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7 GUEST COLUMN • Hiroshima Peace Day 24 ON THE SHELF • Writing: The Loneliest Craft An invite to promote peace by Tom Vaughn Branigan Library celebrating area authors by Mike Cook 10 GETTING POLISHED • Rolling Like a Stone Rockhounds gather in Silver City 24 PINBALL WIZARD • A Place to Play New Business in Las Cruces 11 TRACKING HISTORY • Author Visits Ft. Bayard ‘The Mystery Apaches’ with Sherry Robinson 25 HIGHWAY 61 • Nothing to Wine Over Vineyard celebrates 10th year by Elva K. Österreich 12 ARTS EXPOSURE • Arts Scene Latest area arts happenings 26 NATIVE ROOTS • What Won’t the Deer Eat? ‘Stacking’ up the benefits of native plants by Mark 13 ARTS EXPOSURE • Weekend Invite Cantrell Carrizozo opens its art doors 26 GETTING OUT • Tails From the Trail 13 SHAKESPEARE IN THE PARK • A Story Told in Sonnets CDTC looks for accounts from travelers History revealed through poetry 27 HIGH PLACES • The Chiricahua Mountains 14 ARTS EXPOSURE • Gallery Guide A surprise on Ash Springs Trail by Gabriele Teich Art venues across the area 28 RED OR GREEN • Dining Guide 16 ON SCREEN • ‘Clean Energy Revolution’ Restaurants in southwest New Mexico Documentary provides positive news 29 TABLE TALK • Cinco Estrellas ABOUT THE COVER: he had the opportunity to ex- 16 CALLING ARTISTS • Opportunity ChaChi’s Mexican Restaurant by Mike Cook plore Rome while on liberty and Vendors, artists needed now “Kassity’s Vineyard” by Jim An- fell in love with renaissance art. 30 STARRY DOME • Columbia, the Dove derson celebrates the New Mex- He bought some oil paints and 17 ART FOR SAFETY • Smokey Portraits She brings the twig of peace by Bert Stevens ico grape as the season of wine canvasses and began to paint Historic images at Gila National Forest festivals continues. Anderson is while onboard his ship and has 30 PUBLISHER’S NOTEBOOK • Beat the Heat an engineer who retired into the been painting and studying art 17 SCREEN WORK • Film Business Navigating the Dog Days by Richard Coltharp Filmmaker Ben Yennie visits Las Cruces art life. While in the Navy in 1967 every since. 32 32 YEARS IN SILVER CITY • Getting Saved 17 ON SCREEN • Another Year, a New Name Twisting with life’s turns by Susan Golightly Film Festival returns as Borderscene Southwest Festival of the Written 33 40 DAYS AND 40 NIGHTS • Events Guide CORRECTION: Word. The festival takes place 18 FACE LIFT • Deming Icon Refurbished What’s going on in August? “Marjorie Prime,” a play pro- Oct. 4-6 and a full schedule can Windmill has stood since 1883 duced by Silver City’s Virus The- be found at swwordfiesta.org. 39 LIVING ON WHEELS • So, You Want to Buy and RV ater Company in April 2019, is Desert Exposure and SwFWW 18 A LITTLE LOVE • Painting for Refugees Park? Art drawing supports Deming volunteer efforts New owners at Ridge Park by Sheila Sowder not in the plans as part of the regret the error. 4 • AUGUST 2019 www.desertexposure.com THE VIEW FROM HERE • WALT RUBEL Letters to the Editor Taking to the Pen Sharing wild horse and burro inmate programs where employment The value of written words shared with nobody commitment could be offered to those in- mates who want to continue efore Facebook, WhatsApp, knew what and when during the stand, diaries were seen as sort of a and passion working with the animals af- Twitter and Instagram gave Iran-Contra scandal. girls’ thing when I was growing up. ter their release – a perfect fit Bus the opportunity to share Diaries weren’t just for the rich In 1972, the band Bread released Editor, with Trump’s recent “Second every thought with the rest of the and powerful. Throughout time, one of the sappiest songs ever re- Yes, I agree wholeheartedly Step Act.” Such initial gentling connected universe the moment it people have found them useful corded, about a guy who finds his with Scott Thomson that there would provide adopters with pops into our head, people used to for not only organization and re- girlfriend’s diary underneath a tree are too many unwanted hors- a good start when it comes keep diaries. cordkeeping, but also in providing and discovers that she loves some- es and not enough responsible to dealing with these animals And they kept them to them- a moment of reflection each day body else. In a 1970 episode of the horse owners willing to make that they are often not pre- selves. Some diaries even had a during which they could document Brady Bunch, Cindy accidentally the required long-term com- pared for. lock and key to keep out nosy their thoughts and actions. included Marcia’s diary in a stack mitment to these animals. When the 1971 Wild Horse readers. It’s not enough to just take a of books donated for a book drive, I have spent many years and Burro Act was signed into Great leaders throughout time moment at the end of the day to risking exposure of her secret involved with rescues from law to protect our wild horses understood that their diaries collect your thoughts. Taking the crush on Desi Arnaz Jr. racehorses off the track to and burros 53.8 million acres would be read by historians after next step and actually writing them You don’t hear much about dia- my current endeavor with the (42.4 of BLM) was allocated as they died, and used them to give down can help reduce stress, re- ries anymore. wild horses and burros and designated habitat. Today that their version of how history should searchers found. I suspect that the concept may within every equine sector number has been almost cut in be written. Beyond that, diaries A 2001 study published by the seem absurd to those who deter- unwanted horses and burros half – reduced to 31.6 (26.9 of helped them stay organized and American Psychological Associa- mine the validity of any expression are disposed of daily with BLM) – the majority of which sharpened their memories tion found that writing down our by the number of “likes” it gener- no consideration of their fu- is shared with livestock. If the George Washington kept diaries thoughts and feelings helps relieve ates. What is the point of coming ture or well-being. If the BLM federal government had hon- throughout his adult life - some re- the stress that comes from keeping up with some witty observation or would only remove the mini- ored their original pledge, we lated to weather and farming; some those emotions secret, even if we cutting putdown if you’re just going mal numbers deemed neces- would not be discussing an documenting his travels; and some never share what we have written to keep it to yourself? sary using scientific methods, over population of wild horses related to specific events. His final with others It’s not about gaining acceptance and reinstate areas of prior and burros. diary entry was the day before his “The rationale for our research is or winning the argument, but rath- designated habitat, we would In addition, even the re- death. that among the irrelevant demands er just getting it all of our system not have the additional num- duced amount of habitat During the Revolutionary War, that compete for resources are so we can lighten the burden a bers of unwanted wild horses could support these animals Washington kept both a weather cognitions about ongoing stressful little bit and move on. Diaries are and burros contributing to the if the majority of forage was diary and war journal. events, and that expressive writing both self-indulgent and completely problem. not allocated to livestock. The “I lament not having attempted about these experiences reduces harmless to others. And, nobody I do not support the BLM’s current removal of such large it from the commencement of the their draw on resources,” the study cares if you mess up the spelling or $1,000 adoption incentive. numbers from their designat- War, in aid of my memory …” he said. grammar. This money would be well bet- ed habitat is unnecessary and wrote to start his journal on the Previous studies have shown ter spent by providing some based on one thing – the BLM’s war. that people who write about Walt Rubel groundwork with these horses insistent desire to achieve the In some cases, more recent lead- stressful or traumatic experiences has been a while they are in holding be- grossly inaccurate (too low), ers have lived to regret their dia- have fewer doctor’s visits, better journalist since ing processed for adoption – non-scientific based Appro- ries. It was the discovery of diaries immune functions and improved 1982, working something that can often take priate Management Level (the kept by former Defense Secretary psychological well-being. And yet, in Las Cruces months. There are a number number of wild horses and/or Cap Weinberger that allowed for- diaries were losing popularity long since 2002. He of wild horse and burro hold- mer Independent Counsel Law- before the advent of the Internet. can be reached ing facilities located in close LETTERS rence Walsh to determine who For reasons that I don’t under- at [email protected]. proximity to prisons with continued on page 9 DESERT EXPOSURE AUGUST 2019 • 5

EVERYDAY OBSERVATIONS Free hands-on class preparing fathers ABE VILLARREAL on caring for their newborn and infant. Life Lesson “A class for fathers and taught by fathers.” Learning from a 9-year-old Honduran Conscious Fathering Program of Southern New Mexico very time we run into a her new friends, other tiny Contact: Joshua Stoller (575) 526-6682 friend that we haven’t girls from Central American www.consciousfatheringnm.com @ConsciousFatheringSNM Eseen in a long time, we countries, I came to the re- like to say things like “what a alization that we adults have small world.” been talking to each other and It is a small world for most of talking about each other in us. We don’t make it an effort ways that make us not under- RVICE • PAIN to see most of it. Our personal stand each other. We forget SE T & worlds are even smaller. And in that conversation doesn’t al- S & B those tiny worlds we live in, we ways have to be about trying E O find comfort in knowing that to change minds. Why do we L D those around us are just like us. always try to convince oth- A Y They think like us, dress like ers that they are wrong about S us, and want the same things whatever they are saying? we want in life. Kids can teach us amazing The truth is, we live in a big lessons. She told me about her Good Time world, filled with strange and time crossing a river. exotic creations. There is so “I thought it was going to be much to see and experience clear like Clorox,” she said. Motors from amazing architectural “Instead, it was dark and filled • PA wonders to the beauty of God’s with stuff.” INT landscapes that can provide She made it across the river & unforgettable moments of won- and on to the next leg of her B der. journey. O D It’s a great big world, and in “I’m going to Massachusetts, 3032 Pinos Altos Road, Silver City, NM Y that world filled with so many where I have an uncle.” unknowns, the one thing we are The next day she left the 575-313-7772 • 575-956-7563 most afraid of are other people. fairgrounds building. Once she On a Sunday morning in June, I gets to Massachusetts, a new met a 9-year-old girl from Hon- life will begin for a 9-year-old SALES & SERVICE • PAINT & BODY duras. She was making a big Honduran who just a week ear- mess of an art project. Shades lier left a homeland considered of greens and blues, strokes of one of the most violent coun- imagination all over the table. tries on the planet. She was smiling and showing We live in a great big world, off her creation. Her parents but until we experience the ate breakfast on a military cot life of a traveling nine-year-old just a few feet away. Honduran, we will continue to As we chatted in Spanish, she think that this home of ours is shared her story. Unsure of how a small place not worth explor- long ago her journey began, she ing. We need to open our minds said that her dad told her it had to experience the blessings we been six or seven days since can receive from the people she was back home. In a week’s and places we have never seen time, walking for long distanc- before. es, and hopping on buses from I hope she makes it to Massa- town to town, she had traveled chusetts. I’ll be praying for her. for over 2,000 miles. The little Honduran was Abe Villarreal a stranger in a strange land, is the assistant but she didn’t show any fear. dean of student On that day, in a large ware- activities house-style building used for at Western county fair exhibits, she was New Mexico coloring and creating a picture University. that I didn’t understand. Only When not on campus, he she knew what it was trying to enjoys writing about his say. observations on life, people As I watched her chat with and American traditions.

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EDITOR’S NOTEBOOK • ELVA K. ÖSTERREICH Write Like Shakespeare Changing the world one rap at a time

acebook question: “How called “Story Telling & Rhyme, was born in New York, the Bronx, lyrics, where there is only music. and your paint and change the frustrating is it for you to Searching for Shakespeare.” in the civil rights movement of That break began to be repeated, world. Fknow that writing and the Alexander associates Shake- anger, political uprising, moral and became the basis of the style, You have until Aug. 15 to send power of arts are hardly able to speare with a certain kind of mu- issues and political upheaval. and why break dancing is called us your poetry and prose short change the world into a better sic. But long before that, there was break dancing. works to enter the Desert Expo- place?” “We don’t usually associate one of the grandfathers of rap “It’s literally about the break,” sure Writing Contest at contest@ What? Shakespeare and music,” he said. music, Mohammed Ali, he point- Alexander said. “Breaking the desertexposure.com. The world would not be with- “However, I associate Shake- ed out. ice; breaking out of the cocoon. And don’t forget the South- out writing. There would be no speare with one particular kind He talked about the four com- It, is an artform built on oppres- west Festival of the Written Word clouds if we could not describe of music and that’s hip-hop and ponents that make up hip-hop sion.” coming up Oct. 4-6 in Silver City. sunsets. No birds would sing rap.” culture, the deejay, the emcee, Where does Shakespeare fit For more, visit swwordfirsta.org. sweetly or craw discordantly if When it comes to writing sto- break dancing and graffiti. into all this stuff? there were no words. We could ries and narrative poetry, the epic The frustration and sense of “Most hip-hop artists fit 10- Elva K. learn no lessons from history poems, they are all rhythming being ignored created the need 12 syllables per line,” he said. Österreich is without a means to pass them and all in verse. That means Al- to be heard, breaking out into “You know who else does that – editor of Desert down. There would be no way to exander can rap every single one expression through music and Shakespeare. I can literally rap Exposure and change the world at all without of those pieces. art. a whole Shakespeare show if I would love to ways to express discontent: Art, “So only folks who are literal- “Hip-hop became more and want to. Shakespeare was rebel- meet Desert expression, language are those ly making poems telling stories more intricate with the rhythms,” lion, at the time it was the level Exposure things putting forth the human are rappers,” he said. “It took Alexander said. “It became more of hip-hop, Shakespeare wasn’t readers during her office hours mind, sustaining the heart, one me a long time just to respect about being noticed and rebel- treated like he is now.” in Silver City on Thursday, beat at a time. somebody like (Edgar Allen) Poe ling and art. There was no art in Assembled and organized, the Aug. 29, at the Tranquilbuzz Which brings me to beats, re- when I came to school and class. schools, but it has to come out, power of words and art is that Café, located at the corner of minding me of a presentation I I had no interest in the context of people have to get noticed. So, which touches us, changes us Yankie and Texas streets. If recently attended, addressing in school and class. The moment I you throw stuff on trains and and moves time forward. Weath- that is not a good time, Elva a way, all these things. Las Cruces was able to attach these things to people see your art all across the er its from Shakespeare to hip- will be glad to arrange another filmmaker, rapper and all-around hip-hop, I was able to relate.” city.” hop or the dawn of mankind to day to meet and you can arts activist Julian Alexander Alexander visits the history of Hip-hop is about the break. the space age and beyond. We always reach her at editor@ has been sharing his MFA theme hip-hop. He said the first year of The break is the place in music, are nothing without those things, desertexposure.com or by cell around Las Cruces with a lecture hip-hop is officially 1973 and it mainly from disco, between the so keep creating, use your words phone at 575-443-4408. RAISINGDAD • JIM AND HENRY DUCHENE Rain, Rain… Go Away Are you trying to say it’s muddy?

t’s been raining all night and very long time, so they all take “What?” think these conversations with judgment to KEEP them out? morning. a long squat. They don’t care to “Don’t let the dogs out. It’s my father go on forever, you I turn to my wife. Her eyes are I The street in front of my get wet either, but, like me, they raining, and they’ll track mud in- should try being a part of them. so wide she could be a guest of house is a running creek. The have no choice. side the house.” “We’ll be back soon, just don’t Area 51. backyard, a collection of min- Before bringing them back in, “What if they want to go to the let the dogs out.” “Don’t worry, sweetie,” I tell iature ponds. Everything in I grab a towel and dry them off bathroom?” “All right, all right. Don’t wor- her, gently. “Go upstairs. I’ll between is mud. Why my wife as best I can. They have that wet “They’ve already gone. They’ll ry. We’ll be fine, we’ll be fine. bring everything in, and I’ll clean wants to go shopping in this dog smell to them, but I have my be good until we get back.” Now, where are you going?” up.” kind of weather is beyond me. secret weapon: Bounce. I rub “What?” “Sa... uh, just out. We’ll be I expect something snarky like “Wouldn’t you rather stay in- them down with fabric softener “Don’t let them out. It’s rain- back soon.” “You bet you will!” but she just side and read a good book?” I sheets so they don’t go smelling ing.” Man, what’s taking my wife so goes upstairs without a word. I ask her. up the whole house. I do this “I know it’s raining, I can see long? The longer she takes, the feel bad for her. Heck, I feel bad “We’re going shopping,” she on a regular basis when they’re that. It’s also cold. Now, where longer I have to talk with my for myself. I wish I could go up- answers. dry, but it really comes in handy are you going?” father. Blah, blah, blah. Who, stairs with her, and, when I came “I can make us both a nice cup when they’re wet. “Shopping.” what, where, when, and why? back down, the whole thing of coffee...” “What’re you doing?” my fa- “Sam’s?” Finally, my wife’s ready. would have just been a dream. “We’re going shopping.” ther asks me. He asks me that “Lots of places.” We leave, and we have a very The floors would be clean, the “...and we can cuddle up under every time he sees me doing this. “Oh my, lots of places, lots nice time, too. The rain’s not so dogs would be dry, and my fa- some blankets and fool around.” “I’m getting rid of the stink,” I of places. And it’s cold, too. I’m bad. Fortunately, there’s not a ther... my father would be ... She isn’t convinced. answer him. glad I’m staying home. So, when lot of drivers on the road. What would be... “We’re going shopping,” she “Good luck,” he says, and he’s do I take the dogs out?” few there are, are careful and I start cleaning the floor, mum- says, ending the conversation. back watching TV. “You DON’T. If they scratch considerate. I must have gone to bling to myself. Even giving me the stink-eye for “Hey, pop” at the door, ignore them. It’s too sleep in one city and woken up “Holy smoke,” I mumble, only good measure. “What?” muddy.” in another. After a very pleasant I don’t use the word “smoke.” Of course, she’s kidding. “We’re going shopping...” I “I know it’s muddy. It’s raining. afternoon, we return home a few “Smoke, smoke, smoke!” I I think. start to tell him. OF COURSE it’s muddy. And it’s hours later. keep mumbling. I can hear my It’s not that I don’t like going “Sam’s?” he wants to know. cold, too. So, you already let the I walk into the kitchen carry- father in the great room. He’s out in the rain and getting wet, Oh-oh. If I mention Sam’s, he’ll dogs out...” ing two bags of groceries. I no- back to doing what he does best it’s that I don’t like getting wet want to come along. “Yes.” tice right away that something’s – watching TV--but he’s talking when I go out in the rain. I take “Just shopping,” I say. “The “…and you don’t want me to not right. There are muddy paw to me at the same time. the dogs outside to do their busi- dogs have already done their let them out.” prints all over the place. ALL “You know, they WANTED to ness. They’ve been inside for a business, so don’t let them out.” “That’s right,” I tell him. If you over the place. I stand there, go outside. I didn’t even notice

speechless. the mud on the floor. Where did The following is a simple substitution cipher; one letter stands for another. Solution is by Q = V M, = S Clue: “What the fudge?” I not-quite #38 trial and error. Solution will appear in next month’s Desert Exposure. Send full solution, or that come from?” just the Secret Words, to [email protected], and be recognized! yell, only I don’t use the word I keep cleaning the floor. TIPS:www.nmsr.org/secretword.htm and www.nmsr.org/cypher-how2.jpg “fudge.” I guess I’m not so There’s no use for further dis- "HKJ GHWMZ CZUCKGJ VWTGXMN TK EHGTCM ELCKZTKI LRBHWIR speechless, after all. cussion as to what happened or “What?” my father says. why. I’ll just blame the dogs and YCEL LRTKXTKI CKZ GMJUJB [EDHKLCKJHWEMN GHSDHEJZ] My wife walks in. She’s just as leave it at that. shocked as I am. “I’m hungry,” my father says. UJBEJ." - DCWM RHLUJZL, HK JCBMN TGJMCKZTG GWMLWBJ. “Dad!” she says. “What hap- pened?” There’s nothing friendlier Use the answer key below to track your clues, and reveal Secret Words! “The dogs wanted to go out.” than a wet dog. Or funnier A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z “Pop,” I say, “I specifically than RaisingMyFather. asked you...” BlogSpot.com, JimDuchene. Previous Solution: "LET'S RESTORE HABITAT CONNECTIVITY AND Congrats to #37 solvers : ALLOW OUR MAGNIFICENT WILDLIFE TO MOVE AS NATURE INTENDED, Will Adams*, Connie Tull, “But they wanted to go out.” BlogSpot.com, and @ GOOD FOR OUR ENVIRONMENT AND OUR ECONOMY." - NATHAN "NATE" George Egert*, Shorty Vaiza*, Why couldn’t he have just let JimDuchene. COTE *Secret Words:”HOLISM AGENT” Mike Arms*, and Skip Howard*! them out, and then had the good DESERT EXPOSURE AUGUST 2019 • 7

Kathy Holman - “Day Clouds” pastel Debbie Harris - Watercolor ARTS EXPOSURE Alto Artists Celebrate 16 Years Variety, access focus of mountain tour

n 2004, a new self-guided art- lent auction is included with each ists’ studio tour began in the of the 22 artists contributing. IAlto area, just north of Ruidoso This year, to kickoff National in Lincoln County. While a studio American Artist Month, the Alto tour was already established in artists honor the art of Mescalero Lincoln County, the objective for Apache Oliver Enjady. Enjady’s the new event was clear, provide art is mixed media contemporary, smaller driving distances and eas- blending in the traditional sto- ier access to the artists, allowing ries and songs of his native back- art lovers to visit studios through- ground. out Alto, savoring fine art in an ex- Lynn Eckman Jewelry Maps of the tour can be found tensive variety of media including at the Chamber of Commerce of- oil and watercolor paintings, metal At the Spencer Preview Party, fice in Ruidoso and businesses sculptures, woodworking, ceram- Wednesday, July 31, drinks and throughout Lincoln County. You ics, photography and custom jew- hors d’oeuvres are provided while can see sample artwork and bios elry. patrons browse artists’ unique and of participating Alto artists on the Sixteen years later the tour re- Linda Caperton - Fiber water- Lay Powell - Metal Sculpture creative talents. With brochure in website, www.altoartists.com. color mains committed to providing easy plays at a free preview party held hand and seeing samples of art- Contact Kai Brown for more in- access to a variety of exceptional In addition to easy access, the Alto at the Spencer Theater for the Per- work, patrons can plan tour visits formation at 575-336-1526 or hap- art and exposure to the wealth of Artists Tour is exposure to a teaser forming Arts, 108 Spencer Road in for the three days, Aug. 2 to 4. A si- [email protected]. art skills available in the Alto area. sample of tour artwork with dis- Alto, before the tour begins. WE HAVE YOUR GUEST COLUMN • TOM VAUGHAN WINDOWS COVERED! Hiroshima Peace Day

ila Friends Meeting er unleashed at the Trinity ex- The Partial Test Ban Treaty Since 1976 (Quaker) invites the plosion on July 16, 1945: “Now of 1963 was followed by the ® Gpublic to join Friends I am become Death, the de- Nuclear Nonproliferation Trea- in the 2019 Hiroshima Peace stroyer of worlds.” ty of 1968, in which the signa- Visit our Showroom to see Day Observance at Gough Park At Trinity, the bang and the tories agreed to work toward complete selecti on of on Sunday, Aug. 4. The remem- cloud got all the attention. total elimination of nuclear ar- Custom Window coverings, brance will begin with a period The “downwinders,” residents senals. Through this and other of silent worship at 12:30 p.m., of the Tularosa Basin, are still treaties (SALT 1, SALT 2, New Shutt ers and Bedding followed by an opportunity to fighting for recognition of the START), nuclear arsenals have speak out of the silence on the effects Trinity’s fallout had on been reduced by 85 percent! 2310 N. Temple, Las Cruces, NM • 526-2880 threat nuclear armaments rep- residents there. In the 21st Century, however, www.SpringCrestNM.com resent for us – and the world. A few weeks later in Japan, the memories of Hiroshima and Please bring chairs to the pa- nuclear weapons were explod- Nagasaki – and of the nuclear vilion. ed over Hiroshima on Aug. 6 power disasters at Chernobyl Remember “Frankenstein; and Nagasaki on Aug. 9. City and Fukushima – have faded. Earth Matters or, The Modern Prometheus,” a blocks were leveled, and thou- We spend billions to store and A show about earthly matters that impact us all! novel written by Mary Shelley sands died instantly – the effect maintain weapons that few can two centuries ago? In this undy- was devastating. Then the can- imagine ever actually deploy- ing work, Victor Frankenstein, cers and malignancies began ing. There are new proposed U 89.1 creates a humanoid life from to appear and the world began budget items for a new “low- R FM inert materials - and it becomes to realize the real extent of the yield” nuclear warhead and U a terrible, malignant force that harm caused by those massive two new nuclear-capable mis- K cannot be controlled or extin- doses of radiation. siles. Our malignant creation guished. In one passage, the During the Cold War arms of 74 years ago is threatening monster says to Frankenstein, race, the focus remained on the to break its chains again. Once “I ought to be thy Adam, but I bang and the cloud while devel- again, a major part of that new a am rather the fallen angel.” oping the H-bomb and testing surge of activity will be right n g r Frankenstein’s monster was nuclear devices above ground, here in New Mexico. d o s . created in Germany. New Mex- below ground and on atolls in Those who are concerned t r r c ico is the birthplace of another the Pacific. New Mexico, with about the continuing nuclear e m a m g undying monster, created 74 its nuclear labs at Sandia and arms race are invited to join in at years ago: The atomic bomb. Los Alamos was once again the Friends in the Hiroshima Peace g live Brought to you by Many peaceful applications cradle of atomic development. Day Observance at 12:30 p.m. Gila/Mimbres Community Radio Gila Resources Information Project have been found for nuclear Evidence accumulated that on Sunday, Aug. 4, in the pa- New Mexico Wilderness Alliance Upper Gila Watershed Alliance energy. However, when used in nuclear energy in all its forms vilion at Gough Park in Silver Southwest Environmental Center weaponry, it is a terrible, ma- is dangerous. Uranium miners City. Gila/Mimbres lignant force that can barely be got sick. People down-wind Community EVERY Tuesday, Thursday and Sunday at 10am, Radio controlled or extinguished. A from testing sites got sick. Tom Vaughan is a resident of Thursday evening at 8pm father of the bomb, Dr. Robert Spills of radiated materials cre- Silver City and a long time Tuesday at 10am on KTAL-LP 101.5 FM in Las Cruces Oppenheimer, thought of a line ated localized health hazards, participant in Hiroshima from the “Bhagavad Gita” when leading to Superfund clean- Peace Day Observance Podcasts available: find us on http://gmcr.org/category/earth-matters FaceBook! he observed the awesome pow- ups. events. 8 • AUGUST 2019 www.desertexposure.com DESERT EXPOSURE AUGUST 2019 • 9

LETTERS Sewing Machine and Serger and for the conversation each times speaks more loudly than continued from page 4 one provokes. what is said. I agree that there service and repair. burros that can exist in balance Laurie Ford is a crisis on all the southern Free Hand Long Arm quilting. with other species, resources Glenwood border from Texas to Califor- Nice selection of 100% cotton quilting fabrics and uses with little mention of nia. The direct responsibility Questions? Want to see the fabric? livestock). If lower numbers Drugs coming for handling that crisis is Pres- Just give me (Cindy Ugarte) a call at were removed, water and bait ident Trump. Sheriff Black 575-538-2284 and we can get together. trapping could be utilized rath- in is nothing never mentions his name or er than the inhumane and costly new his lack of leadership in this use of helicopters and would crisis. While this human ca- [email protected] save the taxpayers millions by Editor, tastrophe needs immediate at- eliminating costly holding facili- In response to the Guest Col- tention and action, Trump has ties for those horses and burros umn by David Black, entitled declared a national emergency who could have remained wild. “Here comes the Drugs” in the for a border wall, closed need- I have visited numerous wild July 2019 Edition of Desert Ex- ed checkpoints, sent two naval horse territories over the years, posure: battle groups, air force aircraft, with hundreds of hours of ob- I don’t know where Sheriff and troops halfway around the servation, and can honestly say Black has been for the last five world in the Strait of Hormuz in that the vast majority of these decades. I think that drugs have the Middle East costing billions animals are fit – even coming off been coming in unabated for a of taxpayers’ dollars, while Pet Sitting of winter range. With incidents long time. Till we as a country putting Band-Aids on the na- of drought the BLM and advo- take a different approach to tional security crises less than cates work tirelessly to haul in solving that issue, that will not a hundred miles from Otero water to provide relief. Unfortu- change. county. Not to mention all the nately, in many places, available Secondly my first response thousands of human rights vi- water sources have been fenced to reading the article was, what olations against other humans off. I would assume that the 200 a political hack job against the seeking asylum or the thou- horses in Arizona Mr. Thomson Governor Lujan-Grisham. The sands of immigrants that he was referring to were those on Governor is the CEO of the is dumping onto the streets of tribal lands who have no pro- State and she is the head of New Mexican cities along the tection or oversight. This is yet the State Troopers. I feel confi- border. another sector of unwanted dent that she sought advice and Not a word from the good horses that often end up going counsel from her senior advis- sheriff. New Mexico does not to slaughter across the border. ers and the commander of the have the authority or money I commend Mr. Thomson for state troopers before making to solve the issues you raise. his efforts. I know what that the decision to reallocate re- I would like your readers to commitment and passion feels sources to Albuquerque since know that I voted for Governor like but we all must pick our its crime rate is more than dou- Lujan-Grisham. own battles. Thank heaven we ble the state average. Arthur Mayer are so diverse in these battles Thirdly what is not said some- Sacramento, New Mexico

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The 2019 Gem and Mineral Show in Silver City features displays from across the state. (Courtesy Photo)

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embers of the Grant County Rolling Stones 2019 Gem and MGem and Mineral So- Mineral Show ciety are passionate about rocks and very eager to share When: Aug. 31, Sept. 1 their interest with anyone who and 2 would like to listen in and ex- Times: 9 a.m.-5 p.m. plore with them. On Labor Day Saturday; 10 a.m.-5 p.m. weekend the society is hosting Sunday; and 10 a.m.-4 its 36th yearly gem and mineral p.m. Monday show. It is free, and everyone is Where: Grant County welcome. Veterans’ Memorial Confer- Show chair Jeannine Weiner ence Center, 3031 High- said she was hooked at the first way 180 E. in Silver City show she attended. Cost: Free “I joined the club and start- Contact: Jeannine Weiner ed to learn about the gems and at 575-654-4424 or minerals,” she said. “It’s fasci- [email protected] nating to see what nature brings us in the form of gems and min- “It’s a great pastime and a erals.” social situation because we all Weiner said Grant County love rocks,” she said. “We have is one of the most mineralized a lot of geologists as part of our counties in New Mexico. club and help us out when we “It’s pretty amazing here,” she don’t know exactly what we are said. “We love rocks!” looking at. We like to bring the Part of the society’s mission event, a free family event, to is to further gem and mineral education and get more people STONE involved. continued on page 11

Volunteers set up for last year's Gem and Mineral Show in Silver City. (Courtesy Photo) DESERT EXPOSURE AUGUST 2019 • 11 TRACKING HISTORY JAMMIN’ JEFF Author Visits Ft. Bayard GUITAR PLAYER • PERFORMANCE • INSTRUCTION • REPAIR Robinson to talk about ‘the Mystery Apaches” - he Fort Bayard Historic nado entered the region in 1540. Since 62 Preservation Society will They’ve gotten little attention Tcelebrate the 153rd anni- from historians, but they’re every versary of the founding of the his- bit as interesting as Geronimo. toric fort, with a special program Lipan Apaches, as well as The Marketplace 409 Bullard St., Downtown Silver City on Aug. 17. groups of unnamed and unknown The fort was established on Apaches, continued to live in Aug. 21, 1866, by Company B, of Eastern New Mexico and West the 125th Colored Infantry, mark- Texas over hundreds of years. 2nd Generation Aural Piano Tuner Technician ing the beginning of a history The Spaniards gave them various that has included involvement in names, and American military Jeff Cerwinske the Apache Wars, serving as the officers, not knowing who they Army’s first tuberculosis hospi- were, referred to them simply as tal, and being home to a massive “Apaches.” When the Comanches cell - hospital complex operated by the drove other Apache groups from Sherry Robinson Veterans Administration and the the buffalo plains, some held acetrac d. renas alle NM State of New Mexico. their ground for decades. Well At 6:30 p.m., scholar Sherry into the 1800s the Pecos region Robinson will present her talk was little known and unexplored. titled “The Mystery Apaches,” Even after the arrival of the U.S. in the New Deal Theater, on the Army, the Pecos provided refuge grounds of Fort Bayard National not only to the people who con- Historic Landmark. sidered it their country but also This year’s birthday celebration to numbers of renegades, as the features Robinson as the keynote Army attempted to move tribes speaker. She is a long-time New onto reservations. Who were Mexico journalist and author. Her these people? Several scholars book, “I Fought a Good Fight: A have attempted to identify these History of the Lipan Apaches,” is shadowy groups. Sherry Rob- the result of 12 years of research inson, in years of research on and describes Apaches living on Eastern Apaches, will share her the plains as well as their allies, knowledge, which is based on the Lipans and Mescaleros. She the written record and Apache is also the author of “Apache oral history. Voices” and “El Malpais, Mount Robinson’s appearance is Taylor and the Zuni Mountains,” made possible by the New Mex- which is a hiking guide. She’s giv- ico Humanities Council, and en talks about the Apaches as a the Community Foundation of speaker for the New Mexico Hu- Southern New Mexico. manities Council since 1999. Admission to the program is According to Robinson, Lipan free. Donations to the FBHPS are Apaches were living along the Pe- welcome. For more information, cos and Canadian rivers long be- contact Dr. Doug Dinwiddie at fore the Spanish explorer Coro- 575-388-4862. DECLUTTER& STAY COMPLIANT! Go DIGITAL for 2019! Doing business in Southern NM and West Texas for over 15 years, our locally owned and operated family business offers the following solutions for you: • MEDIA AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE SECURE INFOR ATION DESTRUCTION •OFFFICERECORDS MANAGEMEENT • ON/OFF SITE SHREDDING SERVIICES • MORE THHAN 1.25 MILLION CUBIC-FOOT STORAGEE FACILITY More minerals are on display during the 2018 Gem and Mineral Show in Silver City. (Courtesy Photo) • CLIMATE CONTROL VAULT

STONE •DOCCUMENT SCANNINNG a wheel of fortune with prizes, continued from page 10 field trips every day and daily people and like to get the kids lectures as well. Educational involved. Who knows, maybe speakers are coming from New they will be future geologists.” Mexico Tech Mineral Museum, American Document The club has more than 150 The Zuhl Museum, and others. members, 80 or so of those are The New Mexico State Univer- very active. They have a potluck sity Zuhl Collection of Petrified Services meeting on the first Tuesday of Wood and the New Mexico In- every month and a field trip on stitute of Mining and Technol- the third Saturday every month. ogy are bringing displays from The 2019 Gem and Mineral their collections. 300A N. 17th St. Las Cruces, NM 88005 Show, held at the Grant County For information visit roll- Veterans’ Memorial Conference ingstonesgms.blogspot.com or 647-0060 www.adslcnm.com Center, offers 35 to 40 vendors, contact Weiner at 575-654-4424. LC3-XNSP45574 12 • AUGUST 2019 www.desertexposure.com

ARTS EXPOSURE Arts Scene Upcoming area art happenings

SILVER CITY it,” Aug. 23-Oct. 6, is a collabo- Deming Art Center. The show • a)s rative exhibition between two features the work of Las Cruces p...”A”© award-winning fine art photogra- artist CC Cunningham from Aug. e Studio • phers, Patrick O’Brien and Cyd 2-29. Cunningham grew up in Art • Gal- Peroni, and two award-winning Oklahoma and started creating lery, 110 West poets, Lois Roma-Deeley and small sculptures out of the lo- 7th Street, Sil- Rosemarie Dombrowski. Recep- cal red clay and pastoral scenes ver City pres- tion: 5-7 p.m. Aug. 24. Works by from, moss, twigs and pebbles. Playing With Process: Contemporary Photographic Art ents “Eye Karen Hymer are ongoing with Moving to New Mexico in ear- Evolution at Work: Mimi and Art Peterson Spy,” a 10 a variety of photographic media ly 2000 she was inspired by the The work of piece series and concepts. Gallery hours are beauty of the desert southwest Geology of Spirit: Poetry and Photography Ashley Burrows of original 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Thursday, Fri- and began another career as an Diana Bloomfield Gum Bichromate Workshop is on display mixed-media day and Saturday, also 10 a.m. to artist. Reception: 1-3, Aug. 4. 209 W. Broadway, Silver City, NM at a)s p...”A”© mono prints 2 p.m. Sundays and by appoint- Deming Art Center is located at lightartspace.com Thurs - Sat 10 - 5, Sun 10 - 2 e Studio • Art • by Mid-Atlan- ment. Info: lightartspace.com, 100 S Gold St., Deming. Its hours Gallery. tic artist, Ash- email [email protected] or are 10-4 a.m., Monday to Satur- ley Burrows from 4-6 p.m. on 520-240-7075. day. Info: 575-546-3663 or www. Aug. 10 during Silver City’s Sec- demingarts.org. ond Saturday Art Walk. Recently • The Grant County Art transplanted from Pennsylvania, Guild is now at 316 N. Bullard TRUTH OR Burrows will be exhibiting her St., formerly the Hester House CONSEQUENCES very first suspended show. The in Silver City. Karen Danhau- subject matter of the art, as well er, featured this month, is a • Rio Bravo Fine Art Gal- as the show’s title was inspired painter of lovely landscapes. lery, 110 N. Broadway in Truth by the layered blots of paint that She mentions gardening in the or Consequences features offered abstraction that one’s same breath with art because it “FLAX all things fiber” as one of imagination is free to take hold has been so important to her de- its exhibits. The exhibit features of and create an image that only velopment as an artist. GCAG is pieces of a newly formed fiber they may admire. Eclectic re- open every day except holidays, arts group in Sierra County. Info: freshments (Vegan Cowboy Cav- from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday www.flaxallthingsfiber.com. iar) will be served. Info: aspace. through Saturday and noon to [email protected], 575- 4 p.m. Sunday. Info: Karen Ste- LAS CRUCES 538-3333. phenson at karenphotoarts@ gmail.com. • Mari- ah’s Copper ALAMOGORDO/ Quail Gal- CLOUDCROFT lery locat- ed at 211A • Sally Quillin and Mike N. Texas St Stephens are the featured art- in the heart ists at Creative Designs Cus- of historic tom Framing and Gallery, 917 downtown New York Ave. in Alamogordo “Enchanted Lavender” is one of Jeri Desrochers “Cultivating Strange work by Silver City for August. Quillin and Ste- Color” scenes at the Farm & Robert Luria is welcomes phens, co-owners of the Quil- Ranch. in Silver City at guest artist lin-Stephens Gallery in Las Cru- Mariah’s Copper Robert Luria ces, established the concept of • Colorful farm scenes will Quail. for the month showing their work as “Two Art- decorate the New Mexico Farm of August. Luria will be sharing a ists, Two Visions” at their Gal- & Ranch Heritage Museum’s collection of mixed media piec- lery. For many years Quillin has Arts Corridor from Aug. 16 es from his home studio. Visit us used Stephens’s photographs to through Dec. 1. An opening cel- Mariah’s Copper Quail on Face- help in the creation of her paint- ebration of Las Cruces artist Mariah's Copper Quail Gallery book to get a sneak-peek of his ings. The exhibit is “Two Artist Jeri Desrochers exhibit, “Cul- creative enhanced photography, and Their Visions.” Reception: tivating Color,” is set for 2:30- August Show puzzle snakes, and found object 6-8 p.m. Aug. 17. Regular Gallery 4:30 p.m. Aug. 18. Desrochers’ wonders. A reception will be hours are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Mon- vibrant oil paintings capture the A display of Mixed Media Works by from 4-6 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 17. day to Friday. Info: 575-434-4420. people and the landscapes of the Info: 575-388-2646. Southwest’s farm valleys. • The Cloudcroft Art Society Robert Luria has an art exhibit and sale at the Art and Wine in the Cool Pines event this year at the Sacramento Mountain Historical Museum in Cloudcroft. There will be an as- sortment of functional and dec- orative pottery, painted/carved “White Throated Sparrow” by Mimi and Art Peterson’s work gourds, carved wood intarsia Richard Harris is one of 21 “Al- is featured at Light Art Space pieces, framed paintings and pho- ternate Space” watercolors. gallery through October. tography, matted reproductions, • Light Art Space, located at art cards and maybe some beau- 209 W. Broadway in Silver City’s tiful jewelry. The show, sponsored • The New Mexico Water- historic art district, is featuring by the Cloudcroft Chamber of color Society’s Alternate “Evolution at Work: Mimi and Commerce is on the weekend of Spaces Program has an exhi- OPENING RECEPTION Art Peterson,” Aug. 9-Oct. 27. Aug. 2-4. The admission fee of $15 bition of artwork at Salud de August 17th , 4 to 6 pm This exhibition features the art includes a custom glass for tast- Mesilla restaurant during the MEET THE ARTIST, LIGHT REFRESHMENTS SERVED of two artists working with a ing. Non-drinkers and those under month of August. Eleven artists variety of methods and materi- 21 may purchase tickets for $10, with 21 art pieces host the show. als. The modern/contemporary children under 12 are free. Tick- The venue is located at 1800 sculptures of Art Peterson range ets are available at the Cloudcroft Avenida de Mesilla B in Las Cru- from abstract to whimsical, of- Chamber of Commerce and at the ces. Info: 575-323-3548. ten including found objects. entrance to the event. August 10th, 5 to 7pm Mimi Peterson’s multilayered, • The Las Cruces Arts As- mixed media works on paper sociation Members present Like us on Now Open: Thursday through Monday Follow us on DEMING Facebook On the corner of Texas and Yankie Instagram and canvas present a new way of facebook.com/mariahscqg in Downtown Silver City, NM instagram@copper_quail seeing the world. Reception: 5-7 • “Re-Enchantment” is the ARTS SCENE 575-388-2646 p.m., Aug. 10. “Geology of Spir- title of the August Exhibit at the continued on page 15 DESERT EXPOSURE AUGUST 2019 • 13

ARTS EXPOSURE SHAKESPEARE IN THE PARK Weekend Invite A Story Told Carrizozo opens its art doors in Sonnets he Fifth Annual Carrizo- Carrizozo’s restaurants will be History revealed through poetry zo Arts Weekend will open. Ttake place 11 a.m. to 4 Carrizozo is located p.m. Aug. 17 and 18. A pre- approximately 40 miles ome of Shakespeare’s tuous emotions for the Dark view party will precede northwest of Ruidoso exquisite sonnets will Lady. the weekend from 5 to and 75 miles south- Sbe performed Aug. 10 “Much has been conjectured 7 p.m. Friday, Aug. 16, east of Socorro. from 4-6 p.m. in Silver City’s about this woman who entan- at the Tularosa Basin The county seat Gough Park. This free perfor- gled Shakespeare in a rela- Gallery of Photogra- for Lincoln, Car- mance will take place at the tionship he wanted to desper- phy located at 401 rizozo has a var- sunshade near the gazebo in ately leave but couldn’t bring 12th Street in Car- ied and colorful the park. himself to end. The Dark Lady rizozo. All events history as a rail- “Shall I compare thee to a sonnets show how enslaved are free and open to road town, its summer’s day” and “Let me the Poet was, yet he can stand the public. craftsman-like not to the marriage of true back and mock himself.” Forty-one art- houses built by mind admit impediments” are Frost McGahey has been ists are participat- Frank English, two of the sonnets to be read. teaching Shakespeare classes ing with experts in a center for sev- The Sonnets are about both for the Western Institute for media ranging from eral celebrated a sublime love and an obses- Lifelong Learning for over 13 glass, tile, ceramics ranches and min- sive one, according to direc- years. McGahey said she “was and painting to batik, ing claims and tor Frost McGahey. McGahey inspired to write this perfor- wood and metal, paint- as a jumping off with the help of four actors mance because of the intrigu- ed copper, sculpture and point for smaller from Silver City Community ing story she found in the Son- print making at 18 sites, and equally notable Theatre (SCCT) weaves a sto- nets, and she believes they are all conveniently located in towns such as Ancho, ry around the poems which autobiographical. This story and around Carrizozo. Local White Oaks, Capitan and show what might have been is never discussed or just dis- musicians will be playing at Nogal. Shakespeare’s own experi- missed because there is no some studios and several artists Carrizozo currently has just ence with love. concrete proof that it actually will be doing demonstrations. under 1,000 residents, many of “The Sonnets are Shake- occurred – but the clues are Art galleries on 12th Street will whom have moved to the area speare’s most mysterious tantalizing.” “Door” by R. Geary. also be open. Lectures will take from across the country to take works because no one knows The actors will read sonnets place at the Carrizozo Commu- maps for a self-guided historical advantage of the dry air, stun- if they are autobiographical and McGahey as moderator nity Public Library and Archive home tour will be available and ning vistas, including Valley of or not,” McGahey said. “The will introduce and discuss where selections from this the owners of the Lyric Theater Fires, it is rimmed by several characters are the Poet him- them. A question and answer year’s New Mexico Film Foun- and MoMAZoZo will open those mountain ranges, resulting in an self, the Fair Young Man, the period will follow the presen- dation’s Indie Screenings will be spaces for glimpses of historic artist colony that is rarely pub- Rival Poet, and the Dark Lady. tation. shown and a writer’s workshop businesses and their now refur- licized or open except for this Nine sonnets will be read, and More information about will be held for those interested bished uses. weekend. the audience can see the ten- this free event will be posted in exploring the creative side of Wine tasting and a beer garden Maps and more information der love (or bromance) for the at www.silvercitytheatre.com writing. courtesy of Tularosa Vineyards can be found at www.carrizo- Fair Young Man and contrast and on Facebook and Insta- For those interested in history, will be available and many of zoartsweekend.com. that with the lustful, tumul- gram.

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We strongly recommend gallery patrons Contemporary Masters and historical call locations before visiting as gallery ARTS EXPOSURE works of art. hours are subject to change and do so Mountain Arts, 2530 Sudderth Drive, 257- often. Contact Desert Exposure at 575- 9748, www.mountainartsgallery.com, 10 680-1978 or editor@desertexposure. Gallery Guide a.m.-6 p.m. daily. com to update listings. All area codes 590-1110. Sculpture, custom knives and 654-4910. By chance or appointment. Saturday. Tanner Tradition, 624 Sudderth Drive., are 575 unless indicated otherwise. 257-8675. Monday through Saturday, 10 swords. 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Wednesday to Mimbres Blue Gate Gallery, 4901 Chagar Saturday and 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Sunday. Chamomile Connection, 3918 U.S. (intersection of Valley Drive and Taylor a.m.-5 p.m. Quality Native American art Silver City Lois Duffy Art Studio, 211C N. Texas, Highway 35, 536-9845. Lynnae Road, open by appointment, 523-2950. and jewelry. Alaska Mudhead Studio-Gallery, 371 534-0822. 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Saturday McConaha. By appointment. Camino Real Book Store and Art Thunder Horse Gallery, 200 Mechem Camino de Viento in Wind Canyon. By or by appointment. Original paintings, Kate Brown Pottery and Tile, HC 15 Gallery, 314 South Tornillo St. 523-3988. Drive, Suite 1, 257-3989. info@ appointment, Letha Cress Wolfe, potter, cards and prints. www.loisduffy. com, Box 1335, San Lorenzo, 536- 9935, Thursday to Sunday, 11 a.m.-5 p.m. thunderhorsegallery.com, 11 a.m.-5 p.m. 907-783-2780. loisduffy@ signalpeak.net. [email protected], www. Cottonwood Gallery, 275 N. Main St. Tuesday to Saturday. Bronze sculpture Anthony Howell Studio, 200 W. Market Lumiere Editions, 104 N. Texas St., katebrownpottery.com. By appointment. (Southwest Environmental Center), 522- by Rory Combs, Sarinova glass and St. 574-2827. By appointment only. 956-6369. Vintage and contemporary 5552. Monday to Friday, 9 a.m.-6 p.m. fine art. [a]SP.“A”©E, 110 W. Seventh St., 538- photography. Monday to Friday. Bayard Cutter Gallery, 2640 El Paseo, 541- 0658. The White Dove, 2825 Sudderth Drive, 3333, aspace.studiogallery@ gmail.com. The Makery, 206 N. Bullard St. 590- Kathryn Allen Clay Studio, 601 Erie St., 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Tuesday to Friday, 10 No. A, 575-257-6609, 9:30 a.m-4 p.m. Barbara Nance Gallery & Stonewalker 1263. Freestyle weaving studio and 537-3332. By appointment. a.m.-3 p.m. Saturday. daily, Authentic Native American jewelry Studio, 105 Country Road, 534-0530. school of fiber, book and paper arts, Justus Wright Galeria, 266 W. Court Ave., and artifacts. By appointment. Stone, steel, wood 11 a.m .- 4 p.m. Thursday to Monday, Northern Grant County 526-6101, [email protected]. Kenneth Wyatt Galleries of Ruidoso, and paint. Sculpture path. www. www.makerysvc.com. Casitas de Gila, 50 Casita Flats Road, 8:30 a.m.-5:30 p.m. Monday to Friday. 2205 Sudderth Drive, 257-1529, www. barbaraNanceArt.com. Manzanita Ridge, 107 N. Bullard St. Gila, 535-4455. By appointment. Las Cruces Arts Association, located in kennethwyatt.com. Fine art by the Wyatt Blue Dome Gallery, 307 N. Texas, 388-1158. gallery@ casitasdegila. com, www. Cruces Creatives, 205 E. Lohman Ave. family. second location at 60 Bear Mountain Mariah’s Copper Quail Gallery, 211-A galleryatthecasitas.com. lascrucesarts.wixsite.com/arts. Road, 534-8671. Open 11 a.m.-5 Texas St., corner of Yankie and Texas Las Cruces Museum of Art, 491 N. Ruidoso Downs p.m. Monday to Saturday. www. streets, 388-2646. Fine arts and crafts. Deming Main St., 541-2137. 10 a.m.-4:30 p.m., Pinon Pottery, MM. 26465 U.S. Hwy. 70, bluedomegallery. com. Mimbres Regional Arts Council Gallery, Deming Arts Center, 100 S. Gold St., Tuesday to Friday; 9 a.m.-4:30 p.m. 937-0873, 937-1822, www.pinonpottery. Borderlands Gallery, Stephan Hoglund Wells Fargo Bank Bldg., 1201 N. Pope 546-3663. Monday to Saturday 10 Saturday. com. Pottery by Vicki Conley and other Studios, 211 W Yankie St., Silver City. St. 538-2505, 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Tuesday to a.m.-4 p.m. Mesquite Art Gallery, 340 N. Mesquite area artists, fine art by Anita Keegan and 218-370-1314. www.stephanhoglund. Sunday www.mimbresarts.org. Gold Street Gallery, 112-116 S. Gold St., St., 640-3502. 11 a.m.-5 p.m., Thursday Virgil Stephens. com. Molly Ramolla Gallery & Framing, 203 546-8200. Open noon-4 p.m. Monday to Friday; 2-5 p.m. Saturday. The Cliffs Studio & Gallery, 205 N. Lyon N. Bullard, 538- 5538. www. ramollaart. to Saturday. M. Phillip’s Fine Art Gallery, 221 N. Main Alamogordo St., corner of Yankie and Lyon streets, com. Orona Art Studio, 546-4650. By St., 525-1367. Creative Designs Custom Framing & 520-622- 0251. By appointment. Ol’ West Gallery & Mercantile, 104 W. appointment. lyntheoilpainter@ gmail. New Dimension Art Works, 615 E. Piñon, Gallery, 575-434-4420, 917 New York Common Ground, 102 W. Kelly, Broadway, 388-1811/313-2595, 8:30 com, www.lynorona.com. 373-0043. By Appointment. Ave. 534-2087. Open 11 a.m.-4 p.m. -10 a.m. Monday to Friday. Reader’s Cove Used Books & Gallery, NMSU University Art Gallery, Williams Patron’s Hall/Flickinger Center for Tuesday-Saturday, other times by prior The Place at the Palace, at 201 N. 200 S. Copper, 544-2512. Monday to Hall, University Ave. east of Solano, 646- Performing Arts, 575-434-2202, 1110 arrangement. 575-534-2087. Bullard St. 575-388-1368. Saturday 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Photography by 2545, 8 a.m.-4 p.m. Tuesday to Sunday. New York Ave. Cow Trail Art Studio, 119 Cow Trail in Seedboat Gallery, 214 W. Yankie St., Daniel Gauss. Nopalito’s Galeria, 326 S. Mesquite, 8 Arenas Valley, 12-3 p.m. Monday, or 534- 1136. 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Wednesday Studio LeMarbe, 4025 Chaparral SE, 544- a.m.-8:30 p.m. Friday to Sunday. Tularosa by appointment, 706-533- 1897, www. to Saturday or by appointment. info@ 7708. By appointment. Quillin Stephens Gallery, behind Horse Feathers, 318 Granado St. 575- victoriachick.com. seedboatgallery.com. downtown Coas Books, 312-1064. By 585-4407. Art, southwest furniture and Creative Hands Roadside Attraction Art Soul River Gallery, 400 N. Bullard St. Columbus appointment only. decor. Gallery, 106 W Yankie, Silver City. 303- 303-888-1358; 10 a.m.-3 p.m. Monday Village of Columbus Library, 112 Tombaugh Gallery, Unitarian Universalist The Merc, 316 Granado St. 505- 238- 916-5045 Hours are 10:30 a.m.- 5:30 and Wednesday and 10 a.m.-5:30 p.m. Broadway, 531-2612, 8 a.m.-7 p.m. Church, 2000 S. Solano, 522-7281. 6469. Art gifts by regional artists, books. p.m. Wednesday to Saturday, and 11 Thursday to Saturday. Monday to Saturday. Wednesday to Friday 10 a.m.-2 p.m. or a.m.-4 p.m. Sunday. By appointment at Sterling Fine Art, 306 N. Bullard St. Silver by appointment. other times. Capitan City, 505-699-5005, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Rodeo Unsettled Gallery & Studio, 905 N. Heart of the Raven, 415 12th St., 937- Elemental Artisans, by appointment only, Wednesday to Saturday and 1-4 p.m. Chiricahua Gallery, 5 Pine St., 557-2225. Mesquite, 635-2285, noon-5 p.m. 215-593-6738. 7459, Functional and decorative pottery, Sunday, or by appointment. Abstract Open daily except Wednesday, 10 a.m. Wednesday; 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Thursday to classes. Finn’s Gallery, 300 N. Arizona St., 406- to realism, workshops and lessons to 4 p.m. Friday; 10 a.m.- 4 p.m. Saturday, and by 790-0573 available. sterlingnm.com. appointment. Carrizozo Francis McCray Gallery, 1000 College Studio Behind the Mountain, 23 Hillsboro Virginia Maria Romero Studio, Malkerson Gallery 408, 408 12th St. in Ave., WNMU, 538-6517. 10 a.m.-3 p.m. Wagon Wheel Lane, 388- 3277. By Barbara Massengill Gallery, 895-3377, 4636 Maxim Court, 644-0214. By Carrizozo, 575-648-2598. Monday to Friday. appointment. www. jimpalmerbronze. open weekends and by appointment. appointment, [email protected], Tularosa Basin Gallery of Photography, FringeArtz, 519 N. Bullard St. 678- com. virginiamariaromero.com. 401 12th St. in Carrizozo, 575-937-1489, 457-3708. Hours are 10 a.m.-4 Studio Upstairs, 109 N. Bullard St., 574- Mesilla 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Thursday to Monday; p.m., Wednesday through Saturday, 2493. By appointment. Doña Ana Arts Council Arts and Cultural Ruidoso noon to 5 p.m. on Sundays. Exclusive sometimes Sunday. Syzgy Tile Gallery, 106 N. Bullard St., Center, 1740 Calle de Mercado, Suites Art Ruidoso Gallery, 808-1133, The Glasserie Studio and Store, 106 E. 388-5472. B and D, 523-6403, 9 a.m.-5 p.m. artruidoso.com, 615 Sudderth Drive, exhibit venue for the winners of New College Ave., 590-0044. 11 a.m.-6 p.m. Tatiana Maria Gallery, 305 N. Bullard St. Monday to Friday. Ruidoso, 11a.m.-5 p.m., Thursday- Mexico Magazine’s photography contest Monday to Saturday. 388-4426. Galeri Azul, Old Mesilla Plaza, 523-8783. Sunday. and the largest photo gallery in the state. Grant County Art Guild Gallery, 316 Tree Spirit Gallery, on-line only at www. Monday to Saturday, 10 a.m.-6 p.m., The Adobe, 2905 Sudderth Drive, 257- N. Bullard St. 10 a.m-5 p.m. Monday cogan-cogan.com. 303-888-1358. Sunday, 11 a.m.-6 p.m. Galeria on the 5795, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday through Lincoln through Saturday; noon to 4 p.m. 21 Latigo Trail, 941-387-8589. Sculpture Plaza, 2310 Calle de Principal, 526-9771. Saturday. Old Lincoln Gallery, 1068 Calle la Placita, Sunday. GCAG.org. by Barbara Harrison. By appointment Daily 10 am.-6 p.m. DJ’s Jewelry, 618 Carrizo Canyon Road, across from the visitor’s center in Guadalupe’s, 505 N. Bullard, 535- 2624. only. Mesilla Valley Fine Arts Gallery, 2470 630-1514, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday Lincoln, 653- 4045. Coffee bar featuring Thursday to Saturday, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Wild West Weaving, 211-D N. Texas, Calle de Guadalupe, 522- 2933. Daily 10 through Saturday. Specializing in 45 New Mexico artists, 10 a.m.-4:30 Leyba & Ingalls Arts, 315 N. Bullard St., 313-1032, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday to a.m.-5 p.m. turquoise, Native American traditional, p.m. Tuesday-Saturday 388-5725. 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Monday to Saturday, www. wildwestweaving.com. Ouida Touchön Studio, 2615 Calle de New Mexican contemporary and estate Saturday. Contemporary art ranging Wind Canyon Studio, 11 Quail Run Guadalupe, 635-7899. By appointment. jewelry. San Patricio from realism to abstraction in a variety Road off Hwy. 180, mile marker 107, ouida@ouidatouchon. com, www. Earth-N-Stone, 2117 Sudderth Drive, Hurd La Rinconada, NM 281 U.S. Hwy. of media. www.LeybaIngallsARTS.com, 574- 2308, 619-933-8034. Louise ouidatouchon. com. Suite 14, 257-2768, 808-1157. 70, 653-4331, www. wyethartists.com. [email protected]. Sackett, 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Monday and The Potteries, 2260 Calle de Santiago, Gazebo Potters, 2117 Sudderth Drive Monday through Saturday 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Light Art Space, 209 W. Broadway. Wednesday and by appointment. 524-0538, 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Tuesday to No. 7, 808-1157. Pottery classes, Works by Peter Hurd, Henriette Wyeth, 520-240-7075. Open 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Wynnegate Gallery, 1105 W. Market Saturday; noon to 5 p.m. Sunday. workshops, wheel time, kiln firing and Andrew Wyeth, N.C. Wyeth and resident Thursday to Saturday; 10 a.m.-2 Street, 575-534-9717, noon – 4 p.m. Rokoko, 1785 Avenida de Mercado, works by local potters. artist, Michael Hurd. p.m. Sunday; and by appointment. Saturday and Sunday, also open for 405-8877. Josie’s Framery, 2917 Sudderth Drive, Contemporary photography and other Red Dot Tour, artist showings and by 257-4156. Framing, gallery representing White Oaks media. Workshops, exhibitions and appointment. Las Cruces regional artists and photographers. White Oaks Pottery, 445 Jicarilla Drive events. [email protected] www. Yada Yada Yarn, 621 N. Bullard St. Big Picture Gallery, 2001 Lohman Ave, LongCoat Fine Art, 2801 Sudderth (three miles past White Oaks), 648-2985. lightartspace.com. 388-3350. Suite 109, 647-0508. 10 a.m.-5 p.m., Drive, Suite D., 257-9102, 10 a.m.- Daily, 10 a.m-5 p.m. Porcelain pottery by Lloyd Studios, 306 W. Broadway St. Zoe’s Studio/Gallery, 305 N. Cooper St., Tuesday to Friday. 9:30 a.m.-1 p.m. 5 p.m. Monday through Saturday Ivy Heymann.

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ARTS SCENE continued from page 12 “Summer Art and Wine” with its art on the walls of the Am- aro Winery, 402 S. Melendres St., for the summer months with opening gatherings the second Fridays of August and Sep- SOUTHWEST tember. The exhibiting artists are Diana Ayers, Margaret Kay Susin’s work, “New Mexi- Bernstein, Karen Granado, co Heritage” can also be found

Susie Huck, and Jan Minow. at MVFAG. Reception Aug. 9. Info: 575-532- 1046. ! • The Branigan Cultural PRINT Center, show “Originales” by Lidia Avina is at the center through Sept. 7. the exhibit is by regional artist Lidia Avina. FIESTA! “Originales” is a body of work “Paint it Black” by Meredith that is inspired by photographs, Loring is featured at the Mesil- October 11-13, 2019 stories, and objects of the lives la Valley Fine Arts Gallery. and identity of the individu- fiber started early, when she Silver City, New Mexico als in the artist’s life. The work first learned to sew. After some explores memory and Latino time designing and fabricating culture through paintings and costumes for the No Strings ceramics. The museum is open Theatre Company, she decided from 10 a.m.-4:30 p.m., Tuesday to work with fabric and fiber through Friday; from 10 a.m. to as an artistic media. Susin is 8 p.m. Wednesdays through Au- an award winning, local artist gust; and from 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. who was born in South Korea Saturday at 501 N. Main Street. and has lived in New Mexico Info: las-cruces.org/museums or since 1997. She was trained 575-541-2154. in traditional watercolor (Su- mukhwa) in Korea but she • The Mesilla Valley Fine works in all mediums now. Arts Gallery, 2470-A Calle First American Bank, Mesilla, de Guadalupe, across from is well represented by gallery the historic Fountain Theatre, members who rotate their art- features two local artists for work on a monthly basis. Gal- the month of August, Mere- lery hours are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. dith Loring and Kay Susin. daily. Info: 575-522-2933, www. Loring’s interest in fabrics and mesillavalleyfinearts.com. 16 • AUGUST 2019 www.desertexposure.com

Wind and bighorns ON SCREEN working together. ‘Happening: A Clean Energy Revolution’ (Photo by Jing Guo) Documentary provides positive news on global warming

he film “Happening: A 3845 N. Swan in Silver City. Ad- becomes the audience’s discov- Clean Energy Revolution” mission is by donation and there ery too. Reaching well beyond a Twill be shown at 7 p.m. will be a short comment/discus- great story of technology and in- Monday, Aug.19, at the Unitari- sion time after the showing for novation, “Happening” explores an Universalist Fellowship Hall, members of the audience to com- issues of human resilience, social ment and make suggestions as to justice, embracing the future, how citizens can make needed and finding hope for our survival. changes in our country’s energy After the film, the drawing for economy. the painting “Love from Guate- Yankie-Texasat the crossroads of Yankie & Texas StreetsART in Historic DISTRICT Downtown Silver City This 2017 HBO documentary mala” by Gay Marks will take film provides viewers with some place. Marks donated this art- rare positive news and insights work to support the efforts to about global warming by show- care for the refugees being tem- ing positive actions that are be- porarily sheltered in Deming ing taken to combat it. before they make the journey Through his film, filmmaker to their sponsors. Last-minute Mariah’s Copper Wild West Weaving Jamie Redford takes viewers on tickets can be purchased at the 211 e Finn’s Gallery a colorful personal journey into screening for $5 each or 5 for Quail Gallery Oe 10- Corner of Yankie the dawn of the clean energy era $20. Tickets are currently avail- 211A N. Texas eteco & Arizona as it creates jobs, turns profits, able for purchase at Sterling Fine 575-388-2616 eteco Open  urs-Sunday and makes communities stron- Art, 306 N. Bullard.  urs - Mon 406-790-0573 ger and healthier across the US. Proceeds from the screen- Unlikely entrepreneurs in com- ing will continue to benefit the munities from Georgetown, Tex- UUFSC Social Justice Committee as, to Buffalo, New York, reveal and the work it does in support- pioneering clean energy solu- ing immigration reform, income Tranquil Buzz tions while Redford’s discovery inequality, climate change and Blue Dome Gallery of how clean energy works, and other social justice issues in our Co ee House 575-538-2538 what it means at a personal level, larger community. 112 W. Yankie Downtown: Lois Du y Studio [email protected]  urs – Sat & Mon, 11-5 211-C N. Texas St., at 307 N. Texas St. Silver City  e Lodge: Daily 9-5 at 60 Bear Mt. Ranch Rd. loisdu y.com 575-313-9631 OPEN SATURDAYS OR BY APPOINTMENT Calling Artists Law Offices • Agave Artists Gallery, 2250 bitions. Submissions for the juried Gillian Sherwood Tim Aldrich Calle San Albino next to Joseph- process are accepted through Sept. 211 N. Texas St. Suite B ina’s in Mesilla, seeks artists for a 1. Applications: [email protected]. Gallery & Studio 575-313-3507 106 W. Yankie 303-916-5045 new co-op gallery. There is space Questions: 575-523-6403. for 13 wall artists and 20 artists • Mesilla Valley Weavers Want your business included in this ad? total, including jewelers. $100 per Guild invites artists to join in the Contact Pam Rossi 575-635-6614 [email protected] month membership, with 90 per- creation of “BLUE,” a collaborative cent of commissions paid to the textile bringing together disparate artist. One day a month will be set talents into a single piece repre- Originales aside for working in the gallery. senting the community. The parts Interested artists should contact also represent our perceptions of Artwork by Lidia Avina Vickie Morrow, 602-615-1146 or things blue in our environment: [email protected]; or Wen- sky, water, mountains, minerals, dy Weir, 575 650-7543 or wendy- moods and music. The piece will be [email protected] included in the Guild exhibit at the • Barbershop singers wanted New Mexico Farm & Ranch Heri- (Las Cruces): Prior barbershop tage Museum in December. Pieces singing experience preferred but should be a variable of 6 inches: 6 not necessary, however you must x 6, 6 x 12, 12 x 12, 12 x 18, 18 x read music. Practices and perfor- 18, or 6 x 18. All textile techniques mances will be mostly during the are acceptable: weaving, felting, daytime. We now have nine sing- knotting, knitting, crochet, embroi- ers and have room for more. Both dery, needlework, piecing, quilting male and female singers are invit- and more. The only color allowed ed to join. Contact Chuck Riggs is any shade of blue. No entry fee. at [email protected] or 575 Multiple pieces from one person 521-1729. accepted. Pieces returned after the • Book space available: Moon- exhibit. Deadline is Aug. 15. Visit bow Alterations and Gift Shop, 225 mesillavalleyweavers.com. E. Idaho No. 32, in Las Cruces has • Renaissance Arts Faire: The space available to display and sell Doña Arts Council’s (DAAC’s) 48th local books that have been pub- Annual Renaissance ArtsFaire will lished any time. Info: 575-527-1411 take place on Nov. 2 and 3, at Young or [email protected]. Park in Las Cruces. DAAC is seek- • Hope Harbor Arts & Craft ing qualified artists to participate. Show at Wingfield Park in Ruido- This is a juried art show for hand- so is from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Sept. made fine arts and crafts in tex- 28 and 29 More than 30 vendors tiles, jewelry, metal, sculpture and Branigan Cultural Center are part of this event including wood, mixed media, painting and June 7 - September 7, 2019 artists, crafters, food vendors, di- drawing, photography and prints, rect sales vendors, boutiques, chil- pottery and glass and recycled ma- dren’s activities and live music. All terials. An application fee for all Originales is an exhibit that explores memory and Latino booth fees benefit Hope Harbor a booths is $35. For a corner booth, non-profit organization committed add $50. Artists apply online at identity through photographs, stories, and objects, to provide a safe transitional home www.Zapplication.org. bridging the gap between the artist and her absence in for women and children who have • St. Andrew’s Episcopal been affected by domestic vio- Church Arts & Crafts Fair in captured family moments. lence. Hope Harbor in Capitan. Las Cruces seeks artists and craft- Contact jenniehanson70@gmail. ers to participate in its Christmas Branigan Cultural Center com for more information. fair, 4-7 p.m. Friday, Oct. 25, and 501 North Main Street, Las Cruces, NM 88001 • Doña Ana Arts Council, 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 26. For 575-541-2154 • museums.las-cruces.org 1740 Calle de Mercado in Mesilla, more details, contact Trish at 575- facebook.com/LCMuseums @LCMuseums seeks submissions for 2020 exhi- 993-4928. DESERT EXPOSURE AUGUST 2019 • 17

ON SCREEN ART FOR SAFETY Another Year, Smokey Portraits on Display Historic Wendelin images coming to Gila National Forest

a New Name his August, Smokey cele- Borderlands Film Festival returns brates 75 years at the fore- Tfront of the Forest Service’s as Borderscene in September wildfire prevention campaign. To commemorate Smokey’s he Borderlands Film mark of excellence that we’re contributions to the U.S. Forest Festival has changed its so proud of. It tells us we’re on Service and wildfire prevention, Tname and is returning in the right track and sets the bar replicas of historic portraits by full action as the Borderscene that much higher in the coming artist Rudolph Wendelin are trav- Film Festival in the Fall of 2019. years.” eling to national forests across The mission of the festival is the The Borderscene Film Festi- the country throughout 2019. The integration of excellence in in- val champions great indepen- touring exhibit consists of 16 rep- dependent film with resources dent filmmakers and provides licas provided by the National Ag- and connections within the film opportunities for film profes- ricultural Library. industry. This year’s event will sionals at every level to partic- Wendelin created hundreds take place Sept. 6-9, at the Allen ipate, learn, network and even of Smokey representations that Theatres’ Cineport 10 and Vid- get their films distributed, said highlighted natural resource con- “High Five for Fire Protection” by Rudy Wendelin, 1996. (Special Collections, USDA National Agricultural Library.) eo 4 in Las Cruces. The theme Chief Operating Officer Michael servation and wildfire prevention. is “Overcoming Challenges.” Evans. Under his direction, Smokey as- NM. Open house viewing hours health, diversity, and productivity With 450 films submitted from “To fulfill this year’s theme, sumed the softer human features, are 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Aug. 5-7 of the forest to meet the needs of 48 countries, the top 15 percent the Borderscene Film Festival ranger’s hat, jeans and shovel for (Monday to Wednesday) and 10 present and future generations. will be viewed. will have dedicated program- which he is best known. a.m.-6 p.m. Aug. 8 (Thursday). For information on the Gila Na- “Las Cruces, New Mexico, ming and workshops celebrat- The Gila National Forest is As America’s sixth largest for- tional Forest, visit www.fs.usda. is one of the most picturesque ing filmmakers who have over- hosting the tour from Aug. 5 to est, the Gila National Forest has gov/gila or join the conversation cities in the nation,” said Dave come great challenges in order Aug. 8 at the Gila National at 3005 3.3 million acres of diverse ter- on Facebook at www.facebook. Witt, Borderscene CEO. “Every to get their film completed,” E Camino del Bosque, Silver City, rain and a mission to sustain the com/GilaNForest/. day when I step outside, I feel as Evans said. if I am stepping into the scene of Evans said to maximize the a movie. As we were searching exposure an independent film- for a new name to create stron- maker receives, this year the SCREEN WORK ger branding opportunities for festival will have online access our film festival, the name Bor- for those who enjoy indepen- derscene was mentioned and it dent films but cannot attend the Film Business resonated with us all. I think we festival in person. Online pass- California filmmaker Ben Yennie visits all know the value of our town es may be purchased on our and just how lucky we are to website for $15 plus fees. The ringing a film business in Los Angeles, ter.” have Las Cruces as the home six-day online access begins at workshop to Las Cruces, it’s very difficult Yennie officially launched for this event.” 9 a.m. Wednesday, Sept. 4 and BBen Yennie of Guerrilla to get the infor- Guerrilla Rep Media in 2014 with Last year’s festival favorite, wraps up on Monday, Sept. 9 6 Rep Media of San Francisco, Cal- mation you need, the book “The Guerrilla Rep: and winner of both the Best p.m. ifornia, will be in New Mexico even if you end American Film Market Success Animation and Best Military Movie passes valid from Sept. Aug. 17 and 18 at the Doña Ana up being able to on No Budget” that is used as a awards, “Sgt. Stubby: An Amer- 7-9, include, a single movie and/ Arts Council Arts & Cultural Cen- make your film.” textbook in 10 film schools. BEN YENNIE ican Hero,” was been put on the or block pass for $2.50, a sin- ter, 1740 Calle de Mercado, Mesil- The Doña Ana The two-day Film Business short list for the Best Animated gle day movie pass for $7.50, a la, in the Bulletin Plaza. The cost Arts Council and New Mexico Workshop is 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Film Academy Award. three-day movie pass for $15, of the two-day workshop is $299. Film Foundation are partnering each day, with a one-hour break “Quality is our top priority and finally, an all access (VIP) For more information or regis- with Yennie so he can work with for lunch. A portion of the $299 when choosing which films will $50 pass good for all movies tration, call 575-523-6403 or go to New Mexico filmmakers to learn fee goes to the New Mexico be screened at Borderscene,” and parties, including the open- www.daarts.org. how to make a sustainable career. Film Foundation. Registration said Chief Strategy Officer ing night film on Sept. 7. “Thanks to changes in technol- In addition to the two-day work- is at the DAAC website https:// Lyndsey Kalson. “Several of the For tickets and more infor- ogy, anyone can make a film near- shop, attendees will receive four www.daarts.org/product/ben- films we screened in our first mation visit www.Borderscene- ly anywhere,” Yennie said. “Film separate five-hour webinars by yennie-film-business-work- year are multiple award win- FilmFestival.org. To discover schools can be great at helping Yennie: “Indiefilm Packaging Like shop-8-17-8-18-19/ or by visiting ners, but to have one of those more, call 575-646-2737 or send you learn how to do it, and there a Pro,” “Film Financing FAST!,” Hold My Ticket, by calling the films chosen by the Academy an email to info@Borderscene- are film programs in every state “Mastering Movie Marketing,” DAAC office. More information is for Oscar consideration is a FilmFestival.org. across the U.S. If you don’t live and “Avoiding Distribution Disas- on the DAAC website.

Desert Exposure continues its WRITING longstanding writing contest. Winners will be featured in the October and November issues of CONTEST Desert Exposure. There are two categories: Prose and poetry Submit your best article, short story, essay, poem or other piece of writing by Aug. 15. Entries must be Prizes include publication, Mail entries to: previously unpublished and will be judged on quality Desert Exposure and how well they express some aspect of life in four $25 runner-up prizes 1740-A Calle de Mercado southern New Mexico. Please limit entries to a maximum Las Cuces, NM 88005 of two. Maximum length per entry is 4,000 words. and a $100 grand prize. or email to: Include name, postal address and email if you [email protected] have one. Entries cannot be returned. 18 • AUGUST 2019 www.desertexposure.com

Eric Bardrof of Deming has taken on the extensive job of refurbishing the Deming Visitor Center Windmill. (Photos by Stan- leydelGozo)

FACE LIFT • STANLEYDELGOZO Deming Icon Refurbished Windmill has stood since 1883

he Deming Visitor Center Windmill is getting a face-lift. After many years of harsh Deming Tweather, the wooden mill is being redone by Eric Bardrof. Bardrof, a Deming resident, has taken on the project of redoing the entire mill and shaft. All the original wooden blades needed replacing as well as the tail-fin and plenty Painstakingly, piece by piece, the gears of the Deming windmill of welding on the shaft in order to return this landmark are cleaned and greased by Eric Bardrof. The windmill will soon to “working order.” be reinstalled at the Deming Visitor Center, whole once more. The history of this rare “octagon windmill” is an un- folding story. It is remembered as being a major part of the railway through Deming. Bigger than most mills and built with all working parts heavy duty, its job was to keep the steam locomotives quickly filled with water. It was “commissioned on Jan. 1, 1883, and installed at the train station. The history of the windmill from its retirement until its present refurbishing is a story still being uncovered. What we do know for sure, is that in the next couple of The Deming windmill in January 2018 weeks, the structure will be up & running “with the wind” shows plenty of wear and tear. (Photo by at the Deming Visitor Center 800 East Pine St. in Deming. Elva K. Österreich) ‘Love from Guatemala’

Corner Florida & Columbus Hwy. PO Box 191, Deming NM 88031 (575) 546-3922 DEMING ART CENTER 100 South Gold, Deming, NM Mon thru Sat 10:00 am to 4:00 pm

Exhibit: Re-Enchantment presented by CC Cunningham from Las Cruces

Reception: Sunday, August 4, 2019 1:00 pm to 3:00 pm

Exhibit Duration: August 2, 2019 through August 29, 2019

We will be having Tin Punching Classes September 17 and 18. Two sessions each day. Richard Gabriel will be the instructor. A fee of $15.00 will be charged for each session.

On the 17th the class will be making a candle holder. On the 18th the class will be making an ornament. “Love from Guatemala” is an 8” x 10” oil painting by award-winning artist Gay Marks. Marks donat- ed the painting, displayed in the window of Sterling Fine Art Gallery, 306 N. Bullard, in Silver City, to Deming Arts Center, 100 S Gold St, Deming NM 88030 the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship to offer in a drawing. Proceeds go to provide humanitarian aid 575-546-3663 Check us out on Facebook to refugees in Deming. Tickets are $5 each, five for $20, available at Sterling or from the Unitarian This project is supported in part by New Mexico Arts, Fellowship members. The drawing will take place Aug. 19 at the UU Hall, 3845 Swan Street in Silver a division of the Department of Cultural A airs www.demingarts.org City; winner need not be present. DESERT EXPOSURE AUGUST 2019 • 19

THE BORDER • MORGAN SMITH The Private Wall Trip to the Unites States side of the border raises more questions

une 13 was my first “bor- der trip” that focused to- Jtally on the United States side and didn’t involve crossing into Mexico. The first stop was a visit to Deming to deliver rice, beans and toilet paper to the local mi- grant shelter. In June the Cus- toms and Border Patrol (CBP) suddenly dropped hundreds of migrant families on Deming and the community responded, preparing an old aircraft hangar and a fairground building for this huge influx. I was only able to observe the second building but what I saw was a neat row of cots, kids be- ing entertained by volunteers, and family members helping with cleaning and maintenance. It’s hard to understand how a small community like Deming can take on a project like this so suddenly, humanely and efficiently when our massive federal government is treating the migrants in its custody with Customs and Border Patrol officers brief soldiers on the privately such a lack of respect and imag- build border wall. ination. For example, the Justice De- of the security firm Blackwater, national Boundary and Water partment lawyer, Sarah Fabian, which received notoriety when Commission but that has also is receiving enormous criticism four of its employees were con- been resolved. for arguing in federal court in victed of killing 17 Iraqi citizens I have now had three oppor- San Francisco that there is no in 2007. Via a GoFundMe effort, tunities to see the wall system obligation to provide migrants Kolfage has raised roughly $20 in the Juárez-El Paso area at with toothpaste. I feel for her million for wall construction. work. On April 19, my wife, because she is just a flunky car- After leaving Deming, I drove Sherry, and I drove to Anapra A landscape divided by a privately built border wall between rying out orders; why are her to Sunland Park to see if I could where the huge wall simply Mexico and the United State. (Photos by Morgan Smith) superiors allowing her to take find this wall, looked first on ends. On May 19, I watched a all the heat? the west side of Monte Cristo group of migrants come run- walls, it does seem to be located have been aware of these cara- Why didn’t someone in the Rey where we had earlier dis- ning through that gap. Now I’ve to deter illegal crossings. There vans well in advance. vast Justice Department bu- covered the huge gap in the seen this new private wall. is no doubt that the builders CBP officials on the border reaucracy say, “Look, this is go- existing wall and then followed Here are some reactions. consulted extensively with CBP are overwhelmed by the num- ing to be an enormous embar- a narrow dirt road eastward I was a skeptic but must ad- officials before deciding where bers of families who have ap- rassment. Let’s just each kick in along the Rio Grande and past mit that building a wall this size to build it. CBP officers partici- peared but that doesn’t justify a few dollars and buy the tooth- the American Eagle Brick Com- in these extremely rugged con- pated in the briefing I attended the inhumane treatment that paste” or “Let’s call Colgate; pany. Suddenly there it was, ditions in less than a month is with Foreman Mike and said so many are receiving. The cit- they’d love to donate.” stretching up the very rugged an astonishing feat. Politically, that the wall had already had a izens of Deming and other vol- What we’re seeing is a stun- mountainside. our government has become positive effect. unteers stepped up and created ning lack of creativity on the Soon three other vehicles ar- so completely paralyzed that The larger immigration is- a superb program. Why can’t part of our government. rived and out stepped some 20 nothing gets done. This won’t sues are still a matter of cha- our leaders at the federal level That leads to the second part U.S. soldiers from Fort Polk, change at least until after the os and confusion, however. I do the same? of this border trip – the private Louisiana, who had been as- 2020 elections. Therefore, you understand why so many mi- In short, what we are seeing wall that has been built in Sun- signed to El Paso to work with have to commend those who grants are fleeing the very dan- on the border is America at land Park, New Mexico, near the CBP. With them was a burly can actually make a commit- gerous countries of Honduras, both its best and its worst. It’s a Juárez and El Paso. What a sur- man who called himself Fore- ment and carry it out as in the Guatemala and El Salvador but struggle but, as Americans, we prise. A private company not man Mike who is the spokes- case of this wall. why are so many coming so have to do better. only announces that it is going man for Fisher Industries, the Although expanding the bor- suddenly? Conditions in those to build a section of wall along North Dakota company that did der wall is a heated issue be- countries have been terrible for Morgan Smith travels to the the U.S.-Mexico border, but it the construction. He invited me tween President Trump and years. Why were we so poor- border at least once a month follows through and gets it built to join the tour for the soldiers Democrats in Congress, it ly prepared? We have heavily to report on conditions there. in record time. and we drove up a steep, windy seems obvious that some addi- staffed embassies in each of He can be reached at Morgan- This project was initiated road to the top of the wall from tional construction is needed. those countries; they should [email protected]. by an organization named We where we could see El Paso A strong majority of Ameri- Build the Wall headed by Brian across the Rio Grande below. cans, including many who are Kolfage, an Air Force veteran The wall is over a half mile in pro-immigration like me, be- SNOWDENEXTERMINATING who lost three limbs in the Iraq length and has a 31 percent lieve that it is up to us as Amer- war. His board of directors in- grade. It was built for about $8 icans to decide who comes into Serving Southwest New Mexico since 1951 cludes former Congressman million, much less according our country and under what Tom Tancredo, long known for to Foreman Mike than what it circumstances. his anti-immigration views (I would cost the federal govern- To spend millions of dollars served with him in the Colora- ment. building a massive wall head- do House of Representatives There have been political ed eastward from Santa Tere- back in the late 1970s), former problems. They didn’t have a sa towards El Paso and Juárez Kansas Secretary of State Kris permit from the city of Sunland and then have it suddenly end Deming 575-546-9052 or 1-833-4 SNOWDEN (1-833-476-6933) Kobach, also well known for his Park but that was fixed. Initial- makes no sense. anti-immigration views as well ly they built a gate blocking ac- Although this wall isn’t phys- Luna, Grant, Hidalgo, Dona Ana, Catron as Erik Prince, the former head cess for a project of the Inter- ically connected to the existing

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CYCLES OF LIFE • FR. GABRIEL ROCHELLE

Celebrating 17 Years! Facials • Body Treatments • Spa Manicures & Pedicures • Refl exology • Waxing E-Bike Craze Another look at the world of electric bikes

was riding along the shore on offer higher top speed (up to 28 at 15 miles an hour is a thrill for the walkways in Huntington miles an hour from a previous those who can’t manage hills very IBeach during the first week in high of 20), they have more fea- well otherwise. T BB CC July, and I noticed something new tures and they are somewhat less By law, an e-bike must be pro- this year. All the places where you expensive than when they first pelled by constant pedaling. If it I can rent bikes along the beach came on the market. The tech- is propelled by the electric motor now feature electric bikes. They nology continues to improve. You alone without pedaling, it is clas- are sweeping through the tour- can spend many thousands on an sified as a motor scooter and all POWERFUL HYDRATION MEETS RADIANT, HEALTHY LOOKING COVERAGE. ist areas like crazy. I stopped my electric bike, but the price range the laws apply; you have to have Perfect when paired with one of Datura’s facials. rides a couple times to check continues to expand from low to licensing, insurance, and observe relaxing in with the rental kiosks on the high. People find them a genuine the rules that apply to a motorcy- Open Tuesday-Friday • 108 E. Broadway, In Historic Downtown Silver City strand off the Pacific Coast High- alternative to standard pedal pow- cle. There are, of course, electric Personal Attention from way to inquire about this, and the er. I’ve often said that if manufac- scooters on the market and I saw Cheri Crane, Owner/Therapist 575-534-0033 owners said e-bike rentals were turers could find a way to extend many of them in use along the definitely up again this year. Ev- battery power to cover two hun- shore in Huntington Beach, but erywhere I went I saw people dred miles, people would begin to they require the licensing and so on e-bikes, whether their own or ride them cross-country. forth because they are propelled rentals. New bike shops in Hun- The attraction is not so evident without pedaling. tington Beach deal exclusively for younger people but for those Some of the newer models of in e-bikes. The same is true of of an age, the e-bike offers the e-bikes also offer the option of Newport Beach. Electric bikes option of remaining in the saddle pedaling or cruising under elec- are here to stay. I’ve written about even when the legs begin to give tric power. You will find motors them in this column twice previ- out. They open new possibilities mounted in the front or rear hubs ously. for older people and, perhaps, and in the crank. My personal pref- In the last few years, as you may for younger ones as well. They have noticed, we have moved to a are great equalizers on the hills CYCLES new generation of e-bikes. They around Las Cruces; to ride uphill continued on page 23 PSYCHOLOGICAL SERVICES PAT BARSCH, Ph.D. BODY, MIND, SPIRIT Licensed Psychologist 35 years experience

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BODY • MIND • SPIRIT Grant County Weekly Events

SUNDAYS Gilawriters — 1:00-3 p.m., Visitors Babytime Sing & Play — 1 p.m., Archaeology Society — First Sunday Center at Hudson and Broadway in Silver City Public Library, 515 W. of every month, field trip. 536-3092, Silver City. Contact Trish Heck, trish. College Avenue. Stories, songs, [email protected]. [email protected] or call 534-0207. rhymes and movement for infants Multiple Sclerosis Support Group — 0-12 months and their caregivers. MONDAYS 11:30 a.m., first Tuesday at a local Free, no registration necessary. AARP Widowed and Single Persons restaurant; email for this month’s 538-3672 or ref @silvercitymail. of Grant County —10:30 a.m., location: [email protected]. com. second Monday, Cross Point PFLAG Silver City — First Tuesday, Back Country Horsemen — 6 p.m., Assembly of God Church. All 7 p.m., at the Unitarian Universalist second Wednesday, WNMU Watts Silver Alternative Medicine PA singles welcome. Contact Sally, Fellowship, 3845 N. Swan. Hall, opposite CVS Pharmacy, Hwy. 537-3643. Confidential support for LGBTQ 180. Subject to change. 574-2888. PH.D., DOM Physician Al-Anon family group, New Hope persons and their families. 575- A Course in Miracles — 7:15 p.m., Dr. Paul Stuetzer, —12:05 p.m. First Presbyterian 590-8797. 600 N. Hudson. Information, 534- M.A., Medical Assistant Church, corner of 20th and Swan Republican Party of Grant County 9172 or 534-1869. Karen Prevost Streets, Silver City. Open meeting. — 6 p.m., second Monday, 3 Rio Future Engineers — 4-5 p.m. Silver Acupuncture, Chinese Medicinals & Contact: 313-7891. de Arenas Road (the old Wrangler City Public Library, 515 W. College Meditation for Beginners — 5:30 restaurant). Avenue. Free creative construction Herbs, Homeopathic & Naturopathic p.m., Lotus Center, 211 W. Slow Flow Yoga — 11:30 a.m.- fun with Lego, K’NEX, and Medicine. Family Practice specializing Broadway. Jeff, 956-6647. www. 12:45 p.m., Lotus Center, 211 W. Strawbees! For children ages 6-12, lotuscentersc.org. Broadway, Becky Glenn, 404-234- no registration necessary. 538-3672 in Pain Relief, Headaches, Silver City Squares — Dancing 6:30- 5331. or [email protected]. Allergies, Nutritional 8:30 p.m., Methodist Church Santa Southwest New Mexico Quilters Gin Rummy —1 p.m. at Tranquilbuzz, Rita Street entrance. Kay, 3884227 Guild – 9:30 a.m., first Tuesday, corner of Yankie and Texas Streets Deficiencies, Immune or Linda 534-4523. Grant County Extension Office, in Silver City. Disorders, Nervous Silver Chorale – 7-9 p.m. rehearsal, 2610 N. Silver Street, North Grant County Democratic Party First Presbyterian Church, corner entrance. Newcomers and visitors —5:30 p.m., potluck; 6:20 p.m., System Disorders & 20th and Swan streets, Silver City. are welcome. 388-8161. meeting, second Wednesday, Sen. Lifestyle Counseling. New members welcome. Contact Howie Morales building, 3060 E. Anne, 288-6939. WEDNESDAYS Hwy. 180. 654-6060. Southwest New Mexico ACLU ACA Meeting (Adult Children of Grant County Federated Republican – noon, first Monday (except Alcoholics and Dysfunctional Women – 11:30 a.m., Third September when it’s the second Families) — 6:30-7:45 p.m. meets Wednesday, WNMU Cafeteria, Monday), Little Toad Creek, 200 every Wednesday at the New Sunset Room. 313-7997. N. Bullard St. in Silver City. Bob Church of the Southwest Desert, Ladies Golf Association — 8 a.m. Garrett, 575-590-4809. 714 N. Bullard St. Athena, 575-590- tee time, Silver City Golf Course. 8300. Prostate Cancer Support Group NCCAOM National TUESDAYS Al-Anon family group — 6 p.m., — 6:30 p.m., third Wednesday, Certification, State licensed Alzheimer’s/Dementia Support Arenas Valley Church of Christ, 5 Gila Regional Medical Center in New Mexico and —1:30 p.m., First Tuesday, Senior Race Track Road, Arenas Valley Conference Room. 388-1198 ext. Center. Margaret, 388-4539. (the old radio station). Contact: 10. California. Provider for Blue 30 Years Experience. Bayard Historic Mine Tour —9:30 313-7891. Storytime — 10:30 a.m., Silver City a.m., Second Tuesday, meet at Archaeology Society — 6 p.m., third Cross and Blue Shield. Reasonable rates, discounts Public Library, 515 W. College Bayard City Hall, 800 Central Ave. Wednesday every month, October- Avenue. For children ages 0-5, no for Seniors, Healthcare providers and Clergy. $5 fee covers two-hour bus tour of April at 2045 Memory Lane, Silver registration necessary. 538-3672 or historic mines plus literature and City; May-September meetings [email protected]. map. Call 537-3327 for reservation. begin with a pot-luck dinner at 6 506 W13th street, one block from WNMU,

Figure/Model Drawing — 4-6 p.m. at Roundup Lodge in San corner of Virginia, Silver City, NM 88061 p.m. Contact Sam, 388-5583. Lorenzo-Mimbres, convening for EVENTS First Tuesday, 6 p.m. at the business at 7 p.m. Visit www. Office: 575-388-8858 Fax: 575-526-4621 headquarters, next to the Chevron/ gcasnm.org, or email webmaster@ continued on page 23 Snappy Mart in Arenas Valley. Dan gcasnm.org, or call 536-3092 for Larson, 654-4884. details. We Understand Care, THERAPEUTIC MASSAGE We Practice Compassion. David Wireman Cathy Wilkerson Offering a Continuum of Care in the Las Cruces Community! LMT# 7563 LMT# 7289 The Massagemonk Reiki Master We continue to build on our time-proven reputation for quality care, 575-956-5994 575-538-1222 state-of-the-art rehabilitation and recovery protocols. Our modern • Traveling Massage • Deep Tissue facilities form a continuum of care to meet all of your needs. • Sports Massage • Swedish • Trigger Point Therapy • Hot Stone Independent Living • Senior Living • ShortStay Care • LongTerm Care • Deep Tissue • Lymphatic • Focus Work • Myofascial • Specialized Alzheimer’s Care • Rehabilitation Services • Physician Services • Reflexology • Craniosacral Therapy • 30 year Veteran • Energy Work • Vets Welcome • Ortho-Bionomy • Reflexology Mobile massage service available • Gift Certificates Available Call for your appointment & Information Serving Silver City & Grant County

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TALKING HORSES • SCOTT THOMSON No Such Thing as a Love Bite Horses always have a reason for what they do n the world of horses, there like this. You can choose to go in leadership, defined boundaries the daughter grew up, discovered gation, he would bite like a stal- is probably no more challeng- the “psychological door” to reach and a precise language based on boys, and now Teddy was of no lion. If there was another person Iing a behavioral problem than the animal on his terms, or you interpretation of body language value to her or the family. nearby, he might swing his head a horse that bites. If you’ve ever can choose to try to create the and intent. In his natural state, I met Teddy after a wonderful around and take a shot at that been on the receiving end, you desired responses and behavior “good” behavior doesn’t lead to a couple had bought him. The cou- person as well. They called me af- know just how much damage by force or “programming” the treat or praise. It leads to a feel- ple had a little riding experience ter the wife had been sent to the they can do. animal. ing of safety and security, a clear early in life and couldn’t wait for hospital with a concussion from Biting usually comes from Any good horseman will tell understanding of the “rules” and the day they could own their own a meeting with Teddy’s head, one of three things: hierarchy you become the herd leader first, a reduction of any pressure. And, horse. Both were just interest- and after the husband had taken and dominance, play and pain or then teach based on those princi- a relaxed mind for learning. ed in arena work and wanted to a few stitches from a bite right frustration. No matter what the ples. Many people get into trou- My most challenging case of- learn basic dressage but had no through a jacket. cause, the behavior cannot be tol- ble problem-solving with their fers a good illustration of how interest in showing or competing. The spookiness was bad but it erated as it is just too dangerous. horses by trying to get the desired bad this problem can get, but They just loved going to the barn, was predictable, so I knew what Unfortunately, I see too much of behavior or result quickly by us- how the nature of the horse of- being with their horse and tak- had to be done there. Since the this behavior actually being cre- ing treats, raised voices, clickers, fers the solution. ing regular riding lessons. Teddy biting seemed so out of context ated by our own actions, rather force, shock collars, etc., ignor- Teddy was a beautiful thor- seemed a good fit and all in all given the rest of Teddy’s nice than some inherent problem with ing or forgetting about the basic oughbred who had won a few it looked like a nice picture for personality, I asked the couple the horse. instincts of the animal. They try dollars early in his life but really horse and humans. to contact the former owner to Obviously, if pain is behind the to “program” the response they wasn’t cut out for the track. He Unfortunately, they found out find out if they had this problem, biting, then you need to figure want. Without the connection at had been purchased by a fami- quickly that Teddy had a few and did he come that way from out how to alleviate that situa- the psychological level, whatever ly with a daughter interested in “holes.” He was pretty spooky. the track or did it start while they tion first. If you ignore a horse bond you get is based on bribery, dressage. The family went the They had been sold on the theory owned him. that’s telling you he hurts and is coercion or rewards, and that is a traditional route, boarding the that ex-race horses are good to The truth surfaced quickly. just protecting himself, you pret- bond with a horse you can’t trust. horse and turning over the train- buy because they have been ex- Their dressage trainer liked to ty much deserve what you get in I believe the foundation for ing to the resident trainer. The posed to so much. On top of this, use treats to “train” the horses my book. all development and training of daughter would come as often he had been to a lot of shows, so and suggested to the girl that If you work with horses, and horses is focused entirely on the as possible, taking riding lessons that should make him calm, too. she always have treats available truly respect them, I believe psychological needs of the animal and starting on the junior show Wrong. Then they found out Teddy to “reward” Teddy. Leadership there are just two ways to devel- without projecting human values circuit. Teddy did OK but didn’t had a real biting problem, one that op the animal to be the partner on the relationship. The horse win many ribbons. Then, as of- had reached dangerous levels. TALKING HORSES you want and deal with problems needs herd companionship, clear ten happens in the horse world, After a quick sniff and investi- continued on page 23 Silver City Zen Center Foothills Arabians (Ginzan-ji Zen Buddhist Temple) Meditation Practice (Zazen) Monday-Friday 8:00 am We are an 80 acre full service Zazen, Kinhin & Dharma Talk Saturday 9:00 am facility offering... Dokusan (interview with teacher) by appointment • Boarding, Breeding and Training 506 W. 13th St. Resident Priest (corner of 13th and Virginia) • Easy Forest Access Rev. 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TALKING HORSES which the horse lives, No anger, one had to bribe or program him continued from page 24 just the black or white clarity of to behave – he knew what was herd behavior. expected. The owners were able and boundaries were never dis- We stopped the dressage work to go back to their dressage les- cussed. When the girl took the and focused on natural riding sons and even some trail riding. horse to a show, she noticed oth- and challenging play. We took They gave him a carrot from time er girls were constantly giving away the bit and rode only in a to time without consequence, their horses treats to “control” rope halter. We set up obstacles but never blurred the lines of them, so she started to carry a lit- for groundwork and riding. I leadership. He never bit anybody tle bag of licorice (Teddy’s favor- taught the owners how to ground again, his spookiness decreased, ite) on her belt. She’d give Teddy drive Teddy so they could “ride and they had eight wonderful a treat whenever he showed any him from the ground” from a years before retiring him due to signs of acting up about anything. safe distance. We left the arena, an old racing injury. He was easily frustrated and bit hand-walking Teddy and just Bless these owners. They took her if no treat was offered. Of hanging out. We started ground their ownership responsibili- course, this was not mentioned driving him around the property. ties very seriously. They treated during the sale, and the new own- We changed his feeding pattern Teddy like a horse, not a pet. It ers paid a painful price. – more frequent, more chewing. would have been easier to get rid To help Teddy, we focused on We changed his stall so no one of Teddy and get another horse, restarting this “trained” horse would be tempted to slip him a or to resort to cruel “training” with techniques based on his treat. He got more turnout time. techniques to “fix” him. Instead, needs, not trying to program new Everything we did was with they started over, going in the behavior. I had them wear heavy clear direction and communi- psychological door to give him clothing and helmets at all times. I cation using the psychology of what he needed as a horse first. taught them how to use their tools the horse and the power of the He repaid them in kind, with in- to create a safe space and to teach herd – clear body language, an terest. Teddy how to yield to pressure. We escalation of pressure with each worked on using their body parts request, and a release of pressure Scott Thomson as “blocks” and to practice good, to teach and reward the desired lives in Silver safe habits around the horse. We response. During this time, he City and didn’t muzzle him but made sure never saw a treat from the hand. teaches natural he understood there would be a It probably took close to a year horsemanship NEW LOCATION! CEGE AE consequence for such actions – a for Teddy to fully accept his po- and foundation CEGE STREET PAA GRU R SIER CIT M lot of work, backing around the sition and the rules in this new training. PRIVATE APPT. WALK-IN CLINIC arena, etc., and that our response three “horse” herd. But he was You can contact him at MON.-FRI. T & TH: 9 - 11:30AM & 1-2PM would be judicious and delivered being handled and treated in [email protected] of 575- within the 2-3 second world in ways that only he understood. No 388-1830. 575-519-2724

EVENTS GENTLE ALIGNING; INTUITIVE CARE; COLD LASER THERAPY continued from page 21 • NECK & SHOULDER • TRAUMATIC BRAIN THURSDAYS College Avenue, 538-3672 or ref@ Saturday, Yada Yada Yarn, 614 N. • LOWER BACK INJURY (TBI) Blooming Lotus Meditation — silvercitymail.com. Bullard, 388-3350. 5:30 p.m., Lotus Center, 211 W. Yoga class — Free class taught by Vinyasa Flow Yoga — 10-11:30 a.m., • HEADACHES • LOSS OF BALANCE Broadway. 313-7417, geofarm@ Colleen Stinar. 1-2 p.m. Episcopal Lotus Center, 211 W. Broadway. All • INJURIES • HORSES & DOGS pobox.com. Church fellowship hall, Seventh and levels. Becky Glenn, 404-234-5331. (by appt. only) De-stressing Meditations — Noon- Texas. 574-5451. • WEAK MUSCLES 12:45 p.m., New Church of the SW All phone numbers are area code “My Mission is to Help You Desert, 1302 Bennett St. 313-4087. FRIDAYS 575 except as noted. Send updates DR. LOUISE CASH, D.C. Grant County Rolling Stones Gem Overeaters Anonymous — 7 p.m., to [email protected]. Get Your Life Back.” and Mineral Society —6 p.m., First United Methodist Church. second Thursday, 2045 Memory 654-2067. Lane, Silver City. Anita, 907-830- Silver City Woman’s Club — 10:30 0631. a.m., second Friday, 411 Silver Historic Mining District & Tourism Heights Blvd. Monthly meeting, Meeting — 10 a.m., second lunch is at noon. Lucinda, 313- Thursday, Bayard Community 4591. Center, 290 Hurley Ave., Bayard. Women’s Al-Anon Meeting: Women 537-3327. Embracing Recovery — 5:30 p.m., Little Artist Club — 10:30-11:30 La Clinica Health and Birth Center, a.m., Silver City Public Library, 515 3201 Ridge Loop, Silver City. W. College Avenue. Free creative Contact:313-7891. fun for children ages 0-5. No registration necessary. 538-3672 or SATURDAYS [email protected]. Alcoholics Anonymous “Black TOPS — 5 p.m. First Presbyterian Chip” —11 a.m.-noon, First United Church, 1915 Swan, 538-9447. Methodist Church. Vinyasa Flow Yoga — 11:30 a.m.- Evening Prayer in the Eastern 12:45 p.m., Lotus Center at 211 W. Orthodox Tradition — 5 p.m., Broadway, Becky Glenn, 404-234- Theotokos Retreat Center, 5202 5331. Hwy. 152, Santa Clara. 537-4839. WildWorks Youth Space — 4 Kids Bike Ride — 10 a.m., p.m. For children ages 10+ Bikeworks, 815 E. 10th St. Dave Space for youth to hang out, Baker, 388-1444. experiment, create and more. Narcotics Anonymous — 6 p.m., Free, no registration necessary. New 180 Club, 1661 Hwy. 180 E. Silver City Public Library, 515 W. Spinning Group — 1-3 p.m., First

CYCLES continued from page 20 erence is crank-mounted motors and they have been in business because I think the transfer of en- a year and a half, offering both A doohrobhgien ergy is best in that set-up, but to sales and maintenance. Jim is each their own. Belt drives are also also a volunteer mechanic as the taht sleef l eki .emoh now to be found among the newer Hub Community Bike Shop in Las roF ,sraey ruoy doohrobhgien saw lluf fo ,sdneirf nuf dna a esnes fo components on e-bikes. Since last Cruces. I checked in, folding e-bikes have eb .gnignol nehT eno gninrom uoy ekow pu dna aer l i dez eht en doohrobhgi come on the market too. Fr. Gabriel tsuj t’nsaw eht emas .eromyna htiW roines gnivil ta dooG natiramaS If you are in the Las Cruces area Rochelle is yteicoS – saL securC iV l ,egal ew nac pleh uoy leef r thgi ta emoh .niaga and you are interested in an e-bike pastor of St for yourself or for someone whom Anthony of the you’d like to see continue riding, Desert Orthodox oT nrael erom tuoba dooG ramaS i nat you will want to check out Jim and Mission, Las coS i e t y – aL s curC e s iV l l ega , ac l l ( 575 ) 2631-225 . Barbara Toth’s enterprise, E-bikes Cruces, an of Southern New Mexico. They avid cyclist and chairman can be reached at 575-635-9961 of the Hub (community or check the web site: ebikesnm. bike shop of Las Cruces) lA l iaf sht ro leb sfei era .emoclew com. They’re very knowledgeable, steering committee. Email at: they have a good choice of bikes, [email protected].

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shadow.indd 1 24 • AUGUST 2019 www.desertexposure.com ON THE SHELF • MIKE COOK Writing: The Loneliest, Noblest Craft Branigan Library celebrating area authors

elebrate Authors will be be able to display, sign and sell plots and charac- be the pen in God’s hand. A great held 2-4 p.m. Sunday, Sept. their books,” said longtime FTBML ters readers will way to start is to write down ideas C8, in the Roadrunner Room member Sue Fletcher. “Guests will care about even as they come to you … sudden in- on the second floor of the library, go from table to table interacting though no one spirations, humorous encounters 200 E. Picacho Ave. in Las Cruces. with the authors.” is going to die. I with friends, etc. Throw these tid- There is no charge to attend. Light To participate, authors had to be write daily and bits into a file (you’ll be surprised refreshments will be provided. residents of the southern New Mex- have kept that how quickly they pile up), and be- AMBER FOXX FRANK THAYER JOE S. BULLOCK During the event, “authors will ico region and their books must commitment fore too long you have the makings have been published in 2014 or lat- Truth or Consequences author for years. As many drafts as I go of a book.” er. Books submitted for inclusion Amber Foxx is participating in the through, perhaps I should say I re- Retired New Mexico State Uni- Mesilla Book Center in the event could be of any genre, event. Foxx is the author of the vise daily.” versity journalism professor Frank • Books about the West, Mexico, horses, cowboys, Native Americans & More including fiction, non-fiction, poet- mystery novels in the Mae Mar- Another participant, Joe S. Bull- Thayer, who lives in Mesilla Park, • Children’s books & Toys ry, science fiction, short-story col- tin mystery series: “The Calling,” ock, a long-time Las Cruces banker has co-authored a nonfiction ac- • Gifts & more lections and children’s literature. “Shaman’s Blues,” “Snake Face,” and community activist who was count of a UFO crash in northern ‘Some of the best books never make the bestseller lists’ On the Plaza • (575) 526-6220 More than 20 local authors par- “Soul Loss,” “Ghost Sickness” and born in Artesia, in 1949. Bullock New Mexico and has written nov- Tue-Sat 11 am-5:30 pm ticipated last year and at least as “Death Omen,” along with “Small also participating. Bullock is the els about an alien invasion and oth- Sun 1 pm-5 pm, Closed Mon many will be in attendance this Awakenings: Reflections on Mind- author of the fictional, faith-based er tales of horror in southern New year. ful Living,” which is a collection of novel “Walking with Herb,” which Mexico. essays. is the basis of a soon-to-be released “Writing can be the best and Fountain Theatre “My favorite bit of advice for motion picture. most complete expression of hu- Featuring the best independent, foreign and documentary films in the southwest! a novelist came from writing in- “I believe most people are capa- man consciousness, and it delights August 2-8 Late Night (OC) structor Jessica Brody: ‘The bait ble of writing a book,” Bullock said, the reader while it ennobles the has to appeal to the fish, not the “they just never try. Most of us have author,” Thayer said. “Writing is a August 9-15 The Last Black Man in San Francisco (OC) fisherman,’” Foxx said. “I write a story to tell. Just a painter can be lonely craft, but it is probably supe- August 16-22 Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am (OC) mysteries without murder. Brody’s a brush in God’s hands, or a sing- rior to psychotherapy and a part- The Fountain Theatre will be closed advice makes me work to build er can be God’s voice, a writer can ner to the confessional.” Friday, Aug. 23 thru Thursday, Sept. 12. 2469 Calle de Guadalupe, Mesilla • www.mesillavalleyfilm.org • (575) 524-8287 Pinball Wizards Mountain Music New Business Calls to Social Gamers ad Retrocade opened June CHECK US OUT ON CRAIG’S LIST 28 in Las Cruces at 201 N. New & Used Musical Instruments RMain St. downtown. The hip establishment which offers Consignments pinball, video and floor games, in- Trade-Ins cludes a bar and restaurant. Hours 2330 S. Valley Drive are 2 p.m.-2 a.m., Monday-Friday, 11 a.m.-2 p.m. Saturday and 11 523-0603 a.m.-midnight Sunday. M-F 10AM - 6PM • SAT 10AM - 5PM • SUN 10AM - 2PM

Cristian Rangel, Frankie Rodriguez and Bianca Marin play Ghost- busters pinball Sunday night at Rad Retrocade on Mainstreet downtown. Vintage Adventure Mercado open downtown Las Cruces

Owner Beverly Chavez-Floyd with before (right) and after artwork of the new Main Street Vintage Mercado downtown. (Photos by Mike Cook)

ain Street Vintage Mer- sicles) in nearly a dozen flavors, cado and coffee shop is with more coming soon. There Mnow open at 300 N. Main are also collectibles and antiques, St., at the corner of Main and Las including Depression Glass, glass- Cruces Avenue in the La Esquina ware and dishes and wide range of plaza in Las Cruces. Owner Bever- one-of-a-kind items. There’s even ly Chavez-Floyd returns to this lo- a Christmas corner. The coffee cation, where she worked 40 years shop is open 7 a.m.-8:30 p.m. Mon- ago and where she operated Patina day-Thursday, 7 a.m.-10 p.m. Friday Home for three and a half years. and Saturday and 8 a.m.-8 p.m. Sun- The 2,000-square-foot shop fea- day. For more information, call 575- tures fresh-roasted coffee, Italian 524-1061. Find them on Facebook sodas and paletas (Mexican pop- and Instagram. DESERT EXPOSURE AUGUST 2019 • 25

The original home of Don Antonio DeLaO built in 1906 still stands on the homestead, now Las Esperanza Vineyard and Winery. A 30-food Thompson seedless grape vine surrounds the little house. La Esperanza wines are no stranger to winning both state and na- tional awards over the years.

The fields of La Esperanza Vineyard and Winery spread across the desert valley, bringing a lush business to the land. (Photos by Elva K. Österreich) GRAPE COUNTRY • ELVA K. ÖSTERREICH Nothing to Wine Over La Esperanza Vineyard celebrates 10th year n a hillside, in the valley of “The greens turn greener and the then to a press. David recently the Gallinas River, in 1906, green turns purple,” He explained, came back from California where ODon Antonio DeLaO built gently handling the grapes. “So, he bought a new bladder press he a little adobe home, 13 feet by 13 the chardonnay is going to turn is happy to show off. feet. His wife and child joined him just greener and these are already “So, we don’t really need to in the little home, and they began a berry set. These are merlot right stomp the grapes, only virgins new life. The little home expanded there. They will turn purple purple are allowed to stomp them, and as the family grew and in 1916, a and get as big as marbles. For some we don’t have any virgins left,” he new, bigger, home grew nearby for reason this year these guys are said. the family. growing really, really, long, that’s a Then the juice goes into a tank “In the old days if you request- pretty big cluster for merlot.” to ferment. Reds ferment at least a ed a section of land you could get He moves on to the next row. year, whites for half a year. When a section of land,” David Gurule “Pinot Noir are a tight-tight-tight it’s ready, it’s filtered and bottled. said. “You had to go to Doña Ana little cluster,” he said. “There space “Filters are 1 micron, your hair County to pick it up. [DonAnto- in between the grapes, if it rains the is about 20,” David said. “Then we nio’s] was unique. He only got 640 air can’t get through. Then we get go to a corker. When we say we acres, 160 here, and 5 miles up some rot.” handcraft our wine, we do it one was the rest of it.” Everything is handpicked in this bottle at a time.” Don Antonio was a rancher The vineyard at La Esperanza boasts several grape varieties from orchard, he said. La Esperanza grows six variet- and a farmer. He wanted land by green, to red to golden. Moving comfortably between ies of grapes used in their wines, the river, but the Mimbres had all A walk through the vines, David shows off the the rest they buy. Part of his flavor been claimed so he settled for the grapes and, after investigating Syrah, the golden muscat and the secret making La Esperanza wines Gallinas. extensively, planted their first 100 the vineyard St. Vincent grapes. different and unique is the high el- All the little family had was a grapes in 10 different varieties. It’s June and David’s tour begins The mission grapes are the origi- evation, cold temperature condi- cistern of water 16 feet deep, but David had to see what would grow at the little house built by Don An- nal grapes in New Mexico brought tion of growing and processing. they soon put a well at the top best at that elevation and with the tonio which has stood firm since in by the Jesuits when the Francis- “My grapes are in the Chardon- of the property, reaching into the soil and drainage available. 1906. It is surrounded by a single can friars got tired of going back nay, Golden Muscat, Syrah, Merlot ground 160 feet. “Somebody asked, ‘Why don’t Thompson seedless grape vine. to Spain every few years for sacra- and Born in Space,” he said. “The “You can imagine, pounding, you plant 2,000,’” he said. So, in He gently grasps a bunch of young mental wine. rest of them I buy the grapes down welding, pounding, welding – like 2000, David put in 1,000 plants and grapes. David calls it an “old-timer plant” in Deming and I make the wine. So that – to 160 feet,” Guruele said in 2001, he put in another 1,000. “This is a cluster of Thompson and said the cluster will grow to al- here we make 13 different types of and swept his arm over the land. “So, a lot of these plants went in seedless right here,” he said. “It most a foot long and be as big as wine. Each wine and wine person “This was all basically orchard, years ago,” he said. “The vineyard, is early in the year, they are berry golf balls. The premature grapes and environment are different, so gardening.” in a sense, has been here 20 years setting right now. I think Don Anto- are spaced apart in the cluster be- they taste different.” Today, that same land is covered but we went commercial in 2009.” nio is helping me get it all the way cause “the cluster knows its going in lush and healthy grape vines. By 2008 they were selling grapes down.” to have a big berry.” The tasting room Esperanza Gurule, David’s wife, to home based winemakers and From one side of the building an The mission grapes can still be All 13 wines are available to is the inheritor of this piece of her decided it was time to do some- old adobe wall stretches out along used for wine and some make jel- taste at La Esperanza’s tasting family’s legacy. And the Gurules’ thing themselves. the road and you can see lizards ly with them, La Esperanza sells room, where they also sell eight business, La Esperanza Vineyard “It’s a big commitment to get a sunning and climbing along it. Da- them to others who do those things varieties of New Mexico crafted and Winery, is making a healthy winery,” David said. “The process vid pointed out the lizards. and don’t make their own mission beers. If it is hot out, guests can sit profit and providing the area with with New Mexico usually takes “That’s the lizard on the wine wine. in the cool pleasant room as they its flavorful bounty. over a year. The first crop to har- bottle,” he said. try the various wines. If its gentle On Aug. 3 the business is cele- vest and sell was 2008 and we of- Also, near the old adobe are Making wine: What out, the wide porch and welcom- brating its 10th year by opening ficially opened in 2009, on the first remnants of the old orchards, apri- happens inside ing wooden deck chairs are per- its doors and inviting guests to a weekend in august.” cot trees lean over it like old men. fect for looking over the vineyards wine festival. There will be live In 2009, La Esperanza started David said if he gets apricots, he The production area wakes up as you sip. music, delicious food and a wine with 200 cases of wine and today knows he’s going to get chardon- in late August or September, Da- “Born in Space is our specialty grape stomping contest. The mu- they are selling 1,000. David said nay which comes out early like vid said. wine,” David said as he poured sic starts at 11 a.m. with Brandon he has no interest in expanding the apricots and they freeze. Some “Pretend you are a grape,” he a glass for me. “It’s semi-sweet, Perrault & Friends. They will be further, he is retired from his job years he doesn’t get apricots, or said. “You are at 26 percent sugar, a nice rose color and good with followed at 3 p.m. by the Illusion as an atomic energy engineer at chardonnay, at all. so we go pick you. We look at your spicy food. You don’t want a dry Band. Los Alamos National Labs and It’s in late July the grapes begin taste, your character, your aroma.” It was in 1999 that the Gurules wants to keep life relatively sim- their change to ripeness, David The grapes come in to the build- WINE actually started thinking about ple. said. ing and into a crusher destemmer, continued on page 26 26 • AUGUST 2019 www.desertexposure.com

NATIVE ROOTS • MARK CANTRELL GETTING OUT Tales from the Trail What Won’t the Deer Eat? CDTC spotlights the diverse faces ‘Stacking’ up the benefits of native plants of the Continental Divide

t’s a good thing I like talking his summer, the Con- the landscapes they span. about native plants. Aside from tinental Divide Trail Many Faces of the Con- Ithe value of providing plants TCoalition (CDTC) is tinental Divide events are adapted to the harsh realities of the partnering with recreation, open to the public and free of southwest gardening, answering conservation, and commu- charge. CDTC is offering re- questions about plants is an import- nity organizations and the sources to help plan and pub- ant task for ensuring plants do well diverse communities along licize events for groups inter- after they leave the nursery. the Continental Divide to in- ested in organizing an event, Native plants are a good choice vite people to connect with and financial assistance to primarily because the erratic and their public lands through a support transportation and extreme weather and nutrient series of events and story- meals. poor soils of the southwest have Protecting a garden from the creatures of the wild involves not telling called “Faces of the As part of these efforts, not killed them yet. That, and they only the types of plants involved but the timing and the placement. Continental Divide: Sharing the Continental Divide Trail are already well adapted as part of (Photo by Laurie Ford) Stories, Connecting Commu- Coalition will also spend the the beautiful landscape that draws nities.” summer collecting and shar- many to our enchanted ecosystems. vors and smells of the surrounding essential food source for monarch Ending on National Public ing stories of participants’ People who have lived their lives soils and ecosystems. So, when you and queen butterfly larvae. Butter- Lands Day Saturday, Sept. connections to the land- here, and of course newcomers plant can be as important as what fly weed (A. tuberosa), horsetail 28, Faces of the Continental scapes of the Rocky Moun- who have transplanted themselves you plant, which gives one more milkweed (A. verticillata) and an- Divide is highlighting the di- tain West. The stories will be from lands more moist and green reason for planting with the mon- telope horns (A. asperula) are all verse communities along the catalogued and showcased have lots of questions. Answering soons in our region. southwest favorites. Another favor- Continental Divide engaged on the CDTC’s website and these questions always leads to in- I really am not selling pants so ite is fernbush, a wonderful shrub in outdoor recreation and communications and will teresting conversation. much as I’m selling insects, birds of the Colorado Plateau. In our conservation and celebrate provide a more comprehen- “What won’t the deer eat?” No and microorganisms. For those front yard, the blooms attract such their relationships with pub- sive perception of how peo- question is more common while who love gardening it often seems an array of pollen hungry creatures lic lands. ple in the Rocky Mountain selling native plants at our farm- that it’s that daily conversation that we have had dragonflies hunt- “Too often we only see one West connect to landscapes, er’s market, and few questions with nature as things grow and ing the buffet of flying beauty add- image of who participates the Trail, and conservation as highlight the nature of our relation- transform that is the thing. There ing to the show. in outdoor recreation,” said a whole. ship between our landscapes and is something important in that no- Four wing saltbush provides Teresa Martinez, Executive In Las Cruces the Nuestra ourselves. It seems we have inad- tion. The idea that our relationship seeds for many birds and there is Director of the Continental Tierra Conservation Project, vertently trained deer to see our with land can result in healthy no better cover for quail and many Divide Trail Coalition. Friends of the Organ Moun- gardens as salad buffets. Hungry abundance, growth and functional other ground nesters. Chamisa, “That image simply doesn’t tains-Desert Peaks, Latino rock squirrels and jack rabbits also diversity is no small thing, espe- also called rabbit brush, is always reflect the diverse communi- Outdoors, and Hispanic Ac- greatly appreciate our gardening cially in a world where our activ- covered with a host of butterflies ties who value the landscapes cess Foundation teamed up habits. And of course, javelina not ity often results so much to the when is flowers in the fall. There of the Rocky Mountain West. to raft the Rio Bravo as part only love to eat any new planting, contrary. Therefore, I see plants are butterflies that have mouth- It’s time to share a more com- of this effort. they also enjoy just digging things as a gateway to the more potent parts built specifically for certain plete picture of who cares for “The history of the Rio Bra- up and carrying them around. addictions of the other wild things Buckwheats. The Soapberry hair- and loves our natural places.” vo in southern New Mexico Truth is, there really is no such that show up and share in our land- streak butterfly breads exclusively Throughout the summer, is deeply tied to our cultural thing as a deer proof plant, anything scape conversations. on the Western Soapberry tree. Net- the CDTC is engaging with lo- and traditional uses of the riv- you may have read to the contrary Like with deer eating habits, at- leaf hackberry trees not only pro- cal groups along the length of er, from Indigenous to Mex- is just wrong, and the deer don’t tracting wild things to a garden is vide tasty berries for us in winter, the Continental Divide from ican American communities read that stuff anyway. However, more about ideas than just specific but few native trees provide food, New Mexico to Montana to today,” said Gabe Vasquez, there are many reliable choices plants. A good place to start is to shelter, and nursery and nesting op- underscore the importance founder of the Nuestra Tierra among the more pungently vola- borrow ideas from permaculture portunities for such a huge array of of providing access to the Conservation Project. tile fragrant flowers and shrubs. known as “stacking functions.” New Mexico wildlife. outdoors for all people. “Floating the Rio Bravo Aromatic volatile plants are often This refers to looking at the stack As you can see, these are just a Joining forces with orga- allows us to explore that cul- advertising bitter and unsavory fla- of benefits that any one organism few of our native plants that stack nizations already working ture, history, and tradition, vors long adapted to repel hungry brings to a system. In the garden up multiple functions in southwest to change the face of public and to encourage new stew- critters. This includes much of the each plant can provide food, shel- ecosystems. I’m sure your local Na- lands, such as Denver Envi- ards of our water and natural mint family which includes the sag- ter, shade, nursery, pollen and nec- tive Plant Society and hopefully lo- ronmental Learning for Kids resources here in the Chihua- es. I usually point those out first, but tar, and benefits to soil chemistry cal nurseries can tell you more. The (ELK), Big City Mountain- huan Desert.” I always give even the most critter through the ecosystem that each best part is, the more you learn, the eers, Hispanic Access Foun- By encouraging commu- repellent plants nothing higher than root zone provides. more you notice and become more dation, and Latino Outdoors, nities to connect with their a 99 percent guarantee. I learned When I talk to people about any aware of. May you find your own CDTC aims to inspire new own story of conservation, long ago that saying 100 percent plant, I want them to know the garden a place of ongoing conver- people to explore the Conti- Faces of the Continental Di- brings on stories of deer eating just multiple reasons why they are im- sation and source for questions in nental Divide, as well as to vide will show that although the flowers, or new growth, or the portant. Supporting pollinators is your ongoing relationship with the amplify the often-untold sto- some communities are ab- whole darn thing. Even reliably one example. If you haven’t heard, natural world. What better place to ries of communities who val- sent from the current narra- volatile plants are more attractive pollinators are essential to our own start a healthy and functional re- ue and steward its lands. tive, they are conservation- fresh from a spoiled nursery life. agriculture and they are in trouble lationship with nature than in our From day hikes and over- ists nonetheless. Perhaps how and when you plant worldwide. Buying plants that are own front yard? night backpacking trips to View a map of events, sign can be just as important as what grown using organic methods is an outdoor poetry workshop, up to host your own event, or you plant. one way to ensure we keep harmful Mark Cantrell is co-owner with Faces of the Continental Di- tell your story at continent- It’s good to protect any new pant- hidden toxins out of our own gar- his wife, Tricia Hurley, of Lone vide events are as varied as aldividetrail.org/faces. ing in the early spring when wild dens. Also knowing which plants Mountain Natives in Silver City. things have fewer green and lush support the nectoring, pollen and They have been growing, selling choices. When the monsoons are in nursery needs provides beauty for and learning about native plants full swing and more green choices us in both the plants themselves for the past 13 years where they are available, it is much easier to and with the pollinators they at- have a home nursery and sell sneak in new planting under the tract. at the local farmers market in nose of our hungry neighbors. Once The Milkweed family (Asclepias downtown Silver City. Contact established, even some of the more sp.) are stellar examples. The flow- them at [email protected] or attractive plants can become less ers all attract a host of beneficial visit their website at www. so once they have taken on the fla- pollinators, and the leaves are an lonemtnnatives.com

WINE continued from page 25 wine with spicy food. It’s better Mexico. For more information call Brewery and Distillery in Silver once it breaths a little bit. Taste 505-259-9523 or visit laesperanza- City; Bullocks Shur-Save Super- that hint of cherry at the end?” vineyardandwinery.com. market in Truth or Consequences; The vineyard and winery tasting In addition to at the winery it- Peppers Supermarket in Deming; room is open weekends and by self, La Esperanza wines can be Toucan Market in Las Cruces; and The CDTC works with community organizations like the New request. The winery is located at found at restaurants Revel, Ado- at upcoming wine festivals in Las Mexico Wilderness Alliance to engage diverse groups of 100 DeLaO Road, Sherman, New be Springs and Little Toad Creek Cruces and Albuquerque. people in conservation efforts. (Photo by Patrick Meehan) DESERT EXPOSURE AUGUST 2019 • 27

HIGH PLACES • GABRIELE TEICH In the Chiricahua Mountains A surprise on Ash Springs Trail makes for memorable hike

ome things take several at- us and I will spare you the details the list of endangered species since matched those colors perfectly. No fairly easy hike and on this Sunday tempts to get right. We had of the afternoon, chatting away and 2002 because they need a perma- wonder I almost stepped on it be- morning we didn’t meet any other Splanned originally to get to- getting each other up to date on the nent water source for reproduction fore I saw it. When I backtracked hikers, although there were quite gether in the Chiricahua Mountains latest news of kids and – in their which is harder and harder to come and bumped into our friend Ken a few people on the campgrounds with our friends last fall. Then the case – grandkids. by in the desert. with a loud “whoa” escaping my and a big group of birders at the Re- weather turned nasty on us and On Sunday morning, we set out But that was not all the wildlife lips, he still didn’t see it. Pretty good search Station. The elegant trogans they came to visit us in Las Cru- to do a pretty little two mile loop, we encountered on that hike. Nat- camouflage, isn’t it? had arrived, luring many people into ces instead. At least, we still got passing Ash Spring. It starts at the urally, there were many birds. Ken, We knew we should just leave it these Mountains. We spotted one, together and got a hike in: the Pine end of the road at the Herb Mar- our biology major friend could name alone but since it was so smackdab coppery back and flashy red chest, Tree trail in the Organ Mountains. tyr Campground. Leading through them all. He should know, after all, on the trail we thought it better to on our first day in the Chiricahuas Checking our calendars, the first mixed woods and crossing several he wrote a book about the Chirica- move it a few feet off to save the but not on this trail. Still – I know I good weekend we could agree on little canyons, we came upon the ac- huas a few years back (“Chiricahua next hikers the shock. Ken has won’t forget this hike so soon. fell on the end of April, over six tual Ash Spring and got a pleasant Mountains” by Ken Lamberton, Uni- some experience with snakes and Stay safe, see you on the trails! months later. We penciled it all in surprise: Several small basins were versity of Arizona Press). took a long stick to lift it carefully and finally, April came around and teeming with the Chiricahua leop- Now, I have to admit that I have up and off the trail. Yes, it rattled, Of German we met at the Stewart Campground ard frog. The basins fed into each often complained after a hike telling us it didn’t like that. The ini- origin, Gabriele in the Chiricahua Mountains, a other down the slope of a grassy that “there was nothing to write tial adrenaline rush stayed with me Teich has called beautiful shaded small loop with no hill and after standing still for a lit- about” because it was just that, a for quite a while afterwards. Every Las Cruces more than eight campsites. The oth- tle while, we started seeing more quiet walk in the woods or desert. little bug buzzing up set me off. her home for er two campgrounds along the road and more frogs. They appeared as Not this one! All it took was one “Who needs caffeine when you more than 20 are not much bigger, so on holiday green as the water they moved in black-tailed rattle snake sunbath- can have a rattle snake waking you years — and weekends they fill up fast. But this – except for their Leopard spots. ing on the trail in a denser part of up?” loved every minute of it, hiking was just a regular weekend and we The research station down the road the forest to make this particular The trail eventually connects to the mountains in the immediate had our pick, even at one o’clock on has several ponds where they are hike more memorable than most. the Greenhouse Road which takes surrounding area and all over Friday afternoon. observed professionally. The Chir- The dark earthen trail was littered you back to the Herb Martyr Camp- this beautiful state. Our friends rolled in shortly after icahua leopard frog has been on with yellowing leaves and the snake ground where you started. This is a

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Tuesday to DRIFTER PANCAKE HOUSE, 711 4920. Elevated comfort food. Saturday L D. ountain Silver Heights Blvd., 538-2916. Weekdays LD, weekends BD, M Lo BURRITOS VICTORIA, 1295 El ar d Breakfast, American: B L, breakfast closed Wednesdays. e ge Paseo Road, 541-5534. Burritos: B L B served throughout. D. Now serving beer. EL GALLO PINTO, 901 N. Hudson SILVER BOWLING CENTER CAFÉ, CAFÉ DON FELIX, 2290 Calle de St., 597-4559. Mexican: Tuesday, 2020 Memory Lane, 538-3612. Parian, 652-3007. Mexican, street Wednesday and Sunday B L Thurs- American, Mexican, hamburgers: tacos, mini-burgers: Wednesday to day to Saturday B L D. Daily L D. Saturday L D, Sunday brunch only 10 FORREST’S PIZZA, 601 N. Bullard a.m. to 6 p.m. St. Unit J. 388-1225. Tuesday to SUNRISE ESPRESSO, 1530 CARILLO’S CAFÉ, 330 S. Church, Friday L D, Slices until 7 p.m. N. Hudson, 388-2027. Coffee 523-9913. Mexican, American: Mon- FRY HOUSE, 601 N. Bullard St. Suite shop: Monday to Saturday B day to Saturday L D. C. 388-1964. 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Valley Dr., to 8, SUN 8 -4:30. urday dinner. 524-1360. Mexican, burgers: Sunday WRANGLER’S BAR & GRILL, 2005 B L, Monday to Saturday B L D. JALISCO CAFÉ, 100 S. Bullard Hwy. 180E, 538-4387. Steak, burg- DION’S PIZZA, 3950 E. Lohman, St., 388-2060. Mexican. Monday to ers, appetizers, salads: L D. 521-3434. Pizza: L D. Saturday L D Sunday B. TRANQUILBUZZ CAFÉ, 112 W. DOUBLE EAGLE, 2355 Calle De JAVALINA COFFEE HOUSE, 117 Yankie St. Coffee shop, coffee, Guadalupe, 523-6700. Southwest- Market St., 388-1350. Coffeehouse. home-made pastries and ice cream, ern, steaks, seafood: L D, Sun. JUMPING CACTUS, 503 N. Bullard fresh fruit smoothies. champagne brunch buffet. St. Coffeeshop, baked goods, sand- EL SOMBRERO PATIO CAFÉ, 363 wiches, wraps: B L. Cliff S. Espina St., 524-9911. Mexican: KOUNTRY KITCHEN, 1700 Moun- L D. tain View Road, 388-4512. Mexican: Tammy’s Café, U.S. High- ENRIQUE’S MEXICAN FOOD, 830 Tuesday to Saturday B L D. way 180, Cliff, 575-535-4500. W. Picacho, 647-0240. Mexican: B LA COCINA RESTAURANT, 201 W. Visit Tammy’s Café on Face- L D. College Ave., 388-8687. Mexican: book.RVs/Big Rigs welcome, FARLEY’S, 3499 Foothills Rd., L D. Mexican/American food. 522-0466. Pizza, burgers, American, LA FAMILIA, 503 N. Hudson St., Gluten free and vegetarian by Mexican: L D. 388-4600. Mexican: Tuesday to request. Thursday to Sat- FIDENCIO’S, 800 S. Telshor, 532- Sunday B L D. urday LD, Sunday L. “Bring 5624. Mexican: B L D. LA MEXICANA, Hwy. 180E and home cooking to your table” THE GAME BAR & GRILL, 2605 S. Memory Lane, 534-0142. Mexican Espina, 524-GAME. Sports bar and and American: B L. grill: L D. DOÑA ANA COUNTY THE GAME II: EXTRA INNINGS LITTLE TOAD CREEK Las Cruces & Mesilla SPORTS BAR & GRILL, 4131 North- BREWERY & DISTILLERY, ABRAHAM’S BANK TOWER rise Drive, 373-4263, Live music on 200 N. Bullard St., 956-6144. RESTAURANT, 500 S. Main St. 434, weekends. American, Southwest, Burgers, wings, salads, fish, 523-5911. American: Monday to now serving weekend brunch 10 a.m. pasta, craft beers and cock- Friday B L. Saturdays and Sundays: L D ANDELE’S DOG HOUSE, 1983 GARDUÑO’S, 705 S. Telshor (Hotel tails: Monday to Sunday L D. Encanto), 532-4277. Mexican: B L D. For the full event schedule of our Calle del Norte, 526-1271. Mexican plus hot dogs, burgers, quesadillas: GO BURGER DRIVE-IN, Home Silver City and Downtown Las Cruces MEXICO VIEJO, Hwy. 90 and Broad- B L D. of the Texas Size Burrito, 1008 E. locations, visit our Facebook or our way Mexican food stand: 956-3361. ANDELE RESTAURANTE, 1950 Lohman Ave. , Las Cruces, NM 88005, calendar at littletoadcreek.com Monday to Saturday B L early D. MI CASITA, 2340 Bosworth Dr., 538- Calle del Norte, 526-9631. Mexican: 575-524-9251. Monday - Saturday, 7 5533. New Mexican cuisine: Monday Monday B L, Tuesday to Sunday B a.m. – 3 p.m. Specializing in Relleno to Thursday L, Friday L D. L D. 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ChaChi’s Mexican Restaurant at 2460 S. Locust St. in Las Cruces. There is a second location at 505 Joe Gutierrez St. in Doña Ana. (Photos by Mike Cook) OE ISIT US IN AUUST AN TABLE TALK • MIKE COOK ENO THE FOOWIN O P H H Cinco Estrellas S P ChaChi’s Mexican Restaurant IE USI OA AN TOURIN ARTISTS his is really a two-part re- EER THURSA AN SATURA NIHT! view. I went to ChaChi’s TMexican Restaurant for FU ENU AN SPEIAS dinner with a friend of mine one SERE AI! evening in late June and ordered TR OUR FAOUS NAHOS! a red enchilada with ground beef. It was so good that I couldn’t OWNOA USI AENAR ENU AT stop thinking about it. So, when another friend asked for a good ! spot for lunch on July 3rd, I said “ChaChi’s!” I had the exact same enchilada and remembered to add a fried egg on top during the second vis- it. I’m honestly not sure which one A red enchilada with ground beef and an egg over medium, hold was better. Individually and col- the onions, please. lectively, they ring the bell as two of the best enchiladas I’ve ever also a pretty sweet dessert menu enjoy the entire feel of the restau- had. In fact, I’m already thinking with fried ice cream, sopapillas, rant. I sat outside during my July about a third visit to ChaChi’s in giant cookies, empanadas and 3 lunch menu and also enjoyed the near future. Hmmm. I wonder churros. The drinks menu in- that very much. The restaurant if they would do a red meat en- cludes more than a half-dozen is incredibly clean and well or- chilada for breakfast … varieties of soda pop, five differ- dered and the service has been The restaurant, 2460 S. Locust ent flavored iced teas and aqua excellent every time I’ve been St. in Las Cruces (there’s a sec- frescas (fresh-squeezed limeade, there. ond location at 505 Joe Gutierrez horchata and jamaica). ChaChi’s ChaChi’s Mexican Restaurant St. in the Village of Doña Ana), is serves domestic and import- gets cinco estrellas (five stars). open 8 a.m.-8 p.m. Monday-Satur- ed beer and is the home of the Call the Chachi’s on Locust day (closed Sunday). “monster margarita,” which is Street in Las Cruces at 575-522- ChaChi’s has an incredibly available in several different fla- 7322 and the ChaChi’s on Joe varied menu that includes appe- vors. Gutierrez Street in Doña Ana tizers, tacos, burritos, burgers I also love ChaChi’s colorful at 575-652-3071. Visit www.cha- and sandwiches, a kids’ menu parrot theme, the different col- chis-lc.com and www.facebook. and soups and salads. There is ored plates, and, in fact, I always com/CHACHISLC.

FOOD, 1420 El Paseo, 523-2828. LA POSTA RESTAURANT DE LA MEXICANA TORTILLERIA, Chinese: L D. MESILLA, 2410 Calle De San Albino, 1300 N. Solano Dr, 541-9617. Mex- GRANDY’S COUNTRY COOKING, 524-3524Mexican, steakhouse: L ican: B L D. 1345 El Paseo Rd., 526-4803. Amer- D, Saturday, Sunday and holidays MATTEO’S, 1001 E. University Ave. ican: B L D. also B. C-1, 888-4310, Authentic Mexican: HABANERO’S 600 E. Amador Ave., LAS TRANCAS, 1008 S. Solano Dr., Monday through Saturday: B L D. 524-1829. Fresh Mexican: B L D. 524-1430. Mexican, steaks, burgers, Wonderfully simple menu, pleasant HACIENDA DE MESILLA, 1803 fried chicken: L D, Saturday and dining room and delicious aguas Avenida de Mesilla, 652-4953. Sunday also B. frescas. Steaks, barbecue, seafood, sand- LE RENDEZ-VOUS CAFÉ, 2701 W. MIGUEL’S, 1140 E. Amador Ave., wiches, salads, pasta: L D. Picacho Ave. #1, 527-0098. French 647-4262. Mexican: B L D. pastry, deli, sandwiches: Tuesday to MI PUEBLITO, 1355 E. Idaho Ave., HIGH DESERT BREWING Sunday B L. 524-3009. Mexican: Monday to COMPANY, 1201 W. Hadley LET THEM EAT CAKE, 1001 E. Friday B L D, Saturday and Sunday University Ave. Suite D4, 680-5998. B L. Ave., 525-6752. Brew pub: Cupcakes: Tuesday to Saturday. MILAGRO COFFEE Y ESPRESSO, L D. LORENZO’S PAN AM, 1753 E. 1733 E. University Ave., 532-1042. University Ave., 521-3505. Italian, Coffeehouse: B L D. INTERNATIONAL DELIGHTS, 1245 pizza: L D. MIX PACIFIC RIM CUISINE AND El Paseo Rd., 647-5956. Greek and LOS COMPAS CAFÉ, 6335 Bataan MIX EXPRESS, 1001 E. Univer- International: B L D. Memorial W., 382-2025. Mexican: sity Ave. D3, 532-2042. Asian, JOSEFINA’S OLD GATE CAFÉ, B L D. Pacific: Monday to Saturday L D. 2261 Calle de Guadalupe, 525-2620. LOS COMPAS CAFÉ, 603 S. Neva- MOONGATE CAFÉ, 9345 Bataan Pastries, soups, salads, sandwiches: rez St., 523-1778. Mexican: B L D. Memorial, 382-5744. Coffee shop, Monday to Thursday L, Friday to LOS COMPAS, 1120 Commerce Mexican, American: B L. Sunday B L. Dr., 521-6228. Mexican: B L D. MOUNTAIN VIEW MARKET KEVA JUICE, 1001 E. University, LOS MARIACHIS, 754 N. Motel KITCHEN, 1300 El Paseo Road, 522-4133. Smoothies, frozen yogurt: Blvd., 523-7058. Mexican: B L D. 523-0436. Sandwiches, bagels, B L D. LOS MARIACHIS, 5600 Bataan wraps, salads and other healthy LA NUEVA CASITA CAFÉ, 195 N. Memorial East, 373-0553. Mexican, fare: Monday to Saturday: B L Mesquite, 523-5434. Mexican and L D. early D. American: B L. 30 • AUGUST 2019 www.desertexposure.com

THE STARRY DOME • BERT STEVENS Columba, the Dove She brings Noah the twig of peace

n the heat of summer, it is pleas- seconds-of-arc smaller than last ant to recall the cooler days of month, as the Earth pulls away IMarch when a dove flies just 20 from the giant planet. The King of degrees above our southern hori- the Gods sets around 1:30 a.m. af- zon. Columba, the Dove, is a small ter appearing 34 degrees above the constellation, 54th in size out of the southern horizon as it gets dark, 88 official constellations defined shining at magnitude -2.4. by the International Astronomical The Ringed Planet is around 30 Union. It is a squarish constellation degrees behind Jupiter in our sky, with a smaller square taken out of moving slowly westward in central its northeast corner by the constel- Sagittarius. It starts the evening 32 lation Canis Major. degrees above the south-southeast- In the late 16th century, astron- ern horizon, setting around 3:30 omers were filling in the sky with a.m. The Rings are 40.6 seconds-of- new constellations that occupied arc across and they are tilted down the space between the tradition- 25.0 degrees with the northern al constellations. Dutch-Flemish face showing, while the disc is 17.9 astronomer Petrus Plancius first seconds-of-arc across. It shines at depicted Columba in 1592. He orig- magnitude +0.3. inally named it Columba Noachi Mercury appears in the morning (Noah’s Dove), for the dove that sky this month. It will have just be- Noah released after the flood in come visible on the east-northeast- the biblical story. After a number of ern horizon as the month begins failed excursions, the dove brought and will reach its highest point on back a twig to prove that the wa- Our evening sky contains the two largest planets in our solar system, Jupiter and Saturn. Two Aug. 9. On that day, Mercury shines ters of the flood were receding and prominent constellations are Sagittarius, the Archer, with its teapot asterism and Scorpius, the at magnitude +0.2 with a disc that dry land had returned. Scorpion, with its stinger tail, pincers, and first-magnitude red star, Antares. The ecliptic runs just is 7.6 seconds-of-arc across and Columba has also been associat- north of Antares, and roughly every twenty-two months you can see Mars and Antares, whose it is 38 percent illuminated. The ed with the dove that Jason and the name means “Rival of Mars” both shining near the other, both with their red glows. Messenger of the Gods will be 10 Argonauts released at the Black to this standard, and we are moving degrees above the horizon as it gets Sea’s mouth to help them navi- Calendar of Events – AUGUST 2019 (MST) about forty-three thousand miles dark and it sets around 6:45 p.m. gate the dangerous Symplegades. per hour, roughly in the direction During the month, Mercury moves This was a pair of rocks that clash 07 11:31 a.m. First Quarter Moon of the star Vega and away from from eastern Gemini, through Can- 09 5 p.m. Mercury greatest distance from together whenever a ship passed Sun (19 degrees) Columba. All the local stars are cer, ending in south central Leo. between them, destroying it. King 11 10 a.m. Jupiter stands still orbiting the center of the galaxy. This will be an excellent opportu- Phineus, who was also a seer, to 13 1 a.m. Perseid Meteor Shower peaks It will take us 225 million years to nity to see Mercury in the morning Jason and the Argonauts to send 14 Midnight Venus on the far side of the Sun orbit the galaxy once. This requires sky. a dove through the Symplegades 15 6:29 a.m. Full Moon a speed of 483,000 miles per hour, Around one meteor a minute 23 8:56 a.m. Last Quarter Moon first. It lost only a few tail feathers. 30 4:37 a.m. New Moon the fastest of all the speed, but tak- will appear in our northeastern sky As the rocks were returning to their ing us the longest to complete. at the peak of the Perseid meteor resting positions, the Argonauts The Milky Way galaxy is also shower on the morning of Aug. 13. rowed mightily to get through be- shines at magnitude 3.1. The entire Earth is moving moving, there is no primary mark- If you are not out at a dark site, you fore the Symplegades could crush Looking at the sky, we appear to around the sun at the same time er in our universe to which we can will see fewer of these meteors them. They succeeded, losing only be standing still. We feel no sense as it is spinning around its axis. To measure our speed. We can only radiating from the constellation a stern ornament. After that, the of motion, but we are actually cover the 580 million miles of the measure it relative to other galax- Perseus. The best way to observe rocks stopped moving completely. moving quite rapidly through the Earth’s orbit in a year, the Earth ies. this event is with cold weather gear At magnitude 2.7, Phact (Alpha universe, a motion that has many must travel around 67,000 miles laying back in a chaise lounge look- Columbae) is the brightest star components. per hour. Since the Earth orbits The Planets for ing northeast. So, watch these dust in this faint constellation. It is a The most local motion is the ro- to the east and rotates toward the August 2019 specks from Comet Swift-Tuttle solitary star that is 261 light-years tation of the Earth. This is moving east, the two speeds add together “burn up” in our atmosphere and away from us. It is spectral class you eastward at a speed of around when you are near midnight and Mars and Venus are too close “keep watching the sky”! B7, with 4.5 times the mass of our nine hundred miles per hour de- the rotational speed subtracts from to the sun to be seen this month, Sun which makes it a thousand pending on your latitude. The fur- the orbital speed around noon. leaving Jupiter and Saturn the An amateur times brighter than our sun. The ther north you are, the slower you The sun is not standing still ei- only planets in the evening sky astronomer only other named star in Columba are moving, since the distance you ther. All the stars in our section of as it gets dark. Jupiter is in south for more than is Wazn (Beta Columbae), an old have to travel to complete the 24- the Milky Way galaxy are moving at central Ophiuchus, moving slow- 45 years, Bert star of spectral class K1. This a hour rotation is less the further different speeds and directions. Av- ly westward until the 11th when Stevens is red giant star that is running out of north of the equator you go. At the eraging them all out, astronomers it turns around and heads east co-director of hydrogen fuel that has just a little North (or South) Pole, your speed define a local standard of rest. The again. At midmonth, Jupiter’s disc Desert Moon more than the mass of our sun. It will be zero miles per hour. Sun’s motion can now be measured is 40.7 seconds-of-arc across, four Observatory in Las Cruces.

nterdenominational PUBLISHER’S NOTEBOOK • RICHARD COLTHARP Valley Community Church 19-A Racetrack Road, Arenas Valley, NM Phone: 575-538-9311 Beat the Heat Website: www.vccsilvercity.com Navigating the ways of the Dog Days We are a community of faith called by Jesus to practice love of God and neighbor and elcome to the Dog Days ago, some thought, inaccurately, ing the heat involve an activity of Summer. the rising of Sirius along with the that, today, could get a parent ar- boundless compassion for all. W Just as today, dogs sun added extra heat, and that rested for child abuse. Sunday Worship at 10 A.M. were an important part of ancient was the source of the higher tem- I grew up in Oklahoma, where Egyptian society. peratures. the Dog Day temperatures and The “Dog Star,” the bright one Star-related or not, these are humidity were both always near Gila Friends Meeting in the constellation Canis Major, the hottest days of the year, triple digits. As kids, my friends The Religious Society of Friends had particular meaning. Each though in some years, we in New and I came up with a brilliant year, just ahead of the Nile’s Mexico get some relief from the scheme. Quaker Meeting flooding season, the Dog Star afternoon rains of the monsoon If we were super, duper hot, would appear rising and setting season. Although in the 24 years like 120 degrees, these 100-de- for Worship with the sun. I’ve lived here, the monsoon sea- gree temperatures would feel like This made the Dog Star, known sons have mostly been more like a breeze! Sundays 10-11a.m. as Sirius, a watchdog. brief-trickle-liquid-dust seasons. What can you do, though, to get Church of Harmony For more info: 575-590-1588 In the U.S., the Dog Days are So, in lieu of rain, how do you 609 N. Arizona St. Silver City NM 88061 [email protected] from July 3 to Aug. 11, usually beat the heat in these dog days? HEAT the hottest time of the year. Years My earliest memories of beat- continued on page 31 DESERT EXPOSURE AUGUST 2019 • 31

HEAT bit. I used to think indoor base- beat the heat, you tell yourself ball was a sin. But that felt pretty over and over and over, “It’s a Mary Hokom–Counseling continued from page 30 heavenly. dry heat, it’s a dry heat, it’s a dry even hotter? ARLINGTON, TEXAS: I’ve heat.” One sweltering evening we Specializing in Family, Children, and Individual therapies “I know,” I remember exclaim- been to dozens of Texas Rang- were driving around doing lots of with traditional and playful approaches to healing... ing to the group. “Let’s get in your ers games a few hours northwest things, and stopped to get gas at mom’s car and roll up all the win- of Houston. In their old stadium one point. 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Every medications delivered thanks our sponsors dom of hot-car sitting. summer, they would load up medical equipment Growing up in Oklahoma, or their yellow Chrysler and head other humid climes, the shade is to Ruidoso, New Mexico, where emotional support not necessarily your friend. When they would bet the ponies, swing respite the humidity is 90 percent, you’re dance at the Win, Place or Show going to sweat sun or shade, bar, and enjoy the smell of the 24-hour availability which reminds me of trying to cool breeze through the pines. It ADL assistance beat the heat in …. remains a great getaway. HOUSTON: On one visit to ARKANSAS: I lived in this bereavement support Houston, a friend and I played humid state for 10 summers, the experience Wiffle ball outside, in August, at first one in a second-story room 3 p.m. By this time, I was in my with no air conditioning. The compassion 30s, so I couldn’t blame this stu- only hope was to shower imme- medical supplies pid idea on my youth. Taking a diately before bed, lay down be- cool shower after was not much tween two or three fans and an confidential help; I kept sweating the entire open window, and hope you fall volunteers time, while still showering. Only asleep before the sweating starts. Irma Santiago, MD later, watching a baseball game ARIZONA: I visited Phoenix local cultural heritage in the air-conditioned Astrodome, a lot, and several times during music therapy with a cold Shiner Bock in my the Dog Days, when my sister hand, was I able to cool down a lived there. To fruitlessly try to spiritual support 32 • AUGUST 2019 www.desertexposure.com

e left Bar Harbor, Maine music was good, and we started to because we felt some- 32 YEARS IN SILVER CITY • SUSAN GOLIGHTLY enjoy the fellowship. So, we went Wthing was missing in our back, and back some more. The lives. next thing you know, we started “We,” means Julie, (my wife), Getting Saved reading the Bible – a lot. and our kidniks, Zoë and Erica and Twisting with life’s turns We had a lot of questions that we myself. We were doing great in Bar needed answers too, so we were Harbor, but we felt our lives were of “southern good ole boys.” We Besides, we were not in a hurry From then on, every place we introduced to pastor Lawrence lacking in meaning and purpose. drank a lot of beer, ate a lot of to get anywhere. Our neighbors stopped, from Florida to Silver Churchill. He was the Director of So, we might find it in Homer, Alas- shrooms, smoked a lot of grass, at this campground were a poor City, we found ourselves camp- the Southwest Christian Center ka. Let’s just say it seemed to make and still felt lost. After about five family living in a tent and had a joy ing next to Christians. We started in Buckhorn. We found ourselves sense at the time. months of that, we felt this was not about them that was plain to see. getting a bit paranoid. Like it was driving out there almost every oth- Anyway, we beelined south in the reason we left Maine. So, we’re They said they were Christians. some kind of weird holy conspir- er day asking questions about stuff our school bus and ended up in slow learners. We made our good We thought they were delusional. acy. Honestly, the last thing we in the Bible: slavery, segregation, Florida. It was the middle of the byes and moved on. They were poor and living in a tent. wanted was religion. I mean really, sexism, patriarchy, poverty, etc. winter when we left Maine, so we Okay, this is where things are go- We were living in a school bus. we were hippies and Christians al- Our questions were never fully took the southern route to Alas- ing to get a little “woo-woo. At the next campground, we ways looked so clean and neat. It’s answered but we began to learn ka. We parked our bus in a camp- The first campground we stayed stayed at, our neighbors, in a nice like somebody dropped them in a about the love of God and His son ground near the Ichnetucknee at, after leaving Ichnetucknee travel trailer, invited us over and rock tumbler and they came out all Jesus. Lawrence started a Church Springs State Park. A crystal-clear Springs, was only 50 miles away, told us how much the love of Jesus smoothed and polished. at the old Real West Cinema, just spring in northern Florida. We but we needed to change the scene had changed their life. We were So, we arrived in Silver City and east of town. We would meet be- felt we had arrived in Shangri-La. and get back to our purpose of thinking, wow, Jesus freaks, we found a piece land where we could fore the movie theater opened. While there we fell in with a group finding some meaning in our lives. don’t need that. park our school bus. We put a lock The church lasted long enough for on the gate to keep people out. The Julie and me to get saved. Then it next thing we knew, our neighbors closed. from over the hill, came riding Life became very different. up on their dirt bikes wanting to Worldly things lost their impor- check us out and introduce them- tance. I started thinking about selves. Yes, they were Christians, living for others and putting love and damn it, they were friendly, first. We changed, and our lives like you know, nice. They told us changed. Our oldest daughter Zoë about a place called, Bus Village, was pretty skeptical about it all, in Arenas Valley. So, we jumped in but reluctantly she went along our VW bus to go visit them. with us. Sure enough, there were fami- We started looking like some- lies living in school buses. When body had dropped us in a rock tum- we pulled up, a person came out bler. We had discovered that people to talk to us and he was wearing a are deeper than how they look or cross around his neck. We headed what they wear. People that we to their Thursday gathering and used to think looked like explod- when we pulled up; we noticed ed Sears catalogues became close other people arriving, they were friends. We began to look like them. carrying Bibles. We almost turned Fortunately, the polyester phase around a left. But we decided to had passed, otherwise I might have just try it this one time. If we don’t started wearing green polyester lei- like it, we don’t have to come back. Everybody was nice and ev- SAVED erybody was hippies like us. The continued on page 38

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Desert Exposure would like to include alongside craft vendors. Info: 575- Adventure, Mrs. Wyatt Earp & the your special events, from any south- 378-4431. Lone Ranger” — 11:30 a.m.-1 p.m. ern New Mexico community, in our Sunday under the stars outdoor at the First National Bank Atrium, 414 listing. Please submit your event title, movie: “Dumbo” — 8-10 p.m. at the 10th St. in Alamogordo. Info: 575- time, location and contact informa- Inn of the Mountain Gods in Mes- 437-4880. tion to [email protected]; calero. Bring a chair or blanket. Info: Desert Exposure 1740-A Calle de www.innofthemountaingods.com. Las Cruces/Mesilla Mercado, Las Cruces, NM 88005; or Music on the Downtown Plaza: call Elva at 575-680-1978. TUESDAY, AUGUST 6 Mariachi Real de El Paso — 8 p.m. Deming/Luna County on the Las Cruces Plaza. Thursday THURSDAY, AUGUST 1 National Night Out — 6-9 p.m. nigh music night serves up mariachi Silver City/Grant County at the Luna County Courthouse. music. Info: Info: 575-541-2550. Perspectives on Native American Hangout with local law enforcement Leadership: “Smoke Signals” — 7 and rirst responders. Info: demingc- FRIDAY, AUGUST 9 p.m. at the Santa Clara Armory, hamber.net. Silver City/Grant County 11990 U.S. Highway 180. Part of the Live Music: “Colors of Mono- Historic Fort Bayard Summer Film Las Cruces/Mesilla — 8 p.m. at Little Toad For the first week of September everyone is invited to Cloud- chrome” Series. Info: 575-534-1379. Victor Gibbs Adventure Photog- Creek, 200 N. Bullard St. Downtown croft’s Shady Pines garden to stroll, or lounge, as they listen to raphy — 7 p.m. at the Southwest En- Silver City. Info: 575-313-1266. Las Cruces/Mesilla live music wafting out of the cabin. vironmental Center, 275 N. Main St. Dino Train: “Dimetrodon” — 9 a.m. SATURDAY, AUGUST 3 Performing Arts. Self-driving art tour Las Cruces. Doña Ana Photography Alamogordo/Otero County at the Museum of Nature and Sci- club presentation with Victor Gibbs Silver City/Grant County featuring 22 professional Alto artists Live Music: Chris Dracup — 8 p.m. ence, 491 N. Main St. in Las Cruces. presenting images and stories cover- Silver City Farmer’s Market — 9 showing a variety of art. Info: 575- at Little Toad Creek, 119 N. Main St., Pre-K program. Cost: Free. Info: a.m.-noon in Historic Downtown 257-7395. ing some of his worldwide journeys. Downtown Las Cruces. Info: 575- 575-522-3122. Silver City at Eighth Street between Chile the Kid Beer and Wine Festi- Info: www.daphotoclub.org. 313-1266. Bullard Street and the Big Ditch. Info: val — 11 a.m.-8 p.m. at the Ruidoso Truth or Consequences/ [email protected]. Downs Racetrack and Casino. Green WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 7 SATURDAY, AUGUST 10 Sierra County Live Music: “Bullard Street Band” chile roasting, wine and beer tasting Silver City/Grant County Silver City/Grant County — Sierra Twirlers Square Dance — 8 p.m. at Little Toad Creek, 200 alongside craft vendors. The Long Silver City Farmer’s Market — 9 — 9 5:30-8 p.m. at the Fiddlers Play- Silver City Farmer’s Market N. Bullard St. Downtown Silver City. Run, Eagles tribute band, will be per- a.m.-noon at the Ace Hardware a.m.-noon in Historic Downtown house, 710 Elm in T or C. Main Info: 575-313-1266. forming at 6 p.m. Info: 575-378-4431. Parking Lot, 3025 U.S. Highway 180 Silver City at Eighth Street between stream and plus dancing. Info: . E., Silver City. Info: silvercityfarmers- Bullard Street and the Big Ditch. Info: 505-804-3842. Truth or Consequences/ SUNDAY, AUGUST 4 [email protected]. [email protected]. Sierra County Silver City/Grant County — 4-6 Ruidoso/Lincoln County Shakespeare in the Park Sierra County Farmers’ Market — Las Cruces/Mesilla p.m. at Gough Park in Silver City. — 8 p.m. at Hiroshima Peace Day Observance The Oak Ridge Boys 8:30 a.m.-noon at Ralph Edwards — 12:30 p.m. at Gough Park in Silver Swing on the Downtown Plaza — 7 Silver City Community Theater pres- the Spencer Theater for the Perform- Park, Riverside and Cedar, Truth or City. Begins with period of silent wor- p.m. on the Las Cruces Plaza. Enjoy ents four readers with 16 of Shake- ing Arts, 108 Spencer Road in Alto. Consequences. Info: 575-894-9375. ship followed by and opportunity to music from the big band era to new speare’s sonnets. Together they tell a Four-part harmony country-gospel speak out of the silence on the threat age electro swing. Don’t know how story of friendship, lust and betrayal. music. Cost: $86. Info: 575-336- Alamogordo/Otero County nuclear armaments represent for the to swing, there is a beginner’s lesson Info: 575-313-5891. 4800. at the start of every event. Info: Info: Alamogordo Farmer’s Market — world. Info: [email protected]. Second Saturday Gallery Walk 8:30 a.m. at 1991 White Sands Blvd., 575-541-2550. — 5-7 p.m. in Silver City, various FRIDAY, AUGUST 2 the north end of Alameda Park, next Alamogordo/Otero County locations. Info: 575-538-5555. Silver City/Grant County to the Toy Train Depot in Alamogor- Art and Wine in the Cool Pines — THURSDAY, AUGUST 8 Live Music: “Chris Dracup Band” Live Music: “Rendezvous” — 8 do. Info: 575-682-3323. 10 a.m.-5 p.m. at the Sacramento Silver City/Grant County — 8 p.m. at Little Toad Creek, 200 p.m. at Little Toad Creek, 200 N. Bul- Oliver Lee Ranch House Tour — Mountain Historical Museum in Perspectives on Native American N. Bullard St. Downtown Silver City. lard St. Downtown Silver City. Info: 10-11 a.m. at Oliver Lee Memorial Cloudcroft. Wine tasting, entertain- Leadership: “Dance me Outside” Cost: $5 cover. Info: 575-313-1266. 575-313-1266. State Park, about 12 miles south of ment and Cloudcroft Art Society art — 7 p.m. at the Santa Clara Armory, Alamogordo, take U.S. Highway 54 exhibit. Info: [email protected]. 11990 U.S. Highway 180. Part of the Deming/Luna County Alamogordo/Otero County about 8 miles and turn east on Dog Daisy Blue and BBQ — noon-4 p.m. Historic Fort Bayard Summer Film MainStreet Market — 8-11 a.m. at Art and Wine in the Cool Pines — Canyon Road for 4 miles. Meet at the at the Heart of the Desert, on U.S. Series. Info: 575-534-1379. 700 S. Silver Ave. in Deming. Info: 10 a.m.-5 p.m. at the Sacramento visitor center to check in. Info: 575- 54/70 in between Alamogordo and Live Music: “Lindsey White Duo” 575-546-2674. Mountain Historical Museum in 437-8284. Tularosa. Daisy Blue will be playing — 7:30 p.m. at Little Toad Creek, 200 D.H. Lescombes Winery Sip and Cloudcroft. Wine tasting, entertain- Art and Wine in the Cool Pines — blues, Americana and folk music. N. Bullard St. Downtown Silver City. Paint — 3-5 p.m. at D.H. Lescombes ment and Cloudcroft Art Society art 10 a.m.-5 p.m. at the Sacramento Carolina Boi BBQ is serving from Info: 575-313-1266. Winery, 1325 Beca Road SE in Dem- exhibit. Info: [email protected]. Mountain Historical Museum in their food truck. Cost: $7. Info: 575- ing. Cost: $35. Info: 575-546-1179. Cloudcroft. Wine tasting, entertain- 434-0035. Truth or Consequences/ Las Cruces/Mesilla ment and Cloudcroft Art Society art Sierra County Alamogordo/Otero County — 5-8 p.m. First Friday Art Ramble exhibit. Info: [email protected]. Las Cruces/Mesilla Sierra Twirlers Square Dance — Alamogordo Farmer’s Market — downtown Las Cruces. Info: 575- “Tiger Alley” live concert — 7-9 “Connecting generations with 5:30-8 p.m. at the Fiddlers Play- 8:30 a.m. at 1991 White Sands Blvd., 541-2150. p.m. at the Shady Pines “Bertha” Music” — 3-4 p.m. at the Center for house, 710 Elm in T or C. Main the north end of Alameda Park, next “Connecting generations with stage, 2100 Fox in Cloudcroft facing Spiritual Living, 575 N. Main St., Las stream and plus dancing. Info: to the Toy Train Depot in Alamogor- Music” — 7-8 p.m. at the Center for Wren, just below the Lodge. Country/ Cruces. Live music, with Onefold 505-804-3842. do. Info: 575-682-3323. Spiritual Living, 575 N. Main St., Las western/swing/bluegrassy sounds Performing Arts Foundation. Cost: Oliver Lee Ranch House Tour — Cruces. Live music, with Onefold of fiery fiddler Katy Rose Cox and $6. Info: 575-805-3042. Alamogordo/Otero County 10-11 a.m. at Oliver Lee Memorial Performing Arts Foundation. Cost: jammin’ guitarist Sophie Johnson are Live Music: Daniel Sanchez — 5-7 Lunch and Learn: “A Romantic State Park, about 12 miles south of $6. Info: 575-805-3042. featured in their Austin based band. p.m. p.m. at Little Toad Creek, 119 Live Music: CW Ayon Duo— 8 p.m. Cost: free but bring your best tips. N. Main St., Downtown Las Cruces. at Little Toad Creek, 119 N. Main St., Info: 361-557-1960. Info: 575-313-1266. Downtown Las Cruces. Info: 575- 313-1266. Las Cruces/Mesilla Music in the Park: Ted Scanlon & Farmers Arts and Crafts Market Desperado and Double Shot — 7 Ruidoso/Lincoln County — 8 a.m.-1 p.m. At the Plaza of Las p.m. at Young Park, 1905 E. Nevada Old Lincoln Days — 9 a.m.-all day Cruces, Info: 575-805-6055. Ave. in Las Cruces. Western swing at the Lincoln Historic Site in Lincoln. Movies in the park: “Captain Mar- and classic country performers from Folk pageant with reenactors portray- vel” — Starts at dusk at Young Park, Las Cruces. Info: 575-541-2550. ing Bill the Kid’s Last Escape. Info: 1905 E. Nevada Ave. in Las Cruces. 505-681-4014. Family and kid friendly movies for the Ruidoso/Lincoln County Alto Artists Tour — 10 a.m.-5 summer. Info: 575-541-2550. Old Lincoln Days — 9 a.m.-all day p.m. at the Spencer Theater for the Live Music: “Ryan and the Resis- at the Lincoln Historic Site in Lincoln. Performing Arts. Self-driving art tour tors” — 8 p.m. at Little Toad Creek, Folk pageant with reenactors portray- featuring 22 professional Alto artists 119 N. Main St., Downtown Las ing Bill the Kid’s Last Escape. Info: showing a variety of art. Info: 575- Cruces. Info: 575-313-1266. 505-681-4014. 257-7395. Alto Artists Tour — noon-4 p.m. at Chile the Kid Beer and Wine Festi- Ruidoso/Lincoln County the Spencer Theater for the Perform- val — 11 a.m.-8 p.m. at the Ruidoso Old Lincoln Days — 9 a.m.-all day ing Arts. Self-driving art tour featuring Downs Racetrack and Casino. Green at the Lincoln Historic Site in Lincoln. 22 professional Alto artists showing a chile roasting, wine and beer tasting Folk pageant with reenactors portray- variety of art. Info: 575-257-7395. alongside craft vendors. The Long ing Bill the Kid’s Last Escape. Info: Chile the Kid Beer and Wine Festi- Run, Eagles tribute band, will be per- 505-681-4014. val — 11 a.m.-8 p.m. at the Ruidoso forming at 6 p.m. Info: 575-378-4431. — 10 a.m.-5 Alto Artists Tour Downs Racetrack and Casino. Green Pet photography is the topic at the Doña Ana Photography Club p.m. at the Spencer Theater for the chile roasting, wine and beer tasting on Tuesday, Aug. 20 in Las Cruces. (Photo by Kristi Dixon) 34 • AUGUST 2019 www.desertexposure.com

Alamogordo, take U.S. Highway 54 raiser for the Ruidoso Warriors Cross Old Time Fiddlers Dance — 7-9 about 8 miles and turn east on Dog p.m. New Mexico Old Time Fiddlers Country program hosting a 5K and 2 Canyon Road for 4 miles. Meet at the Playhouse, 710 Elm St., Truth or miler run in the back woods of Ruido- visitor center to check in. Info: 575- Consequences. $4 Info: 575-744- so High School. Info:www.raceentry. 437-8284. 9137. com/races/warrior-trail-runs/2019/ Tailgate Series: “Big Band on the register. Rio Grande” — 6:45-10 p.m. in Las Cruces/Mesilla “Mining in New Mexico” — 11:30 the parking lot at the New Mexico a.m. at the Hubbard Museum of the Farmers Arts and Crafts Market Museum of Space History, 3189 — 8 a.m.-1 p.m. At the Plaza of Las American West, 26301 U.S. Highway State Road 2001, Alamogordo. Info: Cruces, Info: 575-805-6055. 70, Ruidoso Down. A presentation 575-437-2202. with Dr. Donald Elder III, professor Movies in the park: “Bumblebee” — Starts at dusk at Young Park, of history at Eastern New Mexico Truth or Consequences/ 1905 E. Nevada Ave. in Las Cruces. University. Info: 575-378-4142. Sierra County Family and kid friendly movies for the The Fab Four at the Spencer The- Sierra County Farmers’ Market — summer. ater — 8 p.m. at the Spencer Theater 8:30 a.m.-noon at Ralph Edwards for the Performing Arts, 108 Spencer Live Music: “Colours of Mono- Park, Riverside and Cedar, Truth or Road in Alto. Recreating the vibe of chrome” — 8 p.m. at Little Toad Consequences. Info: 575-894-9375. Creek, 119 N. Main St., Downtown the Beatles. Cost: $76-79. Info: 575- Second Saturday Art Hop — 6-9 Las Cruces. Info: 575-313-1266. 336-4800. p.m. in Downtown T or C along Main, Gough Park in Silver City hosts the Aug. 4 Hiroshima Peace Day Broadway, Foch, and Austin streets. Ruidoso/Lincoln County SUNDAY, AUGUST 11 Observance. Galleries, studios, shops and restau- — 7:30-10:30 Silver City/Grant County Warrior Trail Runs p.m. at Little Toad Creek, 119 N. Creek, 200 N. Bullard St. Downtown rants open late for exploration. Info; a.m. starts at Ruidoso High School, — 11 a.m. at Pilates in the Park Main St., Downtown Las Cruces. Silver City. Info: 575-313-1266. [email protected]. 125 Warrior Drive in Ruidoso. Fund- Gough Park, 12th and Pope streets in Info: 575-313-1266. Silver City. Join Crystal Netz-Areni- Las Cruces/Mesilla var for an hour of Pilates, a form Music in the Park: Boss and Roger — 7 p.m. at Young Park, — 7:30-10:30 p.m. of movement that focuses on core Ortega Contra Dance 1905 E. Nevada Ave. in Las Cruces. at the Mesilla Community Center, Eagle Mail Services awareness and toning of the entire A MAIL & PARCEL CENTER R&B/pop band from El Paso and 2251 Calle de Santiago in Mesilla. body. Info: www.lotuscentersc.org/ Hoboken, New Jersey. Info: 575-541- The Little Table Contraband will be events. UPS • FedEx • US Mail • Private Mailboxes 2550. playing with Lonnie Ludeman calling. Re-Mailing • Fax • Copy • Notary Sunday Blues Brunch: “Dave Der- Newcomers welcome. No partner — 2 p.m. at Little Toad Creek, sham” needed. Cost: $6. Info: 575-522- Open 9–5 Mon–Fri 200 N. Bullard St. Downtown Silver MONDAY, AUGUST 12 Denise Dewald, Owner 1691. 2311 Ranch Club Road KnowledgeablePh (575) Consultation 388-1967 for ThrivingCity. Info: 575-313-1266.Gardens Silver City/Grant County Silver City, NM 88061-7807 Fax (575) 388-1623 Widowed and Single Persons of Live Music: “The Rudy Boy Experi- — 8 p.m. at Little Toad Creek, Support Polinator Firendly Gardens. Truth or Consequences/ Grant County — 10:30 a.m. at Cross ment” 119 N. Main St., Downtown Las [email protected] Sierra County Point Assembly of God Church, Buy Pesticide Free plants — Go Native! 11600 E. U.S. Highway 160. The Cruces. Info: 575-313-1266. Second Sunday on the Animas — 9 a.m.-2 p.m., 55 speaker is Niel McDonald about cur- Creek Trail Ruidoso/Lincoln County Animas Creek Road in Caballo. rent finances. Info: 575-537-3643. th Art studios, farms, birding trails, The Texas Tenors: 10 Anniver- Lone Mountain Natives Nursery — 8 p.m. at the Spencer labyrinth, creek trail and shops. Info: WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 14 sary Tour Theater for the Performing Arts, 108 Celebrate Monsoons, Plant Natives! 575-743-0224. Silver City/Grant County Spencer Road in Alto. Emmy Award — 1-2:15 — 9 Support Pollinator Friendly Gardens Black Cat Poetry Reading Silver City Farmers’ Market Winners come to Lincoln County p.m. at Black Cat Books & Coffee, a.m.-noon in the Ace Hardware with selections from their two No. 1 Buy pesticide free plants — Go Native! 128 N. Broadway in Truth or Conse- Parking Lot, 3025 U.S. Highway 180 albums.. Cost: $39. Info: 575-336- Knowledgeable Consultation for thriving gardens quences. Info: 575-202-8642. E, Silver City. Info: silvercityfarmers- 4800. [email protected]. Buy from Local Growers • Las Cruces/Mesilla See us at the Saturday Silver City Downtown Farmers Market. Live Music: Steve MacIntyre — 5 Alamogordo/Otero County SATURDAY, AUGUST 17 Silver City/Grant Counties www.lonemountainnatives.com [email protected] Brown Bag Series: City of Tucson

Water Quality Issues — noon-1:30 Run to Copper Country car show p.m. at the Brackish Groundwater — 8 a.m.-4 p.m. at Gough Park on National Desalination Research Fa- Pope Street in Silver City. Info: 575- cility, 500 LaVelle Road, Alamogordo. 574-2186. Info: 575-443-6540. Silver City Farmer’s Market — 9 a.m.-noon in Historic Downtown Las Cruces/Mesilla Silver City at Eighth Street between Bullard Street and the Big Ditch. Info: Swing on the Downtown Plaza — 7 p.m. on the Las Cruces Plaza. Enjoy [email protected]. music from the big band era to new History of Grant County: From age electro swing. Don’t know how Pre-historic settlement to Ameri- to swing, there is a beginner’s lesson can city — 11 a.m.-noon at the Silver at the start of every event. Info: Info: City Museum Annex. Local historian 575-541-2550. Liz Mikols representing an overview of the major historic eras and their THURSDAY, AUGUST 15 influences in Silver City history. Info: 575-589-5921. Silver City/Grant County “The Mystery Apaches” — 6:30 Nonprofit Collaboration and Grant p.m. at the Fort Bayard National — 1-4 p.m. at Writing workshop Historic Landmark at the New Deal Western New Mexico University, Theater. Program by author Sherry 1000 W. College Ave. in Silver City. Robinson who wrote “I Fought a Info: 575-538-5555. Good Fight: A History of the Lipan Apaches.” Cost: Free. Info: 575-388- Truth or Consequences/ 4862. Sierra County — 8 — Live Music: “Con Sal y Limon” Sierra Twirlers Square Dance p.m. at Little Toad Creek, 200 N. Bul- 5:30-8 p.m. at the Fiddlers Play- lard St. Downtown Silver City. Info: house, 710 Elm in T or C. Main 575-313-1266. stream and plus dancing. Info: 505-804-3842. Truth or Consequences/ Sierra County Las Cruces/Mesilla — — 9 Sierra County Farmers’ Market Planeteers: “Space Station”: 8:30 a.m.-noon at Ralph Edwards a.m. at the Museum of Nature and Park, Riverside and Cedar, Truth or Science, 491 N. Main St. in Las Cru- Consequences. Info: 575-894-9375. ces. Cost: free. Info: 575-522-3122. Starlight Concert Series in Kings- History Notes: “Chicanos in Limin- ton — 7-9 p.m. at the Black Range al Time and Space, An Exploration Lodge, 119 Kingston Main St. in — 1-2 p.m. of Historical Narratives” Kingston. Info: 575-895-5652. at the Branigan Cultural Center, 501 — 7-9 N. Main St. in Las Cruces. Presen- Old Time Fiddlers Dance p.m. New Mexico Old Time Fiddlers tation by Stephanie Beninato. Cost: Playhouse, 710 Elm St., Truth or free. Info: 575-541-2154. Consequences. $4 Info: 575-744- 9137. FRIDAY, AUGUST 16 Silver City/Grant County Alamogordo/Otero County — 8 p.m. at Little Toad Live Music Alamogordo Farmer’s Market — DESERT EXPOSURE AUGUST 2019 • 35

8:30 a.m. at 1991 White Sands Blvd., Great American Duck Race — 4 the north end of Alameda Park, next p.m. in Deming, various locations. to the Toy Train Depot in Alamogor- Carnival, Duck Mart, entertainment do. Info: 575-682-3323. and sponsor party. Info: www. Oliver Lee Ranch House Tour — demingduckrace.com. 10-11 a.m. at Oliver Lee Memorial State Park, about 12 miles south of Las Cruces/Mesilla Alamogordo, take U.S. Highway 54 Bobbysocks & Lollipops Dinner about 8 miles and turn east on Dog Show — 8-10 p.m. at the Plaza de Canyon Road for 4 miles. Meet at the Las Cruces, 100 N. Main St. On visitor center to check in. Info: 575- stage is Remember Then. Info: 575- 437-8284. 649-0598. — 3-5 p.m. at the Shady Piano Duo Summer Jam at the Pan Am — 8 Pines “Bertha” Stage, 2100 Fox in p.m. at the New Mexico State Uni- Cloudcroft facing Wren, just below versity Pan American Center, 1810 E. the Lodge. Bonnie Brooks and Elena University Ave. in Las Cruces. Info: Castaneda cast their four hands over Rapper, singer, actor and television the beautiful First Baptist Church personality most famous for dating piano in the newly renovated sanc- The Great American Duck Rac- makeup mogul Kylie Jenner, Tyga, tuary. Cost: by donation – benefit the es in Deming kick off Thursday, will be headlining this event. Cost: Sacramento Mountain Senior Center Aug. 22 with a royalty pageant $40-$60. Info: www.summerjampa- CECILIA “Ceci” McNICOLL and Shady Pines Players. Info: 361- and continue through the nam.com. Hacienda Realty 557-1960. weekend with market, races, Live Music: “Ghetto Blaster” — 8 1628 Silver Heights Blvd, Silver City, NM 88061 Rockabilly! Alamogordo — 6-10 parade, live music and more. p.m. at Little Toad Creek, 119 N. c: 575.574.8549; o: 575.388.1921 p.m. downtown Alamogordo on the [email protected] 323-3624. Main St., Downtown Las Cruces. 800-900 blocks of New York Avenue. Info: 575-313-1266. www.haciendarealtysc.com Rockabilly Strangers from Las WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 21 Cruces, pinup contest, tattoo contest Alamogordo/Otero County Silver City/Grant County and all things cool. Cost: free. Info: — 6-9 p.m.at the — 9 Fourth Fridays [email protected]. Silver City Farmer’s Market Alameda Park Zoo, 1021 N. White a.m.-noon at the Ace Hardware Movies on the Stage: “Sgt Stubby: Sands Blvd. in Alamogordo. Live Parking Lot, 3025 U.S. Highway 180 American Hero” — 7-10 p.m. at music, food and craft vendors. Info: E., Silver City. Info: silvercityfarmers- the Washington Park State, 100 N. 575-439-4279. Washington Ave. in Alamogordo. [email protected]. Bring your own chair. Cost: Free. Info: Ruidoso/Lincoln County Columbus/Luna County 575-439-4279. — 3-7 — 9:30 Ruidoso Antique Festival MG W M Science Library returns p.m. at the Ruidoso Convention a.m.-noon at the Columbus Library, Las Cruces/Mesilla Center. Antique dealers from 11 dif- 112 W. Broadway. Part of the chil- MG GS W Farmers Arts and Crafts Market ferent states show their best wares. dren’s summer program at the library. — 8 a.m.-1 p.m. At the Plaza of Las Info: 575-258-5445. OPEN SATURDAYS & SUNDAYS Cruces, Info: 575-805-6055. Info: 575-531-2612. Mark Chesnutt — 8 p.m. at the MAY 18th THROUGH OCTOBER 13th, 2019 Hops & Hemp Fest with 420+ beers Spencer Theater for the Performing Las Cruces/Mesilla to sample — 5-7 p.m. at the Farm & Arts, 108 Spencer Road in Alto. One CAFE OPEN 9AM • SHOPS OPEN 10AM — 7 Ranch Heritage Museum, 4100 Drip- Swing on the Downtown Plaza of country music’s treasures. Cost: p.m. on the Las Cruces Plaza. Enjoy FOR INFORMATION CALL 575-539-2005 ping Springs Road in Las Cruces. $76-79. Info: 575-336-4800. Cost: $20 Info: 575-541-2550. music from the big band era to new — 8 age electro swing. Don’t know how S VOTED BEST the Live Music: “Exclusive Soul” SATURDAY, AUGUST 24 VISITOR CENTER & GIFT SHOP PURPLE p.m. at Little Toad Creek, 119 N. to swing, there is a beginner’s lesson GREEN CHILE Silver City/Grant County ONION Main St., Downtown Las Cruces. at the start of every event. Info: Info: CHEESEBURGER — 9 Handcra ed gourd art Info: 575-313-1266. 575-541-2550. Silver City Farmer’s Market IN CATRON a.m.-noon in Historic Downtown Alligator juniper furniture COUNTY! Silver City at Eighth Street between Collectibles-Rocks Ruidoso/Lincoln County THURSDAY, AUGUST 22 CAFE Bullard Street and the Big Ditch. Info: T-Shirts & much more Breakfast • Lunch • Snacks — 11 a.m. at the Deming/Luna County Butterfly Release [email protected]. Beverages • Coffee • Ice Cream White Mountain Meadows Pavilion in — 6:30 OPEN 10 AM Sat. & Sun. Great American Duck Race — 8 p.m. at Little Toad OPEN 9 AM – 5PM Sat. & Sun. Ruidoso. Ruidoso Hospice Founda- p.m. in Deming. Mizkan America Inc. Live Music Creek, 200 N. Bullard St. Downtown noy h ac an u of a ay n MOGOLLON tion event. Info: 575-937-4908. Duck Royalty Pageant and the Luna Silver City. Info: 575-313-1266. h horc ho on of ooon MUSEUM County Skate Competition. Info: Ancient Native American Pottery www.demingduckrace.com. Four rooms w/ private baths Historic Pictures SUNDAY, AUGUST 18 Deming/Luna County • Adults only Indian Arrowheads Las Cruces/Mesilla • Smoke free & Pet free Mining Implements Great American Duck Race — All Antique Furniture Truth or Consequences/ • RRoomsooms available nightly Saddles & Weapons “Plan A” with Mesilla Valley Jazz day in Deming at various locations. isit silerreekinn.om — 7 p.m. at Fist Sierra County Historic Books & Postcards & Blues Society Carnival, Duck Mart, slow pitch pen 10-pm Sat. Sun. Sierra Twirlers Square Dance — Christian Church, 1809 El Paseo, tournament, hot air balloon mass Information & reservation COME EXPLORE AN 5:30-8 p.m. at the Fiddlers Play- Email: [email protected] across from Las Cruces High School. ascension, Great American Washers AUTHENTIC MINING CAVE! house, 710 Elm in T or C. Main The band is lead by Alan Kaplan on Tournament, entertainment, wine stream and plus dancing. Info: DON’T FORGET TO VISIT HISTORICAL CEMETERY ARCHIVES! trombone, Shaun Mahoney on guitar, garden and live duck races. Info: 505-804-3842. Pancho Romero on flugelhorn and www.demingduckrace.com. trumpet, Erik Unsworth on double th — 11 Las Cruces/Mesilla 39 Annual Duck Days BBQ bass and Eddie Provincio doing a.m.-2 p.m. at the Deming First percussion. Cost: $5 members, $10 Music on the Downtown Plaza: United Methodist Church, 1020 S. non-members and $1 for students. Zach Heckendorf and Chris Baker Granit St. Deming. All you can eat, — 8 p.m. on the Las Cruces Plaza. Info: 575-640-8752. dine in or carry out. Cost: $9 adults, Thursday night music night serves Music in the Park: Misty Boyce and $5 children ages 5-12; under 4 are up alternative folk music from Denver Meri Dean — 7 p.m. at Young Park, free. Info: 575-546-2791. Bear Creek 1905 E. Nevada Ave. in Las Cruces. and Americana folk rock from Las Cruces. Info: Info: 575-541-2550. Motel & Cabins Alternative rock/pop/variety bands Truth or Consequences/ from Las Cruces and Ramah, N.M. Sierra County Alamogordo/Otero County Info: 575-541-2550. — — 7 p.m. at the New Sierra County Farmers’ Market A Cello Speaks 8:30 a.m.-noon at Ralph Edwards Mexico State University-Alamogordo MONDAY, AUGUST 19 Park, Riverside and Cedar, Truth or Rohovec Theater. Master cellist Joel Silver City/Grant County Consequences. Info: 575-894-9375. Becktell presents a short (40-minute) — 7-9 “Happening: A Clean Energy Rev- demonstration of his cellistic instru- Old Time Fiddlers Dance — 7 p.m. at the Unitarian p.m., New Mexico Old Time Fiddlers olution” ments. Info: 361-557-1960. Universalist Fellowship Hall, 3845 N. Playhouse, 710 Elm St., Truth or Fao getaa nete in te ta ine of Pino Ato Swan St. Documentary film with pos- Consequences. $4 Info: 575-744- Ruidoso/Lincoln County Fireace Sece Baconie itive news and insights about global 9137. — 8 p.m. at the Porce warming by showing positive actions Mark Chesnutt Spencer Theater for the Performing that are being taken to combat it. Alamogordo/Cloudcroft/ Teeone & WiFi Arts, 108 Spencer Road in Alto. One Info: sandramichaud1981@gmail. Otero County Sateite T of country music’s treasures. Cost: com. — Baree Gri $76-79. Info: 575-336-4800. 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Canyon Road for 4 miles. Meet at the north end of Alameda Park, next and more. Info: 575-267-1095. the visitor center to check in. Info: to the Toy Train Depot in Alamogor- Harvest Wine Festival — 9 a.m.-6 575-437-8284. do. Info: 575-682-3323. p.m. at the Southern New Mexico Tailgate Series: “Catfishfry Blues Oliver Lee Ranch House Tour — State Fair and Rodeo grounds, Band” — 6:45-10 p.m. in the parking 10-11 a.m. at Oliver Lee Memorial 12125 Robert Larson Blvd. Cele- lot at the New Mexico Museum of State Park, about 12 miles south of brate the grape harvest and the end Space History, 3189 State Road Alamogordo, take U.S. Highway 54 of summer with wine, music, food 2001, Alamogordo. Info: 575-437- about 8 miles and turn east on Dog and arts and crafts vendors. Info: 2202. Canyon Road for 4 miles. Meet at nmwine.com. “A Cello Speaks Bach” live concert the visitor center to check in. Info: Live Music: “Dog Brain” — 8 p.m. — 7 p.m. at the Shady Pines “Ber- 575-437-8284. at Little Toad Creek, 119 N. Main tha” Stage, 2100 Fox in Cloudcroft St., Downtown Las Cruces. Info: 575- facing Wren, just below the Lodge. Truth or Consequences/ 313-1266. Master cellist Joel Becktell with Sierra County “Tiger Alley” will be playing its country/western/swing/bluegrass excerpts from all six of Bach’s unac- — Ruidoso/Lincoln County sounds at the Shady Pines “Bertha” Stage in Cloudcroft on Aug. 3. Sierra County Farmers’ Market companied suites for Baroque Cello. 8:30 a.m.-noon at Ralph Edwards Albert Hammond — 8 p.m. at the Reservations required. Cost: $25. Las Cruces/Mesilla Playhouse, 710 Elm in T or C. Main Park, Riverside and Cedar, Truth or Spencer Theater for the Performing Info: 361-557-1960. Music in the Park: Cordova and the stream and plus dancing. Info: 505- Consequences. Info: 575-894-9375. Arts, 108 Spencer Road in Alto. Ghetto Blaster — 7 p.m. at Young 804-3842. Old Time Fiddlers Dance — 7-9 Timeless fold rock tunes infused with Las Cruces/Mesilla Park, 1905 E. Nevada Ave. in Las p.m. New Mexico Old Time Fiddlers sun-kissed Caribbean rhythms. Cost: Farmers Arts and Crafts Market Cruces. Rock and pop music from FRIDAY, AUGUST 30 Playhouse, 710 Elm St., Truth or $76-79. Info: 575-336-4800. — 8 a.m.-1 p.m. At the Plaza of Las Las Cruces bands. Info: 575-541- Silver City/Grant County Consequences. $4 Info: 575-744- Cruces, Info: 575-805-6055. 2550. 9137. Live Music: “Rhythm Mystic” — 8 SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 1 Live Music: “Alister M” — 8 p.m. p.m. at Little Toad Creek, 200 N. Bul- Ruidoso/Lincoln County at Little Toad Creek, 119 N. Main Ruidoso/Lincoln County Las Cruces/Doña Ana County lard St. Downtown Silver City. Info: End of Summer Bash with Fire- St., Downtown Las Cruces. Info: 575- — 11 Ruidoso Antique Festival 575-313-1266. Farmers Arts and Crafts Market works over the lake — 8-10 p.m. 313-1266. a.m.-4 p.m. at the Ruidoso Conven- — 8 a.m.-1 p.m. At the Plaza of Las at the Inn of the Mountain Gods in tion Center. Antique dealers from Las Cruces/Mesilla Cruces, Info: 575-805-6055. Mescalero. Live music, food and fire- Ruidoso/Lincoln County 11 different states show their best — All day all Brown Bag meeting: The Border Hatch Chile Festival works. Bring a chair or blanket. Info: — 10 wares. Info: 575-258-5445. over the town of Hatch. Chile sam- Ruidoso Antique Festival Artists and Public Art — noon-1:30 www.innofthemountaingods.com. a.m.-5 p.m. at the Ruidoso Conven- p.m. at the Doña Ana Arts & Cultural ples, food, crafts, auction, live music tion Center. Antique dealers from WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 28 Center, 1740 Calle de Mercado in 11 different states show their best Silver City/Grant County Mesilla. Presentation by local artist wares. Info: 575-258-5445. Silver City Farmer’s Market — 9 Andrew Nagem. Cost: Free. Info: a.m.-noon at the Ace Hardware 575-523-6403. SUNDAY, AUGUST 25 Parking Lot, 3025 U.S. Highway 180 Live Music: “Memphis Band” — 8 NEED COUNTY HERE E., Silver City. Info: silvercityfarmers- p.m. at Little Toad Creek, 119 N. Full Moon Hike at the Gila Cliff [email protected]. Main St., Downtown Las Cruces. Dwellings — After dark at the Gila Info: 575-313-1266. Fast, effi cient, affordable Cliff Dwellings, NM-Highway 15. THURSDAY, AUGUST 29 handyman service... Visitors tour the cliff dwellings under Truth or Consequences/ SATURDAY, AUGUST 31 moonlight, lasts 90 minutes. Info: Sierra County Silver City/Grant County 575-536-9461. No job too big or small Sierra Twirlers Square Dance Gem and Mineral Show — 9 a.m.-5 — 5:30-8 p.m. at the Fiddlers p.m. at the Grant County Veterans’ The house Doctor does it all!! Memorial Conference Center, 3031 U.S. Highway 180 E, Silver City. Free stiates Features vendors, Wheel of Fortune, silent auction, field trips and educa- 503-939-1467 tional speakers. Info: 575-654-4424. N S OS DOCOR Silver City Farmer’s Market — 9 Silver City, NM • housedoctornm.com a.m.-noon in Historic Downtown Silver City at Eighth Street between Bullard Street and the Big Ditch. Info: Spay / Neuter Awareness Program [email protected]. Family Rupujado Workshop — Financial Assistance for Low-Income Pet Owners in 1:30-3:30 p.m. in the Silver City Museum Education Room. Kids Grant, Catron and Hidalgo Counties and families can make their own repujados, a traditional Mexican form of metal embossing. Info: 575-597- 388-5194 or 297-9734 0229. Live Music: “Jerry G and the Cold in Mimbres 519-2762 Cash Band” — 8 p.m. at Little Toad Creek, 200 N. Bullard St. Downtown email: [email protected] Silver City. Info: 575-313-1266. www.snap-sw-nm.org Alamogordo/Otero County Master cellist Joel Bectell makes his cellos speak on Thursday, — Aug. 22, in Alamogordo at the Rohovec Theater and on Satur- Alamogordo Farmer’s Market 8:30 a.m. at 1991 White Sands Blvd., day, Aug. 24, in Cloudcroft at Shady Pines. Sonsore y Diane’s Restaurant Silver City NM

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Alamogordo/Otero County Garden Stroll with music at Shady Pines — 9-11 a.m. and 2-5 p.m. at 200 Fox (facing Wren) half-way 575-590-6081 • SILVER CITY, NM up the middle unpaved road to the Lodge in Cloudcroft. Explore the fairy The Oliver Lee Ranch House is open and hosting tours every Sat- gardens and eavesdrop on chamber urday in August. Oliver Lee Memorial State Park is about 12 miles music jams. Info: 361-557-1960. south of Alamogordo off U.S. Highway 54. music jams. Info: 361-557-1960. Las Cruces/Mesilla MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 2 Swing on the Downtown Plaza — 7 Alamogordo/Otero County WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 4 p.m. on the Las Cruces Plaza. Enjoy Garden Stroll with music at Shady Silver City/Grant County music from the big band era to new — 9-11 a.m. and 2-5 p.m. age electro swing. Don’t know how CARNEY FOY, CPA Pines Silver City Farmer’s Market — 9 at 200 Fox (facing Wren) half-way a.m.-noon at the Ace Hardware to swing, there is a beginner’s lesson CERTIFIED PUBLIC ACCOUNTANT up the middle unpaved road to the Parking Lot, 3025 U.S. Highway 180 at the start of every event. Info: Info: Lodge in Cloudcroft. Explore the fairy E., Silver City. Info: silvercityfarmers- 575-541-2550. gardens and eavesdrop on chamber [email protected]. music jams. Info: 361-557-1960. THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 5 P.O. Box 2331 (575) 388-3111 Alamogordo/Otero County Alamogordo/Otero County 212 N. Arizona Street (575) 388-2770 TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 3 Silver City, NM 88062 [email protected] Garden Stroll with music at Shady Garden Stroll with music at Shady Alamogordo/Otero County Pines — 9-11 a.m. and 2-5 p.m. Pines — 9-11 a.m. and 2-5 p.m. Garden Stroll with music at Shady at 200 Fox (facing Wren) half-way at 200 Fox (facing Wren) half-way Pines — 9-11 a.m. and 2-5 p.m. up the middle unpaved road to the up the middle unpaved road to the at 200 Fox (facing Wren) half-way Lodge in Cloudcroft. Explore the fairy Lodge in Cloudcroft. Explore the fairy up the middle unpaved road to the gardens and eavesdrop on chamber gardens and eavesdrop on chamber Lodge in Cloudcroft. Explore the fairy music jams. Info: 361-557-1960. music jams. Info: 361-557-1960. gardens and eavesdrop on chamber

SAVED continued from page 32 sure suits – just kidding. wrong sex a birth. and just wept and wept. We spent around 20 years in the I walked into the house and told I eventually went to the Uni- fundamentalist Christian commu- Julie I needed to deal with my gen- tarian Universalist Fellowship up nity here in Silver City. We grew der problems. I then launched into on Swan Street where they were a lot spiritually; we became more a two-year study of homosexuality very accepting of me. I also started accepting of all people. We didn’t and transgender people in the Bi- going to the Dances of Universal always agree with everyone, but ble. (Often referred to as eunuchs). Peace and later Zikr, a Sufi practice we had faith that our differences I came out the other side knowing of the remembrance of God’s love. would work out. In the end, they that God loved me just as I am and I again found love and acceptance. didn’t work out. realized I needed to transition or I This time with no strings attached. Time passes and things changed. would always feel that I never truly That is, there was no requirement Our kids went off to school and we lived my truth. of doctrinal beliefs to belong. The became empty nesters. I sold my Julie and the kids were under- only requirement was to try to love real estate brokerage. By now the standing and accepting, but Julie one another. I think this time I fi- RV Park and storage units were and I decided it would be best if nally found true Christianity. taking care of themselves. And, I we separated so that we could was feeling lost again. pursue our lives without compro- Susan Golightly I built a studio to try to get back mising ourselves for each other. is 76 years to doing creative work but when Sometimes there can be a lot pain old. She still the studio was finished, I stood in in the growth process. In the end stays active the middle of it and realized there our, separation was better for riding her was no “me.” I had repressed all both of us. Another painful thing bicycles and my gender and orientation issues happened because of my need to is currently to the point where I felt like a hol- transition from male to female. My building a storage shed in her low person. I realized I needed to “Christian” community shunned yard. Susan’s hold both a BA do something about my gender me 100 percent. They would even and an MA from WNMU. Both identity. I was born intersex, i.e. turn the carts around in Walmart times she was valedictorian. with anomalous genitalia, and to avoid me. It was a rough period. The first time as a man and the transgender, i.e. being assigned the I sat on my bed, stared at the wall second time as a woman. Law Offi ces 30 YEARS OF Gillian Sherwood CIVIL AND Timothy L. Aldrich o ce: 575 313-3507 CRIMINAL cell: 575-654-3078 silvercgillianlaw.com @OthyAldrich Business and Real Estate EXPERIENCE Divorce–Child Custody–Child Support Education Law • Wills & Probate Domestic Violence & Restraining Orders Conservatorship/Kinship Guardianship Criminal Law Extensive Jury Trial Experience 211 N. TEXAS STREET, SUITE B, SILVER CITY, NEW MEXICO, 575-313-3507 DESERT EXPOSURE AUGUST 2019 • 39

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I was excited when I heard that Ridge Park RV, a small park on Highway 90 about 12 miles from Silver City, had been sold Bill Nagel and Rocio Ochoa, new owners at Ridge Park RV. (Photo by Sheila Sowder) to local couple Rocio Ochoa and Bill Nagel. This was my chance for monthly rentals. Originally “There’s so much potential,” to find out firsthand what kind of named Cedar Ridge RV Park, it Bill said. “We can only make im- people buy RV parks – and why. was built in the 90s and consist- provements one at a time, but I met with the couple at their ed of just a few sites. The second it has great bones. There’s easy home on the grounds of Ridge owners expanded, improved access to the highway and town, Park one evening because they and renamed it. They added a but it’s still a part of nature.” both have demanding day jobs, fenced-in dog run and an area for As we watched the sun set Bill as owner of the V-Twin Cycle tent camping since the park is lo- over the nearby hills and distant Shop and Rosie as area supervi- cated near a Continental Divide mountains, I caught their ex- sor for Sonic. True to its name, trailhead. citement and enthusiasm. They Ridge Park is located on a high “We get quite a few hikers,” have what it takes, I thought, ridge with 360-degree views of Rosie said. “And bicyclists too.” the people skills, the business ADOBE TECHNIQUES, LLC the nearby forest and valley and There are 6-foot-by-10-foot stor- experience and the positive Concete Pumping & Decorative Gravel, the distant mountains. In fact, in age areas for rent, containers for energy to build Ridge RV into Shotcrete, Slabs, Block Laying, my opinion, the view from any campers or residents that need a successful business that will Bobcat, Dirt, Gravel and Pavers point within the park is superior extra storage. Bill and Rosie also provide for their retirement. And to the view from any other RV own the eight acres next door, at the same time, give them the 575-574-5956 park in the area. A breeze blew with excellent hiking trails for satisfaction of creating a com- LICENSED, BONDED & INSURED (#367590) the scent of wild sage across the campers and dog walkers. fortable retreat-like atmosphere FREE ESTIMATES patio where we sat and watched “So, what do you have in mind that will charm and soothe their ROHAN STITES, OWNER the sunset and talked and talked for the future?” I asked them. many guests over the coming SILVER CITY, NM • WWW.ADOBETECHNIQUES.COM and talked. And here’s where the conversa- years. Bill moved to Silver City in tion really got animated. 1994 from western Pennsylvania. They’ve already started to im- Sheila and husband, Jimmy, Rosie was born in Chihuahua, plement some changes. For ex- have lived at Rose Valley RV Transpersonal Psychotherapy Mexico, and moved here in 1987. ample, Rosie hands out gift bags Ranch in Silver Bill has traveled all around the to all guests that contain per- City since country in RVs and was familiar sonal items like toothpaste etc., 2012, following Learn to trust confidently in with RV parks from a camper’s Sonic coupons and tourist guides five years of your feelings, intuition and heart perspective. Rosie had never and brochures for the area. wandering through emotional self acceptance. stayed in one but, a woman af- They’ve installed a large new from Maine to ter my own heart, once they sign at the front of the property California. She Ronnie Joan Diener LMFT, LPCC decided they were interested in on U.S. Highway 90, and plan to can be contacted at sksowder@ Quantum Psychology Silver City, NM l 575-535-2762 buying the park, she did the re- improve the laundry room and aol.com. quantumviewtherapy.net Over 35 Years Experience search, visiting other parks in shower room, upgrade the tent the region to familiarize herself camping area and eventually add with the dos and don’ts of park more RV sites. They currently ownership and getting ideas for have DVDs to loan and would improvements at Ridge Park. like to start a book exchange. “But why,” I asked them. “Why There’s internet access in cer- an RV park? It’s a big invest- tain areas and they’re planning ment.” to turn a picnic area into a Wi- “We were living in Hurley but Fi center. Eventually they plan wanted to live somewhere out to add a fenced area for storing of town, and were looking for a boats, extra vehicles or RVs. business investment, a working Rosie had some great ideas to retirement plan,” explained Bill. encourage more social interac- “We’re not the type to sit tion among guests. around doing nothing,” said Ros- “There used to be a big weekly 1950 Hwy 180 East Open Mon.–Sat. ie. “The park will keep us busy yard sale here, and we’d like to Silver City, NM 575-313-1507 9am–5pm when we finally retire and also get that going again,” she said. bring in an income.” “Maybe get our near neighbors • ALL CERAMIC FLOWER POTS NOW 25% OFF Bill told me he was a friend of involved in it too.” • Take advantage - monsoon season is here; it is a great time to plant. the previous owner and found Included in eventual plans plenty of compost, potting soil and other amendments available. out early on the park was for is a weekly barbecue potluck sale. for guests and neighbors, and • Come in while selection is at it’s best!!!!! “It was meant to be,” he said. they’ve talked to a current res- Perched high above the road, ident, guitarist/songwriter Don It’s an amazing place to get great gifts for any occasion ! 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