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RISE WITH ROSWELL CINCO DE MAYO SPOTLIGHT: RAIR LOUISE DEROUALLE EXHIBIT ALSO INSIDE: CELEBRATE THE ARTS DAY, ENMU-R’S 60TH ANNIVERSARY, PARTY AFTER HOURS, ROSWELL FILM FESTIVAL, BONE SPRINGS ART SPACE, HSNM HISTORY CONFERENCE, COFFEE ANDERSON, BRANSON ON THE ROAD, S.E. SMITH’S ‘WRONG TURN TO ROSWELL,’ FROM THE VAULT, HISTORY AND LOOKING UP

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Roswell Daily Record’s

Spotlight: Roswell Artist-in-Residence Louise Deroualle exhibit

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Art Celebrate the Arts Day From the Vault Calendar Classifieds for the Arts

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Culture Rise with Roswell Balloon Rally and Cinco de Mayo

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ENMU-R’s 60th anniversary

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pARTy After Hours

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Roswell Film Festival

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Bone Springs Art Space

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History Historical Society of New New Mexico annual history conference

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Thursday, April 19, 2018 Volume 23, Issue 4 Publisher: Barbara Beck Editor: John Dilmore Vision Editor: Christina Stock Copy Editor: Misty Choy Ad Design: Sandra Martinez Columnists: Donald Burleson, John LeMay, S.E. Smith, Brandon Strange Get in touch with us online Facebook: PecosVisionMagazine Twitter: twitter.com/PecosVision Pinterest: pinterest.com/VisionMagazine Email: vision@rdrnews.com www: rdrnews.com/vision-magazine For advertising information, call 622-7710 Correspondence: Vision Magazine welcomes correspondence, constructive criticism and suggestions for future topics. Mail correspondence to Vision Magazine, P.O. Drawer 1897, Roswell, N.M. 88202-1897 or vision@rdrnews.com Submissions: Call 622-7710, ext. 309, for writers’ guidelines.

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Music

Balloon Festival

Coffee Anderson at Cinco de Mayo Festival

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Branson On The Road

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Story S. E. Smith’s ‘Wrong Turn to Roswell,’ episode 6

UFOlogy Looking Up

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Submitted Photo Tile making at Celebrate the Arts Day in 2017.

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Celebrating Art The annual Celebrate the Arts Day moves to the Roswell Mall

By Christina Stock Vision Editor

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he annual Celebrate the Arts Day will be held at the Roswell Mall on April 28, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. There will be free activities throughout the day.

Students, families and friends of Arts Connect, the Roswell Independent School District K-6 elementary arts program, are invited to experience art in a different way.

For those who do not know the program, in 2003, Max Coll sponsored the Fine Arts Education Act. Elaine Wiggins-Howe funded the Arts Connect initiative, which is at the Creative Learning Center today.

“We are supported by the district,” Arts Connect Principal Abie Smith said. “It really

makes a difference how supportive the district is for arts. We have one of the most supportive districts in the state. I know that as a fact because I attend state meetings.

“We’ve been told by the state that we’re an exemplary program.

They’d love us expanding, but of course, funding is always a challenge,” Smith said and laughed. “We’ve been going since that time.

This is my second year as administrator for the program.”

The goal of the K-6 program is to expose students to both performing and visual arts. “Students receive 45 minutes every single week for the entire school year,” Smith said. “One week students receive perform-

ing arts, the other week visual arts. We have six schools that receive recorders. The other six schools receive the visual arts. The reason we do that is that every student receives a recorder to keep at school and to have at home. We want them to be practicing and we don’t want to lose that knowledge base in between twoweek periods.”

The free event Celebrate the Arts Day will be open to the public to get a glimpse into the program.

“Every year it’s changed a little bit,” Smith said. “This year we are very blessed to be out at the mall. Anjy Cooper has worked with us because the Civic Center is closed, but really, we have a fantastic space out there. “ Thi s y ea r , w e a r e really excited. We are going to create an art piece as a community and we have been told

by Ms. Cooper that we can install it in the mall so that families can go back and see,” Smith said. “We really want to emphasize that we are not a make-it-and-take-it program. We are really about teaching skills and having students build upon what they already have internally and experiencing the arts in different ways. Celebrate the Arts Day this year is working more on a collaborative creation.”

The event kicks off with the recorder concert. “We always had great support from parents and hope we will this year, too, them coming out and supporting the students. Those students work really hard and learn a lot of songs in the semester. We are going to build a theme around folk this year.

We’ll have some folk

dancing, some folk music that we’re going to be doing and some theater as well. Everybody is welcome to participate with us,” Smith said.

“We started an advisory council for our program last year and they are going to be taking a big part in the event.

The advisory council is made up with teachers, parents and we have community artists, we have a representative of each museum; we have a representative from the Roswell chamber and principals,” Smith said.

The advisory council will be doing a tantemounter. While the group will be hidden, visitors can pull a ticket and choose a provided object, which will be tantamounted by different material. “It’s like a human copy machine,” Smith said. “The person who pulled the ticket can take the tantamount

team,” Smith said. “This is an extra day that they come out and showcase who we are. They work diligently throughout week. Not only teaching their K5 students, but we also go to the middle schools and we have a ukulele program and a raku program. They are extremely busy. Each teacher has to prep for it for 800 to 900 students.

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home.

“We really would love a great turnout,” Smith said. “There will be other activities going on, such as button making; we’ll have a sales booth out there. We appreciate the support because that helps us do some other activities besides the funding we receive from our district. It is about coming out and participating with their child in creating and having fun.

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By Christina Stock Vision Editor

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he 31st annual balloon rally and Cinco de Mayo Festival take place from May 4 to 6 at the Russ Dekay Soccer Complex.

Early birds can watch the hot air balloons inflate, starting around 6:30 a.m. The afternoons and evenings are full of entertainment celebrating Roswell’s heritage at the annual Cinco de Mayo festivities, which end Saturday night. The last morning to see the balloons is on Sunday.

In an interview with Bill Glen in 2017, he mentioned that his balloon club was looking for somebody to take over after the 30th Oldtimers Balloon Rally.

Many of the early members and organizers had passed on or retired.

Glen had been a schoolteacher for 33 years in Roswell and moved to Arizona to retire.

In November 2017, the members of the Old T i m e r s B al l o o n C l u b approached the Roswell Chamber of Commerce to see if the chamber was willing to take over the event.

“Of course, it was a no-brainer for me, and our board was very accepting of it as well,” executive director of the Roswell Chamber of Commerce Candace Lewis said. “We wanted to continue the tradition of the Oldtimers Balloon Rally and they had been gracious enough to allow us to keep the

annual number of years that it’s been here in Roswell. We are able to take on the 31st annual part of it and we then renamed it, ‘The Rise over Roswell Balloon Rally.’

“We are very excited to continue the tradition, and keep the balloons in the air over Southeast New Mexico. It’s just something so breathtaking, I always enjoyed the hot air balloons,” Lewis said. “We are over 40 balloons, possibly more.

There is still time, we still are accepting pilot applications. We were only counting on 30 or 35.”

Kick-off of the balloon rally has been traditionally early on Friday mornings at Roswell’s schools. “They are going to be back at the schools,” Lewis said.

“We already sent the lists over to the pilots, so they can choose which school they want. We will be at the schools early Friday morning.

All elementary schools get a balloon. That is a great opportunity for the kids of RISD.” Working together with the Roswell Hispano Chamber of Commerce will enhance both events.

“This is the first year we are doing the balloon rally,” Lewis said.

“We’re combining our efforts with the Hispano chamber and bringing in their vendors.

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age everybody to come out and have that time with the balloons as they go through the process of ascension and fly up. We’ll have plenty to see out there. Hopefully we’ll have some tethered rides and have some fun activities in the morning, but most of the activities we’re saving for the Cinco de Mayo festivities,” Lewis said.

Entertainment and the main music acts are organized by the Roswell Hispano Chamber of Commerce.

“On Friday night we are bringing in Coffee Anderson. He is going to be the main act. The opener for him is going to be Kiensie Coppin,” president of the Roswell Hispano Chamber of Commerce said. “On Saturday the two big ones are called Da Krazie Pimpz. They are kind of a flashy Tejano band.

Headliner is Sunny Sauceda Y Todo Eso, a two-time grammy winner. It should be a lot of fun.”

“We’re going to have a beer garden, we have a multitude of food and mercantile vendors. I am thinking we are going to have about 10 to 15 food vendors and probably another 20 mercantile vendors, maybe more,” Mann said.

“We are setting it up a little differently than we have in the past, since we are doing it with Rise Over Roswell. They see

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Submitted Photo Coffee Anderson’s favorite concerts are city festivities because those are for the entire family.

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Coffee Anderson lights up Cinco de Mayo Country/Americana musician Coffey Anderson to perform at Cinco de Mayo festivities.

By Christina Stock Vision Editor

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offee Anderson is headlining the Cinco de Mayo festivities at the Russ DeKay Soccer complex on the evening of May 4. The time schedule was not available at press time.

Anderson is a new upcoming Christian country singer who has been seen on ABC, Fox News, NBC and GAC. He appeared in Season 2 of American Idol and was awarded Nashville Star in 2008.

In early March, he was awarded by HotDisc UK charts “Most Successful International Single” for his song “Budlight Blue.”

On March 16, Anderson’s newest release “Cowboy Style” climbed to No. 21 on the first day in the U.S. and Australia iTunes chart, beating Justin Timberlake, Judas Priest and Taylor Swift. His “Cowboy Style” is time No. 2 in the country charts and No. 14 worldwide on iTunes.

Anderson’s music style is uplifting, funny and thoughtful. His is a new powerful voice that varies from soft to rough with a wide range of vocals.

Themes of his songs make fun of relationships, such as “Tacos and Margaritas,” where he sings “You’ll be cilantro, I’ll be your onion.” Other songs are strictly spiritual. “God is enough,” and “Oceans,” showing Anderson’s devotion to God. In a phone interview, Anderson talks about his life and sudden success. Asked about his family see Coffee on page 15

Submitted Photo Early entrance sign for Eastern New Mexico University-Roswell. Date unknown.

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ENMU-R to celebrate diamond jubilee Part I

The Eastern New Mexico University-Roswell is celebrating its 60th anniversary in April.

By Christina Stock Vision Editor s documented in “Success Starts Here: A History of Eastern New Mexico University Roswell 1958-2002” by Elvis Fleming, Roswell Community College was established on April 1, 1958 by the ENMU Board of Regents.

Under the organization agreement between the Board of Education of the Roswell Municipal School District and the ENMU Board of Regents, RCC was to provide freshman and sophomore courses from the ENMU catalog effective with the start of the fall semester in 1958.

The Roswell and ENMU boards submitted their joint proposal to the State Board of Education and it was approved on May 14, 1958.

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1962, the college first conducted evening classes at Roswell High School. In January of 1963, with an enrollment of 75 students, eight daytime classes were added to the college offerings and held at the old post office downtown.

When Walker Air Force Base closed in 1967, the college acquired military buildings and 235 acres to establish its own campus. Roswell Community College was renamed Eastern New Mexico University-Roswell.

In an interview with Fleming, he recalls the early days of ENMU-R when he was a teacher, “I started in the fall of 1969. That was my first semester there. Of course, the college had just moved to the former

Air Force Base two years ago, so it still looked like an AFB and not a college,” he said. “There were a lot of buildings.

One thing the administration did was getting r i d of bu i l d i n g s th a t were not useful to the college; that were eyesores. There used to be a lot of buildings, like a theater and all kinds of small buildings, there were chapels, the Protestant chapel was made of brick. I think it is still there, but the Catholic chapel was wood and it was moved. It became the building of Mountain View Baptist Church. It is still there, I think.”

“One of the districts that was in existence back when the college was new was Chaves County School District, which was all the rural schools,” Fleming said.

“The Roswell School District, the town was separate, but in 1968 they consolidated.”

Fleming remembers his students well. “It was a pretty good mixture of students. There were those students who saw our college as an opportunity to get an education at a lower cost and a lot more convenient than going off to some other college, but we had our share of those who weren’t serious about an education. They goofed off a lot. I remember to have to throw people out because they disturbed the class. I remember saying, ‘All right, this class will be just fine without you,’” Fleming said and laughed.

“I had a teacher in college in a class in western literature,” Fleming said. “He brought his guitar to class and sang those folk songs in several different languages.

I was very impressed by that and when I started teaching school, I remembered that and thought ‘I can do that.’

“Not folk songs in other languages, but songs that are pertinent to what we studied in the class. So, at least once a semester I would take my guitar to class and I would sing historical songs appropriate to the period, if it was “Yankee Doodle Dandy,” or cowboy songs, those were my specialty. I did that for 50-something years.

“It made my class hard to forget,” Fleming said and chuckled.

In 1992 Fleming became Chair of the Division of Liberal Arts and served in that capacity until his retirement in 1997.

Judy Armstrong served in a variety of functions for 37 years at ENMU-R, from faculty to becoming president.

Armstrong remembers

the rough conditions at the former Air Force Base. “When I first started it was 1971,” she said. “I worked with a high school equivalency program, which was a government grant program. We helped dropouts, especially those from Native American or small communities, poverty level type communities, to get their GED’s.

“It was quite an interesting thing. Our offices, our classrooms were all in the administrations building at that time. It had everything, registrar, everything was in that building, except some of the classes which were in separate rooms in one of the base areas. We were all, base areas and offices were in a little area and there were no windows.”

Armstrong remembered working with Fleming. “We were in one of our offices one afternoon and all the electricity went off. I said, ‘Elvis, are you still here?’ ‘Yes,’ he answered. ‘Do you think we can find our way out?’” Armstrong said and laughed. “It was total blackness.

“You would go into one of the buildings and there was a snake crawling, doors were left open because we didn’t have a lot of air-conditioning,” Armstrong said. “You just never knew what got in — skunks, a cat jumped off of the roof in the children’s area and scared the kids who were out playing.”

According to Armstrong the faculty and students were a tight group.

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On top of that, we have three galleries in town we are very proud of. Eastern New Mexico Medical Center, Lovelace and the airport. We do our Eastern New Mexico State County Fair here and the State Fair in Albuquerque.

“I want to thank our district,” Smith said.

“Without the support we would not be doing what we are doing. Ms. Susan Sanchez has been very supportive throughout this last year and this year. Allowing us to go to professional development and supporting and attending the events.

That makes a difference. We have school board members who do the same. It shows us that we are a part of the district; that they value who we are.

For more information, visit risd.k12. nm.us.

To be continued in the May edition of the Vision Magazine.

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“We’ve been to Roswell,” Horton said. “We played in Roswell several years ago and this is our second time in Artesia. We are bringing Branson and Branson is a wholesome wonderful town.” There will be comedy, country music and stories about Horton’s best friend Johnnie Cash.

Branson On The Road is going to perform at the Ocotillo Performing Arts Center, 310 W. St., Artesia, on April 21 at 2 p.m. and 7 p.m. For more information, visit Artesiaartscouncil.com or call 575-746-4212.

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Continued from Page 6 need the majority of the space for the launch,” Mann said. “We are going to have all the inflatables there. The fire department will be there running their little obstacle course. There will be the pony rides, lots to do for children.”

Asked if there will be any new features for Cinco de Mayo, Mann said, “Not this year. Just because we took it over from the city of Roswell late and so this year we are just going to keep it simple. Next year, we are hoping to move it over to Cielo Grande. We will be incorporating more events, going back to the Party on the River days with tug of war, sand volleyball and different things.

“Please come,” Mann said. “People complain all the time how there is not enough to do in Roswell. Myself, as a member of the Hispano Chamber and members of the Roswell Chamber, we always say, ‘Come walk with us a little bit. Let us show you every thing there is in Roswell.’ This is one — it is a signature event that both chambers are going to begin to put on in conjunction with the city of Roswell. Take advantage of what happens here in Roswell. This is a fun family-friendly event for the city. This year is free. Come enjoy all kinds of music and food. Spend the day out here.”

For more information, visit the Facebook event page of the Roswell Hispano Chamber of Commerce or call 575-624-0889; visit the Facebook event page of the Roswell Chamber of Commerce or call 575-623-5695.

Calendar Carlsbad April 19 Bob and Bonnie Moran Hall Open House The New Mexico Junior College, 1 Thunderbird Circle, invites the public to its Bob and Bonnie Moran Hall re-dedication and open house from 12:30 to 1:30 p.m. Tours of the new Entertainment and Technology Department will be given, along with the Law Enforcement Academy and programs. Free admission. For more information, visit nmjc.edu.

Roswell April 20 Aaron LaCombe concert Austin, Texas band Aaron LaCombe is performing at Pecos Flavors Winery + Bistro, 412 W. Second St., at 7 p.m. For more information, visit bandsintown. com or call 575-627-6265.

Hobbs April 20 to 22 ‘Leading Ladies’ The play “Leading Ladies” opens at the Hobbs Community Playhouse, 1700 N. Grimes St. The performances are at 8 p.m. with a matinee on April 22 at 2 p.m. When two down-ontheir-luck English actors hear that an old lady is about to die and leave her fortune to her two long lost English nephews, they resolve to pass them-

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Roswell April 20 and 21 Jesse Andrus & Mike Hillman Memorial Pro Rodeo The Jesse Andrus & Mike Hillman Memorial Pro Rodeo takes place at Eastern New Mexico State Fair Grounds arena. The rodeo starts on both days at 7:30 p.m. For more information, visit jesseandmikememorial.com.

Carlsbad April 21 Salute to America Author and speaker Krist “Tanto” Paronto is going to speak at the Carlsbad Civic Center at 7 p.m.

Paronto is a survivor of the Benghazi attack. He has served the U.S. for more than 18 years. For more information, visit eventbrite. com or call 575-706-1786.

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Roswell April 21 Daniel Hsu concert The Roswell Symphony Orchestra presents pianist Daniel Hsu, at 7:30 p.m. at the Pearson Auditorium at the New Mexico Military Institute. 2016-2017 season soloist Hsu returns to close the 2017-2018 season after his recent win of Bronze prize at The Cliburn. To learn more about The Cliburn Awards, visit cliburn.org. For more information, visit roswellsymphony.org or call 575623-5882 or 800-300-9822.

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Christina Stock Photo The first pARTy After Hours in September 2017 was a success. The Roswell Museum and Art Center is planning to expand the event and add new ones.

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Dress up ‘80s style and party on The second annual pARTy After Hours promises art, entertainment and activities.

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he Roswell Museum and Art Center, 100 W. 11th St., invites the public to celebrate its second annual pARTy After Hours on April 27 from 6 to 9 p.m.

The event is free of charge and includes art activities, gallery games and prizes, a gallery talk

by Roswell Artist-in-Residence (RAiR) Julie Alpert, an interactive sound installation by guest artist Andy Arkley, hors d’oeuvres and a cash bar.

This year pARTy After Hours is going to offer an even wider variety of events.

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the museum’s foundation as well as YPAC and Roswell Next and our (RMAC) foundation,” Cydney Fulks said. Fulks is the new RMAC communications and events coordinator. “My fiancé got transferred from San Angelo, Texas to work in Artesia and we decided we want to settle in Roswell.”

Fulks’ is looking forward working on future programs such as pARTy After Hours. “I am really excited to be at the museum and I see it as a place for the community to come together and have a good time,” she said.

“RAiR Julie Alpert will present a gallery talk and her husband Andy

Arkley is going to have an interactive sound and light display,” Fulks said. “We are going to have a collaborative art project that the community can work on together, as well as a project with Julie, doing drawings on her sketches. It’s going to be really exciting to have all the collaboration together.

“We’re building a backdrop for a fun photo booth. People can come and take their pictures there with the artist’s work. It’s going to be a good time,” Fulks said.

“We are going to continue the kids zones, so that parents can come and drop off their children and have a good time. Children should

be at least four years old and the cut off will be 12,” Fulks said.

The theme of pARTy After Hours is the ‘80s.

Guests appearing in costumes receive tickets to enter for different prizes. “Anybody participating in the activities gets a ticket and will be entered in the different drawings for the available donated prizes,” Fulks said.

For more information, call 575-624-6744 or visit roswell-nm.gov.

‘Wrong Turn to Roswell’

Episode 6: A Warehouse Full of Aliens

By S.E. Smith Continued from the March edition of the Vision Magazine.

“Copper, have you seen the kids?” Diamond asked, stepping into the lower section of their ship.

“They are probably hiding,” Copper’s muffled voice filtered from beneath the panel.

“I’ve searched everywhere. You don’t think they would leave the ship do you?” Diamond asked, worriedly twisting a bolt on her wrist.

“I can’t find Rover One either.”

Copper rolled out from under the console. He grimaced when he flashed the lights of his eyes into Diamond’s, blinding her for a moment. Dimming his eyes, he sat up and picked up the towel lying beside him.

“Rover One has probably leaked all over the ship and the kids are trying to clean it up before we find out. I told you that we shouldn’t have picked up that kit. The box was already opened. I know Rover One was probably a return. You know that open boxes are always missing a part or are defective,” Copper complained, rising to his feet.

Diamond distractedly nodded. “I know, but the picture on the box was so cute and he was the last one. I need some parts for the navigation system,” she murmured, loosening the bolt too far.

“Here, let me fix that,” Copper said in a gentle tone. He took the bolt from her fingers and tenderly lifted up her arm. Fitting the bolt

back into the threads, he tightened it down. “You know, if you keep doing that, you’ll fall to pieces,” he teased.

Diamond blinked. The light in the room flashed off and back on as she closed and opened her eyes. “I’m worried about them, Copper. I can’t find them. I’m … I think they left the ship,” she murmured.

Copper’s eyes dimmed and Diamond knew that he was running a brief scan of the ship. With a sigh of resignation, he looked back at her and nodded.

She shot him a relieved glance. Her programming was more for logic, navigation and scientific research while Copper’s was piloting, repair and defense. They worked better as a team.

“Let’s go find our kids,” he said, tightening the tool belt around his waist. *.*.* “There he is!” the girl with the tight coils said, pointing up to the upper platform.

Alan grimaced when he saw the mechanical dog slip through the door before it closed.

He turned in frustration when he heard the sound of metal hitting concrete behind him.

Glaring behind him, he put his hands on his hips and scowled at the two boys standing — one human, the other an alien robot — looking back at him with guilty expressions on their faces.

“Will you please not break anything?!” Alan hissed at them.

“Too late. Iron breaks just about everything

he touches,” the girl replied.

“You do? So do I! How cool is that? I’m Matt, by the way,” Matt said, turning and holding his hand out to the alien boy.

“I don’t break everything. If I was better at math I could tell you the exact percentage, but I would guess only about 48 percent of the time does something break when I’m near it,” Iron defended himself.

Alan pushed his glasses up on his nose and looked at Iron. “That’s not a good percentage ratio,” he replied.

“Exactly,” the girl agreed, turning to smile at Alan. “I’m Carbon – like the chemical element found in diamond and graphite,” she added with a smile.

“It is also the atomic number 6 on the periodic table and is usually associated with nonmetal elements,” Alan said, flushing when he finished and the room was silent.

He glanced at where Matt and Iron were staring at him like he had three heads. “What?

Everyone knows that — if they paid attention in science class,” he retorted.

Matt looked at Iron and shrugged. “I was more interested in the frogs hopping in the fish tank,” he said.

“He sounds like Carbon.” Iron rolled his eyes and played a sped up recording of Carbon saying “I’m Carbon — like the chemical element found in diamond and graphite.”

“Hey, Alan! Did you hear that? Wasn’t that cool? Can you record my voice? Alan, I am your father,” Matt excited-

ly said in his best Darth Vader impression.

Alan rolled his eyes and turned to Carbon, ignoring the other two — it was safer. Instead, he focused on finding Rover One before his mom did and getting the aliens out of their home before she found out about them. He looked at Carbon when she touched his arm.

“Is he always like that?” she whispered, nodding at Matt, who was having her brother record and repeat different phrases.

“As far as I know. I usually try to avoid him,” Alan admitted. “What about you? Is Iron always like this?”

Carbon glanced at her brother and made a face. “Unfortunately … and I can’t avoid him,” she replied with a chuckle. “What are we going to do?”

“You are going to stay here and make sure those two don’t break anything.

I’m going to go get your dog before my mom sees him. Don’t move until I get back,” Alan ordered.

“I think I should come with you. Rover One will come if I call him,” Carbon said, taking a step to follow him when he started to move away.

“No! I mean ... Have you taken a look at those two?” Alan argued, pointing over at where Iron was trying to put the helmet Matt had found at Yeller’s store on his head. “I can’t believe there are two Matts in the universe.”

Carbon laughed at the look of dismay on his face. “Father says that all the time about Iron. I still see

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Alan looked at her, then at the two boys. They did seem to be preoccupied. Maybe they could keep each other entertained. He gave a short nod to Carbon, and they hurried across to the stairs that led to the upper platform.

Most kids would have thought it weird that he lived in a converted warehouse. Of course, most kids thought he was weird, so it didn’t matter all that much. Crossing the platform, he pushed open the door and peeked inside. He could hear the music from his mom’s phone playing underneath the background hum of the welder. A series of bright lights flashed above the protective walls.

“There he is,” Carbon whispered, pointing to where the small, mechanical dog sat watching his mom. “Rover One, come!”

The dog turned to look at them. Wagging its tail, he rose and started down the long corridor. Then Rover One opened his mouth and several loose pieces of metal flew into his mouth. A look of disgust crossed Alan’s face when the dog squatted and left a pile of nuts and bolts.

“Sorry, we are still trying to ship-train him,” Carbon said with a weak smile. “On a good note, I usually can reuse the parts he ate.”

Alan looked at her with a raised eyebrow. “I won’t begin to tell you how gross that sounds,” he muttered, returning his attention to the dog. “Rover One, here boy. Would you like a nice … ,” Alan frantically glanced around before he spied a steering wheel on the table of parts his mom used in her art. “… steering wheel?”

Rover looked up and grinned. Alan motioned for Carbon to retrace her steps. Waving the steering wheel in his hand, he held it just out of the dog’s reach until after they exited the room. Holding the steering wheel with the dog attached to the other end, he struggled down the steps after Carbon.

He breathed a sigh of relief. Now all he needed to do was get Carbon, Iron and Rover One back in their spaceship. He was thinking he might actually be able to get through this without his mom knowing about it. His optimism turned to ash when he and

Carbon turned the corner. He jerked to a stop when he saw a tall man and woman — correction, a tall alien robot man and woman — chewing out Iron. He wasn’t sure if he was more surprised to see Carbon’s parents in his mom’s warehouse or to see that Matt was actually sitting quiet for once.

“Mom, Dad, I can explain,” Carbon said, hurrying forward.

“I hope you can, young lady. You were told not to leave the spaceship,” Diamond scolded, her expression changing when she saw Alan standing frozen with Rover One attached to the steering wheel he was holding. “Oh my.”

Alan opened his mouth, then snapped it shut as a loud knock sounded on the door. His eyes widened when the door opened a little and a salt-and-pepper-haired man peered inside. The others froze as well.

“Hello, is anyone here? I’m looking for Jennifer Whitehead,” the man said, looking at Alan with twinkling eyes.

“Who… Who are you?” Alan asked in a strained voice, trying to push Rover One out of view.

“Stanton Friedman,” the man replied with a curious smile. “That is a nice dog. Christina Stock down at the Roswell Dailey Record told me about Ms. Whitehead’s unique artwork and suggested I stop by.”

“Oh, boy,” Matt said, looking at the man and back at Alan. “I think you are going to need a huge pot of Spaghetti tonight!”

“Wrong Turn to Roswell” continues with episode 7: The Secret is in the Saucer.

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Roswell April 29 Carl Sonny Leyland to perform The Roswell Jazz Festival fundraising concert features Carl Sonny Leyland at the Anderson Museum of Contemporary Art, 409 E. College Blvd. Doors open at 1 p.m. The concert starts at 2 p.m. A silent auction will be offered with proceeds going to help support the funding for the 2018 Roswell Jazz Festival. For more informa-

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Roswell Film Festival

The Roswell Film Festival attracts international submissions for its showing at Galaxy 8 Theatres.

By Christina Stock Vision Editor

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his year’s annual Roswell Film Festival takes place from April 25 to 29 at Galaxy 8 Theatres at the Roswell Mall. The festival will have showings of the best of the best in short films and full feature movies that have been sent in to compete for The Rossy Awards.

Genres cover anything from documentaries to fiction and animation.

The 2018 judges for the festival are Helen Bertrand, Steven Black, Paul Forrest, Donovan Fulkerson, Brent Morton, Harry Musselwhite, Charles Ousley and Zane Rader.

The organizer and one of the judges, Donovan Fulkerson, has officially no favorites. “The reason is that this year we are showing 61 films; all of them earned their place to be there with

our judges,” he said. “As an artist, I have my own eye, things that I prefer.

It doesn’t make the other art less worthy. I have a variety of judges who volunteer their time.

Nobody receives any compensation. That way every film gets a shot.”

Biographies of the judges are available on the festival’s website.

Visito rs to the fes tival can personalize their schedule on the website. After signing in to the schedule, the system will remember preferences, specific events, assists in saving the schedule to mobile devices, connect to other attendees and even email the events daily. The schedule is color-coordinated and easily filtered depending on artist, awards, events, film genre, get-togethers, work -

shops and popularity.

Kickoff will be on Wednesday at 7 p.m. at Galaxy 8 Theatres with the showing of last year’s feature and short film winners.

The showing of the competitive films start on Thursday at 10 a.m. at Galaxy 8 Theatres.

The after party will be at 9:30 p.m. at Stellar Coffee Co., 315. N. Main St. On Friday, the showing of the films continues at Galaxy 8 at 9 a.m.

During the break at 3:30 p.m. interested visitors can partake at a drones-in-film workshop presented by Mike Lanfor and Jenna Secrist of AirPlay Media and Adventure Services.

At 9 p.m., locals, tourists, filmmakers, actors and crew get together at Third Street Station, 401 E. Third St. before

the evening continues with Fright Night Films at Galaxy 8.

On Saturday, the film showings continue at 10 a.m. at Galaxy 8.

Highlight of the day is a meet-and-greet with actor Sean Kenney at 3 p.m. Kenny is well-known amongst Star Trek fans for portraying Captain Pike in Star Trek’s “The Menagerie,” the only two-part episode of the Star Trek series. This launched Sean as a professional film actor and he returned to Star Trek as one of the original crew members in his role as Lt. DePaul, the ship’s first helmsman. Star Trek was the beginning of his career. Presently, Kenney is developing film and television projects under the Highlight Cinema Group productions.

At 5:30 p.m., the 2018 Awards Ceremony takes place at Galaxy 8 before the film showings continue.

At 9:30 p.m., the after party takes place at Third Street Station.

The festival continues on Sunday with film showings at Galaxy 8 Theatres at 1 p.m. and everybody meets at 3:30 p.m. at Stellar Coffee Co., 315 N. Main St. for the Farewell After Party.

Times and locations may change. The full updated schedule is available at roswellfilmfestival.com.

One of the films shown at the Roswell Film Festival is the quirky comedy out of California, “Girl Meets Roach.” A young girl gets dumped just before Christmas, brokenhearted, she forms an unlikely friendship with a cockroach.

The film was directed

by Christopher Zatta and written and produced by Alison Zatta, King Fish Productions.

The film has already

won awards throughout the U.S., such as Audience Award and Best Short Film at the Ellensburg Film Festival, Finalist, Bill Murray Comedic Shorts Award at the Twin Cities Film Fest and Best Comedy at the Copa Shorts Film Fest, to name a few.

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Christina Stock Photo Louise Deroualle is holding up one of the golden dots from her installation.

Spotlight

Conversing with clay is breathing in New Mexico

Roswell Artist-in-Residence Louise Deroualle lecture and opening reception shows the impact New Mexico has in her art.

By Christina Stock Vision Editor

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oswell Artist-in-Residence Louise Deroualle is having her lecture and opening reception of her exhibit on May 11 at 5:30 p.m. at the Roswell Museum and Art Center.

Louise Deroualle uses ceramic materials to create formal abstractions that reveal different physical, experien-

tial and emotional facets of herself.

Her work is influenced by the cultural experiences to which she has been exposed — from her upbringing in Brazil to her studies and residence in the United States — and the way those interactions build her identity.

Deroualle opened her studio for the readers of the Vision Magazine.

“I am from São Paulo, born and raised,” Deroualle said. “I have aunts who are artists. My father is a veterinarian and my mother is a psychoanalyst. I do have an international background. My mom’s family are descendants of Italians when we had a huge migration of Italians to Brazil in the late 1800s and my dad is French. My entire name is very French, but I am 100 percent Brazilian.”

“I met a director from an art center in Chile. Doug Casebeer is the director of the ceramics and sculpture programs at Anderson Ranch Arts Center in Colorado. He invited me to come to work for him. This was in 2010. I kept coming and going from Brazil to Colorado until I decided it was time to further my education and develop my art. I came to stay at the art center (of Casebeer) for an entire year. That was in 2013,” Deroualle said.

From 2014 to 2017, Deroualle attended the University of Nebraska. “It was really amazing,” she said. “I was so fortunate to attend it. I did my master’s and was looking for what to do next. One of the faculty members was a former Roswell Artist-in-Residence, Eddie Dominguez. Talking to Eddie, he said, ‘Take a look at RAiR. It is really a nice program and they are super-supportive and I think you’d be a great fit.’ I applied and I was very fortunate to get accepted. I finished school in May and came here.”

Deroualle had already visited New Mexico before being accepted in the RAiR program. “I visited a friend in Santa Fe,” she said. “When I got accepted here I felt great. I would be able to discover this amazing state. I am completely falling in love with New Mexico.”

As many artists have felt, Deroualle

is especially appreciative in the studio lighting with its large windows on the RAiR compound. “I work with the light,” she said. “I am oriented by the sunlight. I don’t have an alarm clock since I’ve been here. I don’t need it. I am living with nature in a natural way.

The presence of nature is a constant. It is so powerful it takes over.”

Deroualle is a purist in her work with clay. She studied chemistry of glazes and creates her own. Part of her studio holds container after container of the glazes in powder form.

A regular artist working with clay is straight forward. They form out of the clay the form, burn it in a kiln and the glaze follows. Deroualle is different.

Like her experiences, her personality and identity, her clay projects are made out of layers upon layers. People might look at her work as natural without control, but there is a certain level of control.

“I do not want to control everything because that’s kind of boring,” Deroualle said. “Too much control is like a cage for myself. I set up things the way I want them to be, but I don’t control the final project, I set guides. I set up situations to provoke certain surfaces and shapes. Working with clay is a conversation and not an imposition or a confrontation.”

The large art sculptures and slabs take more than 30 hours until Deroualle is satisfied. Opening the kiln to see the reaction of the different layers of clay and glaze can satisfy or disappoint.

“I go slow to reach the precise temperature and then I drop the temperature slowly so it doesn’t crack. I don’t have one project at the time. I have several pieces I work on at the same see RAiR on page 13

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Continued from Page 11 “American Dreams” and “Crossing Jordan.” Additional credits include writers assistant on season 1 of Marvel / Netflix series “Daredevil” and script coordinator on The CW’s “Supernatural.” He also wrote for the NBC series “Heroes.”

Christopher Zatta formed King Fish Productions along with his sister, Alison Zatta, as a platform to write and direct independent material. Previous projects include the feature “At The Maple Grove;” the short film “Ambition Of Love,” which was selected by Werner Herzog for exhibition in his Rogue Film School Seminar; and the award-winning short film “Imbroglio,” starring Zoë Bell, which premiered at Fantasia International Film Festival in 2017.

“I found the Roswell Film Festival on FilmFreeway.com, Alison Zatta said. “The festival has very high reviews from other filmmakers, and seemed like it might be a good fit for a quirky film like ‘Girl Meets Roach.’ Happily, the programmers agreed. Unfortunately, due to a previous commitment to another festival, I won’t be able to attend the Roswell Film Festival in person, but I’ll be following avidly on social media.”

Asked what was most challenging in the making of the movie, Alison Zatta said, “Balancing writing, acting and producing was a big challenge, and not one

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that I had ever experienced before,” she said. “The key was surrounding myself with talented, passionate people who were very good at their jobs, starting with my brother Christopher Zatta, who is a fantastic director, and including everyone from our DP (the amazing Ryan Jacob Morgan) to our first-time production assistant. We had a very small crew and in the end, the group’s enthusiasm mattered much more than having a large budget.”

Alison Zatta has a connection to romance stories. “I grew up watching the romantic comedies of the ‘90s, those classic girl-meets-boy films starring Sandra Bullock and Meg Ryan. When I got to be a little older and experienced romance and heartbreak for myself, it wasn’t quite the same as what I’d seen on the screen as a kid. ‘Girl Meets Roach’ is, to me, a slightly more realistic portrait of the down-and-dirty side of getting over a relationship: lots of pizza, not a lot of showers, and some bizarre behavior along the way. It’s also my first narrative short as writer/producer, and initially I wrote the script to give my actor friends and myself something fun to work on. It’s been a wonderful surprise to discover that so many other people have enjoyed and related to the story.”

Christina Stock Photo Miranda Howe is seen here using the electric elevator to bring up material to the gallery part of Bone Springs Art Space.

Culture

A new art place in town Bone Springs Art Space is Roswell’s newest creative gathering place.

By Christina Stock Vision Editor

T

hree years in the making: former Roswell Artist-in-Residence Miranda Howe, opens her new gallery, Bone Springs Art Space, 212 E. Walnut St., to the public.

The name Bone Springs relates to an oil rich strata layer in East New Mexico and West Texas. Several years ago, Miranda Howe’s brother, Jeremy Howe, named one of her ceramic art pieces Bone Springs and once it came to naming her building, she decided it fit as well to the gallery.

Jeremy Howe is a geologist, artist and the director of the Robert H. Goddard Planetarium.

His art exhibit is the first one to open on April 20 from 5 to 8 p.m. at Bone Springs Art Space.

The building of the new gallery has a history and a deep connection

to Roswell and families, which Miranda Howe embraced and integrated into the design of the art space. “That way I keep the connection to the history of the warehouse,” she said.

Miranda Howe incorporated other pieces of history into the building. “There are items from Sears, a desk from Cobeans and Inkspot Printing, some doors come from the New Mexico Military Institute and the tables for the classes (workshops and art classes) came from the Roswell Independent School District’s science section,” she said.

The next day, April 21, at 10 a.m. the doors open for the official ribbon cutting. However, this gallery may have never existed if it weren’t for the curiosity of Miranda Howe and the support from her family,

the community, friends and fellow artists.

“When I finished my (Roswell) Artist-in-Residency in 2013, I knew I wasn’t going back to Capitan, which was where my studio was,” Miranda Howe said. “I was just driving around and was really only looking for a studio for myself to work in. I kept driving by this building and I loved it. It was way too big for what I thought for my studio, but I had to see inside of it.

“It wasn’t for sale.

I thought to myself, ‘I need to find out who owns that,” Howe said and laughed. “‘What’s the story of that building?’ It took a few months until I was able to make a connection with the owner. He was willing to come and let me look at that space. He had just been using it for

his family’s storage. It had been in his family as their business since the ‘60s. It was Conico Oil. It was built for Continental Oil Company at the time, so that’s why the freight elevator and why all the woodwork was built so durable: to be able to hold the weight of those barrels of oil. It has good bones.

“Mr. Yarborough (the owner) had other offers in the past, but never sold,” Howe said.

“When I told him about my plans, we sat down in the bed of a pickup and talked price. It was like in the old times.

“I found out that Mr. Yarborough and I are related. His grandfather and my great-grandfather were brothers,” Howe said. “It was meant to be.”

Indeed, Howe’s family has been in the area a long time. Her mother, Elane Wiggins-Howe, is an artist as well.

“Mom has been more in art education,” Howe said. “She started the Creative Learning Center. She founded that whole program and got arts back into the elementary schools.

“I’ve got Mom backing me on the creative decision-making and Dad and I work on the technical aspects of how to accomplish things. I learned so much about building stairways and putting up walls, so I feel very fortunate to have parents like this,” Howe said.

Howe is also supported by friends of the RAiR program and Nancy Fleming at the Anderson Museum of Contemporary Art. Howe is planning to have the gallery as a true art space. She is planning to offer a creative gathering place for artists and those who see

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Continued from Page 12 time. The art pieces feed from each other. It is very organic, very intuitive in a way,” Deroualle said.

Asked about her choices of colors, Deroualle said, “The colors are inspired by the sky and desert of New Mexico. The entire show will be a celebration of my time in Roswell and how this new landscape and the interactions I had here became part of me.

How I perceived it, even though it is not in my conscience — it is a breathing process.”

Deroualle is especially appreciative of the art community in Roswell. “The Roswell art community is small but it is a very supportive one,” she said.

“It’s like another layer, you become part of the family, and Nancy (Fleming) keeps us busy. Roswell has so much with the Anderson Museum of Contemporary Art and the Roswell Museum and Art Center,” she said.

Looking out of Deroualle’s window at the desert landscape, a golden shimmer captures one’s attention. Deroualle said, “It is an outdoor instillation. In the distance you see shiny gold dots glistening in the sun. It is really exciting for me. This was conceived here for New Mexico, it belongs into this southeast New Mexico landscape. Those objects are like hollow shaped geodes. I call them rocks, others call them eggs. They are organic, round. There are 49 of those. One leading to the next. I will not bring one inside to the museum because they are part of the installation. However, there will be photos at the exhibition.

Deroualle’s exhibition runs through June 24 at RMAC, 100 W. 11th St., and is free and open to the public.

To learn more about the artist, visit louisederoualle.com. For more information, call 575-624-6744 or visit roswell-nm.gov/308/Roswell-Museum-Art-Center.

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From the Vault: Staff Favorites

Art

By Brandon Strange Roswell Museum and Art Center Preparator

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e’ve recently opened a new exhibition in the Spring River Gallery called Staff Favorites. With the Roswell Artist in Residence at 50 exhibit coming down now, and Magical and Real, our Peter Hurd and Henriette Wyeth retrospective, not opening until June 15, we wanted to have something on view for visitors while we prepare the galleries for our next big exhibition.

Staff Favorites is a co-curated show that explores the permanent collection from the perspective of the talented people who work here. In keeping with the collaborative spirit of this installation, today’s article comes from our preparator, Brandon Strange, who has written about two objects from the Aston collection.

The Model 1873 trapdoor percussion rifle is an excellent example of the many interesting and wonderful items donated to us in the Rogers and Mary Ellen Aston Collection of the American West. The Model 1873 is one of those weapons which history is often overlooked, but its development occurred during an exciting period in firearms technology. The United States, having just finished the American Civil War, was at the heart of the Industrial Revolution and technology was changing quickly.

The most interesting aspect of the Model 1873 is its loading mechanism, the trapdoor. It was a transitionary development between the muzzle loader and the bolt action, which was altogether separate from the lever action, rolling block and falling block mechanisms in use at the time. The U.S. Military, looking to find a cost-effective means of updating its arsenal after the American Civil War, was approached by Erskine S. Allin, the

master armorer at the U.S. Armory in Springfield, Massachusetts. His proposal was to convert the thousands of existing Civil War era muzzle-loaders into breech-loading rifles that could use a metallic cartridge.

With the significant cutbacks to the military’s budget after the end of the war, using pre-existing materials was quite appealing to the Army Board.

After a series of trials, the Springfield model was adopted on a trial basis.

After five years, another series of trials were held and the 1873 Model Springfield was formally adopted, rechambered in the new .45-70 Government caliber.

The design and caliber of the rifle was intended for another Civil War type of conflict, where the U.S. Army felt that long-range, accurate rifles would be best suited, as opposed to rapid-fire repeaters such as the Henry or Winchester. The conflicts it would see, however, namely the fast-paced, mobile Indian Wars, were much different than its intended purpose, and the low rate of fire made it difficult to use on horseback. The rifle was reliable, however, with new variations coming out almost every year, so improvements were constantly being made.

Its adoption by the U.S. Military as the first self-primed, metallic cartridge-firing weapon also brought to light the inadequacies of copper cartridges, which were in use at the time. The copper cartridges tended to expand after the weapon was fired, which led to it jamming the mechanism. This prompted to change to brass cartridges, which are still in use today.

The Cabasset is an Italian version of the Spanish-style Morion made famous by the Spanish Conquistadors of the 16th and 17th centuries. While these

helmets are often portrayed as being used by the soldiers in the armies of Hernán Cortéz and Francisco Pizarro, it was not until 30 to 40 years later that the helmets were actually in use. By this time, however, they had become popular throughout Europe, especially in England, where it was associated with the New Model Army in 1645, which was one of the first professional militaries of the era.

The use of the helmet was a reaction to changes in the way that war was fought. Between the end of the 100 Years War in 1453 and the Burgundian Wars in 1477, the types of troops that came to dominate the battlefields of Europe were heavily armored French cavalry, known as gendarme, Mercenary Swiss pikemen and cannons. When the Italian Wars began in 1494, the Spanish military, which was used for fighting battles in North Africa against the Moors, found itself outmatched by the European armies.

The Spanish defeat at the Battle of Seminara in 1495 led the Spanish to reorganize their army and tactics under the leadership of Captain Gonzalo Fernández de Córdoba. The changes led to the use of mixed infantry formations consisting of pikemen and arquebusiers (later musketeers), the latter of which used an early form of musket called an arquebus. The arquebusiers, being protected by the pikemen from the French gendarmes and Swiss pikemen, were able to safely use their arquebuses. The result of these changes led the Spanish to victory at the Battle of Cerignola, which is considered to be the first major battle won largely through the use of firearms.

The effectiveness of these new Spanish mixed infantry formations, which

Submitted Photo Helmet, Cabasset, Spanish, 16th to 17th Century, Iron/Brass. Gift of the Estate of Rogers and Mary Ellen Aston, 2000.001.0523. became known as pike and shot, led to their being adopted throughout Europe. The pikemen, armored with the Cabasset, a breastplate, and a leather coat known as a buff coat, were well protected from enemy attacks, whether from other pike formations or from enemy gendarme, where the design of the Cabasset was especially effective at deflecting blows from above. The helmets were also preferred due to the low cost of manufacture, which helped to spread its use.

Officers would often pay extra to have extravagant designs engraved on their helmets as a sign of status.

Staff Favorites is on view at RMAC through June 3, so be sure to visit if you’re around. Perhaps you will discover a new favorite work of your own.

Culture

Continued from Page 13 love art. It will feature art classes for all ages, exhibition space and studios. She is also planning to offer classes to art teachers. First signup sheets for two children’s classes this summer will be available at

the opening on April 21.

She is planning to work tightly together with the community, museums and the city.

Howe has many plans for Bone Springs Art Space including a kiln yard to offer ceramic

classes and landscaping of a garden.

The public is invited for a first glimpse on what is to come on April 21.

“On Saturday, we’ll have six different handson events,” Howe said.

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“We are making a community tree and we will be doing solar printing.

Their will be a community tree, which is based on a project that I am doing currently at Berrendo Elementary School. We are making

a tree at the center of the hallway and I’ve been working with third-graders to make these beautiful trees. They are turning out so fantastic that I thought I should try that again with the community.

For more information, call 575-208-0916. Bone Springs Art Space is also on Facebook.

History

The Historical Society of New Mexico annual history conference

By John LeMay

M

ost towns across America have their own historical society, but some may not know that each state has its own historical society also.

New Mexico should be proud to know that its own Historical Society of New Mexico is the “oldest historical society west of the Mississippi River.” Our state historical society (which this author is proud to be on the board of directors of) was founded all the way back on Dec. 26, 1859 and has only ever suspended its duties during the turbulent Civil War of the 1860s.

The society began collecting historic artifacts and papers of various periods and ethnic groups early on. This eventually led to the founding of the soci-

ety’s museum within the Palace of Governors in 1885.

When the territorial government created the Museum of New Mexico in 1909, it incorporated many of the society’s collections. In 1913, the Historical Society of New Mexico began its first official bulletin, “Old Santa Fe,” edited by Ralph Emerson Twitchell.

By 1926, “Old Santa Fe” had sadly been defunct for several years. Lansing B. Bloom and Paul A. F. Walter started the “New Mexico Historical Review” for the society. From 1927 to 1960, the Society was the official guardian of the archives of the state of New Mexico until the state established its own archives department at the New Mexico Records Center and Archives. In

1963, financial pressures led the Society to turn over ownership of the “Review” to the University of New Mexico.

In order to revive membership, the Historical Society of New Mexico began its annual conferences on Southwest and New Mexico history in 1974. Two and a halfday conferences are held in the spring (usually mid-April) around the state and include tours of local historical sites as well as papers and discussion on New Mexico history and politics.

Joint conferences with the Arizona Historical Society every few years broaden the interest of historical society members of both states.

This month, April 19 to April 21, the Historical Society of New Mexico will hold their annual conference in our

neck of the woods in Alamogordo. The conference events will be held on the campus of New Mexico State University-Alamogordo, in the Science Center, Rohovec Fine Arts Center and Tays Center at 2400 N. Scenic Drive.

The Thursday night reception will be held at the New Mexico Museum of Space History just up the hill from NMSU-A at the top of Highway 2001.

Our own Janice Dunnahoo, Historical Society of Southeast New Mexico chief archivist, will be one of the speakers there. Roswell’s Dorothy Cave, author of books such as “Beyond Courage,” will receive the Dorothy Woodward Award given for the advancement of education in New Mexico history. Cave was nom-

Submitted Photo Dorothy Aldrich during her book signing on March 9 at the Roswell American Legion, Post 28.

Aldrich received Congressional recognition for her work as historian and author from the United States House of Representatives, the City of Roswell and the American Legion, Post 28. inated by the board of directors of our historical society in Roswell and we are very pleased to see that she was the chosen recipient. Congratulations Dorothy,

from your friends at the HSSENM. If you are interested in attending the Historical Society conference, visit hsnm.org.

Coffee

Continued from Page 4 and song themes, Anderson said, “I had a lot of support in my family. We ended up having tragedy and losing my mother while I was young. What we did at that time, we leaned on our faith. Just because of that, I think we appreciate the time that we have with people, that you appreciate love when you are able to find it. That bleeds over into my songs and the music that I choose to make, unlike some of my counterparts.

“My granddad sang in a gospel quartet, my mother was an amazing vocalist. She could sing her face off. She was gifted. My dad promoted bands when he was younger. We always knew what good music was supposed to sound like. We always knew how good singers should sound like. I think it is like the perfect storm with my granddaddy’s legacy to my mother’s gift and my dad’s business mind in music,” Anderson said.

The success of “Cowboy Style” came as a surprise for Anderson. “I was not expecting it to do as well as it did,” he said. “I work hard; I dedicate my life to entertaining people, to make the best music that I can. It was one of those things where I really felt that all the stars aligned, almost as if there was a big

pat on my back that said, ‘Yes, you are exactly doing what you should be doing, great job.’”

Anderson prefers to perform at festivals and is looking forward to coming to Roswell. “I am excited because a lot of country acts, they want to only entertain festivals or bars, beer drinking and such types of things. I think my music has such an impact because I love coming to smaller towns. I love that the chamber of commerce is organizing it, so that the whole town can come. I think that a lot of times when you go to bars people are trying to forget, or they are trying to remember a time they regret. I think I am able to help people to make memories.

I always want to make my music family-friendly where you can listen to my music if you are the grandchild or grandparent. It’s for the whole family.”

One of the songs Anderson is going to sing is “Ready, Aim, Fire.” “‘Ready, Aim, Fire’ is one of those songs that is special to me,” he said. “I was able to write it with one of my music heroes. I wrote it with a guy named Paul Overstreet. Overstreet wrote ‘Same Old Me,’ he wrote ‘Forever and ever’ for Randy Travis. Mega

songs. I went to his house and played and we finished the song in 20 minutes. The music part of it is easy because both of us are gifted like that.”

Anderson will be available for a meet-and-greet in Roswell before the concert and he will be at the merchandise table for autographs.

Anderson has a message for his audience at the Cinco de Mayo festival. “I would love for them to download the music before I get there and find the songs that they like, so when the song comes on, they can dance to it and have a connection,” he said.

“It’s available on iTunes, Amazon, Google Play and I am making it available on all formats so everybody has a chance to download, listen and enjoy it. Also, it will be available on CD, because some people don’t know how to download.

“Don’t be afraid to connect with me. Connect on social media, write letters, write emails and I’ll try to get back to you as soon as possible. Don’t be a stranger and I won’t be,” Anderson said.

Anderson is active on Facebook with live feeds and Instagram. For more information, visit coffeyanderson.com.

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Alien vs. human intuition: a speculation

UFOlogy

Looking Up

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By Donald Burleson

ome of the UFOs that witnesses have observed in the skies are obviously devices of exceedingly sophisticated design.

We’ve seen them, both visually and on radar, making right-angle turns at thousands of miles per hour and performing all sorts of other astonishing maneuvers.

What are we to think of the creatures who produce such machines?

According to well-attested accounts of recovery of the Roswell alien bodies in 1947, those beings have similarities to our own human form. They have two arms, two

legs, a head with two eyes, leading some of us to infer that they’re genetically like us in many ways. However, the body form may well be where the similarities end. What of their minds?

We at least know some things about our own human minds. We know, for example, that some aspects of our universe are things our human intuition is comfortable with, while other aspects are highly counter-intuitive. I’m thinking of quantum mechanics in particular.

In the early 20th century when a pioneering group of scientists started propounding the fun-

damentals of quantum theory, Albert Einstein found some of its details so contrary to commonsense that he couldn’t accept them as valid. It was only when he saw them confirmed by rigorous experiments that he began — still somewhat reluctantly — to credit them as being true.

For instance, quantum theory shows that when two subatomic particles are subjected to the process now called entanglement and then projected away from each other with each of them moving at essentially the speed of light, in opposite directions, and when we then alter

the spin of one of the particles, the spin of the other particle is instantly altered in the same way, even though no physical effect under the circumstances could be “transmitted” from one particle to the other. Einstein at first thought this was insane; he called it “spooky action at a distance.”

But however counter-intuitive all this may be to us, what about a different kind of brain, in which such features of quantum theory were seen as natural and not at all troubling?

This would make a huge difference in terms of the way in which quantum principles

could be put to work.

For us struggling humans, the road to productive employment of quantum theory has been decidedly uphill for the better part of a century, and many people aren’t aware of how much they depend on someone’s mastery of the theory. The development of cellphones, for one thing, required proficiency with quantum physics.

For creatures whose brains evolved in such a way that somehow these concepts were always intuitive and unsurprising, the road to their productive use wouldn’t be so uphill, and the engineering of

these remarkable flying machines would be more readily accomplished than we would have found it.

After all, right here on Planet Earth there are things obvious to a cat or to a rhinoceros that aren’t obvious to us, so human intuition isn’t everything. And out in space, who knows?

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