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Postcards From the EdgeDesert Exposure Travels

ABOUT THE COVER:Luis Navarro specializes in

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4 RAISINGDAD • Revenge of the Missing KeyDid the baby do it? by Jim and Henry Duchene

5 GUEST COLUM • Saving Our LandsA father’s legacy by Tom Udall

6 EDITOR’S NOTEBOOK • Caffeinated A little coffee in my cup by Elva K. Österreich

6 VIEW FROM HERE • Urban/Rural DivideLegislative committee chairs by Walt Rubel

8 EVERYDAY OBSERVATIONS • Embrace SadnessLife is about more than happy by Abe Villar-real

10 MEMORIES OF MURDER • ‘Cricket in the Web’A complex, unsolved death

12 ARTS EXPOSURE • Memory and DesireGuest artist creates projects by Elva K. Öster-reich

14 ARTS EXPOSURE • Arts SceneUpcoming area arts happenings

16 ARTS EXPOSURE • Botanical InkingElectric Sun Tattoo Studio by Elva K. Öster-reich

17 ARTS EXPOSURE • Art Speaks to AldenAnd she talks back by Jen Gruger

18 ARTS EXPOSURE • Gallery GuideWhere to find art and more in southern New Mexico

19 LA PANTALLA PLATA • “The Milagro Beanfield War”A classic New Mexico tale by Hap Hasard

20 BODY, MIND SPIRIT • Grant County EventsWeekly happenings in Grant County

22 CARING DECISIONS • Planning AheadFuneral peace of mind by Alexia Severson

23 32 YEARS IN SILVER CITY • Voting is an Obli-gation

Some people may not be voting well by Susan Golightly

24 TALKING HORSES • A Collection of ThoughtsHelpful hints for some masters by Scott Thom-son

25 ADVENTURES • Heart of the GilaHeading to the woods to work by Melissa Green

26 HIGH PLACES • Exploring our MonumentHiking near the Permian Trackways

27 PUBLISHER’S NOTEBOOK • Green Chile Grat-itudeBuckhorn back in business by Richard Coltharp

28 TUMBLEWEEDS • A Journey, A LifeMaking his way by Austin Beltran Guiterrez

29 PUBLIC LANDS • Watchful EyesGrazing regulation changes by Laurie Ford

30 EXPLORING HISTORY • Labyrinth of BloodOf Apaches and the Spanish Empire by Mike Cook

32 RED OR GREEN • Dining GuideRestaurants in southwest New Mexico

35 VIEW FROM THE CUBE • ‘Earth Shaking Roar’Aerobee launches by Michael Shinabery

36 STARRY DOME • Canis Major, the Big DogHunter who always catches her prey by Bert Stevens

37 40 DAYS AND 40 NIGHTS • Events GuideWhat’s going on in March?

46 LIVING ON WHEELS •Advice From Service SectorHow to avoid kicking yourself in the butt by Sheila Sowder

47 FARM & RANCH • Cowboy DaysPick up your hat, jump right in

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RAISINGDAD • JIM AND HENRY DUCHENE

Revenge of the Missing KeyDid the baby steal the keys again?

This morning my wife greets me with a cup of coffee and a question.

“Guess what dad found?”Let’s see, what’s the only thing

my father’s been looking for these days? What’s the only thing my father’s been blaming every-body but himself for misplacing? What’s the air-speed velocity of an unladen swallow?

“The keys the baby stole?” I venture, taking a sip of my cof-fee.

Ouch, it’s hot... but it keeps me from laughing out loud. I know the baby didn’t take them. My wife knows the baby didn’t take them. The only per-son who doesn’t seem to know is my father. According to him, his 2-year-old great-grandson snatched his keys out of his hand, stole his car, and maxed out his credit cards playing blackjack in Vegas.

Of course, I’m joking. It was poker.“Where did he find them?” I

ask.We take our coffee cups and

go out to the patio, enjoying the morning. I take my usual spot. My wife takes hers.

“When he got dressed yester-day to go on his walk,” she says, “he decided to wear his black pants...”

Black pants? It was 84 degrees outside! Way too hot to be walk-ing around in black pants.

“...and there they were. In his pocket all this time.”

We shake our heads and laugh to ourselves. And then we talk about other things. We talk about the upcoming election. We talk about the next impeach-ment du jour. We talk about the last time we were in the house alone together for any length of time. You know, my wife sure does look pretty with the sun-light hitting her just so...

And THAT’s when my father decides to show up. He has that kind of timing.

“What are you guys talking

about?” he asks as he sits down with us.

Getting old is funny. Most times, my father can’t hear what we’re saying when we’re talking to him from only a few feet away, but somehow he hears every-thing we don’t want him to hear.

He can be in the den with the television on. We can be in the kitchen with the radio on. We can have our backs to him. He can be facing away from us. But if I whisper to my wife, “Do you want to go see that new Marvel movie?” my father will interject, “The one with those superhe-roes?”.

On the other hand, I could be sitting right next to him and ask, “Do you know where the remote to the TV is?”

“The what?” he’ll say.“The remote to the TV.”“The what to the TV?”“The remote.”“To the TV?”“Yeah.”“Why would I know where the

remote is?”It drives me nuts.On those rare conversations

where he doesn’t quite catch what we’re saying, he’ll just ask us afterward what we were talking about. First he’ll ask my wife, then he’ll ask me, and then he’ll compare our stories to see if we’re lying to him. It’s gotten to the point where I’ll wait until we’re upstairs alone in our bed-room before I tell my wife any-thing.

Sometimes it works, some-times it doesn’t.

Sure, I could wait until he goes to bed, but that would be a long wait.

A VERY long wait.“Ready for breakfast?” my

wife asks, getting up.“Sure, sweetie,” I tell her.

“Need help?”“I’m fine,” she says. “Finish

your coffee.”“Not too much for me,” my fa-

ther tells her. “You always serve me too much.”

“Okay, dad,” my wife tells him, and goes off in the direction of the kitchen. “I won’t.”

We sit there for a while. Me, taking a sip or two of my cof-fee. My father, wiping the sweat from his forehead. I told you it was hot.

“I heard you found your keys,” I tell him.

He shakes his head and laughs.“Yeah, heehee. I found them.”I wait.He doesn’t elaborate.“Where did you find them?”“What?”“Where did you find them?”“Find what?”“Your keys.”“Where did I find my keys?”“Yeah.”“Oh, yeah--heehee--they were

in my pants.”“In your pants?”“Yeah, in my pants. The maid

must have put them there.”

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In his 1963 book “The Quiet Crisis,” my father, former Interior Secretary Stewart

Udall, sounded the alarm about the creeping destruction of na-ture.

“Each generation has its own rendezvous with the land, for despite our fee titles and claims of ownership, we are all brief tenants on this planet,” he wrote. “By choice, or by default, we will carve out a land legacy for our heirs.”

This year would have been Stewart Udall’s 100th birthday. And 57 years after he wrote the “The Quiet Crisis” it is more ur-gent than ever that we heed his words — and follow his exam-ple — in order to save the nat-ural world.

As Interior secretary under Presidents Kennedy and John-son, my father was the vision-ary leader of a burgeoning con-servation and environmental movement. During his first year as secretary, then-Bureau of Reclamation Chief Floyd Domi-ny took him on a flight over southern Utah to show him the “next” big dam. My dad took one look at the red-rock spires be-low and saw not a dam, but the next national park. He carried this vision back to Washington, D.C., and worked to establish what is today Canyonlands Na-tional Park.

Canyonlands is one of four

national parks, six national monuments, nine recreation areas, 20 historic sites and 56 wildlife refuges that Stewart Udall helped create as secre-tary of the Interior. In the face of environmental damage and species loss, he worked with Congress and the president to enact some of our country’s most successful conservation programs, including the Land and Water Conservation Fund, the Clean Air Act, and the na-tional wilderness system. In the process, he protected millions of acres of public lands.

Now, the quiet crises my fa-ther warned us about has risen to a crescendo that is impossi-ble to ignore. Climate change is widely acknowledged as an existential threat to our plan-et. Meanwhile, the nature cri-sis has accelerated close to the point of no return. We lose a football-field’s-worth of nature every 30 seconds. And accord-ing to a United Nations report, one million species are at risk of extinction because of human activity.

If we fail to enact the kind of bold conservation framework my father envisioned, we will forever lose millions of plant and animal species — the bio-diversity critical to our rich nat-ural inheritance and fundamen-tal to our own survival. We will lose not just our way of life, but

the planet as we know it. That’s why I’ve introduced

the Thirty by Thirty Resolution to Save Nature — a resolution to set a national goal of protect-ing 30 percent of our lands and waters by 2030, with half pro-tected by mid-century. The res-olution reflects the will of the scientific community, including and scientists like E.O. Wilson, who say that we need to pro-tect half the planet to save the whole.

Equity, inclusion and environ-mental justice must be our guid-ing lights — our true North Star — just like they were for my father. Our conservation work must provide equitable access to nature and a just distribution of its benefits. We must ensure environmental justice for all. The future of our planet — and of humanity itself — depends on it.

Now, with the wonder and beauty of the earth under threat, we must listen to Stew-art Udall’s plea: that we do well — by the planet, and by future generations.

Tom Udall is a United States Senator representing New Mexico. A member of the Democratic party, he has also served as a U.S. Representative and New Mexico’s State Attorney General.

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I am a coffee addict from so long ago, I can’t remember when I started drinking it.

Likely it was in high school when the rich, deep scent of beans being ground reached through our house to wake me up ev-ery morning. My mom would grind the coffee in an electric grinder, boil the water and steep the grounds in a simple stain-less-steel pot. Now, some 50 years later, she still has and uses the same pot.

Nope, it was earlier than that, before I even drank coffee. In my grandmother’s house in Quebec, we ground the coffee by hand in a little green and yellow mill. It was a beautiful box like con-trivance where you put the cof-fee beans in the top and ground them down where they landed in a little drawer at the bottom. I loved it, made me feel so import-

ant as a child to be grinding up this coffee beans with my little hand.

As I write, I am sitting at the table of my father’s house in Farmington, Connecticut, and the morning ritual here is coffee and conversation. Whatever the day, whatever may be the hurry – the coffee ritual must be fol-lowed.

I am here to say farewell to my father’s house, the place he and his wife lived for 35 years. And as we go through, he tells me what should be done with items and papers we come across. As this is a process happening to many I know right now – nostalgic, stressful, cathartic – I just want to say don’t forget to sit down for your morning cup of coffee.

And forward we go, into the next generations as my sons, both in California and Las Cru-

ces, auto enthusiasts to say the least, attend events known as “cars and coffee.” Communities take their mobile classics and creations to local parking lots and hang around and talk about, yep, cars.

The grandchildren too, al-though all under 10, sport and appreciate their “coffee” bev-erages – mostly involving hot chocolate.

The Swedish have the same take as my father and the morn-ing coffee in his house. “Fika” is a culture of bringing people together with conversation over coffee. They do seem to have a label for everything cool.

“It’s not a cup of coffee con-sumed sitting in front of your computer; it’s a small, slow mo-ment,” said Anna Brones, author of “Fika: The Art of the Swedish Coffee Break.”

Fika can be a noun or a verb and is often part of the regular workday, scheduled at 10 a.m. and 3 p.m., called “fikarast” or “fikapaus,” and served, of course, with “fikabröd” some-times.

For me, of course, coffee is also in that cup that accompa-nies the computer – and work, play and life in general.

My sister, Jennifer, recently found herself at a new coffee ex-perience – some might call it a house of worship of sorts.

“I have been to a Starbucks Reserve and it is life changing,” she said. “It’s a coffee bar on ste-roids.”

This place is one of five across the world and recently opened in Chicago. The five-story facili-ty has five floors, one of which is a full bar where, among oth-er things, “amazing” bar tenders

serve Starbucks own coffee bar-rel aged whisky in a variety of specialty drinks.

“It’s all very delicious,” Jenni-fer said. And she should know, she won’t start her day without a cup of hot, strong, delicious coffee.

“Ska vi ses över en fika någon gång?” (Shall we have a coffee together some time?) meet me at Tranquilbuzz, corner of Yankie and Texas streets, in Silver City between 10:30 a.m. and 12:30 p.m. on March 12. Or contact me for alternate dates, times and places. You can always reach me at [email protected] or by cell phone at 575-443-4408.

EDITOR’S NOTEBOOK • ELVA K. ÖSTERREICH

CaffeinatedA little coffee in my cup

During this year’s 30-day session of the Legisla-ture that ended in Feb-

ruary, none of the committee chairmen in the state House of Representatives were from southern New Mexico.

Nine of the 14 committees in the House were chaired by rep-resentatives from Albuquerque. The other five were from Santa Fe, Gallup, Milan, Corrales and Sandia Pueblo.

Things are much different in the Senate, however. The recent selection of Joseph Cervantes as chairman of the Judiciary Com-mittee means the two most pow-erful committees in the Senate are now led by chairmen from southern New Mexico. John Ar-thur Smith of Deming heads the

Finance Committee.Judiciary and Finance are typ-

ically the last committees a bill must clear before reaching the Senate floor. Everything dealing with new law must go through Judiciary, and everything deal-ing with new spending must go through Finance.

Many don’t make it through. During the 60-day session in 2019, there were 48 bills that were passed by the House and cleared their initial Senate com-mittees, but died in either Senate Finance or Judiciary.

Senate Finance always gets the final say on bills like Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham’s plan to offer new Opportunity Scholarships to col-lege students or start a new fund for early childhood programs.

Senate Judiciary always gets the final say on bills like those to tighten gun laws or legalize marijuana.

Cervantes was named by Sen-ate leaders to replace Sen. Rich-ard Martinez, who was forced to give up his chairmanship after pleading guilty to aggravated drunken driving charges. Marti-nez kept his seat in the Senate, and on the Judiciary Committee, and will serve at least until the elections in November.

The selection of Cervantes was a little surprising in that Sen. Daniel Ivey-Soto had served as vice chairman under Martinez. Both have the same seniority in the Senate, but Cervantes also served in the House, where he was once chairman of their Ju-

diciary Committee, before back-ing the wrong horse in a power struggle with former Speaker Ben Lujan.

Cervantes ran for governor last year, losing to Lujan Grisham in the primary. Melissa Ontiveros, special operations coordinator for the Community Action Agency, has announced that she will chal-lenge Cervantes in the upcoming Democratic primary election.

During his campaign for gover-nor, Cervantes noted that he had carried legislation to decriminal-ize marijuana and said that he was “open to examining” legalization and commercialized sales. But he did not support the legalization bill that was heard this year.

He did support red-flag gun law that would allow for a court order to temporarily remove firearms from those deemed to be a threat to themselves or oth-ers, and helped ensure that bill passed through the Senate.

Other Senate changes this year included the selection of Gabriel Ramos of Silver City to lead the Indian and Cultural Affairs Committee, replacing John Pinto of Gallup, who was 94 years old when he died while still serving in the Senate.

With Sen. Mary Kay Papen serving as chairwoman of the Committee’s Committee and Bill

Soules as chairman of the Ed-ucation Committee, five of the nine committees in the Senate this year were led by chairmen from southern New Mexico.

That difference in committee leadership goes a long way to-ward explaining the divide in the state Legislature.

The House is completely dom-inated by Albuquerque. With nine of the 14 committee chairs and the majority leader all com-ing from the same city, it’s no surprise that bills passed by the House tend to reflect the needs and values of that city.

It’s also no surprise that many of those bills don’t reflect the needs and values of senators representing the rest of the state.

Both chambers are controlled by Democrats, but there are real differences in who they’re trying to serve.

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Walt Rubel has been a journalist since 1982, working in Las Cruces since 2002. He can be reached at [email protected].

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In the movie Eternal Sun-shine of the Spotless Mind, Jim Carrey plays the role of

Joel, a troubled man filled with grief over a woman he can barely remember. He tries to remember her, but his memories are quick-ly fading. Joel, and many others in his community, had a medi-cal procedure done to erase the memories of loved ones, includ-ing former pets.

Imagine that? Being able to completely erase something for which you never want to think of again. The movie makes a convincing case that people are happier not thinking of some-thing or someone that might make them cry.

While I loved the movie, I real-ly disliked the idea that as a soci-ety we should only be filled with happiness. After all, what is hap-piness? Is it truly everlasting? I don’t think so. Like any other hu-man emotion, happiness comes and goes, and it doesn’t always happen when we expect it. I’m happy writing, and I am happy that you are reading. Still, later today, I might be disappointed about something, and that’s o.k.

We often hear the clichés about not knowing successes until we experience failures. We like these cliches because we need something to help us jus-tify our failures. We don’t want disappointments to feel like real disappointments, we want them

to feel like necessary elements of success.

I feel the same way about hap-piness. I don’t really know how happy I am unless I know of all the alternatives, and I don’t re-ally know about all the alterna-tives unless I experience them. And knowing all this, as a soci-ety, we do everything we can to avoid experiencing the alterna-tives. Failure is not an option!

I’m o.k. with failures, sadness, crying, and bad moments. From them, I get to understand the complexities of the human ex-perience. Growing up, I remem-ber my parents always tried to showcase their kids as the best kids around. To others, we were well-mannered and obedient, and while that was the case a lot of the times, it wasn’t always.

My youngest brother ended up in juvenile detention. I ditched classes throughout my senior year in high school. My parents are now divorced. What do we have to hide? We are experienc-ing life just like everyone else, with highs and lows, happiness and sadness.

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that remind them of what makes them sad. Joel comes back with a trash bag filled with everything that reminds him of his ex-girl-friend. He needs to get rid of all items that might remind him of her.

What the characters forget is that what makes us sad is always rooted in love. Without love, sad-ness cannot exist. You cannot feel sorry for something or wish someone better without feeling sincere love.

When someone asks you “How’s it going?” and you smile and say “fine” or “good,” you lose the opportunity to make a deeper connection with some-

one who cares enough to find out what really is happening in your life.

I do it all the time and I shouldn’t. I think we are better off in letting our guard down and sharing with others not only the happy moments, but the tough moments that remind us the real meaning of happiness.

We can’t erase sadness, but we can use it to make others happy.

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“So, the baby didn’t take them from you?”

“Who?”“The baby.”“Why would the baby take my

keys?”“But, didn’t you say...”“Say what?”“...that the baby took your

keys?”“Why would I say that?”My father laughs, shakes his

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Wasn’t that my point all along? My wife pokes her head

through the patio door.After she opens it, I mean.

“Breakfast is ready,” she says, smiling, knowing what we were probably talking about. I must get a particular kind of look on my face when my father has me flustered.

“Get this,” my father tells her, nodding toward me. “He thinks the baby took my keys.” My father turns back to me, and snorts. “How could a baby take my keys?”

We get up, and walk into the kitchen.

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Once upon a time there was a girl of 18 who was full of spit and vinegar. She had an abundance

of energy, was not afraid of saying what she thought and walked with a bounce in her step which made her high heels click cheerfully.

It was probably her mouth that got her killed in the end, according to Vale-ta Sue Jones. Whatever it was, Ovida “Cricket” Coogler disappeared after leaving the café she worked at on March 31, 1949, only to be found 17 days lat-er by some young rabbit hunters in the desert north of Las Cruces.

Jones is Cricket’s niece. While she was born after Cricket’s death, her mother told her much about the girl that she had loved.

“She was very spirited and kind of a loner,” Jones said. “She was very gener-ous, if you needed something and she had it, she would give it to you without hesitation.”

She also called Cricket a tomboy, up for just about anything. The girl was adventurous and had a lot of influential friends ranging from Doña Ana County sheriff “Happy” Apodaca to some prom-inent members of the state Democratic party. Her murder is still unsolved af-ter 71 years and the story involves not only state politics but also the torture of her black friend, Wesley Byrd. Apo-daca was ultimately convicted for the atrocities he committed to try to wring a false confession out of Byrd. Pittsburgh Steelers running back Jerry Nuzum was later tried for Cricket’s murder, but the judge threw the case out after four days of listening to it stating there was no ev-idence. Nuzum was around at the time but clearly could not have committed the murder.

Paula Moore, Las Cruces author, wrote “Cricket in the Web” and pub-lished it in 2009. The book has been newly reprinted now for the occasion

of the 70th year after Cricket’s death. Moore will be on site at the Downtown Blues Café in Las Cruces at 6 p.m. on March 31 for a book signing event. The Café is the same location of the Deluxe Café that Cricket worked in at the time of her disappearance.

“Cricket in the Web” is about the in-vestigation into the girl’s infamous life and death and contains photos as well as creating a picture of the times.

“The most important photo I found in all my research is one they couldn’t reproduce in the book because of the quality,” Moore said.

It is an image of Cricket walking with a friend and can only be found as a grainy newspaper photo.

“It is taken a few days before she died,” Moore said. “And she was just walking in El Paso with her friend. It [the photo] has the same outfit she was

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In the photo on the cover of the book, Moore said Cricket must have been 13. The new ver-sion of the book gives the girl an ethereal quality. But Cricket, with her chatty adventuresome nature was earthy and particular. She liked to drink and to have a good time. Some have said she was a prostitute but both Moore and Jones have doubts about that.

Cricket worked at several places downtown and was fired or let go from some of them be-cause she would just be absent sometimes, Moore said.

“The first contact I had [work-ing on the book] was a woman who worked with her at the downtown café,” Moore said. “She said [Cricket] was such a good worker, she was right on top of everything and she had a really good work ethic. So, when she was working, she was a good worker but her personal life interfered and if she needed to disappear, she disappeared for a while.”

Cricket’s murder has never been solved. Moore said she be-lieves Apodaca knew and under-stood what happened that night and did what he could to protect people. It was the morning af-ter Cricket’s disappearance that “everyone” left town, according

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Moore and Jones say they visit Cricket’s grave at the Ma-sonic Cemetery when they can and sometimes they find flow-ers there. Ironically, her grave is separated from Apodaca’s only by a small road running through the cemetery.

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As artist in residence for Western New Mexico University João Galera has come to New Mexico from Brazil to cre-

ate an art project of significant proportions. “The idea is to work with the community and

participate in some festivals and also in some classes,” Galera said. “I took some photography classes and some clay classes, and I also made an artist talk for the students.”

He also creates art in the little studio provid-ed him on campus or at home.

In an exhibit at Light Art Space in Silver City, Galera’s previous work, done in San Paulo, Brazil, can be seen through March 7. An aston-ishing collection of drawings, serig-raphy and textiles hangs in the gallery, displaying his highly detailed style and a passion for a partic-ular mix of realism blended with symbolism. Most of the images are black-and-white, pen-and-ink pieces starkly portraying moderate city home buildings of San Paulo, Brazil.

“The idea was to capture the images, because they are destroying these buildings,” he said. “The project was to keep the images of the houses. I call it ‘Before it Ends.’”

Before he left San Paulo, Galera’s project had a large exhibition and became a book. Both book and drawings sold well there. His talent was put to excellent use as the work, touched the hearts of his fellow Brazilians. The destruc-tion of neighborhood buildings has caused a lot of controversy and the art is there to promote conversations about what the people want in their city.

“It was a very, very good project, because a lot of people are disgusted about this,” he said. “They were very middle-class houses and they are building apartments and parking lots for rich people, so they are changing a lot how the town was before the city and skyscrapers arrived.”

Galera said he doesn’t know which buildings

are destroyed and which are not. The project started because he lived in the neighborhood and would go for walks and take photographs of the houses.

“I don’t think the project saved buildings, but the conversations made a difference,” he said. “I could go to different places and talk about this memory and discuss if we should or we shouldn’t preserve it. Do we want a city that is vertical? Do we want a city that is history? So

that is on us.”Now, Galera has

brought his fascina-tion with -- and ques-tions about -- the progress of old-to-new to Grant County in a new quest with some of the same kinds of questions.

Structuring his work here on the T.S. Eliot poem “The Waste Land,” Galera is describing the area around him in three parts with his

art. One of the parts is about the land. On one wall of the studio, small drawings are build-ing up one by one as the artist makes specific images of objects found around the city and the county. Here is a plant, globe mallow, and here is a cracked Ford insignia fallen off a vehicle – a ball, a tooth and so on. When finished, he will have 100 drawings of found objects, which he will crochet together like a “drawing quilt” describing the land of Grant County and Silver City.

The quilt will be presented to WNMU and will be part of his final exhibit, which will take place in May.

The second part of the project is about the peo-ple, and he is encouraging everyone in the area to participate in a community art installation.

“I am inviting people to make an object of clay that is important to each one,” he said. “At the end, we want to put all these pieces togeth-er and make just one person.”

To that end, Galera has been visiting schools, churches, museums, festivals and the local farmers’ market to take the project to the com-munity. The goal is to put all different kinds

of people together with the piece. He would like anyone interested in participating in this project to contact him at his email, [email protected].

Even before becoming a work-ing artist, Galera had a strong interest in people. After getting an agricultural engineering degree, then a master’s in anthropology, he was pursuing his doctorate in anthropology in Mexico City and drawing subjects in the community where he was studying the agri-culture of an indigenous community in the state of Michoacán.

An advisor he was working under was im-pressed by the drawings, and together they set up an exhibition.

“My life changed,” he said. “I made three exhi-bitions in Mexico, and then I was invited to paint a mural there, and when I was painting a mural, they were paying me. Then I thought maybe I could be a real artist who is paid for my work.”

He moved to San Paulo and started to share his art and hang out with other artists, went into the art market and sold his drawings and

paintings. One day he hopes to finish his doctoral program by bringing the

story of the people in the town, their agricultural practices and his drawings together in a book.

The third part of the year-long Grant County project is made up of large drawings, watercolores, tying history and memory togeth-

er by working with some of the abandoned places of Grant County.

Stark and beautiful images, mostly out of the mining district, appear under Gal-

era’s pens and brushes. The old hotel in Santa Clara, the clubhouse near the Empire Zinc mine -- both before and after it burned down -- and the old theater all come back to life in these works.

“We are trying to talk about what we had, and what do we want with these,” he said. “Do we want to keep it or not? What do we want to

“The project was to keep the images of

the houses. I call it ‘Before it Ends.’”

João Galera

Western New Mexico University artist-in-residence João Galera talks to Aldo Leopold Charter School 8th graders about his work and his vision on Feb. 13 at Light Art Space Gallery in Silver City. (Photo by Elva K. Österreich)

Clockwise from top left: João Galera’s rendition of the old cinema building in the Grant County mining district; a window at an old mining district house; drawing of one of the old buildings in San Paulo, part of the “Before it Ends” project; clay figures created by Grant County residents as part of Galera’s community art installation; another image from the Grant County mining district; a textile creation collaboration with Galera and his partner, Luis Filipe Feltrin, depicting Obaluaê, an Orixá god of disease and healing; the old hotel in Santa Clara, Grant County. (Photos by Elva K. Österreich)

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He moved to San Paulo and started to share his art and hang out with other artists, went into the art market and sold his drawings and

paintings. One day he hopes to finish his doctoral program by bringing the

story of the people in the town, their agricultural practices and his drawings together in a book.

The third part of the year-long Grant County project is made up of large drawings, watercolores, tying history and memory togeth-

er by working with some of the abandoned places of Grant County.

Stark and beautiful images, mostly out of the mining district, appear under Gal-

era’s pens and brushes. The old hotel in Santa Clara, the clubhouse near the Empire Zinc mine -- both before and after it burned down -- and the old theater all come back to life in these works.

“We are trying to talk about what we had, and what do we want with these,” he said. “Do we want to keep it or not? What do we want to

be as a society? Do you want to transform it or destroy and rebuild?”

In June, Galera will return to Brazil.“In Brazil, we have a very different reality,”

he said. “I came from San Paulo – a huge town – to a very small community. It’s very interest-ing, because I can see different things that I wasn’t seeing in my country. I think I have this possibility to look at different things that the people here don’t realize, because they have been here for a long time.”

In “The Waste Land” Galera said Eliot wrote a very long poem and then started to cut it down to a point where only half of what was written was left at the end. Galera said he tries to do the same thing in his drawings.

“I try to take elements and leave only what’s necessary,” he said.

Galero’s quilt about the land, his drawings and the community project will be on display during the May show at the McCray Art Gal-lery at WNMU kicking off on Thursday, May 7, with a lecture at 6:30 p.m. at Parotti Hall and a reception at 7:30 p.m. at the gallery.

Clockwise from top left: João Galera’s rendition of the old cinema building in the Grant County mining district; a window at an old mining district house; drawing of one of the old buildings in San Paulo, part of the “Before it Ends” project; clay figures created by Grant County residents as part of Galera’s community art installation; another image from the Grant County mining district; a textile creation collaboration with Galera and his partner, Luis Filipe Feltrin, depicting Obaluaê, an Orixá god of disease and healing; the old hotel in Santa Clara, Grant County. (Photos by Elva K. Österreich)

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• Light Art Space, located at 209 W. Broadway in Silver City features “Memory and De-sire” with artist João Galera through March 8. The gallery is looking for artists interested in participating in a pop-up event April 30 to May 3, visit the web-site, lightartspace.com for de-tails. Also on view is the work of gallery artists Joel Armstrong, Valerie Galloway, Carmen Ruiz, Eugene Starobinskiy, Art Peterson and Mimi Calise Peterson. Gallery hours are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Thursday, Friday and Saturday, also 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Sundays and by appoint-ment. Info: [email protected] or 520-240-7075.

• Sterling Fine Art, 306 N Bullard Street, historic down-town Silver City is featuring new work by gallery artists Richard Harper, Crystal Foreman, Tony Bonanno, Steve Collins, Alec Johnson, Rick O’Ryan, Jim Pepperl, Monica Welsh, Sharon Chastain, Gay Marks, Miriam Hill in the month of March. The gallery is located at 306 N. Bullard St. in Silver City. Info: sterlingnm.com.

• The Grant County Art Guild, 315 N Bullard St., has been in the Hester House lo-cation for just over a year now. March’s featured artists are Jackie Blurton, Diana Eames Esterly and Jo Thomas. Info: [email protected].

CARRIZOZO

• J. Malkerson Gallery 408 in Carrizozo is featuring Su-san Weir Ancker, PhD, for the first Exhibition of 2020 entitled “Flights of Fantasy: Exploits of Winged Scholars.” Ancker is not only a ceramic instructor with many years of experience, but she is also one of the leading ceramic artists in Lincoln County and Southern New Mexico. This exhibition includes more than 30 pieces of her artwork that have been created in the past five years. She is especially well-known for her colorful Ceramic Fantasies and Mythical Muses. This is a unique opportunity to view and acquire a beautiful piece of her work. The J. Malk-erson Gallery 408 has been dis-playing the work and hosting ex-hibitions for well-known Lincoln County Artists for the past 16 years. This Exhibition will add to that Legacy.

DEMING• In March 2020, the Deming

Art Center is awash with the creative genius of the Deming “Quilting Bees.” The Quilting Bees are a local group that meet twice a month to focus on learn-ing new techniques in quilting. Each meeting features a “show and tell” and the group is sup-portive of each other’s works. The show runs through March 30 with a reception 1-4 p.m. on Sunday, March 1. Three quilt related art happenings are also in Deming. The first is a “Bed Turning” at the Customs House, located at 300 S. Silver St. in Deming that begins at 2 p.m. on Saturday, March 7. Anyone may bring quilts to the Customs House between 1 and 1:30 p.m. Prior to bringing the quilts par-ticipants are asked to complete a form with some details about the quiles. Forms are available at the Deming Art Center. The second thing is a drawing for a “Daisy” quilt which will be held at 3 p.m. on March 30. The third item is the bi-annual Guatema-lan Mercado which will be held Friday and Saturday, March 13 and 14 at the Deming Art Center. Deming Art Center is located at 100 S Gold St., Deming. Its hours are 10-4 a.m., Monday to Satur-

day. Info: 575-546-3663 or www.demingarts.org.

LAS CRUCES

• The eclectic artists of the 10 O’Clock Artists are exhib-iting their work in a multimedia exhibit March 1. through April 30 at the Frame and Art Center, Suite 108, 1100 South Main St., Las Cruces. There will be a re-ception from 4-7 p.m. on March 14. Info: 575-526-2808.

• New Mexico Watercol-or Society Southern Chap-ter Meeting will be followed by presentation by Kathleen Kerr, on artists known for their oil paintings and their watercol-or work including paintings by Winslow Homer, John Singer Sargent, Georgia O’Keeffe and more from 2 to 4 p.m., March 8 at Good Samaritan Society Village, Social Center, 3011 Buena Vida Circle Las Cruces. This event is free and open to the public. Info: nmwatercolorsociety.org.

• “A Path Described By A Body,” exhibited at Casa Otro, 2226 Calle de Guadalupe in Las Cruces, depicts work from 11 artists who are also mothers and who currently live and work in New Mexico. The exhibition is co-curated by artists Kaylan Buteyn and Sarah Irvin and is planned in tandem with the inaugural exhibition of the new University Art Museum (UAM) at New Mexico State Universi-ty’s opening of “Labor: Moth-erhood & Art in 2020.” The exhibition includes the follow-ing artists: Mira Burack, Tau-na Cole-Dorn, Sharbani Das

ARTS SCENEcontinued on page 15

João Galera, WNMU artist in residence, drawings, tapestries and ceramics on display at Light Art Space.

Stirling Fine Art in Silver City features a variety of work, including Monica Welsh’s “Bird Plant Unfolded III,” for the month of March.

Kathleen Kerr headlights the program for the Watercolor Society in Las Cruces March 8.

An acrylic by Dani Anderson, “Babies at the Border” is part of the 10 O’clock Artists exhibit at the Fram and Art Center in Las Cruces.

March at the Grant County Art Guild features the work of Jackie Blurton, Diana Eames Esterly and Jo Thomas.

The J. Malkerson Gallery 408 in Carrizozo features the work of Susan Weir Ancker with “Flights of Fantasy.”


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For The Love of ArtsFeb 1 - Mar 14

Virginia Maria Romero

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575.649.2951 Tues-Fri 10-4 • Sat 10-3

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Gupta, Megan Jacobs, Steph-anie Lerma, Jessamyn Lovell, Rachel Popowcer, Danila Ru-mold, Zoe Spiliotis, Isadora Stowe and Tina Wolverton. The show will be up through March 28. Info: 575-496-2458. Hours are by appointment.

• The Tombaugh Gallery features artists C. C. Cunning-ham and Noël Sandino with the exhibit “Beyond Words – One Word Two Visions.” The show opens with a reception, 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Sunday, March 8, Cunningham and Sandino, both abstract artists, admired each other’s work and came up with a unique idea for the Tom-baugh exhibit. They decided to create a list of 18 words and chal-lenged each other to paint their own vision of each word. Cun-ningham described the process, “with a sense of discovery, play-fulness, emotion, and thought-fulness we developed a body of work illustrating how we as pro-cess, abstract artists responded to our challenge.” There will be a second artist reception 5 to 7 p.m., on Friday, March 27, with a collaboration paint event. The Tombaugh Gallery is located in-side the Unitarian-Universalist Church, at 2000 S. Solano. The exhibit continues through April 10 at the Tombaugh Gallery, 2000 S. Solano Drive in Las Cruces. Regular gallery hours are from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., each week, Wednesday through Saturday.

• The Mesilla Valley Fine

Arts Gallery, 2470-A Calle de Guadalupe, across from the his-toric Fountain Theatre, features two local artists for the month of March, Mary Zawacki and Jane Peacock. Zawacki paints primari-

ly with oils and pastels. She had a career as an advertising art direc-tor and graphic designer, working over 20 years in Los Angeles for advertising agencies specializing in the movie industry. Peacock studied art at the University of Texas El Paso. She has been a lifelong painter and has focused on portraits of people of the Bor-derland as well as landscapes. Gallery hours are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily. Info: 575-522-2933, www.mesillavalleyfinearts.com.

• Trails End Gallery is at

1732 N. Mesquite, Las Cruces. The current “For the Love of Art Show” continues through March 14 and features the work of Virginia Maria Romero and Rhoda Winters. Romero is one of a handful of “Anglos” to be counted among the santero artists of the American Southwest. Win-ters vibrant style comes through whether she is painting realisti-cally or more abstractly, her work is consistently colorist. She is a member of the Black Range Art-ists, and Artforms Artists of New Mexico, and Plein Air Painters of Southern New Mexico. Also on display is new work from gallery artists Robert Highsmith, Pen-ny Simpson and Patricia Black. The public is welcome to visit the artists in their studio and see their work on display in the gallery. Gal-lery hours are 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Tues-day through Friday and 10 a.m.-3 p.m. Saturday. Info: 575-650-1556.

• “Local Color: Landscape and Architecture” with the Mesilla Valley Weavers Guild will be in the New Mexico Farm & Ranch Heritage Museum’s Arts Corridor. The show will be on display through April 5. The Guild includes weavers, spinners, knitters, basket makers, and oth-ers interested in the textile arts. Members draw inspiration from the southwest landscape and the environment in which they live. The Farm & Ranch Heritage Mu-seum is at 4100 Dripping Springs Road. Info: 575-522-4100

• A newly created format show-cases artists’ work on Facebook at “Las Cruces NM Artists & Art Showcase” on a page is spe-cifically for the many undiscov-ered artists and artisans in Las Cruces and Doña Ana County. No matter what it is you do, painting, photography, sculpting, pottery, jewelry, fiber arts, woodworking, decorative arts, etc., anything created by you is welcome to be displayed. Please note, this Face-Book page is meant to be a digi-tal art gallery, rather than a sales tool. This new FaceBook page is the creation of Robert Paquette, a long-time volunteer for many Las Cruces community service organi-zations.

ARTS SCENEcontinued from page 14

Multiple artists are participat-ing in “A Path Described by a Body” at a new arts venu, Casa Otro, in Las Cruces.

This work by Noël Sandino is part of “Beyond Words – One Word Two Visions” at the Las Cruces Tombaugh Gallery in March.

“Coyote Speaks” by Virginia Maria Romero is one of the featured artworks at Trails End Gallery through March 14 in Las Cruces.

The work of Jane Peacock is highlighted at the Mesilla Valley Fine Arts Gallery along with the art of Mary Zawacki.


SKIN EXPOSURE • ELVA K. ÖSTERREICH

Botanical InkingElectric Sun Tattoo Studio offers creative variety

The Electric Sun Tattoo Studio at 501 ½ E. Hadley Ave. in Las Cruces is now

open for business.Tattoo artist Katie Mena’s

work has a self-styled vintage look with a focus on fine line work, much of which is plant based. Her custom and flash de-signs are often floral in nature as she creates detailed drawings which she then carefully works

with her clients to wrap and tex-tualize on their skin, bringing the work to life.

“Wrapping changes the whole thing,” she said. The whole thing kind of changes on the skin, it’s not flat. When I create a design, I’m not just looking at form but also at how cohesive it is. Seeing it wrapped on the body, seeing it three dimensional, that’s so dif-ferent than just seeing it on a flat

piece of paper.”She said the most important

aspect of her art is deciding the placement for the work on the body and size it will be.

Mena has been working on some simple floral flash pieces for the opening she said, cus-tomers will be able to reserve a design, make an appointment and put down a deposit. Once she does a design for a client, no

matter how small, she won’t do it again.

“You don’t want to come across someone with the same tattoo,” she said.

She said she won’t be tattoo-ing people during the event. She has done that before and found she couldn’t devote her atten-tion to the client and talk to the guests at the same time.

In high school Mena started getting into drawing and paint-ing and soon became fascinated with tattooing. Soon she just or-dered some machines and start-ed tattooing friends.

“It was a terrible idea and I didn’t know what I was doing, so I stopped,” she said. “Then I rediscovered that interest and found an opportunity for it when a local artist offered an appren-ticeship. It was a perfect time in my life where I was working but I still had time to do it and it’s a big investment in time and money, but for that year it just all lined up perfectly.”

Mena completed her appren-ticeship two years ago but con-tinued working out of the same studio, Camino Tattoo, until late 2019 when she opened her own place. She was worried about “stepping on toes” of other tat-too shops int eh area but has found that community welcom-ing and supportive. She has her own distinctive style that is not available from anyone else.

“There’s so many shops here and we have such a heavily tat-tooed population that it works out,” she said. “Everyone stays busy. I really want to do some-thing different with this space.”

Customers at Electric Sun can expect a relaxed experience. Mena doesn’t want people to come to her door and expect work to be done immediately and fast.

“That’s not how I work at all,” she said. “Let’s have some tea. In this space I’m trying to find a balance of cozy and home and a clean and sterile and profession-al area.”

During her apprenticeship Mena learned and worked on various styles of tattoos and whatever else she needed to learn to do but “now I’m kind of homing in on my style, built on my own strengths. I am always pushing for a finer line and more clean work.”

“I just love tattooing,” she said. “It’s a surprise to me – I’ve never been happier in my life.”

Follow Mena’s work at elctricsunlc on twitter or con-tact her at [email protected].

Tattoo artist Katie Mena in her studio space at 501 ½ E. Hadley Ave. (Photos by Elva K. Österreich)

Katie Mena often practices her fine line tattoo work and shading on herself, her husband and her friends.

THANK YOUThe Mimbres Region Arts Council would like to thank the dedicated supporters listedbelow and the entire Silver City community for another successful year.

Chocolate StopsAnimaliaAntique Mall Silver City TradingCurl Up n DyeDiane's Bakery and DeliGila Hike and BikeKris' Unique BoutiqueLight Art SpaceLois Duffy ArtLotus CenterMint ChipMorning StarMorones and KnuttinenMurray HotelPretty Sweet EmporiumRevelSIlver City Book ShopSilver City Food Co-opSilver City Copper QuailSilver City MuseumSoul River Gallery and StudioSterling Fine ArtTherese The Jewelry LadyTown & Country Garden ClubUnited Country Mimbres RealtyWild West WeavingWNM Communications VolunteersAllison WatermanAriana HammBarbara KienzlerBarbara TaylorCarol BradyCoralee MercadoDanielle OgasEd SpindlerEddie OsowskiJacque CusickJeannie MillerJordan ParscalKathy and Ron CassellLeila ZimmelLynda MetlikaMelanie ArchuletaMichele and Ed LudwigNancy EveyNancy FischerPenny CostelloRustin CameronSherri MoserSybil ParadisoVicki Barnitt

ChocolatiersAldo Leopold High Culinary ArtsBrave Ministry TeamBre DoorCalvary Chapel Academy HomeEconomicsCorner KitchenDiana CameronDiane of Diane's Bakery and DeliEiderdown Cakes and ConfectionsGila Hike and Bike TeamGuadalupe Montessori SchoolHeather BirdJane JansonJesse WestenbergerMark JohannesMary BaumhoverMaya EilertMint ChipPatty McDonnellSilver City All-Stars CheerSilver City High Culinary ArtsSusan SladeUnited Country Mimbres Realty TeamWNM Communications TeamWNMU Zeyah Pearson Block CaptainsCharles HubbardEsther StephensonJaselynn RolfeShelley Scarborough MusicAmos TorresFiddling FriendsGila HighlandersMoonShine BenefactorsAce HardwareAlbertsonsAnonymousLittle Toad Creek BreweryMaureen and Ira CraigThe Family Karate CenterThe MarketplaceWells FargoZirYab's Body Brew Thanks to Special GuestLiz Zunon, Author & Illustrator

II will be at the Las Cruses Art Fair, March 6, 7, 8 in the Visitor Center

Pottery can also be seen at “Ramolla Gallery,” corner of Bullard & Broadway

371 Camino de Viento, Wind Canyon, Silver City, New Mexico

Letha Cress WoolfArtist-Potter

Call for directions to my gallery907-783-2780

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ARTS EXPOSURE • JEN GRUGER

Art Speaks to AldenAnd she talks back with art

From the moment you set your eyes on Lisa Alden’s work, you understand

there is a relationship between the artist and the art. Equally proficient in clay as she is with paint and pen or pencil, Alden has a style that can draw you to the piece to learn more about it.

“As an artist, I feel it’s my respon-sibility to represent the beauty I see every day,” Alden said. “I want to take what speaks to me and then show that to someone who’s never seen what I have seen, and they can experience some-thing they never knew existed.”

Alden is originally from New Hampshire but always dreamed of living in the southwest. She recalls trips to visit her grand-parents in Mesa, Arizona, during her middle school years and recalls the warmth, dry air and lack of bugs as some of her fond-est memories.

As luck would have it, her hus-band Lou, whom she met in Col-orado Springs in college, joined the Air Force and was stationed at several air bases throughout New Mexico, including Holloman.

Now, she happily calls Al-amogordo, her forever home.

Alden is especially pleased that she has been able to come full circle with regard to her trav-els, finally settling in Alamogor-do, because she currently uses a lot of the photos she took when she lived here the first time to create her pieces. In a way, she is using her art to express grat-itude for the inspiration she got from those early visits.

When she was young Alden re-members painting and drawing for hours. Her love for art was evident and her parents sent her to study with a professional fine artist at the age of seven. One of her most vivid memories was the first time she painted on canvas with acrylics. Works from these early days are still in private col-lections with family members.

“The smell of the paint and to be able to be in a profession-al artist studio!” she said. “I re-member her hand on my hand as

she helped me apply the paint.” Alden did not enjoy high

school in general. Like many of us, she found it very stressful, but art class was a refuge. Inter-estingly, she did not have a good experience with math, large-ly due to poor teaching styles. However, when she went to col-lege, she took Algebra and loved it. Alden said, “This is a beautiful language!”

Throughout college, Alden worked in hospitality but con-tinued to draw and sketch. She never thought she could do it “for real” and instead, when she thought of a career path, she turned to healthcare since she was interested in pharmaceuti-cal research. This meant more math and science. As it turns out, biology and chemistry went fine as “the language of chemis-try spoke to me,” she said.

Alden has a bachelor’s degree in chemistry from Eastern New Mexico University, a BA in art with double concentrations in painting and ceramics from the University of the Incarnate Word in San Antonio, Texas, and is certified in medical technology. She pursued the latter because it provided a reliable source of em-ployment during the 10 1/2 years she and her husband moved around while fulfilling his mili-tary obligations. During the en-tire time she continued to dab-ble in art as much as she could. When time came to settle down and choose a place to live, the choice was easy, and the couple made the decision together to enable Alden to pursue her art full time.

Now, she uses her unique combination of chemistry and art education to dabble in mak-ing her own glazes, understand the behaviors of the different the media she works with and create new colors and ideas. Al-den is especially focused on her pottery work right now.

“I just love working and shap-ing clay,” She said. “It is a little more intuitive versus the paint-ing and drawing which is more

mental.” She admits however that her first pieces “…were re-ally terrible.”

Alden’s creates her pottery in a very small batch home studio operation. Most pieces are only replicated a handful of times before a new design is created, thereby assuring that each piece is unique. All her clay is from New Mexico and she utilizes hand building techniques using slab, coil and pinching. None of her current work is done using a pottery wheel.

Alden also enjoys painting and drawing animals. One spe-cialty of hers is pet portraits for customers who want an original

piece of artwork to celebrate their special family member. She is always accepting new com-missions for pet portraits and works from photos.

In March, Alden will be the featured artist at Gallery of the Otero Artisan’s Group adjacent to Clay Time, a pottery and ce-ramics studio in Alamogordo. Alden is currently a resident art-ist at the gallery and will have a solo show for the whole month.

“This is both an opportunity and huge challenge since this the first time I’ve been pushed to cre-ate so much work in such a short time,” she said. “I find that when I create, I become more creative.”

Alden is looking forward to the opportunity to meet new people and share her art.

About Clay TimeHank Hanglesben, artist, pot-

ter and owner of Clay Time, has opened an art gallery adjacent to Clay Time and hosts the work of members of the Otero Artisans Group. This collaborative cur-rently has 21 members, all from Otero County, and there are up to 12 artists on display at the gallery at any given time. Once a month, an artist is featured in one room of the gallery for the entire month and for the month of March, that artist is Alden. There will be a “Meet and Greet”

from 6 to 8 p.m. on Friday, March 13. Alden’s work will be on display and available for sale the entire month of March.

One important reason Alden is so pleased to show her work at the Clay Time gallery in Al-amogordo and at The Merc in Tularosa is that she can make art more accessible to people.

“It’s important to have art in our lives,” she said.

Lisa Alden’s social media:www.lisaaldenart.comInstagram @lisa_alden_artFacebook: Lisa Alden Pottery and Pet Portraits

Clay Time700 East 1st Street, Suite 756Granada Shopping CenterAlamogordo, NM 88310(575) 495-5300Facebook: Clay Time

The Gallery of Otero Artisan’s Group700 East First St., Suite 755Granada Shopping CenterAlamogordo, NM 88310

The Merc316 Granado StreetTularosa, NM 88352(505) 710-2924Facebook: The Merc

Lisa Alden with one of her creations. (Courtesy photos)

"Garden Party II"

MARCH GUEST ARTIST

Suzanne Ens presents a new collection: "Vernal"

ARTIST RECEPTION: Saturday, March 21st, 4-6:30 p.m.

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We strongly recommend gallery patrons call locations before visiting as gallery hours are subject to change and do so often. Contact Desert Exposure at 575-680-1978 or [email protected] to update listings. All area codes are 575 unless indicated otherwise.

Silver CityAlaska Mudhead Studio-Gallery, 371

Camino de Viento in Wind Canyon. By appointment, Letha Cress Wolfe, potter, 907-783-2780.

Anthony Howell Studio, 200 W. Market St. 574-2827. By appointment only.

[a]SP.“A”©E, 110 W. Seventh St., 538-3333, aspace.studiogallery@ gmail.com.

Barbara Nance Gallery & Stonewalker Studio, 105 Country Road, 534-0530. By appointment. Stone, steel, wood and paint. Sculpture path. www. barbaraNanceArt.com.

Blue Dome Gallery, 307 N. Texas, second location at 60 Bear Mountain Road, 534-8671. Open 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday to Saturday. www.bluedomegallery. com.

Borderlands Gallery, Stephan Hoglund Studios, 211 W. Yankie St., Silver City. 218-370-1314. www.stephanhoglund.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 St., 534-2087. Open by chance or by prior arrangement. 575-534-2087.

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.

Finn’s Gallery, 300 N. Arizona St., 406-790-0573

Francis McCray Gallery, 1000 College Ave., WNMU, 538-6517. 10 a.m.-3 p.m. Monday to Friday.

The Glasserie Studio and Store, 106 E. College Ave., 590-0044. 11 a.m.-6 p.m. Monday to Saturday.

Grant County Art Guild Gallery, 316 N. Bullard St., 10 a.m-5 p.m. Monday through Saturday; 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Sunday. GCAG.org.

Guadalupe’s, 505 N. Bullard St., 535- 2624. Thursday to Saturday, 10 a.m.-4 p.m.

Leyba & Ingalls Arts, 315 N. Bullard St., 388-5725. 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Monday to Saturday. Contemporary art ranging from realism to abstraction in a variety of media. www.LeybaIngallsARTS.com, [email protected].

Light Art Space, 209 W. Broadway St.. 520-240-7075. Open 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Thursday to Saturday; 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Sunday; and by appointment. Contemporary photography and other media. Workshops, exhibitions and events. [email protected] www.lightartspace.com.

Lloyd Studios, 306 W. Broadway St. 590-1110. Sculpture, custom knives and swords. 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Wednesday to Saturday and 10 a.m.-2

p.m. Sunday.Lois Duffy Art Studio, 211C N. Texas

St., 534-0822. 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Saturday or by appointment. Original paintings, cards and prints. www.loisduffy. com, loisduffy@ signalpeak.net.

Lumiere Editions, 104 N. Texas St., 956-6369. Vintage and contemporary photography. Monday to Friday.

The Makery, 206 N. Bullard St. 590- 1263. Freestyle weaving studio and school of fiber, book and paper arts, 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.

Mimbres Regional Arts Council Gallery, Wells Fargo Bank Bldg., 1201 N. Pope St. 538-2505, 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Tuesday to Sunday www.mimbresarts.org.

Molly Ramolla Gallery & Framing, 203 N. Bullard St., 538- 5538. www. ramollaart.com.

Ol’ West Gallery & Mercantile, 104 W. Broadway St., 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.

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.

Sterling Fine Art, 306 N. Bullard St. Silver City, 505-699-5005, 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Wednesday to Saturday and 1-3 p.m. Sunday, or by appointment. Abstract to realism, workshops and lessons available. sterlingnm.com.

Studio Behind the Mountain, 23 Wagon Wheel Lane, 388- 3277. By appointment. www. jimpalmerbronze.com.

Studio Upstairs, 109 N. Bullard St., 574-2493. By appointment.

Syzygy Tile Gallery, 106 N. Bullard St., 388-5472.

Tatiana Maria Gallery, 305 N. Bullard St. 388-4426.

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 St., 575-534-9717, noon – 4 p.m. Saturday and Sunday, also open for Red Dot Tour, artist showings and by appointment.

Yada Yada Yarn, 621 N. Bullard St. 388-3350.

Zoe’s Studio/Gallery, 305 N. Cooper St., 654-4910. By chance or appointment.

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, 536- 9935, [email protected], 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 Community Gallery, 1721 E. Pine St.

located in the restaurant at OYO’s. 6 a.m.-2p.m.

Deming Arts Center, 100 S. Gold St., 546-3663. Monday 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 St., 544-2512. Monday to Saturday 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Photography by Daniel Gauss.

Studio LeMarbe, 4025 Chaparral SE, 544-7708. By appointment.

Thursdays Gallery, 207 S. Silver St. 545-2994. Art works, plants and a boutique. Thursdays 11 a.m.-3 p.m.

ColumbusVillage of Columbus Library, 112

Broadway St., 531-2612, 8 a.m.-7 p.m. Monday to Saturday.

Rodeo Chiricahua Gallery, 5 Pine St., 557-

2225. Open daily except Wednesday, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

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, 523-8783. 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 CrucesBig 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 St. (intersection of Valley Drive and Taylor Road, open by appointment, 523-2950.

Camino Real Book Store and Art Gallery, 314 S. Tornillo St. 523-3988. Thursday to Sunday, 11 a.m.-5 p.m.

Cottonwood Gallery, 275 N. Main St. (Southwest Environmental Center), 522-5552. Monday to Friday, 9 a.m.-6 p.m.

Cutter Gallery, 2640 El Paseo Road, 541- 0658. 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, [email protected]. 8:30 a.m.-5:30 p.m. Monday to Friday.

Las Cruces Arts Association, located in Cruces Creatives, 205 E. Lohman Ave. lascrucesarts.wixsite.com/arts.

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 St., 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 St., 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 Drive, 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, [email protected], virginiamariaromero.com.

Magdalena Atelier Studio 605, 605 W. First St. A

collective space containing Village Press Print Studio; DOrkyART.us; Glennoznap.com; Es•Press•O. 838-6452. Letterpress Cards and Journals, Fine Art Printing & Photography. 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Monday through Friday.

Bear Mountain Gallery, 902 First Street. 1-4 p.m. Saturday and Sunday.

Paintings by Eddie Tsosie, jewelry and navajo rugs.

Blue Canyon Gallery, U.S. Highway 60 (1 mile east of Magdalena), 575-854-2953, 9 a.m.to 5 p.m. daily. Paintings, pottery and jewelry.

C&S Morning Star, 805 First Street,

505-288-6361. 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday to Thursday. Navajo jewelry and rugs.

Evett’s Café and Gallery, 501 First St., 854-2449. 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Wednesday to Sunday. Photographs, plein air landscape paintings and illustrated childrens books.

Judy’s Studio, 104 N. Main St. 375-743-9110. 1-4 p.m. Saturday and Sunday and by appointment. Drawings and sculpture.

Kind of a Small Array, 106 N. Main St. 210-473-9062. A humble space for art, music and poetry. 1-4 p.m. Saturday and Sunday and by appointment.

La Posada Gallery, 1008 First St. 910-297-9904. Affordable original art, photography, paintings, pottery, santos and icons. 1-4 p.m. Wednesday to Sunday.

Old S’cool House Gallery, 500 Main St., dorner of Fifth Street, 360-298-1461. Abstract paintings, textiles and fabric creations. 1-4 p.m. Saturday and Sunday and by appointment.

Warehouse 110, 110 N. Main St. 517-0669. Contemporary art and performance gallery. 11 a.m.-4 p.m. Saturday and by appointment. www.warehouse110.com.

Alamogordo Creative Designs Custom Framing &

Gallery, 434-4420, 917 New York Ave. Patron’s Hall/Flickinger Center for

Performing Arts, 434-2202, 1110 New York Ave.

TularosaHorse Feathers, 318 Granado St.

585-4407. Art, southwest furniture and decor.

The Merc, 316 Granado St. 505- 238-6469. Art gifts by regional artists, books.

CapitanHeart of the Raven, 415 12th St.,

937-7459, Functional and decorative pottery, classes.

Carrizozo Malkerson Gallery 408, 408 12th St. in

Carrizozo, 648-2598.Tularosa Basin Gallery of

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.

LincolnOld 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), 648-2985. Daily, 10 a.m-5 p.m. Porcelain pottery by Ivy Heymann.

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‘The Milagro Beanfield War’Classic New Mexico Tale

The High Road to Taos, New Mexico Highway 76, climbs east from Es-

panola toward the mountains, and the second village, high on a ridge at over 6,000 feet, is Tru-chas (Trout). The land falls away in fine views, especially where the high peaks of the Sangre De Cristo, Jicarilla, Trampas and Truchas, stand white in the sun-light. To an outsider the village seems poor, with humble houses of adobe, and a hard place to live. Yet to these people it is home, and they have been here since the 17th Century, some twelve gener-ations now. They speak Spanish that has vestiges of the language of Cervantes, and until the arrival of good roads and motorcars, they were nearly as isolated as colo-nists on Mars.

It was this village, named Mi-lagro (Miracle) in John Nichols’ novel, that is the setting for a dra-ma that started with a small thing. A family man with a plot of land under an ancient acequia walks on his dry, barren field, looks at the water flowing past. The tag on the headgate that controls the water warns against opening it. He’s annoyed, and kicks the tag, the gate opens, forbidden water flows onto his field.

When the villagers spot the water on Joe’s field, the word spreads like an avalanche. Joe Montagron (Chick Vennera) dips his hand in the stolen water: “I ought to shut it off, maybe I’ll sleep on it.” Instead, he’ll plant his field to beans, one of the Three Sisters that nourished this colony, and the Native Americans before them, for centuries: the others being corn and squash.

Not far away, yellow bulldozers topple piñon pine and scar the land. A crane places a large sign

on a foundation – “Miracle Valley Recreation Area” – and among the hard hats is Ladd Devine (Richard Bradford), a robber-bar-on type who has bought up land. He is anticipating the new dam the Forest Service is planning, and thanks to a vague 1973 wa-ter ruling, Devine gets that ditch water for his golf course but Joe’s field is right where his 13th hole fairway will be. Ladd declares it will be the greatest leisure time development in the history of the state, and the villagers are be-hind it 200 percent. When word of Joe’s theft of his water reach-es him, la mierda hits el ventila-dor. Ladd places a hot call direct to a henchman, Governor Harry Clark (M. Emmett Walsh) in San-ta Fe, who explodes … “Who the F___ is Joe Montragon?”

A large crowd of locals watch from the road above Joe’s field. The mayor (musician Freddy Fender) comes running. Word reaches Ruby’s Body Shop and Pipe Queen, the queen herself (Sonia Braga) jumps in her truck and races to the field. Seeing Joe ditching it into rows for his beans, she drives away to find Charlie Bloom (John Heard), ex-lawyer and publisher of the Voz de La Norte (Voice of the North) tending his garden. Ruby is on fire; she tells him she’ll pay him to print an article about Joe’s diversion and notify the area of a meeting to reclaim their ancient water rights.

At the meeting she speaks of their lost world, “When our poverty was not a thing to be ashamed of.” Then she makes Charlie speak, and he explains their water will be used against them: “The Miracle Valley scam will bring in wealthy homebuy-ers, your taxes will go sky high,

you will be screwed bigtime, most of you will be forced to sell and move elsewhere.” This inflames the villagers, but what to do?

Ladd Devine calls in the local power, Sheriff Bernabe Montoya (Ruben Blades), and tells him to shut Joe down, but Montoya lives here and knows everyone, and he’s not about to get heavy with anyone. He tells Devine nobody understands those water laws.

“Besides, if I tell Joe to stop, he’ll tell me to go sit on a chile.”

This film is not so much a dra-ma as a light-hearted comedy, with a fine cast of professionals and locals who make it authen-tic. They sport a droll humor that creeps in at every turn. Director Redford had lived in the area and had a feeling for the people that brings warmth to the film. Ru-ral, isolated New Mexicans are decent, humble folk with no pre-tensions. They had been self-sup-porting for ages, and then had to adapt to a money culture when the people from Gringolandia started moving in during the 19th century. As Tularosa Basin writer Eugene Rhodes explained, “They may forgive you for taking a shot or two at them; but never for giv-ing them the high hat.”

You see this when a tall An-glo hitches a ride to Milagro on a school bus. He’s Herbie Platt (Daniel Stern), an NYU graduate

student, here to study them and write a sociology thesis. Her-bie works at fitting in, he makes friends with Amarante (Carlos Requelme), the oldest villager, and then takes an unpaid job fixing fences and planting beans for Joe Montragon. Meanwhile, Ladd Devine has sent in a hired gun, Kyril Montana (Christopher Walken), who pulls into Milagro in his rental car wearing a be-spoke Western suit, and starts bossing the villagers around like he’s the new Sheriff. HIs fine Stet-son is the high hat, and he will re-gret his disrespecto.

Redford knew Nichols before he moved to Taos, and liked the novel “because it was like a fairy tale, and had a good, good heart.”

I had the pleasure of dinner with John Nichols once at Il Vi-cino in Albuquerque, a gathering arranged by writer Sharon Nei-derman. John reminded me of police detectives I have known, because he listens when you talk, asks good questions, and makes mental notes of any useful information. His feeling for the high country of northern New Mexico comes out everywhere in the book, and Redford was the auteur who could portray it. He would go on to direct Norman Maclean’s novel, “A River Runs Through It”, a film so fine I hold it up, with “Milagro”, as examples

of notable American films. This film combines an authentic and scenic location with fine actors like Vennera, Blades, and Braga.

“Milagro” shows with respect the quirks of an interesting cul-ture, a people who once knew how to “deal with their saints and talk with the angels.” There is Amarante’s unreconstructed pig, Lupita, who pulls wash off the clothes lines and eats what she pleases; there’s the tiny old wom-an who lurks behind bushes and tosses pebbles at selected vic-tims; and the mysterious Coyote Angel, who dances in the moon-light under his huge sombrero and plays melodias on his concer-tina; he may or may not exist.

Hap Hasard (nom-de-plume) has taught high school, worked as a lease controller for IBM Denver, served as a military policeman in the Army National Guard and held all the temporary positions that can be held in New Mexico entertainment, 1993- 2010. Then he wanted to act, so appeared on stage in 20 different regional productions around southern New Mexico.

The Milagro Beanfield WarUniversal, 120-minutes, Color, (1988), from Netflix DVDProduced & Directed by Robert Redford (“Ordinary People”)Screenplay by David S. WardSet in New Mexico

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SUNDAYSArchaeology Society — First

Sunday of every month, field trip. 536-3092, [email protected].

Cocaine Anonymous — 2 p.m. at the New 180 Club, 1661 U.S. Highway 180 E. Everyone with drug or alcohol problem is welcome. [email protected].

MONDAYSAARP Widowed and Single

Persons of Grant County —10:30 a.m., second Monday, Cross Point Assembly of God Church. All singles welcome. Contact Sally, 537-3643.

Al-Anon family group, New Hope —12:05 p.m. First Presbyterian Church, corner of 20th and Swan Streets, Silver City. Open meeting. Contact: 313-7891.

Grant County Federated Republican Women – 11:30 a.m., Third Monday at Silver Bowling Center on Memory Lane. 313-7997.

Meditation for Beginners — 5:30 p.m., Lotus Center, 211 W. Broadway. Jeff, 956-6647. www.lotuscentersc.org.

Silver City Squares — Dancing 6:30-8:30 p.m., Methodist Church Santa Rita Street entrance. Kay, 956-7186 or Linda 590-1499.

Silver Chorale – 7-9 p.m. rehearsal, First Presbyterian Church, corner 20th and Swan streets, Silver City. New members welcome. Contact Anne, 288-6939.

Southwest New Mexico ACLU – noon, first Monday (except September when it’s the second Monday), Little Toad Creek, 200 N. Bullard St. in Silver City. Bob Garrett, 575-590-4809.

TUESDAYSAlzheimer’s/Dementia Support

—1:30 p.m., First Tuesday, Senior Center. Margaret, 388-4539.

Bayard Historic Mine Tour —9:30 a.m., Second Tuesday, meet at Bayard City Hall, 800 Central Ave. $5 fee covers two-hour bus tour of historic mines plus literature and map. Call 537-3327 for reservation.

Figure/Model Drawing — 4-6 p.m. Contact Sam, 388-5583. First Tuesday, 6 p.m. at the headquarters, next to the Chevron/Snappy Mart in Arenas Valley. Dan Larson, 654-4884.

Gilawriters — 1-3 p.m., Visitors Center at Hudson and Broadway in Silver City. Contact Trish Heck, [email protected] or call 534-0207.

Multiple Sclerosis Support Group — 11:30 a.m., first Tuesday at a local restaurant; email for this month’s location: [email protected].

PFLAG Silver City — First Tuesday, 6 p.m., at the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship, 3845 N. Swan. Confidential support for LGBTQ persons and their families. No meetings in January and July. 575-590-8797.

Republican Party of Grant County — 6 p.m., second Monday, 3 Rio de Arenas Road (the old Wrangler restaurant).

Slow Flow Yoga — 11:30 a.m.- 12:45 p.m., Lotus Center, 211 W. Broadway, Becky Glenn, 404-234-5331.

Southwest New Mexico Quilters Guild – 9:30 a.m., first Tuesday, Grant County Extension Office, 2610 N. Silver Street, North entrance. Newcomers and visitors are welcome. 388-8161.

Westerners Corral – 6:20 p.m., meets on the third Tuesday of every even numbered month throughout the year, except for December; when the meeting is held on the second Tuesday. For more information email Jody Bailey-Hall at: [email protected] or call 575 342-2621 and leave a message.

WEDNESDAYSACA Meeting (Adult Children of

Alcoholics and Dysfunctional Families) — 6:30-7:45 p.m. meets every Wednesday at the New Church of the Southwest Desert, 714 N. Bullard St. 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, October-April 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 [email protected], 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.

Brain Injury and Stroke Support Group — 3-4 p.m. third Wednesday. GRMC Billy Sasper Rehab & Wellness Center, 300 E. 16th St., Silver City.

A Course in Miracles — 7:15 p.m., 600 N. Hudson. Information, 534-9172 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 [email protected].

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.

Ladies Golf Association — 8 a.m. tee time, Silver City Golf Course.

Prostate Cancer Support Group — 6:30 p.m., third Wednesday, Gila Regional Medical Center Conference Room. 388-1198 ext. 10.

Storytime — 10:30 a.m., Silver City Public Library, 515 W. College Avenue. For children ages 0-5, no registration necessary. 538-3672 or [email protected].

Yoga for happiness — 1-2:10 p.m. taught by Colleen Stinar. Lotus Center, 211 W. Broadway. 574-5451.

THURSDAYSBlooming Lotus Meditation —

5:30 p.m., Lotus Center, 211 W. Broadway. 313-7417, [email protected].

De-stressing Meditations — Noon-12:45 p.m., New Church of the SW Desert, 1302 Bennett St. 313-4087.

Grant County Rolling Stones Gem and Mineral Society —6 p.m., second Thursday, 2045 Memory Lane, Silver City. Anita, 907-830-0631.

Historic Mining District & Tourism Meeting — 10 a.m., second Thursday, Bayard Community Center, 290 Hurley Ave., Bayard. 537-3327.

Little Artist Club — 10:30-11:30 a.m., Silver City Public Library, 515 W. College Avenue. Free creative fun for children ages 0-5. No registration necessary. 538-3672 or [email protected].

TOPS — 5 p.m. First Presbyterian Church, 1915 Swan, 538-9447.

Vinyasa Flow Yoga — 11:30 a.m.-12:45 p.m., Lotus Center at 211 W. Broadway, Becky Glenn, 404-234-5331.

WildWorks Youth Space — 4 p.m. For children ages 10+ Space for youth to hang out, experiment, create and more. Free, no registration necessary. Silver City Public Library, 515 W. College Avenue, 538-3672 or [email protected].

FRIDAYSOvereaters Anonymous — 7 p.m.,

First United Methodist Church. 654-2067.

Silver City Woman’s Club — 10:30 a.m., second Friday, 411 Silver Heights Blvd. Monthly meeting, lunch is at noon. Lucinda, 313-4591.

Women’s Al-Anon Meeting: Women Embracing Recovery — 5:30 p.m., La Clinica Health and Birth Center, 3201 Ridge Loop, Silver City. Contact:313-7891.

SATURDAYSAlcoholics Anonymous “Black

Chip” —11 a.m.-noon, First United Methodist Church.

Evening Prayer in the Eastern Orthodox Tradition — 5 p.m., Theotokos Retreat Center, 5202 Hwy. 152, Santa Clara. 537-4839.

Kids Bike Ride — 10 a.m., Bikeworks, 815 E. 10th St. Dave Baker, 388-1444.

Narcotics Anonymous — 6 p.m., New 180 Club, 1661 Hwy. 180 E.

Spinning Group — 1-3 p.m., First Saturday, Yada Yada Yarn, 614 N. Bullard, 388-3350.

Vinyasa Flow Yoga — 10-11:30 a.m., Lotus Center, 211 W. Broadway. All levels. Becky Glenn, 404-234-5331.

All phone numbers are area code 575 except as noted. Send updates to [email protected].

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vides a behind-the-curtain peak at some of the Museum’s most fascinating artifacts.

The Silver City Museum hous-es over 200,000 objects and 25,000 photographs. Among the highlights that are on display are Madam Millie’s red high heels, and a photograph from the Mer-ritt Family collection of the first planes the U.S. military used in combat, which in 1916 took to the southern New Mexico skies seeking retribution for Pancho Villa’s raid on Columbus. Also, on display visitors can see arti-facts of various facets of Silver City history, from Chinese mer-chants to inventors of strange miracle cures.

The interactive exhibit will also invite public conversation

about objects that could or should be collected, and how they can be used to tell stories of our past.

The Silver City Museum cre-ates opportunities for residents and visitors to explore, under-stand, and celebrate the rich and diverse cultural heritage of southwestern New Mexico by collecting, preserving, research-ing, and interpreting the region’s unique history.

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Collection Exhibit Treats straight out of the past

Madam Millie’s red high-heels. Like a wild west Cinderella story, she picked herself up by her sling-backs. See if the shoe fits at the opening reception of From the Collections, January 22, 5-7pm at the Silver City Museum. (Courtesy Photo)


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It might sound strange, but planning your own funeral in advance, even while you

are perfectly healthy, may be the smartest thing you can do to ensure your family isn’t left with the burden of making cost-ly decisions after your death.

“Death is not something we want to talk about, especial-ly our own, but sometimes a family member may not have expressed what type of service they want and that leaves the family guessing,” said Ruben Benavidez, funeral director at Baca’s Funeral Chapels, 300 E. Boutz Road.

According to AARP, there are three main things to con-sider when planning a funeral: preparing the corpse, holding the ceremony and handling the burial or the ashes of the de-ceased.

One of the first steps in the process is finding a funeral home to work with. Since fu-nerals can, in some cases, cost thousands of dollars, AARP rec-ommends shopping around to find the best deal.

And while many people still prefer a traditional funeral, there are more options than ever when it comes services, caskets and urns, said Daniel Seldner, funeral home manager

and director at La Paz-Graham’s Funeral Home, 555 W. Amador Ave.

“A lot of families are thinking of doing different things with their loved ones,” Seldner said.

A recent trend is for families to plan green, or eco-friendly fu-nerals, which may include em-balming with formaldehyde-free products, using sustainable bio-degradable clothing or burying a loved in in an environmentally friendly urn or casket.

Cremation is also on the rise. According to the National Fu-neral Directors Association, the rate of cremation exceeded that of burial in 2015 and has gained popularity among people of var-ious religious faiths.

“We have urns here (at La Paz-Graham’s) where family members can bury (their loved one) in the ground and (the urn) disintegrates over time,” Seld-ner said.

“…You can even make a tree out of a loved one’s remains,” he said. “We have special ones where you can place the re-mains in water and they float for a period of time, so a family can have a small memorial and then it sinks under and disinte-grates into the ocean or into the water.”

“There’s a lot of misconcep-tions out there as far as funeral homes trying to up-sale or make any type of commission,” he said.

“We don’t have anything like that here. If we have a family that spends $5,000 or if we have a family that spends $10,000, our service doesn’t change. So, to us, anyone who comes through our doors deserves the utmost respect in honoring their loved one.”

Benavidez said another mis-

conception is that if someone makes funeral arrangements in one state and then moves to another, they would lose money and have to make new plans, but that is not usually the case.

Typically, a funeral home or cemetery will help individuals and families set up a trust when they enter into a contract with them.

“The funeral home does not own the prearrangement,” Be-navidez said. “We turn that money over to a trust, where the money is held and guaranteed. So, if you do a prearrangement and then move and pass away, the funeral home over there can collect the money once they have a death certificate.”

One of the advantages of a prearranged funeral is that indi-viduals are able pay it off ahead of time. It also freezes the cost of the services provided by the funeral home, ensuring that a family does not get hit with an unexpected expense due to es-calating funeral costs, Benavi-dez said.

Making prearrangements also provides individuals with the ability to plan their funer-al the way they want it, taking their time in making detailed and cost-efficient choices. Oth-erwise, the family is forced to make quick decisions during a difficult and emotional time.

“If (families) do have a loved one who’s getting a little bit up in age or that is sick or in bad health, some families will come in and get information,” Seldner said. “And really, just gathering information helps them at the time of their loved one’s passing because we can help explain the process to them – what’s go-ing to happen when their loved one passes away.”

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Voting is an ObligationSome people are not voting very well

The top 20 percent of the population owns more than 80 percent of our

country’s wealth. The bottom 20 percent of our population owns less than .1 percent.

Some people are not voting very well.

Before democracy was in-vented, there was only might is right. Whoever was strongest, whoever had the most power could decide what was best for themselves and everyone else. Usually, what was best was what was best for the one who had the power. Then, along came de-mocracy. It doesn’t take strength or power to vote. All you have to do is be a human being. Of course, it took years for people (men) to decide what was a hu-man being. For a while, people who didn’t own their own land, women, people of color and the poor, were not considered hu-man beings. Now, almost every-one can vote.

So, voting is an obligation we take on for the privilege of living in a free and democratic society. Voting is not only an obligation, but it is our responsibility to do so. Our responsibility is to do some research into who would be the best person to vote for. If we vote responsibly by doing

our due diligence concerning the candidates and the laws being put forward, we can maintain a strong and free democratic soci-ety. If we don’t do our due dili-gence, then we can end up losing our democracy.

In the 1970s I made $12 an hour driving a truck. The truck-ing companies were still making a profit while paying those wag-es. To have an equivalent buy-ing power of $12 an hour that I had in the 1970s, I would have to be making $50 an hour in the 2020s. That this tells me is that democracy in our country is no longer working. This trend of the disparity of wealth has been increasing over the years since the start of our great democratic experiment back in 1787.

Right now, 20 percent of the population owns more than 80 percent of our country’s wealth. I don’t think wealth will ever be distributed evenly, and I’m not sure we should even strive for that. Some people will always want to seek wealth and amass power. Some people will be more concerned about things other than money. It is not my point here to pass judgment on anyone’s lifestyle. My point here is, why is 80 percent of the vot-ing population not voting wise-

ly?Distributing the wealth of our

country more evenly will not weaken our country nor will it deprive the wealthy of having multiple houses and dozens of cars, but it may deprive them of controlling our economy and our government. Distributing wealth more equitably will allow for uni-versal free medical care, free ed-ucation for all – even advanced degrees – basic food shelter and warmth for all. If anything, these benefits will strengthen our country and reduce almost all poverty and crime. Can we real-ly say our government is for the people and by the people if the poor are getting poorer and the rich are getting richer?

We live in a country that uses capitalism as its economic sys-tem. Unfortunately, the capital-ism in our country has become distorted – not a true capital-ism. We have been putting the emphasis on stock/equity cap-ital, including land, and deem-phasizing labor capital. In fact, labor capital is considered an expense, not an asset. A CEO can, and is often, fired for not producing enough profit (stock/equity capital), often at the ex-pense of labor capital. Thus, we see the huge imbalance between

labor and the owners of capital assets. One of the ways we can fix this situation is to value la-bor. Without labor, there would be no billionaires and the super wealthy.

It is time that we rethink some of our knee-jerk beliefs about democratic socialism. The Scandinavian countries are considered by various surveys as the happiest nations on earth. They rank in the top five. The Scandinavian countries are still capitalist. Free enterprise is still alive and well. Yet, in our coun-try, which, by the way, ranks 19 in the list of happiest countries, we think socialism is a bad word even though our country has nu-merous social programs like the fire department, the police de-partment, social services for the needy, free education from kin-dergarten through high school, social security for the elderly, Medicare, Medicaid, govern-ment pension plans for elected officials and government work-ers, and of course, the military, etc. These social programs keep our country strong and viable.

Just for comparison. If we divide the wealth of our pop-ulation into fifths, this is what it looks like: top fifth has 84 percent of the wealth, the next

fifth, 11 percent, the next fifth, 4 percent, the next to the bottom fifth, .2 percent, and the bottom fifth, .1 percent. Now let’s com-pare that with Sweden. The top fifth has 36 percent, the next fifth, 21 percent, the next fifth, 18 percent, next to the bottom fifth, 15 percent, and the bottom fifth, 11 percent. I’m not saying it is better to live in Sweden. I’m just saying we, as citizens of our country, should always be striv-ing to do better. In this import-ant election year, we should be doing a lot of homework about the candidates and take our votes seriously. We should not be saying, “My country right or wrong.” But we should be say-ing, “My country, let’s make it the best country in the world for all of our citizens.”

So, maybe we need to re-think what it means to say, “of the people, by the people, and for the people. It’s hard for the peo-ple that comprise the bottom 20 percent to feel that our country is for the people.

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Over the years, whenev-er I read, heard or saw something interesting

about good horsemanship, I’d write it down and throw it in a file. When I needed a little inspi-ration, or maybe some help get-ting important concepts through to a student, I’d dig out this fold-er of gems to look for an answer or a better way.

It’s never mattered where an idea comes from. It could be a legend in the world of horses, an old cowboy trainer nobody has ever heard of or simply an inter-esting thought about teaching and learning from someone who knows nothing about horses. Maybe my eclectic collection of ideas is based on my belief that a fundamental trait of anybody who wants to be good at some-thing, whether it’s horses or anything else, is having an open mind and a desire to learn and improve. My earliest mentors told me you’re never done with your horse or yourself.

Since we’re entering a new season of riding after a winter that has been cold, wet and mud-dy, I thought it might be helpful for some riders to throw out a few comments that have found their way into my treasured file. Maybe a reminder can help you see things in a different way, help solve a problem or get you refocused on doing things the right way.

“The most interesting aspect of Nuno Oliveira’s legacy to the riding community is the variety of interpretation that his philos-ophy, rather than his methodol-ogy, has spawned. There is no actual definable technique, there is only the ability of each rider to find the right measure of tact to present questions in such a way to be acceptable to the individ-ual needs of a particular horse.”

This quote is from Bettina Drummond, a dressage trainer and rider recognized the world over for her skills and insights,

who was fortunate enough to have studied with the master Nuno Oliveira (if you’ve never heard of him, do a search and you’ll find the story of one of the greatest horseman in any disci-pline of the last hundred years). I love this quote because I see so many people get hooked on the idea that a method, a system or a patented approach being sold to the public by some trainer or personality will somehow make you great with horses. The best approach for you and your horse is inside you, and you need to figure that out and take respon-sibility for developing it.

“My first goal with Quincy was to build his confidence by doing groundwork exercises, including liberty training, for two years. I wanted this horse to show me his path. Before I would say, I’m going to do my program for three months and then I’m going to do such and such. Now I know I have to take the horse into consideration.”

A gem from Jonathan Field, an extraordinary horseman from Canada, when describ-ing a long journey early in his career with a tough 7-year-old horse. I’ve spent 20 years trying to convince people there is real riding value in groundwork, so it’s wonderful to see one of the best admitting how important groundwork was in establishing a working foundation to build on going forward. It allowed Field to step back, think outside the box and listen to what his horse was saying. It led to a creative solution for this particular horse that he admits never would have happened if he just kept doing things the same way.

“Great horsemen are gifted with discernment. They’re good about reading a horse and read-ing people. It wouldn’t matter if you’re opening a can of beans or opening a gate, horsemen watch the way you do things.”

This comment comes from

Jeff Williams, a respected trainer and colt started who is a regular judge for the annual Road to the Horse colt starting competition Every single thing you do around horses matters to the horse, and it’s how the horse judges you and your ability to lead and teach him. Years and hundreds of horses later, it’s been the lit-tle things that have helped me be successful and keep myself safe. Don’t ever get lazy with the small stuff.

Along the same lines – when asked about his techniques or process for colt starting, horse-man Bryan Neubert simply de-scribes his approach as “doing the little things that make a big difference.” Nothing more com-plicated than that. Small steps, clear communication, realistic goals and rewards for the small-est try.

“Teaching is not about tack. If a rider relies on gadgets to com-municate with the horse, both the rider and the horse miss something in the translation. For example, remember most bits are not considered severe as long as the rider doesn’t pull the rein. Conversely, any disrespect through the hand will be threat-ening to the horse, regardless of the bit used.”

A wonderful quote from the late Mark Russell that every rid-er should think about. It is the skill, demeanor and knowledge of the rider that makes a horse comfortable and willing to do what we ask, not the equipment we keep buying in hopes it will make things easier and faster.

“A bit is just a device to com-municate with a horse. I don’t care what a bit’s supposed to do in a catalog or in a store. I only care what it does on the horse. How do I know if it works for the horse? I ask the horse. He’ll tell you if you’ll listen.” This from legendary California train-er Benny Guitron. Simple and to the point. It’s the hands that hold

the equipment, not the equip-ment. And your horse doesn’t lie about what he thinks.

“No program or method will solve every problem or training issue with a horse. Certainly, no method takes away from the rid-er the responsibility of actually learning to ride, of constantly striving for a correct seat, and of coordinating his own move-ments as well as his general ef-fect on the horse.” A quote from German trainer Richard Hin-richs. I’ve always admired his work and philosophy because he feels schooling a horse in hand from the ground leads to a more relaxed, fit and willing horse, and a rider with better feel, balance and coordination.

“Long-reining is by far the best way to introduce the horse to the feel and pressure of the bit and to teach basic aids without the added stress of carrying a rider. As you progress it teaches the horse to ‘listen backwards’ which is critical in a riding horse. It teaches the horse to take instructions from the bit, your hands and your aids rath-er than just concentrating on your voice or body language. It introduces the idea of leg aids, and it gets a horse comfortable with objects around his legs and a feeling of confinement while in motion.”

I read this years ago from Richard Maxwell and it rein-forced my belief that working in long lines is perhaps the best all-around training technique for a horse of any age, and for teach-ing a human about feel and soft hands. This should be in every-one’s horse teaching toolbox.

“Lateral exercise is the be-ginning of the strength-building process for the horse because lateral work, in total, should make up the largest percent-age of overall training time.” This quote from Mark Russell and has an underlying message about total fitness for the horse.

Most owners will build a horse’s fitness by running around the round pen, endless hours on a lunge line or long trail rides. None of those approaches leads to the kind of fitness and healthy longevity you get when you ask the horse to use his whole body in a variety of ways, and nothing does this better than regular re-laxed, light lateral work. If you aren’t doing it, you’re doing your horse a real disservice.

And finally, “whatever his breed, background or situation, the horse’s understanding of the rules governing the wild herd still apply. Every horse, wild or domestic, communicates in the same simple and highly visual way. Most horses will learn a few key words such as ‘halt’ or ‘walk-on’, but all too often we create problems because we fail to communicate effectively with our horse, and then punish him for what we call disobedience. His surprise at our unreasonable treatment leads to frustration and resentment, and both horse and rider soon find themselves in a cycle of misunderstanding.”

This from British trainer Rich-ard Maxwell. It goes right to the core of why so many people get frustrated with their horses or don’t really progress in their horsemanship. Horses are what they are and if you can’t accept that you must work with them in ways that make sense to them, then you’re guaranteed a rela-tionship that will have many bumps in the road.

Scott Thomson lives in Silver City and teaches natural horsemanship and foundation training. You can contact him at [email protected] of 575-388-1830.

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For those who would like to explore a new area of the Gila National Forest

(GNF) while making a differ-ence, Heart of the Gila (HOTG) is gearing up for its spring 2020 Trails Partnership projects. The HOTG trails partnership is a vol-unteer-based program bringing together people and resources to maintain trails throughout the Gila. The program operates in cooperation with the U.S Forest Service.

Upcoming volunteer oppor-tunities include trail projects near Miller Spring Cabin, Little Springs, Upper Turkey Creek and near Snow Lake. Good food, good company and trail and safe-ty training are provided. Tools and food are packed in by local outfitters or the Gila Back Coun-try Horseman (GBCH). Project specifics and information on vol-unteering can be found on the HOTG website.

In 2019, HOTG Trails Part-nership’s first year, volunteers contributed more than 3,000 hours of work and helped open more than 50 miles of trails, many of which were previously unusable. They removed more than 450 logs from the trails, sometimes by literally crawl-ing down the trail, and GBCH removed massive amounts of brush from the corridor. This work could not have been done without the collaboration of the GBCH, who worked closely with HOTG on most of the trail proj-ects. Their members provide pack support, precook meals for the back-country projects and remove the big logs from the trail – more than 900 last year – with crosscuts and chainsaws, when allowed. This synergistic partnership has improved both groups’ ability to make a differ-ence regarding deferred mainte-nance of the trails.

The capacity to clear and maintain trails in the GNF was also increased by teaming up with regional groups like New Mexico Volunteers for the Out-doors, the Continental Divide Trail Coalition and the Southern New Mexico Trail Alliance. Also participating are local groups like the Silver City Bike Group and the Gila National Forest Trail Crew. Local outfitters in-clude Gila Hot Springs Ranch, Gila Back Country Services and San Francisco River Outfitters.

To make this all possible, fund-ing for past and upcoming trail projects comes from the State of New Mexico with support from State Rep. Rudy Martinez, grants from the GNF, and the National Environmental Education Foun-

dation, and individual donations from the local trails community.

While opening trails is a crucial first step to supporting access to wilderness, providing qual-ity trail information also helps disperse use and enhance the safety and enjoyment of those exploring these areas. This is why HOTG Trail Partnership vol-unteers create trail maintenance logs and maps of cleared trails, which can be accessed on the HOTG web-site. This informa-tion is essential when planning a hiking trip into the Gila Wilder-ness and surrounding areas. It incorporates the trail work com-pleted by multiple groups and is

ADVENTURES • MELISSA GREEN

Heart of the GilaHeading to the woods for fresh air, good deeds

GILAcontinued on page 26

Gila Hot Springs Ranch and Gila BCH packing in supplies for the Granite Peak and Diablos Trail Project. (Photo by Connie Moreno)

Volunteers backpack out from the Granny Mountain Trail Project. (Photo courtesy of Sagebrush

Volunteers from the Continental Divide Trail Coalition, New Mexico Volun-teers for the Outdoors, Gila Back Country Horsemen and Gila Back Country Services on the Middle Fork Trail Project. (Courtesy Photo)

NOLS volunteer participants on the Little Bear Trail No. 729. (Pho-to by Melissa Green)


GILAcontinued from page 25

Rocotillo Rapids – the name alone sounds promising, doesn’t it?

You have to roll the R’s on your tongue. Try it and say it out loud! It sounds like a racehorse at the Kentucky Derby or a new pod racer in Star Wars.

Rapids naturally also made me think of rushing water, but there was none, rushing or otherwise. This is still the Southwest des-ert. But the hike was memorable nonetheless.

We, that is the Jornada Hikers, carpooled to the regular park-ing lot at the Permian Track-ways (off Rocky Acres Road) in Las Cruces and headed toward the main canyon first, but then veered up a hill on the left be-fore entering that canyon. Up on top two, water tanks for cattle served as our landmark. Down the hill on the other side and a sharp right turn brought us to a canyon running parallel to the Permian Trackways mainstay. We followed that over many solidified river-bottom areas with imbedded fossils galore! This area has seen two different oceans and a fresh-water lake. The biodiversity is visible on the ground everywhere.

In a few spots, the riverbed suddenly rose a couple of feet and we had to clamber up the

boulders. Blessed are those with long limbs who scale those rocks like mountain goats.

Eventually the canyon flat-tened out and we turned left into a narrower riverbed and fol-lowed it uphill until we hit a dirt road. Taking that to the left all the way to the top of a mesa, we were rewarded with grandiose views of Las Cruces and the sur-rounding area. Then we back-tracked to the parking lot on the same route. I generally prefer loop hikes, but the advantage of an in-and-out trail is that you can make it as long or short as you want depending on your fitness, stamina and water supply.

While hiking, we often have interesting conversations with old friends or new acquain-tances. This time I spoke with Allison, who has moved here only recently, about participat-ing in the Senior Olympics. She asked what I did and when those events took place. I answered, “I do race walking. They hold those events together with the other running and throwing events, you know? Javalina and so on.” After a moment of si-lence she laughs, “Oh, you mean javelin. I first imagined people throwing pigs around here in the Southwest – maybe a local tra-dition…” We had a good laugh

about my blooper. If you are interested in Senior

Olympics – anyone over 50 can participate – you can find infor-mation on their website: nmse-niorolympics.org. The state Senior Olympic Games will be held in Las Cruces June 10 - 13. It’s great fun no matter how fit or unfit you feel. It can also be a great motivator to get in shape. For me as a former casual run-

ner, it was knee pain that got me to try race walking instead. It’s a good workout and my knees don’t bother me anymore.

As the weather warms up, re-member your sunscreen and hat if you go out there. The trail de-scribed above offers no shade. So, pack your water and a snack and I’ll see you out there.

Of German origin, Gabriele

Teich has called Las Cruces her home for more than 20 years — and loved every minute of it, hiking the mountains in the immediate surrounding area and all over this beautiful state.

HIGH PLACES • GABRIELE TEICH

Exploring our Monument Hiking near the Permian Trackways

Hikers on the flat rock river bottom. (Photo by Gabriele Teich)

updated frequently throughout the trail season. For those who can’t participate as a volunteer this

year, there are other ways to offer support. An import-ant one is to hike the trails that are open and enjoy the beautiful forest. After a hike on these trails, fill out a trip report regarding trail conditions and water sources. This simple form can be found on the HOTG website. Remember to incorporate Leave No Trace Principles on all your adventures to preserve these gems for future generations.

HOTG is a local non-profit organization that seeks to conserve our watersheds and educate children, adults and decision makers about the ecological, economic and cultural values of rivers in New Mexico and the bioregions of the greater Southwest. Its stewardship programs include river cleanups, invasive species erad-ication, habitat restoration, biological monitoring and trail maintenance.

Donations can be made to Heart of the Gila or HOTG Trails Partnership Program. For more information, visit heartofthegila.org or contact the groups at [email protected]. Volunteers working on the Cooper Canyon Trail. (Photo by Victor Fernandez)

A volunteer from New Mexico Volunteers for the Outdoors Granny Mountain Trail Project. (Photo courtesy of Sagebrush)

Volunteers from the Sawyer Peak Trail Project. These volunteers worked on Trail No. 79 from Emory Pass to the saddle below Sawyer Peak. (Photo by Melissa Green)

Dinner is served to volunteers after a long day working on the trail at Emory Pass. (Photo by Randall Bozelle)


The last two times I tried to get a green chile cheese-burger at the Buckhorn

Tavern in San Antonio, the restaurant was closed. The sec-ond time, Dec. 11, 2018, was the day Bobby Olguin closed it for good.

For the uninformed, tiny San Antonio, at the crossroads of Interstate 25 and U.S. Hwy. 380, has been the mecca of the green chile cheeseburger for about 75 years. San Antonio is known as the hometown of hotel magnate Conrad Hilton, but in New Mex-ico, the town has more fame for its flame, as in green chile burg-ers.

The Owl Bar & Café and the Buckhorn (also known at times as Manny’s), have sat across the street from each other for gen-erations, sparking countless de-bates about who has the better burgers. The debate appeared to end when Olguin put that final sign on the door.

Enter Socorro County na-tive Ernie Sichler and his wife, Stephanie.

The Sichlers lived in Las Cru-ces for many years after earning their degrees at New Mexico State, but after the Buckhorn closed, they started visiting with

Olguin, who has been a friend of the Sichler families since be-fore Ernie was born. Olguin had closed the restaurant for health reasons, but was happy when a local boy expressed interest.

So, Ernie and Stephanie took the plunge and bought the Buck-horn. Ernie spent most of the spring and summer of 2019 get-ting the place in shape.

On Labor Day weekend, Ernie pulled the first “new” Buckhorn Burger off the grill and onto a bun. Business has been steady ever since.

Unfortunately (or perhaps for-tunately for my waistline), I live about two hours from San Anto-nio, so had not been able to dive into a new old favorite.

On Jan. 20, though, I corrected the situation, stopping off to eat en route to Santa Fe.

Ernie handed me the very sim-ple menu, even though I didn’t need it. There are quite a few items listed, but there was no way I was going to have any-thing BUT the Buckhorn Burger.

While waiting – and you will wait; this is not fast food, nor should it be – I perused the bev-erages, which include a lot of New Mexico beers, as well as wine, soft drinks and Mexican

sodas. And, yes, for the one oth-er New Mexican besides me who cares, they DO have RC Cola.

To be honest, I was a little ner-vous about eating the burger.

I had my first Buckhorn Burg-er around 1998, and loved it. I loved the Owl burgers as well, and I appreciated the fact they were distinctly different from each other. The Owl’s were al-ways smaller, but juicier, with the emphasis on the green chile. The Buckhorn’s were bigger, heartier, with the emphasis on the great flavor of the beef patty.

As a journalist, I considered it a sacred duty and service to know both burgers and offer my research to readers. One day last summer, while cleaning out the restaurant, Ernie texted me a photo of a framed newspaper article he found in a back room. It had hung on the Buckhorn walls for several years before a redecorating. The article was from a May 2001 issue of the Al-amogordo Daily News, written by its then-publisher, Richard Coltharp.

Flash forward almost 19 years, I sat at the counter, sip-ping my RC and salivating in an-ticipation, but, as I said, a little nervous. I’ve known Ernie since

2008, and I wondered what I would say, or how I would react, if I didn’t like the burger, or if I didn’t think it compared well to Bobby Olguin’s legendary clas-sic.

When the burger and fries ar-rived, I sat there staring. In part be-cause I wanted them to cool down before I burned my tongue. But also in part, out of reverence.

In a world where everything is homogenized, corporatized and mass-marketed into the mundane, this burger represent-ed not only great food, but the continuation of a New Mexico legend. The carrying-on of a great tradition. Two talented, educated, experienced people

who could do well in any big-city setting, chose to go back to the small town, and breathe life into something that will make won-derful memories for thousands of New Mexicans and many, many visitors over the next 25 years or so. I bit into the burg-er and realized I need not have worried.

My words to Ernie: “I didn’t think it was possible, but this is even better than the old Buck-horn Burger.”

Indeed, it was juicier, very fla-vorful and completely fresh. I knew I would be back, and this time, it only took me seven days.

Richard Coltharp is publisher of Desert Exposure and the Las Cruces Bulletin. The ice from his refrigerator’s icemaker always has a hint of green chile flavor because the freezer always has several packages. The latest batch is from Lemitar, not far from the Buckhorn and Ernie Sichler’s childhood home. Coltharp can be reached at [email protected].

PUBLISHER’S NOTEBOOK • RICHARD COLTHARP

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TUMBLEWEEDS • AGUSTÍN BELTRAN GUTIERREZ

A Journey, A LifeStubbornness, hard work keep Gutierrez alive

My name is Agustín Bel-tran Gutierrez. In the February issue of “Des-

ert Exposure” I saw an article that talked about a man named Francisco Beltran, who is my older brother. Like him, I have been coming to the United States to work for about 50 years.

In 1959 Francisco brought me to the United States for the first time, when I was only 16. It took about three weeks for us get from Anahuac, Chihuahua to Blue, Arizona, to work for a man named Bill Marks. Blue is about 30 miles west of Reserve as the crow flies, or about 50 by

highway. First, we took a bus to Casas Grandes and from there another bus to Acensión. Then we walked across the border to Hachita, New Mexico, and from there we walked another 16 days to Blue. To cross the bor-der illegally in those days was not as dangerous as it is today, although there was plenty of Border Patrol.

I got deported once and then recruited by the same man who caught me, but that is another story. Walking through the des-ert and mountains for 250-plus miles in November is a hard journey. Francisco and I had only our backpacks with the food and water we could carry, and the clothes we wore. We walked from dawn to sunset and built little fires at night, using our shoes as a pillow to sleep. When we ran out of water, we had to look for streams and puddles.

Mr. Marks was not happy to see me at first because I was so young and skinny, but Francis-co convinced him I was a good worker. He agreed to pay me $2 a day, and Francisco got $3. We built corrals, fences and irriga-tion ditches, and rode horses to gather cattle in the mountains. We had no chainsaws and had to cut down trees with an axe. I learned a lot from my brother. Before then I hardly knew my brother because he was 10 years older and always away from home, looking for work or food for the family. I was the youngest of eight boys. Only four of us are still alive.

After a few weeks of working together at the Marks’s ranch, Francisco disappeared. I be-came very afraid, crying and not knowing what happened to him, or what I should do. I spoke no English and no one told me he had been sent to work some-where else. A ranch hand named Don drove me to where Francis-co was so he could explain to me in Spanish that I would be work-ing at the Marks’s ranch alone.

I realized then that I needed to learn to speak English. For 14 months I continued working for Bill and Elaine Marks, getting to know their sons Billy and Justin. I began to learn little phrases like “good morning, hello how are you, I’m fine, thank you,” etc.

Billy even showed me how to shoot his BB gun. I was getting rides to town with Don and for the first time in my life I bought new clothes. I went back to Mex-ico feeling like a rich man, and educated, because like my poor mother who raised me and my five brothers, I had never gone to school or learned to read and write. I returned to the Marks ranch 3 months later, anxious to get back to work and learn more of my new language. And because I proved myself to be a good work-er, I also got an extra dollar a day!

For the next eight years I walked alone to Arizona and back to Mexico every year. I

have always been tough in bad weather. But the worst was the blizzard in the winter of 1967. I was up in the mountains about seven miles from the Marks’s ranch, fixing fences around Cow Flat. It was raining and snowing, and the whole cabin leaked be-cause the wood shingles cracked and were falling off. The only dry space was a three-foot square on the floor near the wood stove where I slept. One morning I woke up saw the windows and door were blocked by seven feet of snow. I had to dig out a path to get to the barn where the hors-es – Charlie, Chigger and Solito – were shivering, and I was sure they would never make it back to the ranch.

We ran out of food, and I couldn’t leave them to starve, so I got out my rifle. When I aimed it at Charlie’s head, a tear streamed down his face, and I started crying and couldn’t pull the trigger. I tied his lead rope to my belt and let the other two follow as I dug a path using my hands and arms. For nine hours I dug and we went step by step while it kept snowing. Some-where along the way the dog Sarge disappeared. By the time we got to the ranch it was dark, and my arms and legs were sore and swollen and I collapsed from exhaustion.

It snowed through the night and by morning the house was cracking from the load on the roof. The phone lines were down and Bill was away, and Elaine was frantic because the house was about to collapse. The boys were too little to do anything, and neither could Elaine, so I climbed on the roof to shovel the snow off. It took a day and a half to do it. Then we realized we were out of food.

I saddled up Charlie and put a pack saddle on Chigger and headed downstream the Blue River to a cabin owned by the Forest Service, where I knew there was food. The door was padlocked so I chopped it open with an axe. I loaded all the cans in Chigger’s pack and went back to the ranch, where Elaine and her boys greeted us with hugs and kisses. They were sure we

would die out there.After the snow melted and

Bill came back, I constructed a special pack saddle for Char-lie to carry roofing tin up to the cabin. It took four trips for us to carry 40 sheets of tin up there. Bill was very surprised because he thought the only way to take it was by helicopter. But I never thought twice about it, I knew it would work because I had plenty of experience with that matter. As a child I used to gath-er big piles of wood from the mountains and pack them on a burro to take to town to sell.

Like my brother Francisco, I have had experiences with bad patrones, like the ones who took me far up in the mountains to do big jobs and left me there with no food or water or prop-er tools, and then complained about paying me. I always gave them a piece of my mind before I quit. But the people who took the time to know me and appre-ciated my work treated me well. I almost lost a leg when I was cutting trees for Jim Spurgeon, who rushed me to the hospital and then insisted the doctors put my splintered bones togeth-er instead of amputate. It took a year to walk again and I was up-set not being able to work. But when I left, Jim handed me my wages and kept his word to re-turn me to Mexico in the same condition as when I came. If I had lost that leg, I would never have been able to build my own house in Mexico, or continue to do ranch work in the U.S.

Since my first trip to the U.S. with Francisco, I rarely see him or my other brothers anymore. Searching for work has taken us in different directions. I have worked as far away as Illinois, Kansas, Texas, and California, at many different kinds of jobs. Now at age 75, I am an American citizen, still building fences and chicken houses. Though I move a little slower than when I was young, I still stay busy and at the end of the day I drink my shot-ito, watch Cantinflas movies, and work on writing down my stories.Thank you for reading,Agustín Beltran Gutierrez(Transcribed by F. Calles)

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A prominent part of the American west is the pro-liferation of cattle, mil-

lions of them, scattered across a landscape where it is hard to decipher between public and private land.

More than half of the land used for livestock grazing is fed-eral public land owned jointly by every American citizen. It is managed by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) and the U.S. Forest Service which issue the permits that allow livestock grazing.

Of the estimated 22,000 graz-ing permit holders, many are good stewards of the land. But, too often their contributions are tainted by those few ranch-ers derelict in paying grazing fees and illegally grazing cattle on public lands and the corpo-rations and wealthy hobbyists who represent the top 10 per-cent of permittees and who own 50 percent of all the livestock on these leased public lands. These permittees receive millions of dollars in subsidies because, un-like other public assistance pro-grams, there are few parameters as to who qualifies.

Throughout history, the use of our public lands for livestock grazing has been under scrutiny due to the negative effects on ecosystems and wildlife habitat. In 1977 the General Accountabil-ity Office (GAO), an unbiased Congressional watchdog, re-ported the health of these pub-lic rangelands was deteriorating because of “poorly managed livestock grazing” (CED-77-88). Attention was drawn to dam-aging unauthorized grazing and BLM’s reluctance to penalize vi-olators – often attributed to their concern for the wellbeing, emo-tionally and financially, of the permit holder. Today, the GAO is echoing the same warnings it did over 40 years ago and continues to encourage the BLM to act.

Meanwhile, the permittee holders, and western state rep-resentatives in Congress – many whom are from ranching fam-ilies themselves – have been clamoring that grazing regula-tions are strangling them and that the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) is interfering with their operations.

In response, the Department of Interior, and the BLM, have kickstarted a total overhaul and reduction of grazing regulations on public lands “to improve per-mitting efficiency and provide greater flexibility”.

A Notice of Intent was pub-lished on Jan. 21 that they were considering moving and revising some provisions contained in 43 CFR part 4100 – the entity that governs livestock grazing and sets the standards and guide-lines for grazing administration – and were seeking input from the public.

In February I attended one of the BLM held Public Open House Events “to engage with you (the public) about the up-coming decisions that could af-fect the region.” But, unless you were a livestock operator, or re-searched the topic as I did, few details on the proposed changes, or their environmental impact, were available.

These proposed revisions, or “modernization,” are in sync with the current administra-tion’s goal to streamline the NEPA process and utilize public lands that have been untouched for decades due to their inacces-sibility. Within the BLM, this can be accomplished by revising, or rewording, existing grazing reg-ulations and expanding the use of categorical exclusions from environmental analysis. Land health and endangered species reviews, NEPA analysis require-ments, and litigation opportuni-ties will be weakened, and pub-lic involvement considered only

when it does not “burden the administrative processes.”

The desired outcome is to in-crease, and expedite, grazing authorizations and various per-mit uses – many in areas that had been designated as “non-use” due to poor land health or threatened wildlife habitat. Changes may permit cattle to access, or cross, unauthorized areas without the assessments that are currently required. And everywhere cattle go, Wildlife Services is close behind to elimi-nate any potential predators.

The BLM’s targeted goal of us-ing cattle to improve rangeland conditions and reduce the risk of wildfire is unsupported by science which has proven quite the opposite. In fact, science has shown the wild horses and bur-ros are better suited for these uses with their migratory pat-terns, consumption of ground fuels, ability to access even the roughest terrain and depositing seeds back into the land with their manure. And, the cost is nothing. Cattle, on the other hand, come with additional ex-penditures and spread invasive cheatgrass that doubles the like-lihood of fire.

In regards to unauthorized grazing, BLM will “establish a procedure for the informal res-olution of violations at the local level” rather than adhere to, and enforce, existing regulations as also recommended in the 2016 GAO report (GAO-16-599). BLM

field staff advised the GAO that the damage caused by unautho-rized grazing can be extensive with the trampling of stream-beds, damage to young plant growth and the loss of native grasses resulting in the invasion of cheatgrass creating potential fire hazards.

The new regulations will con-sider “where and how” BLM evaluates land health fundamen-tals and standards currently re-quired when a permit is renewed every 10 years. With the over-whelming backlog of permits in the thousands, many are au-tomatically being renewed; this means a grazing allotment can go 20 years without any field visits to evaluate range health or see if unauthorized grazing is taking place. Despite the vast amounts of public lands grazed by livestock that have gone de-cades without any assessment, and of those assessed having a large percentage failing to meet the required standards, Of the new grazing regulations the in-tent is to authorize even more livestock grazing without the proper analysis.

Although the BLM will be as-sessing the proposed revisions impact on historical and cul-tural resources, they are not in-cluding an impact study on the wild horses and burros, a pro-tected resource, who the BLM is required, by law, to consider comparably with other resourc-es when formulating land use

plans. Roughly 669 grazing allot-ments are located within the 177 wild horses and burro herd man-agement areas in the west.

One thing is for sure – the re-visions will result in the expan-sion of livestock grazing on our public lands and put much of the decision making in the hands of the livestock operators, and local field offices, when it comes to ad-justing livestock grazing use.

Many things, including our wild horses, shape the character of the west – not solely cattle – and should be considered in the decisions made by government land management agencies.

As for land health – BLM said it perfectly: “The grazing regula-tions, however, are still the only set of program regulations that define and regulate compliance with and achievement of land health.” What happened to want-ing to revise these regulations “so that a single use is not held solely responsible for achieving land health?”

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Cattle range across much of America’s public land. (Photo by Laurie Ford)

In 2019 Desert Exposure held a cover art contest calling for turtles in honor of World Turtle Day, May 23.

The collection of amazing and beautiful work that resulted deserves a

forum of its own and the folks at the Tombaugh Gallery in Las Cruces agreed. So we will showcasing the turtle art work submitted last year and would like to invite other southern New Mexico artists to submit work to the May turtle show at the gallery.

In addition, on Saturday, May 23, we will hold a poetry/story reading reception for the show and are calling for turtle related poems, stories and essays to be selected for reading on that day. Several of those pieces may be chosen to appear in the May edition of Desert Exposure.

For information and to submit art or writing to this collaborative turtle tale, contact Desert Exposure editor Elva K. Österreich at [email protected] or by phone at 575-680-1978.

Please send images and text by email by April 5 and we will coordinate delivery of the art works to the gallery.

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EXPLORING HISTORY • MIKE COOK

Labyrinth of BloodLas Cruces author speaks on

Apaches and the Spanish Empire

New Mexico Farm and Ranch Heritage Museum Director Mark Santiago

will be the keynote speaker at Human Systems Research, Inc.’s (HSR) ninth annual Buffalo Roast fundraiser, which will be held Saturday, March 14 at Farm and Ranch.

The dinner format has changed this year from a buffet to a served, plated dinner with-out an increase in ticket prices, said HSR Executive Director Deborah Dennis. Tickets are $50 and are now on sale. The event has sold out the last sev-eral years. The dinner includes bison rather than buffalo. Unfor-tunately, I have not yet worked out the menu with Marci but the meal always includes bison meat; salad; vegetable; side dish; rolls and butter; dessert and wa-ter; and coffee and iced tea.

Santiago’s presentation is enti-tled “Labyrinth of Blood: Apach-es and the Spanish Empire.”

“Mark is literally a deep reser-voir of knowledge regarding the relationship between the Span-ish Empire and the Apache,” Dennis said. “He has published four books and his most recent, published in 2018, ‘A Bad Peace and A Good War: Spain and the Mescalero Apache Uprising of 1795-1799,’ has won six book awards, including the 2019 Gas-par Pérez de Villagrá Award from the Historical Society of New Mexico for outstanding publi-cation in New Mexico or South-west borderlands history, the 2019 Robert Utley Award from the Western Historical Associa-tion for the best book on military history of the frontier and West-ern North America, the 2019 Southwest Book Award from the

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“Too often we tend to think we have to look outside Las Cru-ces to find notable expertise but here within our own community is an extraordinary historian,” Dennis said about Santiago.

Santiago’s presentation “is not to be missed,” Dennis said, “es-pecially by those interested in the Spanish colonial period and the Mescalero people. Mark’s talk fills a historical gap regard-ing Spanish-Apache relations and foreshadows similar struggles the United States will have in the region after the signing of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo.”

The Buffalo Roast is a unique fundraising event in support of HSR., the oldest private non-profit in New Mexico conduct-ing archaeological research and preservation,” Dennis said. HSR will celebrate its 48th anniversa-ry Feb. 15.

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IF YOU GOWHAT: 9th Annual Buffalo Roast fundraiser for Human Systems Research, Inc. nonprofit for anthropological research and preservation; presentation: “Labyrinth of Blood: apaches and the Spanish Empire,” by author Mark Santiago, director of the New Mexico Farm and Ranch Heritage MuseumWHERE: New Mexico Farm and Ranch Heritage Museum, 4100 Dripping Springs RoadWHEN: Saturday, March 14; doors open at 5 p.m. with a cash bar and silent auction; dinner is served at 6 p.m.; the program begins at 7 p.m.COST: $50; call 575-524-9456 for tickets and more information

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Excerpt from Buffalo Roast presentation by author and historian Director Mark Santiago“Over the course of several centuries, the Apache peoples repeatedly confronted and confounded the northern movement of the Spanish Empire into what is now the Southwestern Borderlands. From the late 16th century through the beginning of the 19th, Apaches and Spaniards engaged in almost constant warfare. Whether viewed as a series of relatively small, local conflicts, conflated by an imperial perspective, or as a generations-long struggle for control of ancestral lands and resources against outside invasion, the war (or wars) between the Spanish Empire and the various Apache peoples were among the longest and the most important in the history of North America. Haphazardly at first, but then with increasing momentum from the mid-1700s, the Spaniards unleashed all the power and subtleties available to their modern nation-state against a tribal society. Alternating extreme violence with offers of food and security on what were essentially reservations, by the 1790s the Spaniards had imposed on the Apaches a form of mutual accommodation that resembled peace more than war.This talk will examine the origins, course, and results of this long, bloody, and labyrinthine struggle.

archaeological work that facili-tated the construction of the New Mexico Farm and Ranch Heritage Museum, the creation of Mesil-la Valley Bosque State Park, the creation of Oliver Lee State Park and the restoration of the Oliver Lee Ranch House in Alamogordo and the development of Space-port America, to name but a few endeavors. During 21 years as the archaeological consultant to White Sands Missile Range, HSR studied 10,000 years of human history and filled the WSMR Mu-seum with books, exhibits and artifacts. HSR has written the sto-ries of cowboys and outlaws, of homesteaders and treasure hunt-ers, of scientists and star gazers.”

Proceeds from the annual Buf-falo Roast “fuel HSR’s mission to preserve the priceless historical heritage of southern New Mexi-co,” Dennis said.

HSR’s office is located at 535 S. Melendres St. Contact Dennis at 575-524-9456 and [email protected]. Vis-it humansystemsresearch.org/.

Mark Santiago

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Celebrate the fantastic world of Dr. Seuss through activities inspired by his books. Dress up as Thing 1 or Thing 2 and stack the cat’s hats, make Oobleck, and plant seeds to help the Lo-rax save the earth. The Thomas Branigan Memorial Library will have Dr. Seuss classics on hand for your reading pleasure. Activ-ities are recommended for ages 2-10.

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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 Re-gional Medical Center, 538-4094. American: B L.

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 (fami-ly-style), weekend brunch.

DIANE’S BAKERY & DELI, The Hub, Suite A, Bull-ard St., 534-9229. Artisan breads, pastries, sandwich-es, deli: Monday to Satur-day 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, break-fast served throughout. EL GALLO PINTO, 901 N. Hudson St., 597-4559. Mexican: Tues-day, Wednesday and Sunday B L Thursday to Saturday B L D. FORREST’S PIZZA, 601 N. Bull-ard St. Unit J. 388-1225. Tuesday to Friday L D, Slices until 7 p.m. FRY HOUSE, 601 N. Bullard St. Suite C. 388-1964. Seven days L, Sunday L, D.GIL-A BEANS, 1304 N. Bennett St. Coffeeshop. Monday to Satur-day 8 a.m.-noon.GOLDEN STAR, 1602 Silver Heights Blvd., 388-2323. Chinese: L D. GRINDER MILL, 403 W. College Ave., 538-3366. Mexican: B L D.

HONEEBEEGOODS “Mak-ing Life A Little Sweeter,” 116 N. Bullard St. 714-515-0832. Specialty Bakery and more! BLD. Honeebee-

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JALISCO CAFÉ, 100 S. Bullard St., 388-2060. Mexican. Monday to Saturday L D Sunday B. JAVALINA COFFEE HOUSE, 117 Market St., 388-1350. Coffee-house. JUMPING CACTUS, 503 N. Bull-ard St. Coffeeshop, baked goods, sandwiches, wraps: B L. KOUNTRY KITCHEN, 1700 Moun-tain View Road, 388-4512. Mexi-can: Tuesday to Saturday B L D. LA COCINA RESTAURANT, 201 W. College Ave., 388-8687. Mexi-can: 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.

LITTLE TOAD CREEK BREWERY & DISTILLERY, 200 N. Bullard St., 956-6144. Burgers, wings, sal-ads, fish, pasta, craft beers and cocktails: Monday to Sunday L D.

MEXICO VIEJO, Hwy. 90 and Broadway Street Mexican food stand: 956-3361. Monday to Satur-day B L early D. MI CASITA, 2340 Bosworth Drive, 538-5533. 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: Tuesday to Saturday B, L. NANCY’S SILVER CAFÉ, 514 N. Bullard St., 388-3480. Mexican: Monday to Saturday B 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: Tuesday to Saturday L D.

REVEL, 304 N. Bullard St., 388-4920. Elevated comfort food. Weekdays LD, week-ends BD, closed Wednes-days.

SILVER BOWLING CENTER CAFÉ, 2020 Memory Lane, 538-3612. American, Mexican, ham-burgers: Daily L D.

SUNRISE ESPRESSO, 1530 N. Hudson St., 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. 597-8272. Monday to Thursday L, Friday and Saturday L D (closes at 4 p.m.). TASTE OF VEGAS, 303 E. 13th St., 534-9404. Daily L. VICKI’S EATERY, 315 N. Texas St., 388-5430. www.vickiseatery.com. Saturday-Sunday breakfast; Monday-Saturday lunch. WRANGLER’S BAR & GRILL, 2005 Hwy. 180E, 538-4387. Steak, burgers, appetizers, sal-ads: L D. TRANQUILBUZZ CAFÉ, 112 W. Yankie St. Coffee shop, coffee, home-made pastries and ice cream, fresh fruit smoothies.

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Duck Creek Café, U.S. Highway 180, Cliff, 535-4500. Visit Duck Creek Café on Facebook.RVs/Big Rigs welcome, Wednesday to Saturday LD, Sunday LD. “Bring home cooking to your table”

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, 527-2483, www.abiteofbelgium.com. Bel-gium and American food: Daily B L. BOBA CAFÉ, 1900 S. Espina St., 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. Tues-day to Saturday L D. BURRITOS VICTORIA, 1295 El Paseo Road, 541-5534. Burritos: B L D. Now serving beer. CAFÉ DON FELIX, 2290 Calle de Parian, 652-3007. Mexican, street tacos, mini-burgers: Wednesday to Saturday L D, Sunday brunch only 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.


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CARRILLO’S, 330 S. Church St., 523-9913. Mexican, American: Monday to Saturday L D. CHACHI’S RESTAURANT, 2460 S. Locust St.-A, 522-7322. Mexi-can: B L D. CHILITOS, 2405 S. Valley Dr., 526-4184. Mexican: Monday to Saturday B L D. CHILITOS, 3850 Foothills Rd. Ste. 10, 532-0141. Mexican: B L D. DAY’S HAMBURGERS, 245 N. Main St., 523-8665. Burgers: Monday to Saturday L D. PECAN GRILL & BREWERY, 500 S. Telshor Blvd., 521-1099. Pecan-smoked meats, sandwich-es, steaks, seafood, craft beers: L D. DELICIAS DEL MAR, 1401 El Paseo, 524-2396. Mexican, sea-food: B L D. DICK’S CAFÉ, 2305 S. Val-ley Drive, 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 Guadalupe, 523-6700. South-western, steaks, seafood: L D, Sun. champagne brunch buffet. EL SOMBRERO PATIO CAFÉ, 363 S. Espina St., 524-9911. Mexican: L D.ENRIQUE’S MEXICAN FOOD, 830 W. Picacho Ave., 647-0240. Mexican: B L D. FARLEY’S, 3499 Foothills Road, 522-0466. Pizza, burgers, Ameri-can, Mexican: L D. FIDENCIO’S, 800 S. Telshor Blvd., 532-5624. Mexican: B L D. THE GAME BAR & GRILL, 2605 S. Espina St., 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 DGARDUÑO’S, 705 S. Telshor Blvd. (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, 524-9251. Monday - Sat-urday, 7 a.m. – 3 p.m. Specializ-ing in Relleno Burritos and Other Mexican Food.GOLDEN STAR CHINESE FAST FOOD, 1420 El Paseo, 523-2828. Chinese: L D. GRANDY’S COUNTRY COOK-ING, 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. Had-ley Ave., 525-6752. Brew pub: L D.

JOSEFINA’S OLD GATE CAFÉ, 2261 Calle de Guadalupe, 525-2620. Pastries, soups, salads, sandwiches: Monday to Thurs-day L, Friday to Sunday B L. KEVA JUICE, 1001 E. Universi-ty Ave., 522-4133. Smoothies, frozen yogurt: B L D. LA NUEVA CASITA CAFÉ, 195 N. Mesquite St., 523-5434. Mexi-can and American: B L. LA POSTA RESTAURANT DE MESILLA, 2410 Calle de San Albino, 524-3524. Mexican, steakhouse: L D, Saturday, Sun-

day and holidays also B. LAS TRANCAS, 1008 S. Solano Drive, 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. Drive, 382-2025. Mexican: B L D. LOS COMPAS CAFÉ, 603 S. Nevarez St., 523-1778. Mexican: B L D.

LOS COMPAS, 1120 Commerce Drive, 521-6228. Mexican: B L D. LOS MARIACHIS, 754 N. Motel Blvd., 523-7058. Mexican: B L D. LOS MARIACHIS, 5600 Bataan Memorial E., 373-0553. Mexican, L D.LA MEXICANA TORTILLERIA, 1300 N. Solano Drive. 541-9617. Mexican: B L D. MATTEO’S, 1001 E. University Ave. C-1, 888-4310, Authentic Mexican: Monday through Sat-urday: B L D. Wonderfully simple menu, pleasant dining room and delicious aguas frescas.MIGUEL’S, 1140 E. Amador Ave., 647-4262. Mexican: B L D. MI PUEBLITO, 1355 E. Idaho Ave., 524-3009. Mexican: Mon-day to Friday B L D, Saturday and Sunday B L.

MILAGRO COFFEE Y ESPRES-SO, 1733 E. University Ave., 532-1042. Coffeehouse: B L D. MIX PACIFIC RIM CUISINE AND MIX EXPRESS, 1001 E. University Ave. D3, 532-2042. Asian, Pacific: Monday to Satur-day L D. MOONGATE CAFÉ, 9345 Bataan Memorial W., 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: Tues-day to Friday B L. NOPALITO RESTAURANT, 2605 Missouri Ave., 522-0440. Mexi-

can: L D. NOPALITO RESTAURANT, 310 S. Mesquite St., 524-0003. Mexi-can: Sunday to Tuesday, Thurs-day to Saturday. L D. ORIENTAL PALACE, 225 E. Ida-ho Ave., 526-4864. Chinese: L D. PAISANO CAFÉ, 1740 Calle de Mercado, 524-0211. Mexican: B L D. PEPE’S, 1405 W. Picacho Ave., 541-0277. Mexican: B L D. PHO A DONG, 504 E. Amador Ave., 527-9248. Vietnamese: L D. PICACHO PEAK BREWING CO., 3900 W. Picacho Ave., 575-680-6394. www.picachopeak-brewery.comPLAYER’S GRILL, 3000 Herb Wimberly Drive (NMSU golf course clubhouse), 646-2457. American: B L D.


RANCHWAY BARBECUE, 604 N. Valley Drive, 523-7361. Barbecue, Mexican: Monday to Friday B L D. 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. Break-fast, Mexican, burgers: Saturday to Thursday B L, Friday B L D. SAENZ GORDITAS, 1700 N. Solano Drive, 527-4212. Gorditas, chicken tacos. Mexican: Monday to Saturday L D. SANTORINI’S, 1001 E. University Ave., 521-9270. Greek, Mediterra-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 Drive, 525-2636. American, pizza, Mexican, desserts: Wednesday to Sunday B L. SI SEÑOR, 1551 E. Amador Ave., 527-0817. Mexican: L D. 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. THAI DELIGHT DE MESILLA, 2184 Avenida de Mesilla, 525-1900. Thai, salads, sandwiches, seafood, steaks, German: L D.TIFFANY’S PIZZA & GREEK AMERICAN CUISINE, 755 S. Telshor Blvd. #G1, 532-5002. Pizza, Greek, deli: Tuesday to Saturday B L D.VINTAGE WINES, 2461 Calle de Principal, 523-WINE. Wine and cigar bar, tapas: L D.WOK-N-WORLD, 5192 E. Boutz Road, 526-0010. Chinese: Mon.-Sat. L D.ZEFFIRO PIZZERIA NAPOLETA-NA, 136 N. Water St., 525-6757. Mon.-Sat. L D.

Anthony ERNESTO’S MEXICAN FOOD, 200 Anthony Dr., 882-3641. Mex-ican: B L. LA COCINITA, 908 W. Main Drive, 589-1468. Mexican: L.

Chapparal EL BAYO STEAK HOUSE, 300 Paloma Blanca Drive, 824-4749. Steakhouse: Tuesday to Sunday B L D. TORTILLERIA SUSY, 661 Paloma Blanca Drive, 824-9377. Mexi-can: Monday to Saturday B L D, Sunday B L.

Doña Ana BIG MIKE’S CAFÉ, 614 E.Thorpe Road. Mexican, breakfasts, burg-ers: B L D.

LUNA COUNTY Deming

ADOBE DELI, 3970 Lewis Flats Road SE, 546-0361. Bar, deli, steaks: L D. BALBOA MOTEL & RESTAU-RANT, 708 W. Pine St., 546-6473. Mexican, American: Monday to Friday L D, Sunday B. BELSHORE RESTAURANT, 1030 E. Pine St., 546-6289. Mexican, American: Tuesday to Sunday B L. CAMPOS RESTAURANT, 105 S. Silver Ave., 546-0095. Mexican, American, Southwestern: L D. CHINA RESTAURANT, 110 E. Pine St., 546-4146. Chinese: Tuesday to Sunday L D. EL CAMINO REAL, 900 W. Pine St., 546-7421. Mexican, Ameri-can: B L D. ELISA’S HOUSE OF PIES AND RESTAURANT, 208 1/2 S. Silver Ave., 494-4639. Southern soul food: Tuesday to Sunday L D. EL MIRADOR, 510 E. Pine St., 544-7340. Mexican: Monday to Saturday B L D. “FORGHEDABOUDIT” pizza & wings, 115 N. Silver Ave., 275-3881. Italian, pizza, wings: Monday to Sunday L D. GRAND MOTOR INN & LOUNGE, 1721 E. Pine St., 546-2632. Mexican, steak, seafood: B L D. IRMA’S, 123 S. Silver Ave., 544-4580. Mexican, American, seafood: B L D. LA FONDA, 601 E. Pine St., 546-0465. Mexican: B L D.

LAS CAZUELAS, 108 N. Platinum Ave. (inside El Rey meat market), 544-8432. Steaks, seafood, Mex-ican: Tuesday to Saturday L D. MANGO MADDIE’S, 722 E. Flor-ida St., 546-3345. Salads, sand-wiches, juice bar, coffee drinks. MANOLO’S CAFÉ, 120 N. Granite St., 546-0405. Mexican, Ameri-can: Monday to Saturday B L D, Sunday B L. PATIO CAFÉ, 1521 Columbus Road, 546-5990. Burgers, Ameri-can: Monday to Saturday L D. PRIME RIB GRILL (inside Qual-ity Inn), I-10 exit 85, 546-2661. Steak, seafood, Mexican: B D. RANCHER’S GRILL, 316 E. Cedar St., 546-8883. Steakhouse, burgers: L D. SI SEÑOR, 200 E. Pine St., 546-3938. Mexican: Monday to Saturday B L D, Sunday B L. SUNRISE KITCHEN, 1409 S. Co-lumbus Road, 544-7795American, Mexican, breakfasts: Monday to Thursday B L, Friday B L D. TACOS MIRASOL, 323 E. Pine St., 544-0646. Mexican: Monday, Wednesday, Saturday B L D, Tuesday B L. TOCAYO’S MEXICAN RESTAU-RANT, 1601 E. Pine St., 567-1963. Mexican, dine in or take out: Monday to Saturday B L D, Sunday B L.

Akela APACHE HOMELANDS RESTAURANT, I-10. Burgers, ribs, etc.: B L D.

Columbus IRMA’S KITCHEN, B L D, High-way 11, 575-694-4026, Mexican food. LA CASITA, 309 Taft, 575-531-2371. B L D, Mexican food. PATIO CAFÉ, 23 Broadway, 531-2495. Burgers, American: B L.

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EL CHARRO RESTAURANT, 209 S. P Blvd., 542-3400. Mexican: B L D. FIDENCIO’S, 604 E. Motel Dr., 542-8989. Mexican: B L early D. KRANBERRY’S FAMILY RESTAURANT, 1405 Main St., 542-9400. Mexican, American: B L D. MAMA ROSA’S PIZZA, 1312 Main St., 542-8400. Pizza, subs, calzones, salads, chicken wings, cheeseburgers, shrimp baskets: L D. RAMONA’S CAFÉ, 904 E. Motel Dr., 542-3030. Mexican, Amer-ican: Tuesday to Friday B L D, Sunday B mid-day D.

Animas PANTHER TRACKS CAFÉ, Hwy. 338, 548-2444. Burgers, Mexican, American: Monday to Friday B L D.

Rodeo RODEO STORE AND CAFÉ, 195 U.S. Highway 80, 557-2295. Coffee shop food: Monday to Saturday B L.


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A decade before the So-viet Union sent Sputnik into space, White Sands

Proving Ground in New Mexi-co launched the first Aerobee rocket, a platform that would eventually carry animals. Lift-ing off with a cosmic-radiation payload on Nov. 24, 1947, the flight was not the spectacular sight for which engineers had hoped. The 25-foot long rocket only reached 24.7 miles after “a burst diaphragm … caused a tip-off at staging and sent it veering off course,” author Greg Kenne-dy wrote in “The Rockets and Missiles of White Sands Proving Ground 1945-1958.”

Two years later, on Dec. 2, an Aerobee launched from Hol-loman Air Force Base was far more impressive.

“Smoke and flame burst out of the base of the missile,” Maj. D.M. Brown wrote in the Al-amogordo News. “A terrible earth-shaking roar broke the awful silence, increased to an earsplitting pitch. The missile

vibrated on its foundation, then suddenly leaped skyward … and screamed into the stratosphere at a speed of 4300 feet per sec-ond.”

Fifteen minutes afterward the Aerobee parachuted to ground near Tularosa Peak, 20 miles from the launch site.

Aerobees set altitude records up to 158 miles. Notable missions include the fourth, on July 26, 1948, which Kennedy said took “a large number of high-quality aerial photographs of large areas of the earth’s surface.”

The first animal payload, the monkey Albert V, died on April 18, 1951 when the parachute failed. The purpose of using monkeys included recording the effects of flight acceleration on their physiology, which is simi-lar to humans.

The first recovery of live ani-mals, a Rhesus monkey and 11 mice, occurred on Sept. 20, 1951. Several hours passed before a crew located them, and while they were alive when found, the monkey and two mice subse-quently died from heat.

Capuchin monkeys Pat and Mike, and two mice, survived a 26-mile high ride on May 21, 1952.

Five stratosphere-bound ani-mals – three mice and two mon-keys – returned safely aboard an Aerobee X-8 in 1953. Following the City of Alamogordo’s May 1954 Armed Forces Day parade, Holloman presented the com-munity with the Aerobee. Soon after, the rocket was set atop the Chamber of Commerce sign.

The 100th Aerobee lifted off from Holloman on March 12, 1959. The last from the base was on June 21, 1959.

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‘Earth-shaking Roar’ Holloman’s Aerobee launches into history

An Aerobee is readied for launch at Holloman Air Force Base. (Courtesy NMMSH Archives)

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Canis Major, the Big DogThe hunter who always catches her prey

Look for the brightest star in March’s evening sky and you will have found

the constellation of Canis Major, the Big Dog. Located just east of Orion, the Hunter, Canis Ma-jor’s bright star is Sirius, which is also the brightest star in the sky. While Sirius is intrinsically bright, its distance of only 8.6 light-years enhances its bright-ness. It is also one of the closest stars to us.

Canis Major is associated with the Greek mythological dog Laelaps, a hunting dog that al-ways caught her prey. Laelaps, which means “hurricane”, was a gift from Zeus, the King of the gods, to Europa. Europa had been abducted by Zeus in the form of a bull and taken to the is-land of Crete. There, she became the first queen of Crete. Zeus gave her a necklace made by the god of metalworking, Hephaestus. He also gave her a three other gifts: a bronze automaton named Talos that was to protect her from pi-rates and invaders, a javelin that never missed and Laelaps.

Later, Laelaps was passed down to Europa’s son, King Minos. She later became the property of Procris, a princess of Athens. Her husband, Cepha-lus, used Laelaps to hunt the Te-umessian fox, a fox which could never be caught. With a fox that cannot be caught and a dog that cannot fail, the chase went on for a long time. Perplexed by this paradox, Zeus turned them both into stone and then placed

them in the sky, Laelaps as Canis Major and the Teumessian fox as Canis Minor.

Sirius is a white main se-quence star of spectral class A0 that is twice the mass of our Sun and radiating twenty-five times its energy. On Jan. 31, 1862, Al-van Clark, the famed telescope maker, was testing an 18.5-inch lens that he was constructing for the great refractor to be in-stalled in the Dearborn Observa-tory at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois. In testing, he pointed it at Sirius and was surprised to find an 8.4 magni-tude star just a few seconds-of-arc away.

Dubbed Sirius B, that faint star was determined to be about the size of the Earth, but it has the mass of the Sun. This com-pact body is a white dwarf star, the burnt-out core of a red giant star. Most of its mass was eject-ed into space after nuclear fu-sion ceased, leaving a hot object composed of oxygen and iron. It has the density of around two tons per cubic inch, the result of its tremendous gravity that com-presses the atomic nuclei much closer together than normal. Electrons floating between the nuclei keep them from getting any closer together due to the Pauli Exclusion Principle.

Sirius B is still glowing from the heat it absorbed when it was still actively generating en-ergy from nuclear fusion. It will radiate its remaining heat into space, eventually becoming a

black dwarf. This cool-down will take longer that the universe has been in existence, so no white dwarf has had time to become a black dwarf yet.

While Sirius B is one of the smallest stars, another star in Canis Major is one of the largest. VY Canis Majoris (VY CMa) is a variable star in far eastern Ca-nis Major. It is a red hypergiant star, 1,420 times the diameter of our Sun. If this star were in our Solar System, its surface would be between the orbits of Jupiter and Saturn. As a variable star, it changes brightness from magni-tude +6.5 to +9.6, so most of the time it is a telescopic object.

VY CMa is less than ten mil-lion years old, but it has already entered its old age. It had been a spectral class O9 star when it was on the main sequence, fus-ing hydrogen into helium in its core. At roughly ten time the mass of our Sun, it quickly ran through its supply of hydrogen and started fusing helium into carbon. This produced an out-pouring of energy that pushed the surface of this star far into space. Some of its surface be-came so extended that it drifted away from the star all together, forming a small nebula around it. The nebula is about ten sec-onds-of-arc across, a complex of jets and shock waves that prob-ably originated from explosions in VY CMa’s atmosphere.

VY CMa was first reported in a star catalog from French as-tronomer Jérôme Lalande on March 7, 1801. It was listed as seventh magnitude, but later re-cords indicate that it has been fading since 1850. This star is about 3,830 light-years away, but even so, it would be naked eye if it were not for the intervening nebula. Like all red super/hyper-giants, VY CMa will someday end its existence in a supernova explosion or perhaps the even larger superluminous supernova explosion.

Calendar of Events – March 2020 (MST/MDT)02 12:57 p.m. First Quarter Moon08 2:00 a.m. Daylight Savings Time begins09 2 a.m. Mercury stands still09 11:48 a.m. Full Moon16 3:34 a.m. Last Quarter Moon19 9:50 p.m. March Equinox-Spring beings in Northern Hemisphere20 Midnight Jupiter 0.7 degrees north of Mars23 8 p.m. Mercury greatest distance west of the Sun (twenty-eight degrees)24 3:28 a.m. New Moon24 4 p.m. Venus greatest distance east of the Sun (forty-six degrees)31 5 a.m. Saturn 0.9 degrees north of Mars

Some mythological stories have Canis Major as the hunting dog of Orion, which is just to its east. The Big Dog and the Little Dog (Canis Minor) are helping Orion hunt down Lepus, the Hare, which is also nearby. As with much mythology, you have your choice of stories. The brightest star in this constellation and in-deed the sky, is Sirius, the Dog star. The ancient Egyptians used its first rising after being behind the Sun (the heliacal rising) to mark the beginning of the annual flood season on the Nile River which would bring rich silt up onto the farm fields.

The Planets for March 2020

As the sky darkens on March evenings, Venus is the first “star” to appear out of the twilight. It is the only planet in the evening sky, shining at magnitude -4.3. During the month, Venus travels from eastern Pisces, through all of Aries, and just over the border into far western Taurus. Now a “half-moon”, Venus’s disc is fif-ty-six percent illuminated and is 21.5 seconds-of-arc across at midmonth. Venus is thirty-eight degrees above the western hori-zon as it gets dark and it sets at almost 11 p.m. MDT.

Mars rises around 4 a.m. in the

east-southeast ending the night twenty-seven degrees above the south-southeastern horizon. Mars’s disc is 5.8 seconds-of-arc across at midmonth, shining at magnitude +1.0. The God of War moves from central Sagittari-us to far western Capricornus during the month, passing Jupi-ter on March 20 and Saturn on March 31.

The King of the Gods is un-mistakable in the southeastern morning sky, shining at mag-nitude -2.1. It rises around the same time as Mars and it is about the same altitude as it gets

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SUNDAY, MARCH 1Silver City/Grant County

Live Music: Ely & the Mighty Glease — 2 p.m. at Little Toad Creek, 200 N. Bullard St. Downtown Silver City. Soul-kissed rock-n-roll. Info: 575-313-1266.

Las Cruces/MesillaUU Church Roundtable: “Maya weavers creating alternatives to capitalism in Chiapas, Mexico” — 10:30-11:30 a.m. at the Unitarian Church, 2000 S. Solano in Las Cruces. Cost: Free. Info: [email protected].

Ruidoso/Lincoln CountyLost Hiker Hootenanny Wintermarmel-aden — 3-5 p.m. at Lost Hiker Base Camp, 26394 U.S. Highway 70 E, Ruidoso Downs. Bring strings, spoons, washboard, harmonica and play with an awesome group of people while enjoying delicious beer. Kids and dogs are welcome too. Info: 575-937-4516.

MONDAY, MARCH 2Silver City/Grant County

Babytime Sing & Play — 10 a.m. at the Silver City Public Library, 515 W. College Ave., Silver City. Sto-ries, songs and rhymes for infants 0-24 months and their caregivers. Info: 575-538-3672.

Alamogordo/Otero CountyKaraoke Monday — 6-9 p.m. at Cloudcroft Brewing Company, 1301 Burro Ave. Cloudcroft. Info: 575-682-2337.

TUESDAY, MARCH 3Silver City/Grant County

Minecraft Club — 4-5 p.m. at the Silver City Public Library, 515 W. College Ave., Silver City. Children 6-12 are invited to play and explore collaboratively with Minecraft in a social setting. Info: 575-538-3672.Pink Leopard, Live Jazz — 6-8 :30 p.m. at Diane’s Restaurant and Parlor, 510 N. Bullard St. Silver City. Eve West Bessier vocalist and Ben Schlamb on piano. Info: 575-538-8722.

Sons of Serendip with the Grant County Community Concert Association — 7 p.m. at the Western New Mexico University Fine Arts Theater. Mu-sical group of four friends includes pianist/guitarist, cellist/vocalist, harpist and lead vocalist. Cost: $20. Info: 575-538-5862.

Las Cruces/MesillaGuide to Printing with the Doña Ana Photography Club — 7 p.m. at Cruces Creatives, 205 E. Lohman, Las Cruces. A program with Fred Moore covering everything from se-lection and types of paper options to where to go for printing. Cost: Free. Info: daphotoclub.org.

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 4Silver City/Grant County

Storytime — 10:30 a.m. at the Silver City Public Library, 515 W. College Ave., Silver City. Children 0-5 are invited to join in stories songs, rhymes, movement and simple crafts. Caregivers must attend. Cost: Free. Info: 575-538-3672.Future Engineers — 4-5 p.m. at the Silver City Public Library, 515 W. College Ave., Silver City. Children 6-12 are welcome to join in with creative construction and exper-imenting fun. Cost: Free. Info: 575-538-3672.“Becoming Nobody,” A Ram Dass film — 7 p.m. at Light Hall Theater, WNMU. Core arc of Ram Dass’s teaching and life. Historic clips balance conversation with director Jamie Catt. Info: 575-538-6300.

“Photography done at night” — 7 p.m. at the Unitarian Universalist Church, 3845 N. Swan St. in Silver City. The Silver City Photo Club hosts Kitty Stolzenbach, mobile photographer and expert in mar-keting. Info: [email protected].

Las Cruces/MesillaFarmers Arts and Crafts Market — 8:30 a.m.-1 p.m. At the Plaza of Las Cruces, Info: 575-805-6055.Las Cruces International Film Festival: Opening night movie, “Astronaut” — 7 p.m. at Cineport 10, Mesilla Valley Mall. Feature opening film with Richard Dreyfuss. Info: 575-649-6149.

THURSDAY, MARCH 5Silver City/Grant County

WildWorks — 4 p.m. at the Silver City Public Library, 515 W. College Ave., Silver City. Children 10 and

over are welcome to experiment and create with robots, electronics, games and more. Cost: Free. Info: 575-538-3672.Ben Schlamb on piano with guest vocalists — 6-9 p.m. at Revel, 304 N. Bullard St., Silver City. Info: 575-388-4920.Horned Lizards: Natural history, con-servation concerns and citizen science efforts — 7 p.m. at Harlan Hall, WNMU campus at the corner of 12th and Kentucky streets. SWNM Audubon program with Emily Pol-lom presenting on natural history, conservation concerns. Info: www.swnmaudubon.org.Axul Barrientos “Viva Frida!” — 7 p.m. at Light Hall Theater, WNMU, 1000 W. College Ave., Silver City. A multimedia concert. Info: 575-538-6469.Fort Bayard Film Series, The world at War: “The Great Escape”— 7 p.m. at Santa Clara National Guard Armory, 11990 U.S. Highway 180 in Santa Clara. Cost: Free. Info: 575-388-4862.

Las Cruces/MesillaLas Cruces International Film Festival— 9 a.m. and all day at Cineport 10, Mesilla Valley Mall. Feature opening film with Richard Dreyfuss. Info: 575-649-6149.

FRIDAY, MARCH 6Silver City/Grant County

DJ Mischievous rock the house party — 9 p.m. at Little Toad Creek, 200 N. Bullard St. Downtown Silver City. Info: 575-313-1266.

Las Cruces/Doña Ana CountyCowboy Days — 9 a.m.-5 p.m. at the New Mexico Farm & Ranch Heri-tage Museum in Las Cruces. Info: 575-522-4100.Las Cruces Arts Fair — 5 p.m. begin-ning with a procession at the Las Cruces Convention Center, 680 E. University Blvd. in Las Cruces. Cost: $10 (as many times as you wish all three days). Info: 575-523-6403.Live music: Dr. Floyd — 8 p.m. at Little Toad Creek, 119 N. Main St. downtown Las Cruces. Classic rock. Info: 575-313-1266.Live Classic Rock: “Satisfied” — 10 p.m., at El Patio Cantina, 2171 Calle de Parian, Mesilla. Cost: No cover. Info: 575-635-6614.

The Grant County Community Concert Association brings the Sons of Serendip to Western New Mexico University Fine Arts Theater on March 3.

Axul Barrientos brings Frida Kahlo to life on March 5 at Light Hall Theater in Silver City.

The art of Abel Garcia, like this roadrunner, is part of the Las Cruces Art Fair held March 6-8.

light. Jupiter is moving slowly eastward in eastern Sagittarius. At midmonth, its disc is 35.4 sec-onds-of-arc across.

Saturn is also moving east-ward in far eastern Sagittarius, reaching the border with Capri-cornus on March 21 and ending the month at the far western end of that constellation. As it gets light, Saturn is twenty-three degrees above the southeastern horizon, after having risen at 4:30 a.m. Shining at magnitude +0.7, the Ringed Planet’s disc is 15.7 seconds-of-arc across while the Rings are 35.6 seconds-of-arc across, tilted 21.3 degrees downward with the northern face showing.

Mercury pops out of the morn-ing twilight at the end of the first week of the month. It reaches its greatest distance from the Sun of twenty-eight degrees on March 24, shining at magnitude +0.3. On that day, the Messenger of the Gods has a disc that is 7.4 seconds-of-arc across and fif-ty-three percent illuminated as it goes from crescent to almost full during the month. Mercury ris-es at 6:00 a.m. and is only eight degrees above the east-south-eastern horizon as it gets light. It moves from southwestern Aquarius into Capricornus at the beginning of the month. Mercury immediately turns back east into Capricornus where it ends the month in the southeastern part of that constellation.

Earth’s polar axis is perpen-dicular to the Earth-Sun line on March 19 at 9:50 p.m., marking the March Equinox. The Sun will cross the celestial equator moving northward, starting the astronomical season of Spring. Day and night will be of equal length (hence an equinox). With nights continuing to get shorter, enjoy the longer March nights and “keep watching the sky”!

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Ruidoso/Lincoln CountyAnnual Vines in the Pines Art and Wine Festival — noon-6 p.m. at the Ruidoso Convention Center, 111 Sierra Blanca Drive in Ruidoso. Sample New Mexico wines while enjoying local arts, crafts, food and local brews. Cost: $20. Info: 877-784-3676.

Las Cruces/MesillaLas Cruces International Film Festival

— 9 a.m. and all day at Cineport 10, Mesilla Valley Mall. Feature opening film with Richard Dreyfuss. Info: 575-649-6149.

SATURDAY, MARCH 7Silver City/Grant

and Catron Counties Silver City Farmer’s Market — 10 a.m.-1 p.m. in Historic Downtown Silver City at Eighth Street between Bullard Street and the Big Ditch.

Info: [email protected].“Truth,” a film — 7 p.m. at Light Hall Theater, WNMU. Locally filmed movie shot at Fort Bayard Medical Center and WNMU follows a diverse group of college students who stumble into a top0secret facility hidden in the Gila wilderness. Cost: $5. Info: prc-productions.com.Abbie Gardner live music — 7:30-9 p.m. at the Buckhorn Opera House,

32 Main St., Pinos Altos. Info: www.abbiegardner.com.Live Music: The Walking Wounded — 8 p.m. at Little Toad Creek, 200 N. Bullard St. Downtown Silver City. Country and rock. Info: 575-313-1266.

Columbus/Luna CountyCabalgata Binacional/Pancho Villa attack commemoration — 10 a.m. various locations across Columbus.

Parade, dances, Camp Furlong Day, music in the plaza, memorial service. Info: 575-341-0147.

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Old Time Fiddlers Dance — 7-9 p.m. at the New Mexico Old Time Fid-dlers Playhouse, 710 Elm St., Truth or Consequences. Cost: $4. Info: 575-744-9137.

Alamogordo/Otero CountyCOPE: Dancing for a Cause! — 5:30-10 p.m. at the Willie Estrada Memorial Civic Center in Alamogordo. Fund-raiser for the Center of Protective Environment women’s shelter. Dancing, competitions and food from Au Jus BBQ. Cost: $15. Info: 575-434-3622.

Las Cruces/Doña Ana CountyFarmers Arts and Crafts Market — 8:30 a.m.-1 p.m. At the Plaza of Las Cruces, Info: 575-805-6055.Cowboy Days — 9 a.m.-5 p.m. at the New Mexico Farm & Ranch Heri-tage Museum in Las Cruces. Info: 575-522-4100.

Las Cruces/MesillaLas Cruces International Film Festival — 9 a.m. and all day at Cineport 10, Mesilla Valley Mall. Feature opening film with Richard Dreyfuss. Info: 575-649-6149.Las Cruces Arts Fair — 10 a.m.-4 p.m. at the Las Cruces Convention Center, 680 E. University Blvd. in Las Cruces. Cost: $10 (as many times as you wish all three days). Info: 575-523-6403.Live music: Baracutanga — 9 p.m. at Little Toad Creek, 119 N. Main St. downtown Las Cruces. South American rhythms. Cost: $7 cover. Info: 575-313-1266.

Cabalgata Binacional in Columbus, New Mexico, commemorates the Pancho Villa attack on the United States with two days of activi-ties, March 7 and 8.

Collect shamrocks from five participating locations - get a St Pat’s pint glass! While supplies last -must be 21 or older to participate. No purchase necessary. Pick up your game card at any participating location from 3-9pm.

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Ruidoso/Lincoln CountyDr. Seuss Day — 9-11 a.m. at the Inn of the Mountain Gods Resort & Casino, 287 Carrizo Canyon Road, Mescalero. Family event reading Dr. Seuss and Mother Goose. Info: 575-464-7053.Annual Vines in the Pines Art and Wine Festival — 10 a.m.-6 p.m. at the Ruidoso Convention Center, 111 Sierra Blanca Drive in Ruidoso. Sample New Mexico wines while enjoying local arts, crafts, food and local brews. Cost: $20. Info: 877-784-3676.Sandy Hackett’s Rat Pack Show — 7-10 p.m. at the Spencer Theater for the Performing Arts, 108 Spen-cer Road, Alto. Musical, theatrical production portrays iconic legends of the past. Info: 575-336-4800.


Live music: Compasito — 2 p.m. at Little Toad Creek, 200 N. Bullard St. Downtown Silver City. World music. Info: 575-313-1266.

Columbus/Luna CountyCabalgata Binacional/Pancho Villa attack commemoration — 10 a.m. various locations across Columbus. Mount up at Rancho Perez with up to 300 riders coming from Texas, Arizona and Montana, dances, mu-sic in the plaza, memorial service. Info: 575-341-0147.

Ruidoso/Lincoln CountyAnnual Vines in the Pines Art and Wine Festival — noon-4 p.m. at the Ruidoso Convention Center, 111 Sierra Blanca Drive in Ruidoso. Sample New Mexico wines while enjoying local arts, crafts, food and local brews. Cost: $20. Info: 877-784-3676.Lost Hiker Hootenanny Wintermarmel-aden — 3-5 p.m. at Lost Hiker Base Camp, 26394 U.S. Highway 70 E, Ruidoso Downs. Bring strings, spoons, washboard, harmonica and play with an awesome group of people while enjoying delicious beer. Kids and dogs are welcome too. Info: 575-937-4516.

Las Cruces/Doña Ana CountyLas Cruces Arts Fair — 10 a.m.-4 p.m. at the Las Cruces Convention Center, 680 E. University Blvd. in Las Cruces. Cost: $10 (as many times as you wish all three days). Info: 575-523-6403.UU Church Roundtable: “Gangs of the El Paso-Juarez Borderland Region” — 10:30-11:30 a.m. at the Unitarian Church, 2000 S. Solano in Las Cruces. Cost: Free. Info: [email protected] Days — 10 a.m.-4 p.m. at the New Mexico Farm & Ranch Heritage Museum in Las Cruces. Info: 575-522-4100.



Minecraft Club — 4-5 p.m. at the Silver City Public Library, 515 W. College Ave., Silver City. Children 6-12 are invited to play and explore collaboratively with Minecraft in a social setting. Info: 575-538-3672.Pink Leopard, Live Jazz — 6-8 :30 p.m. at Diane’s Restaurant and Parlor, 510 N. Bullard St. Silver City. Eve West Bessier vocalist and Ben Schlamb on piano. Info: 575-538-8722.

Las Cruces/MesillaPaquimé and the Casas Grandes Culture — 12:30 p.m. at the New Mexico Farm & Ranch Heritage Museum. Jeff Romney, director of the El Paso Museum of Archaeology, will

discuss Paquimé as a ceremonial and trade center. Info: 575-522-4100.


Storytime — 10:30 a.m. at the Silver City Public Library, 515 W. College Ave., Silver City. Children 0-5 are invited to join in stories songs, rhymes, movement and simple crafts. Caregivers must attend. Cost: Free. Info: 575-538-3672.Future Engineers — 4-5 p.m. at the Silver City Public Library, 515 W. College Ave., Silver City. Children 6-12 are welcome to join in with creative construction and exper-imenting fun. Cost: Free. Info: 575-538-3672.

Paquimé and the Casas Grandes Culture is the subject of the Culture Series at New Mexico Farm & Ranch Heritage Museum. Jeff Romney, director of the El Paso Museum of Archaeology, is speaking.

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Las Cruces/MesillaFarmers Arts and Crafts Market — 8:30 a.m.-1 p.m. At the Plaza of Las Cruces, Info: 575-805-6055.“How Electric Rates Could Affect Renewable Energy” with Indivisible Las Cruces — 6-8 p.m. at Sunset Grill, 1274 Golf Club Road, Las Cruces. Presented by Merrie Lee Soules providing insight from her recent experience at the state legislature. Info: nmdistrict2.com/new-events.


WildWorks — 4 p.m. at the Silver City Public Library, 515 W. College Ave., Silver City. Children 10 and

over are welcome to experiment and create with robots, electronics, games and more. Cost: Free. Info: 575-538-3672.Fort Bayard Film Series, The world at War: “Schindler’s List”— 7 p.m. at Santa Clara National Guard Armory, 11990 U.S. Highway 180 in Santa Clara. Cost: Free. Info: 575-388-4862.Artist Diane Kleiss lecture and exhibit opening — 6:30 p.m. at Parotti Hall and 7:30 at the McCray Gallery at Western New Mexico University. Roots, blues and Americana from Albuquerque-based all woman band. Presented by the Western In-stitute for Lifelong Learning. Cost: Free. Info: 575-538-6273.

Deming/Luna CountyRock Hound Roundup — 9 a.m.-5 p.m., 1500 W. Pine St. in Deming. Gem and mineral show including silent auction, live auction, spinning wheel for children, displays and digging. Info: [email protected].


Sierra Twirlers: Square Dancing — 5:30-8 p.m. at the New Mexico Old Time Fiddlers Playhouse, 710 Elm St., Truth or Consequences. Mainstream dancing, no partner needed. Cost: $3. Info: 575-313-9971.

FRIDAY, MARCH 13Las Cruces/Doña Ana County

Live music: Rudy Boy Experiment — 8 p.m. at Little Toad Creek, 119 N. Main St. downtown Las Cruces. Southwest rock-n-roll. Info: 575-313-1266.


SATURDAY, MARCH 14Silver City/Grant County

Second Saturday Gallery Walk — 5-7 p.m. all over downtown Silver City. Info: 575-538-5555.Live music: Rudy Boy Experiment — 8 p.m. at Little Toad Creek, 200 N. Bullard St. Downtown Silver City. Southwest rock-n-roll. Info: 575-313-1266.



Second Saturday Art Hop — 6-9 P.m. downtown Truth or Consequences. Participating businesses include galleries, studios, shops and restaurants on Broadway, Main and points in between. Info: [email protected] Time Fiddlers Dance — 7-9 p.m. at the New Mexico Old Time Fid-

dlers Playhouse, 710 Elm St., Truth or Consequences. Cost: $4. Info: 575-744-9137.

Las Cruces/MesillaFarmers Arts and Crafts Market — 8:30 a.m.-1 p.m. At the Plaza of Las Cruces, Info: 575-805-6055.Crafts for Kids — 10 a.m.-noon at the New Mexico Farm & Ranch Heritage Museum. Children are invited to join in as they make a spring craft. Info: 575-522-4100.Buffalo Roast: “Labyrinth of Blood: Apaches and the Spanish Empire” — 6 p.m. at the Farm & Ranch Heritage Museum, 4100 Dripping Springs Road. Presentation by Mark San-tiago during this Human Systems fundraiser event. Cost: $50. Info: 575-524-9456.Downtown Drag Queen — 9 p.m. at Little Toad Creek, 119 N. Main St. downtown Las Cruces. Classic rock. Info: 575-313-1266.


Live music: Anthony Frijia — 2 p.m. at Little Toad Creek, 200 N. Bullard St. Downtown Silver City. Singer songwriter. Info: 575-313-1266.

Deming/Luna CountyRock Hound Roundup — 9 a.m.-5 p.m., 1500 W. Pine St. in Deming. Gem and mineral show including silent auction, live auction, spinning wheel for children, displays and dig-ging. Info: [email protected].


*Black Cat Poetry Reading — 1-2:15 p.m. at Black Cat Books & Coffee, 128 N. Broadway, in T or C. Meet-ing of the Black Cat Poets. Info: 575-202-8642.

A Mini Film Noir Festival will be held at the Thomas Branigan Memorial Library March 17-20.

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Las Cruces/MesillaUU Church Roundtable: “Showing and discussing a Variety Photos” — 10:30-11:30 a.m. at the Unitarian Church, 2000 S. Solano in Las Cruces. Alan E. Solomon presents an overview of photos taken on assignment with the New York Times and the Associated Press. Cost: Free. Info: [email protected].

Ruidoso/Lincoln County*Lost Hiker Hootenanny Wintermarmel-aden — 3-5 p.m. at Lost Hiker Base Camp, 26394 U.S. Highway 70 E, Ruidoso Downs. Bring strings, spoons, washboard, harmonica and play with an awesome group of people while enjoying delicious beer. Kids and dogs are welcome too. Info: 575-937-4516.



Alamogordo/Otero County*Karaoke Monday — 6-9 p.m. at Cloudcroft Brewing Company, 1301 Burro Ave. Cloudcroft. Info: 575-682-2337.


Minecraft Club — 4-5 p.m. at the Silver City Public Library, 515 W. College Ave., Silver City. Children 6-12 are invited to play and explore collaboratively with Minecraft in a social setting. Info: 575-538-3672.

Pink Leopard, Live Jazz — 6-8 :30 p.m. at Diane’s Restaurant and Parlor, 510 N. Bullard St. Silver City. Eve West Bessier vocalist and Ben Schlamb on piano. Info: 575-538-8722.St Patrick’s Day Pub Crawl with the Gila Mobsters and the Curve Balls — 6 p.m. and 8:30 p.m. at Little Toad Creek, 200 N. Bullard St. Down-town Silver City. Info: 575-313-1266.

Alamogordo/Otero CountyTrivia at Rocket City — 6-7:30 p.m. at the Rocket City Family Fun Center, 3751 Mesa Village Drive, Alamogordo. Put your knowledge to the test. Info: 575-437-6334.

Las Cruces/Doña Ana CountySt. Patty’s Day Party with Giant Patio Pong and Niantic and the Deaf Pilots — 4 p.m. and 8 p.m. at Little Toad Creek, 119 N. Main St. downtown Las Cruces. Classic rock. Info: 575-313-1266.Mini Film Noir Festival — 6 p.m. at the Thomas Branigan Memori-al Library, 200 E. Picacho Ave. Celebrating the release of Santa Fe Noir with books-to-movie Fil Noir Selections. Info: 575-541-2098.“Candlelight” with the Doña Ana Pho-tography Club — 6:30 p.m. at Cruces Creatives, 205 E. Lohman, Las Cru-ces. Viewing and discussion of the month’s theme and awards for the quarterly print competition. Cost: Free. Info: daphotoclub.org.


Storytime — 10:30 a.m. at the Silver City Public Library, 515 W. College Ave., Silver City. Children 0-5 are

invited to join in stories songs, rhymes, movement and simple crafts. Caregivers must attend. Cost: Free. Info: 575-538-3672.Future Engineers — 4-5 p.m. at the Silver City Public Library, 515 W. College Ave., Silver City. Children 6-12 are welcome to join in with creative construction and experi-menting fun. Cost: Free. Info: 575-538-3672.

Deming/ Columbus/Luna County*Yarn Emporium Work Session — 6-8 p.m. at The Yarn Emporium, 208 S. Gold Ave. in Deming. Knitting sessions every Wednesday. Info: 575-494-3759.

Las Cruces/MesillaFarmers Arts and Crafts Market — 8:30 a.m.-1 p.m. At the Plaza of Las Cruces, Info: 575-805-6055.Mini Film Noir Festival — 6 p.m. at the Thomas Branigan Memori-al Library, 200 E. Picacho Ave. Celebrating the release of Santa Fe Noir with books-to-movie Film Noir Selections. Info: 575-541-2098.


Ben Schlamb on piano with guest vocalists — 6-9 p.m. at Revel, 304 N. Bullard St., Silver City. Info: 575-388-4920.Fort Bayard Film Series, The world at War: “Downfall”— 7 p.m. at Santa Clara National Guard Armory, 11990 U.S. Highway 180 in Santa Clara. Cost: Free. Info: 575-388-4862.

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Dances of Universal Peace — 7-9 p.m. at the First Church of Harmony, 609 N. Arizona St. Silver City. Info: dancesofuniversalpeace.org.Live music: Twin Whistle, Colton Ort and a special guest from Dublin, Ireland — 8 p.m. at Little Toad Creek, 200 N. Bullard St. Downtown Silver City. Info: 575-313-1266.“Spring Blooms in the Southwest: Not Just Creosote Bush” — 7 p.m. at Har-lan Hall, Room 219, WNMU, corner of 12th and Alabama streets. Gila Native Plant Society presentation by Donna Stevens. Cost: Free. Info: gilanps.org/events/programs.

Las Cruces/Doña Ana CountyMini Film Noir Festival — 1 p.m. and 3 p.m. at the Thomas Branigan Me-morial Library, 200 E. Picacho Ave. Celebrating the release of Santa Fe Noir with books-to-movie Fil Noir Selections. Info: 575-541-2098.Southern New Mexico Music and Dance contra dance — 7:30-10:30 p.m. at the Mesilla Community Center, 2251 Calle de Santiago, Mesilla. The Little table Contraband will be playing, and Lonnie Ludeman will be calling. Info: 575-522-1691.Live music: David Rucci — 8 p.m. at Little Toad Creek, 119 N. Main St. downtown Las Cruces. Americana, folk, pop duo. Info: 575-313-1266.

Ruidoso/Lincoln County George Lopez Live — 8-10 p.m. at the Inn of the Mountain Gods Resort & Casino, 287 Carrizo Canyon Road, Mescalero. Info: inofthemountain-gods.com/event/george-lopez/


Silver City Farmer’s Market — 10 a.m.-1 p.m. in Historic Downtown

Silver City at Eighth Street between Bullard Street and the Big Ditch. Info: [email protected].“Roped in: The history of rodeo in Grant County and beyond” — 10 a.m. at the Silco Theater. Don Turner, sheriff of the Westerners and former owner of the T Box and Easy Bar ranches speaks on the development of rodeo. Presented by the Silver City Museum. Info: 575-538-5921.“Ancient Trails of the Mimbres; Ma-caws, Cacao and Pots” — 3-5 p.m. at the Mimbres Round Up Lodge on Acklin Road just off Highway 35 in Mimbres. Includes cholate extrava-ganza and ancient frothy chocolate brew. Bring some chocolate some-thing to share. Info: 575-536-9337.Live music: Sean Farley — 8 p.m. at Little Toad Creek, 200 N. Bullard St. Downtown Silver City. Blues and Americana. Info: 575-313-1266.



Las Cruces/MesillaFarmers Arts and Crafts Market — 8:30 a.m.-1 p.m. At the Plaza of Las Cruces, Info: 575-805-6055.“Creating Better Photographs” Photo Boot Camp with the Doña Ana Photog-raphy Club — 9 a.m.-noon at Cruces Creatives, 205 E. Lohman, Las Cruces. Covers basic composition, lighting, style and exercises to jump start creativity. Cost: $5. Info: daphotoclub.org.Paint Among the Ruins — 1-3 p.m. at the Fort Selden Historic Site, Exit 19 from Interstate-25, Radium Springs. Pant and canvas provided. Cost: $10 adults, $5 children. Info: 575-202-1638.Live music: Ash Soular — 8 p.m. at Little Toad Creek, 119 N. Main St. downtown Las Cruces. Classic rock, pop and a little country. Info: 575-313-1266.


Live music: Jaime Soliz — 2 p.m. at Little Toad Creek, 200 N. Bullard St. Downtown Silver City. One-man band. Info: 575-313-1266.

Las Cruces/Doña Ana CountyUU Church Roundtable: “Organizing against the border wall and oil and gas production in New Mexico” — 10:30-11:30 a.m. at the Unitarian Church, 2000 S. Solano in Las Cruces. Cost: Free. Info: [email protected].

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*Babytime, Sing & Play — 10 a.m. at the Silver City Public Library, 515 W. College Ave., Silver City. Sto-ries, songs and rhymes for infants 0-24 months and their caregivers. Info: 575-538-3672.

Alamogordo/Otero County*Karaoke Monday — 6-9 p.m. at Cloudcroft Brewing Company, 1301 Burro Ave. Cloudcroft. Info: 575-682-2337.


Minecraft Club — 4-5 p.m. at the Silver City Public Library, 515 W. College Ave., Silver City. Children 6-12 are invited to play and explore collaboratively with Minecraft in a social setting. Info: 575-538-3672.Pink Leopard, Live Jazz — 6-8 :30 p.m. at Diane’s Restaurant and Parlor, 510 N. Bullard St. Silver City. Eve West Bessier vocalist and Ben Schlamb on piano. Info: 575-538-8722.Q-Tango — 7 p.m. at Light Hall Theater at Western New Mexico University. Part of the President’s Chamber Music Series. Albuquer-que musicians promoting tango with its annual QTango festival. Cost: $15. Info: 575-538-6273.

Alamogordo/Otero CountyTrivia at Rocket City — 6-7:30 p.m. at Rocket City Family Fun Center event room, 3751 Mesa Village Drive, Alamogordo. Info: 575-437-6120.

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Las Cruces/Mesilla“Medical Photography” — 6:30 p.m. with the Doña Ana Photography Club, Cruces Creatives, 205 E. Lohman in Las Cruces. Presenta-tion with Rob Peinert and followed a short program on sharpening dig-ital images using editing programs available today. There will also be a viewing so submissions for the monthly theme, “Entrances.”. Cost: Free. Info: daphotoclub.org.


Storytime — 10:30 a.m. at the Silver City Public Library, 515 W. College

Ave., Silver City. Children 0-5 are invited to join in stories songs, rhymes, movement and simple crafts. Caregivers must attend. Cost: Free. Info: 575-538-3672.Future Engineers — 4-5 p.m. at the Silver City Public Library, 515 W. College Ave., Silver City. Children 6-12 are welcome to join in with creative construction and exper-imenting fun. Cost: Free. Info: 575-538-3672.

Deming/ Columbus/Luna CountyYarn Emporium Work Session — 6-8 p.m. at The Yarn Emporium, 208 S. Gold Ave. in Deming. Knitting

sessions every Wednesday. Info: 575-494-3759.

Las Cruces/MesillaFarmers Arts and Crafts Market — 8:30 a.m.-1 p.m. At the Plaza of Las Cruces, Info: 575-805-6055.Discovery Morning: Making Sun Prints — 10 a.m.-noon at the New Mexico Farm & Ranch Heritage Museum. Students welcomed to learn to make a sun print in celebration of spring. Items such as flowers and leaves will be used to make prints on cotton fabric. Info: 575-522-4100.


WildWorks — 4 p.m. at the Silver City Public Library, 515 W. College Ave., Silver City. Children 10 and over are welcome to experiment and create with robots, electronics, games and more. Cost: Free. Info: 575-538-3672.Ben Schlamb on piano with guest vocalists — 6-9 p.m. at Revel, 304 N. Bullard St., Silver City. Info: 575-388-4920.




“The Meaning of the Inanimate” — 6-8 p.m. at the Silver City Museum, 312 Broadway St. in Silver City. Western New Mexico University artist in residence Joao Galera will talk about looking at things with a

new perspective. Info: 575-538-5921.Live music: The Senators — 8 p.m. at Little Toad Creek, 200 N. Bullard St. Downtown Silver City. Rock from Phoenix. Info: 575-313-1266.

Las Cruces/Doña Ana CountyLive music: Sorry About Your Sister — 8 p.m. at Little Toad Creek, 119 N. Main St. downtown Las Cruces. Blues, rockabilly, country. Info: 575-313-1266.


Silver City Farmer’s Market — 10 a.m.-1 p.m. in Historic Downtown Silver City at Eighth Street between Bullard Street and the Big Ditch. Info: [email protected].“All the Little Things” — 1-3 p.m. at the Silver City Museum Annex 312 Broadway St. in Silver City. West-ern New Mexico University artist in residence Joao Galera is collecting clay objects for a community instal-lation. This is an opportunity to be a contributor to that project. Info: 575-538-5921.Live music: Gila River Band — 8 p.m. at Little Toad Creek, 200 N. Bullard St. Downtown Silver City. Country and rock. Info: 575-313-1266.

Alamogordo/Otero CountyBrew at the Zoo — 4-11 p.m. at Alameda Park Zoo in Alamogordo. Live music, breweries and wineries from across the state as well as food, vendors and activities. First 500 adults receive commemorative mug. Cost: $15 at the gate, 18 and under are free. Info: 575-439-4100.

Las Cruces/Doña Ana CountyFarmers Arts and Crafts Market — 8:30 a.m.-1 p.m. At the Plaza of

Las Cruces, Info: 575-805-6055.Live music: Jason Chaffee — 8 p.m. at Little Toad Creek, 119 N. Main St. downtown Las Cruces. Singer songwriter. Info: 575-313-1266.

Ruidoso/Lincoln CountyGirlfriends Wandering Market — 10 a.m.-4 p.m. at the Ruidoso Con-vention Center, 111 Sierra Blanca Drive in Ruidoso. Fun and fabulous shopping extravaganza. Cost: $5. Info: 877-784-3676.


DJ Mischievous Brunch Party — 2 p.m. at Little Toad Creek, 200 N. Bullard St. Downtown Silver City. Mimosa Bar, Mellow Tunes. Info: 575-313-1266.

Las Cruces/Doña Ana CountyUU Church Roundtable: “Undeterred” video — 10:30-11:30 a.m. at the Unitarian Church, 2000 S. Solano in Las Cruces. Cost: Free. Rural community residents find them-selves as inadvertent first respond-ers, caught in the crosshairs of border policing. Info: [email protected].

Ruidoso/Lincoln CountyGirlfriends Wandering Market — 10 a.m.-4 p.m. at the Ruidoso Con-vention Center, 111 Sierra Blanca Drive in Ruidoso. Fun and fabulous shopping extravaganza. Cost: $5. Info: 877-784-3676.Lost Hiker Hootenanny Wintermarmel-aden — 3-5 p.m. at Lost Hiker Base Camp, 26394 U.S. Highway 70 E, Ruidoso Downs. Bring strings, spoons, washboard, harmonica and play with an awesome group of people while enjoying delicious beer. Kids and dogs are welcome too. Info: 575-937-4516.

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“hONEyhouSEe” in live concert (re-scheduled) — 7 p.m. at Light Hall Theater at Western New Mexico University. Roots, blues and Amer-icana from Albuquerque-based all woman band. Presented by the Western Institute for Lifelong Learn-ing. Cost: $15. Info: 575-538-6273.


Sierra Twirlers: Square Dancing — 5:30-8 p.m. at the New Mexico Old Time Fiddlers Playhouse, 710 Elm St., Truth or Consequences. Main-stream dancing, no partner needed. Cost: $3. Info: 575-313-9971.

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Silver City Farmer’s Market — 10 a.m.-1 p.m. in Historic Downtown Silver City at Eighth Street between Bullard Street and the Big Ditch. Info: [email protected] Gilkyson live music — 7:30-9 p.m. at the Buckhorn Opera House, 32 Main St., Pinos Altos. Info: www.abbiegardner.com.

Glenwood/Hidalgo CountyGlenwood Dutch Oven Gathering — 10 a.m.-3 p.m. at the Glenwood Community Park on Catwalk Road. Delicious food, venders and the chance for cooks to participate. Cost: $10 to eat, the food is ready around 2 p.m. Info: 575-539-2714.



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Taylor-Mesilla Historic Property/Mesilla Plaza Tour — 1-3 p.m. at the Fort Selden Historic Site, Exit 19 from Interstate-25, Radium Springs. Pant and canvas provided. Cost: $10 adults, $5 children. Info: 575-202-1638.

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Recently a woman called the RV park to ask about our monthly site rentals.

“I have a few questions,” she said after I gave her the rates. “First, how’s your water?”

“Well, it tastes fine, but we’re located between a couple of big copper mines, so use your own judgement.” My standard answer.

“Do you have a tall cell tower in the downtown area?”

Now this was a new one, and I tried to picture the skyline of Silver City downtown. “I don’t think so.”

“How’s your electro-magnetic field?”

“What?”“You know, your electro-mag-

netic field. I’m very sensitive, so I need to know how it is in your area.”

It’s not often I’m at a loss for words, but I had no idea what an acceptable answer to this

question would be. Better than it used to be? As good as it gets? No complaints so far? As I struggled to come up with some-thing, the woman proceeded to describe the symptoms of her electro-magnetic field sensitivi-ty, and I had to admit, it sounded uncomfortable, kind of like the flu. She also described her in-ability to sleep if even the slight-est light filtered through her win-dows, and her many allergies to what seemed like every bush and tree in the park.

“You probably want to talk to someone at the town hall about that electro-magnetic field thing,” I told her, happily pass-ing the buck. “And by the way, we don’t have any monthly sites available at this time.”

Now I don’t mean to make fun of allergies and sensitivities, but you’d think that people, when calling about renting an RV

site by the month, would have enough sense to keep any dis-qualifying information to them-selves. But sometimes they just throw it all out there, as if daring me to rent to them anyway. And I’ve learned that extending the conversation with a little chit-chat often results in what could qualify as a confessional.

“My girlfriend just kicked me out, and I lost my job, and my parents won’t let me move back in, but my cousin has an old RV he said I could use.”

“I can’t pay the deposit until I get my unemployment check, and it’s about to run out.”

“I got kicked out of a park in Deming, but it wasn’t my fault. How was I supposed to know charcoal keeps burning after you toss it out?”

“Do you have a policy against nude sunbathing?”

Don’t these people realize they’ve just told me something that makes me think they’d be an awful tenant?

Which reminds me of some-thing else I don’t understand about some folks—their abra-sive manner of dealing with ser-vice people, either in person or on the phone.

Most of the people we deal with here at Rose Valley are po-lite, respectful and friendly, but occasionally we’ll get a caller who is arrogant, condescend-ing, and demanding, or all three. If any of my readers have ever been tempted to use that style, listen to me: it’s not in your best interest! You may have the mis-guided belief that rudeness and intimidation are the way to as-sure good service, but believe me, it’s not. Or maybe being

rude to someone whose job it is to just take it and smile makes you feel good about yourself, but always keep in mind that these underpaid, overworked individ-uals probably have at least a tiny smidgeon of control over some aspect of your comfort, and you’re giving them no reason to do you any favors.

For example, and let’s just stick to the hospitality industry, a hotel reservations clerk of-ten has first-hand knowledge of the facility you’re calling about. They can decide to schedule your room on the floor that has just been renovated or the floor that is desperately in need of renovation. They can give you the room with the extra sitting area and larger bathroom, or the one with the sagging mat-tress next to the noisy elevator. At one hotel where I worked the reservations phone line, I was instructed to not offer any dis-counts unless the caller asked for them. But you can be sure I offered them to the callers that seemed friendly and kind and respectful.

I’d heard stories of the meth-ods restaurant service people sometimes use to get even with rude customers, and one day I asked a waiter friend if they were true. Yes, indeed, he assured me, there are many ways to pay back a rude customer, including some he’d rather not talk about.

But what about those tele-phone help people, the ones you call when your account gets screwed up, or when you need to renew a service contract, or when the ceiling fan you just or-dered from Amazon sounds like it has gravel rolling around in-

side. Do you have any idea how often these people can make your life better?

For example, when you call your auto insurance agency to question a rate increase, and the service rep can either tell you there is nothing they can do or they can reduce your bill by in-cluding a discount for each year you’ve had no claim. Which re-sult do you think the rude caller gets?

My husband Jimmy does all our household negotiations for yearly contract renewals, such as Verizon, Netflix, Dish, etc. It’s not fast – in fact, one call last-ed an hour and a half – but by the end he’s made a friend, and almost always there’s no rate in-crease. Sometimes there’s even a rate reduction. I tease him that the reps just want to get rid of him, but I know it’s because he has a way of being person-al without being intrusive, and even on the phone people like and trust him and want to help him out.

Next time, before you deal with someone in the service sec-tor, even if you’re stressed and frustrated, take a deep breath, calm down, and smile. Odds are you’ll be better off in the end.

Sheila and husband, Jimmy, have lived at Rose Valley RV Ranch in Silver City since 2012, following five years of wandering from Maine to California. She can be contacted at [email protected].

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Culture, skill, and enter-tainment are the focus of the New Mexico Farm &

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Lienzo Charro El Pedregal, a group made up of Daniel Castro of Vado and his family, will perform trick roping and traditional Mex-ican charrerada demonstrations from 11 a.m. to noon each day.

“The best part of what we do is that we’re able to do it as a family,” Castro said. “My kids are by my side learning part of our culture and tradition through our shows. It’s important to us to keep our heritage alive for fu-ture generations.”

Another addition to Cowboy Days this year is horse training demonstrations by Josh Arm-strong. He has trained reined horses in the Mesilla Valley since 1986 and has won the All-Ameri-can Quarter Horse Congress and the European Championships. He has taught throughout North America and Europe as well as in Japan and the Middle East. His demonstration will be from 1-2 p.m. each day. These demon-strations will be in the Museum’s Round Pen where the popular Parade of Breeds cattle program also will be held (12-1 p.m. and 2-3 p.m. each day).

While culture, skill and en-tertainment highlight Cowboy Days, food also is a big part of the event. Crews from the Mu-seum’s chuckwagon and the Lonely Goat Ranch chuckwag-on from Roswell will offer some free samples, and there also will be an array of food vendors sell-ing everything from hamburgers, turkey legs and snow cones to Native American cuisine from Jemez Pueblo. A wide variety of craft vendors also are part of the festival, and the Museum will sell plants from its Greenhouse.

The Museum’s Theatre Troupe will perform “How the West was Done,” twice each day (noon-12:45 p.m. and 2-2:45 p.m.). The entertaining show features cow-boy stories, trivia, poetry and a

brief melodrama.Sid Hausman of Santa Fe head-

lines the musical performances this year. He is a singer songwrit-er of cowboy tales and western lore that reflect his experience with ranching, the influence of American Indian and Hispanic cultures, and the rural environ-ment of the American West. A master of several musical instru-ments, Hausman tours through-out the West and has performed four times in Scotland.

Another addition to Cowboy Days this year are the Mule-tones, an old-time string band, headquartered along the sparse-ly populated line between Hud-speth County, Texas, and Otero County, New Mexico. Offering a mix of antique fiddle tunes and folk songs of indeterminate ori-gin, as well as early country and bluegrass selections rendered in old-time string band fashion, the Muletones deploy the standard combination of fiddle, clawham-mer-style banjo, and acoustic guitar, while also believing firm-ly the old adage “there’s always room for cello.”

Popular musical performers returning to Cowboy Days in-clude the Ramblin’ Rangers from South Dakota, and Tom Foster Morris & Friends, and Kenny Ar-royos from Las Cruces.

Children and families always enjoy Cowboy Days and there is plenty for them to enjoy. Chil-dren can ride a pony for $5 and the mini-train for $3. Stagecoach rides also are offered, and there will be crafts and games for the kids, courtesy of the Museum’s Education Department, as well as New Mexico Historic Sites (Fort Selden, Lincoln and Fort Stanton).

Two new demonstrations this year are rawhide braiding and arrowhead making. Other demonstrations include black-smithing, weaving, wool spin-ning, quilting and woodcarving. A square dancing demonstration by Live Lively in the Courtyard takes place each day at 2:30 p.m.

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A New Mexico journalist since 1976, Reed worked as a reporter for The Albuquerque Tribune for more than 31 years and is now a staff writer for the Albuquerque Journal. He contributes articles to magazines such as True West and New Mexico Magazine and is an editor of and a contributor to the book “Max Evans & a Few Friends.” He received the 2016 Rounders Award, which is pre-sented by the New Mexico De-partment of Agriculture to those who “live, promote and articu-late the western way of life.”

Potenza was born in Hawaii but moved in 1991 to Las Cruces where she is an assistant profes-sor, teaching classes in biochem-istry, at New Mexico State Uni-versity. Her debut novel, “Hearts of the Missing,” won the 2017 Hillerman Prize for the best first mystery novel set in the South-west. Groves loves everything about the Old West and has writ-ten about it in nonfiction books such as “Ropes, Reins and Raw-hide: All About Rodeo” and in novels such as “Border Ambush” and “She Was Sheriff.” She is the recipient of a 2018 National Press Women Award and a 2017 New Mexico/Arizona Book Award.

On Saturday, the New Mexico Department of Cultural Affairs traveling exhibit bus, “Wonders on Wheels,” will be at the event. A special presentation on Sunday at1 p.m. in the Museum’s Theatre is author and historian Ralph Es-tes presenting “Billy & Me.”

Admission to Cowboy Days in-cludes all of the regular Museum offerings, including exhibits such as Home on the Range: From Ranches to Rockets, and Sad-dlemakers of the Southwest. The New Mexico Farm & Ranch Her-itage Museum is located at 4100 Dripping Springs Road in Las Cruces. For more information, call (575) 522-4100 or visit www.nmfarmandranchmuseum.org.

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COWBOY DAYS SCHEDULESaturday, March 7, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Ongoing educational demonstrations: Chuckwagon biscuits & cowboy coffee, blacksmith, woodcarving, spinning, weaving, quilting, selfie stations and more. 9 a.m.-5 p.m.: Wonders on Wheels, DCA’s traveling exhibit bus 9 a.m.-5 p.m.: Rawhide braider, Dick Schorr, in the Courtyard10-10:45 a.m.: Western Writers of America in the Theatre10 a.m.-noon: Pony rides near the Horse & Cattle Barn ($5)10 a.m.-3 p.m.: Miniature train rides on the South 20 ($3)10 a.m.-3:30 p.m.: Stagecoach rides out front (by donation)10:30-11:15 a.m.: Kenny Arroyos sings in the Courtyard11-11:45 a.m.: Singer songwriter, Sid Hausman, on stage

in the Theatre11 a.m.-Noon: Daniel Castro & family (Lienzo Charro

El Pedregal) charreada demonstrations in the Round Pen

11:30 a.m.-12:15 p.m.: Ramblin’ Rangers perform in the Courtyard

12-12:45 p.m.: How the West was Done! (stories, poetry, trivia, melodrama) in the Theater

Noon-1 p.m.: Parade of Breeds at the Round Pen12:30-1:15 p.m.: Tom Foster Morris & Friends perform

in the Courtyard1-1:45 p.m.: Singer songwriter, Sid Hausman, on stage

in the Theatre1:30-2:15 p.m.: Singing group, The Muletones,

in the Courtyard1-2 p.m.: Josh Armstrong, horse trainer, in the Round Pen1:30-3 p.m.: Pony rides near the Horse & Cattle Barn ($5)2-3 p.m.: Parade of Breeds at the Round Pen2:30-3:15 p.m.: Live Lively Square Dance demonstration

in the Courtyard2-2:45 p.m.: How the West was Done! (stories, poetry, trivia,

melodrama) in the Theatre3:30-4:15 p.m.: Singing group, The Muletones,

in the Courtyard3-3:45 p.m.: Singer songwriter, Sid Hausman, on stage

in the Theatre

Sunday, March 8-10 a.m. to 4 p.m.Ongoing educational demonstrations: Chuck wagon cooking, children’s crafts and games, food and craft vendors, blacksmith, woodcarving, spinning, weaving, quilting, selfie stations and more. 10-10:45 a.m.: Western Writers of America in the Theatre10 a.m.-Noon: Pony rides near the Horse & Cattle Barn ($5)10 a.m.-3 p.m.: Miniature train rides on the South 20 ($3)10 a.m.-3 p.m.: Rawhide braider, Dick Schorr, in the

Courtyard10 a.m.-3:30 p.m.: Stagecoach rides out front (by donation)10:30-11:15 a.m.: Kenny Arroyos sings in the Courtyard11-11:45 a.m.: Old Western films in the Theatre11 a.m.-Noon: Daniel Castro & family (Lienzo Charro

El Pedregal) charreada demonstrations in the Round Pen

11:30 a.m.-12:15 p.m.: Ramblin’ Rangers perform in the Courtyard

12-12:45 p.m.: How the West was Done! (stories, poetry, trivia, melodrama) in the Theater

Noon-1 p.m.: Parade of Breeds at the Round Pen12:30-1:15 p.m.: Tom Foster Morris & Friends perform

in the Courtyard1-2 p.m.: Ralph Estes “Billy and Me” in the Theatre1-2 p.m.: Josh Armstrong, horse trainer, in the Round Pen1:30-2:15 p.m.: Singing group, The Muletones, in the

Courtyard1:30-3 p.m.: Pony rides near the Horse & Cattle Barn ($5)2-3 p.m.: Parade of Breeds at the Round Pen2-2:45 p.m.: Singing group, Dusty Boots, under the Pavilion2:15-3 p.m.: How the West was Done! (stories, poetry, trivia,

melodrama) in the Theatre2:30-3:15 p.m.: Live Lively Square Dance demonstration

in the Courtyard3-3:45 p.m.: Singing group, Dusty Boots, under the Pavilion3:15-3:45 p.m.: Old Western films in the Theatre Schedule

is subject to change

Nancy Clegg, one of the Museum’s volunteers, will be among two chuck wagon crews making tasty samples. (Courtesy Photos)

World-renowned horse trainer Josh Armstrong will do demon-strations each day.


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