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LEVI ROMERO WITH CARMELLA PADILLA “In northern New Mexico, we don’t have time for a short story,” says Levi Romero, with a wry smile. Perhaps that’s why he chose poetry as his storytelling path. (more…)
Categories: Featured, Interviews, Visual art
BY LEVI ROMERO Destinations tonight the stars are bright and plentiful and with our necks craning up toward the sky (more…)
Categories: Featured, Poetry, Visual art
BY CHARLES BENNETT Friday, January 5, 1912, dawned cold and blustery in Santa Fe as a feeble sun attempted to defrost the frozen ground. The year had started colder than usual, twelve degrees below the normals recorded since 1872. (more…)
Categories: Featured
Some called him the rico (rich man), others the patrón (the boss), the cacique (head man), or the jefe político (political boss). Whatever the appellation, Victor de Jesús Ortega was a strong—some might say domineering—leader in Chimayó. But his influence went far beyond the confines of the small plaza where he was born and raised. Through sheer force of character—and a particular gift for oratory and politicking—he earned positions in regional government, including justice of the peace, probate judge, and county commissioner.
Categories: Featured
BY FRANK CLIFFORD The oldman who emerged from the New Mexico State Penitentiary in 1932 was a ghostly remnant of the dashing figure who once reminded people of Buffalo Bill. (more…)
Categories: Featured
I fell in love with with the Whole Earth before I fell in love with New Mexico— a hopeless infatuation. It was right there under my feet, going nowhere at 67,000 miles an hour, but it remained distant, aloof, unobtainable, visible in its wholeness only from a place I couldn’t go. So for the past forty years I’ve settled for loving this small, perceptible piece of it.
Categories: Featured
BY FRANCES LEVINE You might think that, as the director of the New Mexico History Museum, I am interested in all aspects of history, but I have to admit that I am partial to the time depth of archaeology and to the drama of our colonial history. (more…)
Categories: Editor's Letter
BY RICK HENDRICKS Numerous lectures, symposia, chautauquas, articles, books, and blogs about the long road to New Mexico statehood will inform you that it took four constitutions and four referenda, some fifteen congressional proposals, two enabling acts, six delegations to Washington, and sixty-two years for New Mexico Territory to become the State of New Mexico. (more…)
Categories: Uncategorized
BY JOSEPH TRAUGOTT New Mexicans have always made art; we have always made aestheticized objects that reflect our worldviews. From beautifully made Paleo-Indian tools to contemporary art, New Mexico art has reflected changing technologies and ways of making a living, organizing our societies, and expressing our spirituality. (more…)
Categories: Visual art
BY PETER PINO WITH DODY FUGATE This is the story of a pot and a flag and how the two became intertwined in the history of New Mexico. The pot belongs to the Fire Society of Zia Pueblo, and the flag is the state flag of New Mexico. (more…)
Categories: Visual art
