Eavesdropping on The Sounds of Silence
The Plains of San Agustin are expansive, stretching 55-miles northeast to southwest, ranging from 5 to 15 miles across....
Ghost towns litter the back roads in New Mexico. Miners settled most of these abandoned communities, extracting a variety of precious minerals and ores...
Roaming the Lybrook Badlands
I had an opportunity to explore the Lybrook Fossil Area recently with Navajo Tours. They were on a scouting expedition to...
36th Annual Gathering of Nations
The 36th Annual Gathering of Nations PowWow will be held on April 23-25,2020 at the Powwow Grounds at Tingley Coliseum....
New Mexico became a state in 1912; however, humans settled the region thousands of years ago. Prior to first contact with Europeans, Meso-American tribes...
Dia de los Muertos—the Day of the Dead—is a holiday celebrated throughout Latin America on November 1. The tradition originated in Mexico.
Honoring Ancestors
Dia de...
Ghost towns litter the back roads in New Mexico. Miners settled most of these abandoned communities, extracting a variety of precious minerals and ores...
Messages from the Ancients
Whispers from the past echo through the basalt boulders on Albuquerque’s west side. The stones served as notepads for ancestors long...
Organ Mountains-Desert Peaks National Monument
Congress established the Organ Mountains-Desert Peaks National Monument May 21, 2014 to protect prehistoric, historic, geologic, and biologic resources. The monument, totaling 500,000 acres, includes the...
Bandelier National Monument encompasses 33,000 acres of rugged, beautiful canyons and mesas in the Jemez Mountains between Albuquerque and Santa Fe. The monument includes Bandelier Wilderness. Bandelier is flanked...
The history of Fort Union is directly related to the territorial disputes, and wars, that defined New Mexico during the 1800’s, starting with the Mexican War of Independence (1810-1821)....
The Gila Wilderness
The Gila Cliff Dwellings is one of the most remote national monuments in the country. The site is located on the edge of the Gila Wilderness, the...
When driving through Grants, on Interstate 40, the craggy basalt terrain cascades south to the horizon. The highway runs along the northern boundary of the Grants Lava Flow, which...
There is nothing ‘new’ about New Mexico. Study of prehistoric populations in North America is ongoing, with sites in North and South America establishing a lengthy record of human...
Salt Missions Trail Scenic Byway
There are history lessons in every nook and cranny of New Mexico. This region has been populated for thousands of years by numerous tribes. The...
Kasha-Katuwe Tent Rocks National Monument is a very popular hiking destination for residents of Albuquerque and Santa Fe. Located on Cochiti Pueblo, Kasha-Katuwe means “white cliffs” in the Keresan...
