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:KDW·V%XJJLQJ<RX" *DUGHQ+RUVHSRZHU 2XWRIWKH$VKHV exposure SDJH$ SDJH$ SDJH% Biggest Little Paper in the Southwest )5(( Our 15th Year! • October 2011 A2 OCTOBER 2011 www.desertexposure.com www.SmithRealEstate.com Call or Click Today! (575) 538-5373 or 1-800-234-0307 7#OLLEGE!VENUEs0/"OXs3ILVER#ITY .- Quality People, Quality Service for over 40 years! REDUCED ONE-OF-A-KIND HOME & LOCATION! HIGH-QUALITY STATELY MANSION - overlooking Silver VINTAGE 1960. This house has all its “original equipment” Adobe/brick/stucco home right next door to WNMU City from 10 lovely acres. 7100 + sq. ft. built to last. Custom – flagstone fireplace, wood cabinets, shag carpet – all in good Campus on wooded lot with beautiful landscaping, 2 guest features throughout - 6 bedrooms, 5 baths, 3 car finished shape. Possibly the university area’s best view spot! 2 BR 2 or rental homes with the possibility for a 3rd. 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City water, privacy, and nice views, + double the north side, covered parking and storage underneath. the back. Carport, storage, and priced to sell at only $124,900. # 25813 garage & outbuilding -- nearly 3,000 sq. ft. for only $259,000 -- See it soon! $210,000 -- Make an appointment to see this one soon! Becky Smith ext 11 Becky Smith ext 11 # 26146 Becky Smith ext 11 DESERT EXPOSURE OCTOBER 2011 A3 HOME FURNITURE Special Purchase! Huge Savings! MON- FRI FREE 9 AM - 6 PM HOME FURNITURE DELIVERY SAT 538-3767 10 AM - 5 PM In-Store Financing APPLIANCES & CARPETING with approval 207 South Bullard Street Family owned and operated in Historic Downtown Silver City Since 1937 A4 OCTOBER 2011 www.desertexposure.com Contents • Section A Publisher & Editor David A. Fryxell (575) 538-4374 • [email protected] 5 Editor’s Notebook • Trapped in the Past 20 Ramblin’ Outdoors • Taking a Fall Why trapper’s friends on the game commission may ultimate- Lessons learned the hard way. By Larry Lightner Creative Director & ly be their worst enemies. By David A. Fryxell Silver City Advertising Sales 22 The Starry Dome Lisa D. Fryxell 6 Letters This month in the skies. By Bert Stevens (575) 538-4374 • [email protected] Our readers write. 23 Body, Mind & Spirit • It Feels Personal—But It Isn’t Advertising Sales 8 Desert Diary Knowing what’s personal and what’s structural. By Bina Silver City: Shopping and sex, bravery and blondes. Breitner Ilene Wignall (575) 313-0002, [email protected] 10 Tumbleweeds •If Horses Could Talk 25 Body, Mind & Spirit • Slow Down, You Move Too Fast Las Cruces/Mesilla: Equine Voices rescues horses used in the border drug trade. Are you too busy to find time for you? By Sheri Lynn Kristi Dunn By Dawn Newman-Aerts (575) 956-7552, [email protected] 26 Body, Mind & Spirit • Pill Pollution Robyn Rivas 12 Henry Lightcap’s Journal • Kids These Days! Are we medicating our water supply? EarthTalk (575) 312-4685, [email protected] Whippersnappers, listen up! By Henry Lightcap Deming: 27 Grant County Weekly Events Marjorie Lilly 14 Southwest Wildlife • What’s Bugging You? (575) 544-3559, [email protected] In the insect world of the Southwest, variety is indeed the 28 Borderlines • A Visit to Juarez spice of life. By Jay W. Sharp Despite the violence, not what you expect. By Marjorie Lilly Senior Writer Jeff Berg 17 Southwest Storylines • Tuning In 29 Southwest Gardener • Big Horses and a Big Tree For Kyle Johnson, Gila/Mimbres Community Radio is only Horsepower for growing vegetables, plus Fort Bayard’s “al- Web Designer the latest stop on the dial. By Richard Mahler ligator” landmark. By Vivian Savitt David Cortner Columnists Henry Lightcap, Larry Lightner, Marjorie Lilly, Richard Mahler, Vivian Savitt, Bert Stevens, Scott Thomson P.O. Box 191 Silver City, NM 88062 (575) 538-4374 • fax (575) 534-4134 www.desertexposure.com Desert Exposure is published monthly and distributed free of charge at establishments throughout Southwestern New Contents • Section B Mexico. Vol. XV, number 10, October 2011. Mail subscriptions are $18 for 6 issues, $35 for 12 issues. Single copies by mail $4. All contents copyright © 2011 Continental Divide Publishing 1 Good Neighbors• Out of the Ashes 12 Arts Exposure • Portraits of North India LLC. All rights reserved. No portion of this publication may be Grant County emerges from a devastating fire season with a An exhibit of photography and folk arts captures part of a reproduced without written permission. All rights to material new commitment to community and preparedness. crowded subcontinent poised between past and future. by outside contributors revert to the author. Views expressed By Harry Williamson By Manda Clair Jost in articles, advertisements, graphics and/or photos appearing in Desert Exposure do not necessarily reflect the views of the editors or advertisers. 4 The Lively Arts• With a Banjo on Her Knee 14 Arts Exposure • Arts Scene Desert Exposure is not responsible for unsolicited submis- Botanist and banjo player Lillis Urban looks for the elusive Area arts happenings. sions of articles or artwork. Submissions by mail must include Chihuahua scurfpea by day and plays music by night. a self-addressed stamped envelope for reply or return. It will By Jeff Berg, photos by Robert Yee 15 Arts Exposure • Our Cover Artist be assumed that all submissions, including e-mail letters, are Chris Alvarez. intended for publication. All submissions, including letters to 6 Looking Backward• Crash Program the editor, may be edited for length, style and content. America’s first military air campaign, launched from Colum- 16 Arts Exposure • Gallery Guide About the cover: bus, NM, in 1916, had its ups and downs. By Ken Emery Where to indulge in art. “Southwest Cloud 8 Red or Green? 17 40 Days & 40 Nights Temple” by Chris Al- varez, a featured artist Dining guide for Southwest New Mexico. Your complete guide to what’s going on in the month of Octo- at Seedboat Center ber, plus a peek into early November. 8 Red or Green? • Table Talk for the Arts in Silver City. For more about Latest restaurant news. 20 The To-Do List the artist and the 15th This month’s must-see events. 9 Red or Green? • Best of Both Worlds annual Weekend at the Galleries, Oct. The initials in “M & A Bayard Café” stand for “Mexican and 22 Continental Divide • Leaf Me Alone! 7-9, see this issue’s American”—and the café serves up good food of both types. Fall colors are great, if you don’t mind the bare limbs, bliz- Arts Exposure section. By Peggy Platonos zards and berserker rage. By David A. Fryxell Fri Oct 7 First Fridays Downtown. Free street dance on Market St, 7-10pm. Store specials, entertainment, and family activities. SilverCityMainStreet.com Oct 7-10 Weekend at the Galleries. www.mimbresarts.org Fri Nov 4 First Fridays Downtown: Day of the Dead. Dance and family activities in the SC Museum courtyard. Stores and galleries open late. SilverCityMainStreet.com Saturdays, 8am-6pm Sit, Sip and Shop on Yankie Street. Yankie Street becomes a haven for people, not cars, so come out and play! Enjoy coffee and goodies from Yankie Creek Coffee House and Bad Kitty Bakehouse and browse the galleries. MainStreet Gift Certificates accepted by 100+ Downtown merchants Available at AmBank ($25, $10 & $5 certificates) silvercitymainstreet.com Ad paid by Town of Silver City Lodger's Tax ©DE s DESERT EXPOSURE OCTOBER 2011 A5 Editor’s Notebook • David A. Fryxell WINDOWSWINDOWS Trapped in the Past DOORSDOORS The game commission must stop ignoring public concerns about trapping. CABINETSCABINETS ew Mexicans are increasingly moving to- ered to our surprise not long after moving to New .3WAN3TREETs3ILVER#ITY .- Nward a consensus that foothold trapping of Mexico, when a companion’s dog got trapped as we furbearer animals ought to be more closely were hiking Saddlerock Canyon. 575-534-4110 regulated—if not mostly banned, as our neighbors in Trappers will tell you how easy it is to open a trap Arizona did in 1994. Unfortunately, at the same time and free a trapped pet—or its owner. That’s because the New Mexico State Game Commission has taken they know what they’re doing. We’ve tried opening important steps in the opposite direction. Increas- a 6 1/2-inch foothold trap—the maximum allowed— ingly, the commission seems to serve only a tiny mi- and trust me, it’s not so easy for a tenderfoot. Trying nority—only 1,921 furbearer licenses were sold for to do it while a panicked dog is writhing in the trap 2009-10. But more than 40,000 people hike in areas would be a nightmare. where traps could be set.