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Affordable getaway near Lake Roberts! Located on the Gila National Forest boundary, walking distance to Lake Roberts and Spirit Canyon pictographs. Large deck with views to the picturesque red admiral cliffs and the forest. Kitchen features built in china storage and pantry. All appliances convey including micro/ convection oven. Bedrooms have nice built in dressers and larger bedroom has built in desk. Horses allowed. Located on the GMU 16/24 boundary.
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Nice single wide home on .75 ac. 3bd 2ba with a large deck in front to enjoy those gorgeous New Mexico evenings! Privately located at the end of a road, this home is priced extremely well and would make a great investment or starter home. The seller’s are willing to carry the note with acceptable terms.
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MLS# 32249 • $169,900 CUSTOM SOUTHWESTERN STYLE HOME IN DESIRABLE NORTH OF TOWN LOCATION. 2.6 PRIVATE & WOODED Attractive downtown building on Bullard, ACRES, EXCELLENT MOUNTAIN VIEWS TO THE WEST. located across from the future Silco Movie Theater. Large, open retail space with WRAP-AROUND COVERED PORCH & OVERSIZED GARAGE. Recent updating includes new granite pressed tin ceiling. Two rear storage rooms plus loft, two half baths. Additional land countertops in kitchen & baths, new carpeting behind the building for parking. This in living room & bedrooms, new faucets, new property would make a great live/work elastomeric paint on stucco, new ceiling fans. City space, potential restaurant, art gallery, or water through private water association. Seller continue it’s retail use. Price reduced! will provide a 1 year home warranty for buyer.
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TWO BUILDINGS ON BULLARD ST! Corner location & high visibility in the center of historic downtown. 2-story residential duplex currently used as furnished vacation rentals. Second building is a freestanding commercial-use space leased to a coffee shop. Don’t miss this opportunity on these well-maintained and historically significant properties.
Southwestern territorial custom home and compound perched above Sapillo Creek. This custom home boasts 4 kiva fireplaces, Santa Fe style finish with saltillo tile throughout. Strategically placed windows and decks capture the beauty of the surrounding scenery. The detached 1200 sq ft shop could be converted into a separate home with it’s own deck. Plenty of other storage buildings dot the well kept grounds, all bordering Gila National Forest and the pristine Sapillo Creek running through the property. You can fish on your very own property, a rarity in southwest New Mexico. Lake Roberts is within minutes of this dream home!
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CONTENTS
Richard Coltharp 575-524-8061 • editor@desertexposure.com
Editor 6 EDITOR’S NOTEBOOK • FIREWORKS Big Sky Painting By Elva K. Österreich
18 CYCLES OF LIFE Share the Lane
7 LETTERS • NO MORE ENCHILADAS Teacher Thankful for Experience
19 BODY, MIND & SPIRIT Grant County Weekly Events
28 THE STARRY DOME • CONSTELLATION OF THE MONTH Lupus the wolf
20 GENDERBREAD Redefining cultural norms.
30 ANNIVERSARY • MAINSTREET 30 years
8 DESERT DIARY Aging Gracefully 10 MOVING MUSIC • COMMUNITY CONCERTS Six shows planned 11 WHEELS AND GEARS • TRANSPORTATION New Exhibit 12 ARTISTIC FESTIVALS • FIBER, CLAY Silver City 13 ARTS EXPOSURE • ARTS SCENE. The latest area art happenings 17 ARTS EXPOSURE • GALLERY GUIDE Weekly events in Grant County.
WISELY Consider your horse trainer
22 BORDERLINES • LOOKING UP IN PALOMAS Hope comes to town 24 PUBLISHERS NOTEBOOK • FLYING THINGS Interesting craft in New Mexico
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31 TABLE TALK • SOUTHWESTERN SPIRIT Gin with a desert twist
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32 RED OR GREEN • DINING GUIDE Restaurant guide for southwest New Mexico.
Cary J. Howard Eddie Hodges
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38 MUSEUM TALK • NEWS AND EVENTS Busy summer
25 SUBORBITAL • SPACEPORT AMERICA Visitor center opens 26 HIKING APACHERIA • CHARACTERS I’VE MET Spirits, turtles and Dorothy 27 TALKING HORSES • CHOOSE
39 40 DAYS & 40 NIGHTS Complete area events guide for July and a little beyond.
David Cortner
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Columnists Fr. Gabriel Rochelle, Marjori Lilly, Scott Thomson
50 ANIMAL ENCOUNTERS • PREDATOR ALERT What to do if you encounter a bear
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About the cover: “Seeds for SAQA,” By Vicki Conley Studio Art Quilt Associates (SAQA) presents “Seeds for SAQA” an exhibit of small art quilts depicting flower or vegetable seed packets. It will premiere at the Silver City Fiber Arts Festival July 17 and 18 at the Grant County Conference Center. Ruidoso Downs art quilter Vicki Conley, will be showing two pieces – Spider Lilies, on the cover of this issue of Desert Exposure, and Butterfly Bush. Spider Lilies has both two dimensional and three dimensional lilies set against a confetti background. Butterfly Bush is composed of wool felt appliqued butterflies each embellished with decorative embroidery and beads. Other Ruidoso Art quilters displaying in the show are Lynn Eckman, Susie Komara and Georgia Van Pelt. Visit http://www.fiberartscollective.org/festival. html for more info about the festival.
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EDITOR’S NOTEBOOK • ELVA K. ÖSTERREICH
Fireworks Big-sky painting
“I love fireworks – the big-sky painting, the soundwave pounding, the saltpeter smell of treason and plot. There is a primitive thrill to fireworks that is romantically irresistible.� – Anonymous
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n July 4, fireworks celebrate independence. They light the world with noise and brilliance and color as people are drawn to them like so many moths to a flame. But why is that? Why do our eyes light up and our hearts soar when these noisy, fiery things go off in our lives? As a reminder of war and fear, maybe we should be terrified. Our dogs certainly know something is wrong and have the sense to hide the best they can. As humans, we are not so wise. Maybe it’s because, as the Katy Perry song implies, we are fireworks of a kind ourselves and we feel a kindred resonance there. Each of us is a light in the darkness, an individual spark of specialty and potential. Our short-lived existence flashes and burns out as we grow and age and die, all the time needing to make a mark, leaving a meaning behind in the sky. One person I found on the mighty interweb equates the need for fireworks with a need to believe in magic: “As with some other things that are beyond what our ape-like evolution prepared us for, explosions are, at some level, very odd and curious things. Our brains are programmed to pay special attention to strange and unusual things – ‘magic’ things. Explosions invoke that curiosity of magic in our brains.� – Joe Huffman For me, if I’m in the area, I always find the fireworks. Whether it’s Independence Day, Disney Land or the International Fireworks Competition in Montreal, there I will be under the exploding stars. It’s about being in the moment, feeling the grace and power, and letting the rest of the world go. This is the basis of that popular meme, a kiss represented as fireworks. It makes the heart knock against its cage and the rest of the world disappear. Fireworks – and kissing – could be classed as extreme sports, exemplifying the best in us. The human ability to let go and delve into something, flowering into power, growing to fill the universe with oneself. We are forced to be there, be in the moment, let go of our stress, thoughts and worries because these fireworks force us to just be, we don’t have time to fret. So, because I know it is in this sound and fury I find my peace, I strive to turn everything I do into fireworks, from driving to gardening and painting the house. I try to make the thing into the focus and the high. I pretty much fail at this. When I am washing dishes, if I don’t listen to my podcasts, I start thinking about work. When I am driving a long distance, if I don’t turn the radio on, I might fall asleep. Multitasking is what today’s brains do. This is why the fiery bursts are so important, emptying the mind, kind of like a reset button triggered in being overwhelmed by the cacophony of hue and commotion. July 4 is a holiday celebrated by fireworks for good reason. Commemorating a day of release, the end of a fierce conflict and celebrating the ushering in of a new era for the United States, the magical nature of
Inde-Pet-Dence Food, fireworks and fun – that’s the scenario for millions of people that celebrate Independence Day on July 4, one of the year’s liveliest holidays. Unfortunately, for pets that get frightened during the festivities, it can be anything but a celebration. Driven by a fearful reaction to fireworks and other loud sights and sounds, dogs and cats that flee from their homes often end up in municipal animal shelters. Best Friends Animal Society offers the following tips to help keep your pets safe over the holiday weekend: • Bring all pets indoors whenever neighborhood fireworks displays are likely. Secure dogs in
the rockets and fiery flowers in the air continues to resonate hope and a shadow of glory through our lives. Southern New Mexico will be filled with color, light and booming in the skies on Saturday, July 4, this year. Anyone who craves that experience, whether looking for magic, mindfulness or just a moment of thrills will find it in any one of these communities: In Silver City fireworks begin at dusk and are part of Gough Park activities; In Sierra County fireworks are from 9-10 p.m. and launch from Rattlesnake Island in Elephant Butte where state park fees will be waived for those wanting to watch the show from the shore; in Alamogordo, fireworks spring forth at the New Mexico Museum of Space History with the Museum’s reflective windows doubling the effect; in Las Cruces, a day of music at the soccer fields is topped at 10 p.m. by the fireworks; in Carrizozo the holiday is celebrated at Valle Del Sol Clubhouse with fireworks provided by the fire department at dusk; in Capitan, Smokey Bear Stampede events include a fireworks extravaganza; in Deming, the fireworks begin at the Southwestern New Mexico Fairgrounds; and in Mescalero, the Inn of the Mountain Gods holds its Star Spangled Celebration on July 2, closing with fireworks at dark over Lake Mescalero. Letters: As you are enjoying, or disliking, the July 4 holiday and fireworks, please share your thoughts with us so we can share them with our other readers. Or take a postcard shot of yourself and a copy of Desert Exposure with fireworks in the background and text it to 575-443-4408 with your location, name and contact information and I will pop it up at www. facebook.com/DesertExposure as soon as I get it. Writing contest: Desert Exposure will continue its longstanding writing contest, kicking off a little later than usual this month. Winners will be featured in our October issue. As usual, the rules are simple: Submit your best article, short story, essay, poem or other piece of writing by Aug. 26. Entries must be previously unpublished and will be judged on literary quality and how well they express some aspect of life in southern New Mexico. Please limit your entries to one or two submissions. Maximum length per entry is 4,000 words. Mail entries to: Desert Exposure Writing Contest, 840 N. Telshore Blvd, Suite E, Las Cruces, NM 88011, or email to contest@desertexposure.com. Include name and postal address, plus email address if you have one. Entries cannot be returned. Elva K. Ă–sterreich is editor for Desert Exposure and delighted to be here and holding “office hoursâ€? in Silver City on the second Wednesday of the month (July 8) from 10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. at the Yankie Creek Coffee House. Please drop by and say hello.
a room and play music or turn on the television to drown out the frightening sounds. • Keep pets away from lit fireworks at all times, including your own backyard, as some will chase after the bright moving objects and are at risk to be burned or blinded in the process. • Ensure that pets are wearing current identification tags. • For the ultimate identification protection, all pets should be microchipped so that they can scanned at an animal shelter or veterinary office. • If your pet does go missing over the holiday, check with local animal shelters immediately. Go to the shelter in person to identify your pet, rather than calling or emailing the shelter.
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LETTERS
No More Enchiladas …
Bustillos family and Herreros family in Arizona (Courtesy photo)
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his little article is just a reflection on my feelings right now. When you, guys, read it, I will be probably more than 5,000 miles away, beyond the ocean. But I wanted to give you all a warm and big hug of gratitude (even in the distance if I didn’t do it in person). When we came to New Mexico (not new, not Mexico, I know) three years ago, we were told by all our family members and friends that we were very brave. We are a Spanish family from Madrid. What would you say? This adventure consisted in working as a Spanish teacher at Cobre High School for three years. Easy. Piece of cake. We landed in Albuquerque Aug. 14, 2012. My little daughter had turned 6 inside the airplane. My oldest daughter was 9. We had to finish paperwork in Albuquerque before heading south, to our final destination. We knew we needed a car, so, not having a bank account nor anything yet (you are nothing on Earth’s surface without your social security number) we had to have in cash the beautiful amount of around $6,000. OK. We got it. We were hosted by another Spanish family in Albuquerque (Antonio Luna’s one, thanks, thanks and thanks) while getting the car, suffering the heat of August, and finally we were set to our trip toward Bayard, Silver City, where? We bought our Subaru Forester because we needed a car with room enough for our four suitcases and we started toward the real adventure, all by our own. We began going through the immense plains cut by route 25. “Oh, my God, if we are heading south, what are we going to find down there? Chihuahuan desert, 100 F, no trees, just cactus?” We were really scared. My husband drove until T or C and then I took the car. We kept going down and later on we saw a sign announcing Silver City. OK. That’s it. Let’s go! And then … wow, there are mountains over there! Green mountains! (We were approaching the Black Range). The sun was going down, but, nevermind, that will be some more miles and some more curves and we will be there, near our goal. Some more? How many more miles and curves? We didn’t know. It was getting dark, curves never finished and it started raining. Rain? We didn’t know about monsoon season, and that was also a big surprise. OK. Rain, night, curves, children getting nervous … when are we going to be there, my God? Our cell phone was about to die (we were rookies and we bought it without a car charger) when we could talk to Mr. Peru (after being out of coverage) and… “Yes, we are passing the tracks toward Bayard” “Ok. Go to the parking lot of Walmart, Silver City. I will be there waiting for you con una troca anaranjada” “Ok, see you there. Nos vemos.” But, que demonios es Walmart? Y que demonios es una troca? (What the hell is Walmart and what the hell is a truck?) Finally we arrived to the parking lot, waited for a few minutes, and Mr. Peru appeared with his big orange truck and his welcoming half hug (the first New Mexican one). We could breathe! Thank you Mr. Peru. He escorted us to our hosting family and we arrived around 10:30 p.m. Sleepy, tired and clueless, we were introduced to Clara Bustillos and she put us in bed and we slept in relief. Clara and Cruz Bustillos opened their house to us. Their house, their family and their hearts and we will never be able to express our immense gratitude to them. They became
part of our lives, we are part of their family and they are part of ours. They are our parents in the USA and “grandpa and grandma there” to my children. They helped us with all the big and little troubles of the adaptation process. They taught us all we know about this beautiful land and traditions. We shared food, house, cars, tales, RV, recipes, songs, books … Thank you. You have been a blessing for us and we will be waiting for you in Spain. We love you. I wanted to thank Judith Morris. She was my guardian angel during the first year and nothing would have been the same without her. I want to thank, too, Mr. Benavidez, principal at Cobre High School when I first arrived. He was warm and generous and I will never forget he gave me a ride to Bayard Elementary School just to have a look at my two little daughters, landing in a strange world (where they didn’t belong at the beginning) in the first day of school for them. He has been a gentleman until the very last minute. Thank you. Thank you also to Ann Marie Elder, who allowed me to sing in “Oliver” in 2013 and in “Mary Poppins” in 2015. Being part of these productions made me feel so good, and so proud! It has been one of the most rewarding experiences ever and I will never forget you and the rest of the actors, singers and crew. My special thanks to Bayard Elementary teachers and principal, Mrs. Barela. You made my daughters grow, learn and become bilingual and, most important, you loved them and cared for them. You made them happy and they will remember you forever. My recognition and love for you all. Thanks to all staff members at Cobre High School. It was a pleasure to work with you and I will remember this experience for the rest of my life. I know I have learned much more than I have taught. Cobre Band, thanks for making me cry in every performance. I know I am forgetting a lot of people, I apologize. I would like to thank all the students who hugged me without asking them (Raquel Parga, Felicia Dominguez, Renee Torres, Lucianna Castillo, Yadira Vasquez, Manuel Ramirez and many others) and who treated me kindly. Thanks. And, of course, thanks to my colleague and friend Ernesto Garcia because we started this adventure together and we never gave up. And finally, I would like to remind you and remind me all the countless good things you have in here, guys: your beautiful blue skies, white clouds, gray clouds, cloudy days, the monsoon with those storms plenty of lightning, people waving at you when walking or driving your car, the deep sense of community, the gorgeous Nature (in capital letters) around you with big characters (Black Range, Cliff Dwellings, Gila River, mountain lion, bear, elks …) and with the little ones (hummingbirds, butterflies, snakes, lizards, scorpions …). Your salsa with lots of cilantro, your enchiladas, your wonderful Spanish with plenty of words coming from the 17th century and now forgotten in Spain. Muchas gracias a todos por estos tres hermosos años de felicidad compartida y por tanto amor. Hasta siempre Esther Monje Perez Spain
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LETTERS
Emotional Responses to Horse Talk
Editor’s note: the following letters are in response to Scott Thomson’s June Talking Horses column which generated a lot of response agreeing with his request that folks not approach other people’s horses without permission.
Over friendly neighbors in Oregon We moved from Portland, Ore. where we had a terrible problem with folks wanting to pet our horses and feed them from our quiet street, which was used for walkers from a suburban neighborhood. We had people doing everything you said in the article, including dumping a 100 lbs of rotten zucchini and lawn clippings over the fence and into my horse pasture. I even had a lady walk up and into my big circle driveway and way over to my barn by my gate and standing there feeding my horses a big bag of carrots. When I came at her with mean words, she refused to leave. I came close to grabbing her but thought I’d be sued. I had my cell phone and immediately called the police. She slowly sauntered away, giving me dirty looks. When my trimmer was in my driveway, parents with little kids would always ask if they could come over to the horses and watch. I’d say “no” and they would treat me like a horrible person. Tacking up my horses to ride they would ask if they could come in and pet my horses or hey how about if my little Johnny could ride one. I’d say “no. we are not a petting zoo.” Instead of saying “Oh Sorry,” they’d act entitled and insulted. It’s really the way of the world these days and boy do I miss the 70s when people were not entitled and their kids were given clear rules to follow. I saw a mom holding their toddler up with grass they picked to feed the 2 horses across the street and yelled at them that the owners were not home and they would not like you doing that. Again, no apologies, just -- my kid wants to feed the horse and he’s ok. Then me standing in the street giving them the lecture about law suits and disfigurement and them walking away looking at me like I’m an idiot. They came back the next day and did it again but the owner was home and came yelling at them.
Finally I got tired of these annoying people and I hot wired the top of the horse fence, put signs every two feet in bright orange with “caution electric fence.” In between these signs were signs do not feed the horses and then I planted a prickly painful bush two feet in front of the fence. When I saw them going around the corner of the fence I put up the best sign ever, “Beware Poison Ivy.” Why do we have to do this? Your article was super great and it reminded me that I need to put one sign up near my neighbor’s house that says “Do Not Feed the Horses” because I’ve seen some little kids come over staring at the horses. Karla Walsh Arenas Valley Heartbroken in Maryland I hope I am not bothering you, but I read your piece in Desert Exposure, “Look, Don’t Touch,” crying all the way through. You see, I had to place my horse in a rescue, because the neighbor refused to keep her grandson’s hands away from my fence. We were struggling and we were told by the local HS if Bramble (my horse) bit that child, we were liable. What? I begged his grandmother to keep him away. I had quit smoking to be able to keep my horse after my husband lost his job (he found another quickly but less pay). I LOVED that horse. He was a part of what made me who I am and now he is gone because the laws today protect the guilty. I had horses for 50 years prior to that. Then this kid started throwing things at Bramble, I caught him, but his grandmother is the type if she does not see it, it does not happen. I also caught an adult teasing him (I live close to the road) and Bramble was trying to bite him, and this guy was a cop! Sorry, I didn’t mean to go on like this, but even after three years it is still very painful. Your article needs to be seen by more people. I am sure people who do this with horses won’t get it as it seems to be the way of the world today. Susan Noyes Maryland
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Morava and Gunter Schaa of AVESA Holistic Therapies in Silver City enjoy their copy of Desert Exposure in front of the cathedral in Cologne, Germany during their recent trip to Germany, Switzerland and France. Whether you’re going to Nebraska, New England or Nepal snap a photo of yourself holding a copy of Desert Exposure and send it to diary@desertexposure.com or stick it in the mail to: Desert Exposure, 840 N. Telshor Blvd., Suite E, Las Cruces, NM, 88011.
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Aging Gracefully
Getting old is confusing and a bit tricky sometimes My wife likes to shop
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ecently, Jim Duchene’s wife wanted him to go with her to the mall. At first, I didn’t want to, he said, I like to walk in the afternoon and her shopping schedule would disrupt my walking schedule. Finally, I agreed. I figured that, the way my wife shops, I would still get my walking done, and this way both of us would be a winner. In my case, a broke winner. My elderly father who lives with us then decided he wanted to tag along, so, instead of walking, I knew I’d end up being a babysitter for a 96-year-old man. He used to walk every morning, but recently his idea of going on a walk has become sitting in front of the TV and watching The Price is Right. After a store or two, my father and I sat and waited for my wife to run out of money. As we watched the other Saturday shoppers walk past, a group of very sexily dressed girls walked by. “Hmm ...� I said. “Hmm ...� my father said, and then he told me, “Seeing them makes me wished I was 20 years older.� “Older?� I asked him. “Don’t you mean 20 years younger?� “Nah,� he said. “I mean 20 years older. That way I wouldn’t care one way or the other.�
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alifornia Cutie described to us what getting old means ‌ • I very quietly confided to my best friend that I was having an affair. She turned to me and asked, “Are you having it catered?â€? And that, my friend, is the definition of “OLDâ€? • Reporters interviewing a 104-year-old woman: “And what do you think is the best thing about being 104?â€? the reporter asked. She simply replied, “No peer pressure.â€? • An elderly woman decided to prepare her will and told her preacher she had two final requests. First, she wanted to be cremated, and second, she wanted her ashes scattered over Wal-Mart. “Wal-Mart?â€? the preacher exclaimed, “Why WalMart?â€? “Then I’ll be sure my daughters visit me twice a week.’â€? • Know how to prevent sagging? Just eat till the wrinkles fill out. • It’s scary when you start making the same noises as your coffee maker. • These days about half the stuff in my shopping cart says, “For fast relief.â€? • Thought for the day: I don’t want to brag or make anyone jealous or anything, but I can still fit into the socks I wore in high school. • The senility prayer: Grant me the senility to forget the people I never liked anyway, the good fortune to run into the ones I do, and the eyesight to tell the difference.
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A Charlie shared this forgetful little conversation with us. Two elderly ladies had been friends for many decades. Over the years, they had shared all kinds of activities and adventures. Lately, their activities had been limited to meeting a few times a week to play cards. One day, they were playing cards when one looked at the other and said, “Now don’t get mad at me ... I know we’ve been friends for a longtime but I just can’t think of your name. I’ve thought and thought, but I can’t remember it. Please tell me what your name is.� Her friend glared at her. For at least three minutes she just stared and glared at her. Finally she said, “How soon do you need to know?�
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little ditty from Geerichard: My car is in bad shape: The carburetor won’t carb, The choke won’t choke, The battery won’t bat, And the pistons don’t work either.
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A Charlie might be experiencing ringing in his ears after this submission. As a senior citizen was driving down the highway, his car phone rang. Answering, he heard his wife’s voice urgently warning him, “Vernon, I just heard on the news that there’s a car going the wrong way on I-85. Please be careful!� “Hell,� said Vernon, “It’s not just one car. It’s hundreds of them!�
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lso coming from PA Charlie, we can see his mind is on the road. Two elderly women were out driving in a large car – both could barely see over the dashboard. As they were cruising along, they came to major crossroad. The stoplight was red, but they just went on through. The woman in the passenger seat thought to herself “I must be losing it. I could have sworn we just went through a red light. “After a few more minutes, they came to another major junction and the light was red again. Again, they went right through. The woman in the passenger seat was almost sure that the light had been red but was really concerned that she was losing it. She was getting nervous. At the next junction, sure enough, the light was red and they went on through. So, she turned to the other woman and said, “Mildred, did you know that we just ran through three red lights in a row? You could have killed us both!� Mildred turned to her and said, “Oh! Am I driving?�
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op provided us with the perfect finish for our little column. On his 70th birthday, a man was given a gift certificate from his wife. The certificate was for consultation with an Indian medicine man living on a nearby reservation who was rumored to have a simple cure for erectile dysfunction. The husband went to the reservation and saw the medicine man. The old Indian gave him a potion and, with a grip on his shoulder, warned “This is a powerful medicine. You take only a teaspoonful, and then say: ‘1-2-3.’ When you do, you will become manlier than you have ever been in your life, and you can perform for as long as you want.� The man thanked the old Indian, and as he walked away, he turned and asked, “How do I stop the medicine from working?� “Your partner must say ‘1-2-3-4,’� the medicine man responded. “But when she does, the medicine will not work again until the next full moon.� He was very eager to see if it worked so he went home, showered, shaved, took a spoonful of the medicine, and then invited his wife to join him in the bedroom. When she came in, he took off his clothes and said, “1-2-3!� Immediately, he was the manliest of men. His wife was excited and began throwing off her clothes, and asked: “What was the 1-2-3 for?� And that, boys and girls, is why we should never end our sentences with a preposition, because we could end up with a dangling participle.
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MOVING MUSIC
Community Concerts Coming GCCCA announces 2015-16 schedule
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cow to London and New York. The final concert of the season on April 7, 2016, will bring a dynamic electric string band, Stringfever, made up of three brothers and a cousin, all world class musicians from London, England. They use their unusual electric instruments to put on a wildly entertaining show with music ranging from show tunes to jazz and classical. All concerts will be in the WNMU Fine Arts Center Theater in Silver City, with most of them starting at 7 p.m. (The Las Cruces Symphony Orchestra event will start at 7:30 p.m.) Three of the concerts, Presidio Brass, Hits & Grins, and Stringfever, will be accompanied by Educational Outreach programs for area school children on the morning of the scheduled evening concert. Arts Council and Western New Mexico University. Shortly thereafter, on Nov. 14, Silver These programs are free to the children and GCCCA pays City will greet The Young Irelanders, a group of young per- bus transportation costs to the Fine Arts Center Theater if formers among the best exponents of Irish traditional mu- requested by the schools. Season tickets are on sale for $55 for the full six-concert sic, song and dance in the world today. Their electrifying show has been seen by heads of state and in major concert season. Ticket holders for any concert may be accompanied by two children up to age 17, who are admitted free of venues throughout the world. charge. WNMU stuHits and Grins, a dents with a valid country and comedy student ID are also trio of award-winning admitted free. singers and songIndividual or writers, will start season tickets can off the spring with be obtained via selots of laughs and cure credit card great country music purchase online at Svetlana Smolina on Feb. 2, 2016. On www.gcconcerts. March 12, 2016, interorg. Further infornationally acclaimed mation and subscrip- nations to GCCCA over and above the tickets prices are classical pianist Svettion forms can be tax deductible. Contributions in any amount are most wellana Smolina will perobtained by calling come. form. She has thrilled 575-538-5862. Doaudiences from Mos- The Las Cruces Symphony Orchestra he Grant County Community Concert Association has announced its six-concert 2015-16 season. “This varied selection of talented and highly regarded artists promises to be full of pleasure and surprises for almost every musical taste,” association president Peter Falley said. The season will kick off Sept. 17 with Presidio Brass, one of the country’s premier brass ensembles. Audiences and music critics alike have rated their “Sounds of the Cinema” show a “must see!” Nov. 6 brings the Las Cruces Symphony Orchestra to Silver City for the first time as part of GCCCA’s regular season. This annual event also has the support of the Mimbres Region The Young Irelanders
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WHEELS & GEARS
Transportation Transformation New exhibit shows evolution of vehicles
New long term display at Farm & Ranch Museum, Wheels & Gears, brings together some interesting contributions to agricultural history. (Courtesy photo)
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hey traveled roads, trails and fields in all parts of the state. They moved at different speeds, in different eras, performing a variety of important tasks. Now, this collection of wagons, buggies, vehicles and implements has been brought together in a new exhibit at the New Mexico Farm & Ranch Heritage Museum in Las Cruces. A recent redesign of the museum’s Heritage Gallery helped create room to display the array of transportation objects featured in “Wheels & Gears.” “To see such a variety of items with wheels and gears together, all of which have contributed in some way to New Mexico’s agricultural history, is so interesting and exciting because you relate to how ‘getting around in New Mexico’ has really changed over the years,” said the museum’s chief curator, Toni La-
umbach. The exhibit features: • Carreta wheel hub (1840-1850) made of cottonwood that was discovered half-buried along the northern edge of what is now White Sands National Monument • 1936 half-ton International Harvester pickup truck • 1924 Model T Roadster • Gasoline pump that dates to the 1920s The exhibit is on long-term display. The museum is at 4100 Dripping Springs Road in Las Cruces. Hours are 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Saturday and noon to 5 p.m. Sunday. Admission is $5 for adults, $4 for senior citizens and $3 for children 4 to 17, children 3 and under Friends are free.
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July 17 and 18, 2015 — 10 am to 5 pm Vendors of fiber art supplies & fine handmade fiber art
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Classes and Workshops: Ice Dyeing on Fabric - Embellish Apparel with Sponge Painting Embroidery on Paper - Needle Felted Doll - Quilt As You Go Table Runner Colcha Embroidery - Handmade Polymer Buttons - Tea Towel Apron How to Dye with Natural Plant Dyes - Give Weaving a Try Lectures and Demos: How to Wet Felt with Wool The Magic of Handmade Accessories How to Dye with Natural Plant Dyes
Special Exhibits: Appliqued and Pieced 19th and Early 20th Century Quilts How Does Your Garden Grow? Seeds by SAQA - Sensational Silk Wool Hooked Rugs - Vintage and Contemporary Needlework Colcha Embroidery - Southwest Women’s Fiber Art Collective Tres Manos Weaving of New Mexico and more!
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CLAY IS COMING • ELVA K. ÖSTERREICH
Earth ties lives together Silver City CLAYfest connects history, design and sculpture
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ooking for a signature celebration for Silver City, Lee Gruber saw connection, an earthy connection. Clay, mud and earth are the common ground of New Mexico’s people and the embodiment of their history, she said. And so the CLAY festival was born, bring artists, educators, entrepreneurs, families, youth, adventurers, and life-long learners to the area to explore clay in its many forms as well as its impact on history, the present and the future. CLAY 2015, takes place July 27 through Aug. 2, and offers multi-day workshops, demonstrations, an international juried exhibition, a lecture series, artist receptions and tours. The CLAYfest Market features clay-centric vendors, live music and dancing, outdoor events, youth activities, and the CLAY Gala Fundraiser. This year’s theme is passed on the Spanish heritage of the area, Gruber said. It ties in Silver City, Bayard and Gila. Gruber, who has been one of the owners of Syzygy Tile for 22 years, makes a living with clay and so has a deep understanding of the ties – from adobe homes, to Mimbres pottery, to present day clay artists – involved in the medium. “Culturally our history with clay is huge,” Gruber
Clay artist Zoe Wolfe prepares pieces she hopes will be accepted into the Clay in the Garden juried exhibit to be shown during CLAYfest in Silver City. Wolf has been participating the event since it started and this year will be working with youth to get them into the swing of clay creation. (Photo by Elva K. Österreich)
said. “The festival is not just where you come to look at pots. It involves artists, builders and archeologists. It’s a really great event.” The event kicks off with a poker tournament, the chips are made of clay, “because the best chips in the world are made out of clay,” Gruber said. They play Texas hold-em for prizes and this is the main fundraiser for the event. Festival participants include renowned Santa Clara Pueblo ceramic sculptor, Roxanne Swentzell, famed Pennsylvania potter, Jack Troy, and an expert in Ancestral Puebloan archaeology, Dr. Eric Blinman, in addition to many other prominent personalities in the clay world. “We really try to attract people of note,” Gruber said. “Last year we had over 2,000 people who came.” Area exhibits tied to the event include “Clay in the Garden,” at the Seedboat Gallery and the art of Roxanne Swentzall at Common Ground. For information regarding the full list of events and registration, visit www.ClayFestival. com or call 575-538-5560. See Page 51 for a full schedule of the week’s events.
FIBER ARTS
Festival returns to Silver City Two days of everything fiber and more
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hirty juried vendors, 17 special exhibits and 13 class- by fiber art enthusiasts from other vendors will include, es are featured at The Silver City Fiber Arts Festival fabric, hand dyed yarn and fibers, rug hooking supplies, beads, boat shuttles and weaving is from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., supplies, buttons, cotton and spinJuly 17 and 18 at the Grant County ning tools and much more. Business and Conference Center, The Silver City Fiber Arts Festi3031 Hwy 180 East in Silver City. val will have Maureen Craig, a cerThe festival is free and donations tified appraiser of quilted textiles are encouraged at the door to help available during the festival for apthe Southwest Women’s Fiber praisals. There is a fee for the apArts Collective’s nonprofit fundpraisal. raising efforts. Some of the special exhibits This two-day celebration of all include Colcha embroidery, a very things fiber includes vendors sellNew Mexico traditional technique, ing a variety of handmade fiber beautiful quilt exhibits, Navajo art and fiber art supplies. Hand weavings done in Amish quilt dewoven shawls, scarves and more, signs, a sheep to shawl exhibit that hand knitted or crocheted garexplains how raw wool becomes ments or accessories, items made a garment, silk exhibits, wool of fabric, fiber baskets, quilts, Tina Salmon is one 30 juried vendors to hooked rugs, and needlework will dolls, rag rugs, silk painted items be displaying their wares during the Silver be on display to inspire all fiber enand many more items will be on City Fiber Arts Festival July 17 and 18 at thusiasts and create a new appresale by vendors. the Grand County Business and Conference ciation of fiber art for the novice. Supplies available for purchase Center.
Classes and workshops include Colcha embroidery, how to dye with natural plants, button making, needle felting, quilting, and even a mini fashion show. This will be the third Silver City Fiber Arts Festival. The first year about 1,200 people attended, the second, about 1,600. Festival goers came from the local area as well as from all over New Mexico, Arizona, west Texas, and many other places. The festival is organized by a committee of members of the Southwest Women’s Fiber Arts Collective with the help of many local community volunteers. The festival is held every two years. The festival is a celebration of the fiber arts and is a fundraising event for the Southwest Women’s Fiber Arts Collective, a 501 c 3 non-profit. The organization provides opportunities for rural women to earn income, provides classes in various fiber arts, and helps educate the public about the many different fiber arts. They operate The Common Thread , a fiber art gallery of handmade fiber items by members at 107 W. Broadway in downtown, Silver City. For more information call The Common Thread at 575-538-5733 or go to www.fiberartscollective.org.
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mare, Marda, taught her the intelligence and dedication that horses sometimes reveal to people. The Common Ground Gallery is bringing Native American potter Roxanne Swentzell in with a reception on July 31 from 6 to 8 p.m., 102 West Kelly, Silver City. Swentzell’s art will be featured at the gallery through Aug. 29. Swentzell f cuses a lot on interpretative female portraits attempting to bring back the balance of power between the male and female, inherently recognized in her own culture. Additionally, uses a powerful sense of humor to communicate through her work. Gallery hours are 11 a.m. to 4 p.m., Tuesday through Sunday. For more information call 575-534-2087.
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The New Mexican art form of Colcha embroidery will be featured in a class and exhibit at the Silver City Fiber Artist Festival held July 17 and 18. Visit www.fiberartscollective.org for more information.
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he historic New Mexican art form of Colcha Embroidery will be featured in a class and exhibit at the Silver City Fiber Artist Festival. A Colcha embroidery class, taught by Rita Hartley, will offer participants the chance to try this embroidery technique, while learning about its history and its significance in the settling of New Mexico. The class will take place July 18 from 9 a.m. to noon at the Grant County Conference Center. To register for the class, contact The Common Thread, 107 Broadway, Silver City, 575-538-5733, open Mondays 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Thursdays to Saturdays 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. There is a fee for the class, but all materials are provided. Three free classes and demonstrations will be offered at the upcoming Silver City Fiber Arts Festival, July 17 and 18 at the Grant County Conference Center. The Silver City Fiber Arts Festival is July 17 and 18 from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the Grant County Business and Conference Center, 3031 Hwy 180 East in Silver City. The festival features juried vendors of handmade fiber art and fiber art making supplies, a variety of special exhibits showcasing many different fiber art items, classes, workshops, and more. The festival is free and donations are encouraged at the door, to help the Southwest Women’s Fiber Arts Collective’s nonprofit fundraising efforts.
VICTORIA CHICK This painting by Heather McGee from Carlsbad, is one of the “What’s Left of Me” exhibit which opens July 10 at 7 p.m. with a reception at a)sp.”A”©e Studio•Art•Gallery, 110 West Seventh Street in Silver City.
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painting show opening entitled, “What’s Left of Me?” with the art of Heather McGee from Carlsbad opens July 10 at 7 p.m. at a) sp.”A”©e Studio•Art•Gallery, 110 West Seventh Street in Silver City. “I am an artist who is trying to portray how I see the word,” McGee said. “Every piece I paint is a part of me and all those who surround me. The visualization of the spectrum of the soul. I would love to share my art not just for me but for those who feel alone. To show that we love, laugh, suffer and cry together. We as humans are never alone.” McGee hopes to bring awareness about her medical condition, Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome out to the public through her art. On July 28 the Downtown Blue Dome Gallery is holding an opening for the show featuring “Two Girls and A Table,” from 3-5 p.m. Suzie Calhoun with have her pottery and Chris McDaniel will have her wood blocked linens on displayed. The table will be a cornucopia of great functional ceramic work accessorized with beautiful linens. The show will run from
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“Moonset over Caballo Blanco” is a 36-inch by 60-inch oil painting by Nattie Toole and part of a display of her work located at Western Bank, 330 Highway 180 W, in Silver City.
t Western Bank, 330 Highway 180 W, the art of Narrie Toole can be found through the month of July. The display is called “The Art of and For the Southwest – Narrie Toole.” Tool creates works that reflect her years spent working closely with horses, cattle and myriad other critters. In more than twenty years of ranching she learned to ride the cattle trail and love the land. Her
“PASSAGE TO THE PAST” ACRYLIC ON CANVAS 32’’x36”
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“Home Alone,” an acrylic on canvas, is part of the July celebration of nesting habits around Stonewalker Studio at 105 Country Road, Silver City. July 15 to Aug. 30. On July 29, The Blue Dome at The Lodge will have an opening for Jack Troy, the featured potter of Clayfest. The opening will be from 5 to 7 p.m. Also at the Blue Dome are two new painters Michele Jenkinson and Barbara Cowlin. Call 575-538-2538 for more information. ew life and new art is hatching at Stonewalker Studio/Gallery. Birds are choosing to build nests inside some steel sculptures. Not only do hatchlings enjoy a Tiffany glass window, but warmth for incubation and wind protection is supplied. Stonewalker Studio is at 105 Country Road, Silver City, New Mexico 88061. Call 575-534-0530 anytime to visit the gallery.
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Desert Roots, a new gallery and artists market in Las Cruces, provides a welcoming local artisans with a space to display and sell their works. (Photo by Elva K. Osterreich) 9 Mexico. Throughout Lincoln County artists will open their studios, demonstrate their craft and discuss their creative process creating much more than simply a vibrant art market. About 20 artists are offering demonstrations in their studios. Visit http://www.artloop.org/ to find out more about the event held July 3, 4 and 5 from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Art Ruidoso Gallery will feature three Art Jam Parties, in July. During an art jam, participants follow along while a resident artist instructor guides them step-by-step through recreating a featured art piece in about two hours. Participants feeling creative, can change the colors to suit their décor or go completely rogue. Food and drink is available and all supplies are provided as part of the cost. From 6 to 8 p.m., July 2 will be a mandala party with Patsy Blasdell. From 6 to 8 p.m. on July 9 will be a painting party with Trish Wade. And from 6 to 8 p.m., July 17 will be another painting party with the artist to be announced. Call the Art Ruidoso Gallery at 55808-1133 for costs and reservations. Las Cruces/Mesilla esert Roots, a new gallery and artists market in Las Cruces, held a ribbon cutting in June welcoming local artisans with space to display and sell their works. The business is located at 1001 S. Solano in Las Cruces. Owner Cynthia Michels said she “Madonna” is part of the “Here & Now” decided to open the regional juried exhibition now showing in gallery because she the Las Cruces Museum of Art. wants to do something with her life to support artists like herself. She wants to give the artists an affordable venue to show their work in. “I just want it to be a place for good people,” she said. Desert Roots also has a coffee and tea bar with some food and plenty of space, and art supplies, on hand to relax and sip tea or try a hand at some art. For more information call 575-652-7366. Gallery hours are 7:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. Monday;
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One of original works included in the Hillsboro Historical Society fundraising sealed bid auction of items from its collection of Native American paintings.
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he Hillsboro Historical Society is sponsoring a sealed bid auction of original works by Leonard Peltier (Anishinable/Lakota); Dan Viets Lomahaftewa (Hopi/Choctaw); and Bernie Granados Jr. (Apache/ Zacatec) from its collection of Native American paintings. Bids will be accepted through Sept. 7, including during the Hillsboro Antiques Festival, Home Tour and Wine and Microbrew Tasting Labor Day weekend. Proceeds will support the education efforts of the HHS. For information and bid forms, contact Robin Tuttle, Hillsboro Historical Society Board of Directors, at 575-895-5187 or at robltut@ yahoo.com. Ruidoso & Lincoln County rt Loop in Lincoln County began as a creative venture amongst artists 20 years ago and continues to be one of the most successful studio tours in New
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“Two Trees at Dripping Springs” is one of the Rhonda Winters works on display this month as part of “Harmonies and Counterpoints” at the Big Picture Digital Image Experts & Gallery, 311 N. Main St., Las Cruces.
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n conjunction with the “Here & Now Regional Juried Exhibition” now showing in the Las Cruces Museum of Art, a panel of seven exhibiting artists will speak about their work Wednesday, July 8, at 1:30 p.m. in the Branigan Cultural Center, next door to the Museum of Art. Melissa Barba, Assistant Curator of the Stanlee & Gerald Rubin Center, University of Texas-El Paso, moderates the discussion. Featured artists are Susan Christie, Beverley Pirtle, John Northcutt, Jason Lucero, Mari Blacker, Bonnie Mandoe, and Erin Galvez. For more information, contact the Museum of Art at 5412137. The Museum of Art is located at 491 N. Main Street between the Branigan Cultural Center and the Museum of Nature and Science. The exhibits and events are free and open to the public. Gallery hours are Tuesday through Friday from 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., and Saturday from 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. For more information, contact the Museum of Art at 575-541-2137 or visit las-cruces.org/museums.
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n July, Mesquite Art Gallery features “Out of the Closet” – work by various artists that is normally stored away. Gallery hours are Thursday and Friday 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Saturday, 2 to 5 p.m. 340 N Mesquite St., Las Cruces.
The wrought iron work of Weeden Nichols is featured in July in Las Cruces at the Mesilla Valley Fine Arts Gallery located at 2470-A Calle de Guadalupe, Mesilla. (Courtesy Photo)
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uly brings “Harmonies and Counterpoints” an art show featuring Rhoda Winters’ unique interpretation of realism to Big Picture Digital Image Experts & Gallery, 311 N. Main St., Las Cruces. “I have always been fascinated by the influence of color, the way that natural patterns interact with each other, and the differences between what the eyes see and what the mind remembers,” Winters said. “While I love realistic colors, brighter colors help me explore the harmonies and counterpoints created as plants, sky and land interact.” The exhibit opens Friday July 3 from 5 to 7 p.m. at the Las Cruces Downtown Ramble and continues through the month of July. Gallery hours are Tuesday through Friday 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Saturday 9:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. For more information call 575-647-0508.
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he Mesilla Valley Fine Arts Gallery, located at 2470-A Calle de Guadalupe, Mesilla, across from the Fountain Theatre, will feature two artists in July, Mary Zawacki and Weeden “Rockwell” Nichols. Zawacki paints primarily with oils and pastels. She also teaches group art classes in Las Cruces and had a career as an advertising art director and graphic designer, working over 20 years in Los Angeles for advertising agencies specializing in the movie industry. She holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the University of Michigan.
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The Branigan Cultural Center welcomes “Terraria Gigantica: The World Under Glass,� an exhibition of photographs by Dana Fritz. Nichols has been a photographer for 48 years, mastering a great deal of technology of cameras and darkrooms. The categories of photography he enjoys are simple compositions of shape and color, landscapes and seascapes. Gallery hours: Monday to Sunday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. For information, call 575-522-2933 or visit the web site: www. mesillavalleyfinearts.com. “INFLUX: The Next Wave,� is a show of paintings, prints, and photography by Chris Bardey, Deret Roberts, Cody
Jimenez, Michael C. Gutierrez and Jodie Herrera through July 29. The show is at LuLu Fine Art Gallery, located at 1800 Avenida de Mesilla, Suite A, Las Cruces. On the forefront of the current push in contemporary visual art in New Mexico are five emerging artists each carving their own path through the art world. INFLUX introduces key players in the wave of emerging artists that are shaping the contemporary art scene in New Mexico with works in photography, printmaking and painting.
he Branigan Cultural Center welcomes Terraria Gigantica: the World Under Glass, an exhibition of photographs by Dana Fritz. These images explore the world’s largest enclosed landscapes: Biosphere 2’s ocean in the Arizona desert, the Henry Doorly Zoo’s desert in the Great Plains of Nebraska, and Eden Project’s tropical rain forest in notoriously gray and cool Cornwall, England. These vivaria are enclosed environments where plants are grown amidst carefully constructed representations of the natural world to entertain visiting tourists. At the same time, however, they support scientific observation and research on the plants and animals housed under these “natural conditions� that require human control of temperature, humidity, irrigation, insects, and weeds to cultivate otherwise impossible environments and species. The exhibit will be open through July 25 and accompanied by lectures and workshops. The museum is located at 501 North Main Street and is open Tuesday through Saturday from 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. For additional information, visit the website at: http://las-cruces.org/museums or call 575.541.2154. The museum is located at 501 North Main Street and is open Tuesday through Saturday from 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. For additional information, visit the website at: http://las-cruces.org/museums or call 575.541.2154.
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interested in the topic, and their efforts to educate the public about the art form have helped to raise awareness of Pinhole photography in New Mexico while enriching artists, students and their New Mexico community for decades,” said nominator Faye McCalmont, the long-time executive director of Mimbres Region Arts Council in Silver City, which received a Governor’s Arts Award in 2013. Renner and Spencer donated their Pinhole collection of more than 6,000 photographs, cameras and books to the New Mexico History Museum in 2012. In April 2014, the History Museum opened “Poetics of Light: Pinhole Photography,” which has been one of the museum’s most popular exhibitions, with an extended run through January 10, 2016. “The New Mexico History Museum’s presentation of • Dr. William Clark was director of bands at New Mexico State University from 1985 to 1994 and then headed “Poetics of Light,” based on the Pinhole Resource Collection the NMSU Music Department where he is credited with is an in-depth, eye-opening survey of contemporary pinhole photography, the doubling the number of music majors largest exhibition of its kind to more than 200 during his 11 years. ever assembled,” said Daniel Clark founded the Mesilla Valley “Artists are a Kosharek, Photo Curator at Concert Band in 1986 and has the History Museum. served as conductor and music cornerstone of New director for the past 30 years, during • Artist Catalina Delgadowhich some 220 free concerts have Mexico’s economy,” Trunk of Albuquerque, been presented by the 100-piece long-time former Las Cruces professional adult concert band for – Gov. Susana Martinez resident, has pushed the about 150,000 residents of central boundaries of traditional and southern New Mexico. In 1990, Clark founded the Las Cruces All-City Middle papel picado (cut paper) to a high art form. Much of her School Honor Band, which is selected by audition and work is composed of complex panels that narrate Nahua presents a concert each year in February. In 1994, he mythology and explore contemporary themes. The roots of Mexican paper cutting reach back into founded the Las Cruces New Horizons program for seniors who desire to resume or begin playing instruments or pre-Hispanic times when obsidian knives were used to cut singing after retirement. Clark maintains an active private figures out of bark paper. In its modern form, tissue paper is used to form flags, typically displayed on a string, for studio and is a freelance tuba player. decorating Day of the Dead altars. “As an immigrant living between two worlds, my • Eric Renner and Nancy Spencer have devoted some three decades to the historical art form of pinhole language of art serves me well to bring down walls photography. They established Pinhole Resource, Inc. of misunderstanding as well as to build bridges of in 1984 to provide resources, advice and information for communication and comprehension between cultures,” Delgado-Trunk said. “It is a metaphor for life because it is photographers around the world. In addition to a journal and website, they have authored both fleeting and traditional.” Born in Mexico City in 1945, Delgado-Trunk grew up in many books that are used as resource texts by artists and the Coyoacán district with Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo as students around the world. “Nancy and Eric’s devotion to Pinhole art, their neighbors and family friends. Delgado-Trunk and her family dedication to providing various rich resources to others relocated to New Mexico in 2000, where she has worked closely with the National Hispanic Cultural Center and the Museum of International Folk Art, giving workshops and talks. She has worked with the Teachers of English as a Second Language Association using Day of the Dead as a teaching tool. She collaborated with the Museum of International Folk Art’s Gallery of Conscience, Youth Media Project and ¡Youthworks! on a project in which Santa Fe area youth created audio pieces on themes of immigration and belonging. • Vincent N. Figliola, 79, of Las Cruces, has dedicated his life and art to expressing the n June 9, Gov. Susana Martinez and the New Mexico Arts Commission announced seven artists and art supporters who will be recipients of the 2015 Annual Governor’s Awards for Excellence in the Arts. Southern New Mexico is home to four of the seven awardees and a fifth was a longtime resident of Las Cruces now living in Albuquerque. “Artists are a cornerstone of New Mexico’s economy,” Martinez said. “That’s why each year we honor those who exemplify the diverse and vibrant talent in our state, and the dedicated supporters of the arts, who continue to make this a thriving industry. Art is deeply woven into the very fabric of New Mexico.”
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dignity of the human struggle and the narrative of the land and its people. Figliola and his wife, Barbara moved to Las Cruces from Manhattan nearly 30 years ago, leaving behind the world of advertising where he was an award-winning creative art director. On Figliola’s 50th birthday, after driving cross-country, he chose to settle in New Mexico’s desert and mountain landscapes to “see if I could become a serious painter.” Gary Biel of Las Cruces said he once asked Figliola why New Mexico. “He looked out his sunroom and pointed to the rock spires of the Organ Mountains and said, ‘Look.” • Hailing from a family of celebrated Cochiti Pueblo artists, Virgil Ortiz said it never crossed his mind to be anything other than an artist. “Art is in my blood,” said Ortiz, 46, the youngest of six children, who grew up in a creative environment in which storytelling, collecting clay, gathering wild plants, and producing figurative pottery were part of his everyday life. “I have something very important to do before I go. I want to preserve my culture and inspire our youth to accomplish whatever it is they dream to be.” His grandmother Laurencita Herrera and his mother, Seferina Ortiz, were both renowned Pueblo potters. “Having known Virgil Ortiz for over a decade, I have seen him grow into one of the most significant artists in New Mexico,” said nominator Garth Clark, Editor-in-Chief of CFile Foundation and one of the most renowned authorities in the world on ceramic arts. • “Irvin Trujillo is a seventh generation master weaver who has taken Rio Grande weaving to new heights of mastery and innovation in a career spanning 50 years,” said nominator Michael Pettit, a writer and chair of the Board of Trustees of the Museum of New Mexico Foundation. “Every weaving pays homage to a profound tradition in his family, community, culture, and state; at the same time they assure traditions will find new vitality going forward,” Pettit said. Trujillo has mastered traditional dyeing and weaving methods, and then brought innovations to those techniques and tools. “All of which he has shared freely with his peers and the public,” Pettit said. • Edgar Foster Daniels, 83, is an accomplished actor, singer, and major patron of the arts. “Edgar has dedicated his life to the arts,” said nominator Charles MacKay, the general director of the Santa Fe Opera. “I can think of no one more deserving of the honor (Governor’s Arts Award).” Daniels spent the first 30 years of his professional career acting on the Broadway stage, as well as in Hollywood films and on television. The Arts Awards ceremonies will be held Sept.18, at 5:15 p.m. at the St. Francis Auditorium in the New Mexico Museum of Art in Santa Fe. The ceremony is preceded by an afternoon reception and exhibition opening, 3:30 – 4:30 p.m., in the Governor’s Gallery at the State Capitol. Both the awards ceremony and gallery reception are free and open to the public.
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ANN MCMAHON PHOTOGRAPHY, 125 Country Road. By appointment. www.AnnMcMahon.com. ANN SIMONSEN STUDIO-GALLERY, 104 W. YANKIE ST., 6545727. [A]SP.“A”©E, 110 W. 7TH ST., 538-3333, aspace. studiogallery@gmail.com. Azurite Gallery, 110 W. Broadway, 538-9048, Wednesday to Saturday, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. www. azuritegallery.com. BARBARA NANCE GALLERY & STONEWALKER STUDIO, 105 Country Road, 534-0530. By appointment. Stone, steel, wood and paint. Sculpture path. www.barbaraNanceArt.com. BLUE DOME GALLERY, 307 N. Texas, 534-8671. Monday to Saturday, 11 a.m.-5 p.m., Sun. 11 a.m.-3 p.m. www.bluedomegallery.com. CLAYFUL HANDS, 622 N. California, 534-0180. By appointment. Phoebe Lawrence. THE CLIFFS STUDIO & GALLERY, 205 Lyon St. & Yankie, (520) 622-0251. Diane Kleiss’ encaustic multimedia art. By appointment. doart2@yahoo.com, www.dianealdrichkleiss.com. COMMON GROUND, 102 W. Kelly, 534-2087. Open daily Saturday, 10 a.m. – 5 p.m. except Mondays; other times by prior arrangement. COMMON THREAD, 107 W. Broadway, 538-5733. Monday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Retail and gallery space for fiber arts. www.fiberartscollective.org. COPPER QUAIL GALLERY, 211-A Texas St., corner of Yankie and Texas, 388-2646. Tuesday to Saturday, 11 a.m.-4 p.m. Fine arts and crafts. COW TRAIL ART STUDIO, 119 Cow Trail in Arenas Valley. Monday, 12-3 p.m. or by appointment, (706) 533-1897, www. victoriachick.com. CREATIONS & ADORNMENTS, 108 N. Bullard, 534-4269. Monday to Saturday, 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Work by Diane Reid. Dragonfly Studio, 508 W 6th St., 388-8646. By appointment. FOUR DIRECTIONS WEAVING, 106 W. Yankie St. Monday, Wednesday, Saturday. 11 a.m.-4 p.m., Sunday. noon-3 p.m. 263-3830. Francis McCray Gallery, 1000 College Ave., WNMU, 538-6517. GUADALUPE’S, 505 N. Bullard, 535-2624. Thursday to Saturday, 10 a.m. - 4 p.m., Sun. 10 a.m.-3 p.m. HUTCHINGS FINE ART, 406 B N. Bullard, Downtown Silver City. Open Wednesdy to Saturday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. 313-6939. LEYBA & INGALLS ARTS, 315 N. Bullard St., 388-5725. Monday to Saturday, 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Contemporary art ranging from realism to abstraction in a variety of media. www. LeybaIngallsARTS.com, LeybaIngallsART@zianet.com. LOIS DUFFY ART STUDIO, 211C N. Texas, 534-0822. Saturday, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Original paintings, cards and prints. www.loisduffy. com, loisduffy@signalpeak.net. LUMIERE EDITIONS, 108 W. Broadway, 956-6369. Vintage and contemporary photography. Monday to Friday. MARY’S FINE ART, 414 E. 21st St., 956-7315. Mary A. Gravelle. MIMBRES REGION ARTS COUNCIL GALLERY, Wells Fargo Bank Bldg., 1201 N. Pope St. www.mimbresarts.org. MOLLY RAMOLLA GALLERY & FRAMING, 203 N. Bullard, 5385538. www.ramollaart.com. Ol’ West Gallery & Mercantile, 104 W. Broadway, 388- 1811/313-2595. Daily 11 a.m.-6 p.m. SEEDBOAT CENTER FOR THE ARTS, 214 W. Yankie St., 5341136. Wednesday to Saturday 11 a.m.-5 p.m. or by appointment. info@ seedboatgallery.com. STAINED GLASS SOURCE, 11 Oakridge Dr., 519-4880. Saturday 11 a.m.-4 p.m., April to December. www.stainedglasssource. gallery. STUDIO BEHIND THE MOUNTAIN, 23 Wagon Wheel Lane, 3883277. By appointment. www.jimpalmerbronze.com. THE STUDIOSPACE, 109 N. Bullard St., 534-9291. www. jessgorell.com. Studio Upstairs, 109 N. Bullard St., 574-2493. By appointment. SUSAN SZAJER STUDIO, Sanctuary Road, 313-7197, by appointment. 21 Latigo Trail, 388-4557. Works by Barbara Harrison and others. TREE SPIRIT GALLERY , 215 W. BROADWAY, 388-2079. VIBRATIONS GALLERY, 106 W. Yankie St., 654-4384, starxr@ usa.net. Wild West Weaving, 211-D N. Texas, 313-1032, www. wildwestweaving. com. Wednesday to Saturday 10 a.m.-5 p.m. WIND CANYON STUDIO, 11 Quail Run off Hwy. 180 mile marker 107, 574- 2308, (619) 933-8034. Louise Sackett. Monday and Wednesday, 9 a.m.-4 p.m. and by appointment. WYNNEGATE GALLERY & STUDIO, 110 W. Yankie St., (214) 9573688. Monday and Thursday to Saturday 10 a.m.-4 p.m., Sunday 11:45 a.m.-4 p.m., Tuesday and Wednesday by appointment. YANKIE ST. ARTIST STUDIOS, 103 W. Yankie St., 313-1032. By appointment. Zoe’s Gallery, 305 N. Cooper St., 654-4910.
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CHAMOMILE CONNECTION, 3918 Highway 35N, 536-9845. Lynnae McConaha. By appointment. COTTAGE STAINED GLASS & MORE, Cedar Lane off Hwy. 35, 536-3234. Friday 10 a.m.-5 p.m., Saturday and Sunday 2-5 p.m. KATE BROWN POTTERY AND TILE, HC 15 Box 1335, San Lorenzo, 536-9935, katebrown@gilanet.com, www.katebrownpottery.com. By appointment. NARRIE TOOLE, ESTUDIO DE LA MONTURA, 313-7390, www.narrietoole.com. Contemporary western oils, giclées and art prints. By appointment. Reese-Benton Arts, 3811 Hwy. 35, 536-9487. By appointment.
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ALEGRE GALLERY, 920 N Alameda Blvd., 523-0685. Azure Cherry Gallery & Boutique, 330 E. Lohman Ave., 291-3595. Wed.-Thurs. 12-5 p.m., Friday to Saturday, noon-8 p.m. BLUE GATE GALLERY, 4901 Chagar (intersection of Valley and and Taylor roads), open by calling 523-2950. CHARLES INC., 1885 W Boutz Rd, 523-1888, Monday to Friday, 9 a.m.-5 p.m. COTTONWOOD GALLERY, 275 N. Downtown Mall (Southwest Environmental Center), 522-5552. Monday to Friday, 9 a.m.-5 p.m. CUTTER GALLERY, 2640 EL PASEO,541-0658. TUESDAY TO FRIDAY, 10 A.M.-5 P.M., SAT. 10 A.M.-3 P.M. GALERIE ACCENTS, 344 S. San Pedro #3, 522-3567. Monday to Saturday, 10 a.m.-6 p.m. GRIGGS & REYMOND, 504 W. Griggs Ave., 524-8450, Tuesday to Saturday, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. JUSTUS WRIGHT GALERIA, 266 W. Court Ave., 526-6101, jud@ delvalleprintinglc.com. LAS CRUCES ARTS ASSOCIATION, Community Enterprise Center Building, 125 N. Main St. www.lacrucesarts.org. LAS CRUCES MUSEUM OF ART, 491 N. Main St., 541-2137. Tuesday to Friday, 9 a.m.-4:30 p.m., Sat. 9 a.m.-4:30 p.m. MAIN STREET GALLERY, 311 N. Downtown Mall, 647-0508. Tuesday to Friday. 10 a.m.-5 p.m., Sat. 9:30 a.m.-1 p.m. MESQUITE ART GALLERY, 340 N. Mesquite St., 640-3502. Thursday to Friday, 11 a.m.-5 p.m., Sat. 2-5 p.m. M. PHILLIP’S FINE ART GALLERY, 221 N. Main St., 525-1367. MVS STUDIOS, 535 N. Main, Stull Bldg., 635-5015, www. mvsstudios.com. NEW DIMENSION ART WORKS, 615 E. Piñon, 373-0043. NEW MEXICO ART, 121 Wyatt Dr., Suite 1, 525-8292/6494876. Wednesday 1-6 p.m., Thursday to Saturday, 10 a.m.-6 p.m. NMSU ART GALLERY, Williams Hall, University Ave. east of Solano, 646-2545. Tuesday to Sunday NOPALITO’S GALERIA, 326 S. Mesquite. Friday to Sunday, 8 a.m.-8:30 p.m. OUIDA TOUCHÖN STUDIO, 1200 N. Reymond St., 635-7899. By appointment. ouida@ouidatouchon.com, www.ouidatouchon. com. QUILLIN STUDIO AND GALLERY, behind downtown Coas Books, 312-1064. Monday to Thursday and Saturday. TOMBAUGH GALLERY, Unitarian Universalist Church, 2000 S. Solano, 522-7281. Wednesday to Friday 10 a.m.-2 p.m. or by appointment. UNSETTLED GALLERY & STUDIO, 905 N. Mesquite, 635-2285. VIRGINIA MARIA ROMERO STUDIO, 4636 Maxim Court, 6440214. By appointment. agzromero@zianet.com , www. virginiamariaromero.com.
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ART SPACE GALLERY, 601 S. Silver, 546-0673. Monday and Friday noon to 6 p.m., Saturday 10 a.m.-5 p.m., donni@chrisdonni.com. DEMING ARTS CENTER, 100 S. Gold St., 546-3663. Tuesday to Saturday 10 a.m.-4 p.m. GOLD STREET GALLERY, 112-116 S. Gold St., 546-8200. ORONA ART STUDIO, 546-4650. By appointment. lyntheoilpainter@gmail.com, www.lynorona.com. READER’S COVE USED BOOKS & GALLERY, 200 S. Copper, 544-2512. Monday to Saturday 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Photography by Daniel Gauss. STUDIO LEMARBE, 4025 Chaparral SE, 544-7708.
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wo months back my column was entitled, A third complication is the signage itself: upright “What’s a Bike Lane?” Let’s restate this informa- signs, e.g., those on Las Alturas in Las Cruces say “Share tion again as simply as possible: a bike lane is the road” with a picture of a cyclist. But if “share the only a bike lane when it is marked as a bike lane. Bike road” does not mean, “share the designated vehicular lanes are marked with upright signs identifying their lane,” then motorists may continue to think cyclists existence, with what have to ride in the gutter. cyclists call “sharThe signs simply make us rows” (share the road aware bicyclists will be arrows), and with outon the road. lines of bicycles and a The history of road use directional arrow on is fairly straightforward: the ground at locally First came the horse, then determined intervals. the bicycle. With the biGot it? A bike lane is only a bike lane when it marked cycle began paved roads (note: not with cars – consult as a bike lane. the history). The bicycle then shared the road with auThis does not solve the problem, however. Thus far tomobiles, until the turnaround began and automobiles we have only identified what a bike lane is. The onset of shared the road with bicycles. In latter years, from the a new problem is here: most states have laws relating to 1970s on, it became less obvious, less enforced and less bicycle use that say something like this: “cycles should mandated that bicycles and cars must share the same stay to the far right of the road.” roads. Now we are in a situation where automobile What does this really mean? The law cries out for in- drivers commonly think two things: First, they own the terpretation. Does this statement mean “to the far right road and, second, bicycles do not have any rights. Some of the lane,” as most cyclists and perhaps many motor- people, who obviously don’t know the law, want us to ists would understand it? Or does it mean “to the far ride on the sidewalk (that’s illegal) or to be banned from right of the entire road surface”, which would include roads entirely (that’s unthinkable). the gutter, berm, or We have to solve the shoulder, whatever core problem, however, Bicycle drawing for charity term you use. If it and that is the disparity means “to the far between the way drivers The Silver City Woman’s Club is holding its annual right of the entire of cars and trucks perBenefit Bicycle Raffle on July 4 at the Independence surface,” then moceive the law and the way Day Celebration in Gough Park. Suggested donations torists could rightly people on bicycles do. are $1 per ticket or 6 for $5. expect people on Advocacy groups for cyTwo bicycles with helmets and locks will be rafbikes to ride on the cling (and individual colfled. shoulder or in the umnists) can only do so The drawing will take place at 4:30 p.m. To purgutter rather than in much in terms of educachase tickets early or for information contact Vera the actual marked tion. The law needs clear MacGregor at 534-0505. vehicular lane. interpretation, not only in Proceeds to benefit the Silver City Woman’s Club What compliNew Mexico, but across Community Outreach programs. cates this even furthe United States. Meanther is many of us while, let’s share the lane. who ride bicycles are willing to accommodate motorists by riding on the shoulder or even in the gutter of streets, rather than risk the possibility of being hit. We Fr. Gabriel Rochelle is do this really for self-protection, not because we want pastor of St. Anthony of the Desert Orthoto. Most of us interpret the law to mean we have every dox Mission, Las right to be on the road surface and not in the gutter. But Cruces, an avid cywe’re not going to take chances. clist and secretary for A second complication is that riding in a bike lane is Velo Cruces, our local advocacy committee. optional; it is not against the law to remain on the road The church website is surface if the law about usage means “to the far right of http://stanthonylc.org. the lane.” The bike lane is convenient, not mandatory.
“A bike lane is only a bikd lane when it is marked as a ‘bike lane.’”
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and oversight of timber, minerhe new Forest Supervisor als, watershed health, recreation, is no stranger to the Gila. lands, administration, budget, Adam Mendonca, who planning, engineering, wildlife takes over July 13 as superviand range. As a result of these dusor of the Gila National Forest, ties, he has had the opportunity began his Forest Service career to work closely with communiworking as a seasonal firefighter ties, employees and stakeholders on the Gila while completing a on the many challenges associForestry degree at Northern Ariated with forest management. zona University. “I look forward to the experiAfter graduation he obtained ences I will gain in my new posihis first permanent position tion as the Forest Supervisor for within the Forest Service as an the Gila National Forest. I believe assistant engine foreman. From new experiences provide great there, he moved into planning Adam Mendonca (Courtesy photo) opportunities to learn, to build and later became a district rangnew relationships and improve er on the Bridger-Teton National the mark we leave on the land,” Mendonca said. “I Forest in western Wyoming. He most recently served as Deputy Forest Super- am very excited to move back to the Silver City area visor for the Rio Grande National Forest in southern and eager to work with the people in and around the Colorado, where his duties included the management Gila National Forest.”
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Grant County Weekly Events Sundays
ARCHAEOLOGY SOCIETY—First Sun. of every month, field trip. 536-3092, whudson43@yahoo.com. BINGO—1st and 2d Sun. Doors open 12:30 p.m., games start 1:35 p.m. Benefits Salvation Army and Post 18 charities. American Legion Post 18, 409 W. College Ave. 534- 0780 HOLISTIC PRESENTATIONS—11 a.m. PeaceMeal Coop Deli. 534-9703 PRAYER AND STUDY IN THE EASTERN ORTHODOX TRADITION—Sunset. Theotokos Retreat Center, 5202 Hwy. 152, Santa Clara. 537-4839, theotokos@zianet.com.
Mondays
AARP CHAPTER #1496—Third Monday. 12:30 p.m. Senior Center, 205 W. Victoria. Contact Marcia Fisch, 388-1298 AARP WIDOWED AND SINGLE PERSONS OF GRANT COUNTY—Second Mondays. 10:30 a.m. Glad Tidings Church. Contact Sally, 537-3643. AL-ANON—12:05 p.m. First Presbyterian Church, 1915 Swan, Silver City. Contact Valerie, 313-2561. ART CLASS—-9-10:45 a.m. Silver City Senior Citizen Center. Beginners to advanced. Contact Jean 519-2977. GENTLE YOGA—5:30-6:56 p.m. Lotus Center at 211 W. Broadway, Becky Glenn, (404) 234-5331. OLD-TIME COUNTRY DANCING—3rd Mon., 7-9 p.m. Pin Room, Silver Bowling Center. Free. PING PONG—5:30-7 p.m. Grant County Convention Center. Beginners 7-8 p.m. SILVER CITY SQUARES—Dancing 7-9 p.m. Presbyterian Church, 1915 N. Swan St. Kay, 388-4227, or Linda, 534-4523. TAI CHI FOR BETTER BALANCE—1 p.m., Senior Center. Call Lydia Moncada to register, 534-0059.
Tuesdays
ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS—Men’s group, 7 a.m. Unitarian Fellowship Hall. 3845 N. Swan. Jerry, 534-4866. ALZHEIMER’S/DEMENTIA SUPPORT— 1st Tues. 1:30 p.m. Senior Center. Margaret, 388-4539. BAYARD HISTORIC MINE TOUR— 2nd Tuesday. Meet at Bayard City Hall, 800 Central Ave., by 9:30 a.m. $5 fee covers twohour bus tour of historic mines plus literature and map; call 537-3327 for reservation. COMPASSIONATE FRIENDS—4th Tuesday. 7 p.m. Support for those who’ve lost a child. Episcopal Church, Parish Hall, 7th and Texas St. Mitch Barsh, 534-1134. FIGURE/MODEL DRAWING—4-6 p.m. Contact Sam, 388-5583. LOS COMADRES CANCER SUPPORT GROUP—1st Tues. 6 p.m. Business and Conference Center, 3031 Hwy. 180 E. (next to Ace). 388-1198 ext. 10. MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SUPPORT GROUP— First Tuesday. 11:30 a.m. at local restaurant; email for this month’s location: huseworld@ yahoo.com. REIKI CIRCLE—First Tuesday of the month, 6:30 p.m. 2035 Little Walnut. Treatment for those in need of healing. Vicki, 388-8114, or Virginia, 388-4870. SLOW FLOW YOGA—11:30 a.m.-12:45 p.m. Lotus Center at 211 W. Broadway, Becky Glenn, (404) 234-5331. SOCIAL SERVICES—Noon. Red Barn, 707 Silver Heights Blvd. 538-5666. TEA PARTY PATRIOTS—2nd and 4th Tues. 6 p.m. Red Barn Steakhouse, 708 Silver
Heights Blvd. 388-4143.
Wednesdays
ARCHAEOLOGY SOCIETY—Third Weds. of every month. Oct.-Nov., Jan.-April 7 p.m. Silver City Women’s Club. Summers 6 p.m. location TBA. 536-3092, whudson43@ yahoo.com. BACK COUNTRY HORSEMEN—2nd Weds. 6 p.m. Gila Regional Medical Center Conference Room. Subject to change. 574-2888. BAYARD AL-ANON—6 p.m. Bayard Housing Authority, 100 Runnels Dr. 313-7094. A COURSE IN MIRACLES—7:15 p.m., 600 N. Hudson. Information, 534-9172 or 534-1869. CURBSIDE CONSULTING—Free for nonprofits. 9 a.m.-noon. Wellness Coalition, 409 N. Bullard, Lisa Jimenez, 534-0665, ext. 232, lisa@wellnesscoalition.org, FOOD ADDICTS ANONYMOUS WOMEN’S GROUP—6:30 p.m. 1000 N Hudson St., 519-1070. GIN RUMMY—1 p,m. Yankie Creek Coffee House. GRANT COUNTY DEMOCRATIC PARTY—2nd Weds. Potluck at 5:30 p.m., meeting at 6:30 p.m. Sen. Howie Morales’ building, 3060 E. Hwy. 180. LADIES GOLF ASSOCIATION—8 a.m. tee time. Silver City Golf Course. LEGO CLUB—Ages 4-9. 4 p.m. Silver City Public Library, 515 W. College Ave., 538-3672. PING PONG—5:30-7 p.m. Grant County Convention Center. Beginners 7-8 p.m. PROSTATE CANCER SUPPORT GROUP—3rd Weds. 6:30 p.m. Gila Regional Medical Center Conference Room. 388-1198 ext. 10. REIKI SHARE - Noon, Thursdays. For Reiki practitioners any level & lineage. 211B N.Texas. Contact Gianna, 970.685.0008. REPUBLICAN PARTY OF GRANT COUNTY— Third Weds. 6 p.m. Red Barn. STORYTIME—All ages. 10:30 a.m. Silver City Public Library, 515 W. College Ave., 538-3672. TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY SUPPORT GROUP—3:30-5 p.m. All-Purpose Room, Billy Casper Wellness Center, Hudson St. & Hwy. 180. James, 537-2429, or Danita, 534-9057.
Thursdays
ARTS ANONYMOUS—5:30 p.m. Artists Recovering through the Twelve Steps. Unitarian Universalist Fellowship, 3845 N. Swan St. 534-1329. CANCER SUPPORT GROUP—1st Thurs. 6 p.m. Gila Regional Medical Center Board Room. 388-1198 ext. 10. DE-STRESSING MEDITATIONS— 12-12:45 p.m. New Church of the SW Desert, 1302 Bennett St. 313-4087. GILA WRITERS—2-4 p.m. Silver City Public Library. Trish Heck, trish.heck@gmail. com, 534-0207. REIKE SHARE—Thursdays at noon, free to Reiki practitioners for hour of meditation, discussion and practice. Interpersonal Peace Center, 211-B N. Texas St., Silver City. Please confirm meeting schedule beforehand by contacting Gianna at 970-685-0008 or reikidancer@gmail. com. For information about Reiki visit www. AvantiHealingArts.com. GRANT COUNTY ROLLING STONES GEM AND MINERAL SOCIETY—2nd Thurs. 6 p.m. Senior Center, 204 W. Victoria St. Kyle, 538-5706. HISTORIC MINING DISTRICT & TOURISM MEETING—Second Thurs. 10 a.m. Bayard Community Center, 290 Hurley Ave., Bayard.
537-3327. PROGRESSIVE PILATES—5:30-6:30 p.m., 315 N. Bullard, 2d fl. 519-8948. TOPS—5 p.m. 1st Presbyterian Church, 1915 Swan, 538-9447. WOMEN’S CANCER SUPPORT GROUP—1st Thurs. 6-7 p.m. GRMC Conference Room, 1313 E. 32nd St. 388-1198, ext. 10. VINYASA FLOW YOGA—11:30 a.m Lotus Center at 211 W. Broadway, Becky Glenn, (404) 234-5331. YOGA CLASS—Free class taught by Colleen Stinar.12:30 1:30 p.m. Episcopal Church fellowship hall, 7th and Texas.
Fridays
OVEREATERS ANONYMOUS—6 p.m. Gila Regional Medical Center conference room. 313-9400. SILVER CITY WOMAN’S CLUB—2nd Fri., 10:30 a.m., lunch 12 p.m. 411 Silver Heights Blvd. 538-3452. TAIZÉ—2nd Friday. Service of prayer, songs, scripture readings and quiet contemplation. 6:30 p.m. Episcopal Church of the Good Shepherd, 538-2015. WOODCARVING CLUB—2nd and 4th Fridays except holidays. 1 p.m. Senior Center. 313-1518. YOUTH SPACE—5:30-10 p.m. Loud music, video games, chill out. Satellite/Wellness Coalition.
Saturdays
ONE TIME EVENT - GENDAI REIKI HO TRAINING— Daylong Certification in Level I Traditional Japanese Reiki. Saturday, May 9. Learn Reiki to heal yourself and others, bringing health, happiness and harmony to your mind, body and spirit. Enlightening and enjoyable class with plenty of hands-on practice. Fee, $195. Includes original 40page manual and diploma certifying you as a Reiki practitioner. Interpersonal Peace Center, 211-B N. Texas St., Silver City. Advance sign up: Contact Dr. Gianna Settin at 970-685-0008 or reikidancer@gmail. com, or visit AvantiHealingArts.com. ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS BEGINNERS—6 p.m. Lions Club, 8th & Bullard (entrance at Big Ditch behind Domino’s). Newcomers and seasoned members welcome. ALZHEIMER’S/DEMENTIA SUPPORT— 10 a.m.-noon. Gila Regional Medical Center Conference Room. Margaret, 388-4539. BLOOMING LOTUS MEDITATION— 12:45 p.m. Lotus Center at 211 W. Broadway, 313-7417, geofarm@pobox.com. DOUBLE FEATURE BLOCKBUSTER MEGA HIT MOVIE NIGHT—5:30-11 PM. Satellite/Wellness Coalition. EVENING PRAYER IN THE EASTERN ORTHODOX TRADITION—5 p.m. Theotokos Retreat Center, 5202 Hwy. 152, Santa Clara. 5374839, theotokos@zianet.com. KIDS BIKE RIDE—10 a.m., Bikeworks, 815 E. 10th St. Dave Baker, 388-1444. NARCOTICS ANONYMOUS—6 p.m. New 180 Club, 1661 Hwy. 180 E. SPINNING GROUP—1st Sat., 1-3 p.m. Yada Yada Yarn, 614 N. Bullard, 388-3350. STORYTIME—All ages. 10:30 a.m. Silver City Public Library, 515 W. College Ave., 538-3672. VINYASA FLOW YOGA—10 a.m. All levels. Lotus Center at 211 W. Broadway, Becky Glenn, (404) 234-5331. All phone numbers are area code 575 except as noted. Send updates to events@ desertexposure.com.
COOPERATIVE CREATIVITY
Mural Camp Scheduled Silver City youth take part in mural creation
This year’s Mimbres Region Arts Council’s Youth Mural Camp takes place at The Volunteer Center of Grant County, weekdays from July 20 to July 31. Camp hours are 9 a.m. to noon. Intern hours are 8:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Campers will be completing a mural mosaic on the Center’s outdoor oven, as well as participating in gardening activities. Campers (ages 6-12 years old), apprentice interns (13 and 14), and interns (15 and older) will work with mentoring artists to create a mosaic mural. Campers participate in all aspects of the mural process from design to creation. They work collaboratively on the overall design and incorporate elements that are uniquely theirs into the mural. Campers will create clay elements to glaze and fire, as well as have time for gardening, fun, games and play.
Campers, interns and artists work together to install the pieces and mosaic the oven, lending their creativity to the project. Space is limited. The fee for both weeks is $165, for one week $110. Limited scholarships to the camp are available. Applications for campers and interns are available at the MRAC office (in the Wells Fargo Bank), Leyba & Ingalls ARTS, 315 N. Bullard Street and the Volunteer Center 501 East 13th St. or online at www.mimbresarts.org/youthmural-camp/. Participants in this year’s Funding is provided by the National EnYouth Mural Campers will dowment for the Arts and New Mexico Arts. work in the garden at the Completed Murals throughout Silver City Volunteer Center of Grant can be seen on the MRAC website, www. County as well as their mural mimbresarts.org/youth-mural-camp/. creation. (Courtesy Photo)
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n the recent March 2015 issue of the Desert Diary, a short story ran that, at its core, made light of suicide/murder, sexuality, and transgender issues. The community outcry resulting from the publication of this anecdote was swift and heartfelt, and can be read in Letters of the April 2015 issue. Many citizens were able to articulate what the author and editors had missed, that mental health problems and violence against transgendered people are both issues of serious concern in our community, and should not be taken lightly or dishonored. To use this subject matter in such a way goes beyond the boundaries of humor, social mores, or bad taste – it functions to reinforce the heteronormative patriarchy, violence and oppression that transgendered and other marginalized people face on a daily basis. As our society progresses to become increasingly tolerant and inclusive to honor the many facets of the human experience, old paradigms and power structures will be called into question. As they shift, so too will our cultural norms become redefined. This past week it was impossible to turn on the television or read through an internet news feed without news of Kaitlin Jenner’s recent transition, and with this pervasive media coverage conversations on transgender experience were brought to the forefront the mainstream consciousness. The current dominant cultural view is to classify gender and sex through a binary system of male or female, and sexuality through simplified paradigms of heterosexual, homosexual or bisexual. The reality, is that individuals’ experiences and perceptions are not so simple. In an effort to accurately conceptualize the complex interactions of sex, gender, personal identity, perception and interpersonal relationships a system of independent spectrums can be used to best reflect these concepts. Gender Identity refers to the introspective understanding of personal identify in regard to man-ness and woman-ness. It is one’s own personal felt sense
of identity and belonging within that binary ManWoman paradigm and exists independently of biological sex, attraction/sexual orientation, and gender expression; how much a person feels “like a man,” “like a women,” “like both equally,” “like a man a little more than like a woman,” “like neither,” and even feel gender fluid. Gender Expression on the other hand is the outward, visible to the world, way in which someone presents their felt sense of gender. This expression is achieved through hair styles, clothing, fashion, demeanor, characteristics and behavior that are perceived within the masculine and feminine. For example a person can have an internal gender identity that is very “male” but his expression of his gender may be perceived by others via cultural norms to be more feminine or effeminate, due to activities of interest, behavior and dress. The Biological Sex has everything to do with the physical characteristics of one’s body, sex organs, chromosomal make up, and hormones. This is typically assigned at birth as male, female, or intersex. About 1 in 2,000 people born in the United States is intersex. Some people are born with external sex organs that are not easily identifiable as distinctly male or female, and others have chromosomes that are not typical. Attraction also exists on a continuum, and can be broken down into two separate facets of sexual attraction and romantic attraction. A persons’ sense of who they are attracted to and how that attraction is expressed and received comprises what is commonly called sexual orientation. With sexual attraction being oriented to the physical aspects of a relationship and the romantic attraction being comprised of emotional and spiritual dynamics. This basic overview of gender, sexuality and is meant to serve as a foundation for building a fundamental understanding of the complexities of our own lives and the lives of others. In building a shared community and advocating for tolerance, it is also BODY, MIND, SPIRIT continued on page 22
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esbian, Gay, Bi-Sexual and Transgender (LGBT) Grant County has been serving Silver City and Grant County for many years. The original organization was called Swans (Southwest Activities Network). Activities included fundraising for community projects, entertainment productions and social gatherings. LGBT Grant County currently offers members activities focusing on social interaction and networking, providing connections for those new to our town and welcoming visitors. Also providing HIV Antibody testing for persons desiring testing, hosting the AIDS Names Quilt, maintaining
landscaping for a welcoming median strip and participating in community events such as parades and festivals. LGBT Grant County is seeking additional members to assist in activities and participate in the governance of the organization. Board membership and member participation are critical in allowing LGBT Grant County to maintain its presence and providing information for all our community. Those wishing to participate can call 575 5195562, visit our website gaysilver.org or e-mail grant@lgbtgrantcounty.com
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• I: Intersex. People born into bodies that are not definitiviely male or female, including those born with ambiguous genitalia, bits of both male and female plumbing, or genetics beyond the standard XX and XY. • I: Intergender. • A: Asexual. People who are affectional but aren’t that into sex. • A: Allies. Straight people who support the LGBTQ+ community. • P: Pansexual. People attracted to others more by individual personality, differing from bisexuality in that they ignore the gender binary altogether. Local Resources: PFLAG Silver City: http://pflagsilvercity.org LGBT Grant County: www.gaysilver.org Equality New Mexico: http://eqnm.org Lucas O’Laughlin, LCSW, is a behavioral therapist at Silver Health CARE. He offers psychotherapy for adults and children at the Main Clinic and at The Family Clinic
BORDERLINES • MARJORIE LILLY
Looking up in Palomas Manufacturing work brings hope to Mexican town
It’s hard to believe such good news is coming out of Palomas after seven years of violence and unemployment. The story is that hunger is being beaten back in dramatic ways. The causes are a couple of new government social programs introduced in the past year, an increase in scholarships, and – most important – a Taiwanese Foxconn maquiladora (manufacturing operation in a free trade zone) just south of Santa Teresa that’s been courting hundreds of workers from Palomas and the surrounding area. They’ve made hunger virtually a thing of the past. Las Palomas Mayor Talaco Sanchez said, in April, the Foxconn people “made an appointment with me to meet with them in Juarez. They asked me if I would like Palomas residents to work in their plant in San Jeronimo (Mexico). I said, ‘Of course.’” Work started in late May. A food-stamp program associated with President Enrique Peña Nieto called SinHambre (without hunger) has been in operation in Palomas since last June. Although, in United States terms very little money is distributed to each person, the program has cancelled hunger for most people in Palomas. The number of clients at the SinHambre lunch kitchen has recently dropped from 120 to 50, according to manager Brenda Rodriguez, because there are so many people working in San Jeronimo. She worries it may close soon. A young woman named Norma Casilla has been working for just a week at the Foxconn plant, west of Juarez, assembling computers. A bus picks her up at 4:30 in the dark morning hours to take her to work and brings her back at 6:30 p.m. It’s a two-hour ride each way.
She started getting the SinHambre foodstamps card almost a year ago, as a single mother of two. Before that, she had earned $20 to $30 a week by selling bread, burritos or sweets in the streets. I told her I always hear Mexicans say, “Adults can bear hunger, but children can’t bear it.” Norma leaned her head forward and said sometimes her children have cried all day from hunger. She seemed to be holding back tears. But now she’s getting $57 a week from work. “Tomorrow I’m going to get my check,” she said. I asked her what she’d get with it. “Shoes for my children,” she said with determination. “They don’t have shoes?” I asked. “No,” she said. A woman who works with Casilla, Agustina Monrreal, dropped by. She is a widow with an 11-year-old disabled son. Before getting the SinHambre card, Monrreal cleaned houses for $10 a day, for an average of $20 a week. I don’t know if I’ve ever heard of anyone getting by on so little money. We sit quietly for a few seconds. What she earns at Foxconn isn’t much, she knows, but gracias a Dios, they’re not hungry now. Angelica Del Val acquired the DICONSA store in June 2014. It’s a cramped mom-andpop type store with dim lights. This is where people with the SinHambre card need to go to buy food. Del Val is a cheerful woman with a tiny grandson she takes care of often. She showed me her records and said about 240 people in Palomas get the card and in the “colonias” – Col. Victoria, Seis de Enero, and Col. Modelo – 60 people get it. She
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guard. Working at Foxconn is definitely more beneficial to her than working customs. She said workers at Foxconn, mostly from Juarez, started walking off the job until the plant began to increase their salaries. After one month, they’ll give workers a raise, then again after two months and after three months. The cycle would start again after six months. A Jan. 16 article in openDemocracy records complaints from Foxconn workers in Juarez. There are reports of “relentless monitoring by supervisors and team leaders.” But Saray said her supervisors “let them work at their own pace,” and that they offer chairs to elderly workers. A Juarez worker is quoted in openDemocracy saying, “They always give you a hard time if you don’t stay late and work overtime,” up to 14 or 15 hours. But Saray said she works from 6:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. and has an hour for lunch and two breaks. Because she has a high school degree from Palomas, someone at the plant told her, “If you work hard, you’ll have an opportunity to advance in your work.” She’s full of optimism. There are high hopes that Foxconn will eventually bring a plant to Palomas. For many years people in town have been talking about plans to develop San Jeronimo and build a road to Palomas. Maquiladoras have been envisioned on the empty lots on the east side of town. The steps that are being taken now may be part of that dream materializing.
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PUBLISHER’S NOTEBOOK • RICHARD COLTHARP
Flying Things
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ou may soon be seeing (or have already seen) cool stuff flying over southern New Mexico and Arizona. At the time of this writing, we hadn’t seen any yet, but according to a press release I got in late June, you could see or may have already seen fighter jets performing lowaltitude exercises near Silver City. The release came from NORAD (remember them?), the North American Aerospace Defense Command. Like many Americans, I learned about NORAD from Cold War-era movies, where military officials made thermonuclear decisions from a super-secure underground bunker in Colorado. Incidentally, as a clipping from New Mexico Magazine’s “One of our Fifty is Missing” column, the press release also said the flights might be seen in Deming, Ariz. Since the Cold War ended, the only time I hear about NORAD is around Christmastime, when they start tracking Santa’s flight around the world. Apparently, this exercise is a practice involving fighter jets and civilian aircraft, simulating possible identification and intercept procedures. These have been going on for years, as part of Operation Noble Eagle, as a response and practice after Sept. 11. This is the first I’ve heard of them in southern New Mexico. Cool flying things are no stranger to southern New Mexico. Think Roswell, 1947. Think the F-117 Stealth fighters that used to fly out of Holloman Air Force Base. Think of the bats at Carlsbad Caverns. I once saw an eagle flying overhead (and then danger-
ously close to my vehicle) while driving U.S. Highway 54 near Corona. Cool things are always flying over southern New Mexico. One of the coolest things flying overhead is the New Mexico flag. A friend recently sent me a link to Niraj Chokshi, a Washington Post blogger who on Flag Day reminded readers once again New Mexico has the best flag in America. Chokshi referenced a 2001 survey by the North American Vexillogical Assocation. That vexing title simply describes an organization dedicated to the study of flags, whose members prefer strong, simple distinctive flags, of which ours is one. The runner-up was our neighbor, Texas, whose simple red, white and blue and classic Lone Star is very clean. It’s also very similar to the flag of Chile, which was adopted in 1817. Though they didn’t make the top five in the survey, I’ve long been a fan of the flags of two of our other neighbors, Colorado and Arizona, both colorful, clean and bold. I firmly agree, however, New Mexico has the best state flag. I still have a handmade mobile my oldest daughter, Jessica, made in the fourth grade. It features the state, with a roadrunner, a yucca, a Zia and other New Mexico symbols dangling with yarn. She taught me the meaning of the Zia symbol that adorns our flag. Each of the rays emanating from the center circle have meaning. One set of four represents seasons: spring, summer, winter, fall.
“Cool things are always flying over southern New Mexico. One of the coolest things flying overhead is the New Mexico flag.”
Another represents the time of day: morning, afternoon, evening, night. A third represents the periods of life: childhood, adolescence, middle age, old age. The fourth represents directions: north, south, east and west. Tribal members of the Zia Pueblo have had frustrations about their symbol being used for commercial purposes. And it is ubiquitous. Just in the past week I’ve seen the red Zia on a yellow field in the following formats: a pair of sweat socks, a can of beer and a necktie. Somebody in town even has a Zia on the back of his yellow SUV. New Mexico also has, in my opinion, the coolest state flower (the yucca) and the coolest state bird (the roadrunner). I’ve never seen a roadrunner more than about six feet above ground, but I guess you could call them another cool flying thing in New Mexico. Sadly, I learned some crushing information just this week. In addition to learning history from bad 1980s movies, I learned botany and zoology from Warner Brothers cartoons. That’s why my world was shattered when I learned this fact: A coyote can run more than 40 mph. A roadrunner’s top speed is 20 mph. That means that “Meep, meep” and ACME dynamite in the desert was all an egregious lie. See what you can do to spread some of the happiness today.Richard Coltharp is editor and publisher of Desert Exposure
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SUBORBITAL • ELVA K. ÖSTERREICH
Spaceport America Experience Visitor center opens to public, multiple weekly tours offered
Low to the ground, the Gateway to Space building blends with the surrounding desert to make a minimal impact on the existing landscape. (Photo by Elva K. Österreich)
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Mark and Rose Bleth with Follow the Sun tours and Christine Anderson, CEO of Spaceport America; are joined by various officials from the area to cut the Spaceport America visitor center ribbon June 24. (Photo by Elva K. Österreich)
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HIKING APACHERIA • JERRY EAGAN
The Characters I’ve Met
Apache spirits, Table Mountain, turtles and Dorothy Eagan
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ver the 13 years I’ve lived here, I’ve attended three or four Red Paint Powwows. They were the first Pow Wows I’d ever attended. In those years I looked at many crafts made by Apaches but only bought one: it was the shell (complete) of a Desert Box Turtle, with a wooden handle and feather attached. Inside were beads of some kind, because I wanted something that would rattle. To this day, I have NO idea why I chose that turtle rattle, but I did. My turtle rattle had a nice shishshing sound to it when I shook it; I bought it because I wanted to shake shake and rattle something as I danced in what I called “the returning warrior dance.” I couldn’t find the person who could authorize me to join the, so I didn’t interrupt. It wasn’t my time or place. I stopped going to the Pow Wows after a few years but continued “Hiking Apacheria.” I felt it was more important for me to hike rather than wander around the WNMU gymnasium. I had plenty of books on Apacheria. What I wanted and needed more of was actually “hiking in Apacheria.” I never took the turtle shell rattle out hiking with me as I thought it too fragile. I hiked many places from 2002 to 2012. Probably 800 hikes in all seasons, places, levels of strenuousness and other difficulties. Many I hiked were alone. In the beginning, my very first partner “hiking Apacheria” was a character I’d married named Dorothy Eagan. Of all those I hiked with, she was the most memorable. She was my wife, but also the very best friend I’ve ever had. Now, she’s gone. So, I write this article in her memory. We’d built part of our relationship around hiking in Yellow Springs, Ohio, prior to moving here. She was such an observant woman, her beautiful brown eyes taking in so much, and she identified many plants she knew in our walks. In the first few years, she hiked various places with me. We were both learning Apacheria. Me, “on point.” Once, I took Dorothy on a hike that required we cross a sloping, angled rock field, the rock granular, and a slip or slide, unchecked, would see the slider go directly over the lip of the rock field and fall 60- to 70-feet to death or horrible injury on a lava bed. She said she would never hike with me again except on trails. This is too much. It’s too scary. She never did. She began to spend more time in her garden, and I proceeded to hike all over, every week, twice a week, all day. One series of hikes was on Table (Top) Mountain, later part of the City of Rocks property, but my ventures onto “table top,” six to eight times, in search of reputed Apache sites, occurred before that. A Park Ranger ad told me he’d been told by Apaches that there were at least two Apache “things” in the park or on the mountain. That was all I needed to go. He didn’t say I couldn’t
go. He only gave me a rough idea of where one was. I think I found them. I’ve always believed the Apache showed me and led me to these places. Table Top is shaped like a pork chop, with an open center that water courses down during big rains. With layers of rock that work inward like a stack of smaller and smaller pancakes, the mesa columns of rock eventually have to be scrambled up in order to “top out” and explore the mesa flats. Readers of Apache history often see reports that Apaches could bolt across such a mesa top, and seemingly jump straight off the edge of precipitous rock faces, and when chasers reached the mesa ledges, the Apaches were down below, running full tilt, away. My first hikes worked west to east, rounding the rim rock. As I climbed, always wary of rattlers in the tall grass and rock, I often climbed several layers, looking for petroglyphs or pictographs I don’t believe I ever found pictographs, but think I found petroglyphs. At one point, near the northern end of the mountain, I ventured up into several chasms or chimney areas. I found what looked like petroglyphs at various locations, but I wasn’t certain. On one occasion, I worked my way into a chasm and explored various possible ways to the top. As I did, I “felt” there were some rocks that had purposely been shoved, or wedged into cracks, as if to cover or conceal something. Apaches often cached goods in such places. I began to explore those cracks and crevices, thinking perhaps they were caches. The views from Table Mountain were incredible. In Spanish days, mule trains traveled south, on El Camino del Cobre, hauling raw copper to Janos or Chihuahua City. The mule trains would have been visible for miles, as they headed perhaps for the Hot Springs, or, Cow Springs and other areas where water could be found. As I moved dirt around in that particular cul de sac with rocks wedged and jammed into cracks, I found the remains of what I believe was a Desert Box Turtle. The shells – perhaps six or eight pieces total – I carefully uncovered with a small quarter inch paint brush I carried for such purposes. As I uncovered more of the remains of the shell of this animal, a sudden gust of wind whipped up with tornadic intensity: it blew and swirled around me, casting pebbles against my face, dust into my eyes. Being a Midwesterner, it felt like a mini-tornado. It also felt very specifically malevolent. That was a rare feeling, and it struck me as significant. At that moment I believed that whatever or whoever had
been in this area – and I’d found some chips or flakes from someone making possible arrowheads or scrapers at the same site – didn’t want me messing around anymore. True, or not, whether as a result of flashbacks to the sixties, I stopped what I was doing and left the area. Later I found some evidence of Apache presence on the mountain – and a geocache – as well as more snakes, deer and bugs. But it was always quiet and it felt like I was alone to the world. My wife Dorothy, whom I called “my Dearable,” was diagnosed with Ovarian Cancer in August, 2012. I believed she was sick as early as May or in June, 2012. She was placed on hospice in 2013. Dorothy left Silver City on Jan. 8, 2014, to visit three cancer centers and spend time with her two sons on the west coast. Her daughter accompanied her. Dorothy died in Bellingham, Wash. Feb. 24, 2014. Many people had known Dorothy, as she was the incredible smiling circulation supervisor at the Silver City Library for half a dozen years. In the search for healthy meals, I met Terry Todd, who runs the Green Turtle Noshery. She and I have chatted, and swapped some stories. As Terry and I’ve talked, she’s shared her own losses with me. I told her about the turtle hiking story. There are turtles everywhere in the Noshery. I don’t know what her story is on the turtles beyond that the turtle is a totem animal for her. I think of all the times I returned from hikes and told my darling wife the stories of my adventures. I loved hearing and seeing her garden expand and grow. There is a rhythm there – the first tree budded this spring on the Feb. 23, the day before she died and the last time I spoke with her on the phone. I called her at 9:02 p.m., Sunday. “Hello, sweetie! I’m sorry I missed your call! I love you. I’m with you!” “I love you, too. Goodbye.” Dorothy died at 3 a.m., Monday. Now, she belongs to the ages. Her garden blooms anew every day. A koan came to me once, hiking alone in Wooden Shoe Cañon, near Natural Bridges National Monment, in Utah. The wind that blows today, has always blown before; The wind that blows today, will always blow. The wind that blows today, has never blown before; The wind that blows today, will never blow again.
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TALKING HORSES • SCOTT THOMSON
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electing someone to become intimately involved as an adviser in some aspect of your life can be a challenge. Finding the right therapist, fitness instructor, financial adviser, lawyer or life coach is no easy task because it has to start with you admitting certain things about your life and yourself. If you can’t do this, then you’ll probably make some poor decisions about the people you seek out for good counsel, the people who can really help bring the improvements you need. For riders, finding the right trainer can be every bit as challenging as the search for any trusted adviser, perhaps more so given the deep emotional bonds many have with horses and the inherent risks of riding them. In many ways, the right trainer encompasses the best of all the other advisers you let into your life, with the added requirement he or she has to understand and relate to your horse as well. I get asked how to go about this search a lot, and as much as I’d like to just say “pick me!” the best I can do is tell people what I was told years ago, advice from a mentor that has pretty much guided all my decisions when looking for help in improving my knowledge and skills with horses. • Don’t choose a trainer who only tells you what you want to hear. If your ego or emotional make-up requires you to be constantly told how great you look in the saddle, how sweet and smart your horse is, how beautiful your clothes and tack are, then you’ll probably never advance with your horsemanship. Somewhere along the line, truth has to come into the equation. You don’t always look good in the saddle, sometimes you do really dumb or dangerous things, and sometimes your horse is pretty plain and acts like a dink. The best instructors know the moments that deserve praise, but are also willing to say when things go off the rails. • A trainer who doesn’t start with safety and well-being for you and your horse is going to get you hurt. There is no way to sugarcoat the fact riding horses is a dangerous activity no matter how skilled you are. The sequence of growth with horses should always be safety and knowledge first, then fun. This involves your equipment, your fitness, your basic habits, as well as the fitness, conformation and suitability of your horse. It also involves a good assessment of your skills and goals, and whether the facts fit the beliefs. A good trainer needs to push you in order to improve, but should never move you faster than your skills or the physical and mental abilities of your horse. If you don’t hear this balance early on from a prospective trainer, best to look elsewhere. • A good trainer judges progress by what the horse is saying. The best trainers spend as much time looking at the horse as they do at you because the horse never lies about his understanding of what is being asked, your ability to communicate and how it feels physically. It’s a frustrating thing with horses, but often you feel like you’re really getting something, but underneath you the horse is saying “I’m really confused, you’re really annoying me and whatever it is you’re doing hurts.” Your trainer should have no problems telling you what he sees even if it conflicts with what you feel. • A good trainer should give you a “why” for every “how.” If you’re not getting the how and the why for both you and your horse, then you’re wasting your time. You’ll never achieve real feel and communication if you don’t understand the why behind the how, and your horse will never give you the kind of softness and responsiveness you want if you don’t understand what he has to do. Humans, especially today, mostly just want the how because the why usually involves more steps and more time. And the “whys” should have some science and current thinking behind them, not just “this is the way I’ve always done it here on the ranch.” If you’re getting the old “keep your heels down, more left rein, sit up straight,
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etc.” shouted to you from afar, you’re not learning a damn thing. • The horse comes first because he has no other options in life. A really good trainer always tries to see things from the horse’s perspective, and strives to get you to understand that. The best lesson I had was when I rushed to the barn one day, aggravated by being late because a client meeting had gone on too long, and jumped out of my car and sprinted across the parking lot. I didn’t want to lose any of my lesson time. The trainer stopped me and sent me back to sit in my car, simply saying I’m not letting you get on my lesson horse when you’re that wound up. There was no way I was going to be a good riding partner for her horse that day, and she called me on it. Perfect! • A trainer should mean a lot more to you than just someone who gives you a lesson. Your trainer should be deeply involved with you and your horse and should be thinking of ways to help you even when you’re not having a lesson. New techniques, new products, new science, a different or more creative approach to help you over a hump, a better way to tie things together to help you and your horse understand and progress – these are all the things a good trainer should be thinking about for you. If you only see the trainer as someone to put some miles on your horse or give you a lesson every now and then, you’ve set your bar too low and you’ll get exactly that much benefit from the relationship. • If you’re not interested in learning, why bother. To put it another way, if you think you know more than your trainer or you aren’t willing to listen to, try or practice what he or she is trying to teach you, then why are you actually taking up this person’s time? I have to say life today is making it hard to be a good trainer no matter how hard you try. Every person who knocks on your door has been to a million clinics, seen every YouTube video, watched hours of RFD TV, and read every book in the library. I call it the “worshipping at too many altars syndrome.” Guess what? If you can’t open yourself up to the trainer in front of you, don’t waste the person’s time and look for another option. • Don’t get hung up on buckles, ribbons or credentials. Many of the best teachers, coaches and mentors were never the stars in their respective disciplines. In fact, sitting on the sidelines, watching and observing an activity, can give you a better set of eyes and a better feel for what success looks like and how to teach it. If you want to compete in a specific riding discipline, then, of course, you have to work with someone who knows that discipline – at some point. But all riding disciplines, and all good horsemanship, have the same basic foundations in terms of how the horse learns and moves, and how the rider has to lead, be a partner and work in concert with the horse. Don’t think a good trainer has to have a closet full of trophies to be able to look at you and your horse and figure out how to help both of you improve. There are a lot of people who believe the worst coaches or mentors in any activity, especially the physical ones, are the ones that were the best at it. It’s easy for them, but that doesn’t mean they can make it easy for you – and making it easier for you to understand and accomplish is what makes a trainer the best for you. Value the relationship with your trainer – it may save your life!
Scott Thomson lives in Silver City and teaches natural horsemanship and foundation training. You can contact him at hsthomson@msn.com or (575) 388-1830
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months. SN 1006 then faded somewhat and then it brightened up again for about eighteen months. This is emblematic of a Type Ia supernova. These supernova occur in a binary (or more) star system. The larger star ages more quickly and sheds its atmosphere. The remaining core of the star becomes a white dwarf star. The white dwarf draws material from is aging companion star that has ballooned up as it becomes a giant star. The material the white dwarf acquires builds up on the surface of the white dwarf, compressing the white dwarf and heating it up. At some point, the carbon and oxygen in the dwarf’s core start to fuse into heavier elements releasing even more heat. At some point, a substantial fraction of the carbon and oxygen fuse in just a few seconds, creating a huge pulse of energy that blows the star apart. Most Type Ia supernovae release about the same amount of energy. What made SN 1006 so bright is that it was only 7,200 light-years away. This is far enough away that the Earth was not affected by the blast, but close enough to make it amazingly bright. The unusual brightness of this supernova caught the attention of the Native Americans in what is now the Phoenix area who were called the Hohokam. There, in the White Tanks Regional Park, is a rock carving, or petroglyph, that appears to show a bright star near Scorpius. It very closely matches the location of SN 1006 in the sky at that time. If it is does represent the supernova, it is the first known depiction of a supernova in North America. The Planets for July 2015. Mars is now west of the Sun but still too close to it to be seen in July. Venus and Jupiter, however, are in our western sky as it gets dark. Both are now heading toward the Sun marking their last month in our evening sky. The two were only a third of a degree apart at the end of the last month, but Venus is now moving southward away from Jupiter. At midmonth, the pair is about fourteen degree up in the west as it gets dark and they set around 10 p.m. Venus’s disc is 41.6 seconds-of-arc across and is a 20% illuminated crescent at midmonth. The Goddess of Love shines at magnitude -4.7 and stays in southwest Leo all month. Its temporary companion, Jupiter, shines at magnitude -1.8, as it moves slowly eastward in western Leo. Its disc is 31.3 seconds-of-arc. The Ringed Planet is moving slowly westward in eastern Libra, slowing down toward the end of the month. Saturn is forty degrees up in the south, shining at magnitude +0.4 as it gets dark and sets around 2:40 a.m. At midmonth, its Rings are 40.7 seconds-of-
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An amateur astronomer for more than 45 years, Bert Stevens is co-director of Desert Moon Observatory in Las Cruces.
Astronomical society needs people with interest in the sky Kathy Anderson, founding director of the Silver City Astronomical Society, has announced that unless someone with an interest in the stars steps up, the current board of directors will have to dissolve the organization. The SCAS is a bona fide 501(c)(3), has money in the bank, owns equipment, and has much by way of educational materials. Anderson resigned from the board last summer because she and her husband were leaving
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Downtown revitalization project celebrates 30 years Silver City MainStreet, founded in 1985, celebrates a legacy of 30 years of enhancements and economic revitalization in the downtown historic district. For the past two years MainStreet has been coordinating the renovation of the Silco Theater, 311 N. Bullard Street. The reopening of the historic theater, built in 1923, anticipated for late November, will bring movies back to downtown. The opening of the theater will also create new jobs and contribute to the economic vitality of the already active downtown entertainment scene. Additionally, MainStreet is working on improvements to Main Street Plaza, home of the Silver City Farmers Market. MainStreet is working with the Town of Silver City to obtain funding for improvements to the downtown “gathering place,” which also provides much needed parking for the downtown when not being used for the Farmers Market on Saturday morning from May until October. Partners in the effort to improve Main Street Plaza are the Silver City Farmers Market, Silver City Food Co-op, Grant County Trails Group and the Town of Silver City. During April, the first MainStreet Project Manager, Sandy Solenberger, visited Silver City and shared memories of the founding of MainStreet in Silver City. Solenberger was involved in the development of MainStreet in a variety of roles between 1985 and 1995, when she and her family moved to Kodiak Island, Alaska. Solenberger shepherded the fledgling organization through the incorporation process. The current organization was developed from what was initially the Downtown Rehabilitation Committee. The committee comprised business owners and community members who were concerned about the 35 to 40 percent vacancy rate in downtown first floor commercial buildings. The poor condition of the sidewalks was also a concern. Solenberger said sidewalks looked like “broken taffy.” At the state level, New Mexico MainStreet, a division of the Economic Development Department, provided technical support to the newly developed local organization. Solenberger’s recounting of her experience with MainStreet during the first 10 years of the program is a reminder a longterm view is needed for revitalization projects as complex as a downtown historic district. A great deal of patience and tenacity are also required. When Solenberger visited, she said she was thrilled to see the Visitors Center and the MainStreet Offices in the 201 N. Hudson Street building. The current offices are a big step up from Solenberger’s original “office,” a desk under the stairs at City Hall. During her tenure, Solenberger worked on the plans for the Visitor Center but had not seen the building. She was also instrumental in obtaining the donation of the lot for the Visitor Center. Solenberger saw improvements to the sidewalks and in-
how the Big Ditch was created where Main Street once thrived prior to a series of floods in the early 1900s. Last year, the faded Visitor Center sign was replaced with a new lighted sign, made possible with Silver City Lodgers Tax Funding. In 2014, Silver City was designated as the first gateway community of the Continental Divide Trail, which has been developed from Canada to Mexico along the continental divide. The Visitor Center is the “headquarters” for those using the Continental Divide Trail in the Silver City area. This year, MainStreet celebrated Big Ditch Day in April in conjunction with the Continental Divide Trail season kickoff event. Solenberger credited former State Rep.Murray Ryan with helping to bring funding from the state for infrastrucSandy Solenberger revisits the “office” where MainStreet ture improvement projects in the downtown, including started in 1985. The “office” is under the stairs at City Hall. the sidewalk improvements, Big Ditch Park and the Visi(Courtesy photo) tor Center, named the Murray Ryan Visitor Center in his honor. “MainStreet has been a marvelous project for Silver creased occupancy of commercial properties in the district during her 10 years of involvement with the project. She City and I watched MainStreet carefully during the time I cited great community participation in downtown events served in the legislature,” Ryan said. MainStreet also coordinated the downtown street light such as the Lighted Christmas Parade as a turning point for understanding what a treasure a vibrant downtown is retrofit with the “acorn” streetlights. The project can be exfor a community. MainStreet will celebrate the 25th year panded to include additional areas in downtown if funding were to be made available. of the Lighted Christmas In 2010, MainStreet comParade Saturday, Nov. pleted the Gateway Arch, 28. Other popular events at the Broadway entrance more recently added to to Downtown. promote the downtown The seed money for experience include Big the project was provided Ditch Day and Taste of by the Silver City Rotary Downtown. The current Club and the project comdowntown commercial pleted with support from first floor vacancy rate the community. In 2011, fluctuates between 12 Silver City MainStreet was and 15 percent. Mainrecognized as a “Great Street’s challenge is atAmerican Main Street” by tracting businesses for the National Trust for Hislarger commercial spactoric Preservation. Solenes for sale or rent. berger said the award, the A real treasure in Silver City MainStreet Founding Board Members Sudie Kenneonly community in New downtown Silver City is dy, Sue Jollensten, Rosalee Saiz, Susan Berry and Bobbie Neal Mexico, to be honored, Big Ditch Park, which Little recently got together with other former and current board was well deserved. includes the grounds members and managers to celebrate 30 years of MainStreet in “Without the firm at the Visitor Center on Silver City. (Courtesy photo) foundation built by Sothe corner of Broadway lenberger and additional and Hudson Street and follows the San Vicente Creek north to College Street. Im- dedicated individuals, MainStreet could not have become provements to the park were started while Solenberger the dedicated champion for economic revitalization in the downtown historic district that it is today,” Lucy Whitwas involved with MainStreet and continue today. In 2012, interpretive signage was installed, explaining marsh, current MainStreet manager, said.
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Once he has obtained the dozen or so local, state t took an entrepreneur who is a native of Connecticut and came to Las Cruces by way of Maui and federal licenses he needs to open the business to come up with a uniquely southwestern-fla- (including securing a state liquor license), Ryan vored liquor and a company to market it that he calls wants to “build a facility here and start selling.â€? He’s now looking around Las Cruces for a suitable “1 Seed Craft Spirits.â€? John Patrick Ryan has big plans for the product location, and plans to include a tasting room where people can learn about the flora of this area. and the business and he loves Las Cruces. “We want to give them a tour of what’s in the Ryan, who turns 40 at the end of June, has had careers in solar energy and water technology. He also bottle,â€? he said. “Each plant has a spirit, and healing was a successful chef on the East Coast, where he properties. I want to be able to honor that.â€? If it sounds a little “out there,â€? that’s okay with became a “big fan of a well-made cocktail.â€? He has a wealth of experience as a mixologist (he Ryan. “You’ve got to have fun,â€? he said. “I’m doing exprefers the term “alchemistâ€?) and as an entrepreneur actly what the hell I want to do.â€? – this is the fourth compaHe’s already completed a businy he has started. ness plan and gotten advice from Ryan came to southern the local chapter of SCORE, a New Mexico five years ago, nonprofit that helps small busiwhen his wife, Rebecca, a nesses and entrepreneurs. molecular biologist, was Ryan said he has gotten great offered a position with cooperation from the Green Sapphire Energy. He fell in Chamber and the Greater Las love with the area and its Cruces Chamber of Commerce, people and decided to put including its Young Professionals his knowledge and expecommittee. rience to work in a brand “They have helped me go new start-up venture that from being a fresh transplant to kicked off at the beginhaving a network of business ning of this year when he contacts and friends. “This group served1 Seed Craft Gin at has their stuff together,â€? he said. Las Cruces Day in Santa Eventually, Ryan hopes his Fe during the 2015 legislabusiness will become a destinative session. tion for locals and travelers. He’s Ryan chose gin as his building relationships with the base because the wheat to owners of area restaurants and make it is available nearby bars. in Texas and Oklahoma His eventual hope is to create and can be bought in bulk spirits that can be paired with and shipped to a distiller. each course of a fine meal, like He began experimentpeople do now with wine and ing with local-source John Ryan displays some of the ingredients sometimes with beer. ingredients, “building in his 1 Seed Craft Spirit (gin). The drink is Ryan started blogging and world-class spirits from called a blood orange ricky and is made with tweeting about his process otherwise overlooked his gin. (photo by Mike Cook) and created his own website desert flora,â€? to quote his website, www.1SeedCraftSpirits.com. He prefers the to help “other people like myself to get into the enword “spiritâ€? to alcohol or liquor because it’s a very trepreneurial field. It really isn’t rocket science,â€? he old word with “a little more meaning,â€? he said. “I’m said. When the 1 Seed Craft Spirits product is succrafting a spirit and I’m bottling it and sending it out cessful in Las Cruces, Ryan plans to help people set into the world, honoring Las Cruces. Ryan knew he wanted to include the flower of up the same kind of business in other parts of the the chaparral bush in his spirit because of its evoca- country – in Portland, Oregon, for example, where tive aroma. He also added juniper berries (Juniperus that area’s uniquely “piney, earthyâ€? scents and flavors monosperma, better known as one-seed junipers, would be ideal for a new spirit, or somewhere in Hawhich are the most common juniper species in this waii, taking advantage of the islands’ fruity flavors, part of the world – hence the name of his product), including ginger root. “There is no prouder moment than taking somelemon, lime, coriander seeds, prickly pear and a couple of ingredients that aren’t locally available – one who doesn’t have a job and making them a part he wants to work with New Mexico State University of a company that is turning out an amazing product,â€? said Ryan. to grow them here. Ryan couldn’t be more pleased with the reception Modeling himself on the success of Tanqueray gin, originally distilled in the Bloomsbury district of Lon- he’s found in Las Cruces. “I think it’s damn near the don, and Jack Daniel’s whiskey, which made Lynch- perfect size, with the perfect population,â€? he said. burg, Tenn., famous, Ryan decided to build a business And, it has a large retirement community, which is around his new creation and engineer a product that an important demographic for his business. “I love the attitude here,â€? Ryan said. would be enjoyed in New Mexico, across the counHe is also very taken with the Organ Mountains, try and around the world. That included designing a uniquely shaped bottle, an attention-grabbing name the sunsets and the monsoon season, with “the lightand (with the help of a local artist) an eye-catching ing coming up the valley.â€? “I just saw beauty. I don’t want to go anywhere else.â€? label. As he builds his business, Ryan is now working Ryan wants his gin to be “a sustainable spirit that speaks to folksâ€? in southern New Mexico and cre- as a product engineer for Pure Ops, a water utility ates positive “food memoriesâ€? for local residents and company based in Las Cruces. Ryan and his wife recently bought a house near visitors. His long-range business goal is “to flood the community of Las Cruces with living-wage jobs and Downtown. Their son is attending Centennial High to constantly improve the life quality of all of those School, and their daughter goes to Sierra Middle living in this beautiful valley,â€? according to his web- School. “Las Cruces needs a bunch of these little ideas site. “’Local first’ is not only our mantra, it is our way and concepts,â€? Ryan said. “El Paso and Sunland Park are growing. Let’s get them to come to Las Cruof life,â€? Ryan said. Early taste tests of his new product have yield- ces ‌ and make a day of it. 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ADOBE SPRINGS CAFÉ, 1617 Silver Heights Blvd., 538-3665. Breakfast items, burgers, sandwiches: Sunday B L, all week B L D.* BILLY’S WILD WEST BBQ & STEAKHOUSE, Hwy 180E, 388-1367. Barbecue, steak, pasta, pizza: Tues.-Fri. D. Sat. L D. Italian nights Weds., Sat.* BRYAN’S PIT BARBECUE, Mimbres Valley Self Storage and RV Park, (660) 247-3151 or (660) 247-3160. Now also BBQ tenderloin and smoked turkey. Barbecue: L D. CAFÉ OSO AZUL AT BEAR MOUNTAIN LODGE, 60 Bear Mountain Ranch Road, 538-2538. B L, special D by reservation only.* CHINESE PALACE, 1010 Highway 180E, 538-9300. “All the food is cooked to order. This means that not only does every dish arrive at the table freshly cooked and steaming, but also that you can tailor any dish to suit your taste.â€? (October 2012) Chinese: Monday to Friday L D. COURTYARD CAFÉ, Gila Regional Medical Center, 538-4094. American: B L, with special brunch Sundays.* CURIOUS KUMQUAT, 111 E. College Ave., 534-0337. Contemporary: Monday L, Tuesday to Saturday L D.* DIANE’S RESTAURANT, 510 N. Bullard St., 538-8722. “Always evolving, always interesting, Diane’s has it all.â€? (Sept. 2013) Fine dining (D), steaks, seafood, pasta, sandwiches (L), salads: Tuesday to Friday L D, Sunday D only (family-style), weekend brunch. DIANE’S BAKERY & DELI, The Hub, Suite A, Bullard St., 534-9229. “Always evolving, always interesting, Diane’s has it all.â€? (Sept. 2013) Artisan breads, sandwiches, deli, baked goods: Monday to Saturday B L early D, Sunday B L.* DON JUAN’S BURRITOS, 418 Silver Heights Blvd., 538-5440. Mexican: B L. DRIFTER PANCAKE HOUSE, 711 Silver Heights Blvd., 538-2916. Breakfast, American: B L, breakfast served throughout. EL GALLO PINTO, 901 N. Hudson St., 597-4559. “Breakfast dishes are served all day, along with all the other traditional Mexican favorites like burritos (with a long list of filling options)‌ plus a vertical grill cooks sizzling chicken and carne al pastor.â€? (October 2013) Mexican: Tuesday, Wednesday and Sunday B L Thursday to Saturday B L D. GIL-A BEANS, 1304 N. Bennett St. Coffeeshop.* GOLDEN STAR, 1602 Silver Heights
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Blvd., 388-2323. Chinese: L D. GRANDMA’S CAFÉ, 900 Silver Heights Blvd., 388-2627. American, Mexican: B L.* GREEN TURTLE NOSHERY, 601 N. Bullard St. in The Hub, 200-6895. “The menu varies somewhat from day to day, and reflects the seasonal availability of local fruits and vegetables. Most of the items on the menu are vegetarian, but several non-vegetarian dishes have turned out to be popular and are likely to remain regular options.â€? (July 2014) Baked goods, organic breakfast and lunch items: Thursday to Saturday B L, Sunday B L brunch. GRINDER MILL, 403 W. College Ave., 538-3366. Mexican: B L D.* HEALTHY EATS, 303 E. 13th St., 534-9404. Sandwiches, burritos, salads, smoothies: L. JALISCO CAFÉ, 100 S. Bullard St., 388-2060. “Four generations of the Mesa family who have been involved in a restaurant that remains family-friendly.â€? (June 2014) Mexican: Monday to Saturday L D. JAVALINA COFFEE HOUSE, 117 Market St., 388-1350. Coffeehouse.* JUMPING CACTUS, 503 N. Bullard St. Coffeeshop, baked goods, sandwiches, wraps: B L.* KOUNTRY KITCHEN, 1700 Mountain View Road, 388-4512. “Since 1978, Kountry Kitchen has been serving up Mexican food that is considered to be some of the best that can be found in the area. All the dishes are tasty, unpretentious, attractively presented and reasonably priced.â€? (February 2013) Mexican: Tuesday to Saturday B L D.* LA COCINA RESTAURANT, 201 W. College Ave., 388-8687. Mexican: L D. LA FAMILIA, 503 N. Hudson St., 388-4600. Mexican: Tuesday to Sunday B L D.* LA MEXICANA, Hwy. 180E and Memory Lane, 534-0142. “Carrying on the legacy of unpretentious but tasty and authentic Mexican food established many years ago at the family’s restaurant in Chihuahua.â€? (April 2013) Mexican and American: B L. LION’S DEN, 208 W. Yankie, 6540353. Coffeeshop. LITTLE TOAD CREEK BREWERY & DISTILLERY, 200 N. Bullard St., 956-6144. “The menu offers what they call ‘pub food’—but always with a bit of a twist.â€? (March 2014) Burgers, wings, salads, fish, pasta, craft beers and cocktails: Wednesday to Monday L D. * MEXICO VIEJO, Hwy. 90 and Broadway. “A remarkably extensive menu for a small roadside food vending stand,
and the dishes are not what one normally finds in other Mexican restaurants.â€? (July 2013) Mexican food stand: Monday to Saturday B L early D. MI CASITA, 2340 Bosworth Dr., 5385533. New Mexican cuisine: Monday to Thursday L, Friday L D. MILLIE’S BAKE HOUSE, 215 W. Yankie, 597-2253. “The food is ovenfresh and innovative.â€? (November 2012) Soup, salads, sandwiches, baked goods: Tuesday to Saturday. * NANCY’S SILVER CAFÉ, 514 N. Bullard St., 388-3480. Mexican: Monday to Saturday B L D. THE PARLOR AT DIANE’S, 510 N. Bullard St., 538-8722. “Always evolving, always interesting, Diane’s has it all.â€? (Sept. 2013) Burgers, sandwiches, homemade pizzas, paninis: Tuesday to Sunday L D. PRETTY SWEET EMPORIUM, 312 N. Bullard St., 388-8600. Dessert, ice cream: Monday to Saturday.* Q’S SOUTHERN BISTRO AND BREWERY, 101 E. College Ave., 534-4401. “Q’s Southern Bistro has found its niche and honed its ‘elevated pub’ menu to excellence to serve its fun-loving, casual dining crowd.â€? (October 2010) American, steaks, barbecue, brewpub: Monday to Saturday L D. RED BARN STEAKHOUSE, 708 Silver Heights Blvd., 538-5666. Steakhouse: L D.* SHEVEK & CO., 602 N. Bullard St., 534-9168. “If sampling new types of food is part of the adventure of traveling for you, you only have to go as far as Shevek & Co. Restaurant in Silver City to take a culinary tour around the world.â€? (May 2013) Mediterranean: Friday to Tuesday D.* SILVER BOWLING CENTER CAFÉ, 2020 Memory Lane, 538-3612. American, Mexican, hamburgers: L D.* SUNRISE ESPRESSO, 1530 N. Hudson, 388-2027. Coffeeshop: Monday to Saturday B L, early D. SUNRISE ESPRESSO, 1212 E. 32nd St., 534-9565. Coffeeshop, bakery: Monday to Friday B L, early D, Saturday B L only.* TERRY’S ORIGINAL BARBEQUE, Hwy. 180 and Ranch Club Road. Barbeque to go: L D. TRE ROSAT CAFÉ, 304 N. Bullard St., 654-4919. “The menu ranges from humbler (but not humdrum) fare like burgers, pizzas (at lunch and happy hour) and pastas to seasonal specials like duck confit, rabbit blanquette and Elk osso buco.â€? (August 2012) International eclectic: Monday to Saturday L, D.* VICKI’S EATERY, 315 N. Texas, 388-5430. “Sandwiches both cold and
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DESERT EXPOSURE grilled, wraps and salads that satisfy in a homey yet sophisticated way. Don’t miss the German potato salad.” (Dec. 2009) American: Monday to Friday L, Saturday B L, Sunday B L (to 2 p.m.). * WRANGLER’S BAR & GRILL, 2005 Hwy. 180E, 538-4387. Steak, burgers, appetizers, salads: L D.* YANKIE CREEK COFFEE HOUSE, 112 W. Yankie St. Coffeeshop, coffee, home-made pastries and ice cream, fresh fruit smoothies.*
Bayard FIDENCIO’S TACO SHOP, 1108 Tom Foy Blvd. Mexican: B L D. LITTLE NISHA’S, 1101 Tom Foy Blvd., 537-3526. Mexican: Wednesday to Sunday B L D. LOS COMPAS, 1203 Tom Foy Blvd, 654-4109. Sonoran-style Mexican, hot dogs, portas, menudo: L D. M & A BAYARD CAFÉ, 1101 N. Central Ave., 537-2251. “A down-to-earth, friendly, unpretentious place—kind of a cross between a Mexican cantina and a 1950s home-style diner, serving tasty, no-frills Mexican and American food at reasonable prices.” (October 2011) Mexican and American: Monday to Friday B L D. SPANISH CAFÉ, 106 Central Ave., 537-2640. Mexican, tamales and menudo (takeout only): B. SUGAR SHACK, 1102 Tom Foy Blvd., 537-0500. Mexican: Sunday to Friday B L.
Cliff D’S CAFÉ, 8409 Hwy 180. Breakfast dishes, burritos, burgers, weekend smoked meats and ribs: Thurs.-Sun. B L. PARKEY’S, 8414 Hwy. 180W, 535-4000. Coffeeshop: Monday to Saturday.
Lake Roberts LITTLE TOAD CREEK INN & TAVERN, 1122 Hwy. 35, 536-9649. “‘Rustic gourmet’… designed to appeal to the eyes as well as the taste buds. And this is true of the items on the brunch menu, as well as those on the very different dinner menu.” (June 2012). Steaks, sandwiches, American: Thursday to Friday D, Saturday and Sunday brunch and D. Tavern with soups, sandwiches, Scotch eggs: Daily L D. SPIRIT CANYON LODGE & CAFÉ, 684 Hwy. 35, 536-9459. “For the German sampler, café customers can choose two meat options from a revolving selection that may include on any given day three or four of the following: bratwurst, roast pork, schnitzel (a thin breaded and fried pork chop), sauerbraten (marinated roast of beef), stuffed cabbage leaves, or roladen (rolled beef with a sausage and onion filling).” (July 2011) German specialties, American lunch and dinner entrées: Saturday D.
Mimbres ELK X-ING CAFÉ, (352) 212-0448. Home-style meals, sandwiches and desserts: B L. MIMBRES VALLEY CAFÉ, 2964 Hwy. 35, 536-2857. Mexican, American, burgers: Monday and Tuesday B L, Wednesday to Sunday B L D, with Japanese tempura Wednesday D. RESTAURANT DEL SOL, 2676 Hwy. 35, San Lorenzo. “Popular and unpretentious food, powered by a huge solar system.” (April 2014) Breakfasts, burgers, sandwiches, Mexican: Daily B L early D. 3 QUESTIONS COFFEE HOUSE, Hwy. 35, 536-3267. “Consistently good food based on the success of the family’s Living Harvest Bakery.” (December 2013) Buffet: Tuesday to Saturday B L.
Pinos Altos BUCKHORN SALOON AND OPERA HOUSE, Main Street, 538-9911. Steakhouse, pasta, burgers: Monday to Saturday D.
DOÑA ANA COUNTY Las Cruces & Mesilla ABRAHAM’S BANK TOWER RESTAURANT, 500 S. Main St. #434, 5235911. American: Monday to Friday B L. A DONG, 504 E. Amador Ave., 527-9248. Vietnamese: L D. ANDELE’S DOG HOUSE, 2184 Avenida de Mesilla, 526-1271. Mexican plus hot dogs, burgers, quesadillas: B L D. ANDELE RESTAURANTE, 1950 Calle del Norte, 526-9631. Mexican: Monday B L, Tuesday to Sunday B L D. ANTONIO’S RESTAURANT & PIZZERIA, 5195 Bataan Memorial West, 373-0222. Pizza, Italian, Mexican: Tuesday to Sunday L D. AQUA REEF, 900-B S. Telshor, 522-7333. Asian, sushi: D. THE BEAN, 2011 Avenida de Mesilla, 523-0560. Coffeehouse. A BITE OF BELGIUM, 741 N. Alameda St., 527-2483. Belgian food: Monday to Friday B L. BLUE MOON, 13060 N. Valley Dr., 6479524. Bar, burgers: Saturday to Sunday L D. BOBA CAFÉ, 1900 S. Espina, Ste. 8, 647-5900. Sandwiches, salads, casual fare, espresso: Monday to Saturday L D.* BRAVO’S CAFÉ, 3205 S. Main St., 5268604. Mexican: Tuesday to Sunday B L. BURGER NOOK, 1204 E. Madrid Ave., 523-9806. Burgers: Tuesday to Saturday L D. BURRITOS VICTORIA, 1295 El Paseo Road, 541-5534. Burritos: B L D. CAFÉ AGOGO, 1120 Commerce Dr., Suite A, 636-4580. Asian, American, sandwich, salad, rice bowl: Monday to Saturday L D. CAFÉ DE MESILLA EN LA PLAZA, 2051 Calle de Santiago, 652-3019. Coffeehouse,
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deli, pastries, soups, sandwiches: B L early D. 4300. Mexican: B L D. GO BURGER DRIVE-IN, 1008 E. Lohman, 524-9251. Burgers, MexiCARILLO’S CAFÉ, 330 S. Church, 523-9913. Mexican, American: Monday to Saturday L D. can: Monday to Friday B L. CATTLEMAN’S STEAKHOUSE, 2375 Bataan Memorial Hwy., 382GOLDEN STAR CHINESE FAST FOOD, 1420 El Paseo, 523-2828. 9051. Steakhouse: D. Chinese: L D. CHA CHI’S RESTAURANT, 2460 S. Locust St #A, 522-7322. Mexican: GRANDY’S COUNTRY COOKING, 1345 El Paseo Rd., 526-4803. B L D. American: B L D. CHILITOS, 2405 S. Valley Dr., 526-4184. Mexican: Monday to GUACAMOLE’S BAR AND GRILL, 3995 W. Picacho Ave., 525-9115. Saturday B L D. Burgers, pizza, salads, sandwiches, Hawaiian appetizers: L D. CHILITOS, 3850 Foothills Rd. Ste. 10, 532-0141. Mexican: B L D. HABANERO’S 600 E. AMADOR AVE., 524-1829. Fresh Mexican, CHINA EXPRESS, 2443 N. Main St., 525-9411. Chinese, VietnamBecause good food shouldn’t be bad for you: B L D. ese: L D. RED OR GREEN? continued on next page CHINESE KITCHEN, 2801 Missouri #29, 521-3802. Chinese: L D. CIROS MEXICAN RESTAURANT, 160 W. Picacho Ave., 541-0341. Mexican: B L D. CRAVINGS CAFÉ, 3115 N. Main St., 323-3353. Burgers, sandwiches, wraps, egg dishes, salads: B L. DAY’S HAMBURGERS, Water & Las Cruces St., 5238665. Burgers: Monday to Saturday L D. DE LA VEGA’S PECAN GRILL & BREWERY, 500 S. Telshor Blvd., 521-1099. “The restaurant uses local produce whenever possible, including the pecan wood pellets used in the smoking and grilling. A lot of the foods and drinks are infused with pecans, and also with green chiles from Hatch, processed on site. They even serve green chile vodka and green chile beer.” (February 2010) Pecan-smoked meats, sandwiches, steaks, seafood, craft beers: L D. DELICIAS DEL MAR, 1401 El Paseo, 524-2396. MexiTRY can, seafood: B L D. OUR FRESHLY ROASTED DG’S UNIVERSITY DELI, 1305 E. University Ave., COFFEE, GROUND OR WHOLE BEAN. 522-8409. Deli: B L D. BY THE POUND OR HALF POUND. DICK’S CAFÉ, 2305 S. Valley Dr., 524-1360. Mexiadobedelibar@gmail.com can, burgers: Sunday B L, Monday to Saturday B L D. www.adobedeli.com DION’S PIZZA, 3950 E. Lohman, 521-3434. Pizza: L D. Restaurant Hours: Mon-Sat Lunch 11am-5pm • Dinner 5-10pm • Sun 11am-9pm Bar Saloon Hours: 7 days a week, 11am ‘til Closing DOUBLE EAGLE, 2355 Calle De Guadalupe, 523Full menu all day long (Sundays & Father’s Day)! Call for Reservations and Specials 6700. “All the steaks are aged on the premises in the
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www.desertexposure.com RED OR GREEN? continued HIGH DESERT BREWING COMPANY, 1201 W. Hadley Ave., 525-6752. Brew pub: L D.* INTERNATIONAL DELIGHTS, 1245 El Paseo Rd., 647-5956. Greek and International: B L D. JAPANESE KITCHEN, 141 Roadrunner Parkway, 521-3555. Japanese: L D. J.C. TORTAS, 1196 W. Picacho Ave., 647-1408. Mexican: L D. JESSE’S KANSAS CITY BBQ, 230 S. Church, 522-3662. Barbecue: Monday, Tuesday, Thursday to Saturday L D. JOSE MURPHY’S, 1201 E. Amador (inside Ten Pin Alleys), 541-4064. Mexican, American: L D. JOSEFINA’S OLD GATE CAFÉ, 2261 Calle de Guadalupe, 525-2620. “A delicious change of pace. There are a variety of classic deli sandwiches to choose from, all served on freshly baked bread, as well as the soup of the day in a cup or bowl, and salads.” (October 2008) Pastries, soups, salads, sandwiches: Monday to Thursday L, Friday to Sunday B L. KATANA TEPPANYAKI GRILL, 1001 E. University Ave., 522-0526. Japanese: Monday to Friday L D, Saturday D. KEVA JUICE, 1001 E. University, 5224133. Smoothies, frozen yogurt: B L D. LA COCINA, 204 E. Conway Ave., 524-3909. Mexican: Monday to Saturday B L. LA GUADALUPANA, 930 El Paseo Road. 523-5954. Mexican: Tuesday to Saturday B L D. Sunday B L. LA MEXICANA TORTILLERIA, 1300 N. Solano Dr, 541-9617. Mexican: L D. LA NUEVA CASITA CAFÉ, 195 N. Mesquite, 523-5434. Mexican and American: B L. LA POSTA RESTAURANT DE MESILLA, 2410 Calle De San Albino, 524-3524. “A restaurant with history hard-wired into the fiber of its being. Through building, menu and ownership, its roots extend all the way back to the 1840s.” (September 2011) Mexican, steakhouse: L D, Saturday, Sunday and holidays also B. LAS TRANCAS, 1008 S. Solano Dr., 524-1430. Mexican, steaks, burgers, fried chicken: L D, Saturday and Sunday also B. LE RENDEZ-VOUS CAFÉ, 2701 W. Picacho Ave. #1, 527-0098. French pastry, deli, sandwiches: Monday to Saturday B L. LET THEM EAT CAKE, 2001 E. Lohman, Suite 136, 649-8965. Cupcakes: Tuesday to Saturday LORENZO’S PAN AM, 1753 E. University Ave., 521-3505. Italian, pizza: L D. LOS COMPAS CAFÉ, 6335 Bataan Memorial W., 382-2025. Mexican: B L D. LOS COMPAS CAFÉ, 603 S. Nevarez St., 523-1778. Mexican: B L D. LOS COMPAS, 1120 Commerce Dr., 521-6228. Mexican: B L D.*
LOS MARIACHIS, 754 N. Motel Blvd., 523-7058. Mexican: B L D. MARIA’S, 1750 N. Solano Dr., 5569571. Mexican: B L D. MESILLA VALLEY KITCHEN, 2001 E. Lohman Ave. #103, 523-9311. American, Mexican: B L.* MESON DE MESILLA, 1803 Avenida de Mesilla, 652-4953. Steaks, barbecue, seafood, sandwiches, salads, pasta: L D. METROPOLITAN DELI, 1001 University Ave., 522-3354. Sandwiches: L D. MIGUEL’S, 1140 E. Amador Ave., 647-4262. Mexican: B L D. MI PUEBLITO, 1355 E. Idaho Ave., 524-3009. Mexican: Monday to Friday B L D, Saturday and Sunday B L. MILAGRO COFFEE Y ESPRESSO, 1733 E. University Ave., 532-1042. Coffeehouse: B L D.* MIX PACIFIC RIM CUISINE AND MIX EXPRESS, 1001 E. University Ave. #D4, 532-2042. Asian, Pacific: Monday to Saturday L D. MOONGATE CAFÉ, 9395 Bataan Memorial, 382-5744. Coffeeshop, Mexican, American: B L. MOUNTAIN VIEW MARKET KITCHEN, 120 S. Water St., 556-9856. Sandwiches, bagels, wraps, salads and other healthy fare: Monday to Saturday: B L early D. * MY BROTHER’S PLACE, 334 S. Main St., 523-7681. Mexican: Monday to Saturday L D. NELLIE’S CAFÉ, 1226 W. Hadley Ave., 524-9982. Mexican: Tuesday to Saturday B L. NOPALITO RESTAURANT, 2605 Missouri Ave., 522-0440. Mexican: L D. NOPALITO RESTAURANT, 310 S. Mesquite St., 524-0003. Mexican: Sunday to Tuesday, Thursday to Saturday. L D.* OLD TOWN RESTAURANT, 1155 S. Valley Dr., 523-4586. Mexican, American: B L.* ORIENTAL PALACE, 225 E. Idaho, 5264864. Chinese: L D. PAISANO CAFÉ, 1740 Calle de Mercado, 524-0211. Mexican: B L D.* PANCAKE ALLEY DINER, 2146 W. Picacho Ave., 647-4836. American: B L, early D. PEPE’S, 1405 W. Picacho, 541-0277. Mexican: B L D. PEPPERS CAFÉ ON THE PLAZA (IN THE DOUBLE EAGLE RESTAURANT), 2355 Calle De Guadalupe, 523-6700. “Creative handling of traditional Southwestern dishes…. [plus] such non-Mexican entrées as Salmon Crepes and Beer Braised Beef Carbonnade.” (March 2012). Southwestern: L D. * PHO SAIGON, 1160 El Paseo Road, 652-4326. Vietnamese: L D. PIT STOP CAFÉ, 361 S. Motel Blvd., 527-1993. Mexican, American, steak: Monday to Saturday B L D. PLAYER’S GRILL, 3000 Champions
Dr. (NMSU golf course clubhouse), 6462457. American: B L D. PULLARO’S ITALIAN RESTAURANT, 901 W. Picacho Ave., 523-6801. Italian: L D. Q’S, 1300 Avenida De Mesilla, 571-4350. Brewhouse with steak and pasta: L D. RANCHWAY BARBECUE, 604 N. Valley Dr., 523-7361. Barbecue, Mexican: Monday to Friday B L D, Saturday D. RASCO’S BBQ, 5580 Bataan Memorial E. (inside Shorty’s gas station). Barbecued brisket, pulled pork, smoked sausage, ribs. RED BRICK PIZZA, 2808 N. Telshor Blvd., 521-7300. Pizzas, sandwiches, salads: L D. RENOO’S THAI RESTAURANT, 1445 W. Picacho Ave., 373-3000. Thai: Monday to Friday L D, Saturday D. ROBERTO’S MEXICAN FOOD, 908 E. Amador Ave., 523-1851. Mexican: B L D.* ROSIE’S CAFÉ DE MESILLA, 300 N. Main St., 526-1256. Breakfast, Mexican, burgers: Saturday to Thursday B L, Friday B L D. SAENZ GORDITAS, 1700 N. Solano Dr., 527-4212. Mexican: Monday to Saturday L D. SANTORINI’S, 1001 E. University Ave., 521-9270. “An eclectic blend of Greek and Mediterranean dishes—gyros with different meats, such as lamb or chicken, hummus with pita, Greek salads—plus sampler plates and less-familiar items such as keftedes and pork shawarma. Vegetarian options are numerous.” (July 2010) Greek, Mediterranean: Monday to Saturday L D. SAVOY DE MESILLA, 1800-B Avenida de Mesilla, 527-2869. “If you are adventurous with food and enjoy a fine-dining experience that is genuinely sophisticated, without pretension or snobbishness, you definitely need to check out Savoy de Mesilla. The added attraction is that you can do this without spending a week’s salary on any of the meals—all of which are entertainingly and delectably upscale.” (March 2013) American, Continental: B L D. THE SHED, 810 S. Valley Dr., 5252636. American, pizza, Mexican, desserts: Wednesday to Sunday B L.* SI ITALIAN BISTRO, 523 E. Idaho, 5231572. “The restaurant radiates homespun charm and the kind of quality that is neither snobbish nor flamboyant. The menu ranges from classic Italian entrées like Chicken Piccatta, Chicken Marsala, Frutti de Mare alla Provençal, and Chicken or Melanzane Parmesan to burgers, salads, sandwiches, pizzas and pastas—all tweaked creatively in subtle and satisfying ways. Dessert offers an amazing variety of cakes, pies, cream puffs, brownies and cheesecakes.” (October 2014) Italian: Monday L, Tuesday to Saturday L D.
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DESERT EXPOSURE SIMPLY TOASTED CAFÉ, 1702 El Paseo Road, 526-1920. Sandwiches, soups, salads: B L. SI SEÑOR, 1551 E. Amador Ave., 527-0817. Mexican: L D. SPANISH KITCHEN, 2960 N. Main St., 526-4275. Mexican: Monday to Saturday B L D. SPIRIT WINDS COFFEE BAR, 2260 S. Locust St., 521-1222. Sandwiches, coffee, bakery: B L D.* ST. CLAIR WINERY & BISTRO, 1720 Avenida de Mesilla, 524-0390. “A showcase for St. Clair wines… rooted in the same attention to detail, insistence on quality and customer-friendly attitude as the winery.” (July 2012) Wine tasting, bistro: L D. SUNSET GRILL, 1274 Golf Club Road (Sonoma Ranch Golf Course clubhouse), 521-1826. American, Southwest, steak, burgers, seafood, pasta: B L D. TERIYAKI BOWL, 2300 N. Main St., 524-2055. Japanese: Monday to Saturday L D. TERIYAKI CHICKEN HOUSE, 805 El Paseo Rd., 541-1696. Japanese: Monday to Friday L D. THAI DELIGHT DE MESILLA, 2184 Avenida de Mesilla, 525-1900. “For the adventurous, there are traditional Thai curries, soups and appetizers to choose from, all of which can be ordered in the degree of heat that suits you.… The restaurant is clean, comfortable, casual in a classy sort of way, and totally unpretentious.” (January 2011) Thai, salads, sandwiches, seafood, steaks, German: L D.* TIFFANY’S PIZZA & GREEK AMERICAN CUISINE, 755 S. Telshor Blvd #G1, 532-5002. Pizza, Greek, deli: Tuesday to Saturday B L D.* UMP 88 GRILL, 1338 Picacho Hills Dr., 647-1455. Irish pub: L D. VINTAGE WINES, 2461 Calle de Principal, 523-WINE. Wine and cigar bar, tapas: L D. WOK-N-WORLD, 5192 E. Boutz, 526-0010. Chinese: Monday to Saturday L D. ZEFFIRO PIZZERIA NAPOLETANA, 136 N. Water St., 525-6757. Pizza, pasta, also sandwiches at adjoining Popular Artisan Bakery: Monday to Saturday L D. ZEFFIRO NEW YORK PIZZERIA, 101 E. University Ave., 525-6770. Pizza: L D.
Anthony ERNESTO’S MEXICAN FOOD, 200 Anthony Dr., 882-3641. Mexican: B L. LA COCINITA, 908 W. Main Dr., 589-1468. Mexican: L.
Chapparal EL BAYO STEAK HOUSE, 417 Chaparral Dr., 824-4749. Steakhouse: Tuesday to Sunday B L D. TORTILLERIA SUSY, 661 Paloma Blanca Dr., 824-9377. Mexican: Monday to Saturday B L D, Sunday B L.
Doña Ana BIG MIKE’S CAFÉ, Thorpe Road. Mexican, breakfasts, burgers: B L
D.
Radium Springs COUNTRY CUPBOARD, 827 Fort Selden Rd., 527-4732. American: B L D.
Santa Teresa BILLY CREWS, 1200 Country Club Road, 589-2071. Steak, seafood: L D.
LUNA COUNTY Deming ADOBE DELI, 3970 Lewis Flats Road SE, 546-0361. “The lunch menu features traditional deli-style sandwiches... The dinner menu is much grander, though some sandwiches are available then, too. Dinner options include filet mignon, flat iron steak, T-bone, ribeye, New York strip, Porterhouse, barbequed pork ribs, Duck L’Orange, Alaska King Crab legs, broiled salmon steak, shrimp scampi, pork chops, osso buco, beef kabobs.” (March 2010) Bar, deli, steaks: L D.* BALBOA MOTEL & RESTAURANT, 708 W. Pine St., 546-6473. Mexican, American: Sunday to Friday L D. BELSHORE RESTAURANT, 1030 E. Pine St., 546-6289. Mexican, American: Tuesday to Sunday B L. CAMPOS RESTAURANT, 105 S. Silver, 546-0095. Mexican, American, Southwestern: L D.* CHINA RESTAURANT, 110 E. Pine St., 546-4146. “Refreshingly different from most of the Chinese restaurants you find these days in this country. Chef William Chu, who owns the restaurant and does the cooking, is committed to offering what he calls the ‘fresh and authentic flavors of Chinese food.’” (August 2014) Chinese: Tuesday to Sunday L D. EL CAMINO REAL, 900 W. Pine St., 546-7421. Mexican, American: B L D. ELISA’S HOUSE OF PIES AND RESTAURANT, 208 1/2 S. Silver Alley, 494-4639. “The southern-style fare is a savory prelude to 35 flavors of pie.” (April 2012) American, barbecue, sandwiches, pies: Monday to Saturday L D. * EL MIRADOR, 510 E. Pine St., 544-7340. Mexican: Monday to Saturday B L D. “FORGHEDABOUDIT” PIZZA & WINGS, 115 N. Silver Ave., 275-3881. “Direct from New York City, Bob Yacone and his wife, Kim Duncan, have recreated an authentic-style New York pizza parlor.” (June 2013) Italian, pizza, wings: Monday to Saturday L D, Sunday D. GRAND MOTOR INN & LOUNGE, 1721 E. Pine, 5462632. Mexican, steak, seafood: B L D.
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IRMA’S, 123 S. Silver Ave., 544-4580. Mexican, American, seafood: B L D. LA FONDA, 601 E. Pine St., 546-0465. Mexican: B L D.* LAS CAZUELAS, 108 N. Platinum Ave. (inside El Rey meat market), 544-8432. Steaks, seafood, Mexican: Tuesday to Saturday L D.* MANGO MADDIE’S, 722 E. Florida St., 546-3345. Salads, sandwiches, juice bar, coffee drinks. MANOLO’S CAFÉ, 120 N. Granite St., 546-0405. “The menu offers breakfast, lunch and dinner choices, and it’s difficult to convey the immense range of food options available. In every section of the menu, there’s a mixture of American-style ‘comfort’ food items and Southweststyle Mexican dishes which no doubt qualify as Hispanic ‘comfort’ food. There’s nothing particularly fancy about the food, but it’s fresh and tasty. And the prices are reasonable.” (February 2012) Mexican, American: Monday to Saturday B L D, Sunday B L. PATIO CAFÉ, 1521 Columbus Road, 546-5990. Burgers, American: Monday to Saturday L D.*
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RED OR GREEN? continued PRIME RIB GRILL (INSIDE HOLIDAY INN), I-10 exit 85, 546-2661. Steak, seafood, Mexican: B D. RANCHER’S GRILL, 316 E. Cedar St., 546-8883. Steakhouse, burgers: L D.* SI SEÑOR, 200 E. Pine St., 546-3938. Mexican: Monday to Saturday B L D, Sunday B L. SUNRISE KITCHEN, 1409 S. Columbus Road, 544-7795. “Goodquality comfort food. There’s nothing on the menu that is really exotic. But all the familiar dishes, both American and Mexican, are done well, and it’s that care in preparation that lifts the food above the ordinary. This is not a freezer-to-fryer type of restaurant.” (September 2012) American, Mexican, breakfasts: Monday to Thursday B L, Friday B L D. TACOS MIRASOL, 323 E. Pine St., 544-0646. Mexican: Monday, Wednesday, Saturday B L D, Tuesday B L. TOCAYO’S MEXICAN RESTAURANT, 1601 E. Pine St., 567-1963. Mexican, dine in or take out: Monday to Saturday B L D, Sunday B L.
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APACHE HOMELANDS RESTAURANT, I-10. Burgers, ribs, “casino-style” food: B L D.*
Columbus IRMA’S KITCVHEN, B L D, Highway 11, 575-694-4026, Mexican food. LA CASITA, 309 Taft, 575-531-2371. B L D, Mexican food. PATIO CAFÉ, 23 Broadway, 531-2495. Burgers, American: B L.*
Reserve ADOBE CAFÉ, Hwy. 12 & Hwy. 180, 533-6146. Deli, American, Mon. pizza, Sunday BBQ ribs: Sun.-Mon. B L D, Wed.-Fri. B L. BLACK GOLD, 98 Main St., 533-6538. Coffeehouse, pastries. CARMEN’S, 101 Main St., 533-6990. Mexican, American: B L D. ELLA’S CAFÉ, 533-6111. American: B L D. UNCLE BILL’S BAR, 230 N. Main St., 533-6369. Pizza: Monday to Saturday L D.
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Glenwood
Lordsburg EL CHARRO RESTAURANT, 209 S. P Blvd., 542-3400. Mexican: B L D. FIDENCIO’S, 604 E. Motel Dr., 542-8989. Mexican: B L early D.
ALMA GRILL, Hwy. 180, 539-2233. Breakfast, sandwiches, burgers, Mexican: Sunday to Wednesday, Friday to Saturday B L. GOLDEN GIRLS CAFÉ, Hwy. 180, 539-2457. Breakfast: B.
KRANBERRY’S FAMILY RESTAURANT, 1405 Main St., 542-9400. Mexican, American: B L D. MAMA ROSA’S PIZZA, 1312 Main St., 542-8400. Pizza, subs, calzones, salads, chicken wings, cheeseburgers, shrimp baskets: L D. RAMONA’S CAFÉ, 904 E. Motel Dr., 542-3030.
MARIO’S PIZZA, Hwy. 180, 539-2316. Italian: Monday to Saturday D.
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“Lordsburg’s quit Mexican food treasure offers some
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unusual takes on traditional recipes.” (December 2012)
Hillsboro
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BARBER SHOP CAFÉ, Main St., 895-5283. American, Mediterra-
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nean, sandwiches: Monday to Saturday L.
Animas PANTHER TRACKS CAFÉ, Hwy. 338, 548-2444. Burgers, Mexican, American: Mon.-Fri. B L D
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2295. Coffeeshop food: Monday to Saturday B L. RODEO TAVERN, 557-2229. Shrimp, fried chicken, steaks, burgers, seafood: Wednesday to Saturday D.
HILLSBORO GENERAL STORE & CAFÉ, 100 Main St., 895-5306. American and Southwestern: Sunday to Wednesday, Friday and Saturday B L. NOTE—Restaurant hours and meals served vary by day of the week and change frequently; call ahead to make sure. Key to abbreviations: B=Breakfast; L=Lunch; D=Dinner.*=Find copies of Desert Exposure here. Send updates, additions and corrections to: editor@desertexposure.com.
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MUSEUM TALK
News and Events
Area museums have busy summer planned Latino Americans: 500 Years of History
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he Branigan Cultural Center has been selected to receive a competitive Latino Americans: 500 Years of History grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the American Library Association. As one of 203 grant recipients selected from across the country, Branigan Cultural Center will receive a cash grant of $10,000 to hold public programming — such as public film screenings, discussion groups, oral history initiatives, local history exhibitions, multi-media projects or performances — about Latino history and culture. The Branigan Cultural Center received the six-part, NEH-supported documentary film “Latino Americans,” created for PBS in 2013 by the WETA public television station. The award-winning series chronicles the history of Latinos in the United States from the 16th century to present day. Learn more about the series at www.pbs.org/latino-americans/en/. The first showing will be Saturday, September 19 and will run through Saturday, March 19, 2016, excluding December. There will be open discussion panels after each showing with guest speakers. Check our website for updated schedule of programs. The museum is located at 501 North Main Street and is open Tuesday through Friday from 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. on Saturdays. For additional information, visit the website at: http://las-cruces.org/museums or call 575.541.2154. Beyond Pluto In collaboration with the Branigan Cultural Center, the New Mexico State University Library will be displaying originals and reproductions from its Clyde Tombaugh Collection at the Center’s new exhibit titled “Beyond Pluto”. Famous for his discovery of Pluto at the at age of 24, Clyde Tombaugh’s entire career will be highlighted at the Branigan Cultural Center and the Las Cruces Museum of Nature & Science. The exhibit runs until Saturday, July 25, and is timed to coincide with the exciting “flyby” of the New Horizons spacecraft, which will come within 6200 miles of Pluto on July 14. Included in the exhibit from the NMSU Library’s Archives and Special Collections Department will be Tombaugh’s observation notes from the 1940s and his handwritten notes on his discoveries. For more information on the Clyde Tombaugh Collection, please visit NMSU Library’s permanent online exhibit at http://lib.nmsu.edu/exhibits/tombaugh/ or contact the Archives and Special Collections Department at 575-646-3839. Glass & Mirrors – the Making of a Telescope As part of the Plutopalooza events, celebrating the space probe New Horizons’ flyby of Pluto, the Museum of Nature & Science will host a workshop for adults to teach about how glass and mirrors are used to make telescopes. Clyde Tombaugh, discoverer of Pluto, used
a homemade telescope mounted on an old lawn mower to teach schoolchildren about the wonders of the cosmos. Participants in this workshop will experiment with lenses, filters and focal length with the assistance of Museum staff & volunteers. The workshop will take place Saturday, July 11 from 2 pm to 4 p.m. Registration is open to adults and teenagers 15 & up, and the workshop is free. Contact the museum to register. The museum is located at 411 North Main Street in Las Cruces and is open Tuesday through Friday from 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. and Saturday 9 a.m. to 4:30 pm. For additional information, visit the website at: http://las-cruces.org/museums or call (575) 522-3120. A Photoessay on Geronimo’s Surrender Bill Cavaliere will present the July 2015 History Notes lecture at Branigan Cultural Center in Las Cruces on Thursday, July 9 at 1 p.m., entitled “A Photoessay of Geronimo’s Surrender.” In this illustrated talk, Cavaliere will present photographs taken during his research on Geronimo. Cavaliere has traveled to many of the sites important in Geronimo’s life, taking pictures that show how the landscape has changed since the moment of some of the most iconic imBill Cavaliere visits Fort Bowie during his ages of the Apache leader. This popular research on Beronimo. Cavaliere is presentphotoessay helps us picture some of the ing the July 2015 History Notes lecture at most important aspects of Chiricahua Branigan Cultural Center in Las Cruces on Apache history and see how the Apache Thursday, July 9 at 1 p.m., entitled “A Phohomelands have changed since the times toessay of Geronimo’s Surrender.” of Geronimo. Free Launch Pad Lecture In 1846 astronomers started hunting for Planet X, a massive body beyond Neptune. Think that all we got was Pluto? Ah, but there’s much more. Join Alamogordo’s New Mexico Museum of Space History’s education director Dave Dooling for a look at how everyone’s astronomy underdog went from ninth planet to dwarf planet to Gatekeeper of the Outer Solar System. He will show the latest images from the New Horizons mission, the first space probe to fly by Pluto on July 14. And, yes, Planet X may yet be lurking out there. Find out more during the free Launch Pad Lecture at the museum on Friday July 3. The Launch Pad Lecture is free to the public and starts at 9 a.m. on the first floor of the museum. Coffee and donuts are compliments of the International Space Hall of Fame Foundation. The next lecture will be on Friday, Aug. 7. The topic will be If You Can’t Stand the Heat: Temperature Control in Space with Museum Executive Director Chris Orwoll. The New Mexico Museum of Space History is a division of the NM Department of Cultural Affairs. For more information, call 575-437-2840 or toll free 1-877-333-6589 or visit the website at www.nmspacemuseum.org.
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New Mexico Participates
Museums offer free summer admission for active military and families As part of the national Blue Star Museums Program, 16 state-run museums and historic sites will once again offer free admission to active-duty military personnel and their families from Memorial Day through Labor Day. The museums include the New Mexico Museum of Space History in Alamogordo and the New Mexico Farm & Ranch Heritage Museum in Las Cruces. The complete list of participating museums is available at arts.gov/bluestarmuseums. “I encourage New Mexico’s active-duty military members to bring their families and enjoy the exceptional exhibits and facilities our state has to offer,” Governor Susana Martinez said. “We are proud to offer free admission to the state museums and historic sites this summer in appreciation of the service and dedication of the brave men and women of our military.” “It is our honor to share our cultural and educational opportunities with our activeduty military members and their families by participating in the Blue Star Museums Program,” Cultural Affairs Secretary Veronica N. Gonzales said. “We invite you to visit any or all of our many facilities to learn about New Mexico’s vibrant culture, art, and heritage this summer.”
“The Museum of Space History is pleased to continue its tradition of being part of the Blue Star Museums program. We are proud to offer free admission to the museum for military personnel and their families as a token of our appreciation for their service to our country,” said Museum Executive Director Chris Orwoll. The free admission is available to activeduty military-ID holders and up to five family members. Active duty military includes Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines, Coast Guard, National Guard and Reserve members. All state-operated museums will participate. Seven New Mexico Historic Sites are also participating. They are Coronado in Bernalillo; Jemez near Jemez Springs; El Camino Real Historic Trail Site, south of Socorro; Lincoln and Fort Stanton in Lincoln County; the Bosque Redondo Memorial at Fort Sumner; Fort Selden in Radium Springs; and Taylor Mesilla in Mesilla, New Mexico. Blue Star Museums is a collaboration among the National Endowment for the Arts, Blue Star Families, the Department of Defense, and more than 2,000 museums across America. The program runs through Labor Day, Sept. 7
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What’s Going On in July Playing, learning in Southern New Mexico
WEDNESDAY, July 1 Silver City/Grant County
School Supply Drive – Silver City Woman’s Club is holding a drive for all Cobre, Silver and Cliff schools. Needed are glue sticks, hand sanitizers, rubber erasers, dry board markers, dry board erasers, spiral notebooks, No. 2 pencils, 2 GB jump drives, tissues and children’s books. The drop off location is 411 Silver Heights Blvd., Silver City or call Vera MacGregor at 575-575-0505 for other delivery arrangements. Lego Club – 4-5 p.m. at the Silver City Public Library, 515 W. College Ave.
Alamogordo/ Otero County
Full Moon Night at White Sands National Monument – 8:30 p.m. at the monument La Cella Bella, a cello quartet, plays under the full moon. Info: 575-479-6124.
THURSDAY, July 2 Las Cruces/Mesilla
Jeremiah Sammartano – 8-11 p.m., L.A. blues guitarist at High Desert Brewing Company, 1201 W. Hadley Ave. Las Cruces. Info: 575-525-6752.
T or C/Sierra County
Total Motion Release (every Thursday) – 10-10:45 a.m. at Elephant Butte Lake RV Resort. Donations accepted and distributed to local charities. Info: 575-744-5996. Tai Chi by Mario (every Thursday) – 10:4511:45 a.m. at Elephant Butte Lake RV Resort. Donations accepted and distributed to local charities. Info: 575-744-5996.
Ruidoso/Lincoln County Mescalero Apache Ceremonial & Rodeo – All day, includes Apache dances, games lunch and dinner at the Mescalero Rodeo Grounds, rodeo at 1 p.m. Cost: $7 for adults and $3 for children (rodeo is extra). Info: 575-464-4494. Smokey Bear Stampede – Event starts at 7 p.m. with rodeo, followed by dance at the Lincoln County Fairgrounds in Capitan. Cost: $10. Info: www.smokeybearstampede.com.
FRIDAY, July 3 Silver City/Grant County
Popcorn Fridays – Free popcorn and other food samples. Silver City Food Co-op, 520 N. Bullard St., 388-2343, silvercityfoodcoop.com.
Las Cruces/Mesilla
Fair trade marketplace – Unique gifts handmade by women from Mexico and the border region available at La Frontera, in Nopalito’s Galería, 326 S. Mesquite St. Las Cruces. The market is open Fridays (4-7 p.m.), Saturdays (12-5 p.m.), and Sundays (12-5 p.m.) All of the sales go to the women. “Far From the Madding Crowd” – 7:30 p.m. movie at the Fountain Theater. Runs through July 9. Info: 575-524-8287. Electric 5K – 8 p.m. is run on Main Street in Downtown Las Cruces. Info: www.lascrucesrunningclub.com/races.html. Electric Light Parade – 9 p.m. begins at City Hall, 700 N. Main Street and ends on North Main Street and Picacho Avenue. The theme is “Let Our Freedom Ring.” Info: 575-541-2550.
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Mescalero Apache Ceremonial & Rodeo – All day, includes Apache dances, games lunch and dinner at the Mescalero Rodeo Grounds, rodeo at 1 p.m. Cost: $7 for adults and $3 for children (rodeo is extra). Info: 575-464-4494. Two Rivers Arts & Crafts Festival – 9 a.m.-6 p.m. Behind the Ruidoso Valley Chamber of Commerce, 720 Sudderth Drive. Info: 575-937-1734. Lincoln County Art Loop – 10 a.m.-5 p.m. visit almost local artists’ studios across the county to see them at work. Info: www.artloop.org. Festival Ruidoso – 10 a.m.-6 p.m. School House Park across from River Rendezvous in Ruidoso features live music, food, arts and crafts. Info: www. riverrendezvousruidoso.com. Smokey Bear Stampede – Event starts at 1 p.m. with a youth rodeo, followed by rodeo at 7 p.m. and Reckless Kelly Concert at 10 p.m. at the Lincoln County Fairgrounds in Capitan. Cost: $10 (concert extra) Info: www.smokeybearstampede. com. ASA NISIM MASA: Circus Dinner Theater – 6-9 p.m. features a dinner catered by Four Front Cafe with family entertainment. Info: 575-9734348. Recycled Percussion – 8- 10 p.m. at the Spencer Theater in Alto. Info: www.spencertheater.com.
Bear Mountain Lodge BLUE DOME NEWS
July 28th, Tuesday - 3-5pm at the Downtown Blue Dome. The show will feature “Two Girls and a Table” Suzie Calhoun‘s wonderful and functional ceramics and Chris McDaniel’s Suzie Calhoun Chris McDaniels beautiful wood-blocked linens. The show will run until August 30th. July 29th, Wednesday - 5-7pm at the Blue Dome at The Lodge. Jack Troy, the featured potter of Clayfest. Please come and give Jack a royal Silver City welcome. Jack Troy THE LODGE NEWS
Sunday, August 2 - From 12-2pm Clayfest Brunch Reservations a must: 575-538-2538 Menu on the website. Hope to see you there.
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SATURDAY, July 4 Silver City/Grant County
Silver City Farmers’ Market – 8:30 a.m.noon at Bullard and Seventh streets. Independence Day Celebrations – All day beginning with breakfast with the Lions Club at 7 a.m. at Gough Park in Silver City. The parade starts at 10 a.m. at Broadway and Hudson streets and moves up Hudson to 14th Street. Numerous vendors will have booths at the park and live performers will alternate on the stage. Fireworks begin at dusk. To register for the parade or as a vender, visit the chamber website at silvercity.org. 40 DAYS & 40 NIGHTS continued on next page
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40 DAYS & 40 NIGHTS continued Benefit Bicycle Raffle – Drawing is at 4:30 p.m. at the Independence Day celebration, Gough Park. Proceeds benefit the Silver City Women’s Club outreach programs. Info: 575-534-0505. Ice Cream Social – 11 a.m.-4 p.m. in the Silver City Museum Courtyard at 312 Broadway. There will be ice cream, music and fun. Info: www.silvercitymuseum.org. Backyard BBQ – All day at Little Toad Creek Inn & Tavern, 1122 Highway 35, Silver City. Info: 575-5369649.
Las Cruces/Mesilla
Project in Motion – 6:15-7:15 p.m. Vinyasa yoga in action at the historic Gin Harvey Studio. Cost: $10. 430 N. Compress, Las Cruces. Selection Tools and Healing Tools in Adobe Photoshop – 7-9 p.m. at the Southwest Environmental Center, 275 N. Downtown Mall. Cost: free. Part of the DoĂąa Ana Photography Club programs. Info: www. daphotoclub.org. Every Other Tuesday: Grits Wrangler – 6:30 p.m. Wrangler, a “Reciter of Poetry,â€? performs at the Rio Grande Theatre. Info: 575-523-6403.
Deming/Luna County
Indoor Outdoor Barn Sale at Path Finders Trading Post – 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Vendors can check in at 9 a.m. 4814 Silver City Highway, four miles north of Deming. Info: 575-546-9085.
Las Cruces/Mesilla
MainStreet Farmer’s Market – 7-11 a.m. in Downtown Las Cruces, along Main Street. Storytellers – At 10:30 a.m. Grits Wrangler will be spinning yarns at COAS Downtown and Loni Todoroki will be telling tales at COAS Solano. Children who attend will receive a $2 book coupon. July 4 events – Beginning at 3 p.m., concerts and games begin at the Field of Dreams in Las Cruces, 2501 Tashiro Road. The evening culminates with the mayor’s welcome and fireworks at 10 p.m. Drew Reid – 8-11 p.m., Florida folk/country singer/ songwriter at High Desert Brewing Company, 1201 W. Hadley Ave. Las Cruces. Info: 575-525-6752.
T or C/Sierra County
Sierra County Farmers Market (every Saturday) – 8:30-11:45 a.m. at Ralph Edwards Park, Riverside and Cedar, Truth or Consequences. Info: 575-894-9375. Ole Time Fiddlers Saturday Night Dance (every Saturday) – 7-9 p.m. at the New Mexico Old Time Fiddlers Playhouse, 710 Elm Street, Truth or Consequences. Live music, toe-tapping fun, refreshments and a door prize. Info: 575-297-4125. Elephant Butte Fireworks Extravaganza – 9-10 p.m. fireworks will be launched from Rattlesnake Island. Elephant Butte Lake State Park fees will be waived for the fireworks display.
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Ruidoso/Lincoln County
Smokey Bear Fun Run – 7:30 a.m. 10k and 2-mile events held at Capitan, East of Smokey Bear Historical Park. Info: 575-354-2748. Festival Ruidoso – 10 a.m. - 6 p.m. School House Park across from River Rendezvous in Ruidoso features live music, food, arts and crafts. Info: www.riverrendezvousruidoso.com. Mescalero Apache Ceremonial & Rodeo – All day, includes Apache dances, games lunch and dinner at the Mescalero Rodeo Grounds, rodeo at 1 p.m. Cost: $7 for adults and $3 for children (rodeo is extra). Info: 575-464-4494. Two Rivers Arts & Crafts Festival – 9 a.m.-6 p.m. Behind the Ruidoso Valley Chamber of Commerce, 720 Sudderth Drive. Info: 575-937-1734. 36th Annual Mescalero Celebration Parade – Begins at 10 a.m. in Mescalero. Info: 575-464-4494. Lincoln County Art Loop – 10 a.m. - 5 p.m. visit almost local artists’ studios across the county to see them at work. Info: www.artloop.org. Smokey Bear Stampede – Event starts at 11 a.m. with BBQ cook-off dinner, followed by rodeos at 1 and 7 p.m. topped by a fireworks extravaganza and dance at the Lincoln County Fairgrounds in Capitan. Cost: $10 (dinner extra). Info: www.smokeybearstampede.com. Sarinova Glass live demonstration – 1:30-3:30 p.m., followed by a wine reception at 3:30 p.m. at Thunder Horse Gallery, 200 Mechem Drive. Info: 575257-3989.
Fireworks Extravaganza – Tailgating, live band and more precede the New Mexico Museum of Space History Fireworks event in Alamogordo at the top of Hwy 2001. Info: 505-437-2840, 877-333-6589, or nmspacemuseum.org.
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Two Rivers Arts & Crafts Festival – 9 a.m.-6 p.m. Behind the Ruidoso Valley Chamber of Commerce, 720 Sudderth Drive. Info: 575-937-1734. Lincoln County Art Loop – 10 a.m.-5 p.m. visit almost local artists’ studios across ¼ TENT SITES the county to see them at work. Info: www. ¼ RV SITES ¼ CABINS ¼ artloop.org. ¼ WALKING TOURS Festival Ruidoso – 10 a.m.-6 p.m. School House Park across from River Rendezvous in Faywood Hot Springs Ruidoso features live music, food, arts and crafts. Info: www.riverrendezvousruidoso. 165 Highway 61 com. Faywood, NM 88034 Smokey Bear Stampede – Event starts for more information call with rodeos at 1 p.m. and 7 p.m. followed 575-536-9663 by a dance at 9 p.m. at the Lincoln County Fairgrounds in Capitan. Cost: $10 (dinner extra). Info: www.smokeybearstampede.com. Sunday Under the Stars – 6-10 p.m. at the Inn of the Mountain Gods in Ruidoso includes live music and a family movie. Info: 575-464-7777.
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Auditions for “Red Riding Hood� – 10 a.m. Missoula children’s The-
atre tour directors will hold auditions at the Rio Grande Theatre and cast 50 to 60 local K-12 students to perform in the production. Info: kathleenA@daarts.org.
TUESDAY, July 7
T or C/Sierra County
The Sierra Twirlers (every Tuesday) – 6-8 p.m. mainstream/plus square dance, including special session time for inexperienced dancers looking to improve their skills, held at 710 Elm St. Truth or Consequences. Cost: $3. Info: 575-894-0083 or 575-3139971.
Lego Club – 4-5 p.m. at theSilver City Public Library, 515 W. College Ave.
Las Cruces/Mesilla
Here & Now artist panel discussion - 1:30 p.m. at the Branigan Cultural Center. Seven exhibiting artists will speak about their work. Info: 575-541-2137.
THURSDAY, July 9 Silver City/Grant County
Community Forum: Hydroponics with Rich Bohart – noon-1 pm. at Poco Loco Tomatoes, 614 N. Bullard St. Info: 388-2343, silvercityfoodcoop.com.
Las Cruces/Mesilla
Indian Cultures and Histories of the Southwest – 1 p.m. at the Branigan Cultural Center, 501 N. Main Street in Las Cruces. Bill Cavaliere presents his photoessay on Geronimo’s surrender. Culture Series: Good Old Summertime – 7-8 p.m., at the New Mexico Farm & Ranch Heritage Museum. The “Storytellers of Las Cruces� share tales from summers past. Info: 575-522-4100. The Merchant of Venice – 8 p.m. at Las Cruces Community Theatre, 313 N. Main St. features the William Shakespeare dramatic comedy. Info: www.lcctnm.org. Miss Shevaughn & Yuma Wray – 8-11 p.m., alternative music at High Desert Brewing Company, 1201 W. Hadley Ave. Las Cruces. Info: 575-525-6752.
T or C/Sierra County
Total Motion Release (every Thursday) – 1010:45 a.m. at Elephant Butte Lake RV Resort. Donations accepted and distributed to local charities. Info: 575744-5996. Tai Chi by Mario (every Thursday) – 10:45-11:45 a.m. at Elephant Butte Lake RV Resort. Donations accepted and distributed to local charities. Info: 575-744-5996.
FRIDAY, July 10 Silver City/Grant County
Popcorn Fridays – Free popcorn and other food samples. Silver City Food Co-op, 520 N. Bullard St., 575-388-2343, silvercityfoodcoop.com. The Roadrunners – 8 p.m., local dance band at Little Toad Creek Brewery & Distillery, 200 N. Bullard St., Silver City. Info: 575-956-6144.
Las Cruces/Mesilla
Fair trade marketplace – Unique gifts hand-made by women from Mexico and the border region available at La Frontera, in Nopalito’s GalerĂa, 326 S. Mesquite St. Las Cruces. The market is open Fridays (4-7 p.m.), Saturdays (noon-5 p.m.), and Sundays (noon-5 p.m.) All of the sales go to the women. Red Riding Hood – 7 p.m. at the Rio Grande Theatre will be a Missoula Children’s Theatre production with children from the community. Info: 575-523-6403. Nighttime in the Chihuahuan Desert – 8-9:30 p.m. at the Chihuahuan Desert Nature Park. Info: 575524-3334. The Merchant of Venice – 8 p.m. at Las Cruces Community Theatre, 313 N. Main St. features the William Shakespeare dramatic comedy. Info: www.lcctnm.org.
Ruidoso/ Lincoln County
ASA NISIM MASA: Circus dinner theater – 6-9 p.m. features a dinner catered by Four Front Cafe with family entertainment. Info: 575-973-4348. Rapunzel – 7 p.m. at the Spencer Theater will be a Missoula Children’s Theatre production with children from the
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SATURDAY, July 11 Silver City/ Grant County
Silver City Farmers’ Market – 8:30 a.m.-noon at Bullard and Seventh streets. Artisan Market – 9 a.m.-1 p.m. 614 N. Bullard St. Info: 388-2343, silvercityfoodcoop. com. Tin Can Cameras workshop for children – 11 a.m.-12:30 p.m. at the Silver City Museum. Info:www.silvercitymuseum.org. Oh, Rose – 8 p.m., indie-rock band from Olympia, Wash. at Little Toad Creek Brewery & Distillery, 200 N. Bullard St., Silver City. Info: 575-956-6144.
Las Cruces/Mesilla
Paula Moore will be talking about her book July 18 at the celebrate authors Book Talk event at the Branigan Cultural Center in Las Cruces.
MainStreet Farmer’s Market – 7-11 a.m. in Downtown Las Cruces, along Main Street. Storytellers – At10:30 a.m. Gloria Hacker will be spinning yarns at COAS Downtown and LNancy Banks will be telling tales at COAS Solano. Children who attend will receive a $2 coupon. Red Riding Hood – 11 a.m. at the Rio Grande Theatre will be a Missoula Children’s Theatre production with children from the community. Info: 575-523-6403. Flights Up – 7:30 p.m. movie at the Fountain Theater. Runs through July 16. Info: 575-524-8287. The Merchant of Venice – 8 p.m. at Las Cruces Community Theatre, 313 N. Main St. features the William Shakespeare dramatic comedy. Info: www. lcctnm.org. No Reservations – 8-11 p.m., jazz trio at High Desert Brewing Company, 1201 W. Hadley Ave. Las Cruces. Info: 575525-6752.
T or C/Sierra County
Sierra County Farmers Market (every Saturday) – 8:30 - 11:45 a.m. at Ralph Edwards Park, Riverside and Cedar, Truth or Consequences. Info: 575-8949375. Second Saturday Art Hop — 6-9 p.m. in downtown Truth of Consequences. Info: promotions@torcmainstreet.org. Ole Time Fiddlers Saturday Night Dance (every Saturday) – 7-9 p.m. at the New Mexico Old Time Fiddlers Playhouse, 710 Elm Street, Truth or Consequences. Live music, toe-tapping fun, refreshments and a door prize. Info: 575-297-4125.
Ruidoso/Lincoln County
Fort Stanton Live – 9 a.m.-8 p.m. at Fort Stanton brings costumed re-enactors from the Civil War and Indians Wars era to the historic fort for demonstrations and much more. Info: 575-364-0341.
SUNDAY, July 12 Las Cruces/Mesilla
The Merchant of Venice – 8 p.m. at Las Cruces Community Theatre, 313 N. Main St. features the William Shakespeare dramatic comedy. Info: www. lcctnm.org.
Las Cruces/Mesilla
Ruidoso includes live music and a family movie. Info: 575-464-7777.
MONDAY, July 13
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Silver City/ Grant County
The Widowed and Single Persons of Grant County – 10:30 a.m. at Glad Tidings Church, 11600 Highway 183 E. Randy Salars from the Gospel Mission is the speaker. Cost: including lunch, $12. Info: 575-537-3643.
TUESDAY, July 14 T or C/Sierra County
The Sierra Twirlers (every Tuesday) – 6-8 p.m. mainstream/plus square dance, including special session time for inexperienced dancers looking to improve their skills, held at 710 Elm St. Truth or Consequences. Cost: $3. Info: 575-8940083 or 575-313-9971.
Ruidoso/Lincoln County
Evening in the Round with Linda Davis, Lang Scott &Bill Whyte – 8-10 p.m. at the Spencer Theater in Alto brings three Nashville songwriters together for an evening of acoustic singing and strumming. Info:575-336-4800.
WEDNESDAY, July 15
Silver City/Grant County
Crossroads of Empire: Early Printed Maps of the American Southwest – Exhibit opening at the Silver City Museum. Info:www.silvercitymuseum.org. Lego Club – 4-5 p.m. ages 6-9 at the Silver City Public Library, 515 W. College Ave.
THURSDAY, July 16 Silver City/ Grant County
Health Forum: Yoga therapy with Matthew Sommerville – noon-1 p.m. 614 N. Bullard St. Info: 388-2343, silvercityfoodcoop.com.
Las Cruces/Mesilla
Music in the Park with the JDS (funk/soul) playing – 7 p.m., Apodaca Park, 801 E. Madrid in Las Cruces. Info www.las-cruces.org.
Rail Readers Book Club – 11 a.m. at the Las Cruces Railroad Museum, 351 N. Mesilla Street. Info:575-647-4480.
Ruidoso/ Lincoln County
The D.A.M.N. Union – 8-11 p.m., local country/rock at High Desert Brewing Company, 1201 W. Hadley Ave. Las Cruces. Info: 575-525-6752.
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Total Motion Release (every Thursday) – 10-10:45 a.m. at Elephant Butte Lake RV Resort. Donations accepted and distributed to local charities. Info: 575-744-5996. Tai Chi by Mario (every Thursday) – 10:45 11:45 a.m. at Elephant Butte Lake RV Resort. Donations accepted and distributed to local charities. Info: 575-744-5996.
Silver City/ Grant County
Popcorn Fridays – Free popcorn and other food samples. Silver City Food Co-op, 520 N. Bullard St. Info: 388-2343, silvercityfoodcoop.com. Fiber Arts Festival – 10 a.m.-5 p.m. at the Grant County Convention Center, 3031 U.S. Highway 180 E. Info: 575-538-5733. Pistachio – 8 p.m., funky rock band from Oakland, Calif. at Little Toad Creek Brewery & Distillery, 200 N. Bullard St., Silver City. Info: 575-9566144.
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Fair trade marketplace - Unique gifts handmade by women from Mexico and the border region available at La Frontera, in Nopalito’s Galería, 326 S. Mesquite St. Las Cruces. The market is open Fridays (4-7 p.m.), Saturdays (12-5 p.m.), and Sundays (12-5 p.m.) All of the sales go to the women. The Film Critic – 7:30 p.m. movie at the Fountain Theater. Runs through July 23. Info: 575-524-8287.
Ruidoso/Lincoln County
ASA NISIM MASA: Circus dinner theater – 6-9 p.m. features a dinner catered by Four Front Cafe with family entertainment. Info: 575-9734348.
SATURDAY, July 18
Silver City/Grant County
Hummingbird Festival – All day at Little Toad Creek Inn & Tavern, 1122 Highway 35, Silver City. Info: 575-536-9649. Silver City Farmers’ Market – 8:30 a.m.-noon at Bullard and Seventh streets. Hummingbird Festival – at the Little Toad Creek Inn & Tavern near Lake Roberts. Fiber Arts Festival – 10 a.m.-5 p.m. at the Grant County Convention Center, 3031 U.S. Highway 180 E. Info: 575-538-5733. The Rediscovery of New Mexico between Coronado and Onate – Noon-1 p.m. a brown bag lunch presentation with Alan Osborn at the museum annex, 302 Broadway. Info: www.silvercitymuseum.org. Jamie O’Hara – 8 p.m., blues, smooth jazz, folk and rock band from Las Cruces at Little Toad Creek Brewery & Distillery, 200 N. Bullard St., Silver City. Info: 575-956-6144.
Deming/Luna County
Indoor Outdoor Barn Sale at Path Finders Trading Post – 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Vendors can check in at 9 a.m. 4814 Silver City Highway, four miles north of Deming. Info: 575-546-9085.
Las Cruces/Mesilla
MainStreet Farmer’s Market – 7-11 a.m. in
Downtown Las Cruces, along Main Street. Storytellers – At10:30 a.m. Grits Wrangler will be spinning yarns at COAS Downtown and Loni Todoroki will be telling tales at COAS Solano. Children who attend will receive a $2 book coupon. Storytellers – At10:30 a.m. Sarah Addison and Sharlene Wittern will be spinning yarns at COAS Downtown and Judith Ames will be telling tales at COAS Solano. Children who attend will receive a $2 book coupon. Book Talk with Paula Moore – 1 p.m. in the board room of the Branigan Library. Info: bbs. nm2@gmail.com. KRWG Benefit: The Hard Road Trio – 7 p.m. at the Rio Grande Theatre with southwestern acoustic music at the crossroads of roots and bluegrass. Cost: $15 adults, $7.50 for 12 and under. Info: 575-646-2222. Bourbon Legend – 8-11 p.m., funky uke-rock at High Desert Brewing Company, 1201 W. Hadley Ave. Las Cruces. Info: 575-525-6752.
T or C/Sierra County
Sierra County Farmers Market (every Saturday) – 8:30-11:45 a.m. at Ralph Edwards Park, Riverside and Cedar, Truth or Consequences. Info: 575-894-9375. Ole Time Fiddlers Saturday Night Dance (every Saturday)– 7-9 p.m. at the New Mexico Old Time Fiddlers Playhouse, 710 Elm Street, Truth or Consequences. Live music, toe-tapping fun, refreshments and a door prize. Info: 575-297-4125.
Ruidoso/ Lincoln County
Book talk with Lynda Sanchez – The author of “Apache Legends and Lore of Southern New Mexico: From the Sacred Mountain” will be at the Lincoln Historic Site in Lincoln beginning at 2 p.m.
SUNDAY, July 19 Silver City/Grant County
Hummingbird Festival – All day at Little Toad Creek Inn & Tavern, 1122 Highway 35, Silver City. Info: 575-536-9649. Field trip to Gila River Middle Box – 8 a.m. with the Gila Native Plant Society to the riparian area. Meet in the south parking lot of the Fine Arts Theater at Western New Mexico University. Bring water, lunch, hat, sunscreen and wear good hiking shoes. Info: 575-535-4064.
Las Cruces/Mesilla
Ice Cream Sunday – Noon-4 p.m. at the New Mexico Farm & Ranch Heritage Museum. Cost: $5 adults, $4 seniors and $3 children. Info: 575-5224100.
Ruidoso/Lincoln County
Archaeology of the Lincoln County War – A walking tour and talk with archaeologist David Kirkpatrick begins at 2 p.m. at the Lincoln Historic Site. Info: 575-653-4025. Sunday Under the Stars – 6-10 p.m. at the Inn of the Mountain Gods in Ruidoso includes live music and a family movie. Info: 575-464-7777.
MONDAY, July 20 Las Cruces/Mesilla
Opera Summer Camp for Kids – For students entering third to eighth grades. Two-day camp cul-
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Big Band Dance Club – 8-10 p.m. dance offers ballroom, country, swing and Latin styles at Alma de Arte School, 402 W. Court St. in Las Cruces. The DJ will be Mike D’Arcy. Group dance lesson taught by John Guisto at 7-7:45 p.m. $7 for all on CD nights except $5 for students with ID. Info: 575-5266504. Hot Texas Swing Band – 8-11 p.m., from Austin at High Desert Brewing Company, 1201 W. Hadley Ave. Las Cruces. Info: 575-525-6752.
T or C/Sierra County
Lonsome Dove, a folk Rock duo from Dallas will be at Little Toad Creek Brewery & Distillery Aug. 1. minates with a performance for family and friends, live on the Rio Grande Theater stage on July 25.
Total Motion Release (every Thursday) – 10-10:45 a.m. at Elephant Butte Lake RV Resort. Donations accepted and distributed to local charities. Info: 575-744-5996. Tai Chi by Mario (every Thursday) – 10:45-11:45 a.m. at Elephant Butte Lake RV Resort. Donations accepted and distributed to local charities. Info: 575-744-5996.
Las Cruces/Mesilla
Group Hypnosis on Forgiveness – 6:30-8:30 p.m. Cost: $10 per person or $18 per couple. Path Finders Trading Post, 4814 Silver City Highway, four miles north of Deming. Info: 575-546-9085.
Summer Solstice Open House – Begins10 a.m. the Lotus Center, 211 West Broadway St. in Silver City will be holding free classes all day. Info:575-388-4647.
Project in Motion – 6:15-7:15 Vinyasa yoga in action at the historic Gin Harvey Studio. Cost: $10. 430 N. Compress, Las Cruces. Underwater Photography in Lake Tanganyika – 7-9 p.m. at the Southwest Environment Center, 275 N. Main St. Cost: free. Part of the Doña Ana Photography Club programs. Info: www. daphotoclub.org. Every Other Tuesday: Border Avenue – 6:30 p.m. country, rock and pop, at the Rio Grande Theatre. Info: 575-5236403.
T or C/Sierra County
The Sierra Twirlers (every Tuesday) – 6-8 p.m. mainstream/plus square dance, including special session time for inexperienced dancers looking to improve their skills, held at 710 Elm St. Truth or Consequences. Cost: $3. Info: 575-894-0083 or 575-313-9971.
WEDNESDAY, July 22 Silver City/Grant County
Lego Club – 4-5 p.m. at the Silver City Public Library, 515 W. College Ave.
Deming/Luna County
Exploring Your Higher Consciousness Workshop – 6:30-8:30 p.m. Cost: $15 per person or $28 per couple. Path Finders Trading Post, 4814 Silver City Highway, four miles north of Deming. Info: 575-546-9085.
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SATURDAY, JULY 4TH, 2015 FOURTH OF JULY ICE CREAM SOCIAL! 11 am to 4 pm at the Silver City Museum, 312 W Broadway At our largest event of the year, enjoy ice cream, music, games, and more! This event is free and open to everyone. SATURDAY, JULY 11TH, 2015 TIN CAN CAMERAS WORKSHOP 11 am to 12:30 pm at the Silver City Museum, 312 W Broadway Take and develop photographs using a tin can! For children ages 8 and older, $5, limit 10 crafters, pre-registration encouraged. Parent or guardian attendance is required. SATURDAY, JULY 18TH, 2015 BROWN BAG LUNCH PRESENTATION: The Rediscovery of New Mexico between Coronado and Onate 12 pm to 1 pm with Alan Osborne, Silver City Museum Annex, 302 W Broadway. This lecture examines the legacy of contact and conflict left behind by Spanish explorers during this little-known period of history. Sponsored by the New Mexico Humanities Council, the Department of Cultural Affairs, and the Silver City Museum Society. SATURDAY, JULY 25TH, 2015 Book Signing with Carlos Melendrez: America! Don’t You Know Me? I’m Your Native Son: Geronimo, The Controversial Campaign to Repatriate the Remains of America’s Most Famous Warrior to His Homeland 2 pm to 3 pm in the Silver City Museum Annex, 302 W Broadway EXHIBITS AT THE SILVER CITY MUSEUM: Open Drawers, Fashion Plates, and Late Night Dates: High Fashion from the Wheaton-Smith Collection, a study in fashion and society at the turn of the century, as viewed through the lens of one family’s extraordinary wardrobe. Now Open! Crossroads of Empire: Early Printed Maps of the American Southwest The exhibition examines the romance of maps, the legacy of mapmaking and the profound influence of early mapmakers on our world today. Opening Wednesday, July 15th, 2015! For more information and to find out what’s happening next month at the Silver City Museum, visit the museum’s website at www.silvercitymuseum.org or contact the museum at (575) 538-5921, info@silvercitymuseum.org.
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Popcorn Fridays – Free popcorn and other food samples. Silver City Food Co-op, 520 N. Bullard St. Info: 388-2343, silvercityfoodcoop.com. Compasito – 8 p.m., local duo brothers Peter and Andrew Dahl-Bredine perform world music at Little Toad Creek Brewery & Distillery, 200 N. Bullard St., Silver City. Info: 575-956-6144.
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Music in the Park with Mad Mozelle (rockabilly/blues/rock) and Ardk (old rock & roll) – 7 p.m., Apodaca Park, 801 E. Madrid in Las Cruces. Info www.las-cruces.org.
Ruidoso/ Lincoln County
Sunday Under the Stars – 6-10 p.m. at the Inn of the Mountain Gods in Ruidoso includes live music and a family movie. Info: 575-464-7777.
MONDAY, July 27 Silver City/ Grant County
Local clay artist Zoe Wolfe, who created these garden pieces, will be holding daily youth workshops July 28 to July 31 during the 2015 Clay Festival events. “The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared” – 7:30 p.m. movie at the Fountain Theater. Runs through July 30. Info: 575-524-8287.
Ruidoso/ Lincoln County
Circus Dinner Theater – 6-9 p.m. ASA NISI MASA presents a dinner catered by the Four Front Café with family entertainment from dancing to miming to absurd theater and classic drama at Mountain Annie’s, 2710 Sudderth Drive, Ruidoso. Info: 575-973-4340.
SATURDAY, July 25 Silver City/ Grant County
Silver City Farmers’ Market – 8:30 a.m.-noon at Bullard and Seventh streets. Community Flea Market – 9 a.m.-1 p.m. 614 N. Bullard St. Info: 388-2343, silvercityfoodcoop.com. Book Signing – 2-3 p.m. at the Silver City Museum annex, 302 Broadway. Info: www.silvercitymuseum.org. 2015 Clay Festival – 3-9 p.m. kicks off with the Clay Poker Tournament Fundraiser at the Old Elk’s Lodge. Cost $50. Info: www.clayfestival.com. Low Cost pet vaccination ad microchipping clinic – 5-7 p.m. held by PetCare Express inside the Silver City Tractor Supply Company, 2707 U.S. Highway 180 E in Silver City. Info: 575-534-9634. Michy & Me – 8 p.m., a fun blend of rock through the decades at Little Toad Creek Brewery & Distillery, 200 N. Bullard St., Silver City. Info: 575-956-6144.
Deming/Luna County
Indoor Outdoor Barn Sale at Path
Finders Trading Post – 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Vendors can check in at 9 a.m. 4814 Silver City Highway, four miles north of Deming. Info: 575-546-9085.
Las Cruces/Mesilla
MainStreet Farmer’s Market – 7-11 a.m. in Downtown Las Cruces, along Main Street. Storytellers – At 10:30 a.m. Douglas Jackson will be telling tales at COAS Downtown and Judith Ames will be telling tales at COAS Solano. Children who attend will receive a $2 book coupon. “The Merchant of Venice” – at 2 p.m. and 8 p.m. at Las Cruces Community Theatre, 313 N. Main St. Features the William Shakespeare dramatic comedy. Info: www.lcctnm.org. Tiffany Christopher – 8-11 p.m., one-woman band at High Desert Brewing Company, 1201 W. Hadley Ave. Las Cruces. Info: 575-525-6752.
T or C/Sierra County
Sierra County Farmers Market (every Saturday) – 8:30-11:45 a.m. at Ralph Edwards Park, Riverside and Cedar, Truth or Consequences. Info: 575-8949375. Ole Time Fiddlers Saturday Night Dance (every Saturday) – 7-9 p.m. at the New Mexico Old Time Fiddlers Playhouse, 710 Elm Street, Truth or Consequences. Live music, toe-tapping fun, refreshments and a door prize. Info: 575-297-4125.
SUNDAY, July 26 Silver City/ Grant County
2015 Clay Festival – Continues across Silver City. Info: www.clayfestival.com.
2015 Clay Festival – Continues across Silver City. Info: www.clayfestival.com.
TUESDAY, July 28 Silver City/ Grant County
2015 Clay Festival – Continues across Silver City. Info: www.clayfestival.com.
T or C/Sierra County
The Sierra Twirlers (every Tuesday) – 6-8 p.m. mainstream/plus square dance, including special session time for inexperienced dancers looking to improve their skills, held at 710 Elm St. Truth or Consequences. Cost: $3. Info: 575-894-0083 or 575-313-9971.
Little Toad Creek Brewery & Distillery, 200 N. Bullard St., Silver City. Info: 575-9566144.
Las Cruces/Mesilla
Fatigo – 8-11 p.m., alternative/Latin music at High Desert Brewing Company, 1201 W. Hadley Ave. Las Cruces. Info: 575-525-6752.
FRIDAY, July 31 Silver City/Grant County
Popcorn Fridays – Free popcorn and other food samples. Silver City Food Co-op, 520 N. Bullard St., 388-2343, silvercityfoodcoop.com. The Ovesouls – 8 p.m., local rock, blues and soul at Little Toad Creek Brewery & Distillery, 200 N. Bullard St., Silver City. Info: 575-956-6144.
Las Cruces/Mesilla
Fair trade marketplace – Unique gifts hand-made by women from Mexico and the border region available at La Frontera, in Nopalito’s Galería, 326 S. Mesquite St. Las Cruces. The market is open Fridays (4-7 p.m.), Saturdays (12-5 p.m.), and Sundays (12-5 p.m.) All of the sales go to the women. The Internet is Revolutionizing Film
Las Cruces/Mesilla
Project in Motion – 6:15-7:15 Vinyasa yoga in action at the historic Gin Harvey Studio. Cost: $10. 430 N. Compress, Las Cruces.
WEDNESDAY, July 29
Silver City/Grant County
The No Reservations Jazz band will perform for the Mesilla Valley Jazz & Blues Society for their monthly concert series which takes place on the July 19 at First Christian Church, 1809 El Paseo, at 7 p.m.
Lego Club – 4-5 p.m. at the Silver City Public Library, 515 W. College Ave. 2015 Clay Festival – Continues across Silver City. Info: www.clayfestival.com.
and Video – noon, Promoting Art in Las Cruces presentation with Keaan Karnes, filmmaker at the Rio Grande Theatre. Info: 575-523-6403.
THURSDAY, July 30
SATURDAY, Aug. 1
Silver City/ Grant County
2015 Clay Festival – Continues across Silver City. Info: www.clayfestival.com. Chuck Jones and Ty Rone – 8 p.m. at
Silver City/Grant County
Silver City Farmers’ Market – 8:30 a.m.-noon at Bullard and Seventh streets. Today, mud pie contest. Info: 388-2343, silvercityfoodcoop.com. Lonesome Doves – 8 p.m., Folk Rock duo from Dallas at Little Toad Creek Brewery & Distillery, 200 N. Bullard St., Silver City. Info: 575-956-6144.
Las Cruces/Mesilla
MainStreet Farmer’s & Craft Market – 7-11 a.m. in Downtown Las Cruces, along Main Street. Bridging the Gap Spiritual Festival – 4 p.m.-midnight at the Las Cruces Convention Center, 680 E. University Ave. Info: AllTrueNatural.com.
T or C/Sierra County
The Las Cruces Farmers & Crafts Market is open every Saturday and Wednesday morning throughout the summer. (Courtesy Las Cruces Farmers & Crafts Market)
Sierra County Farmers Market (every Saturday) – 8:30-11:45 a.m. at Ralph Edwards Park, Riverside and Cedar, Truth or Consequences. Info: 575-8949375. Petersen Memorial Ranch Rodeo & Dutch Oven Cook Off – all day at the Petersen Ranch, No. 3 St. Cloud Mine Road, Winston. Invo: 575-322-6733. Ole Time Fiddlers Saturday Night Dance (every Saturday)– 7-9 p.m. at the New Mexico Old Time Fiddlers Playhouse, 710 Elm Street, Truth or
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day) – 10-10:45 a.m. at Elephant Butte Lake RV Resort. Donations accepted and distributed to local charities. Info: 575744-5996.
THURSDAY, Aug. 6
Tai Chi by Mario (every Thursday) – 10:45-11:45 a.m. at Elephant Butte Lake RV Resort. Donations accepted and distributed to local charities. Info: 575744-5996.
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Popcorn Fridays – Free popcorn and other food samples. Silver City Food Co-op, 520 N. Bullard St., 388-2343, silvercityfoodcoop.com.
FESTIVAL OF QUILTS
Pam Holland in Alamogordo
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ince 2010 quilters from around the United States have been visiting Alamogordo to take part in a community event to benefit the children of Otero County. The Southern New Mexico Festival of Quilts began as a cooperative effort with Pam Holland, International textile artist, quilt teacher and photographer from Australia and has resulted in a week long flurry of quilting activities throughout the area every summer since. Holland was in Alamogordo visiting longtime friend Lisa Blevins and agreed to attend a watercolor class with her. Earlier Blevins shared with the group of artists, that what they were learning in class would easily lend itself to quilting. Viewing Holland’s adventures, photography and inspired quilts over the internet the group agreed that maybe they could take a look at quilting as art; the plan was set to have Pam visit their class. The first festival was held at the Otero County Fairgrounds where it continues today. Holland’s only stipulation was for the proceeds to be donated to programs for children. Pam’s request was not surprising as she and her husband Keith are the proud parents of 15 children; additionally they have fostered hundreds of kids including at risk and special needs children over the years. Sue, a resident of Southern California is generously donating the proceeds from her classes to this worthy cause. A true success story, to date almost $50,000 has been raised to benefit such organizations as 4-H, FFA, Boys and Girls
Classes, vendors, lots of quilts all to raise money for kids
Club, Zia Therapy Center, Dolly Parton Imagination Library, Alamogordo Public Children’s Library, Love Inc. Back Pack Program, Tularosa Little League Baseball, and Operation Child I.D. Program just to name a few. This year’s recipient is D.A.R.E. Alamogordo Police Officers are qualified through rigorous and detailed Instruction. Classes are conducted for all area Fifth graders by the Alamogordo Police Department. The 10 to 12 week long course provides Drug, Awareness, Resistance and Education to the students and is conducted twice a year. This popular program has been effective, providing coaching to our youth on how to make safe and sound life choices against drugs and alcohol. Representatives from Brother, Elna, Janome and Pfaff will all be at the festival with the latest in sewing machines for participants to try. Vendors will be on hand for everything quilt and more and a scissor sharpener will be on site. Numerous quilts will be on display, viewers select the winners with their vote for “People’s Choice”. Ribbons and Awards will be presented for 1st, 2nd & 3rd places. Please contact First National Bank for early entries, quilt submissions will be accepted at the Otero County Fairgrounds on July 16, from 9 a.m. to noon. Details located on the website www. fnb4u.com, click on Community Events. A few vendor spots are still available please call Rainee Mackewich at 575-443-5284 for
Helping visitors to the Festival of Quilts during a previous quilt festival, Pam Holland demonstrates some of her technique, hands on. (Courtesy photo) more information. A class with Pam Holland offers new techniques and a different perspectives of the world. She will be teaching two quilting classes and a photography class during the event. Holland’s website is at www.iampamholland.com, see for yourself; check
out the class supply list while you’re there. Additionally, Sue Rasmussen, a wellknown diversified quilt instructor since 1988, will be teaching Curved Paper Pieced Flying Geese and Machine Quilting classes. To learn more about Sue’s classes or supply list, visit www.suerasmussenquilts.com.
Albuquerque
Findessenceyour Albuquerque is closer than you think for a quick, fun getaway. Plan your trip now for Killer Heels: The Art of the High Heel Shoe at the Albuquerque Museum Pam Holland visits the Alamogordo Public Library during previous quilt festivals to take time to read with the children. (Courtesy photo)
Cultural Services Department City of Albuquerque, Richard J. Berry, Mayor
From the high platform chopines of sixteenthcentury Italy to the glamorous stilettos gracing today’s runways and red carpets, Killer Heels explores the high-heeled shoe’s rich and varied history and its enduring place in our popular imagination. On loan from the Brooklyn Museum. On Exhibit through August 9, 2015.
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Calls for artists Luna County
Intake is July 31 from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. for the “Fine Arts Photography Show,” the August exhibit at the Deming Art Center. A $25 entry fee covers 1 to 3 entries. Cash awards and ribbons will be given. Call the Deming Art Center at 575-546-3663 or check our website at www.demingarts.org for more information. The Black Range Artists have and open call for membership. Members have the opportunity to learn from one another and participate in workshops, demonstrations and paint-outs. Membership is $20 a year. For more information email blackrangeart@ gmail.com or call Lyn at 474-546-4650.
Doña Ana County
Celebrate Authors looking for published authors to participate in a Friends of the Thomas Branigan Memorial Library event. Authors must be residents of Doña Ana County. Information about the author and the book must be submitted on the application form found on the Friends’ website, www.libraryfriendslc. org. Completed forms should be sent to Sue Fletcher at sjfletch1940@yahoo.com no later than July 31. For more information call Fletcher at 575-521-8507.
Mesilla Valley Fine Arts Gallery accepting applications. Mesilla Valley Fine Arts Gallery is accepting applications for exhibitions, and encourages artists to stop by the gallery to learn more. Mesilla Valley Fine Arts Gallery is located at 2470-A Calle de Guadalupe, across from the Fountain Theatre in Mesilla. Gallery hours are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Sunday. For more information, call 522-2933 or visit www. mesillavalleyfinearts.com. The New Mexico Handmade, Inc. Gallery in the Old Tortilla Factory in Mesilla has space for two more artists. All mediums are considered. Contact Carolyn Kuhn at ckuhn03@sprynet.com for additional information. The Rokoko Art Gallery, located at 1785 Avenida de Marcado, seeks artists for solo or group shows in a rental exhibit space on a monthly basis. Gallery hours are Saturday and Sunday, from noon to 5 p.m. For prospectus and details, contact Mitch or Ame at alarokokomag@aol.com or call 405-8877. West End Art Depot Gallery (WE.AD). http://www. we-ad.org/ WE.AD announces a call for regional artists interested in displaying original artwork. For more information email nmartco.op@gmail or call 575-312-9892. WE.AD is a co-operative arts incubator with art studios and workshop space in a
warehouse in the Alameda Historic Depot at 401 N Mesilla St, Las Cruces.
Sierra County
The Geronimo Spring Museum is holding a Paint-out Oct. 10. The event includes and artists reception and auction. Registration is from 9 to 10 a.m. with the event from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Reception and auction is from 6 to 9 p.m. For details call 575-894-6600.
Elsewhere in New Mexico
New Mexico Arts announces the 2013 Purchase initiative and invites artists living in the state and galleries in the state to submit artwork for purchase. All media and genres are accepted. Information and applications: callforentry.org. The Vertu Fine Art Gallery in Socorro has a call for artists for its 2015 juried show, Facets and Faces of New Mexico. The opening reception for the show is scheduled Sept. 4 from 6 to 8 p.m. The deadline for entry is midnight Aug. 14. Accepted works must be hand-delivered between 1 and 4 p.m. from Aug. 26 to 30. Awards include $200 for best of show, $125 for first place; $75 for second place and &25 for third place. Visit www.vertuarts.com/juried2015/ for prospectus and application.
ON THE FLY
Hummingbird Festival
Little Toad Creek Inn conference celebrates the little birds Hummingbird Festival 2015 Schedule, Little Toad Creek Inn All events are free and open to the public. There will be an on-site craft fair. Food and beverage are available in the on-site restaurant. Little Toad Creek Inn, 1122 Hwy 35, Silver City, in the Lake Roberts area, hosts the Hummingbird Festival yearly. This year, the event takes place July 18 and 19 beginning each day at dawn with hummingbird banding. This year there is a craft fair, presentations, nature crafts for children and live music, all
as part of the event. Bill Talbot is doing several of the classes and Maria Casler is working with the children. Bill Talbot was raised on a ranch near Ft. Worth, Texas. He has a life-long interest in natural history and is involved with the local Audubon Society and with bird-banding projects in New Mexico. After retiring from the practice of surgery, he has been involved with the Department of Biology at the University of New Mexico. Current research interests involve the adaptations of desert birds and mammals to the extremes of heat and aridity predicted by climate change scenarios. For information call 575-536-9649. Schedule: Saturday, July 18 Dawn until 9:30 a.m. – Hummingbird Banding with Bill Talbot and team, outdoors 10:30 a.m. – The Lives of Hummingbirds with Bill Talbot, conference room 10 a.m -noon – Nature Crafts for kids with Maria Casler, patio 12:30 p.m. – live music with Glee Maiden, tavern 2 p.m. – Birds of the Gila Region with Karen Beckenbach, conference room 4 p.m. – Gila Wildlife Rescue with Dennis Miller, conference room Sunday, July 19 Dawn until 9:30 a.m. – Hummingbird Banding with Bill Talbot and team, outdoors 10:30 a.m. – The Lives of Hummingbirds with Bill Talbot, conference room 1:30 p.m. – Birds of the Gila Region with Karen Beckenbach, conference room 3 p.m. – Birds and the Mimbres People, conference room
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Audobon Society supporter Bill Talbot is presenting several sessions during the July Hummingbird Festival at Little Toad Creek Inn.
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Our heart’s in the right place.
Is yours?
We are celebrating our first year in Silver City & Grant County.
THANK YOU!
See our heart specialist in Silver City – today. If you have high cholesterol, high blood pressure, or are a past or current smoker, then your heart health may be at risk. Robert Martin, M.D., with MountainView Cardiology is here with the care you need. Dr. Martin specializes in consultative and diagnostic cardiology, and in the treatment of heart-related conditions. Same-day appointments available Monday through Thursday, from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., and Friday, from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m or call 575-388-1819. Walk-ins welcome.
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Silver City residents honored as part of special month
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July Event - Kids Squash Derby July 11th
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Call for vendor info or questions: 575-654-4104
celebrate christmas in JULY Dates: July 25 & 26 Location: Grant County Conference Center Silver City- New Mexico
Call for: Artisans, Crafters and Vendors Information by email:
showyourcrafts@ymail.com or by phone:
575.534.0510 Statewide Rural Veterans PTSD Survey Institute for Rural Social Work Research, IRSR, is conducting a survey of rural New Mexico veterans who have PTSD, or think they may have PTSD. This survey is being conducted on behalf of the New Mexico Department of Veterans’ Services. The survey will assess the need for Alternative and Complementary Health Services for Veterans with PTSD in Rural New Mexico. PTSD veterans please help by completing the questionnaire. If you know of anybody who might be interested in taking the survey please call (575) 538-6632. The survey can be taken online at https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/T3JJKRV
Silver City Mayor Pro Tem Cynthia Ann Bettison, looks on as new homeowner Jim Keels, center, and USDA RD State Director Terry Brunner break ground to begin the construction of Keels’ new home. (Courtesy photo)
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19 in 1958. He ultimately served for three years as a SDA Rural Development State Director Terry Brunner visited Silver City to conclude personnel specialist in Trios-Fontaines a U.S. Army ammunition depot in France. the month-long celebration of homeownerThe 76-year-old qualified for a home loan through ship by honoring Jim Keels an Army veteran and USDA Rural Development’s direct loan program. Priscilla Arredondo one of the newest homeowners The new 1,100 square foot home being built for him in Silver City. will have with two The visit is one bed rooms and of numerous events two bathrooms. held across the naThe construction tion and one of six of his new home events here in New will begin later this Mexico during the summer. month of June. The Arredondo and activities and events her two children, focused on hous14-year-old Kaelah ing’s role in creating and 3-year-old jobs and stimulatAbram will move ing our nation’s into their new 1,300 economy. square foot home During the homein about a month ownership celebrawhen it is complettion, Brunner preed. The house has sented an American three bedrooms, flag to Keels and to two bathrooms and Arredondo saya single car garage. ing, “Although the Arredondo also two of you have qualified for the attained the goal home loan through of homeownership USDA Rural Defor yourself, you velopment’s direct may not realize how loan program. By you have helped Priscilla Arredondo gives a tour of the construction of her qualifying for the strengthen your new home to Silver City Mayor Pro Tem Cynthia Ann Betloan it allowed community and your tison. (Courtesy photo) Arredondo to attain local economy. the title of home“Every new home owner for the first time in her life. built employs construction workers and increases In fiscal year 2014, USDA Rural Development purchases of goods and services at local stores. The awarded $65 million in loans in grants in 10 housing long-term investment homeowners make in their programs which directly affected 557 rural families home often results in greater participation in comof New Mexico. munity affairs and greater interest in seeing their Further information on rural programs is availcommunity succeed.� able at any local USDA Rural Development office or Keels is one of the two veterans honored during by visiting USDA Rural Development’s web site at the 2015 homeownership month celebration here in http://www.rurdev.usda.gov. New Mexico. He joined the U.S. Army at the age of
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Christmas in July
Artist Myron Weckwerth, who grows and paints his own gourds, created this pueblo-style designed piece, and is one of the 55 exhibitors who will be participating in the Christmas in July show at the Grant County Convention Center which takes place July 25 and 26. Hours are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Saturday and 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Sunday, For information call Coordinator Lavonda Farris at 575-534-0510 or email her at showyourcrafts@ymail.com.
HERE’S THE MOO
Diamond in the Rough Sierra County rancher name earns Women in Agriculture award
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ALC a Mile in Our Boots was the katchewan, Canada and most recently, New theme of the 11th Women in Ag- Mexico. In the early 1970’s Gloria became cerriculture Leadership Conference (WALC), held May 26 through 28, in Albu- tified in artificial insemination and pregquerque. Over 200 women from across New nancy checking cattle. This began her Mexico’s agricultural industry came togeth- involvement in crossbreeding, eventually transitioning into er to discuss European exotic current issues, breeds, such as network, and Charolais, Simhonor outstandmental and Liming women in ousin which have the group. now become This year foundation herds. Gloria Jean The Petersen’s Petersen of Siwere considered erra County was pioneer ranchers honored by the in Southern Sasgroup with the katchewan and Diamond in the had a huge influRough award. ence on genetics This award is in the area. Ungiven at each derstanding the conference, need to preserve recognizing outthe land, Gloria standing women 2015 Diamond in the Rough Winner Gloria and her husband in New Mexico Petersen with Erica Valdez of Animas. (Courtesy Donny, signed up agriculture and Photo) with the Prairie highlighting her Farm Rehabilitation Administration, prior efforts and contributions. As the oldest of nine children during to NRCS, and planted 100,000 trees as part the Depression and World War II, Gloria of a wind erosion project. She taught anyJean Petersen’s agriculture responsibilities one who would listen to conserve water. “Don’t run the water when brushing developed early. The family depended on chickens, ducks, geese, pigs, sheep, cattle, your teeth” and “Don’t throw water down horses and what could be harvested from the drain, put it on a plant” were comments the ground for daily survival. At the young her children remember hearing growing up. age of 16, she became a Candy Striper at She’s a member of the New Mexico Repubthe local Minot hospital in DeLac, N.D. She lican Party, life member of the National Riworked her way up to becoming a regis- fle Association and she’s active in Chamiza tered nurse at the age of 20 and married CowBelles. She brought the New Mexico in 1955. Throughout their 58 years of mar- Beef Council’s Kids, Kows and More proriage, she and Donny raised six children, gram to Sierra County and is hosting an Ag cattle, hay and grain in North Dakota, Sas- Day at the Petersen Ranch this year.
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Predator Alert
Recent encounters with wildlife cause concern
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everal recent encounters with wildlife in New Mexico have prompted the Department of Game and Fish to put forth some guidelines for people to follow in regards to bear and cougar encounters. In the first week of June two men were attacked by bears in separate incidents as they were looking for shed antlers in the Lincoln National Forest. The first attack involved an adult black bear which went after a 55-year-old man in the Lincoln National Forest on June 1. The man suffered deep flesh wounds from scratches on his chest and a bite to his leg. He was treated and released from Lincoln County Medical Center in Ruidoso. That attack occurred in the forest near Baca Campground off Forest Service Road 57. The man had been hunting for antler sheds in thick brush when he apparently surprised the bear. The bear charged the man and attacked him before fleeing into the woods. The injured man notified his hunting companion by two-way radio and the two hiked to their vehicle and drove to the hospital. The second attack, on a 25-year-old man, resulted in the bear being shot as it charged. The man was not injured by the bear. He reported on June 4 he had been searching for antlers in the forest between Carrizozo and Capitan when he encountered the bear as he came over the top of a hill. He told officers that the bear charged and he shot it with his .30-30 caliber rifle from about 10 yards away. The Department of Game and Fish Officers investigated the incident and recovered the carcass of the bear, an adult female, early Friday morning. There was no evidence to indicate the presence of cubs. The second incident took place about 30 miles away from the first. Officials said it is unlikely the same bear was involved in both encounters and cautioned the public to be attentive to their surroundings when searching for shed antlers in areas known to be inhabited by black bears.
If you encounter a bear: • Stop, and back away slowly while facing the bear. Avoid direct eye contact, as the bear may consider that a threat. Do not run. Make yourself appear large by holding out your jacket. If you have small children, pick them up so they don’t run. • Give the bear plenty of room to escape, so it doesn’t feel threatened or trapped. If a black bear attacks you, fight back using anything at your disposal, such as rocks, sticks, binoculars or even your bare hands. Aim for the bear’s nose and eyes. • If the bear has not seen you, stay calm and slowly move away, making noise so the bear knows you are there. Never get between a mother bear and her cubs. If you live or camp in bear country: • Keep garbage in airtight containers inside your garage or storage area. Place garbage outside in the morning just before pickup, not American black bears, like the ones that attacked two men in Lincoln the night before. Occasionally clean cans with County in June, are not always black and can be a variety of colors ammonia or bleach. including browns and red. (Photo by Michelle Buntin) • Remove bird feeders. Bears see them as sweet treats, and often they will look for other from a tree at least 10 feet off the ground and 4 feet out food sources nearby. • Never put meat or sweet-smelling food scraps such as from the tree trunk. • Keep your tent and sleeping bag free of all food smells. melon in your compost pile. Store the clothes you wore while cooking or eating with Don’t leave pet food or food dishes outdoors at night. • Clean and store outdoor grills after use. Bears can your food. • Sleep a good distance from your cooking area or food smell sweet barbecue sauce and grease for miles. • Never intentionally feed bears to attract them for view- storage site. For more information about cougars and living around ing. • Keep your camp clean, and store food and garbage large predators, please visit the Department Web site and properly at all times. Use bear-proof containers when avail- check out the publication, Living with Large Predators in able. If not, suspend food, toiletries, coolers and garbage New Mexico.
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In The Carnivore Way, Cristina Eisenberg argues compellingly for the necessity of top predators in large, undisturbed landscapes, and how a continental-long corridor — a “carnivore way” — provides the room they need to roam and connected landscapes that allow them to disperse. Eisenberg follows the footsteps of six large carnivores—wolves, grizzly bears, lynx, jaguars, wolverines, and cougars—on a 7,500-mile wildlife corridor from Alaska to Mexico along the Rocky Mountains. Backed by robust science, she shows how their well-being is a critical factor in sustaining healthy landscapes and how it is possible for humans and large carnivores to coexist peacefully and even to thrive.
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ifteen fires were reported in southwestern New Mexico wilderness areas in the middle of the month of June. Lightning struck and kicked off the two biggest fires, both on June 16. As of June 27, rains had reduced the spread of both fires and management teams were pulling back. The 3,305-acre Pinon Fire was located 13 miles east of Reserve on the Reserve Ranger District. And the 3,670-acre Moore Fire was in the Gila Wilderness on the Wilderness Ranger District. The lightning-caused wildfires have been used to help thin the forest, remove hazardous fuels and improve wildlife habitat. Several additional wildfires were detected on the forest after thunderstorms and lightning passed over
the region several times in June. These were generally single trees struck by lightning. Firefighters contained two of the fires and at least three others were placed in monitor status. The Woodrow Fire in the Gila Wilderness near the Mogollon Baldy Lookout was contained June 19 at 360 acres. As of press time all campgrounds are open on the Wilderness and Reserve Ranger Districts and are first-come, first serve. Be alert that flash flooding is possible any time heavy rainfall occurs. Gila National Forest officials would like to remind travelers to drive with caution on roads near the Pinon and Moore fires as equipment and personnel are still present.
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Clay, mud and earth are the common ground of New Mexico’s people and the embodiment of their history. Taking place every summer in Silver City, New Mexico, the CLAY Festival gathers together artists, educators, entrepreneurs, families, youth, adventurers, and lifelong learners to explore clay in its many forms as well as its impact on our history, present, and future. Offerings include multi-day workshops, demonstrations, a juried exhibition, lecture series, artist receptions, tours, the CLAYfest Market, live music and dancing,
SCHEDULE OF EVENTS START END SATURDAY, JULY 25 3:00 PM 9:00 PM MONDAY, JULY 27 9:00 AM 12:00 PM 9:00 AM 4:00 PM 10:00 AM 11:30 AM 1:00 PM 3:00 PM TUESDAY, JULY 28 9:00 AM 12:00 PM 9:00 AM 3:00 PM 9:00 AM 4:00 PM 9:00 AM 5:00 PM 10:00 AM 11:30 AM 2:00 PM 3:30 PM 3:00 PM 5:00 PM 3:00 PM 5:00 PM 3:00 PM 5:00 PM 4:00 PM 7:00 PM WEDNESDAY, JULY 29 9:00 AM 12:00 PM 9:00 AM 3:00 PM 9:00 AM 4:00 PM 9:00 AM 5:00 PM 10:00 AM 10:45 AM 10:00 AM 11:30 AM 2:00 PM 3:30 PM 5:00 PM 7:00 PM THURSDAY, JULY 30 9:00 AM 12:00 PM 9:00 AM 10:30 AM 9:00 AM 4:00 PM 9:00 AM 5:00 PM 10:00 AM 11:30 AM 10:30 AM 12:00 PM 2:00 PM 3:30 PM 6:00 PM 9:00 PM FRIDAY, JULY 31 6:00 AM 9:00 AM 9:00 AM 9:45 AM 9:00 AM 12:00 PM 9:00 AM 4:00 PM 9:00 AM 4:00 PM 10:00 AM 11:30 AM 10:00 AM 4:00 PM 11:00 AM 11:45 AM 11:00 AM 12:00 PM 2:00 PM 3:30 PM 5:00 PM 6:00 PM 5:00 PM 6:00 PM 6:00 PM 8:00 PM SATURDAY, AUGUST 1 7:30 AM 2:00 PM 9:00 AM 10:30 AM 9:00 AM 3:00 PM 9:00 AM 4:00 PM 9:00 AM 5:00 PM 10:00 AM 11:00 AM 10:00 AM 11:30 AM 10:00 AM 4:00 PM 10:00 AM 4:00 PM 11:00 AM 12:30 PM 2:00 PM 3:00 PM 4:00 PM 7:00 PM 7:00 PM 10:00 PM SUNDAY, AUGUST 2 10:00 AM 10:00 AM 4:00 PM 10:00 AM 4:00 PM 11:30 AM 2:30 PM 1:00 PM 1:30 PM 2:00 PM 3:00 PM 3:00 PM 3:30 PM 4:00 PM 5:30 PM
youth activities, and the CLAY Gala Fundraiser. Some events require registration. Visit: ClayFestival.com or call 575-538-5560.
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CLAY Poker Tournament Fundraiser, Ages 21+
Old Elk’s Lodge
315 N. Texas St.
Silver City
$50 Donation
Workshop Workshop Youth/Adult Activity Youth/Adult Activity
Rendering the Beauty of Clay Vessels in Paint w/ Turid Pedersen (Day 1 of 4) Salt Glazing & Befriending Asymmetry w/ Jack Troy (Day 1 of 5) CLAY Play: Workshop - Exploring Our Hispanic Heritage w/ Beth Menczer (For Ages 8+ & Adults) CLAY Play: Workshop - Exploring Our Hispanic Heritage w/ Beth Menczer (For Ages 8+ & Adults)
The Volunteer Center McCray Clay Studio Gila Valley Library Gila Valley Library
501 E. 13th St. 1000 W. College Ave. 400 New Mexico 211 400 New Mexico 211
Silver City Silver City Gila Gila
$135 $255 FREE FREE
Workshop Workshop Workshop Workshop Youth Activity Youth Activity Exhibition & Reception Exhibition & Reception Exhibition & Reception Exhibition & Reception
Rendering the Beauty of Clay Vessels in Paint w/ Turid Pedersen (Day 2 of 4) Replicating Prehistoric Salado Pottery w/ Andy Ward (Day 1 of 4) Salt Glazing & Befriending Asymmetry w/ Jack Troy (Day 2 of 5) Creating Content: Ceramic Surface & Form w/ Marko Fields (Day 1 of 3) CLAY Play: Youth Workshop - Exploring Our Hispanic Heritage w/ Zoe Wolfe (Grades 3rd-6th) CLAY Play: Youth Workshop - Exploring Our Hispanic Heritage w/ Zoe Wolfe (Grades 3rd-6th) “Two Girls & A Table” Exhibition & Reception w/ Suzie Calhoun & Chris McDaniel Letha Cress Woolf Exhibition & Reception Bill Blakemore Exhibition & Reception Romaine Begay Exhibition & Reception & Demo / Lecture
The Volunteer Center “A” Space Studio/Art/Gallery McCray Clay Studio Syzygy Tile Factory Studio Silver City Public Library Bayard Public Library Blue Dome Downtown Lois Duffy Art Moonstruck Art Leyba & Ingalls Arts
501 E. 13th St. 110 W. 7th St. 1000 W. College Ave. 106 N. Bullard St. 515 W. College Ave. 1112 Central Ave. 307 N Texas St. 211-C N. Texas St. 110 W Yankie St. 315 N. Bullard St.
Silver City Silver City Silver City Silver City Silver City Bayard Silver City Silver City Silver City Silver City
$185 $185 FREE FREE FREE FREE FREE FREE
Workshop Workshop Workshop Workshop Tile Factory Tour Youth Activity Youth Activity Exhibition & Reception
Rendering the Beauty of Clay Vessels in Paint w/ Turid Pedersen (Day 3 of 4) Replicating Prehistoric Salado Pottery w/ Andy Ward (Day 2 of 4) Salt Glazing & Befriending Asymmetry w/ Jack Troy (Day 3 of 5) Creating Content: Ceramic Surface & Form w/ Marko Fields (Day 2 of 3) Syzygy Tile Factory Tour w/ Patrick Hoskins CLAY Play: Youth Workshop - Exploring Our Hispanic Heritage w/ Zoe Wolfe (Grades 3rd-6th) CLAY Play: Youth Workshop - Exploring Our Hispanic Heritage w/ Zoe Wolfe (Grades 3rd-6th) Jack Troy Exhibition & Reception
The Volunteer Center “A” Space Studio/Art/Gallery McCray Clay Studio Syzygy Tile Factory Studio Syzygy Tile Factory Studio Silver City Public Library Bayard Public Library Blue Dome Gallery
501 E. 13th St. 110 W. 7th St. 1000 W. College Ave. 106 N. Bullard St. 106 N. Bullard St. 515 W College Ave. 1112 Central Ave. 60 Bear Mt. Ranch Rd.
Silver City Silver City Silver City Silver City Silver City Silver City Bayard Silver City
FREE FREE FREE FREE
Workshop Public Lecture/ Q&A Workshop Workshop Youth Activity Workshop Youth Activity Fundraiser
Rendering the Beauty of Clay Vessels in Paint w/ Turid Pedersen (Day 4 of 4) Special Public Lecture: 4,000 Years of Innovation in Southwestern Pottery w/ Dr. Eric Blinman Salt Glazing & Befriending Asymmetry w/ Jack Troy (Day 4 of 5) Creating Content: Ceramic Surface & Form w/ Marko Fields (Day 3 of 3) CLAY Play: Youth Workshop - Exploring Our Hispanic Heritage w/ Zoe Wolfe (Grades 3rd-6th) Prehistoric Tool Workshop w/ Dr. Blinman for Attendees of the Replicating Prehistoric Salado Pottery (Day 3 of 4) CLAY Play: Youth Workshop - Exploring Our Hispanic Heritage w/ Zoe Wolfe (Grades 3rd-6th) CLAY Gala & Exhibition Opening for CLAY in the Garden w/ Special Presentation by Roxanne Swentzell, Ages 21+
The Volunteer Center “A” Space Studio/Art/Gallery McCray Clay Studio Syzygy Tile Factory Studio Silver City Public Library “A” Space Studio/Art/Gallery Bayard Public Library Seedboat Gallery
501 E. 13th St. 110 W. 7th St. 1000 W. College Ave. 106 N. Bullard St. 515 W College Ave. 110 W. 7th St. 1112 Central Ave. 214 W. Yankie St.
Silver City Silver City Silver City Silver City Silver City Silver City Bayard Silver City
$10 FREE FREE $35
Workshop Tile Factory Tour Archaeological Tour Workshop Workshop Youth Activity Exhibition Tile Factory Tour Yoga Youth Activity Yoga Private Meet & Greet Exhibition & Reception
(Firing) Replicating Prehistoric Salado Pottery w/ Andy Ward (Day 4 of 4) Syzygy Tile Factory Tour w/ Patrick Hoskins Carpool to the Tour of the Mattocks Ruin w/ Marilyn Markel Salt Glazing & Befriending Asymmetry w/ Jack Troy (Day 5 of 5) Clay Finishes, Decoration & Polishing w/ Bill & Athena Steen CLAY Play: Youth Workshop - Exploring Our Hispanic Heritage w/ Zoe Wolfe (Grades 3rd-6th) International Juried Exhibition: CLAY in the Garden Syzygy Tile Factory Tour w/ Patrick Hoskins Stay Grounded with Yoga: Earth Element Yoga CLAY Play: Youth Workshop - Exploring Our Hispanic Heritage w/ Zoe Wolfe (Grades 3rd-6th) Stay Grounded with Yoga: Earth Element Yoga Artist & Festival Participant Meet & Greet (By Invite Only) Roxanne Swentzell Exhibition & Reception
“A” Space Studio/Art/Gallery Syzygy Tile Factory Studio Murray Ryan Visitor Center McCray Clay Studio Syzygy Tile Factory Studio Silver City Public Library Seedboat Gallery Syzygy Tile Factory Studio The Lotus Center Bayard Public Library The Lotus Center Common Ground Gallery Common Ground Gallery
110 W. 7th St. 106 N. Bullard St. 201 N. Hudson St. 1000 W. College Ave. 106 N. Bullard St. 515 W College Ave. 214 W. Yankie St. 106 N. Bullard St. 211 W. Broadway 1112 Central Ave. 211 W. Broadway 102 W. Kelly St. 102 W. Kelly St.
Silver City Silver City Silver City Silver City Silver City Silver City Silver City Silver City Silver City Bayard Silver City Silver City Silver City
FREE FREE $55 FREE FREE FREE $8 FREE $8 FREE FREE
Archaeological Tour Lecture Series Youth Activity Demo/Presentation/Sales Demo Mud Pie Contest Yoga Marketplace / Demos Exhibition Lecture Series Pottery Studio Tour Exhibition & Reception Street Celebration
Carpool to the Tour of the TJ Ruin at the Gila Cliff Dwellings Conversations in CLAY: Sustainable Living Systems w/ Bill & Athena Steen, Alicia Edwards Mud Fun! For Kids (Grades Pre-K-6th) The Artistry & History of Mata Ortiz w/ Mata Ortiz Artist Oralia Lopez & Author John Bezy, PhD Raku Firing w/ Claude Smith III Fourth Annual CLAY Festival Mud Pie Contest (Free pie samples after the contest!) Stay Grounded with Yoga: Earth Element Yoga Juried CLAYfest Market & Demonstrations by Various Artists and Entrepreneurs International Juried Exhibition: CLAY in the Garden Conversations in CLAY: Contemporary Links to Ancient Cultures w/ Dr. Eric Blinman, Diego Valles, Pam Lujan Hauer Jeff & Debbie Kuhns Pottery Studio Tour Jeff & Debbie Kuhns at Raven’s Nest CLAY in the Streets: Live Music & Dancing, Beer Garden, and Art for the Whole Family!
Murray Ryan Visitor Center WNMU Light Hall Under the Portico Silver City Museum Annex Silver City Museum Silver City Farmers’ Market The Lotus Center Murray Hotel Ballroom Seedboat Center for the Arts WNMU Light Hall Kuhns Pottery Studio Raven’s Nest Downtown Silver City
201 N. Hudson St. 1000 W. College Ave. 614 N. Bullard St. 302 W. Broadway St. 312 W. Broadway St. 614 N. Bullard St. 211 W. Broadway 200 W Broadway St. 214 W. Yankie St. 1000 W. College Ave. 3029 Pinos Altos Rd. 201 N. Bullard St. Downtown Silver City
Silver City Silver City Silver City Silver City Silver City Silver City Silver City Silver City Silver City Silver City Silver City Silver City Silver City
$3 $10 FREE FREE FREE FREE $8 FREE FREE $10 FREE FREE FREE
Tour & Gourmet Luncheon Marketplace / Demos Exhibition Brunch Mural Dedication Adobe Labyrinth Tour Mural Dedication Yoga
VIP Director-Led Behind-the-Scenes Tour of Mimbres Pottery & 5-Course Gourmet Luncheon, Ages 21+ Juried CLAYfest Market & Demonstrations by Various Artists and Entrepreneurs International Juried Exhibition: CLAY in the Garden CLAY Festival Brunch at Bear Mountain Lodge - Reservations Required (575-538-2538) Food is Life Mimbres Region Arts Council Youth Mural Program Dedication Crossing the Threshold into the World of the Labyrinth; Adobe Labyrinth at the Waterworks Building Playful Gardens Mimbres Region Arts Council Youth Mural Program Dedication Stay Grounded with Yoga: Earth Element Yoga
WNMU Museum Murray Hotel Ballroom Seedboat Center for the Arts Café Oso Azul The Volunteer Center Historic Waterworks Building The Silver City Rec Center The Lotus Center
1000 W. College Ave. 200 W Broadway St. 214 W. Yankie St. 60 Bear Mt. Ranch Rd. 501 E. 13th St. 1721 Little Walnut Rd. 1016 N. Silver St. 211 W. Broadway
Silver City Silver City Silver City Silver City Silver City Silver City Silver City Silver City
$250 FREE FREE $20 FREE FREE FREE $8
This schedule is provided by Zoe Wolfe Studio & Gallery and Silver Architects, 305 N. Cooper St., Silver City, NM 88061
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