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SPOTLIGHT: ‘ZOMBIE BOWL’ ALSO INSIDE: BILLY BOB THORNTON AND THE BOXMASTERS, CAT CLYDE, DENIM AND DIAMONDS II, KIRILL GLIADKOVSKY, MINIATURE MUSEUM, ROSWELL FILM FESTIVAL, WALK FOR AUTISM, FROM THE VAULT, HISTORY AND LOOKING UP
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Spotlight: Big Brothers Big Sisters ‘Zombie Bowl’ 12 Art From the Vault: ‘Willow Tree In the Taos Valley’ 14 Miniature Museum Calendar
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Culture Walk for Autism
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Denim and Diamonds, Part II
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‘The Good Doctor’
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‘Shrek The Musical’
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Roswell Film Festival
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‘The Music Man’
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History Murder of the White Sands, Part II Music
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Cat Clyde
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Billy Bob Thornton and the Boxmasters
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Publisher: Barbara Beck Editor: Tom McDonald Vision Editor: Christina Stock Copy Editor: Vanessa Kahin Ad Design: Sandra Martinez Columnists: Donald Burleson, John LeMay, Sara Woodbury Get in touch with us online Facebook: PecosVisionMagazine Twitter: twitter.com/PecosVision Pinterest: pinterest.com/VisionMagazine Email: vision@rdrnews.com www: rdrnews.com/wordpress/vision-magazin For advertising information, call 622-7710 Correspondence: Vision Magazine welcomes correspondence, constructive criticism and suggestions for future topics. Mail correspondence to Vision Magazine, P.O. Drawer 1897, Roswell, N.M. 88202-1897 or vision@rdrnews.com Submissions: Call 622-7710, ext. 309, for writers’ guidelines. Vision Magazine is not responsible for loss or damage to unsolicited materials. Vision Magazine is published once a month at 2301 N. Main St., Roswell, N.M. The contents of the publication are Copyright 2017 by the Roswell Daily Record and may not be reprinted in whole or part without written permission of the publisher. All rights reserved. One copy of each edition is provided to 13,000 weekday subscribers to the Roswell Daily Record in the third Thursday newspaper of each month. An additional 3,000 to 5,000 copies are made available free of charge to county residents and visitors and select site newsstands, and direct mailed to non-subscribers in the retail trade zone. Subscriptions are available by mail for $2 a month or free through subscription to the Roswell Daily Record. The Roswell Daily Record and Vision Magazine are represented nationally by Paper Companies Inc.
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Submitted Photo Families and friends gather to support Roswell’s Walk for Autism.
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out to us and who are in contact with us throughout the year quite frequently. The numbers are rising.” Not everybody comes forward seeking help as there is still a social stigma for those who suffer a mental illness. “It is a lot of unknowns when they first get the diagnosis,” Smith said. “They don’t want the judgement. “With us being the support group as Autism Society of Southeast New Mexico we reach families from Artesia, Carlsbad as well, we have families coming in from Clovis and they reach out to us. That is what we are here for. It is not just Roswell, but the surrounding areas as well,” Smith said. “We have food trucks, face painting activities,” Smith said. “We are going to have some colorful characters. Our kids love these characters. We’ll have Spiderman and the Hulk join us this year. It is just a fun day. “The walk itself will begin at 3 p.m. It is just a walk around the zoo. We encourage our families to make supportive signs for different teams. My son has autism himself, so we do ‘Team Dylan’ every year,” Smith said. “With this being the superhero theme, we encourage costumes. Just to have fun.” There will be several bands and musicians perform from Roswell and Clovis. “We have NovaRush this year, we have Malumovement,” Smith said. Matt Palmer will perform. Palmer was featured in a recent Vision Magazine as a young artist to watch. “We have William Capfer, Smith said. “I told them, you guys are going to wear superhero capes. They were all on board. They are wonderful. “We do ask for participants to register by March 20,” Smith said. “That is in order for them to have their event shirt guaranteed. They also receive a medal at the end of the walk. It is just a nice keepsake for each person. We will have event day registration as well. They can register at racesonline.com and it’s Roswell Walk for Autism they can search for.” The Spring River Park and Zoo is located at 1306 E. College Blvd. To sign up for the race, visit racesonline.com. For more information, email kristasmith@nmautismsociety.org.
The fourth annual Roswell Walk for Autism “AUTISM! What’s your superpower?” takes place. By Christina Stock Vision Editor he fourth annual Roswell Walk for Autism “AUTISM! What’s your super power” is a chance for those affected by autism to gather and celebrate the lives of those on the spectrum. This is a family friendly event with live music, jumpers, resource fair, vendors and fun for the whole family that takes place at Spring River Park and Zoo. “It is a time for families and the community to gather to support those with autism,” organizer and board member of the New Mexico Autism Society, Krista Smith, said. “It lets the families who do have children or adults on the spectrum know that there is a community that supports them, that are there for them. That there are those who ‘get it.’ We use that term quite often. We get it, we understand what it is like to have a child that is on the spectrum. “This is our fundraiser of the year. Eighty percent stays here in Roswell with the remaining 20 percent staying in New Mexico. Many of our events are free of charge, that includes any type of caregivers. We encourage school associates to attend as well. A lot of the children and the adults in the spectrum don’t get time to go to a movie, they can’t handle that. So we offer movies throughout the year. We do swim parties, pizza parties, gatherings of that nature. A lot of those events are free and that’s what these funds are for,” Smith said. While other organizations that are funded by state grants are struggling with cutbacks, this is not the case with the Roswell Autism Support Group, which helps families in southeast New Mexico. “We do not apply for grants or any type of state fund in that way,” Smith said. “Albuquerque, that’s where the main organization is from, they do apply for grants. A lot of our funding comes from private donations, corporate sponsorships or personal donations from family and friends. That is why they have not been impacted.” “They say 1 in 68 children in the United States has autism,” Smith said. “We have about 75 families who are part of our support group and have reached
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Today’s Roswell Livestock Auction Sales.
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Denim and Diamonds
Roswell Livestock Auction Sales to be honored. Part II, continued from Vision Magazine, Feb. 16. By Christina Stock Vision Editor
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ne of the biggest challenges in today’s RLA cattle auctions is to be able to classify, measure and categorize the animals before the Monday auction. “The auction method of selling is the best method of price discovery,” Benny Wooton said. “You put people in one spot and put them in a competitive situation. Supply and demand takes effect. There is a big, complicated market system out there for what livestock is worth. We feel the auction method is the best price discovery there is. The auction method also allows the smaller rancher to reap the benefit of the market, because you put a
lot of numbers of livestock together in one spot. “There are so many different classes. A cow is not a cow, a calf is not a calf. There are hundreds of different categories, qualities — as a result there are different values. A 400 pound steer for example, there are a lot of values for a 400 pound steer. Is it a Holstein steer? Is it a Black Angus steer? Is it a good quality Black Angus steer? Is it a medium quality Black Angus steer? So there is a wide variety of prices and in the auction atmosphere we got price discovery there. Then you bring several people together in a central location, that is what the business is about,” Benny Wooton said. “There are niche mar-
kets out there, back in the early ‘50s, there were not as many categories of cattle. There sure enough were not as many breeds of cattle as there are today. We have a lot of crossbreeds which we sort in categories for the auction. Nobody buys just one or two. “That would be one of the challenges that are out there today,” Benny Wooton said. “All the little niche markets. You got the all natural, the grass-fed beef compared to the grain-fed. “If there is a trend to go to the older breeds, it depends to whom you talk to. If you are a Longhorn breeder, they’re the best. If you are a Hereford breeder they’re the best. If you raise Angus, they’re the best,” Benny Wooton
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said and laughed. In November/September calfs get weaned and the mooing can get pretty loud. The rest of the year the ranchers bring the already weaned calfs to the auction. Ranching is a risky business and the Wooton family feels with the ranchers who could not endure the long drought that started in 2010. The ranchers had to sell their cattle because they could not feed them without grass. The prices plummeted to $1.50 per pound. With less cattle the prices went up to $3 but the ranchers had only half of their stock. Today the price is back to $1.75 with more cattle raised on the grass that grew with the ending of the drought. “In 1956, the average bull cost $362 for a breedable bull,” Cindy Wooton said. “A champion bull cost more than $700. Several years ago when the price was so high, a breedable bull cost $7,000. Today, two years later, they are going to bring $3,000.” “Since 1984, we sold about 3 million cattle,” Benny Wooton said. “That is $1.4 billion worth of beef.” On an average week somewhere between 1,000 to 2,000 head of cattle is moved. RLA is open and manned 24/7 except for Christmas and the Fourth of July. “An average week would be a million dollars,” Benny Wooton said. “But every week is different and we all get a super small percentage of that. We just get commission. We collect it and pay them (the seller) and get a percentage. It’s not our money. “That is a service we
do provide,” Benny Wooton said. “We assume that risk of getting paid. That’s what makes our business successful. They (the ranchers) bring them (the cattle) to us and they have the confidence in us that they get paid. We give them (the ranchers) a check that day but the buyer has seven days to pay. So we’re out and have to be sure that we get paid. That is the service we provide is the confidence level to the seller that they get our check. Granted, there are a lot of different buyers but they (the seller) gets our check.” Asked what he would tell a young person who wants to get into the business, Benny Wooton said, “It is a long, complicated process. I have been in the business my whole life. My philosophy is, that in the livestock and cattle business you have to know a lot to know enough that you don’t know anything. “Every day is a new challenge. In the livestock business — in all agricultural business — we’re price takers. We are not price makers. “If I decide today that I am going to breed this cow to this bull, the product is going to be the calf,” Benny Wooton said.” If anything happens between its birth and until the rancher can sell it they have to start all over. It takes almost three years. The Wooton’s have their own ranches with cattle and calves. “The cows are not all gentle. If they were gentle they would not be able to survive out there,” Benny Wooton said. Asked if there are any problems with rustlers, Benny Wooton said, “No, the state of
New Mexico has the strictest brand-laws in the nation. It would be harder to steal an animal in New Mexico than any other state. If you own cattle in New Mexico you have to own a brand and that brand has to be on those animals, it has to be on it long enough — it can’t be fresh. I can’t steal them from you today, put my brand on it tomorrow and sell them. It has to be peeled. I have to sell them in the registered brand of that name. Lots of states don’t have that kind of law. They only have to brand them, if you have possession of them you own them, but not in the state of New Mexico.” In the Chisum and Billy the Kid days a rancher had to protect his ownership with his cowboys. Today, the law takes care of that. The Historical Foundation for Southeast New Mexico invites the public to honor the Roswell Livestock Auction on March 24 during its annual Denim and Diamond event at the Roswell Convention and Civic Center, 912 N. Main St., from 6 to 10:30 p.m. The award-winning Yarbrough Band will provide the musical entertainment. Catering is provided by Peppers Grill & Bar. Tickets are $75 per person. For more information and for reservations, call Bonnie Montgomery at 575-9101303.
Christina Stock Photo From left: Jim Bignell, Lisa Jones and Jacob Determan. A curse is cast upon Bignell’s character in this scene.
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‘The Good Doctor’
The Roswell Community Little Theatre is bringing Neil Simon’s play to the stage. By Christina Stock Vision Editor he stage play “The Good Doctor” is written by American playwright, screenwriter and author Neil Simon and is based on several short stories by Russian author Anton Pavlovich Chekhov. Chekhov is considered among the greatest writers of short fiction in history. Simon has written more than 30 plays and nearly the same number of movie screenplays, mostly adaptations of his plays. He has received more combined Oscar and Tony nominations than any other writer. Adapting Chekhov’s short stories for the Broadway stage in 1973 gave Simon the chance to combine his clever wisecracks with the famous Chekhovian satire so well that critics could not tell where Chekov stops and Simon begins. Directing the play at the Roswell Community Little Theatre is veteran actor and director Jim Bignell. “When I worked on my drama minor we did several plays, I read several and
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did one by Chekhov,” Bignell said. “Chekhov is an interesting gentleman. He writes stories that take you almost to a solution and then he stops so you can bring your own solution to it. “I first saw this play at the Little Theater 20 years ago. In a way this is a reprise of what we have done before,” Bignell said. The original play is meant for one director and five actors. Bignell changed this up in adding two assistant directors who are in charge of four stories each. Kathy Cook is one of those assistant directors. She is known for being in charge of the music at RCLT. Cook recently accompanied RCLT’s performance of the musical “Annie.” “I had lots of directing experience in my past,” Cook said. “I think for me the challenge was just how the mechanics and things in this particular theater work.” Jeorgeanna Simoes is the other assistant director and known as
actress in many of the productions of RCLT. “I had helped Patti (Stacy) with ‘On Golden Pond,’” she said. “I too am learning a lot from Jim. I think my biggest challenge is that I have a tendency in life of being very assertive, but I want someone to go, ‘Yes that’s right.’ So I go to Jim and he says, ‘It’s your decision.’ “The hardest thing for me is to pick the costumes, because we are helping everyone with their hair and to give them ideas. Some of the people hadn’t acted very much,” Simoes said. Asked on how the directors picked their stories, Cook said that she chose the ones with music and Simoes the romantic stories. “I took what was left over,” Bignell said and laughed. “I took the simplest ones because this is a training place and these two ladies, once they finish this, then they will become, on my recommendation, full directors. So I wanted them to spread their wings. And when I sit out there and say, ‘No, you can’t do this or that and put those guys in the back seat and let them sit there,’ they never learn. That’s the teacher in me.” Donna Paul is playing the narrator throughout the play. She recently played Eleonore of Aquitaine in RCLT’s “Lion in Winter.” “It is a fun challenge to fit myself into each different scene, the arrangement, not just to stand there and narrate, but give some segue into the actual scene itself and and a segue back out,” Paul said. “I am not a talking head, I actually have some character as the narrator.” The play “The Good Doctor” is going to be a bare-stage production. “We’ll have some pieces on stage that give the impression of what’s going on,” Bignell said. “I did that for a couple of reasons. So many scenes are so different, we would drive ourselves nuts changing scenes, so we are doing bare-stage with set pieces. It will go much more rapidly. We leave the curtain open so the audience can see what we are doing. That is to pull the audience right onto the stage. They are part of the action.” Cast in the different roles are Jacob Determan, Rena Fierro, Steve Hernandez, Mindy Hicks, Don James, Lisa Jones, Melissa Jones, Ron Pozzi, Detroit Kalunki, Anissa Segura and Jimmy Fuller. Bignell’s wife Carol performs in the story “Too Late for Happiness” together with her husband.
Performances of “The Good Doctor” will be March 24-26 and March 31 - April 2 at RCLT, 1717 S. Union Ave., with evening showings on Friday and Saturday at 7:30 p.m. and Sunday matinees at 2 p.m. Tickets are $10 per person, group rates are $8. For more information, visit roswelltheatre.com or call 575-622-1982.
Christina Stock Photo Donna Paul as narrator of Roswell Community Little Theatre’s newest play “The Good Doctor.” Paul is introducing the army from the east and the navy from the west. A battle is to begin.
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Stephanie DeFranco Photo The Neverland Theatre cast of “Shrek The Musical” at rehearsals.
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Who needs a prince when you can have an ogre?
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everland Theatre Production brings “Shrek The Musical” to stage.
Based on the Oscar-winning DreamWorks Animation film, “Shrek, The Musical” is a Tony Award-winning fairy tale adventure, featuring all new songs from Jeanine
Tesori “Shrek The Musical” brings all the beloved characters you know from the film to life on stage and proves there’s more to the story than meets the ears.
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“Once upon a time, there was a little ogre named Shrek....” And thus begins the tale of an unlikely hero who finds himself on a life-changing journey alongside a wisecracking Donkey and a feisty princess who resists her rescue. Throw in a short-tempered bad guy, a cookie with an attitude and over a dozen other fairy tale misfits, and you’ve got the kind of mess that calls for a real hero. Luckily, there’s one on hand — and his name is Shrek. “Shrek The Musical” presents for Neverland Theatre Production a treasure trove of creative opportunities, including costumes, sets and puppets — there is a fire-breathing dragon after all. Irreverently fun for the whole family, “Shrek The Musical” proves that beauty is truly in the eye of the ogre. “Dallas Pollei pitched the show to the Neverland Theatre’s board of directors,” Mary McNally said. “It met our goal of sharing a large, family oriented musical for our inaugural show. Additionally, it was smart, funny and culturally relevant. It’s a large musical with a bit of an edge, which appealed to us and what we want to do as a company.” McNally is Neverland Theatre Company’s president and choreographer of its production of “Shrek The Musical.” “I started listening to it, it’s so smart and so funny, similar to the cartoon and even more so, it references other Broadway musicals, it references literature, so many things that go beyond just the cartoon,” McNally said. “I enjoyed that about it, also the music is just wonderful. Jenci Huebner is a board member of Neverland
Theatre Production and music director for “Shrek The Musical.” “Once I watched it (the Broadway version is on Netflix), it was really adorable and I liked the Disney movies of them,” Huebner said. “I think it’s got a sweet message, talking about that you don’t have to be the most beautiful princess to find true love. And the husband can be an ogre.” Neverland Theatre is known to present to its audience a professional, full Broadway production. This is also the case for “Shrek The Musical.” “I think this little town is very lucky,” Huebner said. “We have a lot of opportunities to see great things happen in the arts. It’s fun and exciting being a part of it. “We have been really lucky this time around to have Dena Cluff to accompany, She is accompanying our rehearsals. She can just do what I ask her to do. She has been wonderful,” Huebner said. The role of the feisty princess Fiona was cast with Abbi Roe. Roe has been in many performances including “The Little Mermaid” and as Dorothy in Roswell Community Little Theatre’s “The Wizard of Oz.” “I think I can connect to her (Fiona) more,” Roe said. “My personality is similar. On the outside I present myself nicely and on the inside I am crazy and weird just as she is. “I think because I have a connection with Fiona in my real life it comes naturally for me,” Roe said. Her favorite part is being able to tap dance. “I haven’t tapped in years and I am so excited to show everybody I can still tap,” she said with a laugh. “The audience has seen
me in quite a few musicals and I hope they come out because this is the last one,” Roe said. “I am graduating and moving on to bigger things. Come out, I got the lead and it will be good for our company, too. I will miss you guys. “I am going to West Texas A&M University,” Roe said. “I am still working on my audition tape to send in. Hopefully I will be in a musical program there and the alumni will help me to get out into the real world.” Zach Anderson was cast as Shrek. “It is a different kind of fairy tale,” he said. “I am loving it. I have never wanted a part as much as this one. I was so happy when I got it. I worked for months before the audition to get the voice and the songs – I couldn’t be happier. “ I have to hand it to Dallas. He is kind of stretching me in ways that I haven’t advanced before. He is working with me and Donkey (played by Juan Hernandez), Farquaad (played by Will Atkinson) and Fiona about really moving with purpose and finding the dynamics in the performance so it’s not just one note all the time. “I think the story is so emotional,” Anderson said. “The first time I heard ‘Who I Be’ I was weeping, because I really identify with it. The aspiration to be something more, something greater. It took me maybe five or six times so I wouldn’t cry. Now I am really internalizing it and project it all out. I expect that there will be no dry eye in that audience when I sing that song. “Bring your tissues for the poor Ogre. Just that song I am singing right there, confessing his love for Fiona. I still get see
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Calendar Ongoing Events Roswell Every first Wednesday of the month Pecos Valley Quilting Guild business meeting The meeting is at 10 a.m. at the Roswell Adult Center in room #22. For more information, call Sue Carter 575-624-1854. Roswell Every first Thursday of the month Meeting of the Sand Diver Scuba Club Meeting is at 6:30 p.m. The location changes. For details, call the Scuba Shop at 575-973-8773 or visit scubashoproswell.com. Roswell Every first Friday of the month Pecos Valley Steam Society social Everybody is invited. No dress code. The meeting is usually at Stellar Coffee Co., 315 N Main St. at 6 p.m. For more information, follow them on Facebook. Roswell Every first Friday of the month Downtown market at Reischman Park The volunteer-driven, notfor-profit event is sponsored by MainStreet Roswell among others. The goal is to introduce Roswell residents to all downtown Roswell has to offer. The event will take place from 5 to 8 p.m. For more information, visit mainstreetroswell.org. Roswell Every third Tuesday of the month Sgt. Moses D. Rocha Marine Corps League Detachment 1287 meeting Marine Corps League Meeting at 1506 E. 19th St. at 7 p.m. For more information, call 575-347-1625.
Roswell Every Wednesday — all season Men’s senior golf tournament The tournament takes place in the morning for Spring River men’s senior golf at the Spring River Golf Course. Call the golf course at 575-622-9506 for additional information. Roswell Every second Wednesday of the month Roswell Woman’s Club meeting The Roswell Woman’s Club meets at Los Cerritos Restaurant, 2103 N. Main St. at noon. For more information about the club, “like” their new Facebook page or call Rhonda Borque Johnson at 505-917-1292. Roswell Every Week, Mon 8 ball pool league Roswell Ball Busters is Roswell’s own local BCA sanctioned 8 ball pool league. They play every Monday night at 7 p.m. Venues are Farley’s Food, Fun and Pub, The Variety, Fraternal Order of Eagles and Center City Bowling Alley. For more information, call 575-650-2591 or email ballbusters@outlook.com. Roswell Every Week, Mon - Sat ‘Lest We Forget: Roswell Army Airfield - The Early Years’ and ‘Peace Through Strength’ This Walker Aviation Museum exhibit features a short history of the base and many items from the WWII era, as well as information about the planes that flew at Roswell Army Airfield from 1941-1945 and a tribute to the 579th Strategic Missile Squadron assigned to WAFB during the early ‘60s. For more information, call 347-2464 or visit wafbmuseum.org.
Roswell Every Week, Wed Weekly knockout The Roswell Fighting Game Community presents their weekly knockout at The Unity Center located at 108 E. Bland St. every Wednesday from 7 p.m. - midnight. All games are welcome. For more information, visit facebook. com/RoswellFGC. Roswell Every Week, Thu T-Tones at El Toro Bravo The T-Tones play at El Toro Bravo, 102 S. Main St., from 6 - 8 p.m. For more information, call El Toro Bravo at 622-9280. Roswell Every Week, Thu Bingo at the Elks Lodge Doors open at 5 p.m. for dinner service. Games start at 6:30 p.m. Open for the public. 1720 N. Montana Ave. 575-622-1560. Roswell Every Week - Thu Dart tournament at the Fraternal Order of the Eagles Open for the public. 3201 S. Sunset Boulevard. For more information, call Mike and Donna Ramey at 575-910-5895 or Leigh Humble at 575-627-7350 or visit roswelldarts.com or email roswelldarts@ roswelldarts.com. Roswell Every Week, Thu, Sat Live music at Cattleman’s Kountry Kitchen Tom Blake performs at Cattleman’s Kountry Kitchen, 2010 S. Main St., 575-208-0543. Roswell Every Week, Fri Tina at El Toro Bravo Tina Williams performs at El Toro Bravo at 102 S. Main St. from 6 - 8 p.m. For more information, call El Toro Bravo at 622-9280.
Roswell Ongoing until June 18, 2017 ‘Duty, Honor, Art: The New Mexico Military Institute Collection’ While the New Mexico Military Institute has a long history of engaging the Roswell Museum and its holdings, NMMI also has its own significant collection of art and historical objects, including paintings, prints, and sculpture. In recognition of NMMI’s 125th anniversary, this exhibit will showcase the school’s art collection, and highlight the Institute’s interaction with the Roswell Museum. The exhibit is at the Hunter Gallery of the Roswell Museum and Art Center, 100 W. 11th St. Roswell Ongoing throughout the year Art classes at The Gallery at Main Street Arts The Gallery at Main Street Arts, 223 N. Main St., is offering various classes and activities throughout the month. Every Friday is Barbara Posuniak watercolor class for $25. For more information, call 575-625-5263 or 575-6233213. Artesia Every week in March, Thu Craft Nights The Artesia Historical Museum and the Artesia Public Library are teaming up for a series of themed craft workshops for the month of March, to tie in with the Museum‘s “Vintage Wedding Dresses” exhibit. All workshops are free to the public, with all materials provided. The museum is located 505 W. Richardson Ave. For more information, call 575-748-2390. Hobbs Ongoing until March 18 New Mexico Junior College Art Faculty exhibition and student art show The show takes place at the Center for the Arts, 122 W. Broadway St., at 7:00
p.m. For more information, visit leacountyevents.com or call 575-391-2900. Roswell Ongoing until March 18 Chaves County Senior Olympics local games registration The registration starts for Chaves County Senior Olympics at the Roswell Adult & Recreation Center, 807 N. Missouri Ave. $10 per person. The games take place from March 21 until May 14. For more information, call Sara Hall at 575-624-6719. Roswell Ongoing until April 29 Bowl for Kids Sake/ Chaves County Zombie Bowl Team registration is now open for the annual Big Brothers Big Sisters of Southeastern New Mexico Bowl for Kids Sake event. Teams are asked to raise a minimum of $500 per team. Bowling and pizza are free for participants. This event will have for
the first time a costume contest. To sign up a team, become a sponsor, or donate door prizes, visit bbbssenm.org or call 575627-2227. Artesia March 16-April 1 Recycled Art Show This year the Recycled Art Show will be displayed at the Artesia Public Library, 205 W. Quay Ave. Artists interested in entering can pick up applications from Artesia Clean and Beautiful, 422 W. Main St., Artesia City Hall, 511 W. Texas Ave., or any of the public schools. For more information, call 575-748-3192. Santa Fe March 17-18 The Magic Flute The New Mexico School for the Arts Music Department presents Mozart’s “The Magic Flute” at the Santa Fe Scottish Rite, 463 Pasea de Peralta
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Good Doct e or By Neil Simon Th March 24, 25, 26 & March 31 with April 1, 2 1717 South Union, Roswell, New Mexico directed by Jim Bignell Produced by arrangement with Samuel French
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as she rarely listens to contemporary music and grew up in a kind of time warp in the forests of Ontario in Canada. “It’s my second tour and the first that brings me to the Southwest,” Clyde said in a phone interview. “I have been influenced by music from the 1920s to the ‘40s.” Clyde is the first in her family showing extraordinary talent for music. “I will bring vinyls with my debut album single which includes ‘Like A Wave’ and ‘Mama Said.’” Clyde’s “Mama Said” starts off with a twangy slide guitar, a drum and an acoustic rhythm guitar that doesn’t seem vintage, until she starts singing. The indie singer-songwriter takes you out of the modern times with her refreshing, clear, silky vocal and throwback blues style. Her music is meant to be played loud on a sunny day with the windows open. Clyde fits into a dark blues bar or out on a beach playing her songs to the flames of a roaring campfire. Her message is that of youth and rebellion. Tucked into her music are vibrant melodies and rhymes that are smart and Submitted Photo of Cat Clyde engaging. Clyde is going to open for the band Susto. Music Susto is a progressive southern americana band born out of Charleston, South Carolina. The five-person group, which has worked alongside such notable names as Band of Horses and Iron+Wine, blends alterOntario’s Cat Clyde opens native americana and indie southern rock to produce a unique, engaging sound that for Susto. has garnered international attention and a wide fan base. Some of Susto’s biggest hits By Christina Stock Vision Editor include “Friends, Lovers, Ex-Lovers: Whatntario’s Cat Clyde is going to open ever,” “Dream Girl,” and “County Line” from for the band Susto at Pecos Fla- their debut, self-titled album. vors Winery + Bistro. The concert takes place on April 14 at Clyde, a brand new artist out of Stratford, 7 p.m. at Pecos Flavors Winery + Bistro, Ontario, has a fresh take on the classic 412 W. Second St. Tickets are $10 and are sounds of yesteryear; breathing new life into available by calling 575-627-6265. the velvety vocal, tack piano, slide guitar style that can instantly walk you through the swinging doors of a packed saloon. With influences ranging from Etta James to Janis Joplin to Lead Belly; hers is a mix that goes down smoother than a neat glass of mellow Kentucky bourbon, which makes sense
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his year the Roswell Film Festival will take place April 26-30 at the Galaxy 8 movie at the Roswell Mall. The new poster design has been created by local artist Logan Pack, who has been commissioned as artist for the event. Filmmakers from around the world had time to submit their movies from July 1 thru Nov. 16 last year. According to the organizer, Donovan Fulkerson, the movies submitted are from almost every genre possible. The film schedule is available online. The event kicks off with a special screening, which requires a separate ticket, limited to the first 70 ticketholders. A portion of the proceeds go to Royal Family Kids Camp of Roswell, a summer camp for foster children started by filmmaker Jacob Roebuck, whose film, “Camp,” helped get this local camp started. For more information on how to be a sponsor or volunteer for the event, visit roswellfilmfestival. com. More details about the Roswell Film Festival 2017 will be in the next edition of the Vision Magazine, April 20.
Billy Bob Thornton and the Bandmasters.
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Billy Bob Thornton and the Boxmasters in concert.
By Christina Stock Vision Editor illy Bob Thornton and the Boxmasters to perform at The Liberty, Inc. Billy Bob Thornton — credited on the band’s material as W. R. Thornton — has said that he had never intended to become a movie star, it happened accidentally. Before his acting career started, he played in cover bands for Creedence Clearwater Revival, ZZ Top, and also worked as a roadie with Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, Johnny Paycheck, Blood, Sweat & Tears, the Statler Brothers, and other bands during high school. Thornton also released a record with a band called ‘Hot Lanta’ in 1974. The award-winning actor and director just recently received his second Golden Globe award for his role in the TV show “Goliath.” In 2007, J.D. Andrew and Thornton started a project that mixed early ‘60s hillbilly music and the British invasion and called the band “The Boxmasters.” Ten years later, Andrew, Thornton and Teddy Andreadis have released seven albums, toured across the U.S. and Canada multiple times, and are preparing to cross the country again for the “Tea Surfing Tour.” 2016 proved to be a productive year for The Boxmasters. “Boys And Girls… And The World” was released in August, followed closely by “Tea Surfing” in late November. The 21 songs showcase the band’s love of English mod bands and bands from Southern California in the ‘60s. The “Tea Surfing Tour” starts in Southern California on April 4 at the Belly Up Tavern in Solano Beach and runs through May 9 in Palmer Lake, Colorado. Highlight stops include The Washington Correspondent’s Jam in Washington
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D.C., The Exit Inn in Nashville, Tennessee, The Douglass Theater in Macon, Georgia and band favorite The Merrimack Hall in Huntsville, Alabama. There, the band donates the proceeds from the concert to programs at Merrimack Hall that benefit special needs children and adults. The band’s concert at the Liberty Club in Roswell is their only concert in New Mexico. In a phone interview with Vision Magazine, Thornton talked about the new tour and record. “We approached making this record with a mindset that we are actually a band in 1966 and wrote the songs accordingly,” Thornton said. “The name ‘Tea Surfing’ came actually from my 12-year-old daughter, Bella. She is very good with titles. She’s titled a couple of our songs. I asked her, ‘What’s a word from England and a word from southern California that you put together as an album title because the album is influenced by British mod of the ‘60s and California music of the ‘60s?’ She said ‘Tea surfing’ immediately. It was brilliant.” Andrew said that the band will perform for its Roswell audience a selection of the new record and from the last several years. Listening to the music you can’t stay still. The music does channel the American surfer music of the ‘60s that makes you want to crank up the volume and roll down the window heading down the highway. That is, until you listen to the words. “Even with songs that are about heavy subjects we always tried to be a little clever about them,” Thornton said. “Some songs we just make into totally humorous songs but not generally — we try to disguise it a bit. For instance, there is one song that is called ‘One Foggy Day And Or Night.’ It was a parody of the songs of the British psychedelia art rock of meeting each other. The words just seem to be gibberish, it is always about really English stuff like fairies, bushes, you know that kind of stuff,” he said with a laugh. “Some songs are simple in terms of lyrics,” Thornton said. “We just wanted to make some of those pop songs like they existed in ‘66. We have everything from complex songs lyrically to very, very simple pop songs. Our sense of humor and music came from the fact that John Lennon always liked to make a twist on words. He was very darkly humorous in many songs and things like that, like Frank Zappa.” While the band has performed several times in New Mexico, such as Las Vegas, Santa Fe and Taos, this will be its first time performing in Roswell. “We are just happy to be coming there because it is always fun to play a new place,” Thornton said. “We like it in New Mexico because of the magical environment there. It is a very creative place, so we always look forward to coming there. It has a certain kind of mysticism and that is something we all respond to.” Andrew has never performed in Roswell either but has been here before. “Every time I drive through New Mexico, and I do it a couple of times a year, I always think if I ever move somewhere out of California that I want to move somewhere there,” he said. “It is a special place, driving through it, to stop and hang out for a little bit. “One thing we like to tell everybody for our shows, everybody is a VIP not just the general public. We look forward to coming,” Andrew said. After 10 years, The Boxmasters show no signs of slowing down, and are actually more productive than ever. A new album is almost completed which should be available in the fall of 2017. Billy Bob Thornton and the Boxmasters will perform on April 13 at The Liberty Club, 312 N. Virginia Ave., at 6 p.m. This is for members of The Liberty Club and their invited guests only. Tickets start at $39.33 and are now on sale at thelibertyinc.com.
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on both days at 7 p.m. For more information and for ticket reservations, visit nmschoolforthearts.org. Tickets are also available at the door for each performance. Roswell March 17-19, 24-26 ‘The Music Man’ Tickets are now available for Way Way Off Broadway’s production of “The Music Man.” The performance of the iconic musical will be at the Eastern New Mexico University-Roswell Performing Arts Center on Fridays and Saturdays at 7:30 p.m. and Sundays at 2:30 p.m. For more information, visit waywayoffbroadway.com. Lovington March 17 Lea County Centennial Celebration Lea County celebrates throughout march its centennial anniversary. The courthouse celebration starts at 8:30 a.m. from Tatum to the Lovington Lea County Courthouse, south entrance on Central Street. The Street will be blocked off between Main and Love Streets for the celebration. At 4 p.m. the Pony Express riders arrive, followed with a proclamation ready by Lea County Board of County Commissioners. At 5 p.m. the Lea County Museum hosts the Pony Express with refreshments in the town hall with music provided by the Flying J Wranglers. The concert is free. For more information about the event an others during March, visit Leacounty.net. Ruidoso/Mescalero March 17 Daughtry in concert The band Daughtry performs at the Inn of the Mountain Gods, 287 Carrizozo Canyon Rd. at 8 p.m. Tickets start at $35. For more information, vis-
it innofthemountaingods. com or call 1-800-5459011. Hobbs March 18 Free women’s history month tea High tea and hat parade. Admission is free at the Western Heritage Museum & Lea County Cowboy Hall of Fame, 1 Thunderbird Cir., at New Mexico Junior College. For more information, call 575-4922781. Roswell March 18 Saturday night dance The Roswell Adult & Recreation Center, 807 N. Missouri Ave., is having their Saturday night dance at 6 p.m. $5 per person at the door. For more information, call 575-624-6718. Ruidoso/Alto March 18 The Irish band Altan in concert The gold and platinum recording Irish band Altan is performing at the Spencer Theater, 108 Spencer Road. No traditional Irish band has had a larger impact on the world that Altan. These Irish virtuosos weave harmony and counterpoint into their hard-hitting reels and jigs on guitar, fiddles, accordion, tin whistles and even bouzouki with a genuine love audiences adore. It’ll be like a night at a warm and boisterous Irish pub. Tickets start at $39. For more information or tickets, visit spencertheater. com or call 575-336-4800. Ruidoso/Mescalero March 18 Glam metal Glam metal stars Dokken and Lita Ford perform at 8 p.m. at the Inn of the Mountain Gods, 287 Carrizozo Canyon Rd. Dokken officially formed in 1983 at the onset of what would become known as the glam metal movement. For tickets and more information, visit innofthemoun-
taingods.com. White Oaks March 18 Live music Tanner Huston performs at the No Scum Allowed Saloon, 933 White Oaks Rd. at 7 p.m. Huston is an americana/folk musician out of Las Cruces. For more information, call 575-648-5583 or visit its Facebook page. Alamogordo March 19 Bataan Memorial Death March Tickets are now available for the Bataan Memorial Death March that takes place annually at the White Sands Missile Range. For more information or to volunteer, visit bataanmarch.com. Hobbs March 19 New Mexico Junior College Community Band performs ‘An Afternoon of American Jazz’ Admission for “An Afternoon of American Jazz” is free for all students and children. Cost for adults is $5 and $3 for seniors. The performance takes place at Watson Hall, 1 Thunderbird Cir., at New Mexico Junior College. For more information, call 575-4922781. Roswell March 20 Intermediate bead weaving class Tokay Beaded Art are hosting an intermediate bead weaving class. Participants will create a small tapestry to be framed or be worn as a patch. the class is 10 weeks long and two hours each week. Cost is $40 plus kit. Tokay Beaded Art is located 1407 W. Second St. For more information or reservations, call 575-6269809.
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Roswell March 23 Paint party with Peggy Krantz Artist Peggy Krantz of The Gallery is having a paint party with a modern spring painting as a motive at 6:30 p.m. at Pecos Flavors Winery + Bistro, 412 W. Second St. Reservations are required. For more information or to sign up, call 575-627-6265. Roswell March 24 Denim and Diamonds The Historical Foundation for Southeast New Mexico honors Roswell Livestock Auction. The event will be held at the Roswell Convention and Civic Center, 912 N. Main St., from 6 to 10:30 p.m. Food will be catered by Peppers Grill and Bar. Music is provided by the award-winning Yarbrough Band. Tickets are $75 per person and reservations are required. For more information, contact Bonnie Montgomery at 575-910-1303. Hobbs March 25 Talent show auditions The 2017 Hobbs Downtown Slam & Jam Talent Show auditions are hosted by the Center for the Arts at the Teen Center, 620 W. Alto Dr. An invitation is now extended to all bands, musicians, dancers, poets, comedians and anyone with a special talent to audition from 2 to 4 p.m. The official talent show will take place on Saturday, April 22 on an outdoor stage between Dalmont and McKinley on Broadway Street in Hobbs during the Hobbs Downtown Slam & Jam (originally known as the Gus Macker tournament). The event will be free and open to the public. Selected performers will receive the opportunity to compete for both cash prizes and special gifts. Winners will also be presented with trophies live on stage at the conclusion of the judg-
ing. For more information about the talent show or to reserve an audition spot, call the Lea County Center for the Arts at 575-397ARTS. Roswell March 25 Live music Colton Clarkson with Daniel Aguel perform at Stellar Coffee Co., 315 N. Main St. at 7 p.m. Cover is $7. For more information, call 575-623-3711. Roswell March 26 Kirill Gliadkovsky in concert Piano virtuoso Kirill Gliadkovsky performs free of charge at 3 p.m. at the Anderson Museum of Contemporary Art, 409 E. College Blvd. The concert is part of Music at AMoCA celebrating spring. For more information, visit roswellamoca.org or call 575-623-5600. Roswell March 27-31 Spring break camp The Roswell Recreation Division is presenting Spring break camp 2017. It will be located at the Roswell Adult and Recreation Center, 807 N. Missouri Ave. The camp is open to school-age children 6-12 years of age. There will be supervised games, sports and craft opportunities. Cost is $12 per day or $60 per week. The program runs daily from 7:30 a.m.-5:30 p.m. For more information, contact the Roswell Adult & Recreation Center by calling 575-624-6719. Artesia March 28 ‘The Grapes Of Wrath’ National Players are bringing the famous play “The Grapes Of Wrath” to the stage of the Ocotillo Performing Art Center, 310 W. Main St. at 6 p.m. Tickets are $20 for adultsand $10 for children. The theater play is part of “The Grapes Of Wrath” March
events that are sponsored by the Artesia Arts Council, Artesia Public Library, Artesia Historical and Art Museum and Cottonwood Wine and Brewing. For more information and events, call 575-746-4212. Roswell March 31 Paint party Join artist Peggy Krantz for her modern spring painting paint party at The Gallery at Main Street Arts, 233 N. Main St. at 6 p.m. To sign up or for more information, call 575-625-5263. Lovington March 31-April 1 Lea County Centennial Ranch Rodeo Rodeo competitors can enter by March 20 for the Lea County Centennial Ranch Rodeo, Lea County Fair Grounds, 101 S. Commercial St. $1,000 entry fee. All prizes contingent on 20 teams. There will be sorting, doctoring, stray, gathering, branding and wild cow milking categories. Team roping and stray gathering will be during the day on Saturday. First place wins $10,000. For more information, visit leacounty.net or call Trey Kerby at 575441-6991 or 575-396-86. Ruidoso/Alto April 1 The Gentlemen Trio Gentri in concert The Gentlemen Trio Gentri perform at the Spencer Theater, 108 Spencer Road. These debonair vocalists, Broadway and regional leads in performances such as “Les Miserables,” “Beauty and the Beast,” blend their superb tenor vocals into a signature sound called cinematic pop, classical pop crossover. Their immediate success as a trio and original song “Dare” has placed them on the top 10 Billboard charts with their dynamic three-part harmony with epic arrangements. Tickets start at $39.
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For more information or tickets, visit spencertheater.com or call 575-3364800. Roswell April 4 Roswell Ladies Newcomers Club The Roswell Ladies Newcomers Club will meet for lunch and cards at noon at the Elks Lodge, 1720 N. Montana Ave. Reservations must be called in by March 31. Longtime Roswell residents are welcome to attend and join the club. For more information, call Nancy Kilgore at 575-622-2041. Roswell April 7 That 70s Dance The Roswell Refuge presents “That 70s Dance” at the Roswell Convention and Civic Center, 912 N. Main St. from 6 to 10 p.m. Dinner is provided by Bandland’s Barbecue. There will be a silent auction, costume contest and dance lessons. Live music is by the band Retrofit. All profits will benefit the Roswell Refuge. Tickets are $25 per person or $150 for a table that seats eight people. For more information and reservations, or to become a sponsor or donate an auction item, contact Kelly Smith at 505577-4867 or at roswellrefuge.org or by calling the Refuge Office at 575-6243222. Ruidoso/Mescalero April 7 38 Special in concert A rockin’ year continues at Inn of the Mountain Gods, 287 Carrizozo Canyon Rd., with a performance at 7 p.m. from ‘80s rock mega-stars 38 Special. Turn on any rock station throughout the ‘80s and you’d be guaranteed to hear one of the southern-rock influenced band’s 23 hit singles. Their ‘81 breakthrough
hit “Hold On Loosely” is a multi-generational hit that climbed to no. 3 on the billboard mainstream rock charts and was featured in the 2004 comedy “Without a Paddle.” 38 Special is no one-hit wonder, producing no.1 hits such as “Caught Up in You,” “If I’d Been the One” and “Second Chance.” The band has managed to stay relevant with younger audiences, even filming a CMT Crossroads special with country star Trace Adkins, where the two performed each other’s hits. Tickets for 38 Special’s performance start at $25. For tickets or information, visit innofthemountaingods.com or call 1-800-545-9011. Roswell April 7-8 Auditions for Disney’s “Beauty and the Beast” Way Way Off-Broadway Theatre Company will be holding auditions for their 2017 Summer production of Disney’s “Beauty and the Beast.” Auditions will be held at the Eastern New Mexico University-Roswell Performing Arts Center on April 7 from 7 to 9 p.m. and April 8 from 4 to 7 p.m. Interested parties should bring a song prepared of their choice with a CD or USB accompaniment track to sing along to, sing accapella or choose a song that will be provided at the auditions. For more information, visit waywayoffbroadway.com. Roswell April 8 Walk for Autism The annual Walk for Autism takes place at the Spring River Park & Zoo, noon - 5 p.m. There will be fun activities, bouncy houses, live music, a resource fair and vendors. Register online at raceonline.com. for more information, email kristasmith@nmautismsociety.org.
ance on The Garth Brooks World Tour. There will be no sales at the venue box office or Ticketmaster outlets on Feb. 17, only online at ticketmaster.com/ garthbrooks or call 1-866448-7849 or 1-800-7453000.
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Roswell April 9 Sunday Funday The Historical Society for Southeast New Mexico is sponsoring Sunday Funday featuring the unveiling of the new 20 minute video of Roswell in the White House theater room at 3 p.m. at the Historical Society Museum, Second floor, 200 N. Lea Ave. For more information, call 575-622-8333.
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Piano virtuoso Kirill Gliadkovsky performs free of charge at 3 p.m. at the Anderson Museum of Contemporary Art, 409 E. College Blvd. in Roswell. The concert is part of Music at AMoCA celebrating spring. Since making his first public appearance at the age of 6, Gliadkovsky has toured extensively on three continents performing piano and organ recitals and as a soloist with orchestras in various cities in Russia, including Moscow’s prestigious Bolshoi, Maliy and Rachmaninoff Halls, St.-Petersburg Philharmonic’s Glinka Hall, as well as in Italy, U.K., Poland, Mongolia, Canada, Japan and throughout the United States. Gliadkovsky is an orchestra and choral conductor. He performs on harpsichord, as well. He is a part of 4Gs family piano team with his wife - a concert pianist Anna Gliadkovskaya - and their daughters Anastasia and Sophia. He also served as the music director and organist at Westwood Hills Christian Church in Los Angeles for 10 years. Gliadkovsky combines his busy concert schedule with teaching at Saddleback College as the Director of Keyboard Studies. For more information, visit roswellamoca.org or call 575-623-5600. Roswell April 8 Live music Nova Rush, Malu Movement, Matt Palmer and William Kapfer perform at Stellar Coffee Co., 315 N. Main St. at 7 p.m. Cover is $5. For more information, call 575-623-3711.
Las Cruces April 8 Garth Brooks in concert Tickets go on sale for the Garth Brooks World Tour on Feb. 17, 10 a.m. sharp. There is an eight ticket limit. The concert features also Trisha Yearwood and takes place at the Pan American Center in Las Cruces. This will be the only New Mexico appear-
Ruidoso/Alto April 11 ‘Greater Tuna’ the ‘Greater Tuna’ comes to stage of the Spencer Theater, 108 Spencer Road. This multi-act spoof on small town Texas life features three actors, 20 characters and 20 million laughs. Timeless skits with unforgettable characters. Directed at the Spencer by Tuna original Jaston Williams, the comedy’s co-creator and award-winning co-star. Tickets start at $39. For more information or tickets, visit spencertheater.com or call 575-336-4800. Roswell April 13 Billy Bob Thornton and the Boxmasters in concert Billy Bob Thornton and the Boxmasters will perform at The Liberty Club, 312 N. Virginia Ave., at 6 p.m. This is for members of The Liberty Club and their invited guests only. Tickets start at $39.33 and are now on sale at thelibertyinc. com. Roswell April 14 Fourteenth annual golf tournament of Eastern New Mexico Universi-
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ty-Roswell Foundation Eastern New Mexico-University Foundation holds its 14th annual golf tournament at the New Mexico Military Institute’s Golf Course, . Tee time is at 8 a.m. The cost for the four person team scramble tournament is $75 per player or $300 per team. To sign up a team or become a sponsor, call Craig Collins at 575-624-7304 or email craig.collins@roswell.enmu.edu. Roswell April 15 Easter Bunny Train at Spring River Park and Zoo Roswell’s Easter bunny along with his friends are getting ready for the Easter train scheduled at Spring River Park and Zoo. The event will cost $3 a person and children two years old and under get in free of charge.The rides start at 10 a.m. and last until 2 p.m. For more information, contact the Roswell Adult and Recreation Center at 575-624-6719 or message the Roswell Adult and Recreation Center on Facebook. Roswell April 21-22 Jesse Andrus & Mike Hillman Memorial Pro Rodeo Gates open at 6 p.m. and performances start at 7:30 p.m. on Friday and Saturday at the Eastern New Mexico State Fairgrounds. Tickets are available at Roswell Livestock and Farm Supply, the Roswell Chamber of Commerce or at the gate each night. Tickets are $15 for adults and $10 for children, age 6 to 12 years and are now available online at jesseandmikememorial.com. If you would like your event listed on the entertainment calendar, please email vision@rdrnews. com or call 622-7710 ext. 309.
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“Zombie Bowl” aims to raise funds for mentorship. By Christina Stock Vision Editor eams and sponsors are sought to support Bowl for Kids’ Sake, the primary fundraiser for Big Brothers Big Sisters of Southeastern New Mexico. At BBBSENM, adult mentors are referred to as “bigs,” while the children in the program are called “littles.” BBBSENM has operated for the past 20 years on the proven premise that if a caring adult mentors a child, the child’s life will vastly improve. BBBSENM enrollment and match support specialist, Natalie Peréz, said, “One of our community based matches is an older teenage girl; she’s in high school. She is a sophomore now, paired with a legal assistant. The progress that they made as ‘big’ and ‘little’ is really significant in that the little has overcome a move with her father; having a significant person leave, all the while the big is there to support her. They have done fun things, as going to Alamogordo to go study astronomy. Right now they are working on biology because the little is struggling in biology so they’re doing that to get her grades up. They do a lot of arts and crafts together. They’ve done the crayon melting, they’ve done string art, they’ve done a lot. That stable support in littles life throughout the changes in little’s
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life last year has really helped her in doing better at school. I know that big has mentioned that little was not the greatest dealing with her school peers. It is nice that she has somebody to talk to.” BBBSENM chief executive officer Bill Wolf said, “There have been studies that show that kids who are in our program for years versus kids that aren’t mentored, that those kids are more likely to succeed in school, are less likely to use drugs and alcohol. What I think is most important, is that they get along better with their families and their peers. We are serving the kids but also helping the families.” The need for big brothers has been higher than for the big sisters and more big sisters are also needed. After the little and big brother/sisters are matched they get follow-up support by phone or at the office. “We want to make sure that the match strength is good when we make it,” Wolf said. “That’s the reason why everybody who works here has at least a bachelor’s degree. Most of them are in social work or psychology. They have to determine which little is going to be best fit for this big and which big is best for the little. It is an extensive program, it is about a two-hour process for all the people, the big, the little ones and the parents. According to Wolf, last year’s Bowl for Kids’ Sake event was the biggest and best one the organization ever had. “We had about 72 teams,” Wolf said. “We pretty much filled up the bowling alley with three sessions. “Some of those teams were the littles and the bigs bowling,” Wolf said. According to Wolf BBBSENM received $50,000 gross last year. “It sounds like a lot but it’s not,” Wolf said. “We have expenses, like the bowling alley; we had to pay for the T-shirts. We don’t get the bowling alley for free but they give us a party rate. “Everything else, all the prizes we give away are donated and pizzas we give away are donated. We try to keep our cost to the minimum. We want as much money as possible going back to the kids.” Wolf is concerned about funds that have been cut and the gas and oil industry being down. “Well, what’s happened is with the oil and gas, we’ve been cut almost 20 percent in one year’s time,” he said. “The other agencies like BBBS in Santa Fe and in Albuquerque, they don’t face the fact that we’re down here with the people who were trying to make a living in the oil and gas industry and they just had to cut back, so the giving has shrunk. Wolf thinks that there will be more cuts and challenges ahead. “That is why this particular year it is important to have a successful Bowl for Kids’ Sake. I know some more will be cut because we are looking at our budget for the next fiscal year and it’s already been cut,” Wolf said. “We have a lot of loyal people who help us out through thick and thin and I appreciate them,” Wolf said. Fitting to the popular TV show “The Walking Dead,” this year’s Bowl for Kid’s Sake is called Zombie Bowl, which will include also a costume contest.
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There are three ways to get involved and support Bowl for Kids’ Sake. People can get together with four other people and form a bowling team. “We ask each team to raise $500 as a minimum,” Wolf said. “We have a lot of teams that raise considerably more than that.” Businesses can act as a sponsor with different levels of sponsorships to choose from. The third way is to donate a prize as a noncash donation for door prizes. Cash donations are also welcome and are tax deductible. This year’s event will take place at Center City Lanes, 3905 SE Main St. To sign up or get more information, email info@bbbssenm.org or call 575627-2227.
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Continued from Page 6 chocked up. It affects me. I think the mature audience will definitely appreciate the music, the dancing. I don’t do a lot of dancing but the fairy tale creatures are killing it,” Anderson said. “It gots lots and lots of heart.” Hernandez plays Donkey. “I was born and bred here, went to school in Dexter,” he said. “I’m a small town boy. I actually attended college at ENMU-R and I took one of Dallas Pollei’s classes, that’s where we got introduced. I took one of his theater and humanities classes and we became pretty good friends. He tried to rope me in for a while until finally he got me.” This is going to be Hernandez’s first role on stage. “I think the biggest challenge so far is at first was finding my character,” he said. “You see the movie, the cartoon and everything but when you try it yourself, it is a whole other ball game. I make it my own, unique. I rely heavily on the animated donkey — you can hear it in my voice, that’s where I draw that aspect of it, and the physical attributes from the Broadway show. I try to mix it both. “So far it has been a great experience. Neverland has been great so far, the cast has been good.” Hernandez is studying psychology at ENMU-R with plans of becoming a therapist or a school councilor. “I do love kids,” he said. The youngest and smallest member of the cast is Avery Lawless, who is playing a baby bear. “Well, I get to give Shrek a flower because I am not afraid of him,” the bubbly little girl said. Asked how come she is so professional even though it is her first performance, she is quick to respond, “Well, I’ve been in the newspaper like eight times. The first time I was going to the splash pad for the opening and I got into the newspaper then, and I won a coloring contest.” Avery is planning to become an actress. “I told my nana and she’s like, ‘In New York City lights, there is going to be Avery’s name on there,’” she said. “Shrek The Musical” will be performing at the Pearson Auditorium, located on the New Mexico Military Institute Campus, from April 20 to 23 with evening performances Thursday through Saturday at 7:30 p.m. and a matinee on Sunday at 2 p.m. Tickets are $20 and available at neverlandtheatrecompany.com or eventbrite.com. For all other information, subscribe to Neverland’s newsfeed on social media.
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A musical as American as apple pie: ‘The Music Man’
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ay Way Off Broadway brings one of the most colorful classic American musicals to stage, “The Music Man.” There’s trouble in the small town of River City when a fast-talking salesman gets his heart stolen by the town librarian. “The Music Man” is based on the book, music and lyrics of Meredith Wilson. The family friendly musical from the golden age of Broadway invites the audience into a smalltown in rural America, where colorful citizens frolic, love and live. It plays in a time of innocence, around 1912, and is based on Wilson’s observances of citizens of his own hometown, Mason City,
Iowa. Wilson was a member of John Philip Sousa’s marching band and the New York Philharmonic Orchestra under Arturo Toscanini. By turns wicked, funny, warm, romantic and touching, “The Music Man” has been entertaining families since 1957. The musical has won six Tony Awards. The show’s success led to revivals, including a long-running Broadway revival that won the 2000 Theatre World Award, a popular 1962 film adaptation and a 2003 television adaptation. It is frequently produced by both professional and amateur theater companies throughout the world. WWOB follows the original full Broadway production, with a tip of the hat to Roswell.
“The Music Man” follows fast-talking traveling salesman Harold Hill as he cons the people of River City, Iowa, into buying instruments and uniforms for a boys’ band that he vows to organize — this, despite the fact that Hill doesn’t know a trombone from a treble clef. Hill plans to skip town with the cash are foiled when he falls for Marian, the librarian, who transforms him into a respectable citizen by curtain’s fall. “The Music Man” is directed by well-known actor, singer, dancer and author, Kyle Bullock. He was recently on stage as Bert in the musical “Mary Poppins.” This is Bullock’s first time as director. “The Music Man” has a deep meaning because of Bullock’s own person-
al love story. “The first time I did “Music Man” was with my wife (Devon Bullock) four years ago, Bullock said. “We were dating at the time and were engaged afterwards. We did the show and it was special to us, because we were the leads in that show. There is kind of a genuine love connection. With a laugh, Devon Bulluck said, “We didn’t have to fake the kiss scenes.” Devon Bullock is the music director of the musical. Asked about her challenges, she said, “The obvious answer is the barber shop. Harmonies are really hard to learn, especially as none of these guys have sung barber shop harmonies before. They are very difficult harmonies because they are really tight. These guys picked up like that, which made my job very easy. “They have completely given into the barber shop mindset, they are always together, they sing any time they get a chance. It’s so fun. I think this is going to be a secret gem of the show because it is so interesting and so cool to hear,” Devon Bullock said. “This show is a fairly easy compared to the other shows we have done in the past. The harmonies and the chorus numbers are not quite as challenging as the other shows, so that was nice.” “This is a show about talent and there are so many lead parts that come out during the show, so the whole cast of that show is so much fun to work with,” Kyle Bullock said. “It is about small town people who
are really invested in their community. They drive each other crazy and love each other for it. That makes it fun. I had a blast on both sides. I love the show on stage and behind the scene.” One of the main characters in the musical is Marcellus Washburn, who is played by David Rocha. Washburn is Hill’s friend and a former con man who has gone “legit.” “This is the first time doing this musical,” Rocha said. “The dancing is a challenge. Trying to get it all out and show the character, it’s a challenge but it’s fun to do. “We started practicing this show in January. We are having a great show. Funnest part is working with everybody. It is a very good team, everybody makes it fun to work with. I have a great time,” Rocha said. Rocha has been singing since high school, “I went to school at the New Mexico State University I studied music there and did different shows while I was there, throughout the community of Las Cruces as well,” he said. “When I moved back here, I heard about WWOB. The first show I did was ‘Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat.’ I had a wonderful time.” Asked about his future plans in the performing arts, Rocha said, “I am hoping to get into the Roswell Community Little Theatre as well, they have some good shows coming up. “I would like to expand as an actor and do a play one day here either with WWOB or one of the other companies in the area. I would also like to move
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into the movie industry. Commercial or movie companies, if there is something I am suited or fit for, then I’ll audition for it,” Rocha said. One of the younger actors is 15-year-old Spencer Weldon. He got cast as Tommy Jules. “I play the town hooligan, it’s fun,” Weldon said with a big grin. “I had not seen the movie before I had been cast. I had no clue what the show was about. I get to do more and that is always fun.” “A lot of time we are here late and sometimes that is challenging with going to school. It’s a lot of fun to do both. I am in the Goddard band and percussion section.” Weldon’s favorite class is mathematics and his goal is to get accepted at the University of California, Los Angeles and to major in directing. The audience can see “The Music Man” at ENMUR-PAC, 64 University Blvd., on the weekend of March 17-19 and 24-26 with evening shows on Fridays and Saturdays at 7:30 p.m. and Sunday matinees at 2:30 p.m. Tickets are $18 per person; seniors age 62 and older and children 12 and younger pay $12. Tickets for groups of 10 or more pay $10 each. For more information and reservations, visit waywayoffbroadway. com or call 575-3170157.
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Art
‘Willow Tree In The Taos Valley’ by Regina Cooke From the Vault Roswell Museum and Art Center
By Sara Woodbury RMAC Curator of Collections and Exhibitions
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s curator, I’m always researching the Roswell Museum and Art Center’s varied collections, but not everything I delve into relates directly to works of art or artists. For the last several months, I’ve actually been researching the museum’s own history, specifically its origins as a Works Progress Administration Federal Art Center. Our library and archive houses an impressive amount of documents from this era, from time sheets to visitor sign-in forms. Today, we’ll look at a painting from our collection that I encountered in these documents: “Willow Tree in the Taos Valley” by Regina Cooke (19021988). Originally from Texas, Cooke first became acquainted with New Mexico when she visited Taos as a teenager. She began her art studies in Kansas under renowned Swedish-American painter and printmaker Birger Sandzen (1871-1954) before going on to earn her bachelor’s from Colorado College, located in Colorado Springs. After living there for a few years, she returned to Texas, but with the advent of the Dust Bowl she relocated permanently to Taos, studying for a time with Walter Ufer (1876-1936). In addition to creating her own art, Cooke served as an art editor for several newspapers, including the
Taos Star, El Crepúsculo de la Libertad and the Taos News. She also helped establish the Taos Art Association and the Taos Little Theater. Before going into the painting “Willow Tree” itself, let’s review the museum’s early history. The Roswell Museum Federal Art Center was organized in 1935 as a collaboration between the local Archaeological and Historical Society and the WPA. It opened to the public on Oct. 6, 1937, and was officially dedicated in December of that year, after its interior had been finished. The museum featured one main gallery, which included a performance stage, and a small side gallery. Today, this space is known as Founders Gallery, and is home to our Peter Hurd and Henriette Wyeth collection. The Museum remained affiliated with the WPA until the early 1940s, when the City of Roswell assumed its operation. The Roswell Federal Art Center belonged to a national program instigated by the Federal Art Project, sponsored by the WPA. Intended for small towns, rural communities, and other underserved parts of the country, federal art centers were designed to provide the kind of access to art and culture available in larger metropolitan areas. Interested individuals or community groups would submit an application to the FAP, and demonstrate sufficient interest and revenue to support
Regina Cooke, ‘Willow Tree in the Taos Valley,’ 1939, oil on canvas board, 16” x 20”. Works Progress Administration, 1976.032.0004 the institution. Approved art centers received staff from the FAP, who would work with the sponsors and community to coordinate exhibits and programs. More than 100 community art centers were opened around the country between 1935 and 1942, but while the long-term objective was to have the local communities eventually assume the operation of these art centers, the majority of them closed permanently with the end of the WPA. The Roswell Museum and Art Center is among the few that has continued to operate. Other examples include the Sioux City Art Center in Iowa, the South Side Community Art Center in Chicago, and the Ox-
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ford Art Center, now part of the University of Mississippi Museum. During its time as a Federal Art Center, the Roswell museum also supervised other WPA-related projects in town. The two most prominent undertakings included overseeing Roswell’s Civilian Conservation Corps Camp and assisting in the decoration of City Hall. As readers may know, our City Hall is also a WPA building, opening a few years after the museum in 1940. In addition to constructing the building, the WPA also supplied paintings to hang inside it. Reading through some of the letters in the museum archive, I learned that one of these paintings was
none other than “Willow Tree in the Taos Valley” by Regina Cooke. Painted in 1939, the work is typical of the representational art that the WPA tended to support, and is a cool, serene composition. Executed in a palette of blues and greens, the painting features the mountainous landscape of the Taos region, with a single, lush willow occupying the center of the lower half of the canvas. Haystacks are shown behind the willow, suggesting that the season is late summer or early fall. Small clusters of blue flowers help link the foreground to the blue sky, adding a sense of unity to the overall composition. The blue shadows
of the mountains further unite the forms, linking the peaks to both the sky and earth. While the painting was not officially accessioned into the Roswell museum collection until 1976, it had already been exhibited in Roswell much earlier, as these WPA documents make clear. Research in the archive is ongoing, but it’s a fascinating collection that merits continued exploration, especially when it sheds light on our own art.
Murders of the White Sands, Part II
History By John LeMay
Continued from the Vision Magazine edition of Feb. 16. fter the disappearance of Albert Fountain and his son Henry in 1896, believed to be a murder committed by Oliver Lee, Bill McNew and Jim Gilliland, many people wondered where the bodies could be hidden. Leon Metz wrote in his book “Pat Garrett: The Story of a Western Lawman” that, “Their bodies supposedly turned up in a half-dozen places in the Southwest.” Various stories said the bodies were thrown into a steep canyon in the San Andres, that the bodies were buried in a corral and a stampede of horses was used to trample down the
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ground and many other variants. One story alleged that Olive Lee burned the bodies with mesquite roots inside a steam boiler firebox at Wildy Well. A more gruesome story says Albert and Henry were buried in a grave that proved a little too shallow at Lee’s Dog Canyon ranch. Jim Gilliland’s younger sister, Lucy, claimed that one morning she found their hogs digging up young Henry’s remains. She fainted at the sight of the hogs tearing apart the dead body, and soon some of the ranch hands retrieved the body and buried it in another spot. The most bizarre story concerning one of the murderers, Bill McNew, was told to author Leon
Metz by a mysterious source who preferred to remain anonymous. The story went that in 1937, McNew suffered a stroke and quit breathing. When McNew revived, he told a horrific tale that he had gone to hell and stood in molten lava up to his knees. Sometime after this, the same year, the lower parts of his legs blistered and the skin peeled off as though they had been badly burned. Then McNew had another stroke and died. Of the three killers it was Jim Gilliland that would often talk. He once pointed out a grave (marked with a rock) north of the Lava Gap near an arroyo in the San Andres to his friend Butler Burris say-
Art
Miniature Museum
Print sale to aid future museum. By Christina Stock Vision Editor
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ilk screen prints once owned by longtime arts supporter Myrl Good (1921-2010) have found their way to the south wall of the Pecos Flavors Bistro on the corner of Second Street and Lea Avenue. The prints, titled “The Indigenous Costume in Mexico,” were drawn by Teresa Castello Yturbide and published in the 1960s
by the National Institute of Anthropology and History located in Mexico City. Today, the silk screen prints are on display to raise money for a future museum with miniatures and curious collections to be located in Roswell. A project under the non-profit Roswell Interarts Organization, the MCCM will preserve, refresh, produce and display miniatures, the majority of which will be from the Roswell Poco
Loco group active in the 1980s and 1990s. Spearheaded by local artists Elaine Howe and Nancy Fleming just one and a half years ago, the MCCM has already mounted three temporary displays of miniatures – two at the New Mexico Energy Library windows on North Main Street and one at the Eastern New Mexico State Fair. Thanks to Marifrank DaHarb at Senior Circle, the duo refreshed miniatures
ing, “Son, that grave holds a lot of secrets.” Jim Gilliland eventually told Burris that was the grave of the Fountains, and that they had been dug up from another spot and moved there, lending credence to the reports of the hogs rooting up the graves by Lucy Gilliland. When Jim Gilliland was on his deathbed, he gave Burris a Masonic pin that belonged to Albert Fountain, and asked that Burris return it to Albert Fountain Jr. who later said it was indeed his father’s pin after Jim Gilliland’s death Aug. 8, 1946. When Burris led an expedition to the gravesite, several holes were dug but no bodies were found. It was the last attempt to find the
Submitted Photo Yucca plants growing at White Sands National Monument. graves of the Fountains history. in recent history, or at least recent recorded
originally built by Lannie and Jack Dunham in the ‘90s – including a tienda, hat shop, and yard sale – and showcased them in accessible windows for the community and tourists to enjoy. Howe and Fleming want the tradition of making, showing and enjoying miniatures to continue in Roswell. “When the Poco Loco group originally exhibited their creations some 20 years ago, people came out in droves to see what they had made,” Fleming said. “But without a permanent display, the miniatures went back to their makers’ houses, where only family and friends
could admire the skill, time and humor that went into them.” The duo is working closely with some of the original Poco Loco members, as well as family of deceased members. This connection and reuniting the Pocoville collection will be a large part of the MCCM. “We are interested in working with past and present miniature artists in the area … to not only obtain finished miniatures for display, but parts, pieces, and tools that could be used for future workshops and in refurbishing/finishing,” Howe said. “And any documentation, articles, etc., on the miniaturists and
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the Poco Loco group will be greatly appreciated and displayed as well.” “We feel Myrl Good would have supported our efforts,” Howe continued. “One of her passions was needlepointing, and she also served on the Museums of New Mexico Foundation and Board of Regents. She loved handcrafted objects and having places to showcase them.” For more information on MCCM, contact email@roswellamoca. org.
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UFOs: What is the evidence?
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any people still deny even the possibility of unidentified flying objects, sometimes because the idea just sounds too much like science fiction, sometimes because they believe there is no evidence for UFOs. The latter mindset is actually commendable (since everyone should expect evidence) but it’s mistaken, because there is actually a great deal of evidence. In some cases we have a lot of testimony from reasonably reliable witnesses. The best example is testimony from pilots. They’re highly competent
UFOlogy
Looking Up
By Donald Burleson
observers, well trained to understand what they see in the sky, often producing estimations of object size, distance, air speed, and altitude. I don’t think I’ve ever met a pilot who hasn’t seen UFOs. And even when our witnesses aren’t professionally trained observers like pilots, we often have good witness account correlation, i.e. essentially the same observations made by different witnesses not conferring with each other. Certainly, the Roswell incident of 1947 is a case in point, as investigators of that event have interviewed several hundred inde-
pendent witnesses who tell one pretty consistent story. But when it comes to types of evidence, it’s hard to beat photographs. You may object that photos can be faked, and nowadays with computers and fancy software that’s undeniably true. Computer image processing can often tell the difference, though. Someone once sent me a purported UFO photo which, when I ran it through some software, turned out to be a streetlamp. I could even see the wattage mark on the bulb! Anyway, one can scarcely be looking at
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slyly contrived hoaxes with sufficiently old photographs, because they come from an age when image manipulation was not yet so sophisticated. A classic example is the Paul Trent photos taken o n M ay 1 1 , 1 9 5 0 , i n McMinnville, Oregon, clearly showing a saucer-shaped object hovering over a farm. Trent knew nothing whatever about trick photography and was using a simple camera. (When I was a kid I had a box camera I bought at a drugstore for 49 cents, and it used to mystify my parents that it took better pictures than their much more expensive cam-
era). In 1950, computers were still made with vacuum tubes, and the word “software” didn’t exist. Trent’s photos today stand up under the most rigorous computer analysis. Trust me, they’re for real. Even more convincing is motion picture photography, as these results are much harder to fake, especially old films. The Great Falls, Montana film from August 1950 shows two disks crossing the sky and defies all efforts to debunk it. In some ways still more impressive is the Tremonton, Utah film from July 2, 1952, showing a number of anomalous objects,
taken by a professional Navy photographer. This particular film stands the hair up on the back of my neck every time I see it, because I know I’m looking at the real thing. I haven’t even mentioned physical trace evidence, like burn rings on the ground at UFO landing sites, as in the Levelland, Texas, case of 1957. Plenty of UFO evidence exists!