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19 4 RAISINGDAD • Don’t Tell Your Mother Dad has a secret by Jim and Henry Duchene 6 ACROSS THE BORDER • Next Steps For AMLO Mexican president faces challenges by Morgan Smith 7 LETTERS • Standing up for a Cause Parks, people and humanity at risk 8 ON THE SHELF • Three Used Book Stores Bolster the joy of reading by Vivian Savitt 10 ARTS EXPOSURE • Arts Scene Latest area arts happenings 11 ARTS EXPOSURE • Mesilla Valley Artisan Guild Bringing profit to the craft business 12 ARTS EXPOSURE • Gallery Guide Art venues across the area 13 ARTS EXPOSURE • Calling Artists, Filmmakers Opportunities for creative types 14 ON THE SHELF • Tenuous State Charland reads from new book by Sunny McFarren 15 ARTS EXPOSURE • Blending Process Bringing geometry to bronze by Lucy Whitmarsh 15 ARTS EXPOSURE • Good Day for Carrizozo Arts festival, studio tour by Lisa Maue 16 PUBLISHER’S NOTEBOOK • Telltale Signs Know when you go native by Richard Coltharp 17 ON SCREEN • Make a Movie in 48 Hours Borderlands Film Festival sponsors contest
20 DIGGING INTO HISTORY • Cottonwood Spring Pueblo NMSU students excavate by Billy Huntsman 21 HISTORY THROUGH MONEY • Sweep of American Culture Higgins looks at currency coins 21 LIVING HISTORY • Fort Bayard Explore 152 years of history 22 ON SCREEN • Clint Eastwood in Las Cruces New film brings money to state by Mike Cook 23 STARRY DOME • Apus, the Bird of Paradise The little Southern triangle by Bert Stevens 24 BODY, MIND SPIRIT • Grant County Events Weekly happenings in Grant County 25 CYCLES OF LIFE • Bicycle Racing A primer on the sport by Fr. Gabriel Rochelle 26 TALKING HORSES • Change What You Can Why so much ground work? by Scott Thomson 27 HIGH PLACES • Bridal Falls Easy summer hike with a twist by Gabriele Teich 28 RED OR GREEN • Dining Guide Restaurants in southwest New Mexico 30 TABLE TALK • Taste of Downtown Restaurants offer samples in Silver City 30 WINGING IT • Too Quick for Me! Summer hummers! Part Two by Yvonne Lanelli 32 GOING WILD • Gila River Festival Celebrating 50 years of wilderness rivers
17 ARTS EXPOSURE • Art and Wine in the Pines Escaping the heat in Cloudcroft
32 REALITY CHECK • Silent Contemplation Hiroshima Peace Day observed by Tom Vaughn
18 BORDERLINES • Journalist Seeks Asylum Soto and son detained, in fear of death
33 40 DAYS AND 40 NIGHTS • Events Guide Romance and art in March and a little beyond
19 TUMBLEWEEDS • Book Research Looking at local movie history by Jeff Berg
39 LIVING ON WHEELS • Red Father Lamp Getting rid of the storage unit by Sheila Sowder
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RAISINGDAD • JIM AND HENRY DUCHENE
Don’t Tell Your Mother
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here’s an old joke: An elderly man who was hard of hearing suddenly lost his hearing completely, so he immediately went to his doctor. After many failed attempts at communication, the doctor finally decided to look in the old man’s ear where he saw what the trouble was. He asked his nurse for some forceps, and then used them to extract something from the older gentleman’s ear canal. “Here’s the problem,” the doctor said, showing it to him. “You had a suppository stuck in your ear.” “Oh, my goodness,” the old man replied. “Then where the heck is
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“You’re talking to me, aren’t you?” My father, the comedian. “MOM SAID TO TELL YOU YOUR COFFEE’S READY!” “What?” “MOM SAID TO TELL YOU YOUR COFFEE’S READY!” “WHAT?” “MOM SAID TO TELL YOU YOUR COFFEE’S READY!” There was a pause. “Come in,” he ordered. I guess, so he could hear me better. I knew my father’s hearing had been getting steadily worse for some time, just like my hearing is doing now, but I had never had this kind of trouble talking with him before. When I opened the door and looked in, I saw why. He was already fully dressed, but sitting on the edge of the bed with his legs over the side. I saw him reach into his nightstand and pull out two small devices that he stuffed deep into his ears. I was surprised, to say the least. “Pop?” I said. “What?” he said back. “How long have you had hearing aids?” He thought about it. “Oh, I’ve had them for a while now.” Now it was my time to think about it. “Mom must be happy,” I offered, not being able to think of anything else to say. “About what?” “That you’ve got hearing aids.” “Oh,” he said, matter of factly, “I haven’t told her yet.” “You haven’t?” “No.” “Why?” “Because,” he said, in his don’ttell-your-mother tone, “I like hearing what she says when she thinks I can’t hear.” If a deaf person swears, does their mother wash out their hands with soap? Find out at RaisingMyFather.BlogSpot.com, JimDuchene.BlogSpot.com, or @ JimDuchene.
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ACROSS THE BORDER MORGAN SMITH
Next Steps for AMLO Mexican president has his job cut out for him
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here will be deaths,” Pastor Galván said as we crossed the border from El Paso to Juárez on July 1, 2018, the day on which the “leftist firebrand ” Andrés Manual López Obrador (AMLO) was elected President of Mexico. 2017 was the deadliest year in Mexican history with over 25,000 murders. Since September 2017, over 130 political candidates have been murdered. For us, however, it was a perfect morning – about 74 degrees, no traffic, a cloudless sky. A burly young man with tattoos on his shins checked us into Galván’s polling place. Voters arrived in a steady stream. At a second polling place in this gritty neighborhood, Maria, a monitor from the INE ( Instituto Nacional Electoral) told us everything has been calm. The voters looked at me in surprise, wondering what an American was doing there. I’ve observed presidential elections in Mexico, Nicaragua, Peru, Ecuador and Honduras, and the faces of voters are always the same: expectation, hope, nervousness. There is even more nervousness July 1 because a vote for AMLO is as much a repudiation of the other two parties that have governed since 1929 as it is support for him. The voters I spoke to said that these parties had failed and that it was time to go in a different direction, even if that direction was unclear. The result was a victory far larger than anyone could have predicted. What comes next for AMLO in these months before his December inauguration? Although he has consistently indicated he wants Mexico to be more self reliant and less dependent on the US, the only way to make that happen is, paradoxically, to work closely with the United States. Here are some ideas that could be implemented almost immediately.
Crime The Border Patrol has built comfortable checkpoints for border agents at the southbound lanes at crossing points like Palomas and Santa Teresa but there are never any agents there! Ask President Trump to place agents there to check for weapons being smuggled into Mexico.
NAFTA The overall negotiations will continue to be difficult but there are two important sections of the North American Free Trade Agreement that have been ignored since its inception and could now be implemented. First, the U.S. never followed through on its commitment to a border environmental cleanup plan; the result has been enormous health problems on the Mexican border due to environmental issues. On the Mexican side, the Mexican government committed but didn’t follow through on assisting small farmers in Mexico who might be overwhelmed by the importation of US products like corn. Why not
get moving on both these issues now? More than just a trade agreement, NAFTA has been a pathway to cooperation in many other areas like law enforcement. For example, retired Admiral James G. Stavidris recently pointed out that Mexico’s extradition of alleged criminals to the United States increased dramatically after the passage of NAFTA. Try to build on that. Cross border manufacturing projects also resulted from NAFTA, making Mexico a leader in the automobile industry. The creation of those good jobs not only fit AMLO’s plan to alleviate poverty but they also benefit us. Mexicans with good jobs in Mexico aren’t going to be interested in coming to the United States. So don’t do anything to unsettle those business ventures.
Immigration “Comprehensive immigration reform” seems like an impossible target so why not focus on the least controversial component – a guest worker program whereby Mexicans could move back and forth for seasonal work in areas like agriculture and construction where we desperately need them. Mexico would benefit enormously from having its workers make money in the US that could be used back home to support families, improve housing and invest in local businesses.
A Southern Border Program We worry about murder in the US where the rate is about 5.4 murders per 100,000 people per year. In Salvador, however, it is 87.8 or 15 times higher. It’s 56.5 in Honduras and 27.2 in Guatemala. No wonder people are fleeing northward. Therefore, ask Trump to join in a plan to help stabilize those countries, an admittedly difficult task but an essential one. After all, much of that violence is due to being on the drug route to the United States. For many years I felt that AMLO was a dangerous “leftist radical” and a hypocrite for having blocked downtown Mexico City in a protest against the 2006 election results, thus hurting the poor people he was claiming to support. In 2012, I wrote that he was a “has been.” However, having recently listened to him speak in person and, more important, having spent years visiting to the poorest areas of Juárez, Palomas and other border towns and never seeing any government officials working in those impoverished areas, it seemed obvious that he was Mexico’s only hope. In fact, it seemed like such an obvious choice that I took an AMLO banner to the west side of Juárez on Saturday, June 30, asked voters to pose with it and to promise that they would vote for him. Morgan Smith is a free lance writer and photographer who travels to Mexico at least once a month to document and assist several hunanitarian programs there. He can be reached at Morgan-smith@comcast.net.
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Stand up for one another I want to thank you for your opinion article. Tribalism has its positives but also its negatives as you point out. I think each of us needs to be more conscious of this tendency to become more tribal as we begin to feel more and more frightened. The people I sit near at Starbucks or in the library often have views different than my own. When I just look at them as other human beings, entitled to their own opinions, people who just want to be happy as do I, they become more like me than different. There are chaotic forces at work that divide us. Our current Congress is just one example of a group who’ve become perhaps dangerously divided. They no longer act as a cohesive group. They too are human, just like us. Because of this, they no longer seek to lead a nation but simply factions of it. If we could see ourselves as a tribe of Humanity, what would we wish for each other? Again, thank you for your very thought-provoking opinion. Gerri January Radium Springs
National Parks by the $$$ New Mexicans who care about their national parks and public lands resources need to be aware that Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke is touting a bill that is literally both a snare and a delusion – and Sen. Martin Heinrich is a cosponsor. First, the delusion. A backlog of deferred maintenance needs at areas of the National Park System (NPS) has been growing through several administrations. The cost of the total backlog nationally was estimated to be $11.6 billion at the end of Fiscal Year 2017.
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Letters to the Editor New Mexico’s share of that comes to $123,362,733 needed to bring roads and buildings and other facilities up to snuff for ever-growing numbers of visitors. The identified need is greatest at Carlsbad Caverns National Park, where $46,819,348 is needed. Every one of the 15 NPS areas in New Mexico needs $1 million in funds for deferred maintenance, with Chaco Culture National Historical Park next largest at $17,156,313 and Bandelier National Monument just behind at $16,356,529. Sec. Zinke recently did a CNN op-ed with Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-TN) to tout the National Park Restoration Act (S.2509), recently introduced by Sen. Alexander with seven cosponsors, including Sen. Heinrich. This bill purports to address the NPS deferred maintenance backlog by earmarking funds from the government’s energy development revenues - leasing public lands for coal, energy and mineral exploitation - until FY 2027. That’s the delusion - money will be generated to fix up the parks. Here’s the snare - it can only happen by increased corporate exploitation of the marketable natural resources on the public lands and in the end, it will probably produce nothing at all. The bill says the money will only be transferred to the NPS after a certain threshold is reached in energy development revenues. For FY 2019, for example, that threshold is $8 billion. The total of such receipts was $7.1 billion in FY 2017. So, for any money to be generated to attack the backlog in FY 2019, the oil and gas leasing revenues will have to increase by 7.1 percent! And the bill’s graduated schedule sets the threshold higher and higher, so in FY 2027, the minimum income from energy development has to be $9.4 billion - almost one-third more than it is today!
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Oh, and the bill also says that, if the threshold is exceeded in a given year, only 50 percent of that overage will go to the NPS for deferred maintenance. In the end, if S.2509 is enacted, it is highly unlikely that ANY money will ever make its way into NPS coffers to be used to fix roads or facilities in New Mexico’s NPS areas. We can be certain, however, that the delusion of doing that will be widely proclaimed as a justification for more leasing of the public lands within New Mexico for corporate exploitation of oil, gas, coal and mineral resources that belong to us all. And guess who will pay for reclamation and for mitigation of environmental impacts after the profits have been made and the companies are gone? New Mexico’s taxpayers! There is another bill that will do a much better job of addressing the park maintenance backlog, one
that doesn’t depend on expanding the digging and drilling of public lands. That is S.751, introduced a year ago by Sen. Mark Warner (DVA). Sen. Alexander is one of the 19 cosponsors of this bill; Sen. Heinrich is not. Warner’s bill, the National Park Service Legacy Act of 2017, straightforwardly takes existing “mineral revenues” (equivalent to “energy development revenues”) and transfers them to the NPS for use on the backlog. It does so on a regular schedule from FY 2018 through FY 2047 until a total of more than $11 billion has been made available (without further Congressional action) to the NPS. No thresholds, no 50 percent, no use as a bait to spur more digging and drilling! I hope others in New Mexico will join me in urging Sen. Heinrich to drop his cosponsorship of the snare and delusion that is S. 2509. Instead,
he and the rest of the New Mexico delegation should be working to get S. 751 (the Warner bill) enacted so that it can be starting to bolster our economy with improved recreation resources. Tom Vaughan Silver City
No more free ride In response to Marjorie Lilly’s column, “Ride for Life,” I, for one, am tired of residents of Palomas getting, literally, a free ride to Deming’s already overcrowded hospital at U.S. taxpayers’ expense. According to Lilly, “60 percent of the U.S. people pay the ambulance fee, but only 20 percent of Palomas people do.” The majority of us opposed to the idea of Palomas residents receiving medical treatment in Deming’s overtaxed hospital are not racists. It’s just that we do not appreciate moochers of any race, color, or nationality. Paul Hoylen Deming
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A Threesome of Used Book Stores Bolster the joy of book browsing
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ilver City’s three used book stores — the newest one having opened earlier in the summer — represent quite a feat for a small town. Now the pleasures of book browsing are available at downtown shops within ambling distance of one another. Their proprietors are ardent bibliophiles who have been collecting for years – and their stock includes children’s books. Among book lovers, introverts often predominate. They thrive on the one-to-one relationship that is book to reader. When in-between books, introverts tend to feel out-of-whack – anxious to find their next meaningful read. For most, reading only becomes social when a book is being discussed. For others the proximity of books also enhances their lives – whether piled lopsidedly in a bedside tower, arranged fastidiously on a desk or discovered by chance upon a bookseller’s shelf.
Silver City Book Store 113 W. Broadway St. Open 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. every day. 575-956-6268 Like access to a library, the availability of book stores bodes well for both literary fulfill-
Dennis O’Keefe has owned his book shop for almost 35 years. Customers are drawn to books on Southwestern history as well as literary classics.
DON’T FORGET The Friends of the Library Saturday book sales will be 10 a.m.-2 p.m., Sept. 8 and Nov. 10, at 1510 Market St. ment and bibliotherapy. Such prospects appear straight-away at Silver City Book Store where the windows may display holiday-related book titles or celebrate the tomes of a recently deceased author. The love child of two long-time
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It’s that time of year again. Many of us are putting away our swimsuits and bringing out notebooks and sharpening pencils for the start of a new school year. There is a lot of preparation that goes into getting ready for school each fall, and one thing at should not be left of the back to school checklist is proper dental care. In order to ensure that your child maintains their bright smile throughout the school year, here are some tips to consider as your child heads back to the classroom. 1.
Stay away from packing your child’s lunch with drinks that are high in sugar. Many sports drinks, energy drinks, soda and juices have anywhere between 5-12 teaspoons of sugar in one serving. The longer this sugar stays on your child’s teeth, the more likely they will develop tooth decay. Many children do not have a chance to brush their teeth throughout the day, so minimizing the amount of sugar in their lunch can help decrease their chances of cavities.
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Pack snacks that are high in protein in your child’s lunch. High protein foods will minimize hunger, and as a result your child will be less likely to snack all day on sugary unhealthy foods that are found in many cafeterias and on-campus vending machines.
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lf you want to occasionally add a sweet treat to your child’s lunch, try chocolate instead of other candies that are highly acidic and/or are more likely to stick to their teeth for long periods of time.
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Fall is the time for many contact sports both on and off the field. Be sure to get a properly fitted mouthguard before trying out for your favorite team
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Brush your teeth twice daily with a fluoride toothpaste, and once your permanent teeth come in, make sure that you floss, too. There is less space between your permanent teeth, so it’s harder to get particles out of your teeth with just brushing.
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DESERT EXPOSURE collectors – Michael J. Lacey and Carol Gardner – their dream was realized once they had “found just the right space for a shop.” Lacey, a Silver City resident for 17 years, was born in Scotland. A natural raconteur and formidable name dropper (titles and authors), Lacey maintains that his life as a bibliophile began at age 6, having been captivated by an Enid Blyton book. This may explain why the store’s children’s nook is so snug and appealing. From lighting to seating the Silver City Book Store is tastefully put together. Nothing is frumpy. Books are in fine condition and shelved in organized sections. The fiction collection is extensive as are other categories. “We’d like to host local book clubs here and have enough space for them,” Lacey said. “One of the bookcases rests on casters and can be moved around. I’ve proposed a Men’s Book Club to some regular customers.” “An astonishing number of people buy books,” Gardner added. “With the Murray and Palace Hotels across the street — tourists represent 75 percent of our business, and we love to recommend books to all our customers.”
O’Keefe’s Bookshop 102 W. Broadway St. 10 a.m.-4 p.m., Tuesday-Saturday 575-388-3313. Across the street from the Lacey-Gardner establishment sits the venerable O’Keefe’s Bookshop — soon to celebrate 35 years in business. Dennis O’Keefe has “an aversion to junk books. They’re just not worth wrecking the trees for.” Fortunately, his steady customers appreciate the shop’s good selections – from Southwestern titles including local history – to literary classics ranging from Kerouac and Tolstoy to J.D. Salinger. “My customers reflect a broad cross-section, and I think that a high level of introverts is drawn to Silver City. Part-time residents who prefer our winters to where
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AUGUST 2018 • 9 A window at Silver City Book Store celebrates the Fourth of July with titles focusing on American history. (Photos by Vivian Savitt)
A selection of vinyl is among the numerous items available at Avalon Books & Music on N. Bullard.
they normally reside – come in when they’re in town. Senator Heinrich and his family showed up. I’ve been here so long people know I’m familiar with the area and can suggest both activities and appropriate books. When I meet good people, I always encourage them to move here.” O’Keefe credits his mother, “a voracious reader who loved to talk history,” for spearheading a family effort to relinquish their personal collections and open a bookshop. Since none of them could part with their most cherished books, the space at the Palace Hotel started small. A lover of the natural landscape who spent his early teens in northern New Mexico near Pojoaque Pueblo, O’Keefe continues to sell his nature photography and note-cards at the shop. Years ago, a young woman from out of town walked in and purchased a book. O’Keefe conversed with her for a while, then asked her out. Their first date was spent hiking at Rain Creek near Glenwood. This episode led to a lengthy courtship and the woman’s moving to Silver City. Eventually O’Keefe and Allyson Siwik were married — she being the environmentalist who directs the Gila Resources Information Project. After their daughter Gabriela arrived, a playpen appeared at the shop’s entrance whenever Siwik was working in El Paso. Over time, a child’s desk supplanted the playpen. This month, Gabriela will
enroll at the University of New Mexico on a full scholarship — a harbinger that the prevalence of books is rewarded.
Avalon Books & Music
810 N. Bullard St. 10 a.m.-5 p.m., Monday-Saturday At first glance Avalon Books & Music appears a bit of a hodgepodge – and it is. But the book table near the door offers some impressive choices — contemporary novelists ranging from A.S. Byatt to Michael Ondaatje and Alan Furst. Nearby, two wing-back chairs indicate that it’s okay to sit for a spell. Proprietors Dan Jameson and Steve Koplowitz estimate that the store contains thousands of used books – so discovering a
copy of “Dispatches” by the late journalist Michael Herr was an exciting find. “I spent a long time wanting a book store and have always collected on instinct,” Jameson said. “Steve and I have found that our best sellers include craft books as well as nutrition and healing titles. The niche items that we carry are responsible for our still being here after two years.” Avalon’s “niche items” include memorabilia like mugs, tin signs and kitchen magnets. The store also stocks vinyl records, cassettes, comics and movies – as
well as used and new toys. “Customers peer in and circuit around,” Jameson continued. “They find copies of the Hardy Boys mysteries, as well as ‘The History of Burglar Alarms’ or novelty books like ‘How to Talk to Your Cat.’ Tourists are looking for something to read in their hotels at night, and we can always find them something.” Aside from bibliotherapy, there are other reasons to buy “used.” Recycled books stay out of the landfill, and purchasing them locally enables you to circumvent that behemoth online enterprise.
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• The Plein-Air Painters of the Southwest are showing their artwork at Common Ground, aka Geisler Studio, 102 West Kelly, through Aug. 15. The show lets people vote for the Peoples’ Choice Award and random video projections at night will amplify the exhibition. Gallery hours are 3-8 p.m. Thursday through Monday and other times by prior arrangement. Info: 575-534-2087. • Mariah’s Copper Quail Gallery, in Silver City’s historic art district at 211A N. Texas St. From Aug. 1-31, the gallery is displaying additional original wood Mariah’s and bronze Copper Quail sculptures by features Jim resident artist, Kane and Jim Kane, who “Wild About Sculpture” in joined the MCQ team in January August. of 2018. MCQ, Jim Kane and Lucy Whitmarsh will be hosting an opening reception for this show titled “Wild About Sculpture” from 3 – 6 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 11. For those traveling, a block of rooms has been reserved at the Murray Hotel, located just around the corner from the gallery at 200 West Broadway. To receive a special room rate on one of the reserved rooms, mention the show title, “Wild About Sculpture.” Info: 575388-2646. • Creative Hands Roadside Attraction Art Gallery, 106 W. Yankie St., features large pastel abstract paintings, mystic Southwest paintings on recovered metal, whimsical ceramics, re-purposed chairs for functional wall art, Smokin’ Hot Cigar Box Guitars, and more. Hours: 10:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Wednesday through Saturday; noon to 4 p.m. Sunday; Monday and Tuesday by appointment. Info: 303-916-5045 or Roadside Attraction and Creative Hands on Facebook. • a)Sp...”A”©e Contemporary Studio•Art•Gallery, 110 West 7th St., has a new collage installation titled B.A.L.A.N.C.E of Sound & Light by ArhAyas Psonn AllureA of Borrego Springs, California Gallery hours are 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Friday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday, 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sunday. Also available by appointment. Info: 575-538-3333.
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ALAMOGORDO/ CLOUDCROFT/ TULAROSA • A reception for artist Gerald Moore will be held 6 to 8 p.m. Friday, Aug. 17, at Creative Designs Custom The work of F raming Gerald Moore and Galfeatures Alamo and Deadman lery, 917 N. canyons at CreNew York ative Designs in Ave., AlAlamogordo. amogordo. Moore is exhibiting drawings and photographs of Alamo and Deadman canyons. Over the past few of years, the two activities, photographing and drawing, have come together during walks into the two canyons. These two mediums will be on display all month at the gallery. Info: 575434-4420. • The Cloudcroft Art Society has an art exhibit and sale at the Art and Wine in the Cool Pines event this year at the Sacramento Mountain Historical Museum in Cloudcroft. The show, sponsored by the Cloudcroft Chamber of Commerce will take place on Friday and Saturday, Aug. 3 and 4. Enjoy wine tasting in the cool mountain forest of Cloudcroft, where individuals may sample wines from many wineries of New Mexico, and purchase their favorite bottles. The admission fee of $15 includes a custom glass for tasting. Nondrinkers and under 21 may purchase tickets for $10. Tickets are available at the Cloudcroft Chamber of Commerce and at the entrance to the event. Info: ccartsociety@gmail.com. • The Cloudcroft Art Society’s Gallery is open every Saturday through December. Many artworks ranging from paintings in all media, fine art and digital art photography, both framed and matted prints, cards, pottery, baskets, fiber art, gourd art, intarsia, and glass art are on display and for sale. The gallery is located in the old red brick schoolhouse which houses the Nivison Library at the east end of Burro St. where it intersects Swallow Place in Cloudcroft. Info: ccartsociety@ gmail.com.
• The Tunnel Stop Gallery is located approximately one mile east of the tunnel on U.S. Highway 82 heading toward Cloudcroft. The gallery is open 9 a.m.-6 p.m., seven days a week, year-round. There is a large garden room where many different classes are held year-round (jewelry, pottery, stained glass, spinning and weaving, TaiChi, flute playing and more). The building is 5,000 sq. ft. and filled with the work of 300-plus local artists. Info: 575-682-5676.
DEMING/COLUMBUS • “Fire & Fiber” is the title of the August 2018 Exhibit at the Deming Art Center. Fire & Fiber is an exhibition of visual art that combines fired clay and fiber medium such as wool, cloth, paper, wood, or other fibrous materials into unique works of art. Each piece is the result of a special collaboration between a member of the Potter’s Guild of Las Cruces and a fiber artist from the southern New Mexico region. An artist reception will be held from 1 to 3 p.m. on Sunday, Aug. 5 at the Center, located at 100 S. Gold St. The show will run from August 2-30. The gallery is located at 100 S. Gold St. Hours: 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday through Saturday, closed Sundays. Info: 575-5463663, www.demingarts.org. • “Bye, Bye, American Pie,” an exhibit of protest art collages, is being hosted by the Village of Columbus Library. 112 Broadway, through Aug. 11. The series of 24 hand-made, original collages by Sylvia Brenner, focus on current social and political issues. A percentage of art sales is a fund-raiser for Friends of Columbus Library. The library is open 8 a.m. to 7 p.m. Monday through Saturday. For more information, contact Director Maria Ehlers at 531-2612.
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Hiding by Kathleen Deasy is part of the “Two Hours Before Noon” exhibit at Café de Mesilla.
• “Two Hours before Noon” an exhibit of oils, acrylics, watercolors, pastels and more all by the 10 O’clock Artists opens Aug. 10 at Café de Mesilla in Mesilla Park and will be up through September. An artist’s reception/ coffee is from 10 a.m. to noon on Saturday, Aug. 11. Info: 828-4679060. • Rokoko Art Gallery, 1785
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“Waiting for Godot,” is part of “PEEPSHOW” at Rokoko in Mesilla.
Avenida de Mercado, in Las Cruces, opens “PEEPSHOW” by artist Diane Alire. The show consists of collage, photogravure and fhonies and begins Aug. 11 to run through Sept. 29. A reception will be held 4-7 p.m. on Saturday, Aug. 11. Gallery hours: noon-5 p.m. Saturdays and by appointment. Info: 575-522-5553. • The Mesilla Valley Fine Arts Gallery, 2470-A Calle de Guadalupe across from the historic The woodwork Fountain Theof Richard ater, features Spellenberg two artists, is on display Hetty Smith at the Mesilla and Richard Valley Fine S p e l l e nberg Arts Gallery. for the month of August and welcomes its newest member Kerry O’Neill. Smith was inspired by the decorative stained-glass windows found in many homes and churches in Europe. Spellenberg is a retired botanist who studied plant diversity, and he continues this interest as he uses many kinds of woods. Each of his pieces includes a description of the species of tree that provided the wood, and its
source. O’Neill is the newest gallery member. As a lifelong fiber artist, she creates pottery using a variety of materials including hemp and wool combined with textures and glaze combinations to make appealing ceramics for collectors. Hours: 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily. Info: 575-522-2933, www.mesillavalleyfinearts.com. • Las Cruces Arts Association has moved to a new location, 326 S. Mesquite St., next to Nopalito Restaurant. Two gallery rooms allow exhibits for members’ artwork, as well as use of the patio. Exhibits will be held monthly. New displays will open during the First Friday Art Ramble events each month. Gallery hours: 5 to 8 p.m. during the art ramble and noon to 2 p.m. Saturday and Sunday. Info: 575-5240003 (Nopalito Restaurant) or 575-532-1046 (LCAA). • “Dressed for the Occasion,” an exhibit at the New Mexico Farm & Ranch Heritage Museum, 4100 Dripping Springs Road, runs through March 3, 2019 in the museum’s Legacy Gallery. Learn about women’s clothing from the pioneer days of the 1870s to the Depression Era of the 1930s. Hours: 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday through Saturday and noon to 5 p.m. Sunday. Info: 575-522-4100, www. nmfarmandranchmuseum.org. • Also at the New Mexico Farm & Ranch Heritage Museum, 4100 Dripping Springs Road, “Jacob Pfeiffer: My Long Journey” is on display in the Museum’s Arts Corridor from Aug.
17 through Dec. 2. Pfeiffer’s long journey covers 80-plus years and two continents. Pfeiffer says his work has evolved “Reading the over the years, depending on the Tracks” by Jacob Pfeiffer subject matter. He is at the New has received dozMexico Farm ens of awards and & Ranch his work has been Heritage displayed in galMuseum art’s corridor leries all over the country. Samples display. of his work can be found at www.jacobpfeiffer.com. The opening reception for the exhibit is from 5-7 p.m. on Aug. 16. The reception is free and includes refreshments.
Jenny Morgan’s work, including “Shadow Play,” is featured through Sept. 21 at the New Mexico State University Art Gallery.
• Thirty-four paintings and one video from artist Jenny Morgan will fill the New Mexico State University Art Gallery from July 26 through Sept. 21. “A Higher Ground, a mid-career survey exhibition” by Morgan tracks the development of the artist’s work for more than 10 years. The University Art Gallery is located at 1390 E. University Avenue. All events are free and open to the public
Donna Schwendinger’s Blue Gecko Southwest serves as an example of how to make crafting profitable for the Mesilla Velley Artisan/Crafters Guild. (Courtesy Photo)
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Mesilla Valley Artisan/ Crafters Guild Bringing profit to the craft business
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he purpose of the Mesilla Valley Artisan/Crafters Guild is to help individuals who create handcrafted items learn how to turn their hobby into a business with an eventual revenue stream. The group helps identify strategies, resources, opportunities and best practices for marketing their work as a supportive community. Anyone with a passion for crafting is welcome to join and visit monthly meetings. Beginning crafters as well as those who actively sell their work at craft shows and farmers’ markets are encouraged to attend. The next meeting is from 10 a.m. to noon Aug. 15 at Cruces Creatives Makerspace, 205 East Lohman Ave., in Las Cruces. Donna Schwendinger, founder of Blue Gecko Southwest, will serve as the group leader. Her topic is “How to Transform a Hobby into a Business.” She presents a logical, step-by-
step process. Participants will receive handouts and relevant materials, so they are empowered with knowledge concerning the necessary steps of starting a small business. Following Donna’s presentation, there will be a question and answer open forum. Future topics for our monthly meetings include: • Branding your product line for instant name recognition • Booth Setup and Visual Presentation for Enhanced Sales • Art Shows & Farmers’ Markets: Deadlines & Guidelines • Social Media Marketing Tips for Artisans and Crafters • Your Hobby into a Business: What specific tools are needed? • Etsy – How to Plan an Online Sales Strategy. For additional information, contact Donna Schwendinger at bluegeckosw@msn.com or 915-269-4736.
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Chiricahua Gallery, 5 Pine St., 5572225. Open daily except Wednesday, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Gallery Guide Road, 534-8671. Open 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday to Saturday. www. bluedomegallery. com. The Cliffs Studio & Gallery, 205 N. Lyon St., corner of Yankie and Lyon streets, 520-622- 0251. By appointment. Common Ground, 102 W. Kelly, 534-2087. Hours are 3-8 p.m. Thursday through Monday or by prior arrangement. Cow Trail Art Studio, 119 Cow Trail in Arenas Valley, 12-3 p.m. Monday, or by appointment, 706-533- 1897, www. victoriachick.com. Creative Hands Roadside Attraction Art Gallery, 106 W Yankie, Silver City. 303-916-5045 Hours are 10:30 a.m.5:30 p.m. Wednesday to Saturday, and 11 a.m.-4 p.m. Sunday. By
appointment at other times. Elemental Artisans, by appointment only, 215-593-6738. Silver City Finn’s Gallery, 300 N. Arizona St., 406Alaska Mudhead Studio-Gallery, 371 790-0573 Camino de Viento in Wind Canyon. Francis McCray Gallery, 1000 College By appointment, Letha Cress Woolf, Ave., WNMU, 538-6517. 10 a.m.-3 potter, 907-783-2780. p.m. Monday to Friday. Anthony Howell Studio, 200 W. Market The Glasserie Studio and Store, 106 St. 574-2827. By appointment only. E. College Ave., 590-0044. 11 a.m.-6 [a]SP.“A”©E, 110 W. Seventh St., 538p.m. Monday to Saturday. 3333, aspace.studiogallery@ gmail. Guadalupe’s, 505 N. Bullard, 535- 2624. com. Thursday to Saturday, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Barbara Nance Gallery & Stonewalker Leyba & Ingalls Arts, 315 N. Bullard St., Studio, 105 Country Road, 534-0530. 388-5725. 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Monday to By appointment. Stone, steel, wood Saturday. Contemporary art ranging and paint. Sculpture path. www. from realism to abstraction in a variety barbaraNanceArt.com. of media. www.LeybaIngallsARTS. Blue Dome Gallery, 307 N. Texas, com, LeybaIngallsART@zianet.com. second location at 60 Bear Mountain Lloyd Studios, 306 W. Broadway St. 590-1110. Sculpture, custom knives and swords. 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Locally Raised Wednesday to Saturday and 10 a.m.GRASS-FED & GRASS-FINISHED GROUND BEEF 2 p.m. Sunday. Lois Duffy Art Studio, 211C N. Texas, Fill your freezer Special! 534-0822. 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Saturday $6.49/lb. while supplies last or by appointment. Original paintings, Available at: cards and prints. www.loisduffy. com, Toucan Market, Las Cruces; Bullock’s, T or C; loisduffy@ signalpeak.net. Lumiere Editions, 104 N. Texas St., Mario’s Market, Ruidoso; Nature’s Pantry, Alamogordo; 956-6369. Vintage and contemporary Knowledgeable Consultation Gardens El Rey Meat Market, Deming; Silver City Food Basket & for Thriving photography. Monday to Friday. Bayard Food Basket; Saucedo’s Super Market, Lordsburg; Support Polinator Firendly Gardens.The Makery, 206 N. Bullard St. 5901263. Freestyle weaving studio and The Weed Store, Weed; Smokey’s Country Market, Capitan school of fiber, book and paper arts, Buy Pesticide Free plants Village Market, Hatch; Proverbs Farm & Dairy, Hurley — Go Native! 11 a.m.- 4 p.m. Thursday to Monday, www.makerysvc.com. Manzanita Ridge, 107 N. Bullard St. 388-1158. Mariah’s Copper Quail Gallery, 211-A Texas St., corner of Yankie and Texas streets, 388-2646. Fine arts and crafts. Support Pollinator Friendly Gardens Mimbres Regional Arts Council Gallery, Wells Fargo Bank Bldg., Buy pesticide free plants — Go Native! 1201 N. Pope St. 538-2505, 9 a.m.Knowledgeable Consultation for thriving gardens 4 p.m. Tuesday to Sunday www. mimbresarts.org. Buy from Local Growers • Molly Ramolla Gallery & Framing, 203 N. Bullard, 538- 5538. www. See us at the Saturday Silver City Downtown Farmers Market. ramollaart.com. www.lonemountainnatives.com lonemtn@q.com Ol’ West Gallery & Mercantile, 104 W. Broadway, 388-1811/313-2595, 8:30 -10 a.m. Monday to Friday. The Place at the Palace, at 201 N. Bullard St. 575-388-1368. Seedboat Gallery, 214 W. Yankie St., 534- 1136. 11 a.m.-5 p.m. "Something for Every Audience" Wednesday to Saturday or by Presents appointment. info@ seedboatgallery. com. Soul River Gallery, 400 N. Bullard St. 303-888-1358; 10 a.m.-3 p.m. Monday and Wednesday and 10 a.m.5:30 p.m. Thursday to Saturday. by Artist Studio Behind the Mountain, 23 Wagon Wheel Lane, 388- 3277. By appointment. www. jimpalmerbronze. Show Dates: August 1st-31st com. Reception: Saturday, August 11th, 3-6pm "Dance Form" Studio Upstairs, 109 N. Bullard St., 5742493. By appointment. Special room rates at the Murry Hotel • 200 W. Broadway in Downtown Syzgy Tile Gallery, 106 N. Bullard St., Silver City, NM For Friday August 10th & Sataturday August 11th 388-5472. Request the “Wild About Sculpture” Rates! Tatiana Maria Gallery, 305 N. Bullard St. 388-4426. On the corner of Texas and Yankie • Mariah's Copper Quail Gallery • 575-388-2646
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Tree Spirit Gallery, on-line only at www. cogan-cogan.com. 303-888-1358. 21 Latigo Trail, 941-387-8589. Sculpture by Barbara Harrison. By appointment only. Wild West Weaving, 211-D N. Texas, 313-1032, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday to Saturday, www. wildwestweaving. com. Wind Canyon Studio, 11 Quail Run Road off Hwy. 180, mile marker 107, 574- 2308, 619-933-8034. Louise Sackett, 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Monday and Wednesday and by appointment. Wynnegate Gallery, 1105 W. Market Street, 575-534-9717, noon – 4 p.m. Saturday and Sunday, also open for Red Dot Tour, artist showings and by appointment. Yada Tada Yarn, 621 N. Bullard St. 388-3350. Zoe’s Studio/Gallery, 305 N. Cooper St., 654-4910. By chance or appointment. Pinos Altos Pinos Altos Art Gallery-Hearst Church Gallery, 14 Golden Ave. Pinos Altos, 574-2831. Open late-April to early October. 10 a.m.-5 p.m., Friday, Saturday, Sunday and holidays,. Mimbres Chamomile Connection, 3918 U.S. Highway 35, 536-9845. Lynnae McConaha. By appointment. Kate Brown Pottery and Tile, HC 15 Box 1335, San Lorenzo, 5369935, katebrown@gilanet.com, www.katebrownpottery.com. By appointment. Bayard Kathryn Allen Clay Studio, 601 Erie St., 537-3332. By appointment. Northern Grant County Casitas de Gila, 50 Casita Flats Road, Gila, 535-4455. By appointment. gallery@ casitasdegila. com, www. galleryatthecasitas.com. Deming Deming Arts Center, 100 S. Gold St., 546-3663. Tuesday to Saturday 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Gold Street Gallery, 112-116 S. Gold St., 546-8200. Open noon-4 p.m. Monday to Saturday. Orona Art Studio, 546-4650. By appointment. lyntheoilpainter@ gmail. com, www.lynorona.com. Reader’s Cove Used Books & Gallery, 200 S. Copper, 544-2512. Monday to Saturday 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Photography by Daniel Gauss. Studio LeMarbe, 4025 Chaparral SE, 544-7708. By appointment. Columbus Village of Columbus Library, 112 Broadway, 531-2612, 8 a.m.-7 p.m. Monday to Saturday. Rodeo
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Hillsboro Barbara Massengill Gallery, 895-3377, open weekends and by appointment. Mesilla Doña Ana Arts Council Arts and Cultural Center, 1740 Calle de Mercado, Suites B and D, 523-6403, 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday to Friday. Galeri Azul, Old Mesilla Plaza, 5238783. Monday to Saturday, 10 a.m.-6 p.m., Sunday, 11 a.m.-6 p.m. Galeria on the Plaza, 2310 Calle de Principal, 526-9771. Daily 10 am.-6 p.m. Mesilla Valley Fine Arts Gallery, 2470 Calle de Guadalupe, 522- 2933. Daily 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Ouida Touchön Studio, 2615 Calle de Guadalupe, 635-7899. By appointment. ouida@ouidatouchon. com, www.ouidatouchon. com. The Potteries, 2260 Calle de Santiago, 524-0538, 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Tuesday to Saturday; noon to 5 p.m. Sunday. Rokoko, 1785 Avenida de Mercado, 405-8877. Las Cruces Big Picture Gallery, 2001 Lohman Ave, Suite 109, 647-0508. 10 a.m.-5 p.m., Tuesday to Friday. 9:30 a.m.-1 p.m. Saturday. Blue Gate Gallery, 4901 Chagar (intersection of Valley Drive and Taylor Road, open by appointment, 523-2950. Camino Real Book Store and Art Gallery, 314 South Tornillo St. 5233988. Thursday to Sunday, 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Cottonwood Gallery, 275 N. Downtown Mall (Southwest Environmental Center), 522-5552. Monday to Friday, 9 a.m.-6 p.m. Cutter Gallery, 2640 El Paseo, 5410658. 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Tuesday to Friday, 10 a.m.-3 p.m. Saturday. Justus Wright Galeria, 266 W. Court Ave., 526-6101, jud@ delvalleprintinglc.com. 8:30 a.m.-5:30 p.m. Monday to Friday. Las Cruces Arts Association, Community Enterprise Center Building, 125 N. Main St. www. lacrucesarts.org. Las Cruces Museum of Art, 491 N. Main St., 541-2137. 10 a.m.-4:30 p.m., Tuesday to Friday; 9 a.m.-4:30 p.m. Saturday. Mesquite Art Gallery, 340 N. Mesquite St., 640-3502. 11 a.m.-5 p.m., Thursday to Friday; 2-5 p.m. Saturday. M. Phillip’s Fine Art Gallery, 221 N. Main St., 525-1367. New Dimension Art Works, 615 E. Piñon, 373-0043. By Appointment. NMSU University Art Gallery, Williams Hall, University Ave. east of Solano, 646-2545, 8 a.m.-4 p.m. Tuesday to Sunday. Nopalito’s Galeria, 326 S. Mesquite, 8 a.m.-8:30 p.m. Friday to Sunday. Quillin Stephens Gallery, behind downtown Coas Books, 312-1064. By appointment only. Tombaugh Gallery, Unitarian Universalist Church, 2000 S. Solano, 522-7281. Wednesday to Friday 10 a.m.-2 p.m. or by appointment. Unsettled Gallery & Studio, 905 N. Mesquite, 635-2285, noon-5 p.m. Wednesday; 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Thursday to Friday; 10 a.m.- 4 p.m. Saturday, and by appointment. Virginia Maria Romero Studio, 4636 Maxim Court, 644-0214. By appointment, agzromero@zianet.com, virginiamariaromero.com. Ruidoso Art Ruidoso Gallery, 808-1133, artruidoso.com, 615 Sudderth Drive, Ruidoso, 11a.m.-5 p.m., ThursdaySunday. The Adobe, 2905 Sudderth Drive, 2575795, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday through Saturday. DJ’s Jewelry, 618 Carrizo Canyon Road, 630-1514, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday through Saturday. Specializing in turquoise, Native American traditional, New Mexican contemporary and estate jewelry. Earth-N-Stone, 2117 Sudderth Drive, Suite 14, 257-2768, 808-1157. Gazebo Potters, 2117 Sudderth Drive No. 7, 808-1157. Pottery classes, workshops, wheel time, kiln firing and works by local potters. Josie’s Framery, 2917 Sudderth Drive, 257-4156. Framing, gallery representing regional artists and
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Calling artists, filmmakers, vendors • Borderlands Film Festival, a multi-city celebration bringing the best in independent films from around the world, is calling for submissions which are currently being taken through Film Freeway for the six-day event in southern New Mexico, Oct. 2-7. Festival organizers also looking for sponsors and volunteers to help bring the dream to life. For more information visit www. BorderlandsFilmFestival.org. To discover more, call 575-4089026 or send an email to info@ BorderlandsFilmFestival.org.
• The Silver City Art Association invites southwest New Mexico artists to enter the Dias de los Muertos Poster Contest and exhibit. There is no entry fee and the winning entry will be awarded bragging rights and a $100 gift certificate to Leyba and Ingalls Arts. A juried exhibit at the Murray Ryan Visitor Center in Silver City will run from Oct. 22 to Nov. 4 and will feature the winning entry along with other selected entries. The winning art will also be featured in flyers, posters and advertising for
the annual Dia de los Muertos events taking place in Silver City. Email photos of entries to rebecca@visitsilvercity.org by Aug. 15. All media are welcome to enter and all sizes of work will be considered. For hanging pieces, artwork must be ready to hang, piece must be framed and wired for hanging. Artists must provide necessary items to exhibit free-standing pieces. Instructions to those entering will be sent by email regarding delivery and pickup dates of their artwork. Artists may enter up to three pieces and include
up to three pictures of each piece. Include your name and telephone number along with description, dimensions and display requirements for each piece submitted. Artists will be notified as to the status of their pieces by Aug. 22. Contact Diana Ingalls Leyba at 575388-5725 or leybaingallsarts@ questoffice.net for more information. • Rokoko Art Gallery in Las Cruces seeks artwork for a group show in the theme of “Dia de los Muertos.” All media will be accepted. The entry fee
is $15 per piece and due on Oct. 6. For more information contact Mitch and A.me Alamag at Rokoko Art Gallery, 1785 Avenida de Mercado, in Las Cruces or by calling 575-522-5553 or by visiting rokoko@rokokoart.com. • The MERC, a fine art and gift shop co-operative, 316 Granado St. in Tularosa, is seeking new artists. There are two levels of participation with varying levels of commitment and obligation. Interested artists can email founder Darryl Willison at greatrepnm@gmail. com.
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continued from page 12 photographers. LongCoat Fine Art, 2801 Sudderth Drive, Suite D., 257-9102, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday through Saturday Contemporary Masters and historical works of art. Mountain Arts, 2530 Sudderth Drive, 257-9748, www.mountainartsgallery. com, 10 a.m.-6 p.m. daily. Tanner Tradition, 624 Sudderth Drive., 257-8675. Monday through Saturday, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Quality Native American art and jewelry. Thunder Horse Gallery, 200 Mechem Drive, Suite 1, 257-3989. info@ thunderhorsegallery.com, 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Tuesday to Saturday. Bronze sculpture by Rory Combs, Sarinova glass and fine art. The White Dove, 2825 Sudderth Drive, No. A, 575-257-6609, 9:30 a.m-4 p.m. daily, Authentic Native American jewelry and artifacts. Kenneth Wyatt Galleries of Ruidoso, 2205 Sudderth Drive, 257-1529, www.kennethwyatt.com. Fine art by the Wyatt family.
Photography, 401 12th St. in Carrizozo, 575-937-1489, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Thursday to Monday; noon to 5 p.m. on Sundays. Exclusive exhibit venue for the winners of New Mexico Magazine’s photography contest and the largest photo gallery in the state.
70, 937-0873, 937-1822, www. pinonpottery.com. Pottery by Vicki Conley and other area artists, fine art by Anita Keegan and Virgil Stephens. Alamogordo Creative Designs Custom Framing & Gallery, 575-434-4420, 917 New York Ave. Patron’s Hall/Flickinger Center for Performing Arts, 575-434-2202, 1110 New York Ave. Tularosa Horse Feathers, 318 Granado St. 575585-4407. Art, southwest furniture and decor. The Merc, 316 Granado St. 505- 2386469. Art gifts by regional artists, books. Capitan Heart of the Raven, 415 12th St., 937-7459, Functional and decorative pottery, classes. Carrizozo Malkerson Gallery 408, 408 12th St. in Carrizozo, 575-648-2598. Tularosa Basin Gallery of
Ruidoso Downs Pinon Pottery, MM. 26465 U.S. Hwy.
Lincoln Old Lincoln Gallery, 1068 Calle la Placita, across from the visitor’s center in Lincoln, 653- 4045. Coffee bar featuring 45 New Mexico artists, 10 a.m.-4:30 p.m. Tuesday-Saturday San Patricio Hurd La Rinconada, NM 281 U.S. Hwy. 70, 653-4331, www. wyethartists. com. Monday through Saturday 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Works by Peter Hurd, Henriette Wyeth, Andrew Wyeth, N.C. Wyeth and resident artist, Michael Hurd. White Oaks White Oaks Pottery, 445 Jicarilla Drive (three miles past White Oaks), 6482985. Daily, 10 a.m-5 p.m. Porcelain pottery by Ivy Heymann.
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enuous State” reflects on many of the major issues facing higher education today, but it is not an educational tome. It’s an action/adventure story about a young green dean, with a tumultuous love life, who finds himself engaged in a battle to save the historic, Southwestern, half-Hispanic university where he is employed. “Tenuous State” is the ninth book and third novel written by Bill Charland, a retired educator who held a variety of higher education posts between 1961 when he was a graduate student, and 2011, when he retired from a position heading the honors program at Western New Mexico University. “From my long-range perspective, it seems the profes-
sion of higher education has undergone a sea change from a world where colleges were called upon to maintain a stable social order to an environment of survival with no holds barred,” Charland said. Charland’s books include “Life Work, a Career Guide for Idealists” and “The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Changing Careers.” He was a nationally distributed columnist on careers when he wrote for The Rocky Mountain News in Denver, and he has written extensively for “The Christian Science Monitor.” “Tenuous State “touches on issues ranging from the boredom of teaching the same class for years on end, low graduation rates at many small universities, and how some state legislatures
are insisting on paying for the number of students who graduate from a class rather than for the number who enroll or how much they actually learn. “Well, there’s Michigan State, and Arizona State and there’s the tenuous state in which some small universities operate today,” Charland explained about the title of his book. Love, romance and suspense are involved in this tale that will hold your interest at the same time it gives you an insider’s look at higher education today. Charland has given several readings of “Tenuous State” and discussions of higher education issues around Silver City this summer. Another one is scheduled for the Silver City Public Library at 3:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Aug. 7.
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Blending Process, Movement
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ames Kane is a Silver City sculptor who works primarily in bronze and wood. He is the featured artist at Mariah’s Copper Quail Gallery located at 211A North Texas Street in the Silver City Art District during August. “Over many years my work has really advanced in just a few directions,” Kane said in a statement. “Since the 1970s, I have worked toward using volumetric extensions of ideographic (idea-pictures) forms as the basis for many of my sculptures. The four most basic forms – the cross, circle, wave and square – can be used singularly or combined (as in the swastika, yin/ yang and Zia).” Kane said for the same amount of time he has been working with geometric Forms. “Both of these groups of forms are the foundation of much of my
work,” he said. The “Earth Goddesses” are created using the round/oval receptive (female) shapes with the elongated necks and vertical stance, both generative (male), along with the waviness in the hair (process) “encompassing totality.” The fish in both carved wood and bronze have the wave built in to blend process and movement. “My most recent bronze works continue to use geometric forms: the dodecahedron (12 pentagonal sides), the icosidodecahedron (20 triangular and 12 pentagonal sides), and the vector-equilibrium (6 square and 8 triangular sides),” Kane said. “But these … are more of a framework upon which the subject resides.” The artist’s reception will be from 3 to 6 p.m. on Saturday, Aug. 11. The sculptures in the photo-
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Good Day for Carrizozo
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he Fourth Annual Carrizozo Arts Festival and Artist Studio Tour will be held Aug. 18 and 19 in Carrizozo. Located at the intersection of highways 54 and 380, Carrizozo is the county seat of Lincoln County. It is a community rich in railroad and architectural history, ranching and, most recently, a growing artist colony. The festival was organized to showcase the town, its eclectic mix of residents and the surrounding beauty of south-central New Mexico. The Arts Festival is scheduled for Saturday, Aug. 18 only. It is an all-day event starting with registration for the double elimination horseshoe tournament at 8 a.m.
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There is a $20 fee for a two-member team. Prizes for the top three finishers split the pot Other special events include a performance by the Saint Francis de Paula Folklorico dancers from Tularosa, live music from local bands Paul Pino and the Tone Daddies and La Ultima as well as out-of-town performers and an evening street dance. Ongoing events include the No Scum Allowed Beer Garden, food trucks, arts and crafts booths and a Kids’ Fun Zone. The Carrizozo Library and Bookstore will be open as will 12th Street art galleries. An artist studio and historical homes walking and trolley tours will take place both Saturday and Sunday. There are 24 artists at 12 sites this year. All sites are within easy driving range. Among the media featured are pottery, woven copper, glass, tile, painting, batik, jewelry, repurposed wood and steel, fiber and graphic novels. Leroy Lopez will again open his town installation of vintage cars
and buildings filled with antiques and vestiges of the ranching and farming lives that once defined the area. The artist studio tour, including Lopez’s town, will take place 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. both days.
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nado, but you see the desert equivalent - a dust devil - almost daily. • When it rains, your whole office staff ooohs and aaahs, steps outside and gets wet, just to make sure that the wet stuff from the sky really does exist. • Driving 70 miles for a dinner, a movie, to play golf, or to see friends and family is like going just around the corner. • You don’t bat an eye when it rains dust. • You start every restaurant meal with 40 chips and a pint of salsa. • You start every home-cooked meal with 40 chips and a pint of salsa. • You consider pecans and pistachios their own food groups. • The biggest lake (Elephant Butte Reservoir), the biggest river (Rio Grande) and the biggest beach (White Sands National Monument) are all essentially water-free. • At your local grocery store, there is as much Bud Light as all other beers combined. • You know Brian Urlacher’s hometown. • You know when the mileage sign on Interstate 10 says, “El Paso 8, Beaumont 862,” that’s just Texas showing off. • Every potluck dinner has 17 different green chile casseroles. • You can drive from Deming to the El Paso airport in less time than it takes a Southern Californian to drive 15 miles to LAX. • You know the New Mexico State University Aggie fight song has the line “We’ll win the game or know the reason why,” but you still don’t know what the heck that means. How do you know you’re a southern New Mexican? Send your responses to richard@ lascruces bulletin.com and I’ll do a follow-up.
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really Central. • You’ve heard that Auto Zone’s national sales report says that SNM has the lowest per capita sales of replacement turn-signal bulbs in the country. Apparently, if you never use them, they don’t burn out. • You have conversations with equal amounts of Spanish and English words. • You know that, yes, we are part of the USA. It even says so on our license plates, in case anyone forgets. • You’ve seen a bumper sticker that reads: “Carpe diem mañana.” • If you run out of green chiles in July, you have to eat out for a whole month until roasting season starts. • Either on foot, or in your car, you have chased a food truck. • You have been ticketed in Mesilla for going two miles over the speed limit. • Snow starts to fall and you race home. Meanwhile, the state basically shuts down for three days. • Your biggest natural disaster concern is a drought wiping out all the green chile. • When people ask you about your favorite restaurants, you recommend different ones based on different menu items. “Well, for red enchiladas, you go here. For chile verde, you go here. For tacos, you go here. And for chile rellenos, you go to Chope’s.” • You’ve stopped asking whether red or green is hotter. • You have to go through a border checkpoint to get from one town to the next. • Even your sushi has green chile in it. (Some restaurants offer a Mexico roll: Red tuna, white cream cheese and green chile form the Mexican flag.) • You’ve been called from a friend out of state or country for a green chile hookup. • You have stayed home from an event due to horizontally blowing dust. • You may have never seen a tor-
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Make a Movie in 48 Hours Film festival sponsors short film contest
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he Borderlands Film Festival is an international collaboration celebrating women in film for its inaugural 2018 event which includes multiple independent film screenings across Southern New Mexico, West Texas and Mexico. “Bring the Borderlands Together” begins with Las Cruces Aug. 26. All films entered in the Borderland Film Festival’s 48 Hour Film Contest will be highlighted on the big screen for the public at the historic Rio Grande Theatre, 211 N. Main St. Beer, wine, spirits and snacks will be available. The top three films will also be screened in October during the official Borderlands Film Festival 2018. Aug. 31 is the international premier of El Rey Network’s celebrated film, “Monday” in Juarez, Mexico. Along with the showing in Juarez and at El Paso’s Alamo Draft House of the award-winning independent films “Lo Fi” and “Doc.” Discounted tickets for the Borderland Film Festival will be sold at all screenings. The goal of Borderlands Film Festival is to connect filmmakers to beautiful locations and celebrate cultures long established and founded in love and tradition, according to a release from organizers. For information visit www.BorderlandsFilmFestival.org or call 575-4089026 or email info@BorderlandsFilmFestival.org.
48 Hour Film Contest What is the 48 Hour Film Project? All creativity – writing, shooting, editing and adding a musical soundtrack – must occur in a 48-hour window beginning Friday, Aug. 24 at 4 p.m. and ending Sunday, Aug. 26 at 4 p.m. That same Sunday, the completed films are screened. How much does it cost? The registration fee of $15 is for the entire team and the screening is free and open to the public. What are the films about? That’s up to the filmmaker; however, each team will be given the genre for its movie at the start of the competition. In addition, teams are given a character, a prop and a line of dialogue that must appear in their film. Who are the filmmakers? The 48 Hour Film Contest is open to all filmmakers, pro and novice alike. Rules state that all team members (crew and cast) must be volunteers.
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Art and Wine in the Pines Escaping the heat in Cloudcroft
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rt & Wine in the Cool Pines is a two-day festival celebrating New Mexico wine and art on Aug. 3 and 4. “As summertime temperatures across the region are soaring, we invite everyone to take a drive up to Cloudcroft and explore our mountain forest areas, while enjoying New Mexico wines, listening to live music, and enjoying great food,” said Tabitha Davis, President of the Cloudcroft Chamber of Commerce. “For those looking to add a great summer adventure to their schedule, Art & Wine in the Cool Pines is the perfect trip, and
you’ll be sure to make many lasting memories and enjoy a relaxing weekend getaway.” In addition to sampling wines from across the state of New Mexico, wine will be available for purchase, and the festival will include live music, food vendors, and custom event wine glasses. Set in the scenic and refreshing mountain forests of Cloudcroft, the event allows for attendees to get back to nature and take in the historical outdoor surroundings. Tickets are $10 for nondrinkers and those under the age of 21 and $15 for general admission, which
includes a commemorative glass. “For all attending Art & Wine in the Pines, we encourage you to make a weekend out of it, and explore all that Cloudcroft has to offer,” Davis said. “Outdoor lovers, nature lovers, history buffs, and those who want to unwind will find a wide variety of activities to suit their vacation needs.” For more information or to purchase tickets, visit coolcloudcroft. com/art-wine-in-the-pines/. For more information on all there is to see and do in Cloudcroft or to plan your visit, go to coolcloudcroft. com.
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Soto, son detained, in fear of death
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ournalist Emilio Gutierrez Soto and his 24-year-old son, Oscar, have been behind bars in an El Paso detention center for several months at the time of this writing. A judge has announced that there will be a hearing on Aug. 1 to decide if their First Amendment rights are being violated. In December, Emilio’s asylum case made it to court, after a decade of waiting. The judge ruled against him, to his desolation. He and his son were being driven in
a van toward the Mexican border when his lawyer, Eduardo Beckett, managed to arrange for a stay of their removal order at the last minute. They have since been kept in cramped cells in El Paso for more than six months. It may sound a little exaggerated, but Emilio thinks he will be killed immediately if he returns. Reporters without Borders says Mexico is the most dangerous country for journalists, and six journalists have been killed so far this year.
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There were street demonstrations in El Paso to protest the verdict, and currently Emilio gets visits from friends once a week. But he’s deeply frustrated. Emilio is from Ascension, Chihuahua, who fled Mexico in 2008 after writing about a few robberies and extortions committed by Mexican soldiers. He was first threatened by a Mexican general and a colonel, then his home was invaded by soldiers looking for some evidence that would incriminate him. Then a friend came to him crying and saying she’d overheard soldiers at a party saying they were planning to kill him. He left with Oscar in the middle of the night and crossed the border into the United States at the Antelope Wells Port of Entry and requested asylum. It was the closest, safest place he could have gone to save the life of both. Emilio and Oscar spent a few months in a detention center in El Paso at the beginning. When Emilio was freed, he started talking about his experiences to various news sources, including the New York Times, the Washington Post and Mother Jones. He spoke to local people at house talks at private homes, too, one of which I was involved with in Deming. It’s hard to imagine anyone there at the meeting who didn’t respect his artlessness, ide-
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alism, sense of humor and passion for the issues. After talking to a lot of individuals and reporters, he finally decided that he’d had enough of reliving his terror. “I want peace!” he told me at his house near the New Mexico State University campus where I went to talk to him once. What he did for peace was to create a Mexican food truck to support him and his son for about nine years. While he in this humble job, he was given an award from the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. — the John Aubuchon Press Freedom Award in the name of all Mexican journalists. He has been offered the prestigious Knight Wallace fellowship at the University of Michigan, and he is supported in his quest for asylum by 20 professional press organizations and human rights groups. Another journalist who fled Mexico to the El Paso area is 26-yearold Martin Mendez Pineda, who wrote for “Novedades Acapulco,” in Acapulco, Guerrero. This young man with a sunny smile wrote letters to his immigration lawyer Carlos Spector in the spring of last year detailing the grueling conditions he endured in detention. What he reports so articulately is akin to torture. Mendez said he was put in chains around his body at times, which made him cry. For a while he was at the notorious Sierra Blanca detention center where there was a room for sick people so extremely cold that inmates wouldn’t tell anybody when they were sick. He was once driven from El Paso to Milan, New Mexico (near Grants) in a 26hour trip with no food or water. He said the guards drove around in circles just to make the trip longer and harder to bear. Human rights reports from El Paso document that immigrant detention center officials are con-
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sciously making life as uncomfortable as possible for inmates so they’ll accept voluntary departure and go back to their home country. The people I’ve mentioned have suffered violence and terrifying threats, and are journalists, not drug dealers. They’re sometimes considered the pillars of democracy or the lungs of a free society. They’re people used to being treated with respect. With Mendez Pineda, their tough treatment worked. Partly because of health problems he went back to some unfamiliar state in Mexico to take an inconspicuous job for a while and hope he will be forgotten someday by the state police in Acapulco who beat him up. On Saturday, July 1 in Columbus, New Mexico, a demonstration that protested immigration rights abuses was thrown together in a couple of days. About 80 people from the region showed up, an impressive number of people for the time frame involved. There was a special spirit at this event because the issue of the separation of children from their parents was deeply felt. The extreme carelessness in the registration and documentation of the kids made them seem almost like cattle being herded. At the march, there were heartfelt, hand-written signs: “Give back our crying babies.” “People who cage kids are animals, not the immigrants.” “Now you’re pissed off, Grandma.” “Empathy, mercy, generosity.” The protesters stood for maybe half an hour lined up near the port of entry to Mexico. I don’t think I was imagining this; I felt there was a special resonance to the phrases yelled there. One long line of people can give a good, stiff shout. In the middle of this I talked a
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TUMBLEWEEDS • JEFF BERG
Book Research
Looking at local movie history
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ne might say that the research on my new book, “Historic Movie Theatres of New Mexico,” began when I was in grade school. In the book, I write about my first movie theater experience, at the Catlow Theater in Barrington, Illinois, where I grew up. My recollection is very clear on my first visit to the theater, which remains open to this day. I went with a school friend and his grumpy older sister to see a Jerry Lewis picture, although I do not recall the title. In fact, I was more enthralled by the theater than the movie, as it was rich in architecture and mood, which became more extant since I had to sit in the aisle of the oversold theater, this being before stricter fire-code days. For many years, until I was about 20, I was a regular where I watched, on occasion, the time on the clock by the left side faux balcony box. The clock was outlined in cool blue neon. During high school, my friends and I would take the train to downtown Chicago for something fresh to do and on occasion it would include a trip to one of the stately theaters that existed (some still do) in the “Loop” of the big city. I remember going to the Chicago, which had several thousand seats. The State Lake, Oriental and the small Loop Theater did booming business back in the day. The McVicker’s, which for a while during the process’ heyday, showed Cinerama which requires three projectors and a rather large screen. In a way, it made you feel like you were there in the movies such as in the 1965 release, “Battle of the Bulge,” which my wonderful grandmother took me to see. I couldn’t even tell you how many theaters I have been to over the years, both in the U.S. and Canada and even in Paris. My first movie theatre visit in New Mexico was in Artesia, where I briefly attended the long-deceased College of Artesia. The Land of the Sun Theatre was a convenient getaway, since I wasn’t studying anyway, and they played a lot of flicks I wanted to see – in particular, “spaghetti” westerns. It was a bland ordinary place, but it was also the first theater I had been that sold dill pickles. I did not indulge. I went for movies, not grub. When my publisher, Arcadia Press, approached me about doing this book, after seeing reasonable success with the 2015 release of my first book, the poorly titled “New Mexico Filmmaking” (which is a
At Circle Autoscope in Albuquerque each car had its own screen. (Photo courtesy cinematreasures.com)
Newspaper ad for the Tesuque Drive in Albuquerque, 1955. The theater expanded in the 1960s to accommodate more than 800 cars and had seats for 100 walk-in patrons. (Photo courtesy cinematreasures.com)
history of movies made in the land of entrapment), I jumped on the opportunity. Researching the book was made somewhat easier by a website called “Cinema Treasures” and even more so by historical society’s in certain towns, aging historians, a scattering of individuals with photographic skills, and especially old newspapers. My exploration started with the Fountain Theatre in Mesilla, still the oldest operating theatre in the state and one at which I was a volunteer and board member for some years before moving to Santa Fe in 2012. The building itself is a treasure-adobe, muraled and com-
fortable, not to mention that the Mesilla Valley Film Society offers a wealth of films that are not usually shown in 150 miles in any direction. As my research expanded, I was surprised at the number of theaters that have existed in the state – more than 200. I was also surprised by fire destruction, the early takeover by some of the first theater corporations, and that so many towns had movie palaces at one time or another. Silent film presentations in New Mexico were plentiful in all communities, including places that don’t exist anymore such as Dawson and the nearly non-existent Conchas Dam, population 186, which had a 700-seat theater during the construction of the damn dam back in the 1930s. There was also a pretty good dose of racism at New Mexico’s movie houses, with some theaters having certain areas where “Mexicans” or “Negroes” could sit, along with segregated restrooms. One operator proudly announced a new venue “for Negroes only,” which was to be in Texas, not New Mexico. I also learned that UFOs (yes, UFOs) “helped” to select the “location” of certain drive-in theaters. Most of the theaters are gone now, with only 50 or so remaining and only about 10 to 15 of those are not part of some corporate conglomeration, such as
Winking moon at the Luna Theater in Clayton. (Photo courtesy lunatheatermainstreet.com.
Regal (now owned by a British giant, Cineworld) or the AMC group, which has screens in Albuquerque and Artesia, and is owned by a Chinese corporation, Dalian Wanda Group. And of course, good old Allen Theaters, based in New Mexico. While researching theaters that were once in operation in Hobbs, I was amazed to learn that the small city had an astonishing history of theaters, with 13 showing movies at one time or another, but only one multiplex owned by the omnipresent Allen, is still in operation. The Roosevelt burned at least once and the Reel, like the Fountain, had murals, these depicting cowboys and their trade. I had also wanted to cover just how all those theaters came to be. Who owned them? Who designed and built them? How did the Luna Theater in Clayton, in the really far northeast corner of the state get the coolest still operating neon sign in the state – that of a winking moon?
But there wasn’t much information on such things that was readily available. If I’d had a higher word count and more time, I probably would have gone to each town personally and researched in more depth. Alas, that was not to be for this book. Movie theaters continue to have a genteel balance between opening and closing. With people opting to stay home and download the latest superhero movie, many have forgotten or may have never known the feeling of being in an auditorium with any number of other folks – most with great expectations, an adrenalin rush, or just a desire to neck in the balcony while overlooking overpriced popcorn and syrupy soft drinks – hoping for a couple of hours of refuge, enlightenment or entertainment. “People buy tickets to theatres, not movies.” — Marcus Loew At least they used to.
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Excavation work at Cottonwood Spring Pueblo. (Photo courtesy of Christopher Stanton)
DIGGING INTO HISTORY • BILLY HUNTSMAN
Cottonwood Spring Pueblo NMSU anthropology students continue excavation
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tudents in New Mexico State University’s Department of Anthropology recently participated in a field school excavating Cottonwood Spring Pueblo north of Las Cruces. The field school ran May 25 – June 29. The students, who commuted from Las Cruces to the pueblo each day, learned basic excavation techniques, artifact processing, and artifact analysis. “The pueblo dates from about 1300 to 1450 A.D.,” said Kristin Corl, a crew chief on the project who is working on her Ph.D. in anthropology. “I led six students in working on one part of the pueblo, a 200-room section, and our goal was to date various parts of the rooms and also de-
termine the architecture.” Corl said they primarily use three techniques to date various aspects of the pueblo. “By collecting ceramic sherds, we’re able to get an idea of when the site was occupied and who they were trading with,” Corl said. “We’re also able to do carbon dating on very tiny pieces of charcoal and tree-ring dating by examining the wooden beams from the roofs.” Corl, who earned her master’s in anthropology at NMSU working with William Walker, an anthropology professor and principle investigator at Cottonwood Spring, is now working on her doctorate at the University of Texas – San Antonio. Corl has been working on
the site since it was opened by White Sands Missile Range, which co-owns the land along with the Jornada Experimental Range and the U.S. Department of Agriculture, in 2012. “After about 1150 A.D., a lot of smaller pueblos throughout southern New Mexico disbanded but there was an aggregation of people at this pueblo on the Jornada del Muerto,” Corl said. “So it’s a really interesting time period and one I wanted to stick with and learn more about.” The pueblo was inhabited by the Jornada Mogollon people, a sub-group of the Mogollon people, who were native to southern New Mexico and west Texas. The pueblo was inhabited just before Spanish contact and is
one of the larger pueblos in the area, with more than 400 rooms in six sections spread over a mile-long area. Hannah Clark is another crew chief on the project and is working on her master’s degree at NMSU. “This was my second time working at Cottonwood Spring,” she said. “This time around we worked in area ‘A’, which has about 200 rooms. We worked on 10 rooms, excavated three different layers of the floor, and uncovered 60 features, which is unprecedented; we’re not really sure what that particular room was used for. Some people think it was a ritualistic room; my idea is that it was a meat-preservation room. So that’s something
we’re still trying to determine.” Allison McCullar is an English major who recently added anthropology as a second major. This field school was her first experience in excavating a site. “I took an anthropology class as a gen-ed requirement and really loved it, so I decided to add on anthropology,” she said. While initially nervous because she didn’t know much about excavating and was worried she would destroy artifacts, McCullar worked on Clark’s team and enjoyed the experience. “I expected the excavating to be more physically challenging but, aside from the heat, it wasn’t as bad as I thought,” she said.
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HISTORY THROUGH MONEY
The Sweep of American Culture
David P. Higgins talks about currency and coins
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agles, bison, Native Americans, Tennessee woodsmen, discovery of America, western expansion, explosion of agriculture, rapid industrialization, Statue of Liberty, idealization of women, wars and much more have been featured on American coins and currency. The numerous re-issues of currency and coins glow with insights into the people and events that have David P. Higgins made Americans proud. They are a serial depiction of how American culture and values have evolved from the colonial period to the present. In this presentation at 2 p.m., Sunday, Aug. 19 at the Capitan Public Library follows the line of monetary evolution through photographs of currency and coins and the stories behind their design. Special attention is given to the symbolic importance of Miss Liberty and her introduction, development, and eventual disappearance. Dr. David P. Higgins taught short courses through the Emeritus College (Where Learning Is for Life) of the University of North Texas. He is the retired founder and director of the Finance MBA program at the University of Dallas in 2009. He earned his PhD in financial management and investment theory at the University of Texas in Austin. He is also a Certified Treasury Professional (CTP). Higgins is the author of “Essentials of Treasury Management” published by the Association for Financial Professionals in 2007. The book constitutes the body of knowledge tested on CTP credentialing exam and serves as a desk reference for treasurers. This 90-minute program will have an intermission with refreshments served. For more information call the Capitan Public Library at 575-354-3035. The library is located at 101 E. Second St., Capitan. Visit online at: www.capitanlibrary.org or www.capitanlibrary. blogspot.com.
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The Fort Bayard Museum, located in the commanding officer’s home along the west side of Fort Bayard’s historic parade ground, opens at 9:15 a.m. Aug. 18 for the landmark’s 152nd anniversary. (Photo by Elva K. Österreich)
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he Fort Bayard Historic Preservation Society will host several special events on Saturday, Aug. 18 in commemoration of the 152nd anniversary of the founding of the fort. All events will take place on the grounds of the historic military post and hospital, at Fort Bayard National Historic Landmark. The facility is located north of U.S. Highway 180, 1.3 miles north of the Village of Santa Clara, and six miles east of Silver City. On Aug. 21, 1866, Company B of the 125th Infantry Regiment U.S. Colored Troops, under the command of Lt. James M. Kerr officially established Fort Bayard, named in honor of a Union general killed at the Battle of Fredericksburg, Virginia December 1862. Since then the fort has played a major role in the history of the nation, New Mexico, and the local area. It served for over 30 years as an active military post during which time it played a major role in the conflicts with the Apache groups resisting white settlement, including the struggles with forces led by Victorio, Cochise, and Geronimo. In later years the post became an Army hospital, then a veterans’ medical facility, and finally a state hospital. It was granted National Historic Landmark status in 2004. The celebration commences with a flag raising ceremony on the parade ground at 9 a.m. The Fort Bayard Museum, located in the commanding
Ralph Estes performs as Ramblin’ Ralph, the world’s oldest living cowboy, during an evening event at the Fort Bayard New Deal Theater on Aug. 18. (Courtesy Photo)
officer’s home along the west side of the historic parade ground, will open at 9:15 a.m., with tours of the museum and parade ground area beginning at 9:30 a.m. At 10:45 a.m. local rancher Deily Crumbley will present a talk entitled “Ranchers and the Feeding of Fort Bayard.” The talk will cover the mutually beneficial arrangement that developed between the fort and nearby ranches, including those owned and operated by Crumbley’s ancestors. The talk will be held outside at the museum, weather permitting, or in the theater building on the east side
of the parade ground in the event of wet weather. Members of the Fort Bayard Historic Preservation Society will be in uniform and period costume to answer visitors’ questions and provide further information on the history of the post. Birthday cake and refreshments will be served. The historic New Deal Theater along the east side of the parade ground will host an evening event as the celebration continues. Doors open at 6 p.m., with a barbecue sandwich meal served at 6:30. Cost of the dinner is $15, and reservations are required. Reservations may be made by calling Dr. John Bell at 575-9563294, or Becky Dinwiddie at 970-2225084. Following the meal, a special program will be presented by Ralph Estes, entitled “The West: Singing its Story.” In song, Estes will “Take a trip through a thousand years of the American West, from Anasazi Indians to the Atomic Age. Like the Indians and cowboys, the trappers and traders, we’ll sing as we go because their songs tell a big part of the story.” Estes’ performance is made possible by the New Mexico Humanities Council’s Speakers Bureau. There is no charge to attend the performance. Besides dinner, all other events are free. Donations are welcome. For information, call Doug Dinwiddie at 575-388-4862, or Cecilia Bell at 575-388-4477.
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An aspiring Las Cruces actor has his photo taken by Lorrie Latham, owner of Latham Casting of Albuquerque. (Photos by Mike Cook)
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Clint Eastwood returns to shoot in Las Cruces
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early 50 years after he shot parts of “Hang ‘em High” near the Rio Grande west of town, Academy-award winning actor/director Clint Eastwood came back to Las Cruces in July to shoot part of his latest production, “The Mule.” Film Las Cruces (FLC) hosted auditions for background actors Saturday, July 7, at Film Las Cruces Studios, 2100 S. Valley Drive. About 200 people were in line within the first hour of the open call. Filming took place at various Las Cruces locations. “Large film productions employ good-sized crews and spend money at a wide array of local businesses,” FLC President Jeff Steinborn said in a news release about the film. “This film pro-
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duction will likely fill over 1,000 hotel room nights and spend thousands of dollars at local restaurants and other vendors.” A Doña Ana County state senator, Steinborn joined FLC Film Liaison Jon Foley at the auditions and even filled out an audition sheet and had his photo taken by Lorrie Latham, owner of Latham Casting of Albuquerque. She and Jyl Murray handled the Las Cruces casting for the movie. Las Cruces is the sole New Mexico location where portions of “The Mule” are filmed. Principal filming will take place in Georgia. FLC is a nonprofit that has an agreement with the City of Las Cruces to bring screen production to the city. It is partnering with Doña Ana Community College for rental and operation of the nearly 75,000 square-foot studio, which, Steinborn said,
“was integrally involved” in the Eastwood film coming to Las Cruces. That included “intensive location scouting” in the area, according to the release, as well as assistance with production logistics and facilitating the local casting call. “We work hard to showcase the many unique locations and assets of filming in and around Las Cruces,” Foley said. “Securing a high-profile film from one of America’s legendary actors and filmmakers is extremely rewarding. Our goal is to continue to attract great film projects to our region.” “We’re moving along,” said Las Cruces Mayor Pro-Tem Gill Sorg, who also attended the auditions. There is still a “lot of work to be done” to grow the local film industry, Steinborn said, and to “educate the film industry about Las Cruces.”
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Apus, the Bird of Paradise
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ne of the six constellations surrounding the south celestial pole is Apus, the Bird of Paradise. Birds of Paradise were one of these new species found only in the southern hemisphere, discovered when European explorers sailed south. These birds were mistakenly reported to have no feet, so when Dutch astronomer Petrus Plancius created this constellation for his 14-inch celestial globe in 1598, he named it Apus, Latin for “without feet.” As a constellation near the south celestial pole, Apus never rises above our southern horizon. It is a small constellation, 67th out of the 88 official constellations. There are four main stars in Apus, the brightest two being only a faint third magnitude and the other two are fourth magnitude stars. Twelve stars belonging to Apus have been given Greek letters, known as Bayer designations. The brightest star is Alpha Apodis which is 447 light-years away from us. It is an orange giant that is rather aged after spending most of its life as a blue star. It has expanded greatly to become forty-eight times the size of our Sun and puts out nine hundred twenty-eight time its energy. As viewed from Earth, this results in a magnitude of +3.8. The outer edge of the Milky way occupies the northeast half of Apus. This brings only a few deep sky objects within the constellation’s boundaries. One of them is the globular cluster NGC 6101 (also known as Caldwell 107), that shines at magnitude +9.3 in the north-central Apus. This globular cluster is 47,600 light-years away from us on the other side of the center of the Milky Way. It was discovered by Scottish astronomer James Dunlop on June 1, 1826, at his home observatory in Brisbane, Australia. There are two main types of star clusters, globular clusters and open clusters. Their names come from their telescopic appearance. Open clusters are generally more spread out with a uniform scattering of stars across the cluster. The stars in a globular cluster are more densely packed near the center of the cluster. All the stars in a cluster form from a common cloud of material. Open clusters are almost all in the Milky Way and are composed of young stars that are slowly spreading out into the nearby parts of the galaxy. Globular clusters, on the other hand, are very old. The gravity from the dense core of massive stars keeps the rest of the stars from slipping off into space. Globular clusters can be found in any part of the sky, because they are not confined to the disc of our galaxy but can orbit far from the Milky Way traveling above and below the galaxy’s plane. The brightest stars in NGC 6101 are 14th magnitude. Unlike most globular clusters, the visible stars are not strongly concen-
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Ernesto Apus, the Bird of Paradise (inset) never rises above our southern horizon. With the Milky Way cutting through the northeast corner of the constellations, there are few nebulas, galaxies, or clusters. One of the clusters in NGC 6101, an uncondensed globular cluster. Even though it does not have the dense core of stars like many globular clusters, it does contain a dark secret.
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trated toward the center of this cluster. Since there is no dense core of stars at the center of this globular, astronomers at the University of Surrey, UK, wondered what was holding it together. They studied the individual stars and performed computer simulations of their motions which showed that there might be several hundred black holes hiding in this cluster. These black holes are a few times the mass of our sun, the remains of massive stars that underwent a supernova explosion before becoming a black hole. While black holes trap all the light trying to escape them, their existence can still be detected by the effects of their gravity on nearby stars. Their gravity is what astronomers were able to detect. It was thought that the supernova explosions that formed each of these black holes would kick them out of the cluster. The new study showed that, at least in this cluster, they were not ejected. The massive stars that eventually became black holes were numerous in the core of the cluster. So, the dense core of a globular cluster is still there, but it is now black holes and not supermassive stars that are holding the cluster together. It is very likely that in the future we will detect the gravity waves from the merger of two of these black holes.
The Planets for August 2018
Dominating the evening sky, Venus shines brightly at magnitude -4.3. It will reach its farthest distance from the Sun on Aug. 17 when its disc will be 48 percent illuminated and it will be 24.5 seconds-of-arc across. The
Goddess of Love travels from far western Virgo to the southeastern end of that constellation. It is eighteen degrees above the west-southwestern horizon as it gets dark and sets around 10 p.m. Moving slowly eastward in western Libra, Jupiter’s disc that is 36.2 seconds-of-arc across. It is thirty-four degrees above the south-southwestern horizon as it gets dark and sets just before midnight. The King of the Gods shines at magnitude -2.0. Saturn is 31 degrees above the south-southeastern horizon as it gets dark, shining at magnitude +0.3. It is moving very slowly westward in northwestern Sagittarius, setting around 2:45 a.m. The Ringed Planet has a disc that is 17.6 seconds-of-arc across while its Rings are 40.0 seconds-of-arc across. They are tilted down 26.5 degrees with the northern face showing at midmonth. The Red Planet is also in the evening sky, 14 degrees above the southeastern horizon as it gets dark. Its disc is 23.3 seconds-of-arc across as it shines at magnitude -2.5. The God of War is moving westward in western Capricornus, coming to a halt on Aug. 28 and then turning back eastward, still within Capricornus as the month ends. Mars sets around 4:30 a.m. Mercury appears in the eastern sky just before dawn during the last half of the month, shining at magnitude -0.1. Mercury will be furthest from the Sun on Aug. 26 before it turns back toward the Sun. On that day, Mercury’s disc will be forty-two percent illuminated and 7.4 seconds-ofarc across. The Messenger of the
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Newcomers and visitors are welcome. 388-8161. WEDNESDAYS ACA Meeting (Adult Children of Alcoholics and Dysfunctional Families) — 7-8:15 p.m. meets every Wednesday at the New Church of the Southwest Desert (behind The Food Basket). Contact: Athena, 575-590-8300. Al-Anon family group — 6 p.m., Arenas Valley Church of Christ, 5 Race Track Road, Arenas Valley (the old radio station). Contact: 313-7891. Archaeology Society — 6 p.m., third Wednesday every month, OctoberApril at 2045 Memory Lane, Silver City; May-September meetings begin with a pot-luck dinner at 6 p.m. at Roundup Lodge in San Lorenzo-Mimbres, convening for business at 7 p.m. Visit www. gcasnm.org, or email webmaster@ gcasnm.org, or call 536-3092 for details. Babytime Sing & Play — 1 p.m., Silver City Public Library, 515 W. College Avenue. Stories, songs, rhymes and movement for infants 0-12 months and their caregivers. Free, no registration necessary. 538-3672 or ref @silvercitymail. com. Back Country Horsemen — 6 p.m., second Wednesday, WNMU Watts Hall, opposite CVS Pharmacy, Hwy. 180. Subject to change. 574-2888. A Course in Miracles — 7:15 p.m., 600 N. Hudson. Information, 5349172 or 534-1869. Future Engineers — 4-5 p.m. Silver City Public Library, 515 W. College Avenue. Free creative construction fun with Lego, K’NEX, and Strawbees! For children ages 6-12, no registration necessary. 538-3672 or ref@silvercitymail.com. Gilawriters — 1:00-3 p.m., Silver City Food Co-op’s Market Café Community Room, 615 N. Bullard St. Contact Trish Heck, trish.heck@ gmail.com or call 534-0207. Gin Rummy —1 p.m. at Tranquilbuzz, corner of Yankie and Texas Streets in Silver City. Grant County Democratic Party —5:30 p.m., potluck; 6:20 p.m., meeting, second Wednesday, Sen. Howie Morales building, 3060 E. Hwy. 180. 654-6060. Grant County Federated Republican Women – 11:30 a.m., Third
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CYCLES OF LIFE • FR. GABRIEL ROCHELLE
A Primer on Bicycle Racing
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he Tour de France makes me think about cycle racing. The Tour, a multi-stage event, is the best-known road race in the world. Other formats include one-day races, criteriums (races run on a short course, often urban, of limited length) and time trials. Mountain bike racing became popular in the late Sixties and early Seventies, led by Gary Fisher. Cyclo-cross is a race on varied surfaces that requires the racer to carry the bike over unfavorable terrain. Different bikes are built for different forms of racing. In the early 20th century cycle racing was one of the most popular spectator sports in the United States. Racers were highly paid professional athletes. Madison Square Garden in New York was a major venue for track cycling. Major Taylor and Arthur Zimmermann were internationally known superstars on the circuit. Marshall “Major” Taylor was the first great African-American sports star. Unfortunately due to racism at home he rose to greater prominence in Europe and Australia. Today along with many of the early cycling champions of the United States and Europe he is largely forgotten. The velodrome in Indianapolis, his hometown, is named after him. A statue was recently erected in the town of Worcester, Massachusetts, where he lived after retirement. There’s an attempt to make his name widely known again. I tend to favor track racing for
three reasons. First, track bikes are stripped to the basics: no gears, no brakes, no freewheel, minimal frame and seat. Second, races take place on a circumscribed track, all of which is visible to the spectator, which increases the excitement. Third, different kinds of races are held, which varies the action and adds to spectator interest. Track racing venues are called velodromes, a French word. The U.S. boasts 26 velodromes. As the sport has grown in popularity once again, the number of American tracks has increased; three opened within the last dozen years. Washington Park Velodrome in Kenosha, Wisconsin (between Milwaukee and Chicago) opened in 1927 and runs strong as the senior U.S. track. Bob Rodale, an entrepreneurial publisher and outdoorsman known for magazines like “Organic Gardening,” “Prevention” and “Bicycling,” initially funded the track now known as Valley Preferred Cycling Center in Trexlertown, Penn. Bob donated the land to develop a track outside Allentown PA in the mid-seventies. I participated in the training programs and volunteered at the track for a decade. Local riders use the track for extra mileage during off days. T-town opened in 1975 with bare bones: the track, 333 meters of concrete surface in an oval, banked at 32 degrees, was it! No grandstands, no bathrooms, not even lockers for the athletes. But top-ranked racers showed up from
day one, and that tradition continues even as the track has expanded to offer the top-quality facilities it boasts today. Track events stress endurance and sprint ability. The Madison (named after the garden) is an endurance event. A two-person team, racing in relay, passes leadership by propelling one another forward with one hand while cycling. It’s a real test of strength, endurance, and coordination. The Keirin originated in Japan as a sprint event. The field of racers follows a motorcycle slowly accelerating to 35 mph. When the driver drops off, the cyclists race to the finish line after six laps. One other favorite is the Miss-and-Out, which combines endurance with sprint ability. The name says it all. If you’re the last person to finish a lap, you’re out. The final group of racers sprints to the finish. I hope I’ve piqued your curiosity about cycle racing. You can find examples of track and other race events on YouTube. Meanwhile, get out there and ride safe – don’t race – where you live. Fr Gabriel Rochelle is priest of St Anthony of the Desert Orthodox Mission, Las Cruces, an avid cyclist, chair of the Hub Community Bike Shop and board member of Velo Cruces. The church web site is http://stanthonylc.org.
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www.desertexposure.com identify genuinely persecuted asylum seekers at times. I wish they would offer a hand, not withdraw it, from the journalists, sometimes courageous beyond words, who expose the powerful forces for evil in Mexico, they are being assassinated at an unprecedented rate. I would also like to see, and many other people would agree, that the “homeless, tempest-tossed” refugee families from Central America were treated gently. But we might not see any solid change until the next elections are over. Borderlines columnist Marjorie Lilly lives in Deming.
TALKING HORSES • SCOTT THOMSON
Change What You Can
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n this month’s column I’ll tackle another question from my list of the seven most common questions or comments about natural horsemanship I’ve heard over the past 20 years. In the June edition I gave an overview of this list, and in July I answered the first and most frequent question: why so much groundwork and how does it relate to riding? Our second question/comment: “I’ve done a lot of ground and sensory work, and had my horse go over tarps, barrels, etc. but he still spooks and scares me on the trail or in the arena. It doesn’t seem like this approach works or makes any difference at all.” I look at this comment in two ways: the core nature of the horse and basic common sense. There are two things that simply can’t be changed in a horse, no matter what level of training, the horse’s breeding or all the treats and love you can possibly give. It’s hard for us to accept given the way we humanize our animals and consider them friends or buddies that care about us as much as about themselves, but our horses are still horses even after all these millions of years. They are still herd animals, flight animals and prey animals. They have the same basic instincts they’ve always had even though we’ve domesticated them. All the breeding hasn’t changed their genetic make-up or produced a horse that isn’t a horse at the core. On top of this, each horse comes with his own personality. They can be extroverted and engaging or very introverted and stand-offish. They can seem calm and unflappable or on constant nervous high alert. Most horses are some combination of these various personality traits, putting them somewhere on the scale between “cold-blooded” and “hot.” They pretty much come out of the womb with their personalities already set. What this means is most of
what a horse is, both as a species and by the nature of his personality, cannot be changed no matter what you do. You cannot make your horse be something other than a flight animal, and you cannot make him a brave, confident leader of the herd if his personality is to be a quiet follower. It means no matter what you do, there is something out there, some combination of look, movement, smell or sound that will set your horse off no matter how much effort you’ve put into your training. Good horse owners are never bothered or frustrated by these facts, nor let this lead to the conclusion that ground and sensory work is of no value. Quite the opposite. They see this as the rationale for the necessity of good, continuous ground training. They look at their horses and accept they can’t change their nature, personality or conformation. What they can do is make their horse the best it can be and make their partnership as safe and as strong as possible. They understand this work is really about two important things: establishing yourself as a respected and trusted leader under pressure that a horse can follow, and therefore be safe and survive; and it exposes the horse to the sights and sounds of our world in the safest ways possible, allowing the horse to learn about the relative risk of things he may encounter with us. In short, you can never make your horse “bombproof” or immune to every surprise or situation that comes up, but you can get him to trust your leadership and judgment, and maybe buy yourself a precious few seconds to get things under control in a spook before his instincts kick in and you go for the ride of your life. If you do this work and you don’t see any improvements or changes in the way you and your horse work together, you’re probably not doing the work correctly, doing it enough or not dialing
things up enough to challenge yourself and your horse. You may also be forgetting all this work has to be done under saddle as well. But, more likely, you believe training should actually change a horse and make him something different than what he is, rather than accepting the only real change that can happen in this relationship has to be with you, not the horse. He can’t change, but you can get a whole lot better and make him more comfortable with you and his life. The second part of my response to this comment about ground and sensory work has to do with safety and common sense. Recently I was reading an article about the dangers of traumatic brain injuries in football. We’ve all read about the growing concerns about the effects of repeated concussions in football – possibly leading to CTE, a degenerative brain disease known as chronic traumatic encephalopathy. Parents agonize over whether or not to let a child play football. We’re having government-level discussions on the subject given what’s happening at all levels of the sport, from Pop Warner to the pros. We’re learning any sport where contact is inevitable – soccer, basketball, hockey, lacrosse, etc. – brings a level of risk for life-altering brain injuries. In a sidebar at the end of the article, the author threw out a few other statistics that should be mentioned in the context of this column. He noted that you are twice as likely to sustain a traumatic brain injury riding horses than you are from playing contact sports. The same is true compared to riding a motorcycle and several other activities we inherently think of as dangerous. So, parents worry about their child playing football, but think nothing of having them barrel
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After about a mile in the stream you come to a fence. Make your way up to the right then until you encounter the trail and follow it to the Bridal Falls at the end. A lookout shelter provides some shade and a bench. You can also climb all the way up close to the waterfall for a great photo op. The surrounding area has an old train station with a couple of disintegrating houses around it. The lumber trains going up to Cloudcroft stopped here, giving the occasional passenger a chance to stretch their legs and enjoy the view to the waterfall. Bridal Falls is perennial and feeds the creek you just walked and climbed up. So it should have water all year round. But who wants to get their feet wet in cold weather? For the hike back you can take the easy route on the trestle trail. Wide and smooth with no significant altitude gain or loss, it’s an easy hike. This was my first hike in High Rolls, but I am certain to be back soon. During the hot months, this area offers a few degrees less heat than Las Cruces and the trestle trails are a well-developed system with many more options. Besides, who can resist the temptations of the Apple Barn just up the road? (No, they did not pay me to write this.) Be sensible when you go out there and bring enough water. Also, remember your hat and sunscreen. Enjoy the outdoors!
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sensory work, the greater your margin for safety when you ride your horse. I’ve seen a lot of accidents over my years with horses, but almost none with riders who understand the nature of a horse and who constantly work on improving their leadership under pressure, through quality ground and sensory work, followed by the same work under saddle. You can’t change the nature of horses, but there is so much you can do to improve the odds of having a long and injury-free riding career. Commit to the one thing every good horseman will tell you is the closest thing to a magic bullet with horses – quality, consistent and frequent ground work. Assuming you have the right horse for your skill level, I’ve never seen this approach not work.
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race, rope or trail ride with no helmets, vests or one on one ground training with their horses. Adults go out for rides without helmets and without preparing their horses. People compete on the weekends in roping competitions with no thought about safety or their responsibilities in their jobs or to their families. I know riders who will wear a helmet when riding a bicycle but not when riding their horse. I’ve had people laugh when I suggest a riding vest or roll their eyes when I talk about sensory work for increased safety. I’ve always found it odd that we somehow see riding horses, just a recreational activity for most riders, as less dangerous than so many other activities that we would never do without thorough preparation, conditioning, training and the right equipment. I believe you should take every possible step to reduce the risk of injury with horses. That always comes back to doing as much as you can to build your relationship and your skills from the relative safety of the ground. The more you do your ground work, and especially creative and challenging
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The listings here are a sampling of our complete and recently completely updated guide online at www. desertexposure.com. We emphasize non-national-chain restaurants with sit-down, table service. With each listing, we include a brief categorization of the type of cuisine plus what meals are served: B=Breakfast; L=Lunch; D=Dinner. Unless otherwise noted, restaurants are open seven days a week. Call for exact hours, which change frequently. All phone numbers are area code 575 except as specified. Though every effort has been made
to make these listings complete and up-to-date, errors and omissions are inevitable and restaurants may make changes after this issue goes to press. That’s why we urge you to help us make Red or Green? even better. Drop a note to Red or Green? c/o Desert Exposure, 1740-A Calle de Mercado, Las Cruces, NM 88005, or email editor@ desertexposure.com. Remember, these print listings represent only highlights. You can always find the complete, updated Red or Green? guide online at www. desertexposure.com. Bon appétit!
GRANT COUNTY
LA COCINA RESTAURANT, 201 W. College Ave., 388-8687. Mexican: L D. LA FAMILIA, 503 N. Hudson St., 388-4600. Mexican: Tuesday to Sunday B L D. LA MEXICANA, Hwy. 180E and Memory Lane, 534-0142. Mexican and American: B L.
ers, appetizers, salads: L D. TRANQUILBUZZ CAFÉ, 112 W. Yankie St. Coffee shop, coffee, home-made pastries and ice cream, fresh fruit smoothies.
Silver City 1ZERO6, 106 N. Texas St., 575313-4418. Pacific Rim, South East Asian, Oaxacan and Italian: Friday to Sunday D, by reservation only. ADOBE SPRINGS CAFÉ, 1617 Silver Heights Blvd., 538-3665. Breakfast items, burgers, sandwiches: Sunday B L, all week B L D. BURGERS & BROWNIES & BEER, OH MY! 619 N. Bullard St., 575-5976469.
CAFÉ OSO AZUL AT BEAR MOUNTAIN LODGE, 60 Bear Mountain Ranch Road, 538-2538. B L, special D by reservation only. CHINESE PALACE, 1010 Highway 180E, 538-9300. Chinese: Monday to Friday L D. COURTYARD CAFÉ, Gila Regional Medical Center, 538-4094. American: B L, with special brunch Sundays.
DIANE’S RESTAURANT, 510 N. Bullard St., 538-8722. Fine dining (D), steaks, seafood, pasta, sandwiches (L), salads: Tuesday to Saturday L D, Sunday D only (family-style), weekend brunch. DIANE’S BAKERY & DELI, The Hub, Suite A, Bullard St., 534-9229. Artisan breads, pastries, sandwiches, deli: Monday to Saturday B L early D, Sunday L. DON JUAN’S BURRITOS, 418 Silver Heights Blvd., 538-5440. Mexican: B L. DRIFTER PANCAKE HOUSE, 711 Silver Heights Blvd., 538-2916. Breakfast, American: B L, breakfast served throughout. EL GALLO PINTO, 901 N. Hudson St., 597-4559. Mexican: Tuesday, Wednesday and Sunday B L Thursday to Saturday B L D. FORREST’S PIZZA, 601 N. Bullard St. Unit J. 388-1225. Tuesday to Friday L D, Slices only at lunch time. FRY HOUSE, 601 N. Bullard St. Suite C. 388-1964. GIL-A BEANS, 1304 N. Bennett St. Coffeeshop. GOLDEN STAR, 1602 Silver Heights Blvd., 388-2323. Chinese: L D. GRANDMA’S CAFÉ, 900 Silver Heights Blvd., 388-2627. American, Mexican: B L. GRINDER MILL, 403 W. College Ave., 538-3366. Mexican: B L D. HEALTHY EATS, 303 E. 13th St., 534-9404. Sandwiches, burritos, salads, smoothies: L. JALISCO CAFÉ, 100 S. Bullard St., 388-2060. Mexican. Monday to Saturday L D Sunday B. JAVALINA COFFEE HOUSE, 117 Market St., 388-1350. Coffeehouse. JUMPING CACTUS, 503 N. Bullard St. Coffeeshop, baked goods, sandwiches, wraps: B L. KOUNTRY KITCHEN, 1700 Mountain View Road, 388-4512. Mexican: Monday to Sunday B L D.
LITTLE TOAD CREEK BREWERY & DISTILLERY, 200 N. Bullard St., 956-6144. Burgers, wings, salads, fish, pasta, craft beers and cocktails: Monday to Sunday L D. MEXICO VIEJO, Hwy. 90 and Broadway Mexican food stand: Monday to Saturday B L early D. MI CASITA, 2340 Bosworth Dr., 5385533. New Mexican cuisine: Monday to Thursday L, Friday L D. MILLIE’S BAKE HOUSE, 602 N. Bullard St., 597-2253. Soup, salads, sandwiches, baked goods and now serving barbecue on Saturdays: Tuesday to Saturday. NANCY’S SILVER CAFÉ, 514 N. Bullard St., 388-3480. Mexican: Monday to Saturday B L D. THE PARLOR AT DIANE’S, 510 N. Bullard St., 538-8722. Burgers, sandwiches, homemade pizzas, paninis: Tuesday to Sunday L D. PRETTY SWEET EMPORIUM, 312 N. Bullard St., 388-8600. Dessert, ice cream: Monday to Saturday. Q’S SOUTHERN BISTRO AND BREWERY, 101 E. College Ave., 534-4401. American, steaks, barbecue, brewpub: Monday to Saturday L D.
REVEL, 304 N. Bullard, 3884920. Elevated comfort food. Weekdays LD, weekends BD, closed Wednesdays. SILVER BOWLING CENTER CAFÉ, 2020 Memory Lane, 538-3612. American, Mexican, hamburgers: L D.
SUNRISE ESPRESSO, 1530 N. Hudson, 388-2027. Coffee shop: Monday to Saturday B L, early D. SUNRISE ESPRESSO, 1212 E. 32nd St., 534-9565. Coffee shop, bakery: Monday to Friday B L, early D, Saturday B L only. TAPAS TREE, 601 N. Bullard St. in The Hub, Wednesday to Sunday L, Fridays L D. TERRY’S ORIGINAL BARBEQUE, Hwy. 180 and Ranch Club Road. Barbeque to go: L D.
VICKI’S EATERY, 315 N. Texas, 388-5430. www. vickiseatery.com Fresh... made just for you!. Saturday-Sunday breakfast; Monday-Saturday lunch; and Friday-Saturday dinner. WRANGLER’S BAR & GRILL, 2005 Hwy. 180E, 538-4387. Steak, burg-
DOÑA ANA COUNTY
Las Cruces & Mesilla ABRAHAM’S BANK TOWER RESTAURANT, 500 S. Main St. 434, 523-5911. American: Monday to Friday B L. ANDELE’S DOG HOUSE, 1983 Calle del Norte, 526-1271. Mexican plus hot dogs, burgers, quesadillas: B L D. ANDELE RESTAURANTE, 1950 Calle del Norte, 526-9631. Mexican: Monday B L, Tuesday to Sunday B L D. AQUA REEF, 141 N. Roadrunner Parkway, 522-7333. Asian, sushi: LD. THE BEAN, 2011 Avenida de Mesilla, 527-5155. Coffeehouse.
A BITE OF BELGIUM, 741 N. Alameda St. No. 16, 5272483, www.abiteofbelgium. com. Belgium and American food: Daily B L. BOBA CAFÉ, 1900 S. Espina, Ste. 8, 647-5900. Sandwiches, salads, casual fare, espresso: Monday to Saturday L D. BRAVO’S CAFÉ, 3205 S. Main St., 526-8604. Mexican: Tuesday to Sunday B L. BURGER NOOK, 1204 E. Madrid Ave., 523-9806. Outstanding greenchile cheeseburgers. Tuesday to Saturday L D. BURRITOS VICTORIA, 1295 El Paseo Road, 541-5534. Burritos: B L D. Now serving beer.
CAFÉ A GO GO, 1120 Commerce Drive, Suite A, 5220383, www.cafeagogonm. com. Bistro with an eclectic menu. “We have a passion for delicious food and it reflects in our dishes:” Monday to Saturday L D. CARILLO’S CAFÉ, 330 S. Church, 523-9913. Mexican, American: Monday to Saturday L D. CHACHI’S RESTAURANT, 2460 S. Locust St.-A, 522-7322. Mexican: B L D. CHILITOS, 2405 S. Valley Dr., 5264184. Mexican: Monday to Saturday B L D. CHILITOS, 3850 Foothills Rd. Ste. 10, 532-0141. Mexican: B L D. DAY’S HAMBURGERS, Water and Las Cruces streets, 523-8665. Burgers: Monday to Saturday L D. PECAN GRILL & BREWERY, 500 S. Telshor Blvd., 521-1099. Pecan-smoked meats, sandwiches, steaks, seafood, craft beers: L D. DELICIAS DEL MAR, 1401 El Paseo, 524-2396. Mexican, seafood: B L D. DICK’S CAFÉ, 2305 S. Valley Dr., 524-1360. Mexican, burgers: Sunday B L, Monday to Saturday B L D. DION’S PIZZA, 3950 E. Lohman, 521-3434. Pizza: L D. DOUBLE EAGLE, 2355 Calle De
DESERT EXPOSURE Guadalupe, 523-6700. Southwestern, steaks, seafood: L D, Sun. champagne brunch buffet. DUBLIN STREET PUB, 1745 E. University Ave., 522-0932. Irish, American: L D. EL SOMBRERO PATIO CAFÉ, 363 S. Espina St., 524-9911. Mexican: L D. EMILIA’S, 2290 Calle de Parian, 652-3007. Burgers, Mexican, soup, sandwiches, pastry, juices, smoothies: Tuesday to Sunday L D. ENRIQUE’S MEXICAN FOOD, 830 W. Picacho, 647-0240. Mexican: B L D. FARLEY’S, 3499 Foothills Rd., 522-0466. Pizza, burgers, American, Mexican: L D. FIDENCIO’S, 800 S. Telshor, 5325624. Mexican: B L D. THE GAME BAR & GRILL, 2605 S. Espina, 524-GAME. Sports bar and grill: L D. THE GAME II: EXTRA INNINGS SPORTS BAR & GRILL, 4131 Northrise Drive, 373-4263, Live music on weekends. American, Southwest, now serving weekend brunch 10 a.m. Saturdays and Sundays: L D GARDUÑO’S, 705 S. Telshor (Hotel Encanto), 532-4277. Mexican: B L D.
GO BURGER DRIVE-IN, Home of the Texas Size Burrito, 1008 E. Lohman Ave. , Las Cruces, NM 88005, 575524-9251. Monday - Saturday, 7 a.m. – 3 p.m. Specializing in Relleno Burritos and Other Mexican Food GOLDEN STAR CHINESE FAST FOOD, 1420 El Paseo, 523-2828. Chinese: L D. GRANDY’S COUNTRY COOKING, 1345 El Paseo Rd., 526-4803. American: B L D. HABANERO’S 600 E. Amador Ave., 524-1829. Fresh Mexican: B L D. HACIENDA DE MESILLA, 1803 Avenida de Mesilla, 652-4953. Steaks, barbecue, seafood, sandwiches, salads, pasta: L D.
HIGH DESERT BREWING COMPANY, 1201 W. Hadley Ave., 525-6752. Brew pub: L D. INTERNATIONAL DELIGHTS, 1245 El Paseo Rd., 647-5956. Greek and International: B L D. J.C. TORTAS, 1196 W. Picacho Ave., 647-1408. Mexican: L D. JOSE MURPHY’S, 1201 E. Amador
AUGUST 2018 • 29 (inside Ten Pin Alley), 526-8855. Mexican, American: L D. JOSEFINA’S OLD GATE CAFÉ, 2261 Calle de Guadalupe, 525-2620. Pastries, soups, salads, sandwiches: Monday to Thursday L, Friday to Sunday B L. KEVA JUICE, 1001 E. University, 522-4133. Smoothies, frozen yogurt: B L D. LA MEXICANA TORTILLERIA, 1300 N. Solano Dr, 541-9617. Mexican: L D. LA NUEVA CASITA CAFÉ, 195 N. Mesquite, 523-5434. Mexican and American: B L. LA POSTA RESTAURANT DE MESILLA, 2410 Calle De San Albino, 524-3524Mexican, steakhouse: L D, Saturday, Sunday and holidays also B. LAS TRANCAS, 1008 S. Solano Dr., 524-1430. Mexican, steaks, burgers, fried chicken: L D, Saturday and Sunday also B. LE RENDEZ-VOUS CAFÉ, 2701 W. Picacho Ave. #1, 527-0098. French pastry, deli, sandwiches: Tuesday to Sunday B L. LET THEM EAT CAKE, 1001 E. University Ave. Suite D4, 680-5998. Cupcakes: Tuesday to Saturday. LORENZO’S PAN AM, 1753 E. University Ave., 521-3505. Italian, pizza: L D. LOS COMPAS CAFÉ, 6335 Bataan Memorial W., 382-2025. Mexican: B L D. LOS COMPAS CAFÉ, 603 S. Nevarez St., 523-1778. Mexican: B L D. LOS COMPAS, 1120 Commerce Dr., 521-6228. Mexican: B L D. LOS MARIACHIS, 754 N. Motel Blvd., 523-7058. Mexican: B L D. LOS MARIACHIS, 5600 Bataan Memorial East, 373-0553. Mexican, L D. MESILLA VALLEY KITCHEN, 2001 E. Lohman Ave. #103, 523-9311. American, Mexican: B L.
METROPOLITAN DELI, 1001 University Ave., 5223354, www.metropolitandeli. com. Sandwiches and catering: L D. MIGUEL’S, 1140 E. Amador Ave., 647-4262. Mexican: B L D. MI PUEBLITO, 1355 E. Idaho Ave., 524-3009. Mexican: Monday to Friday B L D, Saturday and Sunday B L. MILAGRO COFFEE Y ESPRESSO, 1733 E. University Ave., 532-1042. Coffeehouse: B L D. MIX PACIFIC RIM CUISINE AND
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MIX EXPRESS, 1001 E. University Ave. D3, 532-2042. Asian, Pacific: Monday to Saturday L D. MOONGATE CAFÉ, 9345 Bataan Memorial, 382-5744. Coffee shop, Mexican, American: B L. MOUNTAIN VIEW MARKET KITCHEN, 1300 El Paseo Road, 523-0436. Sandwiches, bagels, wraps, salads and other healthy fare: Monday to Saturday: B L early D. NELLIE’S CAFÉ, 1226 W. Hadley Ave., 524-9982. Mexican: Tuesday to Friday B L. NOPALITO RESTAURANT, 2605 Missouri Ave., 522-0440. Mexican: L D. NOPALITO RESTAURANT, 310 S. Mesquite St., 524-0003. Mexican: Sunday to Tuesday, Thursday to Saturday. L D. OLD TOWN RESTAURANT, 1155 S. Valley Dr., 523-4586. Mexican, American: B L. ORIENTAL PALACE, 225 E. Idaho, 526-4864. Chinese: L D. PAISANO CAFÉ, 1740 Calle de Mercado, 524-0211. Mexican: B L D. PEPE’S, 1405 W. Picacho, 5410277. Mexican: B L D. PHO A DONG, 504 E. Amador Ave., 527-9248. Vietnamese: L D. PHO SAIGON, 1160 El Paseo Road, 652-4326. Vietnamese: L D.
nean: Monday to Saturday L D. SALUD DE MESILLA, 1800 Avenida de Mesilla B, 323-3548. American, Continental: B L D. THE SHED, 810 S. Valley Dr., 5252636. American, pizza, Mexican, desserts: Wednesday to Sunday B L. SI SEÑOR, 1551 E. Amador Ave., 527-0817. Mexican: L D. SPANISH KITCHEN, 2960 N. Main St., 526-4275. Mexican: Monday to Saturday B L D. SPIRIT WINDS COFFEE BAR, 2260 S. Locust St., 521-1222. Sandwiches, coffee, bakery: B L D. ST. CLAIR WINERY & BISTRO, 1720 Avenida de Mesilla, 524-2408. Wine tasting, bistro: L D. SUNSET GRILL, 1274 Golf Club Road (Sonoma Ranch Golf Course clubhouse), 521-1826. American, Southwest, steak, burgers, seafood, pasta: B L D. Anthony ERNESTO’S MEXICAN FOOD, 200 Anthony Dr., 882-3641. Mexican: B L. LA COCINITA, 908 W. Main Dr., 5891468. Mexican: L. Bayard FIDENCIO’S TACO SHOP, 1108 Tom Foy Blvd. Mexican: B L D.
LITTLE NISHA’S, 1101 Tom Foy Blvd., 537-3526. Mexican: Wednesday to Sunday B L D. LOS COMPAS, 1203 Tom Foy Blvd, 654-4109. Sonoran-style Mexican, hot dogs, portas, menudo: L D. M & A BAYARD CAFÉ, 1101 N. Central Ave., 537-2251. Mexican and American: Monday to Friday B L D. SPANISH CAFÉ, 106 Central Ave., 537-2640. Mexican, tamales and menudo (takeout only): B. SUGAR SHACK, 1102 Tom Foy Blvd., 537-0500. Mexican: Sunday to Friday B L. Chapparal EL BAYO STEAK HOUSE, 300 Paloma Blanca Drive, 824-4749. Steakhouse: Tuesday to Sunday B L D. TORTILLERIA SUSY, 661 Paloma Blanca Dr., 824-9377. Mexican: Monday to Saturday B L D, Sunday B L. Cliff D’S CAFÉ, 8409 Hwy 180. Breakfast dishes, burritos, burgers, weekend smoked meats and ribs: Thursday to Sunday B L. PARKEY’S, 8414 Hwy. 180W, 535-4000. Coffee shop: Monday to Saturday.
PICACHO PEAK BREWING CO., 3900 W. Picacho, 575680-6394. www.picachopeakbrewery.com PLAYER’S GRILL, 3000 Herb Wimberly Drive. (NMSU golf course clubhouse), 646-2457. American: B L D. RANCHWAY BARBECUE, 604 N. Valley Dr., 523-7361. Barbecue, Mexican: Monday to Friday B L D, Saturday D. RASCO’S BBQ, 125 S. Campo St., 526-7926. Barbecued brisket, pulled pork, smoked sausage, ribs. ROBERTO’S MEXICAN FOOD, 908 E. Amador Ave., 523-1851. Mexican: B L D. ROSIE’S CAFÉ DE MESILLA, 300 N. Main St., 526-1256. Breakfast, Mexican, burgers: Saturday to Thursday B L, Friday B L D. SAENZ GORDITAS, 1700 N. Solano Dr., 527-4212. Excellent, gorditas, of course, but also amazing chicken tacos. Mexican: Monday to Saturday L D. SANTORINI’S, 1001 E. University Ave., 521-9270. Greek, Mediterra-
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TABLE TALK
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Taste of Downtown
Summer Hummers, Part Two
ummingbirds are unique in that their wings flap so quickly,” said Craig Cathey of Alto, an expert bird photographer and member of Lincoln County Bird Club. Anyone who’s ever tried to capture an image of these tiny jewels in flight knows exactly what Craig means. “Depending on conditions and what the birds are trying to accomplish, their wings can beat between 50 and 200 times per second with an average heart rate of about 1,200 beats per minute,” according to New Mexico Wildlife magazine’s Spring 2017 issue. Many times, I pre-focused my camera on a feeder, waited for a bird to appear, and before I could click the shutter, it flew off. And if I ever caught the bird in flight, its wings were a hopeless blur. Craig offers many tips to get the perfect hummingbird pic. Where you’re standing in relation to the bird and the sun is of primary importance. Craig says, “If the sun’s not coming from the correct side, you won’t get the color.” So first, position yourself so that the sun is behind you and not shading the feeder or flower. Also, “the bird’s iridescent colors don’t show up in shade,” he said. “In shade, the rose throat of the male broad-tailed may look black, so you may mistake the broad-tailed hummingbird for a black-chinned hummingbird, a smaller species.” Next in importance is the lens. “You want the largest magnification possible.” Craig prefers a 100 mm lens. Ideally, your image will blur the background with the bird in sharp focus, brightly colored, and the wings distinctive, not blurred either. “I prefer 1/2000 of a second for a shutter speed. That freezes the wings. I shoot wide open, with an F-stop around 5.6 or 6.3, depending on the sunlight,” he said. “I set the ISO between 180 and 320, never more than 640 which washes out the color.” Craig always shoots in RAW. “I hear folks complain that shooting RAW takes up too much card or file space,” he said. “ Yes, RAW may take three or four MB, but you want RAW for sharp detail, particularly if
Even with poor lighting and a tiny subject that wouldn’t hold still, Wild Earth photographer Thomas Baechtold caught the world’s smallest bird, the bee hummingbird of Cuba, at a feeder. (Photos courtesy of Thomas Baechtold/Wild Earth Expeditions)
you enlarge.” Craig does a great deal of editing, particularly cropping so that the bird has space around it. He prefers Lightroom which he deems easier to use. In addition to imaging hummers, you can derive enjoyment from learning about their uniqueness. For example, hummers are found only in the New World (Western Hemisphere). They migrate from Alaska to Chile. In New Mexico, hummingbirds can be found statewide, especially during the summer months, but the largest diversity is in the southern part of the state, again according to “New Mexico Wildlife” magazine. The largest hummer is the giant hummingbird of western South America. It measures about nine inches and weighs nearly an ounce. The smallest in the world is the minuscule bee Hummingbird of Cuba, which weighs less than a 10th of an ounce and measures a bit over two inches. Last year while traveling in Cuba with Wild Earth Expeditions, I was privileged to see the bee hummer, the world’s smallest bird. Wild Earth owner Thomas Baechtold did his best to image the tiny flier in poor light. It wasn’t easy but at least we have a souvenir. Hummingbirds are unique in the avian world in that they are the only bird that can hover, fly backwards or upside-down. This is because their wings rotate in a figure-eight motion, easily visible on a highly magnified, slow-motion video.
Hummingbirds spread pollen and pollinate plants by feeding on nectar with tongues specially designed to pull nectar from flowers. They also take flying insects and spiders for protein. Depending on the species, hummers can consume up to three times their body weight each day. A human weighing 180 pounds, by contrast, would consume 540 pounds of food. Ever seen a hummer nest? Nests are made of lichen, moss, and plant down held together with spider web. The nest is about the size of a quarter. Hummer eggs are about the size of Tic Tacs. As the chicks grow, the nest stretches to accommodate their larger size. Nests are usually in deciduous trees about 6 to 8 inches off the ground. However some hummingbird species are known to frequently nest near humans, utilizing porch lamps, potted plants, or other items that provide a nesting platform, says Anita Powell of LCBC. My neighbor Barney Watson imaged a nest he found in a tree branch in my yard. For more fascinating hummer info, check out magazine.wildlife.state. nm.us/hummingbirds-are-unique. Also,hawksaloft.org/category/bird-biology/hummingbirds for feeding and planting tips and hummingbird-guide. comfor apps. Happy humming! Novice birder and freelance writer Yvonne Lanelli of Lincoln County (evlanelli@yahoo.com) deems hummers her favorite bird.
Restaurants offer samples of the sweet and the savory
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ake a bite out of downtown Silver City on Labor Day weekend, as chefs serve up their culinary delights. Walk around downtown between 11:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. on Saturday, Sept. 1 and get delightful tastes from 17 eating establishments. This annual event benefits the Silver City MainStreet program. New restaurants are participating this year with eating establishments offering sweet and savory tastes. Participants include Q’s Southern Bistro, Brazzas Grill, The Silver City Food Co-op, Diane’s Restaurant and Parlor, Revel, Little Toad Creek Brewery and Distillery, Tranquilbuzz Coffee Shop, Javalina Coffee House, Vicki’s Eatery, The Silco Theater, Jumping Cactus Coffee House, The Fry House, Corner Kitchen, HoneeBeeGoods, Shevek’s Casual Italian, Tapas Tree Grill and Pretty Sweet Emporium. Free bottles of water will be available for ticket holders at the Taste of Downtown headquarters located at the Hub at 601 N. Bullard St. There will also be a free drawing for ticket holders at the MainStreet headquarters. “We are really happy with the participation of eating establishments this year,” said Patrick Hoskins, MainStreet Board President. “Tastes include meatballs in red sauce, Thai noodle bowl, homemade ice cream and mini tacos. Funds raised by this event go to support MainStreet activities that include beautification projects and programs and projects that encourage residents and tourists to visit downtown Silver City. A favorite event is the Lighted Christmas Parade that is produced by Silver City MainStreet.” Tickets for the Taste of Downtown can be purchased at The Place at 201 N. Bullard St, the Visitor Center located at 201 N. Hudson Street or online at www.silvercitymainstreet.com. Tickets are $20 each.
The Silver City Food Co-op serves tastes during the 2017 Taste of Downtown event in Silver City. (Courtesy Photo)
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GOING WILD
Gila River Festival
Celebrating 50 years of wild and scenic rivers The 14th Annual Gila River Festival, held Sept. 20-23, will celebrate the 50th anniversary of Wild and Scenic Rivers in the United States. Presented by the Gila Conservation Coalition, the four-day festival will feature dynamic presentations and handson activities designed to foster a deeper intimacy with the Gila River, New Mexico’s last wild river and its watershed, including river outings, expert-led hikes and field trips, presentations, and much more. The festival draws over 2,000 people annually and has grown in attendance every year since its inception in 2005. “The Gila River Festival is a powerful way to bring together both our local community and the greater conservation community, to engage and educate people on the importance of the Gila River, said festival coordinator Donna Stevens. “We’ve got an exciting lineup of guest speakers and field trips. There is something fun and interesting for everyone.” US Sen. Tom Udall has been invited to give the Gila River Festival keynote address on Saturday, Sept. 22. He is uniquely qualified to speak about the historic Wild and Scenic Rivers
The Gila provides multiple recreational uses including fishing and kayaking as will be explored during the Gila River Festival. (Photo by Wick Beavers)
A peaceful place in New Mexico, the Gila river provides scenic views as well as supporting the wildlife and environment around it. (Photo by Torie Grass)
legislation, as his father Stewart Udall, Secretary of the Interior under Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson, was instrumental in its passage. The evening event will be held at the Murray Hotel ballroom, and will also include music by Las Cruces’ Caliente Band and wines from La Esperanza Vineyard and Winery. Tim Palmer, author of “Wild and Scenic River: An American Legacy,” will talk about America’s wild and scenic rivers and
feature Melissa Sevigny, author of “Mythical River: Chasing the Mirage of New Water in the American Southwest.” She will discuss her use of the fictitious Buenaventura River, included on maps for decades in the 1800s, as a metaphor for the Western United States as the eternal water frontier. A panel discussion on using film and digital media for conservation and social change features Navajo filmmaker Tony Estrada and Sinjin Eberle of
show his stunning photographs of its protected waterways. Writer and Gila National Forest fire lookout Philip Connors will give a presentation on Thursday, Sept. 20 on the history of the Gila as the nation’s first wilderness river, which is currently under consideration for Wild and Scenic status, and read excerpts from his forthcoming book “A Song For the River.” Sunday morning’s local foods brunch at The Commons (aka the Volunteer Center) will
the national nonprofit American Rivers. They will introduce and show a few short documentaries, including films on Wild and Scenic Rivers and the water protectors of Standing Rock. A discussion will follow. Steve Harris, river runner and director of the nonprofit Rio Grande Restoration, will present the history of the Rio Grande and how it came to be included in the original group of rivers designated as Wild and Scenic. Water law attorney and director of the University of New Mexico’s Utton Transboundary Resources Center, Adrian Oglesby, will present a layperson’s primer on New Mexico’s convoluted, complex, and outdated water laws, and discuss how the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act can be used to protect our rivers. Popular events scheduled again this year will be the Gila River kayak trip, the Monsoon Puppet Theater puppet parade, and the Gila River Extravaganza, a street fair featuring music, performers, poetry and community art projects, which last year drew a crowd of over 500. For more details and registration, visit www.gilariverfestival. org or call 575-538-8078.
REALITY CHECK • TOM VAUGHN
Silent Contemplation
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ila Friends Meeting (Quaker) invites everyone to join them at Silver City’s Gough Park pavilion on Sunday, Aug. 5, to remember the menace nuclear weapons continue to represent to New Mexicans – and the rest of the world. Bring a chair and join in a circle of silent contemplation at 12:30 p.m., followed by a period of worship sharing. Information on the history of the atomic bomb and on current efforts to abolish nuclear weapons will be available. The 73rd anniversary of the first detonation of a nuclear weapon in wartime will be the next day, Aug. 6. Three days after an atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, Japan, killing 70,000 in a moment, another A-bomb was dropped on Nagasaki, killing another 20,000. Thousands more have been killed, sterilized or sickened by the long-term effects of the radiation from those
In 2017 Silver City residents join to remember the dead of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. (Photo courtesy FeVa Photos)
two explosions. Most of the casualties have been civilians. Exhibits at the Aug. 5 event will
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show the consequences of these two atomic bombings. The advent of the new weapon – born, tested and produced in New Mexico – spurred the U.S., the U.S.S.R. and other nations to race to develop and produce their own arsenals of nuclear devices. By 1986, there were more than 60,000 nuclear warheads around the globe. The long-lasting and indiscriminate horror of nuclear weapons was beginning to sink in by 1968, when the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nucle-
ar Weapons (NPT) was negotiated at the United Nations. The NPT, which includes a goal of achieving nuclear disarmament and general and complete disarmament worldwide, has been signed by 191 nations, including the U.S. In 1996 – 50 years after the explosions at Hiroshima and Nagasaki – the Canberra Commission on the Elimination of Nuclear Weapons (an international panel that included former U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara) concluded:
• Nuclear weapons are immensely destructive, and any use would be a catastrophe. • Nuclear weapons are militarily irrelevant. • If no states had nuclear weapons, no states would seek them. Progress toward reduction of nuclear arsenals has been slow, but it has been more successful than most people realize – there are “only” an estimated 14,185 warheads available for use today, a decrease of 50,000 warheads from the 1986 level! Since then, however, Israel, India, Pakistan and North Korea have acquired nuclear capability and Iran is an additional concern. On July 7, 2017, almost exactly a year ago, 122 U.N. member nations approved the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, which prohibits the development, testing, production, stockpiling, stationing, transfer, use and threat of use of nuclear weapons, as well as assistance and encouragement to the prohibited activities. None of the nuclear nations supported that treaty, and only 59 nations have signed the treaty to date. Against this is the U.S. budget proposal to spend an average of $10 billion on nuclear weapons annually for each of the next four years. The danger to us all is still clear and present.
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Silver City/Grant County Silver City Farmers’ Market — 10:30 a.m.-2:30 p.m., at the Grant County Veterans Memorial Business and Conference Center, 3031 U.S. Highway 180, Silver City. Info: 575-538-5555. Music with Byron Trammell — 6 p.m. at the Buckhorn Saloon, 32 Main St., Pinos Altos. Enjoy Spaghetti Night with cool jazz. Info: 575-538-9911. Alamogordo/Otero County Wine Down Wednesday — 6-9 p.m. at Heart of the Desert, 7288 U.S. Highway 54/70 between Tularosa and Alamogordo. Live music on The Patio with Papa Jim’s Cook Shack onsite with dinner choices. Info: 575-434-0035. Las Cruces/Mesilla Dustin Hamman at Little Toad Creek — 7 p.m., 119 N. Main Street, Las Cruces downtown. Singer/songwriter plays his music. Info: 575-556-9934.
THURSDAY, AUGUST 2
Silver City/Grant County Southwest New Mexico Quilters Guild Show — 10 a.m.-5 p.m., Grant County Veterans Memorial Business & Conference Center, 3031 U.S. Hwy. 180, Silver City. Free. Info: 575-534-0446. Film series: “Apache Warriors” — 7 p.m. at the Santa Clara Armory, north of U.S. Highway 180 across from the village of Santa Clara. Part of the Fort Bayard Historic Preservation Society “The Spirit of the Human Being: Indigenous Peoples’ Survival through Humor and Tragedy” film series. Info: 575-388-4862. Ruidoso/Lincoln County Alto Artists’ Studio Tour 2018 Preview Party — 5-7 p.m. at the Spencer Theater for Performing Arts in Alto. Meet the artists and welcome guest artist Michael Hurd. Info: altoartiststudiotour.com. Las Cruces/Mesilla Las Cruces Ukes — 5:15-6:15 p.m. Thursdays beginner group; 6:30-8 p.m. Thursdays performance group at Good Samaritan Society, Las Cruces Village, 3011 Buena Vida Circle. Free. Info: lascrucesukes.blogspot.com, 575405-7133.
FRIDAY, AUGUST 3
Silver City/Grant County Southwest New Mexico Quilters Guild Show — 10 a.m.-5 p.m., Grant County Veterans Memorial Business & Conference Center, 3031 U.S. Hwy. 180, Silver City. Free. Info: 575-534-0446. Music in the Park – 6:30-9 p.m. Viola Stone Park, Santa Clara. Free. Info: 575-912-3263. Rudy Boy Experiment at Little Toad Creek — 8 p.m. at 200 N. Bullard, downtown Silver City. Southwest rock and blues. Info: 575-956-6144. Alamogordo/Otero County Launch Pad Lecture: Nuclear Legacy, The Manhattan Project — 9-10 a.m. at the New Mexico Museum of Space History in Alamogordo. Presented by Museum Curator Sue Taylor. Info: 1-877-3336589. Car/Truck Show and Expo — 9 a.m.-9 p.m. Fundraiser for New Mexico State University-Alamogordo automotive program. Tays Center, NMSU-A, 2400 N. Scenic Drive. Info: 575-442-9237. “Shrek: The Musical” — 7-9 p.m.
at the Flickinger Center for Performing Arts, 1110 New York Ave. in Alamogordo. An Alamogordo Music Theatre performance. Info: 575-437-2202. Ruidoso/Lincoln County Alto Artists’ Studio Tour 2018 — Visit several artist’s studios across Alto and in Ruidoso. Info: altoartiststudiotour.com. Old Lincoln Days — Lincoln, New Mexico. Three days of family fun, food, entertainment and living history, including nightly “Last Escape of Billy the Kid” pageant and Sunday matinee. Cost: Free. Info: 575-653-4025. Chile the Kid — Ruidoso Downs Racetrack and Casino, 26225 U.S. Hwy. 70 E. Three-day festival for wine and beer enthusiasts. Cost: $15-$25. Info: 575-937-2582. “Black Panther” — Sundown, White Mountain Sports Complex, 695 Hull Road, Ruidoso. Part of Parks & Rec Super Hero Summer Movie Nights. Cost: Free. Info: 575257-5030.
SATURDAY, AUGUST 4
Silver City/Grant County New 2U Rummage Sale — 8 a.m.2 p.m. at the Silver City Woman’s Club, 411 Silver Heights Blvd. in Silver City. Info: silvercitywomansclub.org. Silver City Farmers’ Market — 8:30 a.m.-noon, 700 Bullard St. Silver City. Info: 575-538-5555. Southwest New Mexico Quilters Guild Show — 10 a.m.-5 p.m., Grant County Veterans Memorial Business & Conference Center, 3031 U.S. Hwy. 180, Silver City. Free. Info: 575-534-0446. Allison Reynolds at Little Toad Creek — 7:30 p.m. at 200 N. Bullard, downtown Silver City. Singer songwriter. Info: 575-956-6144. Deming/Luna County Farmers & Crafts Market — 8-11 a.m. at the Luna County Courthouse at 700 S. Silver Ave. in Deming. Info: 575-546-2674. Reserve/Catron County Martha and Mary Thrift Store Day — 10-2 on Highway 12, Apache Creek, just North of Reserve. Info: 575-740-0786.
Hwy. 70 E. Three-day festival for wine and beer enthusiasts. Cost: $15-$25. Info: 575-937-2582. B.J. Thomas — 8 p.m. Spencer Theater, 108 Spencer Road, Alto. Winner of five Grammys and two Dove Awards. Cost: $39-$69 for tickets; $20 for 6 p.m. enchilada and tamale buffet. Info: 575-3364800. Las Cruces/Mesilla Farmers Arts and Crafts Market — 8 a.m.-1 p.m. on the Las Cruces Downtown Main Street Plaza. Info: 575-805-6055. Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation Annual Banquet — 5 p.m. at the Las Cruces Convention Center, 608 E. University Ave. in Las Cruces. Info: 575-644-0080.
SUNDAY, AUGUST 5
Las Cruces/Mesilla Jazz Brunch with Derrick Lee Band — 1-4 p.m., Little Toad Creek, 119 N. Main Street, Las Cruces downtown. Singer/songwriter plays his music. Info: 575-5569934. Music in the Park— 7 p.m. at Young Park, 1905 E. Nevada Ave. in Las Cruces. Remember Then, Soul Shine. Cost: Free. Info: 575-5412550. Ruidoso/Lincoln County Old Lincoln Days — Lincoln, New Mexico. Three days of family fun, food, entertainment and living history, including nightly “Last Escape of Billy the Kid” pageant and Sunday matinee. Cost: Free. Info: 575-653-4025. Chile the Kid — Ruidoso Downs Racetrack and Casino, 26225 U.S. Hwy. 70 E. Three-day festival for
wine and beer enthusiasts. Cost: $15-$25. Info: 575-937-2582. “Annie” — 8-10 p.m. Inn of the Mountain Gods, 287 Carrizo Canyon Road, Mescalero. Part of the Sunday Under the Stars movies on the lawn series. Bring your own chairs and blanket. Cost: Free. Info: innofthemountaingods.com/entertainment.
MONDAY, AUGUST 6
Silver City/Grant County Laughter Club — 1-1:45 p.m., Lotus Center, 211 W. Broadway St., Silver City. Use the physical act of laughter to enhance your health. Free, donations accepted. Info: Mary Ann Finn, 575-388-0243.
TUESDAY, AUGUST 7
Silver City/Grant County Reading: “Tenuous State” — 3:30 p.m. at the Silver City Public Library. Author Bill Charland will be reading from his new novel, “Tenuous State: A Tale of Survival in the West.” Info: hugsum1aaaaaa2gmail.com. Las Cruces/Mesilla Doña Ana Photography Club — 7 p.m. at the Southwest Environmental Center, 275 N. Main St. Las Cruces. Dale Taylor presents demonstration on portraiture and flash followed by a 30-minute program about Phillipe Halsman. Info: www.daphotoclub.org. Open Mic Night with Danny Graves at Little Toad Creek — 7-10 p.m., 119 N. Main Street, Las Cruces downtown. Info: 575-5569934.
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 8
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Ruidoso/Lincoln County Alto Artists’ Studio Tour 2018 — Visit several artist’s studios across Alto and in Ruidoso. Info: altoartiststudiotour.com. Old Lincoln Days — Lincoln, New Mexico. Three days of family fun, food, entertainment and living history, including nightly “Last Escape of Billy the Kid” pageant and Sunday matinee. Cost: Free. Info: 575-653-4025. Chile the Kid — Ruidoso Downs Racetrack and Casino, 26225 U.S.
Alamogordo/Otero County Free Summer Flix at the Flick — 1 p.m. at the Flickinger Center for Performing Arts, 1110 New York Ave. in Alamogordo. Info: 575-4372202. Las Cruces/Mesilla The Moves Collective at Little Toad Creek — 8-10 p.m., 119 N. Main Street, Las Cruces downtown. Funk grass band. Info: 575-5569934.
THURSDAY, AUGUST 9
Silver City/Grant County Film series: “We Shall Remain” — 7 p.m. at the Santa Clara Armory, north of U.S. Highway 180 across from the village of Santa Clara. Part of the Fort Bayard Historic Preservation Society “The Spirit of the Human Being: Indigenous Peoples’ Survival through Humor and Tragedy” film series. Info: 575-388-4862. Las Cruces/Mesilla Las Cruces Ukes — 5:15-6:15 p.m. Thursdays beginner group; 6:30-8 p.m. Thursdays performance group at Good Samaritan Society, Las Cruces Village, 3011 Buena Vida Circle. Free. Info: lascrucesukes.blogspot.com, 575405-7133. “The Churro and the Navajo: One Family’s Journey to Save the Sacred Sheep” — 7 p.m. at the New Mexico Farm & Ranch Heritage Museum. Part of the Culture Series at the museum the program
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Truth or Consequences/ Sierra County Sierra County Farmers’ Market — 8:30-11 a.m. at Ralph Edwards Park, Riverside and Cedar in T or C. Info: 575-894-9375. Alamogordo/Otero County Car/Truck Show and Expo — 9 a.m.-1 p.m. Fundraiser for New Mexico State University-Alamogordo automotive program. Tays Center, NMSU-A, 2400 N. Scenic Drive. Info: 575-442-9237. “Shrek: The Musical” — 7-9 p.m. at the Flickinger Center for Performing Arts, 1110 New York Ave. in Alamogordo. An Alamogordo Music Theatre performance. Info: 575-437-2202.
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FRIDAY, AUGUST 10
Silver City/Grant County Music in the Park — 6:30-9 p.m. in Viola Stone Park, Santa Clara. Info: 575-912-3263. Sam Madan at Little Toad Creek — 8 p.m. at 200 N. Bullard, downtown Silver City. Country and rock. Info: 575-956-6144.
Las Cruces/Mesilla Mexican Cultural Series — 7 p.m. Rio Grande Theatre, 211 N. Main St., Las Cruces. Mexican pianist Astrid Morales and cellist Jason Mooney premier tango masterpiece. Cost: Free. Info: www. riograndetheatre.org. Jim Dixon at Little Toad Creek — 8-10 p.m., 119 N. Main Street, Las Cruces downtown. Singer song-
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writer and his music. Info: 575-5569934. Ruidoso/Lincoln County Lee Rocker of the Stray Cats — 8 p.m. Spencer Theater, 108 Spencer Road, Alto. Rocker’s own touring band keeps the 1950s rockabilly style of music and fashion. Cost: $39-$69 for tickets; $20 for 6 p.m. catfish buffet. Info: 575-336-4800.
SATURDAY, AUGUST 11
Silver City/Grant County Silver City Farmers’ Market — 8:30 a.m.-noon, 700 Bullard St. Silver City. Info: 575-538-5555. Canyon View of the Dwellings — 9 a.m. Hike through Gila Wilderness to get spectacular cross-canyon views of the cliff dwellings below. Strenuous hike limited to 30 participants. Gila Cliff Dwellings, NM Hwy. 15, Silver City. Info: 575-536-9461. Just Words — 2-4 p.m. at Tranquilbuzz Coffee House, 112 W. Yankie St. in Silver City. Info: sigriddaughter@gmail.com. Music with Scott Van Linge — 6:30 p.m. at the Buckhorn Saloon, 32 Main St., Pinos Altos. Info: 575538-9911. Jim Dixon at Little Toad Creek — 8 p.m. at 200 N. Bullard, downtown Silver City. Singer songwriter. Info: 575-956-6144. Catron County Canyon View Hike — Start at the Gila Visitor Center at the Gila Cliff Dwellings, Strenuous hike through the Gila Wilderness for spectacular cross-canyon views. Registration required. Info: 575-536-9461. Alamogordo/Otero County Science Saturday — 9 a.m.-noon
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at the New Mexico Museum of Space History in Alamogordo. Kids get to be the scientists hands on. Info: 1-877-333-6589. Remember Then — 8 p.m. at the New Mexico Museum of Space History in Alamogordo. Remember Then is a regional band performing songs from the 1950s and 60s. Part of the Flickinger Center Tailgate Summer Concert Series at the museum, with grand vistas of the Tularosa Basin and summer evening sky. Cost: $10-$45. Info: www. flickingercenter.ticketforce.com. Truth or Consequences/ Sierra County Sierra County Farmers’ Market — 8:30-11 a.m. at Ralph Edwards Park, Riverside and Cedar in T or C. Info: 575-894-9375. Second Saturday Art Hop — 6-9 p.m., Downtown Truth or Consequences. Info: MainStreet, promotions@torcmainstreet.org. Las Cruces/Mesilla Farmers Arts and Crafts Market — 8 a.m.-1 p.m. on the Las Cruces Downtown Main Street Plaza. Info: 575-805-6055. “Beauty and the Beast” — Dusk. Young Park, 1905 E. Nevada Ave., Las Cruces. The 2018 Movies in the Park program, featuring family and kid friendly movies. Cost: Free. Info: 575-541-2550. Three Rivers at Little Toad Creek — 8 p.m., 119 N. Main Street, Las Cruces downtown. Playing Americana, bluegrass and country tunes Info: 575-556-9934.
SUNDAY, AUGUST 12
Alamogordo/Otero County The Art of Wine — 1-4 p.m. Heart of the Desert, 7288 U.S. Hwy. 70, Alamogordo. Instructor-supervised acrylic painting on canvas while enjoying Heart of the Desert wine. Cost: $35. Info: 575-434-0035. Las Cruces/Mesilla Jazz Brunch with Derrick Lee Band — 1-4 p.m., Little Toad Creek, 119 N. Main Street, Las Cruces downtown. Singer/songwriter plays his music. Info: 575-5569934. Music in the Park— 7 p.m. at Young Park, 1905 E. Nevada Ave. in Las Cruces. Tequila Nights, Johnny Hernandez Band. Cost: Free. Info: 575-541-2550. Ruidoso/Lincoln County “Brother Bear” — 8-10 p.m. Inn of the Mountain Gods, 287 Carrizo Canyon Road, Mescalero. Part of the Sunday Under the Stars movies on the lawn series. Bring your own chairs and blanket. Cost: Free. Info: innofthemountaingods.com/enter-
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MONDAY, AUGUST 13
Las Cruces/Mesilla Tango dance instruction — 7-8 p.m. Monday nights Mesilla Community Center 2251 Calle de Santiago. Instructor Tommy Nations. Dance 5-9 p.m. Cost: $10. Info: 575-635-6903.
TUESDAY, AUGUST 14
Silver City/Grant County Mountain Bike Ride — 5:15 p.m., bicycles, Little Walnut Picnic Grounds. Carpool and meet up for 1.5 hours of riding. Level of difficulty: intermediate.
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 15
Las Cruces/Mesilla Travis Manning at Little Toad Creek — 8-10 p.m., 119 N. Main Street, Las Cruces downtown. Singer songwriter and his music. Info: 575-556-9934.
THURSDAY, AUGUST 16
Silver City/Grant County Film series: “Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee” — 7 p.m. at the Santa Clara Armory, north of U.S. Highway 180 across from the village of Santa Clara. Part of the Fort Bayard Historic Preservation Society “The Spirit of the Human Being: Indigenous Peoples’ Survival through Humor and Tragedy” film series. Info: 575-388-4862. Las Cruces/Mesilla Las Cruces Ukes — 5:15-6:15 p.m. Thursdays beginner group; 6:30-8 p.m. Thursdays performance group at Good Samaritan Society, Las Cruces Village, 3011 Buena Vida Circle. Free. Info: lascrucesukes.blogspot.com, 575405-7133.
FRIDAY, AUGUST 17
Silver City/Grant County Music in the Park in Santa Clara — 6:30-9 p.m. at Viola Stone Park in Santa Clara. Info: 575-912-3263. Copper Country Cruizers Car Show Registration – 2-8 p.m. at Holiday Inn Express, 1103 Superior in Silver City. Hot dog burn starts at 5:30 p.m. Info: www.coppercountrycruizers.com. Willie Green at Little Toad Creek — 9 p.m. at 200 N. Bullard, downtown Silver City. Modern jazz and soul from New Orleans. Info: 575-956-6144. Ruidoso/Lincoln County “Avengers: Infinity War” — Sundown, White Mountain Sports Complex, 695 Hull Road, Ruidoso. Part of Parks & Rec Super Hero Summer Movie Nights. Cost: Free. Info: 575-257-5030.
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SATURDAY, AUGUST 18
Silver City/Grant County 27th Annual Copper Country Cruizers Car Show – 8 a.m.-4 p.m. at Gough Park, 1200 N. Pope St. in Silver City. Free. Info: www.coppercountrycruizers.com. Silver City Farmers’ Market — 8:30 a.m.-noon, 700 Bullard St. Silver City. Info: 575-538-5555. Fort Bayard commemorates 152 years — 9 a.m. at Fort Bayard National Historic Landmark in Santa Clara. Events through the day begin with a flag raising ceremony and continue with talks and tours. Members of the Fort Bayard Historical Society will appear in uniform and period costume. An evening program begins at 6 p.m. Info: 575956-3294. Permaculture Silver City — 1-3 p.m. 301 W. College Ave., Suite 5, Silver City. Regular monthly meeting. Info: permaculture-silver-city@ googlegroups.com. Just Words — 2 p.m. at the Tranquilbuzz Coffee House, 112 Yankie St. in Silver City. Santa Fe poet Pamela Williams and Silver City poet Stewart Warren read from their work followed by open mic for poetry and prose. Info: sigriddaughter@gmail.com. Reading Under the Stars — 6:30 p.m. Three-course meal and conversation under the stars, plus short readings, Silver City, Southwest Festival of the Written Word, 4229 N. Swan St., Silver City. Cost: $25. Info: jjawilson@hotmail.com. Music with Sage Gentlewing — 6:30 p.m. at the Buckhorn Saloon, 32 Main St., Pinos Altos. Info: 575538-9911. Hollow Roots at Little Toad Creek — 8 p.m. at 200 N. Bullard, down-
AUGUST 2018 • 35 town Silver City. Gritty rock from Nashville. Info: 575-956-6144. Reserve/Catron County Martha and Mary Thrift Store Day — 10-2 on Highway 12, Apache Creek, just North of Reserve. Info: 575-740-0786. Truth or Consequences/ Sierra County Sierra County Farmers’ Market — 8:30-11 a.m. at Ralph Edwards Park, Riverside and Cedar in T or C. Info: 575-894-9375. Alamogordo/Otero County Science Saturday — 9 a.m.-noon at the New Mexico Museum of Space History in Alamogordo. Hands on science for kids of all ages. Info: 1-877-333-6589. Las Cruces/Mesilla Farmers Arts and Crafts Market — 8 a.m.-1 p.m. on the Las Cruces Downtown Main Street Plaza. Info: 575-805-6055. “Mary Poppins” — Noon-2 p.m., Rio Grande Theatre, 211 N. Main St., Las Cruces. Children’s Matinee Series. Concessions available. Cost: $1 per person, cash only. Info: www.visitlascruces.com. “Breakfast at Tiffany’s” — 7-9 p.m., Rio Grande Theatre, 211 N. Main St., Las Cruces. Classic Film Series. Concessions available, including beer, wine and spirits. Cost: $8. Info: www.riograndetheatre.com. Ruidoso/Lincoln County “Out of town company: Birds that spend the summer in our mountains” — 9 a.m.-noon at the Smokey Bear Ranger Station. Info: 575-258-4095. Carrizozo Arts Festival and Studio Tour — 10 a.m.-10 p.m. Crafts, galleries, music, street dancing, beer garden, food trucks, artist tours, historic trolley. Cost: Free. Info: facebook.com/CarrizozoArt.
Live and Let Die — 8 p.m. Spencer Theater, 108 Spencer Road, Alto. Tony Kishman in the ultimate tribute to the music of Paul McCartney, featuring New Mexico State University’s orchestra musicians conducted by Lonnie Klein. Cost: $39-$79 for tickets. Info: 575-3364800.
SUNDAY, AUGUST 19
Las Cruces/Mesilla Music in the Park— 7 p.m. at Young Park, 1905 E. Nevada Ave. in Las Cruces. Reviva, Bubba Kush Band. Cost: Free. Info: 575-5412550. Ruidoso/Lincoln County Carrizozo Arts Festival and Studio Tour — 11 a.m.-4 p.m. Crafts, galleries, music, street dancing, beer garden, food trucks, artist tours, historic trolley. Cost: Free. Info: facebook.com/CarrizozoArt. “The Sweep of American History and Culture as Revealed Through Currency and Coins” — 2 p.m. at the Capitan Public Library. Program presented by David Higgins. He will be discussing Lady Liberty and her changes at length. Info: 575-3543035.. Las Cruces/Mesilla Jazz Brunch with Derrick Lee Band — 1-4 p.m., Little Toad Creek, 119 N. Main Street, Las Cruces downtown. Singer/songwriter plays his music. Info: 575-5569934. The Backyard Porch Blues Band — 7 p.m. at First Christian Church, 1809 El Paseo in Las Cruces. A Mesilla Valley Jazz & Blues event. Info: 575-640-8752.
TUESDAY, AUGUST 21
Ruidoso/Lincoln County Spencer Theater Benefit Golf Tournament — 8 a.m., 7 a.m. registration. Rainmakers Resort and Club, 164 Rainmakers Drive, Alto. Info: 336-002.
Las Cruces/Mesilla Doña Ana Photography Club — 7 p.m. at the Southwest Environmental Center, 275 N. Main St. Las Cruces. Seth Madell demonstrates adding light rays to photos using post processing techniques followed bya review of recent fireworks photos and submissions to the monthly theme. Info: www. daphotoclub.org.
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 22
Alamogordo/Otero County Free Summer Flix at the Flick — 1 p.m. at the Flickinger Center for Performing Arts, 1110 New York Ave. in Alamogordo. Info: 575-4372202. Wine Down Wednesday — 6-9 p.m. at Heart of the Desert, 7288 U.S. Highway 54/70 between Tularosa and Alamogordo. Live music, relaxation, dinner options. Info: 575-434-0035. Las Cruces/Mesilla Wednesday Night on Main — 6 p.m. on the Plaza de Las Cruces. Entertainment, vendors, activities and food trucks. Info: 575-5221232.
THURSDAY, AUGUST 23
Deming/Luna County Great American Duck Race — 6:30 p.m. Duck Royalty Pageants, Voier’s “Pit” Park Amphitheater. Info: www.demingduckrace.com. Las Cruces/Mesilla Las Cruces Ukes — 5:15-6:15 p.m. Thursdays beginner group; 6:30-8 p.m. Thursdays performance group at Good Samaritan Society, Las Cruces Village, 3011 Buena Vida Circle. Free. Info: lascrucesukes.blogspot.com, 575405-7133. Thursday Night Jam — 7:309:30 p.m. Thursdays, Rio Grande Theatre, 211 N. Main St. Friends of Visit Las Cruces present local and up-and-coming musicians. Concessions, including beer and wine, will be available for purchase. Cost: $5. Ruidoso/Lincoln County Neal McCoy in concert — 8 p.m. Spencer Theater, 108 Spencer Road, Alto. Platinum country recording artist shares his free-wheeling, honky tonk vibe in two shows, Aug. 23-24. Cost: $39-$79 for tickets. Info: 575-336-4800.
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FRIDAY, AUGUST 24
Silver City/Grant County Music in the Park — 6:30-9 p.m. in Viola Stone Park, Santa Clara. Info: 575-912-3263. Music with the Lloyd Lamar Quartet — 6:30 p.m. at the Buckhorn Saloon, 32 Main St., Pinos Altos. Info: 575-538-9911. Divided Heaven at Little Toad Creek — 8 p.m. at 200 N. Bullard, downtown Silver City. Indie rock/ punk from Los Angeles. Info: 575956-6144. Deming/Luna County Great American Duck Race — 4 p.m. Courthouse Park. Duck Mart, vendors, carnival, entertainment. Info: www.demingduckrace.com. Alamogordo/Otero County Fourth Friday at Alameda Park Zoo — 6-10 p.m. at Alameda Park Zoo in Alamogordo. Live music, movie, food, alcohol service. Info: 575-439-4203. Lordsburg/Hidalgo County Healthy Eating for Diabetes — 2-3:30 p.m. at the Hidalgo Medical Services Clinic in Lordsburg, 530 DeMoss St. Info: 575-597-2430.
Canyon Road, Mescalero. Cost: $29 Info: www.innofthemountaingods. com/event/war. Ruidoso Antique Show — 4-7:30 p.m. Ruidoso Convention Center, 111 Sierra Blanca Drive, Ruidoso. Quality antique dealers from several states. Cost: $5-$12. Info: 512-4130260. Neal McCoy in concert — 8 p.m. Spencer Theater, 108 Spencer Road, Alto. Platinum country recording artist shares his free-wheeling, honky tonk vibe in two shows, Aug. 23-24. Cost: $39-$79 for tickets. Info: 575-336-4800.
Soccer Field. 10 a.m. Tournament of Ducks Parade downtown. Live duck races noon-4 p.m. and 5:30-7 p.m. Info: www.demingduckrace.com.
SATURDAY, AUGUST 25
Alamogordo/Otero County Fiesta de La Luz 5K — 8 a.m., 7 a.m. registration. Presidio Park, La Luz. Cost: $25. Info: 575-434-9460. Bobcats — 8 p.m. at the New Mexico Museum of Space History in Alamogordo. The Bobcats are a New Mexico trio playing jazz, swing, blues and bossa nova. Part of the Flickinger Center Tailgate Summer Concert Series at the museum, with grand vistas of the Tularosa Basin and summer evening sky. Cost: $10-$45. Info: www.flickingercenter. ticketforce.com. Full Moon Hike — 7:30-8:30 p.m. at White Sands National Monument Dune Life Nature Trail. Cost: $8 adults, $4 child. Info: 575-479-6124.
Silver City/Grant County Full Moon Hike — 8 p.m. Nighttime hike and tour of Gila Cliff Dwellings under moonlight. Limited to 30 participants. Cost: standard park fees. Info: 575-536-9461. Paper Moon Shiners at Little Toad Creek — 8 p.m. at 200 N. Bullard, downtown Silver City. Vintage jazz, swing and ragtime. Info: 575-9566144. Deming/Luna County Great American Duck Race — Events all day throughout Deming. Carnival, entertainment and vendors at Courthouse Park. 7 a.m. mass hot air balloon ascension at Deming
Ruidoso/Lincoln County War in Concert — 8-11 p.m. Inn of the Mountain Gods, 287 Carrizo
Truth or Consequences/ Sierra County Elephant Butte Balloon Regatta — 6:45 – 10 a.m., Elephant Butte Lake State Park, Hwy. 195 in Elephant Butte. Cost: Normal park fees. Info: www.ebbr.org. Sierra County Farmers’ Market — 8:30-11 a.m. at Ralph Edwards Park, Riverside and Cedar in T or C. Info: 575-894-9375.
Las Cruces/Mesilla Farmers Arts and Crafts Market — 8 a.m.-1 p.m. on the Las Cruces Downtown Main Street Plaza. Info: 575-805-6055. Community Appreciation Day — 9 a.m.-4 p.m. at the New Mexico Farm & Ranch Heritage Museum. Free admission and demonstrations as well as pony rides, living history and a plant sale. Info: 575-5224100. “The Little Mermaid” — Noon-2 p.m., Rio Grande Theatre, 211 N. Main St., Las Cruces. Children’s Matinee Series. Concessions available. Cost: $1 per person, cash only. Info: www.visitlascruces.com. NMSU vs. Wyoming — 6 p.m. Aggie Memorial Stadium, New Mexico State University campus. The Arizona Bowl-winning Aggies host Wyoming in their season opener. Cost: $10-$30. Info: www. nmstatesports.com. “Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner” — 7-9 p.m., Rio Grande Theatre, 211 N. Main St., Las Cruces. Classic Film Series. Concessions available, including beer, wine and spirits. Cost: $8. Info: www.riograndetheatre.com. “Wonder” — Dusk. Young Park, 1905 E. Nevada Ave., Las Cruces. The 2018 Movies in the Park
program, featuring family and kid friendly movies. Cost: Free. Info: 575-541-2550. Derrick Harris Jazz Band at Little Toad Creek — 8-11 p.m., 119 N. Main Street, Las Cruces downtown. Gritty rock music from Nashville. Info: 575-556-9934. Ruidoso/Lincoln County Ruidoso Antique Show — 10 a.m.5 p.m. Ruidoso Convention Center, 111 Sierra Blanca Drive, Ruidoso. Quality antique dealers from several states. Cost: $5. Info: 512-4130260. Artesia/Eddy County Red Dirt Black Gold with the Yarbroughs — At the Artesia Arts Center, 310 Main St. Artesia. Info: 575-745-4212. Catron County Full Moon Hike — Evening at the Gila Cliff Dwellings, Registration required. Info: 575-536-9461.
SUNDAY, AUGUST 26
Deming/Luna County Great American Duck Race — Events all day throughout Deming. Carnival, entertainment and vendors at Courthouse Park. 7 a.m. mass hot air balloon ascension at Deming Soccer Field. 10 a.m. Tournament of Ducks Parade downtown. Live duck
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MONDAY, AUGUST 27
Las Cruces/Mesilla Tango dance instruction — 7-8 p.m. Monday nights Mesilla Community Center 2251 Calle de Santiago. Instructor Tommy Nations. Dance 5-9 p.m. Cost: $10. Info: 575-635-6903.
TUESDAY, AUGUST 28
Silver City/Grant County Mountain Bike Ride — 5:15
AUGUST 2018 • 37 p.m., bicycles, Little Walnut Picnic Grounds. Carpool and meet up for 1.5 hours of riding. Level of difficulty: intermediate. Silver City/Grant County Silver City Farmers’ Market — 10:30 a.m.-2:30 p.m., at the Grant County Veterans Memorial Business and Conference Center, 3031 U.S. Highway 180, Silver City. Info: 575538-5555.
Park, Ruidoso. Weekend of music, including Bri Bagwell, Josh Abbott Band, Dallas Smith, Rick Trevino, Lanco and more. Cost: Tickets start at $35. Info: www.allamericancountrymusicfestival.com. All-American Futurity Weekend — Ruidoso Downs Racetrack and Casino, 26225 U.S. Hwy. 70 E. Live racing all weekend at the world’s richest quarter horse race. Futurity race Monday, Sept. 3. Info: www. raceruidoso.com.
Alamogordo/Otero County Free Summer Flix at the Flick — 1 p.m. at the Flickinger Center for Performing Arts, 1110 New York Ave. in Alamogordo. Info: 575-4372202.
Las Cruces/Mesilla High Desert Playboys at Little Toad Creek — 8-11 p.m., 119 N. Main Street, Las Cruces downtown. Rock and country tunes. Info: 575556-9934.
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Las Cruces/Mesilla Las Cruces Ukes — 5:15-6:15 p.m. Thursdays beginner group; 6:30-8 p.m. Thursdays performance group at Good Samaritan Society, Las Cruces Village, 3011 Buena Vida Circle. Free. Info: lascrucesukes. blogspot.com, 575-405-7133. Music on the Plaza — 7 p.m. on the Plaza de Las Cruces. Food tucks will be on site for free performances by local, regional and national musicians. Info: 575-5412550. Thursday Night Jam — 7:309:30 p.m. Thursdays, Rio Grande Theatre, 211 N. Main St. Friends of Visit Las Cruces present local and up-and-coming musicians. Concessions, including beer and wine, will be available for purchase. Cost: $5.
FRIDAY, AUGUST 31
Silver City/Grant County Music in the Park — 6:30-9 p.m. in Viola Stone Park, Santa Clara. Info: 575-912-3263. Ruidoso/Lincoln County All-American Country Music Festival — 1-10 p.m. Wingfield
Silver City/Grant County Silver City Farmers’ Market — 8:30 a.m.-noon, 700 Bullard St. Silver City. Info: 575-538-5555. Grant County Rolling Stones Gem & Mineral Show — 9 a.m.-5 p.m., Grant County Veterans Memorial Business and Conference Center, 3031 U.S. Highway 180, Silver City. Free. Info: 575-654-4424. Taste of Downtown — 11:30 a.m.-2:30 p.m. Enjoy culinary delights as you stroll Downtown Silver City. Fundraiser for Silver City MainStreet. Cost: $20. Info: www. silvercitymainstreet.com. Deming/Luna County StarsNParks Program at Rockhound State Park — 8:45 p.m.10:15 at Rockhound State Park East of Deming. Presenter is Mike Nuss showing and talking about the skys. Info: 575-635-0982. Ruidoso/Lincoln County All-American Country Music Festival — 1-10 p.m. Wingfield Park, Ruidoso. Weekend of music, including Bri Bagwell, Josh Abbott Band, Dallas Smith, Rick Trevino,
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Lanco and more. Cost: Tickets start at $35. Info: www.allamericancountrymusicfestival.com. All-American Futurity Weekend — Ruidoso Downs Racetrack and Casino, 26225 U.S. Hwy. 70 E. Live racing all weekend at the world’s richest quarter horse race. Futurity race Monday, Sept. 3. Info: www. raceruidoso.com. Truth or Consequences/ Sierra County Sierra County Farmers’ Market — 8:30-11 a.m. at Ralph Edwards Park, Riverside and Cedar in T or C. Info: 575-894-9375. Las Cruces/Mesilla/ Doña Ana County Farmers Arts and Crafts Market — 8 a.m.-1 p.m. on the Las Cruces Downtown Main Street Plaza. Info: 575-805-6055. Franciscan Fine Arts Festival — 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Holy Cross Retreat Center, 4889 S. Main St. in Mesilla Park. Booths and displays featuring and appreciating fine artists and their work. Cost: Donation. Info: 575-524-3688. Hatch Chile Festival — 11 a.m.-6 p.m. Hatch Municipal Airport, one mile west of town on NM Hwy. 26. Vendor booths, carnival, chile capital artists, chile roaster garden, beer garden. Cost: $10 per carload. Info: hatchchilefest.com. New Mexico Wine Harvest Festival — Noon-6 p.m., Southern NM State Fairgrounds, 12125 Robert Larson Blvd. Arts, crafts, agricultural and food vendors, live music and grape stomping contests. Cost: $5$20. Info: 575-522-1232.
SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 2
Silver City/Grant County Grant County Rolling Stones Gem & Mineral Show — 10 a.m.-5 p.m., Grant County Veterans Memorial Business and Conference Center, 3031 U.S. Highway 180, Silver City.
Free. Info: 575-654-4424. Las Cruces/Mesilla/Doña Ana County Franciscan Fine Arts Festival — 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Holy Cross Retreat Center, 4889 S. Main St. in Mesilla Park. Booths and displays featuring and appreciating fine artists and their work. Cost: Donation. Info: 575-524-3688. Hatch Chile Festival — 11 a.m.-6 p.m. Hatch Municipal Airport, one mile west of town on NM Hwy. 26. Vendor booths, carnival, chile capital artists, chile roaster garden, beer garden. Cost: $10 per carload. Info: hatchchilefest.com. New Mexico Wine Harvest Festival — Noon-6 p.m., Southern NM State Fairgrounds, 12125 Robert Larson Blvd. Arts, crafts, agricultural and food vendors, live music and grape stomping contests. Cost: $5-$20. Info: 575-522-1232. Jazz Brunch with Derrick Lee Band — 1-4 p.m., Little Toad Creek, 119 N. Main Street, Las Cruces downtown. Info: 575-5569934. Music in the Park— 7 p.m. at Young Park, 1905 E. Nevada Ave. in Las Cruces. Smokin’ Mirrors plays variety music and Geni& the Starliners plays oldies and variety. Info: 575-541-2550. Ruidoso/Lincoln County John Mueller’s Winter Dance Party — 8 p.m. Spencer Theater, 108 Spencer Road, Alto. Authentic re-creation of final concert of Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and the Big Bopper. Cost: $39-$69 for tickets; $20 for 6 p.m. BBQ brisket buffet. Info: 575-336-4800. All-American Futurity Weekend — Ruidoso Downs Racetrack and Casino, 26225 U.S. Hwy. 70 E. Live racing all weekend at the world’s richest quarter horse race. Futurity race Monday, Sept. 3. Info: www. raceruidoso.com.
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Qualifying Broker, 575-313-4777 Blake has been a top-producing real estate broker in Silver City since 2006. Blake took over Hacienda Realty in January 2017. Since that time her focus has been to educate and mentor her brokers to create a top-producing, professional team. She has a BFA in art/photography and a strong technical background.
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Who Wants the Red Feather Lamp? A guide to getting rid of that storage unit
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texted a picture of the red feather lamp to everyone I thought might be quirky enough to be interested. The only responses I got were a tactful rejection from a niece and a cousin’s comment that it would be perfect “if I ever need to decorate a bordello.” I loved that lamp, just like I loved that bentwood rocker and the old steamer trunk and all the framed art posters from the Chicago Art Institute. But we’ve lived in an RV for 11 years, and we recently realized we’ve paid over $7,000 to rent a storage unit in Indianapolis for stuff we didn’t even remember. Most fulltime RVers rent storage units in their city of origin for the stuff they aren’t ready to part with. We started our RVing adventure with two large ones, one full of the stuff we planned to keep forever, and one filled with stuff I was ready to part with and Jimmy wasn’t, and we didn’t have time to argue it out – our “maybe” unit, which we sold to one of those storage war bidders years ago. Over the years, each visit to Indianapolis meant a trip to the storage unit. We managed to whittle away at the contents by giving most of the furniture and household items to young relatives setting up first-time homes. But still there were the boxes. The sentimental reminders of our entire lives, separately and together. The artwork we’d painstakingly collected, photo albums (for anyone under 30, google “photo albums”), old letters and cards, favorite childhood books, high school yearbooks. We would always put off thinking about them. This year, though, Jimmy convinced me it was time to do it. Think of the hassle for our family when we died, he said. And what we could do with an extra $800 a year. So, there we were, in a niece’s garage in Indianapolis,
Red feather lamp that requires a unique taste in decorating. (Photo by Sheila Sowder)
sifting through the remains of our life’s memorabilia. For everyone who eventually has to do the same, here’s my first word of advice: Do not look through vacation photo albums. The good ones have already been taken out and no one, not even you, will ever look at the rest again. Just toss them. What you don’t see won’t be missed. Also, think about your heirs before keeping that bag of seashells from your first island vacation. I once told my daughter when she was a teen, “When I die, all this will be yours.” To which she replied, “Do I have to keep it?” I rest my case. More advice: Remove everything from the storage unit and
sort through it somewhere else. This eliminates the temptation to declare once again it’s just too much and put it off. Also, set a time limit on sorting and stick to it. Our sorting had to be cleared by the time our niece’s husband returned from a business trip. Time limits necessitate a certain amount of ruthlessness. And if possible, drive to your storage unit city in a vehicle with limited carrying capacity. Or better yet, fly in to reduce the possessions you can take back to your RV. This all sounds rather grim, but we did enjoy going through everything. Kind of like watching your life pass before your eyes. I found postcards sent to my grandmother in 1909 and my par-
ents’ yearbooks from the 1930s and 1940s. I reminisced over Nancy Drew and the Bobbsey Twins, and Jimmy found some pretty good love poems he’d written to me early on. Most difficult of all were the boxes of old family photos, a problem future generations won’t have because of digital. I found family photos from the late 1800s, beautiful studio shots of infants from the early 1900s. Photos of chubby flappers, farm photos from the Depression years, shots of soldiers from World War I and World War II. I don’t even know if they’re all of family members; Grandma was big on estate sales. But these photos were my Achilles heel. I felt the spirits of longgone ancestors looking over my shoulder. So a box is going home with me, along with Grandma’s postcards, two family histories, all the yearbooks, and a large ceramic bowl that will make an excellent SW New Mexico bird bath. Jimmy solved his family photo problem by scanning them onto a thumb drive, and just as soon as I have time to learn how to do it (Grandma didn’t have to keep learning new technology crap!), I may do that too. We were lucky on the giveaways. A friend has a flea market
booth and took everything that wasn’t personal – my red feather lamp, Jimmy’s Markie Maypo ceramic figurine, all the knickknacks, even the old Christmas decorations. A small-town museum gratefully accepted all the framed artwork and photos to include in their silent auction fundraisers, which made us feel great. Our 16-year-old grandson is ecstatic over all the classic ’60s and ’70s record albums – apparently turntables are back. And we’re going home with just a couple of small boxes and the birdbath. My final advice: Yes, it’s painful. But it’s also fun, and you’ll feel great afterward. Freer and unencumbered, invigorated, and ready for more adventure. And just a few weeks later, we’ve already forgotten almost everything that was in those boxes! Sheila and husband, Jimmy Sowder, have lived at Rose Valley RV Ranch in Silver City for four years following five years of wandering the US from Maine to California. She can be contacted at sksowder@ aol.com.
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