedule: Saturdays, 7 am 11 am Market Season: June 30th October 6th Contact: Lester Peck, 6272239

Tularosa Location: Central Ave. & N Bookout St. Schedule: Saturdays, 7:30 10:30 am Market Season: June 9th - October 13th Contact: Loretta Johnson, 5852297 White Oaks Location: Hwy 349, downtown White Oaks Schedule: Fridays, 5 pm - sundown Season: May 25th - October 26th Contact: Barbara Spencer, 648-2319 or moondance@tularosa.net

tend to buy more junk food than healthy food. A lot of people don't know how to cook or how easy it can be.

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Roswell Fine Arts League

29th Annual

Juried Art Show At the

Roswell Museum & Art Center

100 W. 11th Street, Roswell

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August 16 – August 26 Opening Reception August 16, 6:30-8:30 p.m.

Free Admission

Pres ent ing over 220 work s in all m edi ums f rom t h ro u g ho u t t h e Un it e d S ta te s an d A br o ad (Including a Special Exhibit of Local Student Artwork)

Sponsored in part by the City Of Roswell Lodgers Tax Fund and the Xcel Energy Foundation

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IN THE SPOTLIGHT

Art collaboration in the Isaac’s Gallery Rey Berrones Vision Editor

Since 1967, the Roswell Artist-inResidence program (RAiR) has given more than 185 world class artists the “Gift of Time” to focus on their work with a minimum of distraction.

The intent is to foster artistic development by granting each artist the opportunity to explore his or her own ideas, take risks and even fail, should that be the outcome. To this end, the program has been a great success.

However, there is another added benefit that has developed. Each year, Roswell gets a new group of artists that forms their own new family that ends up contributing to our community.

While the RAiR program by design gives the Roswell Museum and Art Center a constant stream of fresh contemporary art, the artists on the compound many times can’t help but be inspired by the fact that they are living and working with others who are just as creative and passionate as themselves. This leads to many other projects that end up on the walls of places like the Isaac’s Gallery, Tinnie Mercantile, or even in our schools.

Right now, in the Isaac’s Gallery is an exhibition featuring nine artists, all current residents and/or RAiR grant recipients.

It features pieces from each artist inspired by a dinnertime comment made by RAiR founder and painter Donald B. Anderson. Entitled “Names of Places I Have Never Been,” the show metaphorically ties together a diverse group of practices, each of which explores the line between the material world and how it is made known to us visually through various degrees of abstraction, imagination, translation and metaphor.

On exhibit will be work in a variety of media, from the diagrammatic abstractions of Dustin London’s drawings and sculptures reminiscent of games, kites and folded paper, to Jon-Paul Villegas’s darkly weird and humorous sculptural installations. Villegas mates archly modernist art-historical tropes with abject and quotidian found objects to create scenes reminiscent of quietly otherworldly drug-store displays and plain Jane, arte povera fantasyscapes.

Meanwhile, ceramicist Brian Kluge and painter Rodney Carswell both independently employ geometric forms to dramatically different physical effect while maintaining similar commit-

See ISAAC, Page 14

Photo Courtesy the Artist Jon-Paul Villegas, Untitled, 2012, Spray Enamel and Pigmented Hot Glue on Cast Concrete, Straw

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Every Week, Tues - Sun

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.

Aug 3, 4, 5, 10, 11

The Wizard of Oz More than anything else, the stage production shows the enduring power of songs written by two gifted songwriters, Harold Arlen and E.Y. Harburg.

Just phrases such as “if I only had a brain” or “ding, dong, the witch is dead” put a tune immediately into your head.

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Spencer Theater

Natalie Bancroft and Raimondo Campisi

Aug 10

GHCʼs Teen GLOW Fest 2012 Godʼs Heavenly Children of Alamogordo hosts its 2nd annual Teen GLOW Fest at the Alameda Park Gazebo from 6 p.m. - 11 p.m. Teen GLOW Fest is GHCʼs community outreach geared toward teenagers, but a great time of family-fun for everyone. Live music, dance performances, and much more. For more information, visit ghcministries.org.

Aug 11

Saturday Aug 4

The creative duo comes to us straight from Europe where they tour extensively, performing in jazz haunts and on classical stages. Bancroft and Campisi share their musical talents with Spencer patrons in a summerʼs night voyage of lush arias and jazz standards. The performance starts at 8 p.m. Tickets for the performance are $46 and $49. For more information, call 1-888-818-7872 or visit spencertheater.com.

ment for Arlen and Harburg.

The Aug 3, 4, 10 and 11 shows are at 7:30 p.m., and the Aug 5 show is at 2 p.m. General seating, all tickets $10. For more information, call 4372202 or visit flickingercenter.com.

For more information, call 575446-6161.

Aug 7

Daniel Hart Daniel Hart is a brilliant musician and coming off tour with Radio Head and playing live in concert at Dexterʼs Organic Coffee and Tea Bar located at 1211 Tenth St. #2A at 7 p.m.

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Kuts 4 Kids The 4th Annual Kuts 4 Kids is at Love INC located at 2826 Indian Wells from 9 a.m. - 5 p.m. and is presented by Linda Ness Gulley State Farm and Love INC. Local hair stylists will be donating their time to

cut hair for children free of charge to ensure that every APS child returns to school looking and feeling their best.

The event is free to the public with no questions asked, however, adults must be accompanied by their children. Children will be able to get a free hair cut and pick up a back pack full of supplies thanks to the Linda Gulley Back 2 School Supply Drive. Love INC is providing hot dogs and refreshments from 11 a.m. - 2 p.m.

The Child I.D. program will be onsite to provide free services as well. For more information or to volunteer, please contact Nickie St. James at 437-4699.

Aug 11

Tailgate Series - Steve Smith, Chris Sanders, Anne Luna Fifth Tailgate Series concert with Steve Smith, Chris Sanders & Anne Luna, stories abound where the prairie

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ENTERTAINMENT CALENDAR meets the hills - modern/retro harmonies and groove in original and traditional Americana and Bluegrass music. This group has captured audiences across the country with the depth of their songwriting and the power of their distinctive voices. All Tailgate Series concerts take place at the upper parking lot of the NM Museum of Space History. Your ticket lets you “pile everyone in your vehicle” and come to the shows. Tickets are $180 per space season pass (6 shows), $45 per space for weekly shows (as available), and $10 for individuals to walk up. For more information, call 4372202 or visit flickingercenter.com.

Aug 15 - 18

Otero County Fair and Rodeo The Fair will have a Statehood Centennial theme. There will be a rodeo, carnival rides, and Frontier Village booths. Please visit their oterofair.com for detailed information, times and prices.

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Natalie Bancroft and Raimondo Campisi Mezzo-soprano Natalie Bancroft is the quintessential beautiful young Diva, a distinguished female singer who imbues her vocals with dramatic force. The Italian classical and jazz pianist Raimondo Campisi is the archetypal musical artist with a communicable, somewhat unruly, joie de vivre. Together they make music – beautiful music – stuff from the soul. The creative duo comes to us straight from Europe where they tour extensively, performing in jazz haunts and on classical stages. Bancroft and Campisi share their musical talents with Spencer patrons in a VISION MAGAZINE

The Unity Center

Lindsey Grace Birthday bash

Tuesday Aug 7

The Unity Center presents Us From Outside, We Are Defiance, To Each His Own, City Lights, Ava Braun and Laughing Season at the ENMU-Roswell Performing Arts Center.

Tickets are $10. Door open at 6 p.m. For more information, visit facebook.com/theunitycenter.

summerʼs night voyage of lush arias and jazz standards.

The performance starts at 8 p.m. Tickets for the performance are $46 and $49. For more information, call 1-888818-7872 or visit spencertheater.com.

Aug 11

John Anderson with special guest Morgan Frazier Anderson has charted more than 40 singles on the Billboard country music charts and five number one hits.

Performances start at 2 p.m. and 8 p.m., with a chicken buffet at 6 p.m. Tickets for the performance are $63 and $66. Pre-show buffet tickets are $20. For more information, call 1-888-818-7872 or visit spencertheater.com.

Aug 18

Vicki Lawrence and Mama: A Two Woman Show Sheʼs a snappy old battleaxe,

a curmudgeon at times. Outspoken. Salty. Bossy. Irreverent. But oh, so rational and funny. Comedian Vicki Lawrenceʼs brilliant alter ego “Mama” Thelma Harper is back, eager to share her observations about political happenings and domestic struggles with the same spit and vinegar that won hearts across the land. Performances start at 2 p.m. and 8 p.m., with a tilapia buffet before the show at 6 p.m. Tickets for the performance are $63 and $69. Pre-show buffet tickets are $20. For more information, call 1-888-8187872 or visit spencertheater.com.

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Movies. You bring your drink and a lawn chair, the popcorn and movie are on us! For more information and a complete list of movies, visit artesiaartscouncil.com or call 746-4212.

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Carlsbad Downtown Farmers Market The Carlsbad Downtown Farmers Market will open the 2012 season on June 23 and will run through early to midOctober. It is held every Saturday from 8 a.m. to 11 a.m. on the Eddy County Courthouse lawn in downtown Carlsbad. It features fresh produce, handmade crafts, entertainment, educational presenters, kidsʼ activities and more.

Aug 3 - 4

Southern New Mexico SCI Sporting Clay Southern New Mexico SCI Sporting Clay Shoot will take place on August 3 and 4.

This is scheduled to be a fun filled separate two day event. You can shoot either days or just one. Friday, August 3 will be a 50 bird event under the lights on a fun set, on 1/2 of our sporting clay course. Saturday will be 100 birds on full course offering an am or pm rotation. Refreshments will be provided on Friday night as well as lunch for all shooters Saturday. All shooters will receive an appreciation gift. We will have a 1 in 6 drawing for all participants for donated hunts, firearms and other prizes. You must be present to win. Award and prizes announced immediately following each shoot. Please register early, all rotations limited to 100 shooters. Friday night will begin at 7 p.m. all shooters off course by 11 p.m. Cost is Friday night, $75 per shooter and Saturday, $150 per shooter. For more information, call Edwin Garrett at 746-9327.

Friday Aug 10

The Wheeler Brothers play Pecos Flavors Winery at 7:30 p.m. Recently awarded Best New Band at SXSW, the Wheeler Brothers play award winning Americana Folk Rock.

For more information, call 627-6265.

Aug 6

Laughing Season Laughing Season will be performing at 7 p.m. at The Jahva House. LS recently opened for Thousand Foot Krutch in Roswell and received a lot of praise for their performance.

The Jahva House will be the first show on their first tour around the US, so come support these guys and what could be a great beginning for them.

And as always the show is free.

Donations are welcome.

Aug 7

Artesiaʼs Night Out Against Crime Everyone is invited to attend

Artesiaʼs Night Out Against Crime at the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Complex. from 5:30 p.m. - 10 p.m. The Artesia Police Department is excited to be partnering with local organizations to bring you this important event. There will be a sand volleyball tournament, miniature golf, a skateboard demo, and other activities for the whole family along with music by Shilo.

Aug 3

The Sammus Theory & Cage9 with Lastchild The Sammus Theory & Cage9 with Lastchild play the Batcave located at 219 S. Canyon. For more information, call 302-6722.

Aug 4

Art and Wine in the Cool Pines Art, wine, food and live music from 11 a.m. - 6 p.m. at the Sacramento Mountain Historical Museum. $10 in advance or $12 at the door. Admission includes commemorative wine glass and 10 tastings. For more information, visit cloudcroft.net.

Aug 10

Zig Zag Of Nb Ridaz with Off da Chain Zig Zag Of Nb Ridaz with Off da Chain play the Batcave located at 219 S. Canyon. For more information, call 3026722.

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IN THE SPOTLIGHT

Photo courtesy Ruby Leos / Soul Fire Photography Pictured is Bunnie Cruse, Master of Ceremonies at the 2011 Pride event in Clovis.

Eastern NM Pride!

Rey Berrones Vision Editor

For the first time in Roswell, a Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Questioning and Allied (LGBTQA) community pride event is

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set to happen. On August 11, from 4 p.m. - 9 p.m. the “Pride in Roswell 2012: Hate is easy, but love takes courage” event is at the Hope Amphitheatre located at 1600 N. Grand.

This is the second annual pride event put on by Eastern New Mexico Pride. The first event occured last year in Clovis.

According to Sashua Pat-

ton, Event Cordinator for Roswell Pride 2012, “The pride event last year in Clovis was a lot better than I thought it was going to be. I anticipated more protestors and less involvement.”

“There were two groups of protestors, who were not very loud or obnoxious,” Patton continued, “During the parade, people were coming off the street and

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joining us marching. That was a very cool thing, because you don’t see that kind of thing happening as big as it did in Clovis.”

For many within the LGBTQA community, coming out publicly at an event like this is more about showing those that fear retribution and hate crimes that cities in this area of the country are still located in the United States of America which was built on the idea of freedom. Americans that in the words of Evelyn Beatrice Hall, may “disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.”

Those same fears that happened before the Clovis event are happening as the Roswell event approaches.

According to Patton, “The [Clovis] event was small, but the parade was big, and we are not doing the parade here in Roswell because of the fear. There are not as many people willing to participate in a parade as there are willing to participate in an event, “We chose the location because of the descrete nature of the The Hope Ampitheatre. We may have some protestors outside the gate, and they are welcome, as it is their right, Patton continued.

“There are a whole lot of LGBTQA people in Roswell, but they stay secluded in their own area because they feel afraid, which is what makes this event so powerful because we can all come together. People here will realize that there are a whole lot more of us here than they realize.

“I personally know a lot of people in the LGBTQA community that won’t come out because they don’t think they would be accepted, or because it would negatively affect their business or reputation. That is the fear.

Some of them won’t participate in this pride event here because they think it would be detrimental to who they are in the community, and that’s unfortunate.”

The event doesn’t forget the “A” component of the acronym, which means “Allied.” This is anyone that has a friend or family member that identifies with the LGBT community that they support.

Showing support for friends and family in the community is important, Patton said, “If we never come out and stand together, we will never be seen as a united front. That See PRIDE, Page 14

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The Wheeler Brothers return to Pecos Flavors Winery

Rey Berrones Vision Editor

Recent South by Southwest “Best New Band” award winners, the Wheeler Brothers are coming back to Roswell to play at Pecos Flavors Winery on August 10.

The Wheeler Brothers play an Americana-inspired

folk-rock that forms a bed for warm vocal storytelling.

Just like when they came through in January, they are “still currently on tour for “Portraits,” and we’ll finish up this year promoting it,” said Nolan Wheeler, who plays guitar, piano and sings vocals for the band.

However, the show will

not be the same, because between then and now they finished recording the follow-up album, so according to Wheeler, “We will release the album early next year, but we’ll be playing some of the new stuff at the show.”

“Portraits” is a strong album that has won awards, and is full of an

eclectic Americana folk-rock sound, and going forward from that with the next album is a tall order.

Wheeler said about the new album, “We’ve been having a lot of fun with this new record, and have been using new instruments. It still has a similar tone and a diverse and dynamic kind of feel as “Portraits” did, but is a little more rock and roll, and a little bit louder.”

Wheeler said, “We wrote the first album, and it was primarily singer-songwriter driven,” the new album is more of a full band effort.

“We’ve been able to come closer together and develop songs that represent a bit of each of us.”

“I just think, after being on the road for a year now, and the experience of that last recording process, we have grown into our sound.

We come from diverse music backgrounds, we are finding our sound and becoming more cohesive. And just moving right along,” Wheeler continued, “There are still folk elements and

an Americana feel to a couple of the songs. There will be a lot more similarities between “Portraits” than there are differences.”

With the tracking on the new album done, the Wheeler Brothers are on a fall tour while the album goes through mixing and mastering.

The Wheeler Brothers play Pecos Flavors Winery on August 10 at 7:30 p.m.

For more information, call 627-6265.

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Roswell

Every Week, Mon, Wed, Fri

Lest We Forget: Roswell Army Airfield - The Early 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 2472464 or visit wafbmuseum.org.

Every Week, Mon, Wed, Fri

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

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Missileers. For more information, call 247-2464 or visit www.wafbmuseum.org.

Every Week, Wed, Sat

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.

Every Week, Thu, Fri, Sat

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.

Every Week, Thu

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.

Rare Copper Gifts

Every Saturday

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.

Every Saturday

Farmers and Gardeners Market The Farmersʼ and Gardenersʼ Market is from 9 a.m. - noon, at the Chaves County Courthouse Lawn. This family event features high quality fresh produce, flowers, and crafts that are produced by families in the Pecos and Hondo Valley. We also accept WIC coupons and Senior Citizen stamps. For more information, call Lester Peck at 627-2239.

Jan. 6, 2012 - Jan. 31, 2013

Roswell: Diamond of the Pecos Diamond of the Pecos focuses on the history and accomplishments of Roswell since its inception as a trading post in the Pecos Valley along the Goodnight - Loving Cattle Trail in the 1860s.

From the simple outpost, Roswell has grown into the

hub of southeastern New Mexico. A collaboration between the RMAC and the Historical Society for Southeast New Mexico, this exhibit includes historic photographs, art, and artifacts from both organizations. For more information, call 624-6744.

May 19 - Aug 19

Convergence Celebrate the creative efforts of local students as Goddard and Roswell High Schools converge at the Roswell Museum and Art Center. Convergence is a series of student-created contemporary art installations facilitated by local artist Nancy Fleming and Roswell Artist-in-Residence Corwin Levi of the artist team Radio Sebastian.

This exhibition is generously sponsored by the Kerr Foundation, Inc, Pioneer Bank, RMAC Foundation, and the City of Roswell. The installation will be on display from May 19 - August 19.

Aug 3

Concert in the Park - Danzar Danzar plays the Concert in the Park. All concerts are from 6:30 p.m. - 8 p.m. at Cahoon Park in front of the pool.

Admission is free. The concession stand will be open.

Aug 4

Summer Family Movie Join MainStreet Roswell and The City of Roswell Parks and Recreation Dept for a free showing of Dolphin Tale at Cielo Grande Park. The movie begins at dusk. For more information, visit mainstreetroswell.org.

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The Lindsey Eskelis Birthday Bash The Unity Center presents Us From Outside, We Are Defiance, To Each His Own, City Lights, Ava Braun and Laughing Season at the ENMURoswell Performing Arts Center. Tickets are $10. Door open at 6 p.m. For more information, visit facebook.com/theunitycenter.

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Tony Furtado Tony Furtado and his full band play Pecos Flavors Winery at 7:30 p.m. Admission is $15. For more information, call 627-6265.

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Back to School Car and Bike Show Picnic and Cruise Good Times Car Club presents the Back to School Car and Bike Show Picnic and Cruise from 11 a.m. - 7 p.m. at Cahoon Park. Admission is either $10 or a school supply donation. There will be live music, a DJ, and family entertainment. For more information, call Albert Hernandez at 914-0473.

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Family First Back 2 School Celebration Church on the Move presents the Family First Back 2 School Celebration from 4 p.m. - 11 p.m. at Cahoon Park. This is a free event.

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Pride in Roswell 2012 Eastern New Mexico Pride presents Pride in Roswell 2012: Hate is eays, but love takes courage at the Hope Amphitheatre located at 1600 N. Grand from 4 p.m. - 9 p.m.

There will be live music, DJs, informational booths, vendor booths and a drag show. This is a free event. For more information, visit facebook.com/alianzaofnewmexico.

Aug 11

Origins: Evolution 2012 Sundarii Dance presents Origins: Evolution 2012 at 7 p.m. at the ENMU-Roswell Performing Arts Center. Tickets are $10 and are available from Pecos Flavors Winery, Hippie Chicks or Tinnie Mercantile. There is also a two day workshop. held on Aug 11 and 12. For more information, visit sundariidance.com.

Aug 11

Summer Family Movie Join MainStreet Roswell and The City of Roswell Parks and Recreation Dept for a free showing of The Muppets at Cielo Grande Park. The movie begins at dusk. For more information, visit mainstreetroswell.org.

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Photographic Arts Society of Roswell Club Meeting The Photographic Arts Society of Roswell will hold its Aug meeting at the Roswell Adult Center at 6:30 p.m. in room 28 at the Roswell Adult Center, located at 807 N. Missouri. We will share and discuss photos from the last club safaris, and share and discuss photos from this monthĘźs challenge “Enjoying Lifeâ€? and “Shadows and Silhouettes.â€?

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IN THE SPOTLIGHT

Siobhan McBride: Long Letter

Rey Berrones Photos Siobhan McBride working at the Roswell Artist-in-Residence compound.

Vanessa Kahin Vistas Editor

A good storyteller knows how to pull elements from a mix of sources to create a well-rounded, collage-like image in the minds of those who listen.

Siobhan McBride, the next Roswell Artist-in-Residence who will exhibit her show, “Long Letter,” at the Roswell Museum and Art Center Aug. 10-Sept. 23, creates the same storytelling effect in her artwork.

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the first time McBride shows her work solo. It is also a break from tradition for an artist who typically shows her work along the East Coast.

It is no surprise that elements of good creative writing have made their way into McBride’s sultry and alluring images of domestic scenes. McBride is just as naturally drawn to the power of the pen as she is to the brush.

Born in Seoul and adopted by an American family at the age of 6

months, McBride grew up in Queens, N.Y. No one else in her immediate family is an artist per se, although McBride’s father is an English teacher who filled her young life with storytelling and books.

“I read a lot, always,” McBride said. She also noted that her mother enjoyed creating crafts, but otherwise the family’s leaning toward artistic expression seems to begin and end with the young woman who has traveled a long way to share her vision with Roswell.

McBride attended the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, where she double-majored in English and fine arts, with creative writing and painting as the respective emphases.

“I’ve always drawn and done stories,” McBride explained, but it wasn’t until she was exposed to the variety of college courses that she could truly zone in to her life’s calling.

“I just tried a lot of different things, (and) really gravitated towards art,” she said. After completing her undergraduate work, McBride traveled to England to briefly live with her brother and his family.

While there, she concentrated on her art, and also got the chance to see firsthand some of the art that Europe has to offer.

After a year of living abroad, McBride returned to the U.S., and completed a master in fine arts at the University of Pennsylvania, this time devoting herself VISION MAGAZINE

fully to the art of painting.

These days, the artist deals mostly in acrylic gouache and watercolor.

So far, McBride has shown her works in exhibitions in Jentel, Wyo., Saratoga Springs, N.Y., at the Vermont Studio Center in Johnson, Vt., and in Manhattan with the Workspace Program of the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council. The RAiR show being her first solo attempt, she will soon open another solo show in Brooklyn in March 2013.

Her RAiR exhibition, “Long Letter,” includes a series of acrylic gouache paintings that are barely held together by a common—albeit subtle—thread.

McBride said that the exhibition centers on a certain temperament or mood. Regardless of what the painting depicts, she said it is this mood that is being communicated—the mood is what the work is truly about.

“I don’t care if it’s a tree, a house, a landscape,” McBride said of the paintings’ literal depictions. It’s about the anticipatory mood she creates in her domestic scenes—the feeling that, although things are quiet for now, something will soon happen. Or, she said, the scenes may suggest the mood right after the occurrence of an energetically charged event, the moment afterwards when the feelings of anticipation and excitement linger yet in the air.

To create this effect, like the good storyteller’s collage-like descriptions, McBride composes her paintings with fragments of different images. She compared the process to cooking—adding a bit of this and a bit of that, until the desired effect is achieved.

Actual people in her paintings just wouldn’t quite fit, McBride said, because it is

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ments to material, surface and the layering of planar visual space with idiosyncratic arrangements of form and color.

Painters Siobhan McBride and Jerry West take imagery from everyday life, piecing together fragments both familiar and strange to create dreamlike pictorial spaces, in McBride’s case through the creation of half-abstract worlds of spatial and formal tension, and in West’s case, through the establishment of complex moods and densely layered psycho-symbology. The environments in McBride’s paintings form views of hardly habitable worlds; fragmented, temporal, and paused in migration, while West uses oil paint to inventively mine dreams, memory and artifacts from the collective imagination.

Radio Sebastian continues to collaboratively explore the invisible in an effort to illuminate a world just out of sight with drawing—in this case pairing up with past artist-in-residence, Random Flat. In her intimate pictorial reliefs, Sarah Bostwick investigates the shifting relationship between physicality and picturehood, this time reflecting quietly on the particulars of Roswell’s local manmade structures and commercial architecture.

The Isaac’s Gallery is located at 309 N. Virginia in Roswell, and the show runs until August 31. For more information, call 575-6238778.

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So we're just out there showing how simple you can grill and have something delicious come out of it."

Lester Peck, market manager, said delicious fresh fruits and vegetables at a reasonable price is only part of what makes the market so beneficial to residents. "Everything is strictly local -- (the food) can't be from out of state, and it can't be re-sale. ...

There will be anything that you would grow if you had a home garden: onions, squash, tomatoes, turnips, beets, lettuces of all kinds; later on we'll have watermelon.

"The big thing is absolute freshness of the vegetables and fruits,” Peck said. “It's homegrown. You're not buying something that was picked two weeks ago and transported to the grocery store, so there's a big difference there."

AC Nutrition participates in the Farmers Market

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is why the theme of the event is that ‘Hate is easy, but love takes courage.’ I know this is a hard thing because something like this has never happened in Roswell. People are really scared, so we have to do it.”

There will be vendor and

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each Saturday, providing eggs, organic fertilizer and feed for a variety of different animals. Ryan Perry, AC Nutrition manager, said that while commercial prices are going up, local prices remain steady, creating some opportunities for local markets. He said agriculture has gotten so commercial over the years that the uncertainty about where food comes from has grown to where more and more customers are selective in their purchases.

“I think that people are turning to local growers, where they've cut all the middle men out, and so they know where their food is coming from,” Perry said.

“It hasn't sat in refrigeration for several months – they know exactly what's happened to it, start to finish. So not only is it more nutritious, but it's a better value.

“I think that one of things we're seeing that directly impacts my business is that there's more awareness. … Fifty years ago everyone grew for their own consumption, whether it

was beef, pork, eggs or their vegetables, and we got away from that. It became so commercial, and kids didn't know where their products came from.

“We'd go speak to elementary schools and ask, 'Where does your hamburger come from?' And they'd say McDonald's or the store. They didn't have a clue; there was a disconnect there. We're seeing that come back around, to where we're driving back local.”

Huckabee said the Farmers Market is one of those rare events where everything is positive, and pointed out how WIC and The Salvation Army provide Farmers Market vouchers to seniors, low income families and single mothers.

"We take senior citizen stamps and WIC coupons, which helps out the community,” he said. “They're all on real tight budgets, so these coupons make a difference. It's a big part of our market."

For more information about the Farmers Market, contact Peck at 627-2239.

informational booths at the Amphitheatre, and lots of fun entertainment is planned for the stage. According the Patton, “We will be doing HIV testing the whole time. We are going to start at 4 with a short drag show, then there will also be performers on stage. It could be djs, acoustic music, or other live performance, just a variety of entertainment and we are

going to end with a drag performance from 7 p.m. 9 p.m.”

Planning for next year is already in the works. “We are holding the event in Roswell this year, and we held the event in Clovis last year, and will branch out so that there are more Eastern New Mexico Pride events where we can support each other,” Patton said.

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the landscape itself that is the active participant, the communicator of all the feelings the artist is trying to impart.

McBride said she was inspired in her art by one of her favorite films, “8 ½,” a 1963 Italian comedy-drama by director Federico Fellini.

There is a scene, she said, in which children at play anticipate an event, and share their feelings of excitement with the use of the film’s made-up but muchused phrase, “asa nisi masa.” The camera pans away from the excited children, as if to reveal a satisfactory conclusion to the children’s anticipation. Will their desires come true, or are they just wishful child’s dreams?

The viewer is held in suspense as the camera pans, then stops at a view that reveals nothing. The effect leaves the viewer feeling “shocked by something plain,” McBride noted.

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HISTORY

John Chisum: Pecos Valley Cattle King - part 1

Stu Pritchard Roswell Historian

John Simpson Chisum in the mid 1870s was undoubtedly the most prominent cattleman in the nation. At the time of his greatest successes, his headquarters was located at a lovely little watering hole called “South Springs” which was just south of the fledgling village of Roswell in Southeast New Mexico territory.

His declared ranch extended from just south of old Fort Sumner and the Bosque Redondo Indian Reservation, to the village of Seven Rivers nearly 150 miles south. His east camp was above the caprock, with the edges of his cattle empire extending west some 75 miles to the foothills of the Capitan. Not surprisingly, his ranch was described as so large it was “as far as a cowboy on a good horse could travel during the summer.”

During Chisum’s hey-day he controlled as many as 80,000 cattle, and during the 12 years of greatest activity it is estimated that he controlled more than 300,000 cattle. His herds were so prolific that he often said that in spite of rustlers, Indians, coyotes and the weather, his greatest problem was the way his herd just kept growing. It is also said that Chisum lost more horses to the Mescaleros and Apaches than most cattlemen owned in a lifetime.

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times and places where the six-gun was law - but he never wore a pistol. He was born on a plantation, his parents and grandparents were well-to-do with considerable gentility, yet Chisum, as an adult, could not get used to sleeping in a bed, and in his lovely house at South Springs, he generally could be found sleeping in his bedroll on the floor.

He gained a reputation for stinginess - so stingy, it was said that people did not fear him in his bout with small pox because he never gave anything away. Still, when Susan McSween, widow of his former associate Alexander McSween, was having a hard time of it after she moved to White Oaks, he had his waddies round up 600 head of prime longhorns, drive them to White Oaks and present them to Susan McSween. With this start, Susan became known as the “White Oaks Cattle Queen.”

Chisum also had his former slave, now known as Frank Chisum, select 200 fine cattle from the herd, thus assuring the faithful negro a successful future.

The cowman was disliked by a great number of his neighbors, especially the Seven Rivers cattlemen, but no one who visited the Chisum Ranch ever went away hungry, nor did he question their business origins. his specially built ballroom was the center of most weekend and special event activities. His cowhands were quite faithful and displayed genuine affection for their garrulous boss who

paid them well. Chisum was considered just and fair in controlling his large crew of cowhands who generally numbered about 100 men of mixed nationalities. He never married, but as a young man he had at least one great love for a lady named Jenny Wells who could not accept his ambition for wandering westward. She married another.

The consumate cattleman, Chisum could spot troublemakers in his herds almost at a glance. Their removal settled down his herds reducing turmoil and sometimes stampedes. He had the knack of keeping mental amounts of beef grades as the herd travelled by him, tallying his herd as it grew.

Chisum was one of the West’s finest cattlemen, but one of the area’s worst politicians. He not only unseccessfully ran for office in New Mexico, but was jailed for several weeks by his political rivals. He offered friendship to Billy the Kid, who apparently sparked his niece, Sallie, briefly, but frowned on a close association especially as the kid turned bad. It was Chisum who selected Pat Garrett with the concurrence of J.C. Lea, to track down and eliminate the young outlaw.

“Cow-John” Chisum was often mistaken as a common cowhand, not a big man in physical stature, somewhat slender, wiry and muscular. The mistake was made as well because of his clothes and manner. His weather-burned face was pleasant, always with a VISION MAGAZINE

Pictured is the John Chisum sculpture in its final clay stages in the Robert Summerʼs Studio in September 2000. In the rear is Summerʼs son, who assists him. Dedication was effected March 24, 2001. carefully groomed mustache. He had a gruff manner but when amused he responded with a loud laugh: Haw, Haw, Haw, that none could mistake.

John Chisum was born in mid-August, 1824, on his family’s plantation in Hardeman County, Tennessee. The plantation was a relatively large one with many slaves, herds of livestock and fields of cotton and tobacco. His father, Claiborne, watched over the family holdings, while the grandfather, James, engaged heavily in Tennessee politics. In the mid-1830s, Claiborne’s pioneer spirit led him to move his family westward to Texas territory.

The Chisums packed up their household goods into sturdy wagons, rounded up a goodly amount of livestock, selected a number of slaves and moved along the difficult paths and roadways to their new destination. The Mississippi crossing was difficult, but not unusual; the pace was slow as Claiborne carefully

evaluated a number of sites for his family. He eventually established his new home along the Red River in east Texas territory.

Here the family prospered, as they became used to their new home and the relative wildness of the area.

Even the slaves came to accept a new lifestyle. They took the family name and as their children grew up, they associated and played with the Chisum boys; John, James, Pitzer and Jefferson. The mother, Lucinda, passed away and the family mourned but maintained their strong family ties. John took up bookkeeping, including a stint as Lamar County clerk, but his interest soon turned to becoming a cattleman, especially after seeing the stream of longhorns passing through the area. He wooed an attractive miss, Jenny Wells, but after he outlined his dreams for a future farther west pursuing the cattle trades, Wells opted for a more secure future with another suitor.

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UFOLOGY

After fifty years, Marilyn's murder still haunts us

On Saturday, August 4, 1962, the most famous woman in the world died a tragic death, murdered at the age of 36 in the guest cottage of her own home.

Marilyn Monroe died at the hands of government officials because of top-secret information divulged illegally to her by President John F. Kennedy. So I argue in my book UFOs and the Murder of Marilyn Monroe, with good reason.

This August 4th will be the 50th anniversary of her

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death. Although books say she "committed suicide" early on Sunday morning, August 5, she was definitely dead before 11 p.m. on the fourth. Her publicist Pat Newcomb sent a message to her boss Arthur Jacobs at the Hollywood Bowl, where he had taken his fiancee to see a Henry Mancini concert, and the message necessarily came before 11 p.m., since by Los Angeles statute all concerts at the Bowl had to be over by that hour due to the proximity of

residential streets. There was an organized effort to make it look at if Marilyn didn't die until Sunday morning, because Attorney General Robert Kennedy was in the room when Marilyn was given a lethal injection, but he left town around midnight, and it had to look as if he was long gone before she died, so that his alibi would be in place.

Is it just idle "conspiracy theory" that Marilyn died at the hands of the Kennedys

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because of UFO-related secrets that she knew? No, by no means. There is a now famous CIA memo, dated August 3, 1962, describing that agency's concerns over things heard by way of wiretaps on Marilyn's phones. The memo says that she "had secrets to tell, no doubt arising from her trists [sic] with the President and the Attorney General." The memo goes on to say that one such secret "mentions the visit by the President at a secret air base for the purpose of inspecting things from outer space." On the wiretaps, Dorothy Kilgallen (who herself was murdered in 1965 while writing an "explosive" book on the Kennedy assassination; the manuscript vanished) was quoted as saying that "she knew what might be the source of visit. In the midfifties Kilgallen learned of a secret effort by U.S. and UK

governments to identify the origins of crashed spacecraft and dead bodies, from a British government official. Kilgallen believed the story may have come from the New Mexico story in the late forties."

Clearly all this refers to UFO crash retrievals and what Jack Kennedy, a notorious womanizing blabbermouth, illicitly disclosed to Marilyn during what can only be called pillow talk.

Marilyn's fate was sealed by her saying, over the phone, that she was about to have a news conference and "tell all." This the Kennedy family could not let her do, as JFK's disclosure of classified information would have been prosecuted as treason. So Marilyn was silenced to keep any of this from coming out. It's a national disgrace.

Peace be with you, Norma Jeane.

THURSDAY, AUGUST 2, 2012