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Thursday, September 19, 2013 Volume 20, Issue 18

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

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In The Spotlight

Aria Finch

Music

Rebecca Kilgore

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Books

The Apache Peoples

Actividades

Mud Sweat and Tears

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Farewell to Roswell witness Jesse Marcel Jr.

Remember Saint Agatha is one of the pieces in the current exhibition by NM Governor’s Award winner Aria Finch.

Photographer: Kelly Berrones

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Rey Berrones Photo The undeveloped section of land between the Noon Optimist fields and the old airport runway will be filled with obstacles on Sept. 28

Mud Sweat and Tears

Roswell is going to play host for an obstacle course where participants can test their mettle, while raising money for the Wounded Warrior of NM Project.

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By Amy Vogelsang Record Staff Writer ud. Sweat. Tears. Well hopefully there aren't any real tears, but with competition so fierce all bets are off.

Barbara Gomez is the queen of coordinating events: she absolutely loves putting events together. Every time she finishes one, she is looking to start another, Gomez said of herself. And she loves Roswell, but she's "always looking for something fun to do," she said.

So she decided to combine interests: Roswell plus a fundraising event.

This resulted in "Roswell Mud, Sweat and Tears," or in other words, a mud run.

"I jump for something fun," Gomez explained. "And mud runs seem to be all the rage."

She wanted the proceeds of a fun event, however, to go toward a good cause. So she looked into benefiting the Wounded Warriors Project.

"Lo and behold I found out they have a Tough Mudder," Gomez said.

"Roswell is not ready for that."

And indeed, the Tough Mudder may be too intense for the likes of Roswell,

but she still has decided to have a mud run, making up her own version.

So what exactly is a mud run? Well in short terms, it's a race filled with obstacles involving getting very muddy, aka, a race where you wear the oldest clothes you have.

And since Wounded Warr iors already have their own muddy track, Gomez said the money made from Tshirt sales, a portion of registration and a VIP after party will go toward Operation Wounded Warriors New Mexico.

So the mud run: it will be vicious on some levels, but some aspects will offer a less intense environment.

There will be three options when entering the event: single runner, which is self-explanatory, a fun group entry of at least 5 members per group, and this will not be timed but simply fun, or the third option, an elite race for groups who are "out there for blood."

The elites will all be head to head grudge matches, and this will be the only section timed with prizes at the SEE

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2013 ROSWELL JAZZ FESTIVAL SCHEDULE

Thursday, Oct 10, 2013 Pecos Flavors Winery, 7-9pm, $30

Friday, October 11, 2013 Courthouse Lawn, Kickoff Concert, 12-1pm, Free Pecos Flavors Winery, 5-7pm, $30 Peppers Grill & Bar, 5-7pm, $30 Sally Port Ballroom, 7:30-11:30pm, $30, $10 for students with ID

Saturday, October 12, 2012 Ginsberg Music, RJF School of Jazz workshops: 10am-1:45pm Jam session: 2-2:45pm, Free

Roswell Museum and Art Center, 1-2:30pm, Free Sally Port Ballroom, 7:30-11:30pm, $30 $10 for students with ID

Sunday, October 13, 2013 RISD Pueblo Auditorium, Jazz Worship Service, 10:30-11:30am, Free First Presbyterian Church Gumbo Lunch, 11:30am-1pm, $10 Anderson Museum, Finale concert and Jazz Angel Honoree presentation, 2-4pm, $30, $10 for students with ID

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Roswell Jazz Festival 2013: Meet Rebecca Kilgore

By Michael Francis Artistic Director, Roswell Jazz Festival

"When Rebecca sings, the sun comes out."— Johnny Mandel

This is the second in a series of articles about the Roswell Jazz Festival. Future articles will continue to focus on biographical information and photographs of several of the key world-class musicians who will be performing at the upcoming 8th Annual Roswell Jazz Festival, held October 10-13.

Each year, since the 2008 Roswell Jazz Festival, the festival committee has chosen a special guest of honor. Past honorees include saxophonist Houston Person, trumpeter Randy

Sandke, trombonist Dan Barrett, bassist/vocalist Nicki Parrott and guitarist/banjoist/vocalist Eddie Erickson.

Guest of honor for our upcoming 2013 festival, to be held October 10-13, is the fabulous critically acclaimed vocalist/guitarist, Rebecca Kilgore.

Rebecca is one of America's outstanding song stylists, and one of the world’s leading interpreters of the music of the Great American Songbook, the widely respected chronicle of the best of American songs written from 1900-1950. She heads up her own popular “cabaret style” jazz group, The Rebecca Kilgore Quartet and performs worldwide along side the greatest SEE JAZZ ON PAGE 14

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Thrill on the Hill

By Amy Vogelsang Record Staff Writer jeep is not just a vehicle: it is your best friend on a camping trip, your reliable "get out of jail" pass in a tight spot on a trail, and ultimately, a jeep is the gateway to adventure.

These are things only a jeep owner could know, but for all those Wrangler lovers it is basically fact. And it is for that reason Desert Sun auto group will be hosting the first annual Thrill on the Hill Jeep Rally in Weed.

For seven years Thrill on the Hill has been taking place with Toyota vehicles, but now it's the Jeep's turn. And after the Toyota version becoming one of the top Toyota events in the country, it seemed logical to use the same platform and create a similar even for Jeep, said Desert Sun Motors Internet

Jeep lovers enjoy a weekend of camping and off-roading Director and one of the event coordinators, Brandon Burling.

"We want to capture the jeep audience for people who like to go offroading and enjoy the outdoors," Burling said.

The big event starts Friday, Oct. 4, at Camp at Tall Pines in Weed. People will be able to check-in starting at 9:45 a.m. People will arrive from Albuquerque, Las Cruces, Rio Rancho, El Paso and everywhere from across the country, Burling said.

"Everybody has time to meet everybody," he said. It is for this meet and greet purpose that Friday night exists.

There will be a barbecue, contests and games. There will also be a ramp that will allow motorists to see how SEE JEEP ON PAGE 12

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Sept 21 - 22

The 22nd Annual White Sands Balloon Invitational The 22nd Annual White Sands Balloon Invitational is scheduled for September 21 and 22. Launch time is 7 a.m. on Saturday and Sunday, weather permitting. Launch will be from the White Sands National Monument on Saturday, September 21 and from the Balloon Park on Sunday, September 22. The balloon glow will be September 22 at the Balloon Park on La Velle Road. Come join us for a weekend of great beauty and great fun.

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Celebrate Oktoberfest Hungarian style with Gypsy Romance Wednesday October 2nd. Bratwurst & Beer Party at 6 p.m., included with your ticket. Direct from Budapest one of the greatest dance troupes in the world, The Hungarian State Folk Ensemble, a company of 48 dancers and live orchestra, performs “Gypsy Romance,” a joyful journey through time, past and present. Since it was established in 1951 The Hungarian State Folk Ensemble has performed in 44 countries across four continents and has won the admiration of an audience of more than seven and a half million people. This renowned company preserves folk dancing in a rhythmic swirl of festive reels and waltzes. Dressed in vibrant costumes, the artists perform a rich repertoire of international classics by composers: Liszt, Brahms, Kodály and Bartók with authentic, traditional instruments. As showcased at the state-of-the-art Spencer Theater, which kicksoff its 17th winter season of performances, this kaleidoscope of dance talent and musical joy is a marvelous escape from the everyday world. The performance starts at 8 p.m., with a beer and bratfest before the show at 6 p.m.

Tickets for the performance are $56 and $59. For more information, call 1-888-818-7872 or visit spencertheater.com.

Gypsy Romance Celebrate Oktoberfest Hungarian style with Gypsy Romance Wednesday October 2nd. Bratwurst & Beer Party at 6 p.m., included with your ticket. Direct from Budapest one of the greatest dance troupes in the world, The Hungarian State Folk Ensemble, a company of 48 dancers and live orchestra, performs “Gypsy Romance,” a joyful journey through time, past and present. Since it was established in 1951 The Hungarian State Folk Ensemble has performed in 44 countries across four continents and has won the admiration of an audience of more than seven and a half million people. This renowned company preserves folk dancing in a rhythmic swirl of festive reels and waltzes. Dressed in vibrant costumes, the artists perform a rich repertoire of international classics by composers: Liszt, Brahms, Kodály and Bartók with authentic, traditional instruments. All under the direction of Hungarian masestro Oláh Jenő, “Gypsy Romance” is a vibrant display of one of the powerhouse cultures in the western world. As showcased at the state-ofthe-art Spencer Theater, which kicks-off its 17th winter season of performances, this kaleidoscope of dance talent and musical joy is a marvelous escape from the everyday world. Come celebrate and travel with a tapes-

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The performance starts at 8 p.m., with a beer and bratfest before the show at 6 p.m.

Tickets for the performance are $56 and $59. For more information, call 1-888-8187872 or visit spencertheater.com.

Artesia Sept 28

Cars and Coffee Beginning 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 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.

Sept 28 - 29

Our Lady of Grace Family Fun Weekend Saturday, Sept 28 from 11 a.m. - 10 p.m., Sunday, Sept 29 from 10 a.m. - 6:30 p.m.

Raffles, Games, Food, & Prizes! For more information, call 308-9611.

Carlsbad

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Carlsbad Downtown Farmers Market The Carlsbad Downtown Farmersʼ Market every Saturday May 25- September 28, from 8-11 am on the Eddy County Courthouse lawn.

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September 13, 14, 15, 19, 20, 21

Carrizozo Sept 18

Hemlock Hemlock is playing the Nike Bar in Carrizozo at 8 p.m.

This is an all ages show, admission is $10.

Sept 29

Richard Dowling Richard Dowling will be playing in Carriozo on Sunday afternoon, September 29 at 3pm. Space will be limited to about 60 people, so please call 575-648-2757 or Barbara Culbertson 575-628-2279 or e-mail ebrannen@gmail.com to reserve your place. The concert is free and there will be a reception and opportunity to meet the pianist after the concert. Richard Dowling, specializes in French music, Chopin, and Ragtime. For more information, on Dowling, visit piatigorskyfoundation.org/artis t/dowling. For more information on the show, visit carrizozomusic.org.

If you would like to schedule an appointment, call (575) 623-9322

Hemlock

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Cabaret Willkommen, bienvenue and welcome! Come to the Kit Kat Klub, where Sally Bowles (Kristen Hester) and the mysterious Emcee (Miles Wiseman) sound the clarion call to decadent fun. But even as Sallyʼs attraction to American writer Cliff Bradshaw (Jonathan Bertschinger) turns into a passionate romance, outside the Nazi party begins its rise into a brutal force, and events are set into motion that will lead to one of the darkest chapters in human history. From the director of Fiddler on the Roof and A Dollʼs House comes a musical experience like no other, featuring classic songs such as “Willkommen”, “Two Ladies”, “Money”, and “Tomorrow Belongs to Me.” Welcome to the end of the world. Tickets are on sale now. Show dates are September 13, 14 (8 p.m.), 15 (2 p.m.), 19, 20, 21 (8 p.m.).

Cabaret is intended for mature audiences, parental discretion is advised. For more information, visit communityplayersofhobbs.com.

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Every Week, Mon - Sat

Friday Sept 20

Ginsberg Music

Ginsberg Music welcomes Hemlock back for a performance on Sept 20, with special guests Kingdoms Fall, Odd Man Out, and Wednesday Never Comes. The show starts at 6:30 p.m. and admission is $10. This is an all ages show.

Lovington Sept 19

Will Banister and the Mulberry Band Free concert by Will Banister and the Mulberry Band at the newly remodeled outdoor Pavilion at Lea County Museum Thursday, September

19, 7 p.m. 103 S Love St. Across from the Courthouse in Lovington.

Sept 30

Richard Dowling Richard Dowling is playing Pannell Auditorium Lovington High School from 7 p.m. 8:30 p.m. This performance is

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- 3:30 p.m. For more information, call 247-2464 or visit wafbmuseum.org.

Every Week, Mon - Sat

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. The museum is open from 10 a.m. - 3:30 p.m.

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 7 >>

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Chile Cheese Festival

Every Thu

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, Fri, Sat

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.

Every Week, Wed

Party on the Patio Starting May 1, DJ Louis Najar leads a theme party every Wednesday at 5 p.m. on the Peppers patio, located at 500 N. Main. For more information, call 623-1700.

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.

Every Saturday

Farmersʼ Gardenersʼ Market The Farmersʼ and Gardenersʼ Market is one of our largest successes. Here you will find the freshest fruits and vegetables available anywhere. We also have local crafters and just good old-fashioned atmosphere. Purchase your home grown/home made items at the Chaves County Courthouse Lawn from the first Saturday in July until late September. This family event features high quality fresh produce, flowers, and crafts that are produced by families

part in the Roswell Artist-inResidence program. Exhibition runs through September 18th, 2013. No animals are on display here unfinished or otherwise; only structures, skeletal instruments, fossils with only hints of their fleshy fullness. Bring some quarters with you, itʼs possible they may come in handy. For more information visit roswellmuseum.org.

Aug 16 - Sept 24 Sept 27 - 28

Roswell Convention Center

Chile Cheese Festival, Friday, September 27th and Saturday, September 28th, at the Roswell Convention Center, located at 912 N. Main. The aroma of fresh roasted chile fills the air during the Chile Cheese Festival. The festival features entertainment, food, vendors, and more. Tours of Leprino Foods, the worldʼs largest mozzarella cheese plant, are also available. Tickets for the tours are $6. For more information call 420-5718 or visit mainstreetroswell.org

in the Pecos and Hondo Valley. We also accept WIC coupons and Senior Citizen stamps. Each week, hundreds of locals and visitors visit our market. This direct relationship between the producer and the consumer contributes to strengthening our local economy, keeping agricultural land and water in production and providing fresh, healthy food to our community. Vendors at the market must follow strict food safety guidelines, thus protecting the health and safety of our wonderful customers. For more information contact our market manager Lester Peck at 575-627-2239.

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.

Feb 8 - Sept 28

Vision: 2013 Invitational Exhibition On Friday, February 8 from 57 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, call 624-6744

Aug 9 - Sept 18

Unfinished Animal Ven Voisey is pleased to present “Unfinished Animal” at the Roswell Museum and Art Center: an exhibition of new work created while taking

Other Places Again Isaacʼs Pipe and Supply Gallery, located at 309 N. Virginia, is pleased to present a group of paintings by the New York based artist Glenn Goldberg. Glenn Goldberg was born in the Bronx, Studied at the New York Studio School and received an MFA from Queens College. He was named the 1996 Heilman Artist and has received grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, Edward Albee Foundation and the Guggenheim Foundation. His works are the product of an attempt to trust oneʼs complexity, the unspoken, the intangibles, wile combining the imagination and experience of the curious mind. The mesmerizing dot matrix into and over meaningful shape is reminisce of Aboriginal art. Often present in his abstractions are the elements of natural objects, such as flowers, birds or water. He has shown throughout Europe and USA, recently exhibited with Jason Mccoy Gallery in New York and Hill Gallery in Michigan.

Goldbergʼs work is held in numerous collections, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the National Gallery in Washington DC, the Brooklyn Museum of Art, the National Gallery of Art and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, Nelson Atkins in Kansas City and High Museum of Art in Atlanta. Glenn teaches drawing at Cooper

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Sept 7, 2013 - March 9, 2014

Tweeting Elations Well known to all, Finch will present a new body of work in clay that borders on the mystical, often. Through her medium, she evokes the viewer to ponder unanswered questions by entering her world to participate in the narrative of our own imagination.

The reception will be held on September 28.

Sept 19

Bleu Edmondson Bleu Edmondson plays Pecos Flavors Winery from 7 p.m. 9 p.m. For more information, call 627-6265.

Sept 20

Taylor Hodak Taylor Hodak plays Pecos Flavors Winery from 7 p.m. 9 p.m. For more information, call 627-6265.

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The aggressive electronic sounds has a Cannibal Corpse meets the Minibosses feel.

The band is based out of California where their founding member, Lucas Mann, resides. T he band selfreleased their first fulllength album entitled Embryonic Anomaly in late 2009. Four months later Unique Leader Records signed the band and Embryonic Anomaly was rereleased inter nationally

under the label on May 28, 2010.

Recently they have been promoting their second release, entitled Dingir.

Lucas Mann, said that the new album expands the sonic exploration of the band. He elaborated, "Dingir is an expansion of ever ything Embryonic Anomaly is.

Faster tempos, higher complexity on all instruments, more melodic hooks, more brutality, better composition etc.

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Rings of Saturn lands in Roswell

Rings of Saturn launches the next leg of their tour with a Unity Center show.

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"A lot of the inspiration comes from the br utal extraterrestial aspects of the DeadSpace video game series.

"T he lyr ics are heavily influenced by extraterrestrial brutality and legend. For example, the title of our newest album title Dingir, directly translates from Sumerian Cuneiform meaning 'Sky God.' This is in reference to Aliens being the gods, who created and who

will ultimately destroy man.

"T he instr umentals also create the atmosphere of chaos and confusion, which would likely be humans reaction to these beings."

He also said that his band can't wait to visit Roswell, the hotbed of UFO culture, and more specifically, that "this will be our first time that we have visited our alien brethren's home base on Earth."

Rings of Saturn is playing a

Unity Center show at the Boys and Girls Club located at 201 S. Garden on Sept. 29 with Tr iumph Over Shipwreck, Walking Revival, Watcher and I, The Constellation. Doors open at 6 p.m., and admission is $10. To hear Rings of Saturn's music, or to find out more about the band, visit facebook.com/RingsofSaturnband.

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Schwarzkopf presents a musical workshop and performance at AMoCA. l e x a n d e r Schwarzkopf is retur ning to the Xcellent Music at the Anderson Museum of Contemporary Arts on September 21 at 7 p.m. for a performance of Figures: 17 Choreographic Etudes f or Piano by Falko Steinbach. This is f amiliar territory for Schwarzkopf, as he has led numerous per-

formances and discussion on Steinbach's work. In f act, Schwarzkopf's doctoral research is a structural analysis of this piece.

Schwarzkopf holds a Doctorate of Musical Arts in Piano Performance from the University of Oregon where he studied with David Riley and Dean Kramer. In addition to his performance and com-

posing activities, Schwarzkopf teaches private piano lessons and facilitates music exploration with children at the University of Ore-

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Schwarzkopf is a past recipient of University of Oregon Graduate Teaching Fellowships in Piano Pedagogy and Collaborative Piano.

While the musical performance is going to be undoubtedly excellent, there will be a workshop led by Schwarzkopf that will explore some mind-bending musical concepts. It starts at 10 a.m. and is free f or interested piano students. It will be limited to 12 students, so those interested are encouraged to pre-register.

The workshop is grounded in the doctoral work that Schwarzkopf has done, and takes a different track than most musical workshops.

Rather than f ocusing on chops, method or implementation, the workshop will zero in on the ways that we interpret music. Rather than limiting ourselves to the auditory exper ience of music,

Schwarzkopf will help students visualize the music in three-dimensional forms, and manipulate them from there.

Schwarzkopf said, "My intention is to show the students how to understand composition, by looking at contours, rather than only looking at notes on the page.

"Basically, it is taking a piece of music and its textures apart and looking at the musical lines and finding shapes.

"A line [of music] moves in a certain way that forms the shape of a mountain range. I can have them form that line by moving their hand in the air. While another person is forming another shape that supports that line. So you are basically translating the sounds into shapes.

"I will be working with cardboard cutouts that represent specific shapes. They are not going to have to conceptualize something themselves. I will show them what I mean by giving them something in the form of that. Then showing them in the music how that works, and giving them the idea that this is SEE FIGURES ON PAGE 12

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Sept 20

Hemlock Ginsberg Music welcomes Hemlock back for a performance on Sept 20, with special guests Kingdoms Fall, Odd Man Out, and Wednesday Never Comes. The show starts at 6:30 p.m. and admission is $10. This is an all ages show.

Sept 21

Blues, Band and BBQ Blues, Band and BBQ. Saturday, September 21st from 10am-4pm, Roswell Honda will have its 3rd annual Blues, Band and BBQ Even for the GHS and RHS Band Fundraiser. Blues, bands, and barbecue is an annual event thrown by Roswell Honda in an effort to help the Roswell High and Goddard High bands to raise funds for the following school year. For more information, visit facebook.com/roswellbbq.

Sept 21

Nash Bash The Nash Bash presented by Desert Sun Motors is at the Way Out West parking lot from 3 p.m. - 6 p.m. Get registered to win a trip to Nashville at the Nash Bash party.

Sept 24

Fun, Fit, Family Night Roswell families with students from kindergarten through 5th grade are invited to attend the Fun, Fit, Family Night on Tuesday, September 24 from 6 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. at the Roswell Convention & Civic Center, 912 North Main St. The event is free and healthy snacks will be provided. Children and families can participate in physical education activities and health screenings.

Sept 26

Standing Out For its Fall Film Series, RMAC will present three independent films that focus on individuals who steal the spotlight in lesser recognized facets of American contemporary art. Admission into the films is free and generously sponsored by the RMAC Foundation. Popcorn and beverages provided. September 26: Herb & Dorothy (2008) tells the story of a couple in Manhattan who amassed an impressive contemporary art collection on a surprisingly modest budget.

2008, United States, Color, 87 minutes, English, Directed by Megumi Sasaki, Not Rated.

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Mud Sweat and Tears Roswellʼs first mud run and obstacle race, The Roswell Mud Sweat and Tears, starts at 7:30 a.m. NW of Noon Optimist Park. A portion of the proceeds benefits the Operation Wounded Warrior NM. For more information, visit RoswellJackFM.com or register at roswellmud.racesonline.com.

Sept 28 Sunday Sept 29

The Unity Center

Rings of Saturn play a Unity Center show at 201 S. Garden.

Admission is $10, and doors open at 6 p.m. Also playing are Triumph Over Shipwreck, Walking Revival, Watchers and I, The Constellation.

Sept 27

Grace Askew Grace Askew plays Pecos Flavors Winery from 7 p.m. 9 p.m. For more information, call 627-6265.

Sept 27 - 28

Chile Cheese Festival Chile Cheese Festival, Friday, September 27th and Saturday, September 28th, at the Roswell Convention Center, located at 912 N. Main. The aroma of fresh roasted chile fills the air during the Chile Cheese Festival. The festival features entertainment, food, vendors, and more. Tours of Leprino Foods, the worldʼs largest mozzarella cheese plant, are also available. Tickets for the tours are $6. For more information call 4205718 or visit mainstreetroswell.org

Sept 28

St Jude Charity Fun Run The St Jude Charity Fun Run is at Chiliʼs Grill and Bar, located at 4502 N. Main Street.

Kickstands up at 11 a.m. All

proceeds to benefit St. Jude Childrenʼs Research Hospital.

Sept 28

Roswell Community Yard Sale The Roswell Community Yard Sale is from 6 a.m. - 3 p.m. at the Roswell Wool Bowl Soccer Complex! Be sure to sign up, so you can make some money and help the Roswell Humane Society at the same time! Pay only $25 for a 10x20 booth space, sell your items at this event and you keep 100% of the money you make. Permits also available in person by visiting The Roswell Humane Society located at 703 E McGaffey. For more information, visit facebook.com/RoswellUnited.

This is an official Epic Events Production. Proudly Sponsored by Once Again Consignment, Peppers Grill & Bar, Mama Tuckers Donut Shop, Martins Capital Café, & Bullocks Jewelers. For more information, please call 575622-8950.

Sept 28

Hooraw Mud Boggs The Hooraw Mud Boggs are at 1003 S. Atkinson. Gates open at noon, books close at 2:30 p.m., and boggs start at 3 p.m. Bring your easy ups, chairs and have a good time.

Sept 29

Rings of Saturn Rings of Saturn play a Unity Center show at 201 S. Garden. Admission is $10, and doors open at 6 p.m. Also playing are Triumph Over Shipwreck, Walking Revival, Watchers and I, The Constellation.

Oct 5

Art Block Party & Chalk Art Festival Donʼt miss the Roswell Museum and Art Centerʼs annual free, all-ages art festival featuring hands-on art for kids, a chalk art contest, the Crazy Hair Salon, musicians, vendors and much more! The festival is from 8 a.m. - 1 p.m. with the Block Party from 10 a.m. - 4 p.m. This is a free event. For more information, visit roswellmuseum.org.

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Disclaimer: Minors must be accompanied by an adult. The show starts at 8 p.m. and tickets start at $25. For more information, call 464-7777 or visit innofthemountaingods.com.

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Tour de Ruidoso The Seventh Annual Tour de Ruidoso is a Fundraising event to benefit a variety of

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local not-for-profit organizations. The Tour De Ruidoso will give you the challenge youʼve been searching for!

Beginning with a climb from 6840 to 7485, a downhill and a climb back to 7482 and then dropping down to 7257 ... and this is in the first 6 miles! After check point 3, youʼll drop out of the evergreen forest into the Sonoran Desert and wind your way to Capitan, New Mexico. The Century riders climb to the Capitan Gap where Smokey Bear was found. From Capitan you continue east and then south to Ft. Stanton. Here youʼll begin the climb to the mesa and the Sierra Blanca Regional Airport. Open country and magnificent views will enchant you as you head back to Highway 48 and the last leg into Ruidoso. The beautiful scenery will amaze you as you tour through history. Geronimoʼs Apaches roamed these hills.

Black Jack Pershing and the Buffalo Soldiers served at Ft. Stanton. This is the heart of Billy the Kid country. The Lincoln County War was fought in this area and you may still see a stagecoach crossing the mountains near you where Smokey Bear was born and buried. The Host Hotel is The Lodge at Sierra Blanca, and this is where the ride will start and finish. We have a Century, 100 K, Nearly Flat

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Sept 28

The New Riversong Ramblers The New Riversong Ramblers are playing a concert and dance at Mountain Annieʼs Center for the Arts. Tickets are $20 GA and $16 Military.

The show starts at 8 p.m. For more information, visit mountainannies.com, or call 2577932.

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those lower and near Alamogordo, the Rally promises to Continued from Page 4 offer many different options. much flex their vehicle has.

And the primary focus? Well But the "big trail day" is Sata family event. it's urday, Oct. 5. Starting bright "Parents can bring their and early at 8 a.m. (well, kids up for the weekend and bright and early for some, camp out in the nice cool but maybe not so much for mountains with a party in the others), groups will assemble evenings," Burling said. according to what type of The Saturday evening trail they wish to explore. "party" is a traditional part to For the rough riders, the Thrill on the Hill, and besides experienced mudders and intense jeep drivers, there food and camaraderie, there will be some "hardcore" will also be live entertainment. A band from Santa Fe trails.

"Some (trails) are almost called "The Strange," and up extreme," Burling said. This and coming band according meaning jeeps must be to Burling, will be pleasing raised and have skid plates the crowd with their rock feel. to make it through.

After the music everyone But then there are also will make their way back to some moderate trails, those meant for newer four-wheel drivers.

"Some trails basically show what a vehicle is capable of even as a stock vehicle," Burling explained.

Regardless of which trail, volunteers who are familiar with various roads will lead groups of usually no more than 15 jeeps. Caravans will explore roads and travel in units on half but usually full day excursions.

But from trails up in the mountains to

their night haunts: some will use campers, others pop-ups, but for those who want a little less work with their sleeping arrangements, cabins will be available.

The last aspect that makes this event so successful is their cooperation and work with the Forest Service.

"We teach people how to take care of the forest, telling them to stay on the trails and don't forge their own," Burling said. "We want to take care of the mountains."

But mostly the trip is about meeting others who are just as adventurous with their jeeps. Burling is looking forward to meeting new people and seeing everyone who makes it out.

To register go to n m j e e p r a l ly. c o m / re g i s t ra tion.html. Registration is $100 and includes the two nights of barbecue, a t-shirt and entertainment. So far roughly 23 vehicles have registered, and Burling said they expect around 100 people. So grab your gear and prepare the jeeps.

For more information visit the w e b s i t e , nmjeeprally.com.

graph in a three dimensional way with their bodies and the shape. how to make the sound visual. It is a visual translation of the sounds into the shapes."

Once the students have grasped how to visualize music as shapes, and have manipulated those shapes, this will be translated back to music.

Schwarzkopf continued,

"The workshop aspect is designed f or you to come with an open mind and see what you see. These things aren't intended to changes points of view, but I am trying to show them new ideas and new ways of looking at music."

If you would like to find out more about Schwarzkopf and his work, visit ajsmusic.org.

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another way that they can see the music.

"You are taking musical lines and extracting parts. I will be working with three dimensional objects so that they start to understand that.

Showing them how to take these parts, giving one idea to each part of a group and show them how to choreo-

IN THE SPOTLIGHT

Tweeting Elations with Aria Finch

Kelly Berrones photos

Aria Finch has been honored with the NM Governorâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Award for Excellence in the Arts, and currently has an exhibition at the RMAC

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By Rey Berrones Vision Editor ria Finch, who has been teaching ceramics in Roswell for more than 30 years, has been selected to receive the Governor's Award for Excellence in the Arts. This honor was established in 1974, and since then, has honored 276 artists and arts supporters for contributing and developing the arts in New Mexico.

As one of the founders of the Pecos Valley Potters Guild, head of ceramics instruction at the Roswell Museum and Art Center (RMAC) and partner in related projects, such as the Raku To Go program, Finch has certainly helped foster a healthy art community in

Roswell. In addition, she has created a body of work that stands on its own as exceptional.

When Finch first started teaching ceramics, funds and equipment were limited. In response to this, Finch, as well as several other potters, founded the Pecos Valley Potters Guild.

According to Finch, "We started it in 1979 so that we would have a way to sell our work. We charged 10 percent to every artist and used that money to supply the studio and to buy equipment like slab rollers, extruders, wheels and kilns.

"The museum as a city institution doesn't have a great

deal of money for that. That was the reason that the Potters Guild got started, to be able to fund the equipment.

Then it became so successful, that we didn't need any more equipment, so we went bigger and turned our funding to philanthropy. Half of what we earn goes to a philanthropic thing. Right now we are supporting the Reischman Park project. In years past, we have supported the Assurance Home among other things."

The Pecos Valley Potters Guild has since grown as an organization, and Finch has stepped back and taken more of an advisory role in recent years. Currently, Finch is more involved with the Raku

To Go program.

"The Raku To Go program started with us needing to put art in the sixth grade. We started out thinking about what kids would like to do that would make them build confidence in their work. We wanted something that would enhance the students that were not auditory [learners], and were tactile and visual [lear ners]. So, we brought clay into the program. Every single sixth-grader sees us three times. There are a lot of them in four different junior highs.

"We bring clay in, they make a little head that goes on a totem that is eight inches tall and then we come in the next week after we fire the clay at the museum. We go back a second time when they glaze them. The third time we bring a kiln that is in a trailer. Konii Carpenter painted dragons all over it.

"We take this crazy trailer out that has a raku kiln in it, with dragons painted all over it, and open it up, and the kiln comes out of the dragon's mouth, where the fire is. So then we do a raku firing for the kids that they actually get to experience a 14th-century Japanese tea ceremony reenacted in New Mexico modern.

"They get to witness a real raku firing. We raku some of their pieces on-site so they can see what they are. We go back to their classroom and assemble their pieces on a pole that is seven feet tall.

Then they have a totem in their classroom. They leave it for about a week, and they choose four of them to go to the art show. At the art show at the end of the year, we set up 12 of them, and it looks like Stonehenge gone crazy.

We put all of the heads on the poles and put crazy wire hair on the top of it, and then make an installation of their heads, and it is a lot of fun.

"Mostly what I'm interested

in is showing teachers [that] children that may not be so good in their school work that are excellent artists. Which means that their intelligence level is high, and it allows the teacher to see the child in a non-graded situation, where they are experimenting, playing, and skilled in what they are doing. It is giving the teacher another vision of what that child could be.

"That is personal to me because I'm not an auditory learner. So, when you work with kids, sometimes you have to have another way to learn, tactile, visually. That is the goal, showing different ways to learn. That is not to say that we are better than a teacher, but it shows the teachers another avenue in which certain children respond. We have a really great relationship with the teachers. They work with us and do the things that the kids do.

"It builds the child's confidence in being able to solve problems because they are constantly doing that problem solving.

"We have been doing the program for six years. We have morphed it a little each time, and fine tuned it. There are three of us who work [the program]. Wanda Dent and Anna Edwards are also with me on the team. The three of us go out and take 500 pounds of clay. We are hauling all these materials into the schools. We have trolleys and lifters and different things, and it is fun.

"The RMAC, the Potters Guild and the Creative learning Center are all partners in the Raku To Go program."

In addition to her contributions to art education in Roswell, Finch is also busy with her own art. Her most recent body of work can be seen in the exhibition Tweeting Elations, on display at the SEE

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BOOKS

The Apache Peoples

Rey Berrones Photos

Local author Jessica Palmer pens her 27th book, which chronicles the history of the Apache

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By Rey Berrones Vision Editor

ocal author, and Record Staff Writer Jessica Palmer is now releasing her 27th book.

Building on her book The Dakota Peoples: A History of the Dakota, Lakota and Nakota through 1863, her new book is entitled The Apache Peoples: A History of All Bands and Tribes Through the 1880s.

Palmer said, "I did the Souix because it was my background. I was researching my family tree. Trying to find out more about my own, and in researching my family tree, I had found out just how fractured their history had become. The information was available, but sometimes it was a sentence in this book, a sentence in that book. Sometimes someone that was interested in the language, or the religion, and would write

about that, but nothing that would make it comprehensible. I did that to love my great grandfather that I wasn't even told existed until I was in my thirties.

"First we go about systematically trying to destroy their history and their religion, and destroy the people. Eventually we have a bunch of people that say, 'this isn't right' and they start researching the individual tribes a long time after the have all been corraled. My goal and my motivation is to put the peices back together.

"With the book I wrote about the Dakota people, it went into every law library in the country, and every reservation library all across the country. If you are interested in the Native American people, you would like this book.

"I did the Apache Peoples,

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because I felt that if I could do this for the Dakota, I know that the rest of the histories are probably equally fractured. I will be honest, that because the Apache People were so diverse, it was a difficult project.

"The Souix, which is the Dakota, Lakota, and Nakota tribes, had a loose form of government. They would get together one time a year during the Sun Dance, and they would talk strategy. The Souix and some of the Apache peoples were heavily into trade.

The march across the continent from the Minnesota area and the Wisconson area into the plains was something that was planned. It wasn't as adhoc as what the Apache seemed to be, because each band was individualized. With the Apache, there was no concentrated, centralized thing

that I could speak of . What seemed to tie them together is their religion. The religion seemed to be the same amoungst all the Apache peoples. This one was a bit more difficult, because a lot of the information was in Spanish.

"The book was trying to put the history back together again. You have a lot of experts, and in some ways I'm standing on their shoulders because I took all the experts and compiled all the information.

"Most of the times, the experts write about one specific topic, one specific tribe, and what I'm trying to do is put the pieces back together again.

"It starts talking about the Paleo-Indians of the Southwest, mainly because most people don't realize how long this area has been occupied.

Certain archaeological sites have found that dating flint and things like that the New Mexico area has been occupied for 50,000 years. That is just now documented. It starts

with the history of the region, and then goes on to discuss the genetics of the different tribes.

"The Plains Apache were found in the area around South Dakota. Going far enough back in time, and the Apache were also living in the area of the Mojave Desert and down in Mexico. So we are talking about a very massive area. Most people tend to think that they were concentrated in Arizona and New Mexico, and that is true in more recent history, but at one time they spread from North and South Dakota, down to Mexico, from Louisiana to California.

The scope of the book is massive, and is one of the the most detailed histories of the Apache tribes available.

Palmer will be giving a talk about the book as well as signing copies at the Historical Society on October 6 at 3 p.m. The book is currently available on Amazon in paperback or ebook formats.

son, and the bird is talking to you, they are telling you something that you probably really need to know."

Right now the birds seem to be recognizing Finch's years of hard work. In addition to the Gover nor's award, she has also been recognized as the September Citizen of the Month by the City of Roswell.

For Finch, the Gover nor's award is more about recognizing the large art community in Roswell that has come out to support her.

She said, "It was surprising.

The neatest thing was how many people in my community that worked so hard to make it happen. I feel like I'm not qualified to be there to do that, and I think that it is a wonderful thing to be awarded by the Gover nor. My biggest joy is looking at the list of people that worked for two years, writing letters, supplying information, they are the ones that pushed for the award. It is heartfelt and remarkable. That made me so excited that people I work with every day had this secret endeavor behind my

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Continued from Page 13 RMAC. It is a striking ceramics show that explores duality, narrative and conversation.

According to Finch, "One of my goals when I put together the show was to have one piece talking to another piece, this chatter going on, and that's where the word ‘tweeting’ came from. For some reason, I have a lot of birds in my work as early as graduate school. The birds, the wings and the feathers.

"It seems to me that I see birds in my environment, and they are content. You drive up to the car wash, you are waiting, and it is hot, and you don't want to be there, and there are these birds in a dirty puddle, flipping around and they are happy, and they could care less. It doesn't matter where they are, they seem to be content in what they are doing. There is that image of the bird, being content and telling people about it. I always have a bird talking in an ear, and that developed as a communication thing. So, if you are not talking to a per-

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end.

There will be two course: a 1.5 mile or a 5K. But don't be fooled. Both courses will have eight to ten obstacles, and you will NOT emerge unscathed at the end. There will be no avoiding the mud.

So what type of obstacles are we talking about here?

I'm glad you asked. Without giving away all the surprises and secrets, some predicted obstacles include climbing over bales of hay, a tire climbing wall, crawling through drain pipes, balancing on rails so you don't fall in the mud and a rope swing to escape muddy pits.

This muddy business is too

intense for little kids, so only those 12 years of age or older can participate. Register online at roswellmud.racesonline.com , and there will be a pre-registration party at Pepper's on Friday, Sept. 27, from 5-7:30 p.m.

The actual event will be Saturday, Sept. 28, at the northwest uncultivated area of Noon Optimist Park. And afterwards, a VIP after party will take place at Pepper's at 9p.m, Tickets to be a VIP for the evening are $10.

For more information visit the website, RoswellJackFM.com or look up Roswell Mud, Sweat and Tears on Facebook.

back all this time, gathering all this information, and they are the ones that made this happen, and that is really cool.

"Getting that award is the pinnacle of all this hard work that these people have done.

"That is one thing about Roswell that is wonderful for me, and that is that people have strong friendships and strong relationships. More than any other community that I have ever been in, and why, I don't know. Because we struggle for the same things, and we live in such a bland environment, and we invest in people. I'm just amazed.”

Finch's exhibition, Tweeting Elations, opened on Sept. 5, and will remain at the RMAC until March 9, 2014. There will be a reception held in her honor at the RMAC on Saturday, Sept. 28, following her having received the Governor's award in Santa Fe on Sept 27. Finch will be giving a gallery talk, discussing her current work at the RMAC on October 1 at 11 a.m.

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names in the music business. Rebecca has said that she considers our Roswell festival one of her favorites and of course, she is one of our favorites, as well.

Rebecca is a frequent guest on National Public Radio's 'Fresh Air' with Terry Gross, and has appeared on Garrison Keeler’s ‘A Prairie Home Companion.’ She has performed with Michael Feinstein at Carnegie Hall. Other notable appearances include Feinstein's at the Regency; and Birdland in NYC; The Plush Room at the York Hotel in San Francisco; The Jazz Bakery in Fullerton, CA; and The Concorde Club in the UK. In 2010, Rebecca was inducted to the Oregon Music Hall of Fame and to the Jazz Society of Oregon’s Hall Of Fame. For two consecutive years, she has been invited to perform at New York’s Mabel Mercer Cabaret Convention, held at Town Hall and Lincoln Center.

You will not want to miss any of Rebecca’s Roswell Jazz Festival performances so, here is the inside scoop on her schedule: Thursday, October 10: Pecos Flavors Winery, 7 p.m.

Friday, October 11: Free Concert on the Courthouse lawn, 12 p.m.; Peppers Grill and Bar, 5 p.m.; Best Western Sally Port, 9 p.m.

Saturday, October 12: Best Western Sally Port, 8:15 p.m., 9 p.m., and 9:15 p.m.

Sunday, October 12, Jazz Worship, Pueblo Auditorium, 10:30 a.m.

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UFOLOGY

Farewell to Roswell witness Jesse Marcel Jr.

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By Donald Burleson e researchers in the field of UFO studies are always running a race with time, especially when we try to uncover the truth about events that happened as long ago as 1947. I can remember when there were still many

people left alive who handled UFO crash debris, or saw the bodies from the Roswell crash, or actually saw the airborne object itself. But with the passing of time there are fewer and fewer such people who still recall these things.

It is sad when an important witness dies, and all the more so when that witness is someone you knew and liked. So my wife Mollie and I were shocked to learn, on Monday, August 26, through the UFO grapevine, that Jesse Marcel Jr. had passed away suddenly that Saturday at his home in Montana, six days short of his 77th birthday. Jesse had been a regular, of course, at many Roswell UFO Festivals, and we had enjoyed many conversations with him.

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People familiar with the Roswell UFO incident know that Jesse Jr.’s father was Major Jesse Marcel, the chief intelligence officer for the 509th Bomb Group at Roswell Army Air Field in 1947 when the fateful events happened, and that Major Marcel, returning from the debris field with a load of crash debris in his vehicle, stopped off at his house to show his wife and son the gathered fragments, remarking to them that once he took the material on to the air base, nobody would ever see it again. (It turns out he was very right about that.)

When ten-year-old Jesse Jr. looked through the debris scattered on the kitchen floor, he observed pieces bearing some strange symbols some-

what reminiscent of Egyptian hieroglyphics. The memory of those symbols would stick in his mind for the rest of his life.

He would even undergo hypnotic regression to revisit the impression they made on him.

Through the years, he would retell his story countless times, and it would never vary. He knew what he had seen, and understood that it had no conventional explanation.

When Jesse’s father Major Marcel was flown to Eighth Air Force headquarters in Fort Worth the Tuesday following the crash, bearing a box of the retrieved debris, General Roger Ramey (as is well known) switched weather balloon debris for the real stuff and had Major Marcel pho-

tographed by the press, kneeling and holding up a balloon fragment and looking decidedly unhappy about it.

During the Roswell 50th anniversary event (1997) Mollie and I got the chance to have some fun with this whole Fort Worth fiasco. That Friday night a storm blew a camp tent into our yard from somewhere, so that we awoke to find out own crash debris.

Mollie photographed me kneeling and holding up a piece of the tent, and we mailed the picture to Jesse Jr., who got a big kick out of it.

He was a soft-spoken, pleasant chap with a nice sense of humor.

Goodbye, Jesse. We’ll miss you.