Alamodoso magazine feburary march 2017

The Magazine for Otero & Lincoln County

Inside This Issue ● The First Apache ● Found At Market ● Bear Grease Forecasting ● Troubled Life of Pat Garrett ● Recipes ● Local Advertising ● And Much More

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Have You Ever Heard The Term ‘Piss Poor?’

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e can learn a lot about ourselves by looking to the past.

History not only provides us with a nostalgic glimpse at how things used to be — like with these classic childhood toys — but its lessons can still teach us things today .Many of us fondly refer to “the good old days” when times were purer and life was simpler.

water, then all the other sons and men, then the women, and finally the children. Last of all the babies.

By then the water was so dirty you could actually lose someone in it. Hence the saying, “Don’t throw the baby out with the bath water!”

Houses had thatched roofs with thick straw-piled high and no wood underneath. It was the only place for animals to get warm, so all the cats and other small animals (mice, bugs) lived in the roof. When it rained, it became slippery and sometimes the animals would slip and fall off the roof.

Hence the saying, “It’s raining cats and dogs.” There was nothing to stop things from falling into the house.

This posed a real problem in the bedroom where bugs and other droppings could mess up your nice clean bed. Hence, a bed with big posts and a sheet hung over the top afforded some protection. That’s how canopy beds came into existence.

The floor was dirt. Only the wealthy had something other than dirt. Hence the term, “dirt poor.” The wealthy had slate floors that would get slippery in the winter when wet, so they spread thresh (straw) on the floor to help keep their footing. As the winter wore on, they added more thresh until, when you opened the door, it would all start slipping outside. A piece of wood was placed in the entrance-way. Hence, “a thresh hold.”

They used to use urine to tan animal skins, so families used to all pee in a pot. Once a day it was taken and sold to the tannery. If you had to do this to survive, you were “piss poor.” But worse than that were the In those old days, they cooked in the kitchen with a really poor folks who couldn’t even afford to buy a pot. big kettle that always hung over the fire. Every day, they They “didn’t have a pot to piss in” and were considered lit the fire and added things to the pot. They ate mostly the lowest of the low. vegetables and did not get much meat.

Most people got married in June because they took their yearly bath in May, and they still smelled pretty good by June. However, since they were starting to smell, brides carried a bouquet of flowers to hide the body odor. Hence the custom today of carrying a bouquet when getting married.

They would eat the stew for dinner, leaving leftovers in the pot to get cold overnight and then start over the next day. Sometimes stew had food in it that had been there for quite a while. Hence the rhyme, “Peas porridge hot, peas porridge cold, peas porridge in the pot nine days old.” Sometimes they could obtain pork, which made them feel quite special. When visitors came Baths consisted of a big tub filled with hot water. over, they would hang up their bacon to show off. It The man of the house had the privilege of the nice clean was a sign of wealth that a man could “bring home the

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7 bacon.” They would cut off a little to share with guests, and would all sit around and “chew the fat.”

Those with money had plates made of pewter. Food with high acid content caused some of the lead to leach onto the food, causing lead poisoning death. This happened most often with tomatoes, so for the next 400 years or so, tomatoes were considered poisonous.

Lead cups were used to drink ale or whisky. The combination would sometimes knock the imbibers out for a couple of days. Someone walking along the road would take them for dead and prepare them for burial.

They were laid out on the kitchen table for a couple of days and the family would gather around and eat and drink and wait and see if they would wake up. Hence the custom of holding a “wake.”

In old, small villages, local folks started running out of places to bury people. So they would dig up coffins and would take the bones to a bone-house, and reuse the grave.

When reopening these coffins, 1 out of 25 coffins were found to have scratch marks on the inside, and they realized they had been burying people alive. So they would tie a string on the wrist of the corpse, lead it through the coffin and up through the ground and tie it to a bell.

Someone would have to sit out in the graveyard all night (“the graveyard shift”) to listen for the bell. Thus, someone could be “saved by the bell,” or was considered a “dead ringer.”

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The First Apache I

n the beginning the world was covered with darkness. There was no sun, no day. The perpetual night had no moon or stars.

There were, however, all manner of beasts and birds. Among the beasts were many hideous, nameless monsters, as well as dragons, lions, tigers, wolves, foxes, beavers, rabbits, squirrels, rats, mice, and all manner of creeping things such as lizards and serpents.

Mankind could not prosper under such conditions, for the beasts and serpents destroyed all human offspring.

All creatures had the power of speech and were gifted with reason.

There were two tribes of creatures: the birds, or the feathered tribe, and the beasts.

The former were organized under their chief, the eagle. These tribes often held councils, and the birds wanted light admitted.

This the beasts repeatedly refused to do.

Finally the birds made war against the beasts.

The beasts were armed with clubs, but the eagle had taught his tribe to use bows and arrows. The serpents were so wise that they could not all be killed. One took refuge in a perpendicular cliff of a mountain in Arizona, and his eye (changed into a brilliant stone) may be seen in that rock to this day.

The bears, when killed, would each be changed into several other bears, so that the more bears the feathered tribe killed, the more there were.

The dragon could not be killed, either, for he was covered with four coats of horny scales, and the arrows would not penetrate these. One of the most hideous, vile monsters (nameless) was proof against arrows, so the eagle flew high up in the air with a round, white stone, and let it fall on

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This was such a good service that the stone was called sacred. They fought for many days, but at last the birds won the victory.

After this war was over, although some evil beasts remained, the birds were able to control the councils, and light was admitted. Then mankind could live and prosper.

her child, but she knew the power and cunning of the dragon, therefore she lived in constant fear.

Soon after this the boy said that he wished to go hunting. The mother would not give her consent. She told him of the dragon, the wolves, and the serpents; but he said, ‘Tomorrow I go.’

At the boy's request his uncle, (who was The eagle was chief in this good fight; the only man then living), made a little bow therefore, his feathers were worn by man as and some arrows for him, and the two went emblems of wisdom, justice and power. hunting the next day. They trailed the deer far up the mountain and finally the boy Among the few human beings that were killed a buck. yet alive was a woman who had been blessed with many children, but these had His uncle showed him how to dress the always been destroyed by the beasts. If by deer and broil the meat. They broiled two any means she succeeded in eluding the hind quarters, one for the child and one for others, the dragon, who was wise and very his uncle. When the meat was done they evil, would come himself and eat her babes. placed it on some bushes to cool.

After many years a son of the rainstorm was born to her and she dug for him a deep cave. The entrance to this cave she closed and over the spot built a camp fire. This concealed the babe's hiding place and kept him warm. Every day she would remove the fire and descend into the cave, where the child's bed was, to nurse him; then she would return and rebuild the camp fire.

Frequently the dragon would come and question her, but she would say, ‘I have no more children; you have eaten all of them.’

When the child was larger he would not always stay in the cave, for he sometimes wanted to run and play. Once the dragon saw his tracks.

This perplexed and enraged the old dragon, for he could not find the hiding place of the boy; but he said that he would destroy the mother if she did not reveal the child's hiding place. The poor mother was very much troubled; she could not give up

Just then the huge form of the dragon appeared. The child was not afraid, but his uncle was so dumb with fright that he did not speak or move.

The dragon took the boy's parcel of meat and went aside with it. He placed the meat on another bush, and seated himself beside it. Then he said, ‘This is the child I have been seeking. Boy, you are nice and fat, so when I have eaten this venison I shall eat you.’

The boy said, ‘No, you shall not eat me, and you shall not eat that meat.’ So he walked over to where the dragon sat and took the meat back to his own seat.

The dragon said, ‘I like your courage, but you are foolish; what do you think you could do?’ ‘Well,’ said the boy, ‘I can do enough to protect myself, as you may find out.’ Then the dragon took the meat again, and then the boy retook it. Four times in all the dragon took the meat, and after the

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10 fourth time the boy replaced the meat he said, ‘Dragon, will you fight me?’ The dragon said, ‘Yes, in whatever way you like.’

The boy shot an arrow, striking the dragon just over the heart, and one coat of the great horny scales fell to the ground.

The boy said, ‘I will stand one hundred The next shot another coat fell, and then paces from you and you may have four shots at another, and the dragon's heart was exposed. me with your bow and arrows, provided that Then the dragon trembled, but could not move. you will then exchange places with me and give Before the fourth arrow was shot the boy me four shots.’ ‘Good,’ said the dragon. ‘Stand said, ‘Uncle, you are dumb with fear; you have up.’ not moved; come here or the dragon will fall on Then the dragon took his bow, which was you.’ His uncle ran toward him. Then he sped made of a large pine tree. He took four arrows the fourth arrow with true aim, and it pierced from his quiver; they were made of young pine the dragon's heart. With a tremendous roar the tree saplings, and each arrow was twenty feet in dragon rolled down the mountain side— down length. four precipices into a canyon below.

He took deliberate aim, but just as the arrow left the bow the boy made a peculiar sound and leaped into the air. Immediately the arrow was shivered into a thousand splinters, and the boy was seen standing on the top of a bright rainbow over the spot where the dragon's aim had been directed.

Immediately storm clouds swept the mountains, lightning flashed, thunder rolled, and the rain poured. When the rainstorm had passed, far down in the canyon below, they could see fragments of the huge body of the dragon lying among the rocks, and the bones of this dragon may still be found there.

Soon the rainbow was gone and the boy was This boy's name was Apache. Usen, the standing on the ground again. Four times this Giver of Life, taught him how to prepare was repeated, then the boy said, ‘Dragon, stand herbs for medicine, how to hunt, and how here; it is my time to shoot.’ to fight. He was first chief of the Indians The dragon said, ‘All right, your little arrows cannot pierce my first coat of horn, and I have three other coats—shoot away.’

and wore eagle's feathers as the sign of justice, wisdom and power.

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Just Wait ‘Til You See What We Found At Market!

We know everything about Christmas Hi guys, this is Miss Alice, again, from Victoria located on New York Avenue here for 2017. We know the colors, which this year will be copper and ivory though you in beautiful Alamogordo will only be seeing a touch of that here at Many of you all when you come to visit Victoria. We know what the ornaments are, and shop here at Victoria ask us where we what the tree will look like; We know do our shopping as we have so many everything except for what happens now wonderful and unique items for sale here. until the Christmas Season, lol.

Well, the answer is that we go to market in Dallas at the Dallas Trade Center. As a matter of fact, we just recently returned from our shopping there and want to share with you all some of the wonderful things we found for the shop for our 2017 Christmas Season.

New for 2017 are a collection of nut crackers, officially called Hollywood Nut Crackers, but we will just be calling them the Hollywood Crackers.

The big Christmas Tree that’s at the rear of Victoria each year is going to extra extraordinary.

The tree is going to be dressed in red velvet and authentic reproduction of ornaments from the 1800s. We’re having a world of fun planning all this and hope you all will like it also.

Another special for Christmas is going to be a new battery operated, hand held, or place on a table microphone with three settings. The first setting allows the Everything for Christmas 2017 has been microphone to play various Christmas ordered, a lot has been received and we are songs. The second setting lets you sing like kids on Christmas Morning every time along with the music, and the the third the mailman drops by. setting, my personal favorite, changes your

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one of them say something about Bonita Lake.

Brenda asked him if she had overheard correctly and he said, that he had a cabin near Ruidoso but was now in El Paso.

Before I forget, I want to remind you all about our annual tea service this coming Friday, March the 3rd. Please join us and He also told Brenda that the other enjoy our one day 15% off store wide sale.

For more information, see our ad on page 2 attendant, Susan, was from Cloudcroft. and 3 of this issue of Alamodoso Magazine.

We are going to be opening up a tiny kitchen accessories department at the front of the store. Your going to find practical and beautiful things for your kitchen that won’t find at Walmart or Kmart. We will also being putting in some local honey as well.

Now I want to tell you about what happened on the way back from market.

We had gotten on board our plane at Dallas Love Field, sitting as we always do at the front. There were two attendants there chatting, and Brenda (my daughter for those of you who don’t know) overheard

We told them that we were from Alamogordo, and that we owned a business there. Susan asked us the name of our shop, and when we told her Victoria she said thatshe just loved our store!

Isn’t it amazing that even folks flying all over the United States on SouthWest Airlines, know about Victoria, a little gift boutique here in little ol’ Alamogordo.

The “official” airline For Victoria on New York

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This bottle was found intact while excavating the Valley Lodge in Tularosa prior to remodeling. It propped up a floor joist. What is neat about this relic is its paper label with TIPTON AND HILLBURN TULAROSA NM the back label has an 1897 liquor law. The Tipton bar was on SE corner of Granado and Third streets. The Champion store occurs over it today. Buffs of western history will recall in April 1898 Oliver Lee met with future Secretary of Interior Albert Bacon Fall to discuss business. Toby Tipton was there too. Future Territorial NM Governor George Curry was there and Pat Garrett just happened to drop in. A three day poker game began soon after business matters.

Garrett was trying to get arrest warrants on Lee over Fountain murder and things were tense at the table. In the end, Oliver Lee walked away from the poker table with the every bodies money proving, once again, that Lee was both brilliant and extraordinarily lucky.

Story by Joe Ben Sanders

Gordon Wimsatt Bear Grease Weather Forecasting Tool Gordon Wimsatt, born on September 6th, 1915, came to the Sacramento Mountains with his parents, George and Johnnie Wimsatt, in 1927.

A few years after his arrival, in the early 1930s, Gordon met George Hightower, who was part Apache.

George worked for the State Game and Fish Department, and was also a hunter and trapper. He had killed a bear and gave some of the grease to Gordon, telling him the Indians predicted the weather by observing the changes in the grease.

Gordon started watching the grease, which had been put into a clear glass jar. At first, he considered it a joke, but the more he watched the changes in the grease and the

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23 changes in the weather that accompanied them, bear grease weather predicting became a hobby of his that lasted until his death more than 60 years later.

Over the years, friends gave him some of the fat whenever they killed a bear. After he had accumulated many samples of grease and was able to compare the different specimens, his weather predictions became more and more accurate. He could predict moisture close at hand and also temperature changes. In the beginning, he generally kept the information to himself, but one time he informed a friend that on the next day, February 17th, there would be significant moisture. The friend pointed to the clear skies and laughed at Gordon. Overnight and by noon the next day, more than 8” of snow fell.

On another occasion, quoting Gordon, “We had a long dry spell of weather. A logging company was moving logs from the woods to the sawmill in Alamogordo. The foreman was in my store about seven o’clock one morning. The sky was as blue as it could be, without a cloud in sight. I said, ‘Archie, you better have your trucks out of the woods by about ten o’clock, or they’ll be stuck in the mud so deep you might not get them out.’ ‘I bet your bear grease told you that,’ Archie said, laughing as he and a couple of his workers went on their way. Before 10 pm, a downpour of more than 2″ soaked the woods, and the logging trucks could not get out that day.

As Gordon’s reputation began to spread, meteorologists questioned his abilities, and often challenged him. One time, Gordon advised Holloman Air Force Base to delay the release of their weather balloons because he predicted high winds for the coming week. They held off despite their meteorologist recommending that the

balloons be released. There were high winds for a week.

Gordon was never sure why the grease acted as it did. He commented that it appeared to be like living cells responding to chemical and pressure changes in the atmosphere.

In October 1974, Gordon predicted from observing more than 100 jars of bear grease at his home, that the coming winter would be a harsh one. Naturalists observing the actions of animals and birds concurred.

Even the Old Farmers’ Almanac agreed.

Their predictions all turned out to be quite accurate.

Jill Kahn, a 10 year old student in El Paso won a prize in the El Paso Regional Science Fair for her presentation on bear grease weather predicting in 1981, which she had learned from Gordon after he gave her a small jar of the oil five years before.

Gordon Wimsatt passed away on October 18, 1995 at 80 years, and was buried in James Canyon Cemetery. He was the father of four children, and had 15 grandchildren, 27 great-grandchildren, and one greatgreat-grandchild at the time of his death.

He owned and operated Wimsatt’s Store in Cloudcroft for years and then became a land developer.

Gordon donated his family collections to the Historical Society’s museum in Cloudcroft, where a display of his bear grease, his interpretive charts, and other items pertaining to his weather predictions may be seen. Gordon may be gone, but his bear grease predictions will

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My name Averoy Pierce , I live about 7 miles north of Pinon.

A retired teacher since 2012.

I got started in crafting before I I retired making jewelry because that is my love and passion. My grandmother was an Indian possibly from the Cherokee Tribe, she also loved making jewelry I guess that is where I got my love for it.

After my retirement I decided I needed something else to do so I got my old Singer sewing machine and started sewing again.

I do multi-media , mix-media crosses, purses, hats and vest for both bi girls or little girls. If I could do one thing that I love it would be to get my embroidery and incorporate with my crosses, that is what I would do.

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Benefits of Organic Coffee

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offee itself -- whether organically or conventionally grown -has potential health benefits due to its antioxidant content. study published in the journal "Plant Foods for Human Nutrition" found the antioxidants in coffee decrease oxidative stress in the body and therefore reduce risk of diseases like cancer and reduce inflammation in the body.

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nother study, published in the "Journal of Nutrition and Metabolism," found coffee may help to prevent and treat diabetes by lowering blood sugar levels after meals.

Health Benefits of Drinking Organic Due to the certification process, organic foods may cost slightly more, but a little extra in cost may bring huge health savings. Conventional, or non-organic, coffee may contain residue from synthetic chemical fertilizers and pesticides. These residues may cause cancer, nervous system disturbances, hormone imbalance or irritation to skin and eyes, according to the Environmental Protection Agency. When you consume organic coffee, you won't get any chemical residues or harmful health side effects.

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Basic Red Wine Reduction Sauce Recipe Ever wonder what to do with leftover wine?

That is, if you have any. This red wine reduction sauce is the perfect way for oenophiles of all levels to use up wine from last night or to put that just-opened bottle to use for something besides sipping. Half a cup of wine can be reduced into a rich sauce for two. This one is simple and fast to make.

You can easily drizzle it over a filet or pork chops, or even use it as a base to braise short ribs. Even the kitchen rookie can accomplish this rich sauce.

Ingredients ● olive oil, for coating the pan ● 1/4 cup shallots, minced ● 1/2 cup red wine

● In a saute pan, over medium high heat, add enough olive oil to coat the pan. ● Add the shallots and cook until translucent.

● 1/2 cup beef stock ● 2

tablespoons butter

● 1tablespoon rosemary, chopped,

● Add the red wine and the stock and reduce by half.* ● Add the butter and chopped rosemary.

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Tularosa Basin Gallery of Photography hosts New Mexico Magazine's 16th Annual Photography Competition Winners

Date: April 1, 2017 22 Prize Winning Photographs from New Mexico Magazine's 16th Annual Photography Competiton. On exhibit until September Tularosa Basin Gallery of Photography 401 Twelfth Street Carrizozo, NM Gallery Hours: Thursdays thru Mondays 10AM to 5PM Sundays from Noon to 5PM. 575-937-1489

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The Silent Screen

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he Lyric Theatre was built in 1916 as an Opera House. It opened as the Carrizozo Theatre

In 1918 the name changed to Crystal Theatre, and began to show silent movies. First Silent Movie shown there was “Till I come Back To You”.

When sound movies came along, it reopened with sound on June 13th,1931, and re-named “Lyric Theatre”.

First Sound Film shown was The Last Parade.

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In the early 1940’s, the seating capacity was listed as 319.

The Lyric Theater was closed in 1979, after problems & protests over the scree-ning of “The Excorcist”.

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Photo courtesy of Cynthia Prelo-Reidlinger).

PAT COGHLAN BIOGRAPHY

By Joe Ben Sanders 2017

P SOLID SURFACE SPECALTIES Luxury Countertops, Vanities and Shower Stalls

at came to Tularosa and Three Rivers country in the early 1870's and stayed in Tularosa in later years until shortly before he died in 1911 in El Paso.

He left behind his ten room hotel. In 1914, John Meadows acquired the property and operated the hotel until about 1932. He died in 1936.

2420 N. White Sands, Alamogordo 575-437-2262

RD Champion acquired the property and rented out rooms there until about 1940, according to Orpha Wingfield, who lived here in the years just before it was destroyed.

Pat Coghlan built the rectangle adobe hotel in Tularosa about 1875 just south of the Catholic Church. During our archaeological excavation, we found the remains of yellow painted floor boards and blue plastered walls of the hotel about 18 inches down in the ground. RD Champion knocked it down in 1940 and buried it under its own adobe rubble.

In 1886, Pat began to borrow against his empire. I am guessing the picture seen above dates to this period when he took the secured loan and traveled abroad and visited the "auld" country.

His wife died in 1901, and he appears to be with his first wife in this picture. Both were laid to rest in El Paso

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Traditional New Mexico

Tamales Ingredients ● 1 6-ounce package dried corn husks ● 1½ pounds pork loin ● 1 medium onion, chopped ● 2 cups water ● 2 tablespoons vegetable oil ● 2 garlic cloves, minced ● 1 tablespoon all-purpose flour ● ½ cup ground dried mild red chile (not chili powder), preferably New Mexican ● ¾ teaspoon salt ● ½ teaspoon dried oregano, preferably Mexican

Dough ● 6 cups masa harina (corn flour for tamales) ● 1 ²/³ cups vegetable oil or lard, or a combination ● 5 cups water, or more as needed ● 2 teaspoons salt

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Preparation Filling 1. Preheat oven to 350° F. Place pork and onion in a medium-size baking dish and cover with water. Bake for approximately 1½ hours, or until pork is cooked through and pulls apart easily.

2. Remove pork from liquid, reserving both. When pork is cool enough to handle, pull it into fine shreds. When liquid has cooled, strain and skim fat from surface. If liquid doesn’t measure 2 cups, add enough water to equal 2 cups.

3. Warm oil in a heavy skillet over medium heat. Add garlic and pork. Sprinkle flour over mixture and stir for 1 minute as flour begins to brown.

4. Add chile, cooking liquid, salt and oregano. Continue cooking for 20 to 25 minutes, until most of liquid has evaporated but pork remains moist. Watch carefully and stir in last few minutes to avoid burning.

Dough Mix masa harina, oil, water and salt with an electric mixer. Mix till wellblended and smooth, like a very soft cookie dough. Add more water if needed for correct consistency. (Fresh ground tamale dough, or masa, is often available around the holidays in communities with a Latino population. You may need to order it in advance. About 3 pounds can be used in place of the dough.)

Corn husks Place corn husks in a deep bowl and cover with hot water. Let soak until softened and pliable, about 30 minutes. Separate husks, and if there is any grit or brown silk, rinse them under water. Husks can stay in water once softened while you form the tamales.

Assembly 1. Each tamale will require about 2 tablespoons of filling and dough and 1 large corn husk. Hold a corn husk flat, smooth side up. With large spoon, spread a thin layer of dough across the husk, not quite to the edges.

2. Top with filling spread more thickly through dough’s center, stopping short of dough’s edges. Fold one half over the other, enclosing the filling within the dough. Fold up the bottom third of the corn husk, so that the tamale becomes something of a package. Repeat procedure until all dough and filling are used.

Steaming 1. Arrange a vegetable steamer in the bottom of a large stockpot and fill with hot water. Place tamales in steamer, standing them on the folded ends. Leave enough space among them for steam to rise effectively.

2. Cover pot and cook over simmering water for about 1 hour, until the masa is firm and no longer sticks to husks. Check one tamale for consistency. If still doughy, rewrap and return to the pot, and continue steaming for a few more minutes. Tamales should be eaten warm. The husks are usually removed by each guest before eating, but can be removed ahead of time, if you prefer.

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ries, you aren’t necessarily somebody who loves-loves-loves to get organized. But on the 1st, the Aries March 2017 monthly horoscope shows that you are raring to go when it comes to cleaning up your files, alphabetizing your cabinets and colorcoding your spice drawer. What’s come over you? Why ask? Just go with this let’sget-things-in-order energy and before you know it, you’ll be living in a fullyorganized environment! And guess what? It makes you feel good!

By the super-enthused 6th and 7th of March 2017, you and your favorite project are in great shape. Finish the evenings off with a kiss and you’ll see what it’s like when things just can’t get much better.

Whether you want to or not, the 13th and 14th are days for getting in touch with your emotions. Don’t fight it, Aries, even if you’re totally busy and just don’t have time for ‘feelings,’ right now.

‘Selfish’ is almost never the best approach to take to a problem. So, Aries, don’t be selfish on the 19th and 20th of February 2017. Your body will let you know: You need, need, need to get out there and workout on the 25th! Otherwise your joints (brain, lungs, heart) will start complaining. Pay attention to your dreams, no matter how confusing they are, on the 30th and 31st.

Love & Relationships Forecast What? Love needs to be organized? It doesn’t just sustain itself spontaneously without any effort whatsoever on the part of the two love bugs? Huh? Now, now, this can’t really be news for you, Aries. But you might well have been acting as if this is something you believe, what with your ‘I don’t have time for this now’ attitude towards romance, lately.

But on the 1st, the 2017 March monthly forecasts for the Ram predict that you are going to change your spots. And that’s very good news for your romance!

Career Horoscope Aries, if you find yourself suddenly seized by the need to clean your desktop, take out the trash, shred your old bank statements, and generally organize your workplace until it’s a veritable oeuvre of organizational gorgeousness on the 1st and 2nd of March 2017, you should do it!

After all, Aries, it isn’t everyday that you’re overcome by this sort of impulse, and when you’re done, you could be really impressed by the increase you experience in your work productivity! Maybe you’ll set the tone for the rest of the year with this bout of spring cleaning.

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St. Patrick’s Day Postcards

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n last month’s article about Valentines, we gave a brief outline of the origin of picture postcards.

In 1905 the Post Office relaxed their rules and allowed picture postcards to be mailed for one cent, with room for the address on the right side below the space for the stamp and room for a written message at the left.

Previously the message had to be written around the picture, and for a time even a one word message or signature on either side caused it to be rated as a letter and required 2 cents postage.

Once the new rules were in effect postcard makers rushed millions of cards into print and started the Golden Age of postcards, approximately from 1905 until the early 1930s.

Of course, many makers stressed holiday cards, of which only Birthday cards, Valentines and Christmas cards are still commonly popular today, though they are now generally mailed in envelopes.

Holiday cards which were popular but are now rarely sent include those for St. Patrick’s Day, the Fourth of July, Halloween, and Thanksgiving Day. Saint Patrick’s Day, or the Feast of St. Patrick is a cultural and religious celebration held on March 17, the traditional death date of St. Patrick (ca.

385-481 AD).

He is the primary patron Saint of Ireland as he introduced Christianity to the Irish.

The day is a legal holiday in the Republic of Ireland (Eire), Northern Ireland, the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador, and the Caribbean Island of Montserrat, which was settled by Irish refugees.

However, it is popularly celebrated all over the world wherever a number of people of Irish descent live.

The day is celebrated as a religious feast day by the Catholics and some other denominations. Easing of the Lenten restrictions on alcohol for the day has resulted in the traditions of celebrating with

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beer or Irish whiskey.

Shown are several colorful cards made between 1908 and 1915, which are for sale here in my shop.

Postcards are still widely collected to this day by people called deltiologists.

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Tricky Questions And Answers That Will Beat Your Brains Out! So you think you are smart? Feel like you have more common sense than others? Think again!

The following questions are going to make your mind go crazy doing flips as it tries to figure out the answer. Don’t beat yourself up though, if you can’t get the answer. Answers Page 63

1. A little girl kicks a soccer ball. It goes 10 feet and comes back to her. How is this possible?

2. A 10 foot rope ladder hangs over the side of a boat with the bottom rung on the surface of the water. The rungs are one foot apart, and the tide goes up at the rate of 6 inches per hour. How long will it be until three rungs are covered?

3. A is the father of B. But B is not the son of A. How’s that possible?

4. A man dressed in all black is walking down a country lane. Suddenly, a large black car without any lights on comes round the corner and screeches to a halt. How did the car know he was there?

5. A rooster laid an egg on top of the barn roof. Which way did it roll?

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7. An electric train is moving north at 100mph and a wind is blowing to the west at 10mph. Which way does the smoke blow?

8. How can a man go eight days without sleep?

9. How can you drop a raw egg onto a concrete floor without cracking it?

10. How can you lift an elephant with one hand?

11. How much dirt is there in a hole 3 feet deep, 6 ft long and 4 ft wide?

12. If a doctor gives you 3 pills and tells you to take one pill every half hour, how long would it take before all the pills had been taken?

13. If it took eight men ten hours to build a wall,how long would it take four men to build it?

14. If Mr Smith’s peacock lays an egg in Mr Jones’ yard, who owns the egg?

15. If there are 6 apples and you take away 4, how many do you have?

16. If you had only one match, and entered a dark room containing an oil lamp, some newspaper, and some kindling wood, which would you light first?

17. Is it legal for a man to marry his widow’s sister?

18. Some months have 31 days, others have 30 days. How many have 28 days?

19. Larry’s father has five sons named Ten, Twenty, Thirty, Forty…Guess what would be the name of the fifth?

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1. Ever heard of gravity? She kicked it up. 12. 1 hour! Take the 1st pill right away, half an hour later take the 2nd and half 2. Never. The boat rises as the tide goes an hour after that the 3rd. Total time up. spent: 1 hour!

3. B is the daughter.

13. No time at all it is already built.

4. It was day time.

14. Peacocks don’t lay eggs, just peahens.

5. It didn’t roll – since when did roosters start laying eggs?

15. The 4 you took.

6. Because he was not driving! He’s walking on the sidewalk.

7. There is no smoke with an electric train.

8. By sleeping during the night time.

9. The Egg won’t crack the concrete floor!

16. The match.

17. No, but since he’s dead it would be kind of difficult.

18. All months have 28 days.

19. Larry! He would be the fifth son

10. It is not a problem, since you will never find an elephant with one hand.

11. None, or else it wouldn’t be a hole

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COGHLAN HOTEL ARCHAEOLOGICAL EXCAVATION CONTINUES, TULAROSA, NM.

By Joe Ben Sanders 2017

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rchaeological excavations continue on the 1875 period adobe hotel that Pat Coghlan built.

It was located on the same block as Coghlan's Store and Saloon. The wagon yard was to east and south of hotel. The

frontier army had a forage agency here also. It was located south of Catholic Church and Coghlan's store, hotel, Saloon, and wagon yard took up three quarters of the block.

Archaeologists are digging in the room on extreme right of picture in room having the two windows seen in first picture.

The hotel was destroyed about 1940 by RD Champion. The site then became a used car lot for Powell Motor Company, from about 1952-1962, then a metal building housing a laundry service and car wash in the early 1970's was built.

It was located in the area of what would have been the interior of the old hotel courtyard. It appears that about 14 inches of culturally sterile engineered fill was dumped on top of hotel remains for the We will be here several months and hope to laundry service parking lot. find some interesting information. . In The first picture is about 1923 when first 1940, the highway was widened and likely the hotel was knocked down. village water line was installed with the

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The Troubled Life of Sheriff Pat Garrett Courtesy Old West Photos & More

Pat Garrett and Wife Apolinaria

He shot and killed his first man and surrendered to the authorities at Fort Griffin, Texas, but no charges were filed.

By 1878, Pat had moved on to Fort Sumner, New Mexico just as the Lincoln County War was drawing to an end.

He worked as a ranch hand on Pete Maxwell's ranch and then as a bartender at Beaver Smith’s Saloon. He purportedly meet William Bonney there. He married Juanita Gutierrez, who died in childbirth.

About a year later he married Apolinaria, his first wife's 17 year old sister.

On November 2, 1880, Pat was elected sheriff of Lincoln County. Since his term as sheriff didn't start until the first of January, he was deputized so he could pursue a fugitive by the name of William Bonney, better known as "Billy the Kid".

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at Garrett lost both of his parents within a year when he was 18 years old. Their Louisiana plantation was $30,000 in debt with no hope of recovery. He left for Texas and worked as a ranch hand in the Dallas County area then moved on to the more lucrative life as a buffalo hunter.

He obtained a Deputy U.S. Marshal's commission as well, which allowed him to pursue Billy across county lines. Governor Wallace offered a $500 reward for the capture and delivery of Billy the Kid to any sheriff in New Mexico.

EDITORS NOTE: $500 reward for Billy The Kid worth a little over $11,000

On December 19, 1880, Pat and his posse met up with Billy, Bowdre, Pickett, Wilson and O'Folliard as they rode into In 1876, Pat had to defend himself when Fort Sumner. he got into an argument with a fellow Mistaking O'Folliard for Billy, Pat's men hunter who drew on him over a disopened fire and killed him. Billy and the agreement on some hides. others escaped. Three days later, his posse

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On April 15, 1881, Billy the Kid was sentenced to hang by Judge Bristol, but escaped within two weeks.

Pat found Billy at Pete Maxwell's house in Fort Sumner on July 14, 1881. He surprised Billy and shot him in the chest, killing him.

Dime novels portrayed Pat Garrett as an assassin and made a folk hero out of Billy the Kid.

President Roosevelt nominated Pat as Collector of Customs in El Paso, Texas in 1901. It seems, Pat didn’t fit in with the elite since he had friends who were unsavory characters like saloon owners.

He also had to pay a fine for disturbing the peace over a public fist fight with a fellow employee during his appointment.

Roosevelt replaced him in January 1906.

In 1908 Pat was killed near Las Cruces, New Mexico, purportedly by Wayne Brazel

Pat did have some happiness at home that year with the birth of his first child, Ida. In 1882 Garrett attempted to correct what was being said by publishing a book of his own with the help of his friend Ash Upson, The Authentic Life of Billy the Kid. The book was a failure when released.

He went to Santa Fe to collect the $500 reward but he was refused. Some accounts state improper paperwork, others said it was questioned, did Pat Garrett really kill Billy the Kid? His second child Elizabeth was born in 1885. She was accidently blinded due to using too much blue vitrol (a copper sulfate chemical) used to prevent infection.

From 1884 to the mid 1890's Pat drifted back and forth between Texas and New Mexico. Losing elections for sheriff and New Mexico state senator.

In Tascosa, Texas he became Lieutenant over a land lease arguement. in the Texas Rangers and resigned within Pat and his son objected when Wayne one year. brought in a large herd of goats to cattle country. Pat Garrett finely got his reward in In 1896 Pat got an appointment of sheriff for Dona Ana County, New Mexico. life, after death, and will be forever Unexpectedly he lost his daughter Ida at the remembered in old west history as the man who shot Billy the Kid. age of fifteen that same year.

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