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Silver City Museum

by burchd January 12, 2003 Museums

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If you were to look for the Silver City Museum expecting to find a square institutional building with a blank facade, you would be disappointed. If, however, you find yourself at a picket fence staring up at a charming red brick Victorian house with a three-story cupola, then you will have discovered the [...]

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Water in Southern New Mexico — an ongoing controversy

by JerriSpoehel January 11, 2003 Of Interest

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Recent thunderstorms left many puddles in local potholes. One might observe lizards and toads, rabbits and roadrunners having a drink or taking a bath. Technically these pools could be considered wetlands, “a place where water and land meet,” although temporary.
Of course, the only really large wetland we have in New Mexico is [...]

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Travel photography — good shooting in New Mexico

by MichaelandAllisonGoldstei January 11, 2003 Of Interest

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Do your friends fall asleep during your slide shows of past vacations? Do your colleagues’ eyes glaze over when you bring out your travel snapshots? Are you frustrated, after a memorable trip, when lackluster shots come back from the lab?

Travel photography, like many other aspects of the art, requires a special mindset, [...]

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The Seven Cities of Gold

by JayMiller January 11, 2003 Of Interest

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The Seven Cities of Gold has been a New Mexico fable since before Fray Marcos de Niza claimed to have seen them in 1539. As soon as Cortes and crew finished conquering the Aztec Empire in the early 1520s, they set out to find the legendary Seven Cities of Gold, said to have [...]

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Pondering the Gold Bar Bandits

by LauraLevesque January 11, 2003 Of Interest

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“How heavy were the gold bars Curly Bill’s gang stole anyway?” Uncle Wayne asked. “Well,” I said, “from what I’ve read the bricks were probably three-hundred pounds each. Made it impossible for pack mules to carry them off in case of a stage robbery.” “Yeh,” Mike said, “it would take two bricks [...]

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Playas

by SusanTweit January 11, 2003 Of Interest

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On these hot, dry June days when the horizon shimmers, set to dancing by the waves of heat that rise from the ground, I think of beaches. Not ocean beaches – playas -desert beaches. Playas are the dry, incredibly level beds of ancient lakes. Found in desert country throughout the southern Southwest and [...]

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New Mexico Snakes — recognizing the poisonous ones and controlling them around homes

by JamesEKnight January 11, 2003 Wild Life

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Snakes are perhaps the most feared and hated animals in New Mexico, but people’s fear of snakes comes from lack of understanding and superstition. Snakes are not mysterious at all, and these fascinating creatures don’t deserve the anxiety many people feel about them. Of the 46 snake species found in New Mexico, only [...]

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The Palace Hotel

by DrusillaClaridge January 11, 2003 Of Interest

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For attractive, comfortable, and convenient lodgings in Silver City, no place surpasses the Palace Hotel. The hotel’s charm combines old world elegance with down home Western comfort. Situated on the corner of Broadway and Bullard Streets, the heart of downtown Silver City’s historic district, the Palace Hotel is within walking distance [...]

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Kit Fox

by SusanTweit January 11, 2003 Wild Life

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Driving up the east side of San Augustín Pass one morning, I spotted a small, buff-colored animal with large, pointed ears lying dead on the pavement. Richard stopped the car and I walked back to see what it was. The animal was almost delicate and about the size of a house cat, [...]

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New Mexico’s Rural Post Offices

by LynKidder January 11, 2003 Of Interest

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Would you like to go to a place where people know your name, where you can visit with friends and neighbors while keeping in touch with what’s happening around the world and down the street?
Folks living in rural New Mexico do that every day, just by going to the post office.
In a place [...]

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