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OCTOBER 19, 2017

SPOTLIGHT:

ROSWELL JAZZ FEST

ALSO INSIDE: AN EVENING WITH EDGAR ALLEN POE, ART CLASSIFIEDS, FROM THE VAULT, GHOST STORY WINNER, ‘GUYS AND DOLLS,’ LINCOLN’S DAY OF THE DEAD, PECOS VALLEY POTTER’S GUILD ARTS AND CRAFTS SHOW, ROSWELL INSPIRES, ‘SOMETHING WICKED THIS WAY COMES,’ SUNDAY FUNDAY, HISTORY AND LOOKING UP

Content

Roswell Daily Record’s

Spotlight: Roswell Jazz Fest RJF schedule

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Art Pecos Valley Potter’s Guild 38th Arts and Crafts Show

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Art Classifieds

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From the Vault

Books

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Roswell inspires

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Calendar

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Contest Winner Ghost Saved our Lives

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Culture

Sunday Funday

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Day of the Dead

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History

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Thursday, October 19, 2017 Volume 22, Issue 10 Publisher: Barbara Beck Editor: Jeff Tucker Vision Editor: Christina Stock Copy Editor: Vanessa Kahin Ad Design: Sandra Martinez Columnists: Donald Burleson, John LeMay, Timothy Howsare Get in touch with us online Facebook: PecosVisionMagazine Twitter: twitter.com/PecosVision Pinterest: pinterest.com/VisionMagazine Email: vision@rdrnews.com www: rdrnews.com/wordpress/vision-magazin For advertising information, call 622-7710 Correspondence: Vision Magazine welcomes correspondence, constructive criticism and suggestions for future topics. Mail correspondence to Vision Magazine, P.O. Drawer 1897, Roswell, N.M. 88202-1897 or vision@rdrnews.com Submissions: Call 622-7710, ext. 309, for writers’ guidelines.

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On The Cover

Roswell Jazz Fest

Theater ‘Something Wicked This Way Comes’

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‘Guys And Dolls’

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An evening with Edgar Allen Poe

UFOlogy Looking Up

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Small photos from top: Roger Dickerson, Hillary Smith and Richard Dowling Right: Jazz legend Ernie Andrews

Art

More than ceramics The Pecos Valley Potter’s Guild invites the public to its 38th Arts and Crafts show.

By Christina Stock Vision Editor

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n 1979, the Pecos Valley Potters Guild was established. Its first goal was to further the ceramic arts in Chaves County. In a short time the group of local artists became a strong presence in the community.

Recently. the guild supported the community with the Soup and Bowl fundraiser and the annual Roswell Museum and Art Center block party as well as other ceramic based projects and installations to beautify Roswell.

The 38th Pecos Valley Potter’s Guild Arts and Craft Show will also include sales. The show will include pottery and ceramics as well as other media by a multitude of artists.

During the opening night on Friday wine and snacks will be available in a festive atmosphere.

The event features Josh Berry of Metalmark Eclectics.

Berry was recently part of the Railroad District Exhibition at “222 Invitational” with his metal sculpture “Kyrios.” Kyrios is an ancient Greek word which usually refers to Jesus in the Greek New Testament. The metal sculpture resembles a brilliant, shining sun, that seemingly floats and moves with the light.

The multi-talented artist graduated from Goddard High School and continued on to college at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque before becoming an actor. His acting career took a sharp turn when, at 33, he was involved in a motorcycle crash, which made him return to Roswell. After his recovery Berry decided to stay in Roswell with his wife he met during his reconvalescence.

After recovery Berry returned to acting, but also learned new skills while working on cars. One day he found his artist father’s vintage light box, which he set to rebuild. This took him into the world of art.

Today, Berry and his wife own Metalmark Ecletics in Roswell where he creates sculptures and even special metal art trophies he designs for the Roswell Film Festival.

The show takes place at the Roswell Convention & Civic Center from Nov. 10-12. On Friday, the doors open from 5 to 9 p.m. with a special drawing, Saturday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Sunday from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Submitted Photo Artist Josh Berry with a sculpted light box.

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Submitted Photo Colin Butts as Mr. Cooger. Cooger is Mr. Dark’s partner in running the carnival.

Theater

A wicked carnival is coming to town Neverland Theatre Company presents the spooky play “Something Wicked This Way Comes”

By Christina Stock Vision Editor

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everland Theatre Company brings the show, “Something Wicked This Way Comes,” to the Liberty Club.

The story begins with “One strange and dark year long ago, Halloween came early.

It came on Oct. 24, three hours after midnight, to be precise. The exact same time that Cooger and Dark's Pandemonium Shadow show rolled into Green Town, Ill.” It is the true story based on memories of the award-winning author Ray Bradbury.

These memories — with a creative twist — became “Something Wicked This Way Comes.” It was the moment Bradbury became inspired to become a writer. The 12-yearold Bradbury lived at the time in a small town and was fascinated with magicians. When a carnival came to town, Bradbury met magician Mr. Electrico, who spurred his passion commanding him to "live forever!" After that day,

Bradbury began writing nonstop.

Dominic Batista chose this show for his first to direct.

“I like dark and horror,” Batista said. “I want it to be spooky because I just love the fall and Halloween and everything about it. That’s why I picked it. A show that is not only spooky, but has quality.”

The main characters were originally two boys, but Batista cast them with two girls.

“Girls at this age (11 and 12), they seem to comprehend a little faster,” he said.

In addition to changing the main characters, Batista added three girls whose talent stood out in the audition.

“They will be a little evil entourage of clowns,” Batista said. “I wrote them in to come and do certain evil things. It doesn’t go against the script, because I didn’t give them any lines that messes up the formula, but they do give it a

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different presence. It is kind of hard because I am trying to work with them to give them a real insidious nature. Though they are sweet and charming in life, they will be not so much when you see them on stage."

The story line will follow the original script.

“This dark carnival comes every 70 to 80 years,” Batista said. “What happens is, it sucks people in. Basically it consumes them (the townspeople) and the reason it (the carnival) takes so long to come back is that nobody lives to tell the tale or to warn anybody else, because they are dead by the time they come back.

“Jim Nightshade (played

by Minnie Degrout) is one of the characters — the troublemaker,” Batista said. “The one who is looking for excitement and more adventures. Then you have Will (Will Halloway is played by Madeline Hicks), he makes the better deci-

sions and tries to keep Jim out of trouble. It almost could be one person. What you want to do and what you should do.”

Batista’s friend and former teacher, Daniel Walkow, returns for this play to Roswell. He is going to be Ray Bradbury as narrator.

Wolkow has been teaching for 17 years at various places around the country, including Eastern New Mexico University-Roswell. He is teaching literature and writing for Penn State Abington and Rowan University. His background includes running a college theater, teaching acting and directing and working in the comic book industry.

“He was the first one I worked with out there (ENMU-R), he was probably my best teacher of all of them,” Batista said.

According to Batista, the atmosphere of the Liberty Club will be changed. Batista and Colin Butts (Butts is also cast as Cooger/Electrico) are in charge of decoration and lighting.

“Dusty Deen (OwnerOperator at Red Roadrunner Film and Video Productions) will be doing all the projections for the show,” Batista said. “It will be similar to ‘The Little Mermaid.’ Jacob Roebuck donated his projectors for me to use. That was really awesome.”

Batista explained how he feels being a director for the first time, “It is terrifying.

Whenever I am doing acting, I am so worried about this character and all the lines.

Being the director I have to see the whole picture, and doing all these things from picking the audio to the video to helping everybody with them coming in and out. Just the entrances and exits alone took a whole night of my life.

It is like, ‘Oh, my goodness.’ It is completely different.

“My main thing is to be an actor, but it will help me when I go back to acting in a new show because I am going to be quiet whenever the director asks me to be quiet and I am going to pay attention when I am sitting off

the stage,” Batista said and laughed. “I didn’t realize all those little things. I am like, ‘Why do you yell at me?’"

Batista had planned to have the show at ENMU-R but changed it to the Liberty Club because it will be more recognizable. Also, Batista will be able to have a more dark carnival atmosphere.

“I really want funnel cakes and cotton candy to be sold during the intermission,” he said. “That way people have the smells during the show.

For me, it is very autumny, cozy and fun.”

The other cast members are Will Cass as Lightning Rod, Derrick Bills as Mr. Halloway, Tony Simoes as Mr. Tetly, Peter Powell as Mr. Dark, Jeorganna Simoes as Miss Foley, Rachel Graves as Mrs. Halloway, Rachel Graves as Ice Woman, Deona Anderson as Jim’s Mother, Kevin Duran as young Cooger, Mason Deen as girl, Maryl McNally as Dust Witch, Samantha Thorsted, Jada Wilson, Emmah McPherson and Zelia Santos as Dark Demons.

The show will take place at The Liberty Club, 312 N. Virginia Ave., Nov. 2-5, with performances Thursday to Saturday at 7:30 p.m. and a matinee at 2:30 p.m. on Sunday.

For more information, visit neverlandtheatrecompany. com or find the link on its Facebook page.

Culture

A potpourri of legends The Museum Archives Center for the Historical Society for Southeast New Mexico to hold Sunday Funday.

By Christina Stock Vision Editor

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uthor and historian Lynda A. Sánchez will visit the Historical Society for Southeast New Mexico's Museum Archives Center on Nov. 5 at 3 p.m.

Located at 208 N. Lea Ave., the Historical Society will host Sánchez as she does a book-signing for "12 Miles from Daylight" and an interactive program as part of the Sunday Funday event.

Sánchez will bring show-and-tell items for her program about the little known aspects of storytelling, legends as well as information about some of the area’s heritage.

Her program includes stories about bootleg whiskey, Billy the Kid and the Apaches to a potpourri of legend and lore from across the sacred mountain.

Sánchez’s book “12 Miles From Daylight” is about the Fort Stanton Cave Study Project and the Snowy River discovery. The book describes the various sections of the cave.

Fort Stanton Cave, an extensive limestone cave, is the third-longest cave in the state and is important because of the

discovery of the Snowy River passage, which was found to have flowing water during certain times. Modern-day speleologists (cave explorers) have been exploring its passages for more than 50 years and continue their explorations and study as part of the Fort Stanton Cave Study Project.

Team members are continuing the far south hydrological surveys on extended camp trips to Midnight Junction, so named because when discovered it was midnight during a 30-plus hour trip. The far end of Snowy River is at a place called 4:30 A. M. Junction.

A major facet of the FSCSP mission is to protect and preserve this area. They are just beginning to understand the historic usage of the cave by the local populace starting in the 1850s and before that, the Native Americans (Jornada Mogollon and Apache). Preserving this evidence is one of its goals. In support of the strong interest of conservation of the resource the FSCSP is working closely with the Conservation Lands Foundation.

For more information, email historydirector@outlook.com or call 575-622-8333.

Submitted Photo Caver team hauling materials along main corridor back to the access portal at the Don Sawyer Memorial Hall.

The Music has Begun!

Come on down to the Roswell Jazz Festival for an out of this world experience.

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Are you an artist looking for a new venue? Are you offering classes or selling your art?

Join our classified section for the arts. If you are an artist selling paintings, a musician looking for a gig, a band looking for a musician, an author promoting books or a ghostwriter looking for work, this is the place to advertise!

Three lines in this section is only $5, every additional line is $1 each. To place an advertisement, call 575-622-7710, ext. 309 or ask for the classifieds clerk referring to the Vision classifieds. You can also email your advertisement to vision@rdrnews.com.

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Calendar Ongoing Events Roswell Every Week, Mon - Sat ‘Lest We Forget: Roswell Army Airfield - The Early Years’ and ‘Peace Through Strength’ The museum is open from 10 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. For more information, call 347-2464 or visit wafbmuseum.org.

Roswell Every Week, Wed Weekly knockout The Roswell Fighting Game Community presents their weekly knockout at The Unity Center located at 108 E. Bland St. every Wednesday from 7 p.m. to midnight. All games are welcome. For more information, visit facebook.com/ RoswellFGC. Hobbs Ongoing until Nov. 5 'The Beauty in Energy' “The Beauty in Energy” is a new photography exhibit of oil and gas landscapes at the Western Heritage Museum and Lea County Cowboy Hall of Fame, 1 Thunderbird Circle. The photographer, Bob Callender, is an internationally recognized oilfield photographer. For more information, call 575-492-2678.

Santa Fe Ongoing until Jan. 21 ‘Quilts of Southwest China’ coming to Santa Fe The Museum of International

Folk Art will host the national touring exhibition “Quilts of Southwest China,” beginning July 9 through Jan. 21, 2018.

While both highly valued and culturally significant, Chinese quilts have received little attention from scholars, collectors and museums and little is known about them outside of the communities that make them. They embody layers of history, identity, expertise and culture. MIFA is located at 706 Camino Lejo. For more information, visit internationalfolkart.org or call 505-476-1200.

Roswell Oct. 18-22 Roswell Jazz Festival The annual Roswell Jazz Festival features the best of the best national and international jazz musicians and bands throughout town at various locations such as The Liberty, Reischman Park, Peppers Grill & Bar, Anderson Museum of Contemporary Art, Roswell Museum and Arts Center and the First United Methodist Church. For more information, visit roswelljazz.org or call 505-359-4876.

Roswell Oct. 20 Trunk-or-Treat The third annual J.O.Y. Center Trunk-or-Treat community awareness event takes place from 5 to 8 p.m. at the Chaves County J.O.Y. Center, 1822 N. Montana Ave. For more information, call 575-914-0285.

Oct. 20-22 Carlsbad Colours Couture — Believe the Hype Tattoo Festival The Walter Gerrells Performing Arts Center, 4012 National Parks Hwy., is holding the Colours Couture — Believe the Hype Tattoo Festival. The festival features tattoo artists from the hit TV show "Ink Master," Jayvo Scott, James Francis, King Ruck and MTV's Drama Diablo. The Colours Couture is a traveling fashion showcase for TV celebrity tattoo artists. There will also be sideshows and vendors. For more information, visit carlsbadentertainment.com or call 575-208-6208.

Roswell Oct. 20-22 Drive Out Abuse The Roswell Chamber of Commerce hosts the first charity golf tournament benefiting the Roswell Refuge at the Roswell Country Club, 2601 Urton Road. There will be great prizes, food and friendship!

Let’s help The Roswell Refuge continue to educate and advocate for victims of domestic violence, sexual assault and to create hope and opportunity for a better world. To sign up or for more information, visit events.r20.constantcontact. com or call 575-623-5695.

Dolls.” Performances will be at the Eastern New Mexico University Performing Arts Center on Friday and Saturday at 7:30 p.m. and on Sundays at 2 p.m. For more information and tickets, visit waywayoffbroadway.com.

Roswell Oct. 20-22, 27-28 10th annual Farm Festival and Corn Maze The 10th annual Farm Festival and Corn Maze takes place at Graves Farm and Garden, 6265 Graves Road. The festival includes the Scary Corn Maze and Zombie Paintball Shoot on Saturdays and Sundays, opening at dark until 11 p.m. During the day, families can experience the Ruidoso Winter Park zipline, corn canon, trike races, corn maze, kiddie maze, free field games, mechanical bull ride, train rides, carnival games, face painting, jolly jumps, ristra-making classes and door prizes and give-a-

ways. For more information, call 575-622-1889.

Hobbs Oct. 20-21, 27-28 and 31 Eighth annual haunted house The Community Players of Hobbs present the eighth annual haunted house, featuring the "Legends Haunt" directed by Nathan Gibbs. The audience takes a trip to ancient Egypt to visit King Tut's tomb where trouble has been brewing amongst the pyramids.

Afterwards, the audience can face everyday fears with its second haunt exploring both popular and obscure urban legends. The haunt runs from 8 p.m. to midnight at the Hobbs Community Playhouse, 1700 N. Grimes St. For more information, visit communityplayersofhobbs.com.

Artesia Oct. 21 Art in the Park 40th Anniversary The Artesia Arts Council is celebrating the 40th anniversary of its Art in the Park, Seventh and Quay streets. The Artesia School bands will be having a cake walk. Artisan vendors will be selling handmade arts with the artists there in person.

The event is held at Central Park from 9 to 5 p.m. For more information, call 575-746-4212 or visit artesiaartscouncil.com.

Bernalillo Oct. 21 Fiesta of Cultures The Coronado Historic Site, 485 Kuaua Road, celebrates the cultures of New Mexico with an art festival featuring native artists, cowboy singers, Aztec dancers and food trucks.

The event and admission to the site are free of charge.

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Theater

‘Guys and Dolls’

A classic musical gets a new life.

By Christina Stock Vision Editor ay Way OffBroadway brings the musical "Guys and Dolls" to stage. "Guys and Dolls" is a musical romantic comedy involving the unlikeliest of Manhattan pairings: a high-rolling gambler and a puritanical missionary, a showgirl dreaming of the straight-and-narrow and a crap game manager who is anything but.

The musical features some of Frank Loesser’s most memorable tunes, including the hilarious “Adelaide’s Lament,” the romantic “I’ve Never Been in Love Before,” the exuberant “If I Were a Bell,” and the classic “Luck Be a Lady.”

Every decade after its premiere on Broadway in 1950 a new generation falls in love with the Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize winning musical comedy.

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Director of the production and WWOB’s president, Summer Souza, explained why she chose this classic musical.

“We want to bring some of the classics back," she said. “This is one that I have always liked and Tony always liked.(Tony Souza is Summer Souza’s husband and is cast as Sky Masterson, the gambler.) We talked about it and said, ‘Hey, let's do it.’ The biggest challenge was finding enough men,” Summer Souza said and laughed.

“Interestingly enough, if you looked at all the different productions this play has had on Broadway, this is the top-selling Broadway show in history.

“If you cumulatively count the original one plus the subsequent revivals that they’ve done, it seems to stay popular all the time.” Tony Souza

said. “I think it's got kind of a 'Singing in the Rain' feeling — a classic musical."

This time, Tony Souza will not be the set designer. “John Bitner, who is in the show and has been with us since the beginning, actually took the lead on this. Of course I helped and then we had an amazing set artist, Michelle Massey,” he said.

The costume designs by Jan Beanland Smith are going to reflect the era with bright colors.

“In certain cases we wanted the set complimenting that, in other cases for it to contrast to make the actors pop,” Tony Souza said.

Summer Souza agrees with her husband. “For me, this one is more about the actors and I really wanted to focus on them. We didn’t want anything to take away from that.”

“Guys and Dolls” is the first musical for actor Robin Haynes. Haynes recently performed in the short film “Nadi,” which won the 48 Hour Project competition in Albuquerque for best film,

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Christina Stock Photo Robin Haynes as Nathan Detroit tries to convince his fiancee Adelaide (Julie Washichek) to forgive him for not being able to stop gambling. best director and best actor.

Haynes plays the role of Nathan Detroit, who gets Masterson to accept a bet to get the missionary, Sarah Brown, to travel with him to Havana. Brown is played by Cydni Vandiver.

Asked how he came to get the role, Haynes said jokingly, “I was hit with a sleeping dart and woke up in this costume.

“This is my first musical and my first time singing in front of other people except for ‘Happy Birthday.’ It’s a new challenge, a new horizon,” Haynes said. “I love the Nathan character. He’s very funny; he is always trying to stay one step ahead. I like the characters in this one because they are more complex than in a lot of other shows.”

Haynes sees the biggest challenge in singing, acting and dancing at the same time.

“I don’t do near as much as Tony and some of the other actors. My singing in this one is a little more character singing. I am comfortable there.

But I am enjoying it and I am losing that fear of getting out there and at least trying.

That’s been great,” Haynes

said.

“Come out and see it,” Summer Souza said. “Give the classics a try.”

Tony Souza’s message for the readers is, “Just take a chance on something you have not heard of.”

Other performers include Julie Washichek as Adelaide, David Rocha as Nicely Nicely Johnson, John Bitner as Benny Southwest, Nicholas Featherstone as Rusty Charlie, Nancy Hein as Agatha, Jimmy Fuller as Calvin, Brianna Bitner as Martha, Jordan Moody as Harry The Horse, Kevin Hernandez as Lt. Brannigan, Spenser Willden as Joey Biltmore, Paige Huddleston, Kamdyn Bishop, Mia Huddleston and Rebekah Bitner as the Hot Box Girls, Janet Macaluso as General Cartwright, Jason Steward as Big Jule, Benjamin Lacaillade and Jorge Aldavaz as gamblers, Aimee Lueras, Emily Lucero, Elexis De La Rosa and Sariah Hernandez in the ensemble.

The family-friendly musical comedy “Guys and Dolls” shows Oct. 20-29 at Eastern New Mexico-Roswell Performing Arts Center, 52

University Blvd., with performances on Friday and Saturday at 7:30 p.m. and matinees Sundays at 2:30 p.m.

For more information, visit waywayoffbroadway.com or look it up on its Facebook page.

Submitted Photo Members of the mariachi band Los Galleros including band leader Rick Martinez (far left).

musicians will be performing the entire day throughout Lincoln. The featured speaker is Cynthia Orozco, who will build an ofrenda (altar) for Juan Patron, the most prominent Hispanic in Lincoln, while discussing the history of the observance by indigenous people of Mexico, Europe and the U.S. Orozco has taught history and humanities at ENMU-Ruidoso for 20 years.

The story of Dia de Los Muertos (Day of the Dead), observed in Mexico, other Latin American countries and the American Southwest, is celebrated in many ways, including the decoration of cemeteries and the building of ofrendas to the deceased, decorated with flowers, food offerings, photos and mementos. This celebration expresses the idea that death is not to be feared, but embraced as a part of life. Communities and families await the return of lost loved ones with food, music and fun.

For more information, call 575-653-4045.

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he Ocotillo Performing Arts Center presents, “An evening with Edgar Allan Poe. Adaptations of four of the most haunting works by Edgar Allen Poe, including "The Raven," "The Fall of the House of Usher," "The Pit and the Pendulum" and "The Tell-Tale Heart" will be performed.

Poe is considered the master of mystery and macabre.

He is best known for his short stories and poetry. He was the first author to try to make a professional living as a writer.

Much of Poe’s work was inspired by the events that happened around him.

He is considered as the most important and influential American writers of the 19th century.

The performance takes place at the Ocotillo Performing Arts Center in Artesia, 310 W. Main St. Performances are on Friday, Oct. 27, at 7 p.m. and on Saturday, Oct. 28, at 2 and 7 p.m.

For more information, visit artesiaartscouncil.com or call 575-746-4212.

Theater

An evening with Edgar Allan Poe

Christina Stock Vision Editor

Culture

Day of the Dead

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For Week of Oct. 23 - Oct. 27 Breakfast

By Timothy Howsare Roswell Daily Record

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he fourth annual Dia de Los Muertos celebration comes to the historic village of Lincoln on Oct. 28 with a full range of entertainment planned.

Admission is free. The event is from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Lincoln is located about 70 miles from Roswell, or 12 miles east of Capitan on U.S. 380.

Family activities include mask decorating, paper flower making and face painting by popular artists along with

MON displays of ofrendas (altars) and live music. These free events will occur throughout Lincoln. A schedule of events will be posted at various merchants’ locations. There will be a raffle featuring prizes from local artists and merchants. You need not be present to win.

Entertainment will feature La Ultima, a Spanish music trio from Carrizozo, Mariachi Unido from Carlsbad and the Los Galleros Mariachi Band from Lubbock, Texas. The

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Calendar The event is from 10 a.m. until 3:30 p.m. For more information, visit nmhistoricsites.org or call 1-800-495-1279.

Carlsbad Oct. 21 Zombie Walk 2017 The NMSU Carlsbad American Criminal Justice Association will be holding the annual Zombie Walk at 7 p.m. Line up and registration starts at 5:30 p.m. on the corner of Canyon and West Shaw streets. This event is open to all ages. For more information, contact Tamara at 575-234-9219.

Lovington Oct. 21 Oktober Fiesta Lovington MainStreet is hold-

ing its Oktober Fiesta at the Lea County Courthouse, 100 N. Main Ave., from 11 a.m. to midnight. For more information, visit lovingtonmainstreet. org or call 575-396-1418.

Roswell Oct. 21 Wilson-Cobb Histor y/ Genealogy Library annual workshop The annual Wilson-Cobb History/Genealogy Library holds its annual workshop at the Roswell Convention & Civic Center, 912 N. Main St. starting at 8:30 a.m. To register or for more information, visit wilsoncobb.org or call 575622-3322.

Hobbs Oct. 22 Classical music concert The New Mexico Junior College, 1 Thunderbird Circle,

presents its annual classical music concert at 3 p.m. at the NMJC Watson Hall. For more information, visit nmjc.edu.

Roswell Oct. 26 'A Lot Like Birds' show The "A Lot Like Birds" show takes place at The Unity Center, 108 E. Bland St. at 6 p.m. The show features The House We Die In, Edit Canvas, Deliah Blue, Nova Rush and Mary Annett. For more information, visit myspace.com/ theunitycenter or call 575-2088603.

Fort Stanton Oct. 27 Fort Stanton After Dark Fort Stanton Historic Site is hosting its tour, Fort Stanton After Dark, from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. Although the gates are open every day for visitors, few get to experience the fort after dark. For more information, call 575-354-0341.

Roswell Oct. 27 Halloween Carnival The first Let's Play's Halloween Carnival takes place in the Roswell Mall from 5 to 8 p.m.

For more information, visit letsplayroswell.com or call 575-840-0940.

Ruidoso/Mescalero Oct. 27 Scotty McCreery in concert Scotty McCreery won the 10th season of "American Idol" on May 25, 2011. His debut studio album, "Clear as Day,"

was certified platinum in the United States in 2011. The album includes the top 20 country songs, “I Love You This Big” and “The Trouble with Girls." McCreery released a Christmas album, "Christmas with Scotty McCreery," in 2012 and it has been certified gold.

He released his third album, "See You Tonight," in 2013. The first single from the album, also called “See You Tonight," became his first song to reach the top 10 on Billboard’s country charts. McCreery is going to perform at 8 p.m. at the Inn of the Mountain Gods, 287 Carrizo Canyon Road. For more information, visit innofthemountaingods.com.

Artesia Oct. 28 Trick-or-Treat MainStreet 2017 The third annual Trick-or-Treat MainStreet offers free candy with downtown merchants, games and music. From 1 to 4 p.m. For more information, visit artesiamainstreet.com.

Fest The Cloudcroft Chamber of Commerce is hosting its annual Cloudcroft Harvest Fest at the Burro Street Exchange.

There will be pumpkin roll contests (bring your own pumpkin). After the roll, there will be a piñata break at 3:30 p.m. with a costume contest and parade on Burro Avenue.

For more information, visit coolcloudcroft.com/harvestfest.

Hobbs Oct. 28 Dia de los Muertos Family Fun Day The Western Heritage Museum, 1 Thunderbird Circle, invites the public for its free Dia de los Muertos Family Fun Day. The event takes place from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. For more information, visit nmjc.edu/ museum.

Alamogordo Oct. 28 Art & Wine Walk Heart of the Desert Pistachios & Wine is hosting the Art & Wine Walk, Pistachio Groves 7288 Hwy. 54-70. For more information or to become a vendor, email events@ heartofthedesert.com or call 575-434-0035.

Lovington Oct. 28 Halloween on the Plaza Lea Theatre and Lovington MainStreet present its annual Halloween on the Plaza. There are many attractions planned, including Trick-or-Treat safe stop, a costume contest at the Lea Theatre, a haunted house at Old Fire Station and a spooky dance at the Lea County Museum. For more information, visit lovingtonmainstreet.org or call 575-3961418.

Cloudcroft Oct. 28 Annual Cloudcroft Harvest

Ruidoso/Mescalero Oct. 28 Carnaval Fantastique

The Inn of the Mountain Gods, 287 Carrizo Canyon Road, hosts the Carnaval Fantastique at 8 p.m. Come one, come all. Carnaval Fantastique is a dazzling combination of acrobatics, beautiful showgirls, stunning costumes, hysterical comedy and spectacular laser effects that will transport audiences into the heart of Carnaval. World class technology and renowned gymnasts provide for a truly unique Vegas-style show accentuated with toe-tapping original music and fanciful characters for the entire family. For more information and tickets, visit innofthemountaingods.com.

Roswell Oct. 29 Live music at the Unity Center Fright Night Bodysnatcher, Rivalry and Amy's not Breathing perform at The Unity Center, 108 E. Bland St. Doors open at 6 p.m. For more information, visit its Facebook event page or call 575-2088603.

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By Christina Stock Vision Editor omance books have an unfair label, such as to be unrealistic or not to be real literature.

However, readers — typically female — prove those critics wrong. Women are stepping out of the shadows and are today with 84 percent the strongest purchasing group of romance novels. 61 percent of this being in the form of E-books.

According to BookStats, the total sales value of romance novels in 2013 was $1.08 billion.

S. E. Smith is known for her creative stories that made her a New York Times and USA TODAY award-winning author. Her science fiction romance books, as well as children books, have been published in most countries and have a large fan following.

Her trilogy about the unusual town named Magic,

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New Mexico, has become one of the most popular series, which step out of the science fiction romance genre and includes — what else — magic.

The townspeople of Magic appear to be just your everyday small town citizens, until you get deeper into the story.

In a fast-paced, well written style that never becomes boring, Smith pulls the reader into the lives of women, men, friends and families that struggle with broken hearts, loss, acceptance and additionally having to deal with unusual abilities.

When the hero meets his female counterpart the adventure begins. There are evil people to avoid, monsters to battle and to figure out who is friend or foe, until the author lets the lovers — some of them otherworldly — have their happy ending.

While on her book tour

through Australia, Smith took time to answer questions about her series and a new trend that turned her series into a world building series.

Asked about the inspiration of the town, Smith said, “We were actually traveling through New Mexico when I got the idea for Magic, New Mexico. The arroyos that we passed lit my imagination and I swear I could see the twins

flying their bike through the dark red canyons. When we passed through several of the towns, including Roswell, I knew I had to create a fictional town with magical residents — a place where being abnormal was the norm. New Mexico is a very magical, beautiful place. The world of Magic, New Mexico seemed to fit with the history, art, and geography of the area.”

In Smith’s books the stories circle around families, aliens and (more or less) humans, tight-knit relationships and lots of animals.

Smith explains, “Family and friends have always been very important to me. I love observing the interactions and relationships between people and animals and draw a great deal of inspiration from what I see and read. Relationships are very complex; yet, there are a lot of similarities in the family structures in most living beings. Why would it be different on another planet?

“I think if anyone thinks about their favorite book, they’ll realize they remember the story because of the characters and the relationships the author created between them.”

Smith was recently asked to join in the new trend where other authors write books about the world the original author created. Smith had to convince Amazon that Magic, inspired by Roswell, was the perfect series for a Kindle World.

“Since then, other authors have contacted me because

they loved the world and it has grown," she said.

Today, with modern technology and more affordable indy-film production companies including Netflix and Amazon stepping into the streaming movie market, new possibilities are open for authors.

“I am currently working on expanding into film,” Smith said. “I have been asked by many of my readers about turning my books into a movie. I have some series that would be fabulous as a fulllength feature while others would make a great network series. As with most things, there is still a lot of red tape, old ‘standards’ to overcome and cost involved.

“On a side note, I would like to invite readers — men and women — who have not read any science fiction romance lately to give it a try,” Smith said. They are not your old-fashion SFR — or even

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your traditional romances. All of my stories are filled with action, adventure, suspense, humor and romance. If you are ready to take an interactive journey where you fall in love with the characters and the worlds, I have a story — or more — for you.

For more information, visit sesmithfl.com or follow her on Facebook at se.smith.5.

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Guest of Honor Allan Vaché.

Spotlight

Roswell Jazz Fest brings legends to town The 12th annual Roswell Jazz Fest connects classic and modern jazz musicians around the nation.

By Christina Stock Vision Editor

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his year a special treat awaits the public at the 12th annual Roswell Jazz Fest: A musical walk through the history of jazz with legendary vocalists and musicians from all parts of the country.

The story of how Roswell became the New Orleans of New Mexico is unusual. The story begins when Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans in 2005. Pulitzer-nominated jazz pianist Roger Dickerson had to

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flee his New Orleans home. This brought him as a refugee to Roswell. His longtime friend, Frank Schlatter, took him in. Together with an all-volunteer staff, Dickerson and Schlatter held the first annual jazz festival in October 2006.

Many might know the origin of jazz, which was African music of former slaves. African-American musicians needed to express themselves. Themes were often of pain, pain of lost love and injustice.

According to Wynton Marsalis, the twice Grammy Award winning artistic director of jazz at Lincoln Center, blues evolved from hymns, work songs and field hollers in the late 1800s. It changed to accompany spiritual, work and social functions.

Almost at the same time, another variety of jazz began in New Orleans. Ragtime laid the foundation to New Orleans becoming the town most identified with jazz. From there, the music style spread throughout the U.S. and the world. Music instruments were invented, such as drum sets; new words popped up, which we still say today, such as “cool” and “the bomb;” New York City got its nickname the “Big Apple” from jazz musicians as well.

Today, jazz has more than 20 different styles, even jazz rap and acid jazz, which combines jazz versions with modern music. All modern music from rock ‘n’ roll, pop to metal have roots in jazz.

Ernie Andrews will be joining the Roswell Jazz Fest this year traveling from Los Angeles, where he has lived since 1974. He is a jazz singer not to miss, with a voice described as melting into a mellow baritone on ballads and shouting with the best of the rhythm men.

Andrews was born during the height of jazz in 1927 and comes from a family of singers.

“They were church singers,” he said. “My mother was a great singer and my grandmother and my uncle were great singers.” Growing up Andrews was influenced by Ella Fitzgerald, Chick Webb and Earl Hines, who performed near his home in Philadelphia. “I used to go see them quite often,” Andrews said.

Andrews’ love for jazz followed him when he moved, which brought him to Los Angeles. At age 17, he became a frequent winner of the Lincoln Theater talent contests, which were the counterpart to New York City’s Apollo. The song “Soothe Me’ became a local hit when Joe Greene asked Andrews to perform at his new Gem records company. Hit after hit followed. In 1969, Baltimore was Andrews’ home base and again, he scored big with the release of the song “Bridge Over Troubled Water.”

“I was in New York when I joined Harry James in Chicago,” Andrews said. “I stayed there 10 years and I have been going in and out as a performer. In ‘89 I did five continents in three months.”

Andrews remembers his career beginning easier than it would be today.

“The music has changed today,” Andrews said.

“To hip hop and rock ‘n’ roll, which I don’t disagree with. Everything must change. I came up in what show business made what it is. I don’t do rhythm and blues, I do blues, great ballads, great songs and I try to do songs that I lived with in my life. I can put more in it because I can remember it and then I can be more soulful with it.”

This Christmas, Andrews will turn 90. He does

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have advice for the young musicians today.

“Don’t fall in love with yourselves,” he said. “Just be good. Let the people make you great, but don’t get that in your head because it can harm you.”

Andrews will perform in Roswell with his bass player, Richard Simon.

“It is my first time there,” Andrews said. “I enjoy everywhere I go, really. I am looking forward to seeing all of you.”

Organizer and RJF executive director Michael Francis is looking forward to Andrews’ music.

“Ernie Andrews, I am super, super excited about him,” Francis said. “He sounds half his age and he is already a real cool guy.

“I discovered him at 92nd Street Y in New York City. I went in there and heard his show,” Francis said. “He was phenomenal. I was reading up on him and found out that he is actually legendary. He has been involved in the different phases of jazz all the way back. He was with the Harry James Orchestra.

He went on to be associated with all kinds of very important figures of jazz.

“I am just excited bringing him. I think people love what he does. He is a great vocalist and great showman,” Francis said of Andrews.

Guest of honor this year is jazz clarinetist Allan Vaché. At the beginning of his career, when he attended the Jersey City State College, Vaché studied with David Dworkin of the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and independently with famed jazz artist Kenny Davern.

In the early ‘70s he performed with jazz greats such as Bobby Hackett, Wild Bill Davison, Pee Wee Erwin, Gene Krupa, Dick Hyman, Max Kaminsky, Clark Terry, Dick Wellstood, Ed Hubble, Cliff Leeman, Bob Haggart, Jack Lesberg and many others.

He also made numerous appearances with his brother, famed jazz cornetist Warren Vaché, Jr. Vaché can look back on a very diverse career which includes festivals and concerts all over the world, being a regular performer on more than 200 public radio stations and television shows in the U.S. and abroad.

Today, Vaché is the music director of the jazz cruise “Jazz Fest at Sea,” held annually.

In a phone interview, Vaché shared his memories of how he and his brother came to be jazz musicians.

“We grew up with jazz,” Vaché said. “ My father was a bassist and an avid record collector. We (he and his brother) heard this kind of music from an early age, even before we knew what we were listening to.

I got piano lessons when I was about six or seven years old. I picked up the clarinet when I was about nine years old.”

Asked how come he chose the clarinet, Vaché said that in elementary school he had chosen to play trumpet, which ended up becoming the instrument of his brother because he lost interest in it after only three months. “By the time I got into fifth grade, they were offering other instruments,” Vaché said. “My parents were a little bit weary of me, but I told them I wanted to play the saxophone. When they found out that the program insisted that, if you wanted to play the saxophone you had to start out on clarinet, they thought, ‘Well, OK, that’s not a bad idea.’ So see

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“I always say, I hold myself responsible for my brother’s career,“ Vaché said and laughed.

“He doesn’t say that, but I do.”

Vaché is looking forward to the Roswell Jazz Fest. “Roswell is a great festival and I hope that mounds and mounds of people are attending. All the musicians that are performing are top jazz musicians and the best in the world. I certainly hope that they are going to come see us play.

Richard Dowling is another musician Francis is looking forward to hearing.

“He is a wonderful pianist from New York and he is a master of ragtime,” Francis said.

“What I’ve always wanted to do is demonstrate the different styles of jazz in this festival and of course ragtime is the basic beginning style.

It kind of predates the birth of jazz, but it is a very important part of it.

“Richard Dowling is probably one of the best ragtime pianists on the planet right now,” Francis said. “He is doing Scott Joplin’s complete works. I requested a few additional items. He is going to play ‘Rhapsody in Blue’ and he’s going to do a jazz version of Debussy’s ‘Clair de Lune,’” Francis said and laughed.

“He is going to do some different things as well,” Francis said. “He is going to be opening each show on Friday and Saturday night and then, of course, he is going to have his own space for two hours on Sunday afternoon at the Anderson (Museum of Contemporary Art).”

In a phone interview with Vision Magazine, Dowling talked about his music.

“I trained as a classical concert pianist,” Dowling said. “That’s probably my first love.

I fell in love with Scott Joplin when I was a lit-

Submitted Photo One of the founding fathers of Jazz: Scott Joplin.

Richard Dowling will honor his legacy. This year is the 100th anniversary of his death and next year the 150th anniversary of his birthday.

tle boy when ‘The Sting’ (the movie featured Joplin’s music) came out in 1973. That started my love affair with early jazz music.

“Millions of people in America fell in love with Scott Joplin’s music all over again and I was one of those millions of people,” Dowling said. “I always loved his music since I was a boy.

“This year is the 100th anniversary of his death and next year is his 150th birthday,” Dowling said. “I am doing Joplin concerts everywhere in America this year and next year as well. I have almost 100 concerts now of Joplin.

“That was what Michael Francis was most interested in having. Something really different,” he said.

Additionally, Dowling will perform other jazz pieces.

“It will be exciting, it will be different from what normally is heard at jazz festivals,” Dowling said. “Plus, I probably will play half of all Joplin’s pieces over the course of the weekend.

“Ragtime is the perfect antidote to being blue.

If you are in a bad mood and listen to ragtime it is the perfect tonic to make you happy again because it makes you tap your toes. It puts a smile on your face. This is much better than taking medicine,” Dowling said and laughed.

“One of the great things I am excited about and so is the rest of the committee, is that we are using the main stage at the Anderson Museum of Contemporary Art,” Francis said.

“It’s such a delightful atmosphere for jazz. It is inspiring with all of the beautiful art and the collections of paintings on the walls that make it even much better.”

Francis urges the jazz fans to get their tickets soon because AMoCA has limited seating.

“Another new addition to our Festival is the vocal talents of Hillary Smith,” Francis said.

“Smith is from Albuquerque, but actually she was born in Hobbs. She is a native of this state and she is terrific in the rhythm and blues gospel style. She got some real pipes. She got strength in her voice. She has her own space at Reischman Park, which is our outdoor venue.”

Other artists performing are John Allred, Dan Barrett, Bruce Barth, Rich Chorné, Roger Dickerson, Larry Fuller, Francis, Howard Elkins, Charles Gordon, Mack Goldsbury, New Breed Brass Band, Ricky Malichi, Houston Person, Carl Sonny Leyland, Ken Peplowski, Russ Phillips, Chuck Redd, Randy Sandke, Richard Simon, Jim Shearer, Hal Smith, Frank Tate, Erik Unsworth, Warren Vaché, Tom Wakeling and Curt Warren.

A sked how Francis finds the artists for RJF he said, “The 11 years I have been with the festival since day one, they (the RJF board) have given me a travel budget to go out and scout

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Peter Schaaf Photo Richard Dowling will honor Scott Joplin at the Roswell Jazz Fest. around a little bit. Of course, the internet is a marvelous tool as well, but I love getting out and actually hearing these artists.”

The School of Jazz will again bepart of the RJF. “We are very into having a component of education for students and this year we are having

two bands play,” Francis said. “One of them is Roswell High School under the direction of Greg Odom and the other is Eastern New Mexico University-Portales. They are going to perform on Saturday morning what we call the School of Jazz. It’s held see Fest on page 14

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‘Shotgun Chaps’ by Dave Shelley

Art

From the Vault

Roswell Museum and Art Center

By Sara Woodbury RMAC Curator of Collections and Exhibitions

peruse on their mobile devices. Today, I’ll share with you some of the research I’ve been doing for this app by exploring a pair of shotgun chaps

by Dave Shelley.

Chaps, derived from the Spanish word chaparreras, are leather leggings designed to protect the legs of horseback riders from the elements. Initially developed by Spanish settlers as an apron-like garment covering the legs, chaps have evolved into a variety of shapes and forms.

Shotgun chaps have straight, narrow legs that resemble the barrel of a shotgun. Batwing chaps have legs that flare out at the bottom, and chinks are shorter chaps that stop shortly below the knee. Though chaps continue to serve as functional apparel, they also have an ornamental role in rodeo and similar performances and can be

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ere at the Roswell Museum and Art Center, we’re always exploring new ways of reaching our public. Technology in particular has become an indispensable part of education, both in the classroom as well as in museums and other learning environments.

As part of our own effort to integrate the educational potential of technology into our gallery spaces, last year RMAC teamed up with New Mexico Highlands University to create a phone app for the Aston Collection of the American West. We — as a staff — selected 15 objects to highlight in this new project, and have been uploading texts and photographs that visitors can

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elaborately decorated.

The Aston collection contains several pairs of chaps, including shotgun and batwing-style examples, but the chaps we’re looking at today are known as woolies, a variation on shotgun chaps that became popular during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

They are usually made from angora wool, which is stitched to a canvas lining. Known for their warmth, woolies were most commonly used in the northern climates of the Rocky Mountains.

By the early 20th century, however, they had become so popular that they appeared in Western illustration and other media.

Several studio photographs from the early 1900s show sitters posed in woolies, and images of cowboys wearing wooly chaps appear on pulp novels and mag-

azine covers of the period. Frederic Remington (1861-1909), whose iconic sculptures and illustrations continue to influence our perception of the West, reworked his 1895 sculpture, “The Bronco Buster,” to reflect the changing trends in fashion by updating the shotgun chaps on his cowboy to fleecy woolies. Cowboys in wooly chaps also occasionally appear in more modern interpretations of the West, including the energetic lithographs of Luis Jimenez (1940-2006).

The shotgun chaps in the Aston Collection of the American West were created by Dave Shelley. Based in Cody, Wyoming, Shelley created all types of Western attire and equipment, including saddles, chaps and boots. With its tooled leather belt, and teardrops of dark hair dispersed throughout the

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According to Francis, RJF members have formed an education committee. “We are actively gathering some funding to provide scholarships for a female and male student from Roswell to attend the North Texas State Denton jazz camp that they have next summer,” Francis said.

For more information and updated information during the festival, visit roswelljazz.org or call 505-359-4876.

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History

The origins of the Historical Society for Southeast New Mexico and the Roswell Museum and Art Center

By John LeMay

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hough many people today forget this fact, both the Historical Society for Southeast New Mexico and the Roswell Museum and Art Center have joint roots which began Sept. 7, 1905.

The occasion was the first meeting of the “Old Settler’s Society of Chaves County” held on John Chisum’s old South Springs River Ranch. On that day men such as former governor Herbert J. Hagerman and even that alleged boss of the so-called Santa Fe Ring, Thomas B. Catron, gave speeches. Appropriately, J.P. White was president of this first version of HSSNM. From these “Old Settlers Days” that

occurred frequently over the next 20 years sprang the Chaves County and Archeological Society, which had a lone exhibit case at the Roswell Library housing some prehistoric pottery in it. In essence, this lone display case was the genesis of the RMAC. When Edgar L. Hewett visited this meager display case in 1929, he was impressed by the area’s interest in local history and suggested that the organization draft itself some bylaws and become official in the eyes of the state.

By January 1930 the organization was a subsidiary of the State Museum, with meetings held in the Roswell

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e moved one summer to a house in the historic district. It was pleasant with a large kitchen, wooden floors and a small solarium on the back porch with a door to the back yard. There was a large heating unit also located in the back-porch area. I asked our neighbors about previous owners and tenants and was told the house had been owned by a woman artist. She built the solarium for the light and painted there until her death a few years before. She was a lovely and kind lady by all accounts. I thought I would catch glimpses of a woman wearing black caprices and a white, puffy artist shirt in the solarium. Her presence was reassuring and not frightening.

The weather had turned cool at night and we lit the furnace. A couple of weeks before Thanksgiving, while one of our mothers was visiting, we would wake up and find the back door standing open. We always checked the doors before retiring and knew the door was double locked. Nothing was disturbed in the house so we dismissed the idea of someone breaking in and put a chair against the door knob just in case. Yet, every morning, the door was wide open and the chair moved. We never heard a sound.

We shrugged it off and prepared for a family gather-

Library. To raise money for additional display cases, none other than Elizabeth Garrett took charge and raised the funds. As collections grew, naturally there arose desire to construct a museum to house them.

The effort began in 1935 through a Works Progress Administration project headed by the likes of Amelia Bolton Church and Major Maurice Fulton among others. The building was estimated to cost $12,000 with the Historical Society raising $2,200 of it. The government paid for the rest.

On Oct. 6, 1937, the museum opened with a split focus on history and art. In 1941, due

to changing WPA laws, ownership of the museum was transferred from the HSSNM to the city of Roswell. Due to financial difficulties during WWII, HSSNM and RMAC continued to drift further and further apart. By 1950, the break between the two organizations was complete with the Roswell Museum focusing more on art, and HSSNM, naturally, on history. As time marched on the organization became the Chaves County Historical Society, which acquired a home of its own in the form of the J.P. White home, donated by his heirs in 1976.

Today, the RMAC and the HSSNM carry on a very cordial relation-

ing at our place. Suddenly our young daughter started vomiting every morning. Our mother developed a cold and I had a non-stop headache. None of us thought much of it beyond seasonal illness.

The night before Thanksgiving, I woke up hearing two very loud people in our kitchen banging pans like they were in the process of cooking. I nudged my husband and asked him to tell them to quiet down. I heard him get out of bed and walk to our bedroom door which faced the kitchen.

I drifted back to sleep but awoke a little while later to the same noises. I could clearly hear two people were laughing, joking and most definitely in the kitchen doing something in the middle of the night! My husband was asleep so, half-asleep, I got out of bed and walked to the door. I stared into the kitchen which I could plainly see from the light outside the windows. There was no one there, but I could guess where the two people were from their voices (which did not decrease in volume). Having had enough, I hollered at them to be quiet! I said how I had to be up early to cook dinner and needed sleep. The talking and noises stopped immediately.

I staggered back to bed. I guess my conscious mind caught up with me and I awoke with a start. I shook my husband and asked if he had heard the goings-on in the kitchen? He said he had and yes, he did get up to check when I asked him to but not having seen anyone and since there was nothing disturbed, he went back to bed and put the pillow over his head. I could not sleep the rest of the night.

And the back door was standing wide open as usual.

Photo courtesy of the Historical Society for Southeast New Mexico Archives.

Ella Lea Dow, Capt. Lea’s daughter, admiring a bust of her father in the Roswell Museum in 1937 along with husband Hiram Dow. ship, often coordinating on joint projects like 2012’s Diamond of the Pecos exhibit. As the RMAC’s 80th anniversary is upon us this year,

we, at the HSSNM, want to wish them a happy anniversary!

We didn’t tell anyone about the kitchen incident.

The open back door continued.

Not long before Christmas, our mother was hospitalized with double-pneumonia. The doctor could not figure out why our daughter was continually sick and I miscarried. A representative from the gas company accompanied by a fireman came to the house and asked to inspect our heater. We all could smell gas outside in the backyard. The gas employee got angry and asked why we tore off a red tag on the furnace? We hadn’t and never saw one when we moved in the house. He said he had red tagged it and it needed repair due to carbon monoxide buildup. The fireman said we were lucky to be alive. We were stunned. That explained why we are all sick.

After they left, it occurred to me that the lady must have been the one opening the back door every night. The open door had saved our lives! I was so overcome with gratitude. I stood in the solarium and quietly thanked her. If not for the open back door, we would have died in our sleep.

After the furnace was fixed, the back door was not left open again. God bless her! This is a true story.

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UFOlogy

Remembering another departed Roswell witness: Frankie Rowe

Looking Up

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nvestigators of the 1947 Roswell UFO incident have often remarked that when it comes to uncovering as much information as possible from the witnesses, we have always been racing with time. After all, it was about 30 years following the events in question before we even knew anything extraordinary had ever happened near Roswell, and some of the key witnesses in 1947 were not exactly teenagers even then.

Witnesses grow old, and we lose them.

I for one find it sad to reflect on how many such people I once knew and talked to, 20-odd

By Donald Burleson

years ago when my wife Mollie and I first came to Roswell, people no longer with us now.

Recently at the 2017 Roswell UFO Festival I had my first chance to talk face to face with Frankie Rowe, an exceedingly important Roswell incident witness whom I had once interviewed by telephone several years earlier. I found her to be a pleasant, witty, graceful, charming lady.

In 1947 she had been (perhaps you know the story) the 11-year-old girl at the fire station, handling a strange piece of metallic debris that crumpled easily in her hand and sprang back to

its original shape when released.

Her father, fireman Dan Dwyer, had made a fire truck run out to the site, where evidently someone had picked up that piece of debris.

Unhappily, a military officer later showed up at Frankie’s family’s home, in her presence, and threatened the whole family with death if anyone ever talked about what they had seen.

One may imagine how this must have sounded to a pre-teen girl.

There’s no question that Frankie was traumatized for life by the event.

During the UFO Festival she was present at

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one of the panel discussions in which I participated with UFO investigators Don Schmitt, Tom Carey, Stan Friedman, and others, and she told the audience something memorable about the death threats delivered to her and her parents.

It seems that the officer making those threats, following orders when his heart wasn’t really in it, felt remorseful about the incident for years afterward.

Consequently, a younger member of his family showed up on Frankie’s doorstep years later with apologies and, touchingly enough, a bouquet of flowers for Frankie.

When I chatted with her at the UFO Museum, we talked about how foolish the logical inconsistencies were, when someone would have received orders to make death threats even to a child, yet later the government would claim that the whole incident was due to nothing more important than a fallen weather balloon.

That sort of thing is what’s wrong with cover-ups. They get put together in such desperate haste that there’s no time to script them, and the logic falls apart.

Like other important Roswell witnesses, Frankie Rowe had the courage to speak up

despite all the threats.

Sadly, she died (in Breckenridge, Texas, which happens to be my birthplace) on July 28, 2017, not quite a month after the UFO Festival.

Rest in peace, Frankie.