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A LOOK INSIDE THE ARCHIVES AT ONE OF OUR CLASSIC ISSUES FROM 91 YEARS OF NEW MEXICO MAGAZINE.
September 1933
Airplane Anglers
Art and Artists of New Mexico
By Elliott S. Barker (New Mexico State Game Warden) A long distance phone call from Deputy Warden Baca at Albuquerque advised me that Bill Cutter, Jimmie Oxnard, Dick Moon, and Baca would stop by for me the following morning at 6 o’clock en route to Eagle Nest Lake by airplane. I started to protest that business would not permit me to leave, that office work was piling up, and besides I had never been up in a plane. But protests were of no avail. … And what a trip! The sensation as the earth fell away from us in the light of the rising sun! Circling the field to gain altitude, we headed north following over the foothills between Santa Fe Baldy and Truchas peaks and the Río Grande. … We climbed gradually to 12,000 feet as we passed over Santa Cruz Reservoir nestling in the canyon as a jewel in a gorgeous setting. The myriad grayish red arroyos wending their circuitous courses to the west appeared as threads strewn upon a green carpet. We passed over the beautiful Truchas Valley, as the first smoke from the chimneys curled upward, indicating the awakening of the village folk. …
By Ina Sizer Cassidy
The Black Shawl by Esquipula Romero de Romero
… Pueblo art is not primitive art in the sense that it is simple, naïve, and unsophisticated, for it is not. Pueblo art is an organized art with definite, well-defined principles of technique and composition, known, apparently instinctively, by every young Indian artist, for if you ask him where he learned his art, he will answer, “I didn’t learn it, I just knew it.” And its symbolism is the sum of an inheritance from a long period of Native culture. …
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HERE are too many singers of this land That more should sing. Let us only walk Upon the yellow roads and hear the bells That rang so long before the white-sailed ship Set out with pilgrims for a paler land: Let us look at purple tamarisk And golden cottonwood, nor stop to say “There’s beauty,” where so many point the way. These soft-eyed speakers of the Spanish tongue, And Indians, lost empires in their eyes, We leave to those who sing more skillfully Of what so lately we began to praise. We will speak only of the gentle air That brings sweet sleep to all who sojourn there. —Dorothy Tyler
VOLUME 92, ISSUE 9 New Mexico Magazine (ISSN 0028-6249) is published monthly by the New Mexico Tourism Department at 495 Old Santa Fe Trail, Santa Fe, NM 87501-2750. SUBSCRIPTION PRICE: $25.95 per year, $45.95 outside the United States. Periodicals postage paid at Santa Fe, NM, and at additional mailing offices. POSTMASTER: Send address changes to New Mexico Magazine, PO Box 433148, Palm Coast, FL 32143-9881. Copyright © 2014 by New Mexico Magazine. Reproduction in whole or in part without permission is prohibited. The magazine is not responsible for unsolicited manuscripts, photographs, or artwork.
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