The belief that land is sacred, embodying the memory and inheritance of those who sacrificed to settle it, is common among New Mexican Hispanos, or Nuevomexicanos, and Santa Fe serves as their unique geographic and symbolic center. The city will celebrate the four hundredth anniversary of its founding in 2010 and this anthology honors its role as ......
For more than twenty years, Craig Varjabedian has explored and photographed the red cliffs and sweeping plains of Georgia O'Keeffe's fabled 21,000-acre Ghost Ranch in northern New Mexico. In ""Ghost Ranch and the Faraway Nearby"", he shares over ninety new duotone photographs capturing its evanescent light. These images reach beyond familiar ideas ......
Young Voices from the National Hispanic Cultural Center
For one month each year, the National Hispanic Cultural Center in Albuquerque brings together New Mexico teens for a creative writing program. These students unite their varied experiences, backgrounds, and beliefs to form a supportive community of respect through conversation and writing. ""de Veras? (really?)"" features a collection of poems, ......
The Valles Caldera consists of a twelve-mile-wide collapsed volcanic crater and more than ten post collapse volcanic domes in New Mexico's Jemez Mountains. For over a century, it was safeguarded within the 89,000-acre Baca Ranch. In the year 2000, Congress passed the Valles Caldera Preservation Act, creating the Valles Caldera Trust to purchase ......
M. H. Salmon was told, ""a river named 'Gila' offered sporting fish. But this was no river. It was a stream, and standing on the bank I could see that if you picked out a riffle you could cross on foot without wetting your knees. Hardly even your ankles. I knew rivers - the St. Lawrence, the Seneca, the Oswego, the Salmon, the Black, and the ......
Extending from the spillway below Cochiti Dam, about fifty miles north of Albuquerque, to the headwaters of Elephant Butte Reservoir, near Truth or Consequences in the southern portion of New Mexico, the Middle Rio Grande Bosque is more than a cottonwood woodland or forest. It is a complete riverside ecosystem, among the more important in the ......
Full-color images by renowned photographers Stephen Strom and Stephen Capra unite with text by prizewinning nature and geography writer Gregory McNamee to document the subtle landscape of 1.2 million acres of remote Chihuahuan Desert grassland in southern New Mexico. Home to many species of wildlife and native plants, Otero Mesa is a place of ......
Jan Haley's photographs in ""Free Flow: The Gila River in New Mexico"" illustrate the Gila's journey from its high mountain source to the arid canyon lands where it leaves New Mexico. Riverscapes, aerial views, and intimate close-ups expose secrets of a river environment, bringing the Gila to life in the pages of this book.The inspired verse of ......
The accomplishments of Kenneth Milton Chapman (1875-1968) - a leading force in the revitalization of Pueblo pottery in the 1920s - are as varied as they are significant. Chapman was instrumental in the establishment of the Museum of New Mexico, the School of American Research, and the Laboratory of Anthropology in Santa Fe. He was widely ......
