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TEDXABQ Stupid is . . . Home Country Clyde Tombaugh Monsters in the Rocks Duke City Diamonds: Baseball in Albuquerque Charlie Carrillo

Santo by Charlie Carrillo and Pottery by Debbie Carrillo

Studio by Appointment

2712 Paseo de Tularosa, Santa Fe, NM 87505 505/473-7941 E-Mail: [email protected] University of New Mexico Press

returns to Spanish Market! July 28 and 29, 2012, on the Santa Fe Plaza

Featuring many new titles, author book signings, and a rich selection of scholarly, children’s, bilingual, fiction, New Mexico, and cook books!

University of New Mexico Press 800.249.7737 • unmpress.com One Nation One Year a navajo photographer’s 365-day journey into a world of discovery, life and hope Photographs by Don James with text by Karyth Becenti 128 pages 213 illustrations; 14 x 10 ISBN 978-1-890689-99-5 ($24.99) (Trade paper) 2010 Best New Mexico Book, New Mexico Book Awards “One Nation, One Year” is a photographic journey that tran- scends borders, languages, distance, time, and cultural barriers. For one year, Navajo photographer Don James drove from one side of the Navajo Nation to the other documenting arts, traditions, sports, and people. He travelled by dirt road, horseback, on foot—even as a hitchhiker— for more than 10,000 miles and took over 105,000 photographs. The Navajo Nation and its people have been extensively photographed over the last century, but never from the eye of one of its own. Because he’s native, and knows the land and people, James embarks on a journey to show the world a different view of his culture, through his eyes and his Nikon lens. His understanding of the Navajo gives us a glimpse at a people previously off-limits to outsiders. Edited by Navajo writer Karyth Becenti, the narrative that accompanies the images are succinct and enlightening, offering the viewer the chance to at once see the Navajo people and feel a small piece of their lives. Rio Grande Books 925 Salamanca NW Los Ranchos, NM 87107 505-344-9382 [email protected] www.nmsantos.com Jason Salazar

Traditional & Contemporary Wood Carving

505/514-1120 or 505/271-0925 Tradición Featuring Southwest Traditions, Sylvia Martínez Art & Culture ohnson J March 2013 VOLUME XVIII, No. 1 (#60) ISSN 1093-0973 New Mexico Folkart Originals

Publishers/Managing Editors Barbe Awalt Paul Rhetts

Contributors Loretta Hall Gary Herron Slim Randles Claude Stephenson

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Scarlett’s Gallery 225 Canyon Road Santa Fe, NM 87501 505.983-7092 Front cover: Detail of María Martínez plate, courtesy of Medicine Man Gallery, Tucson, AZ. 6 TRADICIÓN March 2013 Tradición Featuring Southwest Traditions, Art & Culture

March 2013 VOLUME XVIII, No. 1 (#60) IN THIS ISSUE Feature Articles

Awards for Arts...... 24 Monsters in the Rocks...... 28 by Claude Stephenson TEDxABQ...... 30 by Barbe Awalt Home Country...... 40 by Slim Randles Duke City Diamonds: Baseball in Albuquerque...... 45 by Gary Herron Clyde Tombaugh...... 61 by Loretta Hall

Departments Hispaniae

Editors’ Notes/Publishers’ Message...... 11 folk art of the americas Book Reviews & Resources...... 65 Artist’s Portfolios...... 74

santos, ceramics, textiles, books, and much more Nicholas Herrera has many of his works on display at the in Old Town, Albuquerque at 4110 Romero St. NW Heinley Fine Arts gallery in Taos. See page 24. (505) 244-1533

TRADICIÓN March 2013 7 Award Winning Artist Ramona Vigil Eastwood

Showing at Contemporary Hispanic Market Santa Fe, NM t July 27-28 t

Museum of New Mexico Foundation

ON the Plaza: New Mexico Museum of Art Shop Palace of the Governors Shop

ON MuseuM hill: Museum of International Folk Art Shop Colleen Cloney Duncan Museum Shop at the Museum of Indian Arts & Culture

ON the web: www.shopmuseum.com PO Box 23455, Albuquerque, NM 87192 www.newmexicocreates.org 505.296-2749 email [email protected] www.worldfolkart.org Albuquerque Convention Center Albuquerque, New Mexico May 10-12, 2013

The Southwest Book Fiesta will bring together authors, publishers and the reading public in a family-friendly community event at the Albuquerque Convention Center on May 10-12, 2013. The Book Fiesta focuses on both nationally-recognized as well as local Southwest authors. The mission is to recognize and encourage the literary accomplishments all across the Southwest, especially of authors in New Mexico and Arizona. The show is being organized by Sunbelt Shows, producer of the National Fiery Foods and Barbecue Show, with support from the largest book publishers in New Mexico and the New Mexico Book Co-op. In addition to over 200 vendors, readings and special author events will feature some of the best books and authors from the region.

Proceeds of the Book Fiesta will be donated to the New Mexico Library Foundation, the New Mexico Coalition for Literacy, and a yet- to-be-named organization in Arizona and will be used to promote literacy and reading programs in the region. Features Importance of books • 20,000+ attendees (projected) • over $16 billion are spent on books every year in the U.S. • Over 300 author/publisher vendors • at least 35% of the U.S. population visits a bookstore at least once a • Book talks with local and national authors month. In fact, Americans visit bookstores more often than any • Book-signings other type of store, except for the mass market chains such as • Family-oriented activities Wal-Mart, Target, and Kmart. • Workshops on writing & publishing • Native American and Hispanic books • According to a Gallup poll, during any given week, 22% of Ameri- • Children’s books can adults bought at least one book. • Poetry • e-book sales have been growing exponentially by as much as 177% • Electronic books per year. • Hands-on demonstrations • 53% of e-book readers say they now read more books than before. • Celebrity chefs & cooking demonstrations • Based on Census data, almost 50% of New Mexicans and Arizo- • Arts & crafts nans could benefit from literacy programs. • Food & entertainment • Usage of libraries in Arizona and New Mexico has been increasing by as much as 10% per year. Sponsors • Patrons of the Albuquerque Public Library checked out over 4.5 million books and magazines last year. • Media • Libraries in Tucson, Phoenix, and Albuquerque were visited over • National publishers 21.6 million times last year! • Regional publishers • Local & regional media • Libraries Other Book Festivals • Literacy programs • Baltimore Book Festival — 40,000 attendees, 100 exhibitors • Regional cultural organizations • Government organizations • Texas Book Festival — 40,000 attendees, 200 author events • Tucson Book estival — 100,000 attendees, 250 exhibitors For more information call 505/873- • Los Angeles Book Festival — 140,000 attendees, 150 exhibitors 8680, email [email protected] or • Miami Book Festival — 200,000 attendees, 200 exhibitors www.swbookfiesta.com

TRADICIÓN March 2013 9 Poster Design by Jeremy Montoya

Our Lady of Guadalupe by Arturo Montano For more information please visit us online at www.lafiestadecolores.com “This project is made possible in part by New Mexico Arts, a division of the Department of Cultural Affairs, and the National Endowment for the Arts.” pensamientos de los editores

Pros Santa Fe does not support Winter Market so finding a new location might be a fix. Publishers’ The Santa Fe Convention Center is expensive and hard to work with so move. There are many other ven- ues and they cost a lot less. Santa Fe should be working to keep and promote ALL the Winter Markets but they Message don’t. Artists live all over – Taos, Santa Fe, Albuquerque, Las This will be an interesting year. Are we in recovery Cruces, and elsewhere. Having an event in Santa Fe and mode? Will arts groups fail or begin to prosper? Will art- Albuquerque might show compassion for travel. Frankly, ists fall by the road because people are not buying? Who Albuquerque is only an hour from Santa Fe not in an- knows! I do know that as I and the population grows other world like some people think. older that we don’t need as much, don’t run out to partici- Albuquerque has more people and theoretically more pate as much, and priorities have changed. Organizations money to buy art. But they need to know about the art have to understand their potential customers. The good and the event. will and the bad not so much and they may die off. Cons Winter Market has always been in Santa Fe so you Resignation better start NOW putting the word out that the location Donna Pedace, Executive Director of the Spanish Co- has changed. lonial Arts Society, has resigned! This is a major develop- The National Hispanic Cultural Center wanted it and ment! It might now allow for someone who knows New that would have been logical and they have a way to get Mexican Hispanic art to be in charge. You say why? Well the word out but the former President of the SCAS Board they can’t do any worse! got it for one of his hotels. Hum – let’s think about that! When Pedace got the job handed to her by then Hotels can be really bad for art shows and parking President of the SCAS Board Jim Long, she had none of can be terrible. Timing is everything the pre-advertised qualifications. She had no college that SCAS has done a terrible job of pr and marketing anyone can find or that she is willing to share, no love or in Albuquerque – they are a Santa Fe organization and knowledge of Hispanic New Mexican art, no book pub- have felt the world revolves around Santa Fe. It doesn’t. lishing experience, could not speak or write Spanish and We will see what happens and if they can pull it off! much more. She got the job because she was a former Jim Long employee in the ill-fated Traditions strip mall and New Mexico Magazine was a yes person. Simple. Though Carrillo and Nun were It was fun to see the picture of Ruben Archuleta and finalists for the job Pedace got it. In three years she did a Rudolfo Anaya in the February New Mexico Magazine. really good job chasing benefactors and members away They are both great guys! and having public meltdowns. She also increased the animosity between Contemporary Hispanic Market and A final note about all of the country’s financial problems: it Traditional Spanish Market. If the two markets worked affects all of us and especially the arts. Of course it is easy to throw together in harmony, they could get more people to the stones at the absolute dummies in Washington D.C. – both parties markets who could buy art and save a lot of money. Both and EVERYONE! But we are also to blame because we elected peo- are not priorities of the SCAS Board. Good riddance to ple who are unable to function and then we re-elect sub-par people. Donna and may the SCAS Board do something smart. We ought to be saying enough is enough but we keep asking for the We are not holding our breath! This will likely make the dummies to take vacations and raking in the money. We ought to be SCAS Gala in late March a very interesting event. really angry. We ought to be saying, “We are mad as hell and we are not going to take it anymore!” But we are weenies! Winter Spanish Market An artist emailed us and said the 2013 Winter Span- Southwest Book Fiesta ish Market will be in Albuquerque in November in one The Southwest Book Fiesta will be held May 10-12 at of Jim Long’s hotels. Is this the most bizarre thing you the Albuquerquie Convention Center. This will be a great have heard in a long time? We just can’t process this. opportunity to see some great books, outstanding authors, There are pros and cons for this idea: and have a lot of fun. Hope to see you there!

TRADICIÓN March 2013 11 Oil base monotype/pastel/litho crayon “Tiernitos” 23½” x 19¼” AnaMaria Samaniego “A sense of place, to remember to enjoy” Participant at Summer Contemporary Hispanic Market

Studio (505) 501-5661 [email protected] AnaMaria Samaniego Winner of the prestigious 2011 Contemporary Hispanic Market “Tradicion Revista Excellence in the Arts” award. For “Bosque”

Awarded First Place in Printmaking at the State Fair Fine Arts in 2012 for “Calabacitas”

“Calabacitas” is the last of a series of salsas that include “Guacamole” and “Pico de Gallo”

Inquires of show dates, art work and studio visits at: [email protected] Studio (505) 501-5661

Oil base monotype “Bosque” 23½” x 19½”

“Siempre Azul” “Ri Grande” Oil base Monotype Oil base Monotype & Pastel & Pastel 23½” x 19½” 23½” x 19½”

Bosque”, “Siempre Azul”, “Rio Grande”, and “Tiernitos”available as an Archival Pigment Print on 100% rag paper. Call for sizes and prices.

Handcolored 4 panel Linocut on Chiri Rice Paper. “Calabacitas” 6” x 16” edition of 20 was strange. A nickel was attached Stupid Is … and the envelope read, “This nickel can help provide life-saving assis- by Barbe Awalt tance to paralyzed veterans!” So if the NOTE: The original column, “Stupid one of those people so I don’t even nickel provided so much help why Factor,” was a regular part of New Mexico know if they got the gifts. This has we they sending it out to thousands Breeze newspaper for many years. The Breeze happened before. With no thanks of- of people? Could all of those nickels has stopped publishing but the idea is still fered or even in a timely fashion. All provide help to a lot of people? good so we are including it in TR but with of the adults were capable of saying another name in respect to New Mexico thank-you. So my resolution for 2013 Café Cups Breeze. Hope you enjoy it. – anyone who does not bother to say I had bought a pack of Café Cups thank-you doesn’t get anything the for my Mother at Walgreens’s for Milk Prison Riot following Christmas. It also means I about $10. I saw them on TV and you A Farmington prison recently have to be diligent to say thank-you could get two packs for about $10 but experienced a riot among inmates too! Are we getting too rude to say a pay $13.99 in shipping and handling because they couldn’t get second simple thank-you? fees. Does that make sense? You are helpings of milk. First of all, they paying more to get the cups to you were getting food and drink so a How About That Congress than the cups. Just go to Walgreens’s! second helping of milk was above The approval rating for Congress and beyond. It is prison so don’t you is less than cockroaches – seriously! Gas get what you get? And lastly, you Someone did a survey. Congress is I love gas prices – there is no are going to have a riot with possible also less favorable than Ebola Virus, rhyme or reason. In one block the charges over milk? Milk is good but head lice, NFL replacement referees, prices was $.20 difference a gallon really? and Donald Trump! You have to between two gas stations! Is one gas work pretty hard to be that bad but better than the other? Booze for Arts Congress doesn’t work at all so this is Vacation – Really? At a recent meeting of arts groups a major question! in New Mexico it was proposed that While the government was tee- arts groups sell liquor to fund arts’ It Doesn’t Make Any Dif- tering on a big financial crisis the programs. Now I will be the first to ference Congress went on vacation. WHY? say in this bad economy that arts It doesn’t matter if a politician is Could doing their job with less than are not being funded adequately but democrat or republican – they are all two months in D.C. be too much? selling booze? Isn’t this the wrong stupid and crooked. It has exploded Could I go on vacation every two message to kids? Are they aware of on New Mexico that for six plus months. I guess those in Congress all the regulations, rules, and laws years they sort of forgot to balance haven’t heard the expression – lead governing liquor – including the la- the New Mexico checkbook. As a by example. bel and it’s art. Isn’t there a better way result no one knows how much New Postal Wear to fund arts in New Mexico? This Mexico spent or has. The problem The U.S. Postal Service – those is a effort by the Catalyst Club and started under Bill Richardson – a folks who misplace the mail and ArtBar. I appreciate the effort and Democrat- and went on with Su- want to discontinue Saturday deliv- thinking outside the box but doesn’t sana Martinez – a Republican. She eries – is coming out with a new line New Mexico have enough problems knew about it when she assumed the of clothing – why? Don’t you want to with drinking and driving even if it governorship but didn’t tell the un- wear clothing of achievers and not is after the theater? washed masses. They all hide things, an organization that goes in the hole they are crooked, and they lie. Why billions of dollars? Rude Behavior do we vote for them again? It doesn’t This past Christmas we gave gifts matter, they are all alike. Best T-Shirt Ever – Not Stu- to people that didn’t even say thank- pid you. I personally delivered a gift to Paralyzed Vets of America Seen in Whole Foods – “I Work a household that was the gathering We got an expensive solicitation To Save Your Ass” – an official Al- place for six adults and two young in the mail from the Paralyzed Veter- buquerque Fire Department shirt. I children. The person who answered ans of America. Let’s be clear – I re- want one! the door and took the gifts was not spect ALL veterans. 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www.corazondeduran.com P.O. Box 57135, Albuquerque, NM 87187 [email protected] 303/522-6994 505-379-3230 albuquerque New Mexico Tinwork at Kimo Tin art is a distinct New Mexico tradition. Both Hispanics and Native Americans do tin and this exhibit shows traditional and Contemporary tin in all forms. Kevin Burgess de Chavez is a native New Mexican and an art teacher. Drew Coduti, like Kevin, has restored historic tin objects. Christina Hernandez Feldewert is a tinsmith of over 17 years. She is one of the practitioners of reverse glass painting and straw appliqué. Jerry Montoya came about probably with rubbing elbows with a lot of artists in developing the Fiesta de Colores in Grants and other shows. Tin came to him later in life and he has excelled. Featured in the show is a paper-cut or papel picado by artist Catalina Delgado Trunk framed in tin. New Mexico Tin, February 7 to March 7, 2013. The Gallery is open 11am to 3pm and for more info: www.KiMo- Abq.org.

Photographs courtesy of Jeremy Montoya

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TRADICIÓN March 2013 21 22 TRADICIÓN March 2013 TRADICIÓN March 2013 23 santa fe Governor’s Centennial Awards for Arts Established in 1974 by Governor can Indian. Abeyta was honored this director of the Las Cruces Symphony Bruce King and First Lady Alice King, year with the Native Treasures Living Orchestra at New Mexico State Uni- the Governor’s Arts Awards celebrate Treasure award. The artist generously versity. His unyielding passion for the role that artists, craftspeople, and donates artwork to local and national the arts has led the orchestra to new arts supporters play in the cultural charities. He also served on the Muse- levels of artistic excellence, with rave and economic life of New Mexico. um of Indian Arts & Culture’s develop- reviews, and ten consecutive sold out The awards are given to living artists ment committee, and is represented by seasons. With a career as a conductor and arts supporters who have demon- Blue Rain Gallery. that has spanned over three decades, strated lifetime achievement in their Klein holds a doctorate in performance art form or contributions to the arts in Artist Michael Berman of San from the University of Illinois. Klein New Mexico. During its thirty-year Lorenzo has photographed the desert has led the orchestra for 13 years, existence, a diverse and prestigious list southwest for over three decades and and in his work as a guest artist both of painters, weavers, sculptors, danc- captured its dramatic surroundings in nationally and internationally, he ers, musicians, storyteller, poets, actors, compelling landscape prints. Born in serves as an artistic ambassador for the playwrights, potters, and other out- 1956 in New York City, Berman came Las Cruces Symphony. Each season standing individuals and organizations west to study biology at Colorado Col- the 70-member orchestra presents six have been honored. The Governor’s lege. He later received his masters of programs of classical music, a Pops Awards for Excellence in the Arts con- fine arts from Arizona State Univer- concert, and chamber orchestra continue to evolve with the ever-changing sity. Berman has lived for 34 years in cert. Klein has introduced his com- arts world so that the impact and rel- San Lorenzo on the edge of the Gila munity to new composers through evance of the awards persist. National Forest, the focus of his next the presentation of world-renowned book, currently in production at the guest artist soloists and commissions of Artist Tony Abeyta of Santa Fe Museum of New Mexico Press. As world-premieres by acclaimed compos- is considered one of the finest con- part of his commitment to the Gila ers, and innovative repertory. Klein is temporary painters in New Mexico wilderness, Berman took part in the committed to arts education and com- and beyond. Growing up in Gallup New Mexico BLM Wilderness Pho- munity outreach. More than 15,000 surrounded by the Navajo and Zuni tography Survey in 1996, and became area children benefit from school tours reservations, his modernist painting a founding board member of the Gila and other opportunities to experience style pays homage to native culture Resource Information Project in 1997. the orchestra in concert, and audiences and place. His translation of tradition- His landscape photography reflects his benefit from pre-concert lectures. Since al designs and themes into contempo- strong interest in ecology developed Klein took the helm, the orchestra’s rary expressions highlights his talent through his early studies, and his im- budget has grown by four times its and innovation among a generation ages call attention to wild places that original size and now reaches more of Native American artists. Abeyta are under threat. He donates his time than 23,000 people. The orchestra has continues to work in different artistic and artwork to conservation organiza- been featured on National Public Ra- media, and has recently started mak- tions, including the Gila Conservation dio’s Performance Today. ing jewelry. Abeyta left home at 16 Coalition. His work is represented in to study at the Institute of American the permanent collections of many Taos artist Ed Sandoval’s depic- Indian Arts in Santa Fe, and received museums, including the New Mexico tions of rural Hispanic New Mexican a masters in fine art from New York Museum of Art, Santa Fe; Metropoli- life have ensured that he is one of the University. A large mural by Abeyta tan Museum of Art, New York; the most popular contemporary artists in graces the Museum of Indian Arts & Amon Carter Museum in Fort Worth, northern New Mexico. His canvases Culture’s (MIAC) gathering space, and Texas; the Denver Art Museum; the use bold color and texture to portray one of his paintings served as the of- Cleveland Museum of Art; and the the people, places, and architecture ficial illustration for the opening of the Yale University Art Gallery. In 2008, of his surroundings. Born in Nambe, National Museum of the American Berman received a prestigious fellow- Sandoval lived in various northern Indian in Washington DC. Abeyta’s ship from the John Simon Guggen- New Mexico communities before set- work is also in museum collections heim Memorial Foundation for his tling in Taos. He received a bachelor including the Heard Museum of Art, work Grasslands: The Chihuahuan of fine arts from Eastern New Mexico Millicent Rogers Museum, National Desert Project. University, and masters in psychology Museum of the American Indian, Mu- from the University of Utah. In Taos, seum of Indian Arts and Culture, and Musician Lonnie Klein of Las Cru- he operates his own gallery Studio Wheelwright Museum of the Ameri- ces serves as the conductor and music de Colores. His classic style has been

24 TRADICIÓN March 2013 compared to the Taos art colony art- important financial contributions and people each year in their community. ists. Sandoval finds inspiration in the countless donations of art and histori- old life of New Mexico. His work sets cal artifacts to the state. Catron worked Catherine Oppenheimer of Santa a mood and conveys movement and with Will Shuster, one of the famed Fe is recognized as a major contribu- translates the connection of the people Cinco Pintores, to give work to the tor to the arts for her work support- to the land. Sandoval has an inter- New Mexico Museum of Art. Catron ing strong arts education programs est in custom adobe home design and also suggested that Alexander and Su- in New Mexico. She co-founded construction. He built his own adobe san Girard, donate their 100,000-piece the National Dance Institute of New house and chapel, featured in the book folk art collection to the Museum of Mexico in 1994 (NDI-NM) and is past Artists at Home: Inspired Ideas from International Folk Art, which now chair. NDI is recognized for “Teach- New Mexico Artists. Sandoval has in- houses one of the largest folk art col- ing Children Excellence,” and has spired young artists through his work lections in the world. Catron has sup- introduced thousands of New Mexico as a public school art teacher. He is ported arts and service nonprofits for children to dance training and per- active in his community and supports over 60 years. He was named a Santa formance experiences as an effective numerous charities and events with Fe Living Treasure in 2007. catalyst for character development his art and posters. Sandoval’s paint- and artistic expression. Oppenheimer ings enhance countless private homes, J. F Maddox Foundation of Hobbs was also the driving force behind the businesses, galleries and museums. was established in 1963 by Jack and creation of the New Mexico School for His work has been featured in many Mabel Maddox to serve the residents the Arts, New Mexico’s first chartered prominent publications including of southeastern New Mexico. The residential high school for the perform- New Mexico Magazine, Cowboys and foundation has played an important ing and visual arts. The charter school Indians Magazine, and Southwest Art role in funding the arts in Lea County, is dedicated to arts mastery and aca- Magazine. supporting many arts organizations, demic excellence assisting passionate events, education, and community young artists in developing their full Thomas B. Catron III of Santa Fe development initiatives. The founda- potential. An impressive artist in her has made significant contributions tion gave approximately $426,000 to own right, Oppenheimer danced with to the cultural life of New Mexico arts and culture projects and events the New York City Ballet under the through his support of the local mu- in Lea County in 2011. Ten years ago, leadership of choreographers George seums and performing arts organi- the foundation granted $1.5 million to Balanchine and Jerome Robbins, and zations. Catron is recognized for his ef- fund the establishment of the CORE with the Twyla Tharp Dance Com- forts to shape the state’s reputation as a Knowledge curriculum in the Hobbs pany. Oppenheimer came to New cultural hub and was the driving force Municipal Schools which included Mexico to teach residencies with NDI behind the Museum of New Mexico principles in teaching liberal arts, with in Santa Fe and in selected rural com- Foundation, the Santa Fe Opera board, emphasis on visual arts and music. munities. NDI provides classes at its and the Museum of Spanish Colonial The foundation has been a longtime Dance Barns to all children who desire Art/Spanish Colonial Arts Society. A supporter of organizations such as the to study the performing arts regard- third-generation New Mexican, the New Western Heritage Museum Lea less of financial capabilities. In 2008, grandson of New Mexico’s first U.S. County Cowboy Hall of Fame at New Oppenheimer was honored by the MS Senator, Catron is president of the Mexico Junior College, Southwest Society of New Mexico with its Award state’s oldest law firm, Catron, Catron Symphony, and Lea County Commis- of Distinction and by the New Mexico and Pottow. An avid opera lover, sion for the Arts. Maddox Foundation Committee of the National Museum Catron was a founding director of the funding has helped bring children of Women in the Arts for her dedica- Santa Fe Opera, serving as board presi- to the Western Heritage Museum; tion to the arts. In 2005, the readers dent and chairman for many years, supported projects that bring perfor- of The Santa Fe New Mexican named and helped to establish the Santa Fe mances to children; and funded after Oppenheimer to its annual “Ten Who Opera Foundation. Catron is a founder school and summer programs at the Made a Difference” list. Under Op- of the Museum of New Mexico Foun- Lea County Center for the Arts, ensur- penheimer’s leadership, NDI received dation (MNMF) and served on the ing that children have access to the a prestigious Coming Up Taller Award board of trustees for over 25 years -- arts in Lea County. Though Jack Mad- from the President’s Committee on the foundation celebrates 50 years in dox died in 1978 and Mabel Maddox the Arts and the Humanities, which 2012. Catron also helped in the early in 1987, their family legacy continues was awarded by then First Lady Laura launch of the Museum of Spanish through the work of their nephews, Bush. Colonial Art, and serves as vice presi- retired District Judge Don Maddox dent. His work has inspired countless and James Maddox, who serve on the others to make philanthropic gifts in foundation board, which Don Maddox support of arts and culture in New chairs. The foundation’s support of the Mexico. His vision has helped to steer arts impacts the lives of thousands of

TRADICIÓN March 2013 25 taos Heinley Fine Arts Features Nick Herrera

Photographs courtesy of Heinley Fine Arts, 119C Bent Street, Taos, New Mexico. 26 TRADICIÓN March 2013 TRADICIÓN March 2013 27 Monsters in the Rocks: The Hero Twins of the Navajo Creation Story by Claude Stephenson, Folk Arts Coordinator, NM Arts In their own story of how the five-fingered people became the Diné, or Navajo as the Bilagáana (white men) call them, the world was populated with fierce monsters (Naayéé) that chased and devoured the people almost to extinction. In desperation, First Man surrounded himself with song for protection and followed a vision to a mountain covered in clouds where he was given a figurine, carved of turquoise, and asked to care for it as his own baby. He was told to bring it back to the mountain in twelve days, which he did. On the mountain, the gods added another figurine of white shell to the turquoise one and brought both figu- rines to life. One became Changing Woman and the other became White Shell Woman. One day, when they had reached maidenhood, Changing Woman was impregnated by the Sun, and White Shell Woman by water. They bore sons who became known as the Hero Twins. In some ver- Cabezón peak, northwest New Mexico sions of the story, Changing Woman bore them both, but no matter: their heroic deeds remain the same. When they had reached adulthood, the Hero Twins de- parted on a quest to rid the world of all monsters. The story lowed to live after they eloquently pleaded their cases and is long and their exploits are too numerous to be related in convinced Monster Slayer of their usefulness to the peace, this short article, but the story has many highlights. prosperity, and well-being of the Diné. The Hero Twins first set out to meet their father, the Thinking that their work was done, the Hero Twins Sun. On the way, they met Spider Woman, who gave them finally gave up monster slaying and retired to a peaceful talismans, chants, and magical weapons to allow them to life of raising a family. However, other monsters that were traverse the treacherous holy path to the house of the Sun. unknown or missed by Monster Slayer continued to haunt There were valleys of reeds and valleys of cacti that came to the landscape that is the land of the Diné to this day. Pieces life and tried to rip their flesh to shreds, but the Hero Twins of bones and claws of the monsters that were slain still re- prevailed. There were cliffs that opened up as paths only to side in the rock formations that rise dramatically across the close like vises on them, and yet they tricked and enchanted Navajo topography. Rock formations that are simply striking these rocks into free passage. At the house of their father the and majestic to the Bilagáana are often sacred sites to the Sun, they were given supernatural weapons to aid them in Diné, as in “that place where Monster Slayer killed Kicking slaying the monsters they sought. Monster, who kicks people off cliffs.” In the Hero Twins’ first quest, they pursued the most for- Today, Cliffs That Swallow People can be seen on the midable of monsters, Yé’iitsoh, the Big Giant. After he drank way to Standing Rock, near Crownpoint. There are many up the waters of a lake, they confronted him and challenged other silent rock spires strewn across the desolate stretches him with taunts. In the ensuing battle, they subdued him of the lands of the Diné, and each has a place in the stories and chopped off his head and cast it far away where it can of the people who live in this remote and stark region. In still be seen today. Some say it is the tall volcanic neck now traveling through this remarkable and visually stunning known as Cabezón, or big head, which rises about thirty corner of our world, those who know the history of the miles west of San Isidro in the Rio Puerco Valley. Other ver- people who live here cannot help but sense the eerie yet sions place it as a butte closer to Mt. Taylor. vibrant life beneath the deathly silence that pervades the Monster Slayer is the lead hero of the saga and often quiet rock masses dominating the horizon. tackled the monsters alone while his brother stayed behind to protect their mothers. He destroyed many monsters but Claude Stephensen is the Folk Arts Coordinator for New allowed others to live. Some he changed into useful crea- Mexico Arts, a division of the New Mexico Department of tures, such as eagle and owl. Others were killed outright. Cultural Affairs. Reprinted with permission from ART- Some monsters, such as age, hunger, and poverty, were al- Speak, New Mexico Arts. 28 TRADICIÓN March 2013 Through January 5, 2014

TRADICIÓN March 2013 29 TEDxABQ by Barbe Awalt I was always interested in TEDx. It has been on 60 Minutes and countless other TV shows and TED has always had interesting and thought provoking topics. The opportunity came up to see the TEDxABQ event and I was free so I checked it out. TEDx are locally and indepen- dently organized events. TED stands for - Technology En- tertainment Design and their motto is “Ideas Worth Spreading.” They have an international conference, local events, prize, blogs, websites, and a list of speakers like: Steve Jobs, Bobby McFerrin, Jamie Oliver, Tony Robbins, and Al Gore among many others. You may not recognize the names of speakers but many will bring on an ah-hah moment. They talk about world problems, food, art, music, technology, new inventions, business, and ideas that everyone should at least think about. and looking for seats at almost the but legislators got in free – it seems Through a flu outbreak, dipping same time. This practice is to encour- they are financially challenged or temperatures, and a lot of wind, I at- age people to meet new attendees. want free stuff. The other problem I tended my first TEDx experience. It Some people were really “getting had because it happened in the rows was a TEDxABQED about education. seats challenged.” It didn’t help that right behind me was that people who The TEDx was held at the African about 15 minutes before the event all settled in those seats were asked to American Performing Arts Center at the lights went out in the auditorium move so that those rows could be the New Mexico State Fairgrounds. making getting a seat a dangerous “reserved” for late arrivals. That was This newish building is truly won- task especially for handicapped and rude and the rows should have been derful and the large gallery in it is the elderly. It is probably against the taped off in advance. worth taking time to see. law too but……. The presentations are short – 5 to Checking in the TEDx people was TED has another practice, when 10 minutes. The speakers included very organized. You had an email the presentations start, the doors are Hakim Bellamy – the new poet ticket for the event and when you closed and you can’t get in except laureate of Albuquerque – to fire up presented it they gave you a pre- at breaks in the program. That is a the attendees, Jami Grindatto from printed name-tag. There was a pro- good idea because some rude people, Intel, Maria Venegas a special educa- gram and all sorts of other materials. especially a person I know from tion teacher from APS, Natalie Klein The TEDx volunteers and staff have Santa Fe, came almost an hour late. from Bosque School, Ann Lyn Hall on TEDx shirts and they are easily They don’t want people disrupting from CNM, Kevin Gant from nex- identified. the presentations and the door clos- Gen Academy, and many others. The They don’t let you go into the ing is put on all communications. program was led by Lisa Harris and auditorium until about 20 minutes The auditorium was sold out with Bill Meador. There were state of the before the event starts. This makes hundreds of people attending. I asked art technologies to help the presenta- for a cattle call for everyone going in and the cost was $50 a head to attend tions but sometimes they didn’t work.

30 TRADICIÓN March 2013 $50 to spend on an afternoon of talks? I also wondered who has a Friday afternoon free to go to talks? Sure, there were great refreshments at breaks and at the mixer and a lovely parting coffee cup to go. But are they preaching to the choir and having tax-payers foot the bill? I wondered about all of it. I don’t know about being talked at. Doesn’t that defeat the purpose of idea exchange? Dialog is two ways. I also hope they do a better job of communicating who is a speaker and when events are so everybody can come if they want to. I also think that a general TEDx, a TEDx- women in December 2012, and an education TEDx is missing the point. We have so many problems and ideas that need to be explored: books/literary, local, art, politics, Also the sound system was bad at times. media, technology, the economy, to name a few. The TED All the speakers talked about education. They came idea is wonderful but it needs to be constantly changing on the stage and stood in a predetermined place and and evolving. I am not very good at being talked at. talked – sometimes stilted. It is very theatrical. Distract- Check out the TEDxABQ.com website. On the TEDx ing from the presentations was the herd of photographers website in February is a call for presenters. The next big and filmers constantly moving to take a picture – why? event is the general TEDx at Popejoy, Saturday, Septem- The whole program had the feel of a 70s talk-in. Yes, ber 7. TEDx will also be at a Shared Knowledge event at some of us can remember the 70s. The ideas from the the Student Union Center – UNM, April 16-18. KANW speakers were great and thought provoking like “children radio has the TED Radio Hour on Thursdays at 9am. are people.” All the speakers, in essence, said the education system is broken and most had alternative ideas to make it work. If the education system is broken why wasn’t the New Mexico Education Secretary in attendance? Why were school superintendents not in attendance? The other problem I had were the speakers were Cristina Hernández talking to the audience. It says in the emails you are sent that this is an opportunity to “engage your passion for Tinwork education” but the only engaging you do is put up sticky notes on the walls at breaks. Is that engaging? Certainly at the mixer, after the presentations, you might be able to have a conversation with a speaker but if it is a good idea only a limited number may hear it and you may get a very short time to engage. The process seems to be flawed. I enjoyed hearing the Intel problems with getting qualified applicants. I enjoyed hearing about cognitive education and teaching up to the handicapped but wasn’t one of the primary focuses of education missing – students? There were senior citizens in the audience down Contemporary Reverse to college students. I think it is a given to listen to stu- & Traditional Glass dents but the people in charge, who dictate standardized testing, don’t really understand that notion and again Design Painting should have been there. The next TEDx is in September and rumored to be at Popejoy because of crowds. It will be a general TEDx covering all topics. I really enjoyed hearing concepts and Cristina Hernández Feldewert topics that are different and unusual. We don’t usually 18 Paseo del Caballo • Santa Fe, NM 87508 have the opportunity to hear them. I wonder who has 505.473-2952 • [email protected]

TRADICIÓN March 2013 31 philadelphia Journeys to New Worlds

The Philadelphia Museum of Art these global empires. burgeoning trade in this field led to the has opened an exhibition of paintings, During the seventeenth and eigh- development of new visual traditions. furniture, and works in silver and ivo- teenth centuries, the development of a Emblematic of their time and place, ry from Roberta and Richard Huber’s vast network of trade routes created the the works created in the Spanish and collection of Spanish and Portuguese conditions for an unparalleled artis- Portuguese colonies of Latin Ameri- colonial art. Journeys to New Worlds tic exchange within the Spanish and can and Asia are often distinctive in offers compelling evidence of the new Portuguese colonial empires. Works of style and content, yet they also reflect a visual culture created by the global art traveled between these two Eu- shared heritage of culture, religion, and empires of these two nations in the ropean countries and their colonies artistic practice that ranged geographi- seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. in Latin America and Asia, and the cally from Peru to Sri Lanka. Including elegant religious sculptures, ornate silverwork, and vibrant paintings of Catholic saints and South American aristocrats, this exhibition offers rare insight into a world of dramatic change and converging cultures. Journeys to New Worlds: Spanish and Portuguese Colonial Art, which runs though May 19, 2013, illuminates the enormous variety and complexity of art made during the Iberian colonial period. It contains several paintings by the Andean master Melchor Pérez Holguín (Bolivian, c. 1665–after 1724) including Pietà (c. 1720), an inventive interpretation of Catholic iconogra- phy. The exhibition also explores the adaptation of European imagery into local idioms, for example the presence of Asiatic features on ivory sculptures produced in the Portuguese colonies in Goa and the Spanish colonies in the Philippines. The enormous wealth generated by Spain’s colonial posses- sions in South America and the so- phisticated lifestyle it supported can be seen in the Portrait of Rosa de Salazar y Gabiño, Countess of Monteblanco and Montemar (c. 1764–71, by an unknown Peruvian artist), which depicts one of the richest aristocrats of Peru at that time. The House at Nazareth (late eighteenth century, by an unknown Bolivian artist)takes a scene venerated in high religious culture and translates it into a familiar domestic scene replete with lively details and vibrant color. The combination of these hybrid visual traditions—European, American, and Pietà, c. 1720. Melchor Pérez Holguín, Bolivian, b. Cochabamba, c. 1665- d. Potosí, after Asian—provide viewers with a glimpse 1724. Oil on canvas, Image: 42 15/16 x 30 5/16 inches (109 x 77 cm) Framed: 50 7/8 x of the new and increasingly complex 39 1/4 x 2 1/4 inches (129.2 x 99.7 x 5.7 cm). Promised gift of the Roberta and Richard cultural world forged in the making of Huber Collection.

32 TRADICIÓN March 2013 Our Lady of Mount Carmel with Bishop Saints, 1764. Gaspar Miguel de Berrío, Bolivia, Potosí 1706 - after 1764. Oil on canvas, Image: 38 3/4 x 33 1/16 inches (98.5 x 84 cm). Framed: 45 1/2 x 39 3/8 x 3 1/4 inches (115.6 x 100 x 8.3 cm). Promised gift of the Roberta and Richard Huber Collection. TRADICIÓN March 2013 33 Rosa de Salazar y Gabiño, Countess of Monteblanco and Montemar, c. 1764-1771. Artist/maker unknown, Peruvian. Oil on canvas, Image: 37 13/16 x 29 3/4 inches (96 x 75.5 cm). Framed: 43 3/4 x 35 3/4 x 2 1/4 inches (111.1 x 90.8 x 5.7 cm). Roberta and Richard Huber Collection. 34 TRADICIÓN March 2013 Saint Michael the Archangel, 18th century. Artist/maker unknown, Peruvian. Oil on canvas, Image: 79 1/8 x 61 inches (201 x 155 cm). Framed: 83 1/2 x 64 3/4 x 3 1/4 inches (212.1 x 164.5 x 8.3 cm). Promised gift of the Roberta and Richard Huber Collection. TRADICIÓN March 2013 35 Top: Plaque from an Altar Frontal, 1700-1750. Artist/maker unknown, Bolivian. Silver, repoussé, chased, engraved, and burnished, 10 1/2 x 21 1/8 x 1 1/4 inches (26.7 x 53.7 x 3.2 cm). Roberta and Richard Huber Collection. Bottom: The House at Nazareth, Late 18th century. Artist/maker unknown, Bolivian. Oil on canvas, Image: 24 x 31 3/4 inches (61 x 80.6 cm). Framed: 29 1/4 x 37 3/8 x 2 inches (74.3 x 94.9 x 5.1 cm). Promised gift of the Roberta and Richard Huber Collection. 36 TRADICIÓN March 2013 Top left: Tray, 1700-1725. Artist/maker unknown, Peruvian. Silver, repoussé, chased and engraved, 12 5/8 x 17 1/2 x 3/4 inches (32 x 44.5 x 1.9 cm). Roberta and Richard Huber Collection. Middle left: Christ Child as the Good Shep- herd, 17th century. Artist/maker unknown, Ceylon-Portuguese. Ivory with polychromy, 2 1/4 x 11 x 2 3/4 inches (5.7 x 27.9 x 7 cm). Roberta and Richard Huber Collection. Bottom left: Contador (Cabinet), Mid- 18th century. Artist/maker unknown, Peruvian. Wood, mother-of-pearl, tortoiseshell, ivory, and silver, 39 3/8 x 20 7/8 x 13 inches (100 x 53 x 33 cm). Roberta and Richard Huber Collection. Above: Virgin Mary, 18th century. Artist/ maker unknown, Hispano-Philippine. Ivory, mounted on a wood base, covered with re- poussé and chased silver, 14 15/16 x 6 1/4 x 5 inches (37.9 x 15.9 x 12.7 cm). Base: 4 3/4 x 13 inches (12.1 x 33 cm). Roberta and Richard Huber Collection.

TRADICIÓN March 2013 37 Art Updates

HISTORIC ARTIFACT STOLEN FROM OAKLAND MUSEUM OF CALIFORNIA

On Monday, January 9, 2013, a historical 19th century, Pioneer-era quartz and gold jewelry box was stolen from the Oakland Museum of California’s permanent collection. A reward of $12,000 is offered for the safe recovery of the stolen artifact. The reward is subject to certain terms and conditions required by the insurer, including that the reward claimant not have any involvement in the theft or any previous or post theft complicity. The historic jewelry box, was made between 1869 and 1878 by A. Andrews, a San Francisco goldsmith, and is signed. It is made of California gold, and features a rectangular moulded top and base that rests on four feet formed of four miniature female figures depicting allegorical California. The artifact is seven inches in height; nine inches on length; and seven inches in depth. The top pilasters and mouldings are of veined gold quartz in tones of grey and cream with veining of gold. The interior of the top is recessed and engraved in full relief with scene of the early days of the Union and Central Pacific Railroads, mounted Native Americans, herds of buffalo, and a train of cars. The gold quartz is cut and set in mosaic fashion in the top of the lid, exterior and the sides are gold veined quartz. The investigation is ongoing and anyone with information is asked to contact the Oakland Police Department’s Major Crimes Section at (510) 238-3951 or the TIP LINE at 777-2805. See more at: http://www.museumca.org/reward#sthash.Ax41o2ma.dpuf 38 TRADICIÓN March 2013 Southwest Book Fiesta, May 11 at 2pm, ABQ Convention Ctr Lavender Festival, July 13 at 11am, Los Ranchos, NM slim randles Home Country Slim Randles is one of our authors, having You enjoy fly fishing? Okay, penned the award-winning A Cowboy’s build your own pirogue to fish from. Guide to Growing Up Right and Racing cars is your hobby? Go race Home Country. Slim also writes a them across a mountain range. Are nationally syndicated column every week in you a seamstress or a seamster? Sew over 250 newspapers with over 2.2 millions a flag the size of a circus tent and readers every week across the country. We hang it from a giant sequoia. are proud to be able to include some of his Spring is the trampoline of the humor and inpirational ramblin’s. Hope you entire year. Our thoughts and plans like his take on things. are now unfettered by trying to stay warm and we can emerge from our “I believe I’ll write some Celtic point. Then she wails that Mr. caves, scratch ourselves, and grunt music,” said Dud one morning at the Wonderful became an outlaw and something like, “Public teevee good! world dilemma think tank down at wandered freely, thinking only of Tell me go library. Study individual the coffee shop. “I’ve been studying her until he was either shot by some applications of medieval chemical it.” English guy or inflicted on Austra- experiments.” “I didn’t know you were Celtic,” lia. And that’s why, as soon as she Buy some oil paints and some Steve said. finishes this little ditty, she’s off to brushes and try to make a blank “I’m not, but I do get occasional drown herself in a loch.” piece of canvas look pretty. Buy some bouts of depression and that quali- The gang shook their heads. house paint and try to make the fies me. I’ve thought about it a lot. “There is some variety, though,” house look pretty. Buy some makeup Maybe they sing that way because Dud said. “Sometimes she’s expecting and try to make the dog look pretty. they don’t have sunsets like we do, twins. Sometimes her beau is at- This last is just for four-year-olds, and or because the horses run around tacked by sheep. Sometimes he sails if you tell your mom I suggested it, the racetrack the wrong direction. All away to darkest Cleveland to escape I’ll swear I don’t know you. I know is, after two hours of Celtic her singing. The transition from winter to music, circus clowns would look at But in this depression there is at spring can almost be summed up each other and say ‘Why bother?’ least a key to the entire culture.” by calling it a change from “Why “But writing Celtic music should “How do you have that figured?” bother?” to “Why not?!” be fairly easy. To start with, just find said Steve. Spring is the reward we get for a girl who has a voice like a mouse “It’s obvious,” Dud said, grin- having cut all that firewood. caught in an echo chamber or empty ning. “The application of single-malt septic tank, then you add in some whisky is to kill the pain, and they ------stringed instruments and a flute raise sheep so they can stick wool in It occurred to me the other played by someone whose dog just their ears.” day just what a blessing it is to be a died. You start out by having the ------grandfather. The children think we’re singer say how much she loves the Do you feel that itch coming on? all powerful, a fount of knowledge guy despite her condition, and we It’s time, you know. See the kids out and wisdom. Then they turn three know what condition that is, right? flying kites? That’s a sign. See little … Those Celts are trying to outnumber green bladelets in the lawn. That’s a We could all use coot lessons. the sheep again. sign, too. Yes, the enigmatic old coot in ev- “Then she wails that her father It’s almost full spring, and that ery small town like ours has wisdom was depressed one day and ran the itch tells us it’s time to do some- corralled, knowledge tucked away for young man off. He was told not thing. This is when we need to a rainy day, and is especially mysteri- to return until he either had more forget almost all our sensible resolu- ous. So here are some coot lessons. sheep than the old man or had done tions about self- improvement and Lesson One: Look colorful. something worthwhile, like whittling just concentrate on fun. List your Wear a hat that was found buried at down the House of Lords or starting favorite things and then take it one Gettysburg or Thermopylae. Don’t a distillery.” ridiculous step further and there you clean it up. Wear boots that aren’t “Isn’t that kinda depressing, have it, a renewal of hope and fun polished with anything not provided Dud?” Doc asked. and insanity to celebrate the return by horses and cows. Red suspenders “Of course. That’s the whole of the sun. are called for. Extra points for stains.

40 TRADICIÓN March 2013 Lesson Two: Learn a coot skill. than some young married folks here dom, had smoothed out a sled run These include whittling, rope tricks, had been alive. And he wasn’t the that featured style rather than speed. sharpening pocket knives and kind of guy who needed to come Each winter since, when the sleight of hand. You get extra points down to the Mule Barn coffee shop moon was right, nothing good was for playing something recognizable and settle the world’s troubles like the on television, and the joints didn’t on the harmonica. A jaw harp is rest of us do. He stayed home and he ache more than usual, the aforemen- good. All you have to do is twang walked the dogs. tioned geezers slid down the hill. it, because no one can recognize a We didn’t really know Marshall Herb and Doc and Marvin stood tune on it anyway. If you play piano, Sprack until Saturday, really. On Sat- at the top and got the toboggan ready, deduct 10 points. urday, as we gathered to say goodbye while Steve just watched. He was As to the whittling, you just to him, the military honor guard younger, quite a bit younger, than the keep your knife sharp and shave showed up. He was buried in his other three, but this cold weather got sticks thinner and thinner. Hold it up dress uniform from a war most of us his hurt parts riled up and he was to the light and turn it. Extra points can’t remember. His medals were on sitting this one out. for a notch or two carved in it. Then display next to the casket. The honor “I keep looking around for some- you hand it to a kid to keep. guard carried his flag-draped cof- one young enough to make the first “What is it?” a rude kid might fin to the gravesite, and other honor run and kinda top it off for us,” Doc ask. guards fired a three-volley salute to said, “and we don’t have anyone.” That’s when you screw up your Marsh. Then the flag was folded care- “I’d go first,” Herb said, “if I grizzled face, wink at the kid, and say, fully into a tight triangle and present- hadn’t promised my wife I wouldn’t.” “I’m sure you must recognize that, ed to Marshall’s daughter. “Can’t be that hard to do, I mean, kid. You look pretty smart to me.” When the chaplain rose to just to go first,” Marvin said. “Where’s And now the all-important Les- speak to us, it was about Master your pioneering spirit?” son Three: Never let them pin you Sergeant Sprack. It turned out that “So you’re going first, Marvin?” down on ideas. Oh, we know they’re Marsh did things in combat that “Not today. Today is … some- right. The problem is, some college- none of us could imagine him, or thing … can’t remember what. But if trained punk will pepper us with anyone else, doing. Later, we said it was tomorrow, I’d go first.” facts and make us look bad. the miracle of Marsh’s life was that “Tomorrow that run will be all Here’s an example of Coot Tact. he made it home. Now, at last, we smooth and packed down and old Young punk – “The world’s understood the reason for his slight ladies could go down it,” Herb said. heading for catastrophe.” limp. And we can also understand “Tomorrow, we’ll have been over it Coot – “Son, that’s what they a bit more why he didn’t go in for dozens of times.” want you to think.” the shallow, flippant conversation “Got any old ladies around?” Then snap your red suspenders we practice daily. He had things he Doc asked. and tip him a conspiratorial wink. could have said, but he didn’t have to Steve did a couple of squats, and (Never, upon pain of root canal, because he knew them. swung his arms around. He took the explain who “they” are) Well, we started out on Saturday toboggan rope from Doc’s hand, sat The word will spread and you thinking we were burying our old down, put both boots over the front will be credited with bringing civi- pal Marsh, the morning dog walker. curl of it, and pushed off. lization to the world, inventing the But by the time that bugler played “Yeehaw!” he yelled as the to- solenoid, rescuing fair maidens and “Taps,” we realized that we didn’t boggan slid in slow-motion along its discovering fire. bury him at all. His country showed gentle path to the bottom. Both he And if you do this long enough, up to bury him and say goodbye. and the toboggan arrived at the bot- you’ll outlive anyone who can call Marsh … thank you. tom together, and the three oldsters you a liar. ------applauded as Steve walked back up. ------The bonafide members of the Doc grabbed the toboggan’s rope. We buried Marshall Sprack last Mule Barn truck stop’s philosophy “I’ll go next.” Saturday, and we will miss him. Ol’ counter and world dilemma think Marsh was the cheerful old-timer tank adjourned early Saturday to And as he sat down in it, he who could be seen each day walking reconvene at the top of Geezer Hill. grinned up at the tall cowboy with his two tiny dogs around the neigh- That wasn’t its real name, of course. the walrus moustache. “Steve, I be- borhood. He always had a smile and It didn’t have a real name. It wasn’t lieve that’s the first time I ever saw wave for everyone. much of a hill, either. More like a anyone spur a sled to the bottom of He was a very private guy, how- twenty-foot elevation. The youngsters a hill.” ever. We all knew him, but didn’t called it Geezer Hill because several “Doc,” he said, “I can ride any- really know him, if you get my drift. members of the think tank, being in thing with hair. Or … wood.” He’d been retired for more years possession of gray hair and semi-wis-

TRADICIÓN March 2013 41 In the week before Valentine’s said. giving love advice, he’d talk them Day, Marvin Pincus had two new “The only thing is, what if into starting a business here.” customers for his (free of charge, of someone needs the fly tying love “You have a point,” Marjorie course) love advice and fly-tying con- advice service while we’re gone?” said, laughing. “But what would be sultation services. He tied up a midge This bothered Marvin. A man wrong with just going away for a for one client, a salmon streamer who spent more than 40 years week and letting people figure out wrapped in lead for another, and being dependable every day can’t their own love lives for a while?” wished them well. This was his busy be expected to just turn it off like Marvin sat quietly and Marjo- time, of course. He knew another a faucet. rie looked at him and thought how would come in mid-May, in desper- “Honey,” Marge said, “maybe maybe she should be his customer. ate anticipation of June weddings. you could designate someone to She was under no illusion about her “Marge,” he said, sipping coffee be on call? Like a doctor does? You looks. She was old. Old and wrinkled. and looking out at the snow, “I think know?” She was hoping Marvin wasn’t we need a vacation.” Marvin thought about that just married to her because he was Marjorie Pincus smiled. They’d and buttered some toast. “Only one used to it. She studied his face, and both been retired and on permanent I can think of who could tie flies strangely, didn’t really notice his “vacation” for years now. well enough would be Delbert wrinkles. “I’ll go if it means I don’t have to McLean, our chamber of com- Marvin smiled at Marjorie then. make theSlim beds or Randles do the dishes,” she merce. 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Take a minute “ You’re on! ” to sip a lemonade, sit in the old rockerSlim with is an your award-winning dog by your authorside, relax, and andjournalist watch who the has seen it all and then some sunset – you are home. more. These are tales of real people with stories that will make you cry, laugh, and say, ------Slim Randles brings a lot to“I neverthe table thought when of he that!” talks Home about CountryAmerica’s is yourheartland. home A no matter where it is. Kick back veteran outdoorsman and journalist,and read Slim the shares best stories the drama, of five dreams, years of and Slim’s laughter Home we Country columns. Take a minute all feel in our everyday lives. Allto sip along a lemonade, the way, sitSlim in usesthe old his rocker highly with evolved your sensedog by of your side, relax, and watch the When Windy walked into the humor and seems to find a waysunset to poke – you fun areat hishome. own daily life. This book is a collection of the best of Slim’s wit and wisdom.Slim Over Randles 2 million brings readers a lot toof hometownthe table when newspapers he talks about America’s heartland. A Mule Barn during that cold snap in 42 states follow Slim on a weeklyveteran basis. outdoorsman and journalist, Slim shares the drama, dreams, and laughter we all feel in our everyday lives. All along the way, Slim uses his highly evolved sense of last week, we knew he was getting humor and seems to find a way to poke fun at his own daily life. This book is a collection frantic for an audience. He has a hard JustHome where Country is not Home just aof place, the Country? best but of a stateSlim’s of wit mind. and It wisdom. is a place Over where 2 million few doors readers of hometown newspapers are locked and laughter can bein heard 42 states at all follow hours. Slim on a weekly basis. time getting us to listen to his ver- Home Country is the friendly philosophy counter down at the Mule Barn truck stop, where Doc and Bert and Dud and the rest of the world-dilemma-think-tank gather each morning over coffee to solve the world’s problems and plan sion of history, his notions of what mischief. JustHome where Country is not Home just a place, Country? but a state of mind. It is a place where few doors was going on now, and his prognosti- Home Country is that swimmingare locked hole and on Lewis laughter Creek, can wherebe heard the at children all hours. drop from the tire swing into the pool, making wet diamonds flash in the sun.Home And itCountry is the old is themovie friendly theater philosophy that has reverted counter to down showing at the silent Mule movies Barn justtruck to stop,try to where Doc and Bert and Dud cations of the future of mankind. stay afloat in this age of DVD andplayers. the rest of the world-dilemma-think-tank gather each morning over coffee to solve the world’s problems and plan But it was cold, and sitting out Home Country is where youngmischief. guys get moon-eyed over young girls who can’t see them for sour grapes, but they all manage to live through it, and it is theHome place Country where isDewey that swimming the Accident hole Prone on Lewis tries manyCreek, different where the ways children of earning drop froma living the tire swing into the pool, mak- on the bench and ambushing listen- to see if he can find one that doesn’ting wet cause diamonds too much flash harm. in the sun. And it is the old movie theater that has reverted to showing silent movies just to try to Home Country is where Sarahstay afloat runs thein this Read age Me of NowDVD players.bookstore and has one special category called “Love and ers didn’t work too well right now Other Fiction.” It’s the place whereHome stories Country travel faster is where than young electricity guys and get laughtermoon-eyed outruns over youngthe stories. girls It’s who a placecan’t seewhere them for sour grapes, but they all for Windy Wilson, so here he came. a potluck supper is a major andmanage much-anticipated to live through social it, and event it is andthe place where where a stolen Dewey garden the Accidenthose is reported Prone tries in themany local different ways of earning a living newspaper. to see if he can find one that doesn’t cause too much harm. We gave each other the wink and So just where is Home CountryHome? It is here,Country in our is wherehearts. Sarah It’s a warmruns the summer Read evening,Me Now a bookstoreplace by the and fire has in one winter, special a category called “Love and place of hope and love and sometimesOther Fiction.” tears, too. It’s It’sthe aplace place where where stories we can travel be ourselves faster than and electricity kick off the and shoes laughter of care outruns any the stories. It’s a place where dragged out a chair for him. time we want to — It’s home. a potluck supper is a major and much-anticipated social event and where a stolen garden hose is reported in the local “What d’you know, Windy? newspaper. ABOUT THE AUTHOR So just where is Home Country? It is here, in our hearts. It’s a warm summer evening, a place by the fire in winter, a Cold enough for ya?” Slim Randles learned mule packingplace of from hope Gene and love Burkhart and sometimes and Slim Nivens. tears, too. He It’s learned a place mustanging where we canand bewild ourselves burro catch and -kick off the shoes of care any “Cold? You think this is cold? ing from Hap Pierce. He learnedtime horse we shoeing want to from — It’s Rocky home Earick.. He learned horse training from Dick Johnson and Joe Ca- bral. He learned humility from the mules of the eastern High Sierra. For the last 40 years or so, he’s written a lot of stuff, too, Why, one time up on the high line, especially in his Home Country ABOUTcolumn, THE which AUTHOR is syndicated all across this country. He lives in Albuquerque, New Mexico, and I was disappropriating firewood for in a small cabin in the middle of nowhereSlim Randles at the footlearned of the mule Manzano packing Mountains. from Gene Burkhart and Slim Nivens. He learned mustanging and wild burro catching from Hap Pierce. He learned horse shoeing from Rocky Earick. He learned horse training from Dick Johnson and Joe Ca- the crew on the railroad, and it come AWARDS bral. He learned humility from the mules of the eastern High Sierra. 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Why, this one time I was the murders in his book “Murder in fireplace, or the woodburning heater, singing barleytone in the Presbytool- the Soggy Bottoms,” (which every- or maybe just light a candle and look ian church, and there was this guy one else called “The Duchess and the in the flames, look deep in the flames named Mike all right, and …” Truck Driver”) but there was still so for the answers. “Now Doc,” said Steve, twitch- much to do. Truth be known, there I’ve always believed they are ing his walrus mustache, “Don’t you were many times when Dud thought there, and this time of year is a time remember? We’d finished with the how easy it would be to just give up for questions. It is a time to weigh the microbes and went sailing on into on the novel and concentrate on liv- events of the past year and toss them February. Sorry, Windy, Doc didn’t ing. around and ask why. mean to disrupticate your dissemina- It wasn’t the writing that was so It has been a good year for each tion of events, but he’d just forgot. It hard for him. In fact, he kinda liked of us in some respects, and a bad was February.” it. It gave him an excuse to sit up late year in others. Just like every year. “February? You mean like Leap with the radio playing quietly so as A few of our young people died Year kinda February paraphernalium not to awaken Anita, and play with this year. Others were born. Some where you only get olden on one day people in a book the way he had precious old-timers left us, too, but at every four years? That kinda Febru- played with small tin soldiers when least they’d had the chance to hang ary?” he was a child. No, the hard part was and rattle and turn gray. It was the Dud and Herb were trying hard to figure out what the story should young ones that make us ask the not to laugh. do. It isn’t easy. tough questions. “No, Alphonse,” Doc said. He For instance, we know we want But there were also the beautiful sometimes got formal with our the duchess and the American truck things that happened this last year. friend. “We were discussing whether driver to be happy together and kill People went out of their way to help or not to leave out the first r in Febru- off their enemies by the end of the others. People tried valiantly to better ary. No one uses it …” book. So this means finding out why themselves. Some did it by studying “But just because something isn’t we should kill the three people, and a foreign language. Some did it by used,” Windy said, waving his empty which three people we should kill. taking wood shop at the community coffee cup at Mavis, “doesn’t mean The guys at the Mule Barn told him college. Dud practiced hard all year we have to completely immolify it, several years ago to kill off no more and it worked. His accordion playing does it? If we occasionally sloop over than three unless it was a war novel. sounds much better. the top of a letter, that doesn’t brag- And then, there was the love The old Miller dairy got pulled gandize it. That doesn’t codify its story. The duchess, you see, didn’t down. Many of us were worried lesserness, does it?” realize that the truck driver had about kids playing in there and get- “So you’re saying we should been her lover 20 years ago and the ting hurt. It really wasn’t safe any keep the first r in February, is that it?” trucker didn’t know he was the father more. And while we’ll miss seeing asked Steve. of a daughter. He just thought he it out there, with that big tobacco ad “Absotively,” said Windy. had a son by his late wife. Well, she painted on its roof, we’d miss having “OK, now,” Doc said, “who will wasn’t late when she had the son, of those kids around even more. You stand up for the h in school?” course. She had a … malady of some make decisions and hope for the best. Some people think we’re just sort. We can ask Doc for a surefire There were some new homes having coffee each morning there in malady that’ll do in a trucker’s first built this year, and Steve has started the truck stop. wife. adding on to his cabin up in the ------And then, as the duchess and mountains not too far from Jasper the truck driver fall in love for the Blankenship’s mining claim. Steve The weather warmed up the second time, not realizing they’d al- just needed a hole-up spot. A place other day. On the weekend, where it ready done it once, the trucker’s boy where a cowboy can go and no one would do the most good. And Dud comes over and falls in love with the can kick him out. Campbell dressed warmly and went duchess’s daughter. And there has to And so our world says goodbye out for a walk. His eyes saw our be a way of making the duchess and to another year and we’ll hope the town, the old, dead, brick drugstore the truck driver realize they’d actu- next one is better, and it probably on the corner with the clock that ally re-found each other, and head will be. Life brings the good and the hadn’t worked since the invention of off a disastrous romance between bad together at this time of year and daylight savings time, and the spread semi-siblings… helps us wash our lives with a laugh white fields and frozen trees. Or maybe we could just walk and a tear and a dollop of forgive- But his mind was in Europe, but down to the Mule Barn and have ness. there at the base of the big hill where coffee with the guys. the duchess’s castle stood. Dud had ------

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44 TRADICIÓN March 2013 DUKE CITY DIAMONDS BASEBALL IN ALBUQUERQUE

by Gary Herron

Baseball has been played in Albu- querque for a long time, as the game that gained popularity in Civil War days spread across the country. In 1885, in fact, a team called the El Paso Blues thought it was pretty good at the game and challenged Albuquerque to face it in a three- game series at Traction Park, basi- cally a rough baseball field within a horse-racing track at the territorial fairgrounds, near Old Town. TheAlbuquerque Browns accepted the challenge and a handsome silver cup crafted in New York City, costing $25, was made to be presented to the winner. Wouldn’t you 1932 Albuquerque Dons: The short-lived Dons team of 1932 posed with Clyde Tin- know it, the underdog Browns beat gley, then the chairman of the Albuquerque City Commission and later the state’s governor. (Courtesy of Albuquerque Museum.) the Blues 17-7 in the “opener,” on July 4. As it turned out, a third game querque, 1898-1912 that Dan Padil- “A baseball game was held ev- wasn’t necessary after the Browns la organized a local baseball team, ery day of the fair,” Balcomb wrote. eked out a 20-16 victory on July 5. the Grays, and how “it took him “Since fair week occurred after the Apparently, good pitching was at a only half a day to raise the neces- national baseball series was over, premium then, too. sary $15,000 by visiting the saloons big-league players were recruited to Although the “finale” wasn’t nec- along Railroad Avenue.” play with the local team, the Browns, essary, the teams played a practice Balcomb recalled the annual Ter- and this provided two good teams game for fun on July 6, with the ritorial Fair (New Mexico didn’t and creditable baseball. The umpire same outcome, Albuquerque win- become a state until 1912), held seemed always to be Tom Hubbell, ning this time, 36-12. at Traction Park, which included the sheriff.” Kenneth Balcomb (1891-1979) a half-mile race track and, within Some hearty Atchison Topeka & recalled in his book A Boy’s Albu- that, a baseball diamond. Santa Fe Railroad men later built TRADICIÓN March 2013 45 a wooden ballpark from surplus affiliate of thePacific Coast League’s Buckeye League and the Colonial freight cars in the 1920s at “Sto- Oakland Oaks in 1953. League. ver Field,” and later named it Rio But we’re getting ahead of our- It was the year Albuquerque got Grande Park. The ATSF team called selves. its first professional team in the itself the Broncos; newspaper ac- It may be hard to believe, but Al- brand-new Rio Grande Association counts noted the best players were buquerque – New Mexico’s largest (Class D), along with the Phoenix brothers Bill and Vince Devine. city – wasn’t the first to have a pro- Senators, El Paso Mackmen, Tucson Baseball soon took off once Rio fessional baseball team. That honor Old Pueblos, Douglas (Ariz.) Min- Grande Park’s diamond and grand- goes to the mining towns of Daw- ers and Las Cruces Farmers. stand were built enhanced by a son and Raton; each had a team for On May 1, Las Cruces opened the governmental WPA project in the a season in the Rocky Mountain season in El Paso, taking an 8-5 vic- 1930s. An adobe wall circled the League in 1912, the same year New tory. Three days later, Douglas vis- outfield and in 1932, two weeks Mexico became a state. ited Albuquerque and lost the first into the short-lived Arizona-Texas Strangely, it was the first and only official game played in New Mexico, League season, a worker tacked up year for that league, and both teams 9-6, to the Dukes. a sign that read “Tingley Field.” began the season elsewhere. Only Before the season was one month Renamed in honor of the flam- four teams began the season, with old – on May 24 – Douglas (5-13) boyant mayor and soon-to-be gov- the Canon City Swastikas moving and Las Cruces (4-14) disbanded, ernor, Clyde Tingley, that cozy ball- to Raton on June 4, while the Colo- with the El Paso Times citing insuffi- park in the Barelas neighborhood, rado Springs Millionaires moved to cient capital and lack of fan support a short walk from the Rio Grande Dawson, changing their moniker to as reasons for the teams’ demise. Zoo, was home for pro teams the Stags, 11 days later. Las Cruces was simply too small, through the end of the 1968 season. The Class D league disbanded on while fans in Douglas “did not even The ballpark had an adobe façade July 5. The first-place team at the make an attempt to help the club, and a cramped press box, although time the league ended, the Chey- according to reliable reports.” Those the late Herman Schuler wasn’t enne Indians, had begun the sea- two teams dropped out, with their one to complain – it’s estimated he son in Pueblo and then moved to players going to the four remain- watched more than 3,000 games Trinidad on June 8, then relocated ing teams, and the schedule was re- played there and later compared the north to Cheyenne on June 28. The worked. “new” Albuquerque Sports Stadium last-place La Junta Railroaders were The league itself disbanded on to the old Polo Grounds. Schuler the only team to begin and end July 5, after El Paso and Albuquer- remembered watching John Mc- the short-lived season in the same que split a July 4 doubleheader, El Graw’s teams play there from his place. Paso’s Mackmen winning the open- vantage point on Coogan’s Bluff, of Now, let’s delve into professional er, 6-0, and the Dukes taking the which the Sports Stadium’s famed baseball in Albuquerque. second game, 5-1. El Paso led the drive-in area reminded him. league with a 24-15 record, followed Through the years, Albuquer- 1915: There was baseball al- by Phoenix (23-16), Albuquerque que teams have been affiliates for most everywhere one looked be- (19-20) and Tucson (12-27). a handful of Major League teams: fore World War I, with three “ma- The El Paso Times also report- the St. Louis Cardinals (1937-40), jor leagues:” the National League, ed that the team in that city was the Kansas City Athletics (1960-62), the American League and the the only one not losing money, the New York Giants (1956), the short-lived Federal League. Plus, but wasn’t exactly in the black, ei- Cincinnati Reds (1958) the Florida three Class AA leagues, two Class ther. Phoenix and Albuquerque, Marlins (2003-08) and, of course, A leagues, five Class B leagues, five the Times stated, had exceeded the the Los Angeles Dodgers (1964- in Class C, 14 Class D leagues – league salary cap by spending as 2000, 2009-). The team was even an and two independent leagues, the much as $2,000 a month. 46 TRADICIÓN March 2013 The Sporting News reported buquerque in 1915, followed by 42 Jordan, Lee Raedel, Charles French, transportation was a cause for the games with Sherman, Wash., and 10 Carl Zamloch, Lefty Russell and league’s failure, charging the teams more in Omaha after the Duke City Henry Terkell, plus the surnames an exorbitant four cents a mile. franchise and the Rio Grande Asso- Dale, Waldschmidt, Davis and Ste- Nonetheless, the league got the OK ciation folded. Back at Great Falls in vens. from the National Association to try 1916, he finished his pro career by again in 1916 – but organized base- appearing in only 11 games. Huels- 1932: Seventeen years after its ball did not return to the Southwest man won five batting crowns, which first pro team’s league folded, Albu- until 1928, when Bisbee, Miami, included a career-high .434 average querque’s second pro team league Phoenix and Tucson formed the at Salt Lake City in 1914 – at the age would suffer a similar fate. This Arizona League. El Paso joined that of 40. He slugged 10 homers, stole time, it was the Class D Arizona- league in 1930 and Albuquerque 10 bases and batted .385 while play- Texas League (1931-32), which entered what was then called the ing in Albuquerque. would fold in just its second year of Arizona-Texas League in 1932. Research conducted by Bob Hoie existence. In 1931, teams in El Paso, Albuquerque’s Frank Huelsman and Vern Luse for the Arizona Base- Tucson, Phoenix, Bisbee and Globe, led the short-lived league with 10 ball Journal in 1997 noted the full plus Nogales, Mexico, comprised home runs. George Reed was the names of a few other players: Fred that league. In 1932, with Globe team’s manager, putting the cap on Carmen, Earl Fleharty, Red Herriott and Nogales gone, the Albuquerque a 20-season managerial career that (.317 batting average), Bob Irion, J. Dons joined the league. had begun in 1895 in Portsmouth. Humphreys, Andy McNeill, Walker On opening day, April 7, the Reed played seven professional seasons (1892-99), spending time at second base, third base and in the outfield, for Class B Altoona, Ports- mouth and Roanoke, plus Class C Houston in the Texas League and Shreveport in the Southern Asso- ciation. Not much exists at baseball-reference.com on this league, but plenty is available on Huelsman – the only player on the roster listed in baseball-reference.com. Huelsman, born June 5, 1874, in St. Louis, played in seven games for his hometown Browns in 1897 at the age of 23. He was then out of the majors for six seasons, then played for four teams in 1904. He never played in the majors again, a virtual baseball nomad: Montreal (1906), Kansas City (1907), Harris- Pete Domenici: Longtime U.S. Senator Pete Domenici was quite a hurler back in the day, burg (1908), New Orleans (1909), pitching for St. Mary’s High School (state high school champions in 1949), St. Joseph’s Col- lege and the University of New Mexico, teams in the Greater Albuquerque Baseball League, Harrisburg and Mobile (1910), and briefly with the Albuquerque Dukes in 1954. “He was a better than average pitcher,” Great Falls (1911-12), Salt Lake City said Jim Hulsman, the manager for a local semipro ball team at the time. (Photo courtesy of (1913-14), and then 53 games in Al- J.D. Kailer.) TRADICIÓN March 2013 47 Dons clobbered El Paso, 43-15. The Phoenix and wound up with the out a working agreement with the total of 58 runs is believed to be the Dons, led the league in wins, with St. Louis Cardinals to place a team most in one game in modern base- 15. Vince DiMaggio, brother of Jol- in Albuquerque. The population at ball history. It was a cold and very tin’ Joe, who would later gain fame that time was only about 30,000. windy day at Rio Grande Park and as the Yankee Clipper, played for The fledgling Arizona-Texas the conditions led to what is be- Tucson and led the league with 25 League (Class D) began in 1937 lieved to be another record for one home runs. On April 30, the Dons’ with four teams: the Bisbee Bees, El game: 13 triples, 11 by the Dons. Italio Chelini, only 17 years old, Paso Texans, Tucson Cowboys and One report said that “the high wind threw pro baseball’s first no-hitter the Albuquerque Cardinals. Albu- made it impossible for the pitchers of the season, shutting out Bisbee, querque, managed by former Gas- to control the ball or the fielders 4-0, in seven innings. A southpaw, house Gang catcher Bill DeLancey, to judge it.” In addition to rapping Chelini later made it to “The Show,” was one of 33(!) farm teams for the out 31 hits, Albuquerque benefited appearing in 24 games and going St. Louis Cardinals under the direc- from 14 walks, three hit batsmen 4-4 with the Chicago White Sox tion of Cardinals General Manager and eight El Paso errors. Incredibly, (1935-37). Branch Rickey. only one home run was hit, by Dons Keep in mind, the Great Depres- DeLancey was helped by St. Louis right fielder Cal Lahman, who went sion was going on; after 19 minor scouts Joe Schultz and Jay Kelchner 6-for-6, including two triples and a leagues in 1932, only 14 leagues during a 10-day camp to select the double. After five innings, the Dons opened the 1933 season. The WPA roster; all but 17 of the hopefuls had a comfortable 39-13 lead. made possible construction, which were sent to the Cardinals’ farm The winds had been so bad on began October 22, 1936, of a new club in Midland. April 6, the day before the open- stadium, first called Rio Grande Branch Rickey had encouraged er, that a dozen baseball boosters Park and built on the site of old Sto- DeLancey, saddled with only one showed up early the morning of ver Field, at a cost of $10,900, those lung after incurring tuberculosis, Opening Day to rebuild the blown- funds coming from a Public Works to manage the new team playing down outfield fence. Administration grant. The new at Tingley Field (still referred to as The winds calmed down the next park, later dubbed Tingley Field in Rio Grande Park in an Albuquer- day (April 8) and Albuquerque won honor of the city’s bombastic may- que Journal account of the team’s the second game, 14-13. The Dons or, seated 3,180. There was no grass 9-8 victory over Midland on the af- led the league all the way, going at the park when it opened. That ternoon of April 11), with the light 57-42, until the league disbanded would come later. poles located on the field of play, in because of money problems on foul territory, in left and right field, July 24. It was in the cards, appar- 1937: Finally, after five years, making navigating for foul pop-ups ently: On May 9, the Phoenix Sena- there was an Albuquerque profes- difficult. The dimensions were 360 tors disbanded after just 21 games. sional team in a league that would feet to left, 420 to dead center, 350 When the ’32 season crashed, the last! This was the third Albuquer- to right and 385 to the power alleys. Dons held a seven-game lead over que team, each of which had a dif- DeLancey, 25, on the receiving the second-place Bisbee Bees. ferent nickname, in three different end of 42 Dizzy Dean starts for St. Bobby Coltrin, who was Tucson’s leagues, including the short-timers Louis, and catching six of Ol’ Diz’s manager in 1931, when Dick Gysel- in 1915 and again in 1932. And the 26 shutouts, led the Albuquerque man was his second baseman, was economy had gotten much better, if Cardinals to the league champion- the Dons’ skipper. Gyselman, with pro baseball leagues were an indi- ship, despite an overall record of the Dons in 1932, led the league in cation – up from 14 just a few sea- 56-59. batting average (.392), runs scored sons ago to more than three-dozen. In 1936, another WPA grant had (104) and hits (165). Bill Chamber- Sam Minces, dubbed the “godfa- allowed the park to be restructured lain, who started the season with ther of pro baseball here,” worked with steel throughout and the seat- 48 TRADICIÓN March 2013 ing capacity was expanded to 5,000. ed two more affiliates: Sioux City, Park was dedicated on April 7, 1937. Rickey, of course, was the genius Iowa, and Fort Smith, Ark. In 1937, The Cardinals opened the ’37 behind a minor-league explosion – the Cardinals’ system amounted to campaign on April 15 in El Paso, “Moneyball” before it was fashion- 33 teams; no other big-league team winning an 8-3 contest behind able. He realized the Cardinals, the had more than 14. In 1926, only De- southpaw Ralph Sutherland, who team located the farthest west in the troit in the American League, with scattered six hits and allowed just National League, wouldn’t be able to three minor-league affiliates, and one earned run. Sutherland, just 20, compete financially to be able to buy the Boston Braves of the N.L., with also had two hits in the game. Bob the best-talented players that teams one, also had a farm system of sorts. Stoner, coming off his two-triple in New York, Boston, Chicago and Shortstop Bobby Sturgeon was outing in the exhibition game, had Philadelphia could. So he opted for 17 when he was signed to a $75-a- four of the Cards’ 14 hits. The Car- a minor-league system to prepare month contract to play for the Car- dinals were far from perfect, com- young, less-paid players, to advance dinals, recalling in a 1999 Albuquer- mitting five errors in the game, in- to his big-league club, where he was que Tribune story that the hopefuls cluding two by Sturgeon at short. not only the general manager but stayed in the El Fidel Hotel. If There wouldn’t be a perfect sea- also the field manager. Rickey and they made the team, though, they son, of course: El Paso won the sec- Cardinals owner Sam Breadon be- couldn’t afford the hotel’s rates and ond game of the season, 8-6. gan by purchasing half the stock of looked for lodging elsewhere. The Cardinals opened their home the International League team that “This is one of the finest minor season on April 27 against Bisbee, played in Syracuse, N.Y., in 1921, league ballparks in the country,” and Gov. Clyde Tingley was there to and then they added a Texas League Branch Rickey was quoted in the throw out the ceremonial first pitch. team in Houston. In 1923, they add- local newspapers when Rio Grande Before the game, a parade took

1955 Dukes: A team photo of the 1955 team was provided by former batboy Mike Corcoran, seen at right in the front row. Here are, in the back row, starting at left, Robert Flores, Gene Howard, Ted Shandor, Ken Menkel, Ernie Choukalos, Jack Martin, Ernest Bartolome and Felix Guzman. In the next row are Dennis Elsasser, Henry Overtin, Larry Segovia, Bud Bauhofer, Gil Valentin, Larry Segura, Pedro Santiago and manager Eddie Bockman. The trio of batboys are Leo Nuanes, Gil Mares and Mike Corcoran. Bockman was the only member of this team to get to the majors, playing third base and the outfield for four teams from 1946-49. (Courtesy of Pat Corcoran.) TRADICIÓN March 2013 49 place. It began on the 400 block of excite the fans with a win in the fi- 20 games. He was back in Houston South First, headed to Central Av- nale in what was Albuquerque’s first in 1947 and out of baseball the next enue, went west to Seventh Street, postseason. year. (attd: 30,110) and from there to the ballpark. On Oddly, Albuquerque had beaten a cold Opening Night, Sutherland El Paso in a single-game playoff for 1938: With DeLancey back in the again got the start for the Cardinals, the second-half title (Keep in mind, fold, the Cardinals (67-65) finished while 19-year-old Johnny Lund it was only a four-team league.) and third in the league, but a few play- started for the Bees. Sutherland gets then faced El Paso in the best-of- ers had good years: third baseman help in relief from Bernard Brewer seven championship series. William Reyes, Sturgeon played in in an 18-8 Albuquerque victory. The (Manager of the Year Jimmy Zinn 52 games before a promotion to ballpark was about half finished; was the El Paso skipper; he’d be in the Cardinals’ affiliate in the PCL, there were an estimated 3,000 seats Albuquerque in 1941 and again in Sacramento, and utility player John available for the game, and the park ‘46 as the manager of the Dukes. Burleson, dealt to Tucson before the was sold out to fans wearing over- Zinn lived to the age of 96.) As if season ended, were named to the coats to see it. that wasn’t enough for DeLancey, all-star team. Ed Morris was tied for Another cold day greeted the in his first season of three here, the the league lead in runs scored (120). Cardinals and Bees for their second Cardinals defeated the Wink Spud- In a story similar to that of Bill game, and the Albuquerque Tribune ders, two games to none, in the Endicott (see 1937 entry), 17-year- noted only a “handful” of fans on postseason Arizona-Texas vs. West old Eddie Malone was signed by hand to see the Cards’ 7-4 victory. Texas-New Mexico postseason se- the St. Louis Cardinals and played Homer Bick and Charley Dumbler ries. in 116 games with the Albuquer- combined on a three-hitter. Lee Zamora became the first Al- que Cardinals, making 65 errors at According to SABR researcher/ buquerque ballplayer married at second base. He played in the St. writer John Morrison, “In the sum- home plate, which he did in 1937. Louis organization through 1946, mer of 1937, Bobby began his ca- Total attendance through the turn- after his lone season in Albuquer- reer in pro ball with the Cardinals’ stiles at Tingley Field amounted to que, and was dealt to the Cubs by Class D Albuquerque affiliate in 30,110. Richard Lang came close to St. Louis before the 1947 season. He the Arizona-Texas League, having a triple crown, leading the league played for the Cubs’ affiliate in the been signed by St. Louis scout Bob in batting average (.374) and RBIs Pacific Coast League, Los Angeles, Hughes – who was also his Ameri- (109). Third baseman Hubert Singer from 1947-49, and then was pur- can Legion Juniors coach in Long led the league in runs scored (122). chased from the Cubs by the White Beach. Turning 18 that summer and Lang, an outfielder, joined Sturgeon Sox on July 13, 1949, and made his receiving $75 a month, Sturgeon on the postseason all-star team. MLB debut for the Pale Hose four excelled as a lanky right-handed- And here’s an interesting story of days later. It began a short, 86-game hitting shortstop, batting .298 with perseverance by one of those 1937 big-league career over the 1949-50 148 hits and 82 RBIs – results that Cardinals. 18-year-old Bill Endicott, seasons , and he wound up his pro earned him a first-team all-star se- an outfielder, played in 14 games for career in the PCL with Oakland lection. … Sturgeon’s strong rookie the team that season, then slowly (1951) and Hollywood (1951-54). performance earned him a promo- progressed through the St. Louis (attd: 60,000) tion in 1938 to a solid Sacramento system: Class D Albany (1937-38), Solons team of the talent-laden Pa- Class B Mobile and Class A1 Hous- 1939: After attendance pegged cific Coast League.” ton (1939-40), Class AA Sacramen- at about 60,000 in 1938, DeLancey Game 7 of the 1937 WT-NM to and, after the war years (1942- proved an old adage: Winners put playoffs was played atTingley Field, 45), he made his debut in the majors fannies in the seats, this time to the where El Paso had won Game 6, 4-1, with the St. Louis Cardinals on tune of an approximate 100,000. but the home team came back to April 21, 1946 – and played in just Maybe that’s because the Cardinals 50 TRADICIÓN March 2013 (70-60), who finished 2.5 games be- 1940: DeLancey decided he still 1942: With the Arizona-Texas hind regular-season champ Bisbee, had some good baseball left in him League on a hiatus of sorts, Albu- which moved to Douglas, beat the and headed to the big-league club, querque joined the nearby Class D Bees, four games to two in the play- playing in 15 games. 27-year-old West Texas-New Mexico League – offs. right-handed pitcher Jack Farmer but not for long. Willie Reyes, with a league-record (12-7) became the skipper, leading The WT-NM league began op- 26 sacrifices, made the all-star team the Cardinals to a 60-64 mark, only erations in 1937 and continued as again, as did outfielders Bob Joratz 4.5 games out of first place but a a Class D league until shortly after and Donald White – and DeLancey third-place finish nonetheless. Sec- the United States entered World was named the league’s Manager of ond baseman Elwood Curtis led War II. In 1946, after a three-plus the Year. Another highlight in 1939: the league, now a Class C league, year hiatus, the league returned as a Bill Caplinger chucked a nine-in- in runs scored (118) and was the Class C league. It remained in Class ning, 10-0 no-hitter at El Paso on team’s lone postseason all-star se- C until 1955, its final year of exis- August 23. Warren Lill led the staff lection. RHP Luther French (10- tence, when it was a Class B league. with a record of 21-7, Bill Caplinger 11) had the league’s best ERA, 3.50. The WT-NM League, for the (16-14) and Gilbert Archuleta (11- (attd: not available) most part, didn’t have affiliations 9) also had double-digit wins. for its teams with big-league teams. Archuleta, 24 that season and a 1941: Jimmy Zinn was the new Franchises were operated as busi- native of the Espanola Valley area manager of the Albuquerque Cardi- ness ventures for their owners, not and El Rito High standout basket- nals, although the team was no lon- intended to supply talent for big ball player, had been 2-3 in 1938 and ger a part of the St. Louis Cardinals’ leagues, but rather to provide en- seemingly had a promising career organization; St. Louis cut back its tertainment for local baseball fans. – until the Japanese bombed Pearl farm teams from 31 in 1940 to 25 It was a transitory league – man- Harbor two years later. He soon in 1941 and then, with the U.S. then agers and players often shifted, or joined the Navy but was injured fighting in World War II, reduced jumped, from one team to another, while serving at Guadalcanal when further, to 22, in 1942. as you’ll read in the pages to come. a bomb blew him into a palm tree. The 1941 season would be the last Baseball sabermatician Bill He suffered from hearing loss and for the Arizona-Texas League until James, no less, noted that most of lymphatic disorder as a result of that, 1947, mainly due to the war and its the towns with WT-NM teams were yet still came back to play baseball aftermath. The Dukes improved on at an elevation of at least 3,000 feet, with the Dukes in 1946-47. In his their 1940 performance, finishing and Albuquerque, of course, is well “Sports After Hours” column in the second to the Tucson Cowboys and above 5,000 feet. Ballparks were not Albuquerque Tribune (July 23, 1990), winning two more games (63-65), exactly enormous, and big home Carlos Salazar noted that Rickey but still finished a distant 21 games run seasons were commonplace for “made a special trip to Albuquerque out of first. No postseason playoffs many hitters, especially Joe Bau- on the Santa Fe Chief in 1939 to sign were held. man. Archuleta.” Archuleta had earlier Right-hander Harry Parks (24- According to James, the WT-NM pitched for the Terrero Miners of the 9) led the league in wins. Shortstop league was among those leagues Central New Mexico League. James Estrada, outfielder Paul Dyke considered to be “hitters leagues; Bob Joratz led the league in hit- and 19-year-old pitcher John Hetki they had lots of people who hit .380, ting (.348) and runs scored (126), (16-10) made the postseason all- hit 50 home runs.” while Reyes drove in a league-high star team. Hetki was the only player Tingley Field actually had a home 124 runs. Reyes, Joratz and outfield- on that team to play in the majors: run fence far enough away to make er Donald White were named to 18-26 in eight seasons following it more of a pitcher’s park: 348 feet the postseason all-star team. (attd: WW2. (attd: not available) down the left-field line, 425 feet 100,000) to dead center, and 348 feet down TRADICIÓN March 2013 51 the right-field line. (Disch Field in 1945: Minor leagues number 13 sons that come.) Second baseman Austin, for example, was just 300 now, including the Independent Wilbur Dixon turned in his first of feet down the left-field line and Mexican League. Albuquerque is a three consecutive .300-plus seasons Tulsa’s Oiler Park was only 381 feet year away from seeing baseball back for the Dukes, as he hit .310 in 106 from the plate to dead center.) The at Tingley Field. games. league’s other teams were in Clovis, Besides Fausett, there are two Lamesa, Amarillo, Amarillo, Pampa, 1946: With the war over, pro players who have – or will have in Borger, Lubbock and Wichita Falls baseball returned to the Duke City, the future – big-league experience: which relocated to Big Spring on and again it was the Class C West catcher John Bottarini (26 games May 22, and then “turned back to Texas-New Mexico League, which with the ’37 Cubs) and 18-year-old the league” in June. What a season had been in existence from 1937-42 future first baseman Goldsberry for Clovis hurler Kenneth Wyatt, as a Class D league, then disband- (White Sox 1949-51, Browns 1952). who had a record of 17-0, an ERA ed because of World War II. There (attd: unavailable) of 2.09, and 129 strikeouts – all were some familiar faces (er, teams), league highs. besides the Dukes: the Amarillo 1947: Fausett takes over as the Dixie Howell, who spent 13 sea- Gold Sox, Clovis Pioneers, Borger manager for Harry Lamprich, sons bouncing around the minor Gassers and the Pampa Oilers; the who began the season as the skip- leagues but never made it to the newcomers were the Lamesa Lobos, per. Fausett played himself in 136 majors, was only 22 when he started last known as the Dodgers. Gone games, batting .409 – a mere .001 the season as the skipper for the were the Wichita Falls/Big Springs lower than WT-NM batting champ Dukes, the “new” team name cho- Pirates. The league would endure Leon Cato, of Borger. Players made sen from all submitted; local bar- few changes through 1955, when it $300 a month, plus $3 daily meal tender I.A. Cavolo came up with was a Class B league for one season. money. The team went 74-64 and “Dukes;” he got a season pass to see And there was, literally, one fa- finished in third place, 24 games be- the home games. (“Thunderbirds” miliar face – that of Joe Behl, the hind the regular-season champion came close to being selected.) The former Lobo who’d gone off to Lubbock Hubbers. Gilbert Archul- team had a record of 25-30 when World War II and had played in 17 eta led the staff with a record of 174 it dropped out on June 23. (The games as a 22-year-old in the 1942 at the age of 32. Fausett was named league itself disbanded on July 8.) season. Behl would be back with the to the postseason all-star team, as E. Miller assumed the reins from team through the 1948 season as a was catcher Don Moore, who hit a Howell, who batted .338 while play- player, and later as a coach. team-high 27 homers and batted ing in 53 games, most of them at Manager Jimmy Zinn led the .345, and also played with Clovis first base, before the Dukes dropped Dukes to a record of 55-85, 30 that season. Wilbur Dixon batted out. Howell headed back to Class games under .500 and mired in .343 in 93 games. (attd: 101,623) AA Montreal, where he’d been the sixth place in the eight-team league. previous season, in the Dodgers’ 18-year-old first baseman Gor- 1948: 38-year-old former big- chain. In one 1942 game, marred by don Goldsberry is the team’s lone leaguer Hershel Martin arrives in a brawl, Howell was clobbered over postseason all-star, after batting the Duke City and takes the mana- the head by a fan wielding a chair. .372. He’d later find his way to the gerial reins, which he’ll hold for four (attd: not available) American League, playing in a total seasons. of 217 games for the Chicago White Grass was planted in the outfield, 1943-44: Only 11 minor leagues Sox (1949-51) and St. Louis Browns lessening somewhat the blowing are in operation during this war (1952). And Buck Fausett, 38, ar- sand problem faced by outfielders. year, with none of them having a rives in Albuquerque and plays in Martin led the Dukes to an 88- team in Albuquerque. 19 games for the Dukes. (You’ll hear 52 record, good enough for the more about that name in the sea- regular-season title – the first for an 52 TRADICIÓN March 2013 Albuquerque team in a league that 1949: Martin didn’t win the bat- for the second time in his life and lasts a full season, but the Dukes ting title, but led the Dukes (83-56) found himself in an iron lung in a fell to Pampa, four games to two, in to the regular-season title, 10 games Lamesa hospital in mid-August, af- the first round of the playoffs. The ahead of second-place Abilene, and ter complaining about a headache team had a potent offense: Martin then playoff victories over Lamesa during a road trip there with the even played in 132 games in the (4-3) and Amarillo (4-1), respec- Dukes. outfield and led the WT-NM in bat- tively, for the league crown. Dick Gyselman, who played with ting (.425) and doubles (61); former Before the season ended, Buck the Albuquerque Dons in 1932, outfielder Frank Shone, turned into Fausett had taken over as the skip- was back for his final pro season, an effective pitcher, won the triple per in Amarillo. Third baseman Len and responds by hitting .386 in 32 crown in his department, with 21 Attyd, catcher Les Mulcahy, pitchers games, mostly as a second baseman. wins, 223 strikeouts and an ERA of Don Ferrarese (20 years old, with Last-place Clovis, which attracted 3.85. Ron Bowen led the league in a 14-11 record), and Frank Shone a league-low 47,696 fans, had Paul hits (185). RHP Don Cantrell went (17-7, 3.02 ERA), plus outfielder Dean – Dizzy Dean’s brother – as 18-12 as a 28-year-old in his sec- Martin – who batted .376 the age its skipper, and he was followed by ond season of pro baseball and was of 39, were named to the postsea- three other managers the next sea- about to show it’s not a fluke. son all-star team. Atty rapped out a son. Astute fans got out to the ballpark league-record 22 triples. Grief hit the city in early Decem- whenever Amarillo played here in During the season, infielder ber, when Frank Shone was killed in ’48: Outfielder Bobby Crues was Frank Okrie was stricken with polio an auto accident west of Ft. Sumner tearing up the league, batting .404 and clouting 69 home runs, while driving in a minor-league record of 254 runs in just 140 games. Second baseman Wilbur Dixon had his third of three .300-plus season, hitting .377 in 136 games at second base for the Dukes. It was his third and final season of pro baseball. Former Duke John Bottarini (1946-47), who played in 26 games for the 1937 Cubs and later had been a fan favorite in his days with the Dukes, was named manager at Clovis before the 1947 season ended, but didn’t last the season with the Pioneers. He played in 45 games with the 1947 Dukes and after playing the 1949 season at Class B Tem- ple of the Big State League, played in 76 games as the playing manager for Sweetwater in the Longhorn League. (Bottarini died at the age of Clyde Tingley on mound: The colorful former mayor of Albuquerque and governor of 68 in Jemez Springs, N.M., in 1976.) New Mexico didn’t mind throwing out a ceremonial first pitch at the ballpark named after (attd: 116, 930) him. (Gary Herron collection.) TRADICIÓN March 2013 53 on Dec. 2 at the age of 32, when he team, but pitcher Jesse Priest (19- starting assignment. The Dukes may have fallen asleep and crashed 3) won his first 17 games and fin- won it, 10-6, with Art Cuitti hitting his 1948 DeSoto into an arroyo. ished with a 19-4 mark and 3.25 a homer for the visitors. He also pitched for Oakland in the ERA, both of which led the league. The home opener, after two road PCL that fine season, going 1-4 for Don Cantrell in his third and final games each at Lamesa, Abilene and the Oaks. After the season ended, season with the Dukes, and his last Lubbock, is on April 29, when Jesse he was purchased by the Boston in pro ball, went 17-14. And Pedro Priest tossed a seven-hitter in a 10-1 Braves. (attd: 107,911) Santiago led the WT-NM in runs victory in front of 2,500 fans on a scored (163). It’s the season Lamesa chilly night. Cuitti homered again, 1950: Martin was back again as Lobos owner Cy Fausett, brother of this time on an inside-the-park player/manager for this team, which Buck, announced plans to integrate round-tripper. went 89-58 and finished four games the WT-NM. Fausett led the team to a second- behind first-place Pampa. In the Here’s an interesting tidbit from place finish, a distant 17.5 games playoffs, the Dukes beat Lubbock (4- that 1951 season: Ed Carnett, behind first-place Clovis, but Borg- 1) and then Lamesa (4-1, with a tie) dubbed “Mr. Five Jobs” because he er eliminated the Dukes in the first for the championship. Martin was had been the G.M. and manager, round of the playoffs, four games to no slouch at the plate, batting .389. pitched, played first base and drove two. Pitchers Jesse Priest, who led Don Cantrell led the pitching staff the team bus, played in 111 games the WT-NM in ERA (3.06) again, with a 20-6 record, Robert Spence for the Dukes, after 20 with the 21-year-old southpaw Lenny “Joe” went 16-10 and Fred Besana, only Gassers. Then 34, Carnett batted a Hinchman (16-12) and Ed Flana- 19 and compiling a record of 15-11 healthy .314, played first base and gan, who spent part of the season on the mound, was the lone Dukes in the outfield, and was 9-7 in 23 with Borger, were named to the all- hurler to get to the big leagues: He games on the mound, with 14 starts. star team. played in seven games for the 1956 (attd: 93,177) Priest got married at home plate Baltimore Orioles. before the game of July 12, and then Other than Martin, only 19-year- 1952: Look who’s back: Buck went out and hurled a complete- old infielder Jim Marshall wound Fausett returned to the Duke City game 16-1 victory over Pampa. The up in the majors; he went on to see and became the skipper, after start- ceremony was Fausett’s idea and action with five teams from 1958- ing the 1951 season as manager in more than 3,000 fans showed up, 62 and later managed the Chicago Amarillo, although he didn’t finish with Priest and his wife Barbara Cubs. Back in Albuquerque after out the season there. (Wages) getting a percentage of the playing the 1949 season at Texar- Before the opener, a new 250,000- gate. kana in the Big State League, Don watt lighting system was unveiled. At another home game that sea- Cantrell went 20-6 on the mound The team won 11 exhibition son, a valve in a water fountain near and Lyle Palmer scored a league- games, including a benefit game the Dukes’ third-base dugout broke high 164 runs. Named to the all- played against Simon’s Department and sent a 20-foot geyser into the air, star team were Cantrell and Martin. Store (14-2 Dukes’ win), a 17-12 forcing an evacuation of the dugout (attd: 85,605) win over the Denver Bears, and a and a portion of the grandstand. Af- 10-0 win over a Sandia Base team. ter 10 minutes, thanks to the help of 1951: Martin was back for his Jerry Folkman went 3-0 in exhibi- a fan with plumbing knowledge, the fourth and final season as the man- tion games, while Steve Lagomarsi- flow was stopped – and the plumb- ager and he led it to an 82-60 record no was 2-0. er/fan got two free tickets to the and a second-place finish; the team The Dukes open the ’52 campaign next ballgame. (attd: 85,125) bowed out in the first round of the in Lamesa, traveling there on a bus. The 1952 season marked the de- playoffs, falling to Lamesa (4-2). No Seventeen players are on the roster but here of 24-year-old Herb Simp- Dukes made the postseason all-star with Fausett, and Folkman got the son, the first African-American to 54 TRADICIÓN March 2013 play for Albuquerque, who became late 1920s), compiled a record of of 87-55. The former big-leaguer, the third player to be married at 13-9 and batted .299. (Interestingly, who went on to hit a healthy .332 home plate. After the Dukes beat Brown didn’t play in the 1954 sea- in 132 games, many of them behind Lubbock (4-2) in the first round, son, then pitched at the age of 50 for the plate, was no stranger to the WT- they beat Clovis, 4-3, in the cham- Cordele, going 4-5, in the Georgia- NM, having been a player/manager pionship series. Despite the run to Florida League in 1955 before re- at Roswell in 1950, before spending the title, only pitcher Lenny Hinch- tiring.) Hershel Martin spent time the 1951-52 seasons with Austin in man (24-10), in his best season as a in managerial roles in Borger and the Big State League. He wound up pro, was named to the all-star team. Abilene, after managing and play- in Artesia in 1955, then in the Long- Somehow, pitchers George Socha, ing for Bartlesville (which moved horn League, and back in Roswell who compiled a record of 14-0, to Pittsburg, Kans., before the sea- in 1956, the year his son, Tommy Jr., and ERA leader Grover Blackshear son ended) in the Kansas-Oklaho- led the Roswell Lions Little League (2.82) were overlooked. 48-year- ma-Missouri League in 1952. (attd: team to the championship in Wil- old pitcher Lloyd “Gimpy” Brown, 92,605) liamsport, Pa. His final season as a who began his 12-year big-league player was with Carlsbad in 1957. career with the Brooklyn Dodg- 1953: The Dukes, who had a one- ers in 1925 and was a teammate year agreement to serve as a farm 1954: Tom Jordan was back as the of Hall of Famers Zack Wheat and team of the Oakland Oaks of the skipper, batting .338 in 119 games, Dazzy Vance (and then had another PCL, get another manager, Tom Jor- many at first base, and the team fin- Hall of Famer, Walter Johnson, as dan, who led them to the regular- ished in fifth place with a record of his manager at Washington in the season championship with a record 62-74. The Dukes’ “keystone com-

Texas League champs: This 1965 Albuquerque Dodgers team had a future Hall of Fame pitcher, Don Sutton (second from right, second row), who helped the team at Tingley win the Texas League title that season. Sutton played in 21 games for Albuquerque, all starts, and wound up with a 15-6 record and a 2.78 ERA. In 1966, he was in the big leagues to stay. (Herron collection)

TRADICIÓN March 2013 55 bo,” second baseman Robert West- Dukes in the first round of the play- 59-81, leaving the Dukes in sev- fall and shortstop Gilberto Valentin, offs, 4-2. Bockman, Gilberto Val- enth place of the eight-team loop. were named to the all-star team. Fu- entin, earning his second straight Swift played eight games behind ture U.S. Senator Pete Domenici, a nod as the league’s all-star short- the plate, while future big-league graduate of nearby St. Mary’s High stop, pitcher Ted Shandor (23-12, skipper John McNamara played in School, got into three games and 3.73 ERA) and catcher Ernie Chou- 29 games at catcher. First baseman went 0-1 on the mound. (Naturally, kalos made the postseason all-star Lynn Van de Hey led the league in the Republican was a right-hander.) team. Despite the team battling for hits (197). Pitcher Reggie Lee (11- George Socha, 14-0 in 1953, became the championship and winning 19 9) was the lone postseason all-star, a .500 pitcher, with an incredible 21- more games than the season before, although teammate Dick Drilling 21 record in 36 starts and 46 games attendance fell by more than 5,000. (14-10) led the team in wins. altogether (according to baseball- (attd: 78,432) Disaster struck the team when reference.com). a bus crash in Colorado in August The WT-NM League lost Borger, 1956: After being asked by the injured 19 players. According to an managed by Hersh Martin, which “Loyal 20” if he would like to buy Albuquerque Journal story by J.D. had a 36-50 record when it dis- their team, Farmington oil man Kailer many years later, “Dawn was banded. (attd: 83,446) Tom Bolack said, “If Albuquerque breaking over the Colorado Rock- In October 1954, “Save the businesses won’t support their team, ies on Monday, Aug. 27, along a Dukes” became the battle cry in why should I?” He suggested that two-lane highway 11 miles west of town, as baseball’s “boom days” fad- each of the 20 could put up $1,000, Walsenburg. The 19 Dukes players ed. Owner Cy Fausett blamed home and then he’d pay off the team debts, were sound asleep. Manager Swift, a air-conditioning (swamp coolers, helped along by another drop in at- former all-star catcher with the De- of course), drive-in movies and TV tendance in 1955. The $20,000 was troit Tigers and later their manager, for the drop in attendance – he and raised, everyone shook hands and was sitting behind the driver, who his wife Birdie opted to move to Bolack became the new owner. was negotiating a curve along a de- Arkansas, where they became Real- The team joined the new Class A tour road. That’s when the bus hit a tors. Before that, on Dec. 6 that year, Western League, after the demise patch of loose gravel and flipped on 20 area businessmen held an emer- of the WT-NM League. Also in its side.” gency meeting in the old Chamber the league were Amarillo, the only In a 1956 story, Swift was quoted of Commerce building and these other former WT-NM member, as saying, “The players and luggage “Loyal 20” wrote a check for $25,000 plus Colorado Springs, Des Moines, on one side of the bus were thrown to Fausett, and found themselves Lincoln, Pueblo, Sioux City and To- on top of the players across the owners of a Class B team. peka. Clovis, Pampa, Plainview and ai s l e .” El Paso moved from the WT-NM to Ambulances and private cars 1955: The WT-NM League, now the Class B Southwestern League; were dispatched from Walsenburg advanced into Class B, began what Abilene and Lubbock fled to the Big and Pueblo to carry Swift and his turned out to be its final season of State League. Road games – taking players to a hospital in Pueblo. existence. Former big-league (1946- 25 hours for the bus to get to Lin- Pitchers Dick Drilling and Al Oso- 49) third baseman Eddie Bockman coln and Des Moines – were aired rio were airlifted to an Albuquerque was the player/manager (getting on KGGM-AM, with Gene Osborn hospital, their baseball careers effec- 504 at-bats and hitting .345 at the describing the action. The Dukes tively over. age of 34) and he led the Dukes to a were a farm team of the New York Despite the mishap and deplet- second-place finish at 79-60, a mere Giants for this season only. ed roster, Western League Presi- half-game behind the regular-sea- Former big-league catcher Bob dent O’Neal M. Hobbs insisted the son champs, the Amarillo Gold Sox. Swift was the Dukes’ manager and team keep playing, and the Dukes Third-place Pampa eliminated the the team finished with a record of dropped two games to league-lead- 56 TRADICIÓN March 2013 ing Amarillo. Two scheduled games Paige in Columbus, Ohio, in a barn- Dukes (71-75) to a fifth-place finish. with Pueblo were moved to Albu- storming game after the Cardinals A minor-league player from querque for a Labor Day triple- won the World Series; Cullop was 1933-36 and 1947-48, Brown’s mi- header: one game in the afternoon a teammate of the Dean brothers, nor-league managerial career lasted and two at night. Dizzy and Paul). Former skipper from 1947-64. Pedro Carrillo went First baseman Hal Toso took over Eddie Bockman, who was here in 17-6 as the team’s ace and led the as skipper for the injured Swift. The 1955, took the Amarillo Gold Sox to league in strikeouts (177), tying Dukes lost the afternoon game but second place in the league and was Hal DeMars of Topeka, and was the bolstered by two pitchers called named Manager of the Year, and an- team’s only all-star. According to up from Class B, swept the night other former Dukes manager, Her- legend, on July 16, 1958, 22-year-old games, 10-3 and 8-1. schel Martin, spent time as skipper slugger Haven Schmidt hit the lon- One of the most-celebrated pro- of the last-place Des Moines Bruins. gest foul ball ever recorded — 560 motions of that season, attributed OutfielderChuck Coles played in feet. (attd: 81,702) to G.M. William “Perk” Purnhage, all 154 games and leads the league Unfortunately, the Western league occurred when Purnhage offered in hits (208) and is the Dukes’ lone fell on hard times and Albuquerque to give away a live baby at Tingley all-star. Coles was with the Cincin- went without a professional base- Field. The night of the game, a nurse nati Reds the next season, getting ball team in 1959. Wealthy oilman wheeled a baby buggy onto the field. into five games in his short big- Tom Bolack assumed control of the When the lucky number was called league stint. (attd: 92,236) franchise and absorbed the club’s out, “Perk” reached into the buggy debts, and spent 1959 reorganizing. and pulled out the prize – a baby 1958: In one season as a Cincin- In 1960, it was time to join the Class piglet. The promotion made nation- nati Reds’ farm team, one-year skip- D Sophomore League. al news. per Jimmy (71-75) Brown took the Attendance climbed by almost 16,000. (attd: 94,176) 1957: Toso, nearing the end of his diamond career despite being only 28, batted .254 in 24 games as player/manager before being succeeded by Henry “Nick” Cullop, nicknamed “Tomato Face.” The Dukes were 66- 88 and finished sixth in the Western League. Cullop was a big-league journey- man, playing in 173 MLB games from 1926-31. He made his MLB debut as a pinch-hitter – getting a single – at Fenway Park on April 1931 team: This photo, supposedly of the 1931 Albuquerque Dukes, appeared in the 14, 1926, for the New York Yankees, Dukes’ 1979 season program. Because the city did not have a team in organized baseball who had Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig that year, this is probably a team that played the Madrid Miners and other teams in the in their lineup that day. Cullop had a area. Maybe you’re related to someone in this photo. In the back row, from left, are Everett huge 1930 season at Minneapolis of Gurula, Lelo Jaramillo, Polo Chavez, manager Orlando Ulivarri Sr., Hample Perea, Billy Devine, George Bray, and assistant manager Premitivo Anaya. In the front row are Tony the American Association, where he Romero, Felix Armijo, Manuel Chavez, Phil Baca, Mat Ortiz, Felix Deblassie, Syder Morales batted .359, socked 54 homers and and Max Ortiz. In front is batboy Orlando Ulivarri Jr. According to baseball-reference.com, drove in 154 runs. (In 1934, he was Devine played for Roswell in 1937 and Gurula was 4-4 in 12 games with Hobbs in 1937. the final strikeout victim of Satchel (Photo from Dick Moots collection.) TRADICIÓN March 2013 57 1959: A sign at Tingley Field stat- most ever in the four-year league’s out to see their new Texas League ed, “Sorry, Fans … No Baseball This history (1959-62). Second baseman team that first season, when the Ye ar.” Hector Martinez was the lone all- Dukes (70-70), managed by Bobby star. (attd: 44,526) Hofman – who many people said 1960: The Kansas City Athletics reminded them of the fiery nature brought their Class D team here 1961: Grady Wilson became the of Leo Durocher – in the final year after the year without baseball, latest skipper in what seemed like a of affiliation with Kansas City, fin- and the “new” Dukes played in the revolving door for managers. Perk ished third and made the playoffs, Sophomore League. Purnhage became the new G.M. going three-and-out in their series Of course, team owner Tom Bo- Robert L. Byrd Jr. was his assistant. with Tulsa. Hofman, by the way, was lack was the team president; former Four men were on the team’s board credited by Hall of Famer Lawrence Duke Joe “Punchy” Behl was the of directors: John McMullan, Coda Berra for dubbing him “Yogi.” Hof- team’s secretary-treasurer; Dallas Roberson, Frank Sei and Richard man played much of 1949-57 with White was the VP and Harlan “Hin- Zanotti. the New York Giants. nie” Aglese served as the general The Dukes were in their second On a sunny day in April, Hofman manager. The team went on road and final season in the four-year led a small tour of the newly remod- trips on a new Trailways Vista-Liner Sophomore League, the successor eled ballpark, showing Dukes Presi- 100. to the short-lived Southwestern dent Tom Bolack, the state’s lieuten- It was a weird season: Jose San- League. Finishing one game over ant governor; city commissioners tiago fired a no-hitter at Hobbs on .500 (64-63) and a distant 14 games Archie Westfall and Sam Brown, June 13, but the Dukes were later out of first place, the Dukes fell in Texas League President Dick Butler, no-hit by Artesia’s Ignacio Marti- the playoffs to first-place Hobbs, and Gov. Ed Mechem the new dug- nez on Aug. 9 and Odessa’s Conrad three games to none. outs, restrooms, box seats, dressing Gasper 16 days later. Bert Thiel, a The pitching trio ofBernie “Gig” rooms, bleachers and added lighting. minor-league pitcher from 1947-59 Brummell, Ed Millerstrom and Au- Jose Santiago (16-9) led the – and again in 1961 at Pocatello in relio Monteagudo combined to win league in victories. The Dukes (70- the Pioneer League, made his man- 25 games, including 21 in the sec- 70) finished third in Texas League; agerial debut and the team went 57- ond half. Outfielder Luis Rodriguez swept in three games by champion 72, finishing in fifth place of the six- and 17-year-old Monteagudo (11-4, Tulsa in playoffs. It was the third team league. 4.03 ERA) were named to the all- and final season of affiliation with Former big-leaguer Dalton Jones star team. Outfielder Mike Maloney Kansas City Athletics. would always remember his pro hit a team-high 19 home runs and Here’s a real deal of the time: Kids debut. After signing with the Red led the league in RBIs, with 109. 14 and under could join the Knot- Sox for a hefty bonus, Jones got his (attd: 50,760) hole Gang for just $2.50 and get in first taste of pro ball while playing to all 70 home games that season for the Alpine Cowboys, managed 1962: Albuquerque began a de- Santiago led the TL in victories, by Mel Parnell, in Albuquerque. cade in the Texas League after New with 16. OF Jim Small was named In his first professional game, he Mexico businessman Tom Bolack to postseason all-star team. (attd: socked two triples off the fence, 425 bought the Class AA franchise that 133,670) feet away, the latter starting a two- finished the 1961 TL season in Ar- out, ninth-inning rally that beat the dmore, Oklahoma, where it had 1963: After Kansas City dropped Dukes, 4-3. moved in June from Victoria, for its affiliation with Albuquerque fol- Then 19, Santiago went 15-6 and $35,000. (Fortunately, Bolack didn’t lowing the 1962 season, the Los An- led the league in strikeouts (217) keep the team’s nickname, the Rose- geles Dodgers moved in and struck and ERA (3.30). John Hanes (9-7, buds!) up a relationship – one that would 2.97 ERA) recorded four shutouts, More than 133,000 fans turned be a lasting one. The Dodgers had a 58 TRADICIÓN March 2013 team in Omaha playing in the Class TL in wins (17) and tied teammate is believed to be the only ballplayer AAA American Association, which Charles Spell in strikeouts (224). with major league experience to disbanded after the 1962 season, and The Dukes that season included serve in Vietnam. sent its franchise to Albuquerque. a young outfielder, Roy Gleason, OutfielderBrandon Bailey led TL The new team went 67-73 with a 21, who batted .242 in 15 games. in hits (174). First baseman Corbo handful of players who’d make their On Sept. 3, 1963, he’d made his big- and Bailey were named to the post- mark in the “bigs:” Wes Parker, Bill league debut with the Dodgers, get- season all-star team; as were third Singer, Jeff Torborg and future man- ting a double in what turned out baseman Don LeJohn, catcher Hec- ager Bobby Cox. Clay Bryant, a vet- to be his only MLB at-bat. Gleason tor Valle and Ward. (attd: 85,597) eran of six seasons with the Chicago also played with the Albuquerque Cubs – for whom he won 19 games Dodgers in 1966, getting into 45 1965: The Texas League split into in 1938 and pitched in the World games but batted just .173, with two three-team divisions; Albu- Series that year – was the manager. three homers. In 1967, he got a let- querque (77-63), playing as the Al- Bryant had been in the Dodgers’ ter from Uncle Sam, and found buquerque Dodgers, won the West system for a few years, managing himself in Vietnam, where he was Division under Roy Hartsfield. the triple-A clubs for nine years, wounded by an enemy shell on July The team won half of its 82 vic- and then coaching third base for 24, 1968. He didn’t give up the base- tories in the final three innings. The Walter Alston before spending the ball dream, although shrapnel in his “new” Albuquerque Dodgers de- 1962 campaign as a special assign- leg slowed him down … and he was feated Tulsa 3 games to 1 for the TL ment scout for the Dodgers. 75,973 back with the Albuquerque Dodg- title. Raymor Youngdahl batted .295 fans turned out to see them finish ers in 1969, his final season in base- and whacked 20 homers. Future fifth in the six-team league. ball, getting into 27 games and bat- Hall-of-Famer Don Sutton (15-6) Perk Purnhage did the play-by- ting .121, with one homer. He has led the league in winning percent- play for all of the games as KGGM the distinction of being the only Los age (.714), while 1b Clarence Jones, Radio’s sports director. Angeles Dodger player with a life- 2b Don Williams, utility player Dick Third baseman Derrell Griffith time 1.000 batting average, the only McLaughlin (.307) made the post- made the postseason all-star team, Dodger with a Purple Heart, and he season all-star team. Relievers Jack as did Pitcher of the Year Camilo Billingham (7-3 in 39 relief appear- Estevis, who led TL in victories (16) ances) and lefty Kenny Page (10-4 and strikeouts (196). (attd: 75,973) in 56 relief appearances) gave the Dodgers a solid righty-lefty bullpen. 1964: Team owner Tom Bolack By now, Tingley Field had been sold the franchise outright to the expanded to seat 5,315 fans and was Dodgers for $35,000 (at least one the largest park in the Texas League. report said the price was $20,000). There was an unusual promotion The Dodgers owned the franchise for the season, sponsored by Gib- until 1979. Former Dodgers out- son Auto Sales: The fan who came fielder Pete Reiser worked with the the closest to guessing the season’s team’s young outfielders in spring attendance won a 1959 Ford Cou- training in Vero Beach, Fla. rier station wagon. No, that’s not a Still going with the Dukes moni- typo – a ’59 auto given away in 1965. ker, the team finished third (75-65) (attd: 83,280) under Clay Bryant and was ousted This essay is excerpted from Duke City Diamonds: Baseball in Albuquerque, by Tulsa in the TL playoffs. Mel by Gary Herron. The book can be ordered 1966: Back to a six-team, one di- Corbo led the league in batting from Rio Grande Books or online at Ama- vision league, the Dodgers (74-66) (.339); pitcher Jim Ward led the zon.com. finished third under Bob Kennedy, TRADICIÓN March 2013 59 whose son, Terry, would 30 or so first pitch, and the crowd of 2,163 to win the NL’s Rookie of the Year years later be the manager of PCL saw El Paso beat their Dodgers, award two years later (1969). teams that played in Albuquerque. 6-5. John Duffie made his Dodgers Because of the paltry attendance Tommy Hutton led the TL in bat- debut, after going 13-8 with a 3.18 at the 1966 TL playoffs, there wasn’t ting average (.340) and RBIs (81), ERA at Jamestown in 1966. a postseason playoff. (attd: 73,283) while Bill Larkin led the league in One league highlight had the wins, with 20. Willie Crawford led Dodgers as the “victims,” as El Paso’s 1968: Roger Craig led the team to the TL in runs scored (94), to go Felipe Leal threw an 8-0 no-hitter at 70-69 record and second-place fin- with his TL-record 186 whiffs. the Dodgers on May 3; it was one of ish in the TL’s four-team West Divi- Albuquerque knocked off Ama- two T.L. no-hitters in ’67. sion. Arkansas won the four-team rillo, two games to one, in the first Luis Alcaraz won the league bat- East Division, but lost, three games round of the playoffs, and then lost ting title (.328) and led the league in to one, to El Paso in championship to fourth-place Austin, one game hits (156), Crawford led it in runs series. to none, in a rain-shortened series. (93), 6-foot, 7-inch right-hander Sudakis, shortstop Bill Grabarke- 1b Hutton and OF Crawford were Duffie led the TL in wins (16), and witz, who broke his ankle at Tingley named to the postseason all-star Leon “Ed” Everitt (15-13) led the TL Field on Aug. 1; and utility player team. Hutton was the league’s MVP. in strikeouts (200). Jim Barfield were named to the (attd: 82,083) Second baseman Alcaraz, third postseason all-star team, while Su- baseman Bill Sudakis, outfielder dakis shared MVP honors with El 1967: Duke Snider, who’d played Crawford and Duffie – the TL’s Paso’s Jim Spencer. for Ft. Worth in the Texas League in Pitcher of the Year – and pitcher Sudakis even toed the rubber in a 1946, one year before his glorious Mike Kekich (14-4, 3.24 ERA) were game when Craig needed some in- Hall of Fame career began in Brook- named to all-star team. The Texas nings eaten up; he was ripped and lyn, told the Albuquerque Journal in League All-Star Game was played had an ERA of 81.00 by the time its pre-season tabloid that the only at Turnpike Stadium in Arlington, he was done. On May 2, Dick Arm- memory he had of Albuquerque, Texas, and matched the TL stars vs. strong threw a no-hitter at Dallas- before visiting in February as the the Houston Astros. Houston won Ft. Worth team. new manager to meet businessmen the game, 8-2, in front of 9,024 fans. Manager Craig, a former Brook- and fans, had been on April 2, 1963, Duffie was the losing pitcher and lyn Dodgers pitcher, was asked by when he learned he’d been sold by Sudakis had an RBI for the TL stars. Albuquerque Dodgers GM Peter the Dodgers to the New York Mets. The Dodgers were full 10 games Bavasi to be the starting pitcher to “The Duke of Flatbush” made behind first-place Amarillo and build the gate for the finale atTin - better memories of Albuquerque as two games behind second-place El gley Field. So he did. (attd: 100,093) the season went by as he guided the Paso, but by season’s end, the Dodg- And that marked the end of the Dodgers to 78-62 record and a first- ers finish three games ahead of the Albuquerque Dons/Cardinals/ place finish in the six-team league, Amarillo Sonics and five ahead of Dodgers/Dukes’ tenure at Tingley which didn’t hold a playoff series, El Paso’s Sun Kings. Field. A brand-new stadium await- and the Dodgers won the Texas Kekich, who had pitched in six ed them by the time the 1969 Texas League pennant. One season earlier, games with Albuquerque in 1966, League season rolled in. Snider had been at the helm of Tri- went on to an eight-year career in Tingley Field was razed in 1969 Cities when it won the champion- the majors, winning 31 games in and the grandstand was moved to ship of the Northwest League. four-plus seasons with the N.Y. Yan- Raceway Park in the South Valley. The season began in El Paso, with kees – where he and teammate Fritz the home opener at Tingley Field Peterson gained notoriety when Gary Herron is a reporter for the Rio Rancho Observer and the Albu- taking place on April 16. Gov. Dave they traded families. querque Journal. Cargo threw out the ceremonial Infielder Ted Sizemore went on 60 TRADICIÓN March 2013 Clyde Tombaugh: Character of New Mexico by Loretta Hall Clyde Tombaugh was quite a character. A shy astron- omer more attuned to solitary research than frivolous small talk, he nevertheless tried to be personable. More than fifteen years before the first man flew into space, Tombaugh was at a party when he decided to perform an impromptu experiment to see whether an astronaut would be able to swallow food in zero gravity. “Proved it by standing on my head and eating a cracker!” he said. Throughout his life, he tried to lighten the mood of his serious work by telling coworkers crow jokes. For example: What makes crows black? Their crowmo- somes. Where do the crows go to drink? To the crow bar, of course. What happens if a crow goes insane? It becomes a raven maniac. But it is Tombaugh’s professional accomplishments that embody the character of New Mexico. Already fa- mous for having discovered the planet Pluto in 1930, Tombaugh came to White Sands Proving Ground in 1946 thinking his career in astronomy might be finished. Lack of funding at the Lowell Observatory in Arizona led to the termination of his job, despite a productive thirteen-year career. “I discovered new star clusters, clusters of galaxies and one great super clus- ter of galaxies,” he later said. “Hundreds and hundreds Clyde Tombaugh of new variable stars, hundreds of new asteroids, two comets. I had learned a lot about the distribution of gal- signed telescopes capable of tracking the powerful mis- axies in the sky. I counted over 29,000 galaxies.” siles that reached speeds of 3,500 miles per hour and The job in New Mexico offered him a different direc- flew as high as 130 miles. He had to train observers to tion and a chance to contribute to the new challenge operate movable telescopes that took two people to ma- of space exploration. Rather than studying celestial neuver—one to control the vertical alignment and one objects, he applied his skills of designing and building to control the horizontal alignment—when following a specialized telescopes to observing and filming rock- missile’s path. Tombaugh also had the responsibility of ets that were launched at White Sands. The most spec- finding the best vantage points to install telescopes. “It tacular of those rockets were the V-2 missiles that were was just a matter of bumping around in jeeps for sev- turned over to the US Army by the German engineers eral thousand miles in order to find the best locations who had designed them as war weapons for Hitler’s use. for the greatest advantage and accuracy,” he said. More than 100 of the Germans, including Wernher von As fulfilling as the work was for Tombaugh, it was Braun, surrendered to America in order to help build also exciting, sometimes to the point of danger. In one this country’s manned space program. instance, he was filming a just-launched missile pass- As head of the Optical Measurements Branch at the ing overhead. The rocket engine misbehaved, and Tom- Proving Ground, Tombaugh selected, modified, and de- baugh later recalled, “The shock wave was so intense it

TRADICIÓN March 2013 61 knocked me right to the ground on suppose that Mars was inhabited by tions to track it and produced some my knees!” And the dangers were intelligent beings. But I think that of the earliest photographs of the not limited to missile firings. Before many of us feel obliged to belittle two-foot-diameter object, which dawn one morning, Tombaugh and the idea, as we know more about the orbited the Earth at a distance that an assistant were loading a cam- conditions of the planet and find it varied between 155 miles and 560 era attached to one of the tracking quite untenable for that manner of miles. telescopes. They loaded the film in life to exist.” The New Mexico character of the dark to protect it from acciden- By 1953, manned spaceflight was Tombaugh’s interest in space travel tal exposure. As the sky lightened, beginning to seem possible, though was enhanced by his openness to they saw a rattlesnake coiled in a number of potential obstacles the possibility of extraterrestrial the equipment close to where their needed to be investigated. One that visitors. He prided himself on being hands had been feeling around as interested Tombaugh was the possi- a skilled, objective observer of the they loaded the camera by touch. bility that the Earth was surround- sky, and he reported seeing several Like many people who were in- ed by many small, natural objects UFOs—flying objects that he could volved in the early days of space re- that could collide with and damage not identify or explain. For exam- search in New Mexico, Tombaugh a spaceship. No one knew whether ple, sightings of green fireballs were dreamed of the day when rockets the clutter of miniature moons ex- fairly common in southern New would be powerful enough to carry isted. Telescopes that were designed Mexico beginning in 1948. Tom- people on excursions to other ce- to view very distant objects could baugh reported seeing “three green lestial bodies. He was particularly not see such small objects between fireballs which were unusual in be- fascinated with Mars, which he had the Earth and the Moon. havior from normal green fireballs.” been studying since his childhood. Tombaugh designed a camera- The most dramatic UFO sighting A coworker at White Sands said equipped telescope that could Tombaugh made was in his back Tombaugh once told him that “if a search for any near-Earth objects. yard in Las Cruces on a clear night manned rocket were to be launched The system was powerful enough in August 1949. Along with his wife for Mars right now—even if it could to be able to see a 45-foot-long V-2 and her mother, he was relaxing and carry only enough fuel to reach an rocket as far away as the Moon. looking at the beautiful display of orbit some 3,000 miles from the Search procedures were as impor- stars when they all saw something surface of that alien world, with no tant as the equipment itself. “It only strange. “Suddenly I spied a geo- hope of landing there or of return- works in the late evening, early metrical group of faint bluish-green ing the Earth—then he, Tombaugh, night, or just before dawn,” Tom- rectangles of light,” he reported. would still go along on the trip, just baugh explained. “You see, it is im- “The group moved south-south- to be able to observe the Red Planet possible to use it around midnight easterly, the individual rectangles close up, his telescope unhampered because all such small bodies would became foreshortened, their space by the Earth’s heavy atmosphere.” be in shadow and therefore invisible. of formation smaller, (at first about He wasn’t sure how serious Tom- It’s got to be done while the bodies one degree across) and the intensity baugh might have been. are still in sunlight, although the sky duller, fading from view at about Not long after that comment, an over Earth is dark.” After four years 35 degrees above the horizon. Total interviewer asked Tombaugh what of searching, Tombaugh found no time of visibility was about three his purpose would be if he went to natural satellites that might threat- seconds. . . . There was no sound. I Mars or Venus. Tombaugh replied, en a spaceship. have done thousands of hours of “Oh, partly curiosity. To see another The experiment’s results came night sky watching, but never saw a world. To see if what we now ob- at an opportune time. In 1957, the sight as strange as this.” serve there through our telescopes Soviet Union launched the world’s Tombaugh was a rational observ- might not be some kind of life, in first artificial satellite, Sputnik I. er, though, and identified natural the way of lower plants. We used to Tombaugh extended his observa- explanations for unusual sightings 62 TRADICIÓN March 2013 when he could. In 1948, he was is a disappointment in that the pub- Universalist Church of Las Cru- working with a crew preparing to lic did not attach importance to the ces in 1955 and continued as ac- monitor a rocket launch at White other things that I did. They didn’t tive members of the congregation Sands Proving Ground on a moon- seem to understand that. From the throughout their lives. In 2001, the less night, and the sky suddenly standpoint of a real contribution church installed an eighteen-foot- became as bright as day. The crew, to science, it isn’t always the flashy wide, eight-foot-tall stained glass who remembered Orson Wells’ ra- stuff that really counts.” window depicting important events dio broadcast of War of the Worlds Rather than becoming bitter in Tombaugh’s life. only ten years earlier, were excited about that perception, Tombaugh In 2006, nine years after Tom- to think they might be seeing an used it to his advantage. “People baugh’s death, the International As- alien arrival. “Tombaugh calmed want autographs by the thousands,” tronomical Union adopted a defi- us down,” one of the crew reported. he said in 1991. “They want to talk nition of planet that Pluto did not “It’s a rare aurora borealis event,’ he to me. I gave a series of lectures for satisfy. It was reclassified as a dwarf said. “Enjoy it!’” four years, traveling over the United or minor planet. His widow told a Another time, his crew sighted States and Canada to raise money reporter that Tombaugh might have a white, cigar-shaped object flying for the Tombaugh scholarship for been disappointed by the reclassi- through the sky, and Tombaugh post-docs in astronomy here at New fication, but as a scientist he would gave them permission to photo- Mexico State University. We raised have understood the rationale be- graph it through their telescopes. close to half a million dollars.” hind it. When they examined the photos, By the time he died at the age of In a typically New Mexican way, they realized the object was a long, ninety in January 1997, Tombaugh the state legislature came to the de- fabric balloon being towed by an had earned the respect and admira- fense of its highly accomplished, ad- airplane as a target for artillery tion of friends as well as profession- opted son. In March 2007, it passed practice. al colleagues. He and his wife were a joint memorial declaring, “Now, Tombaugh left White Sands founding members of the Unitarian therefore, be it resolved by the Leg- Proving Ground in 1955 to join islature of the State of New Mex- the faculty of the New Mexico Col- ico that, as Pluto passes overhead lege of Agriculture and Mechanic through New Mexico’s excellent Arts, which later changed its name night skies, it be declared a planet.” to New Mexico State University, in Perhaps the greatest tribute to Las Cruces. By the time he retired in Clyde Tombaugh is that a portion 1973, he had helped establish a sep- of his cremains are being carried arate Astronomy Department at the on the New Horizons spacecraft. school, and designed and obtained The unmanned vehicle, launched in funding the for school’s Tortugas 2006, will pass within 6,200 miles of Mountain Observatory. Pluto in July 2015. In his later years, Tombaugh re- Bon voyage, Clyde. flected on his productive career. “Everyone thinks the greatest thing Loretta Hall, author of the award- winning book Out of this World: I did was to discover Pluto,” he said. New Mexico’s Contributions to “This was somewhat disappointing Space Travel, has lived in Albu- because I did things that were fully querque for nearly four decades. equal to Pluto. The work out there She is a Space Ambassador for the This essay is excerpted from Voices of National Space Society and a mem- [at White Sands], the study of Mars, New Mexico, Too. The book can be ber of the Historical Society of New finding the supercluster of galaxies. ordered from Rio Grande Books or online at Mexico’s Speakers Bureau. But all they think of is Pluto. This Amazon.com. TRADICIÓN March 2013 63 Among the Cottonwoods The Enduring Rio Abajo Villages of Peralta and Los Pinos, New Mexico before 1940 by Francelle E. Alexander 400 pages, 89 illustrations/maps/charts, 7 x 10 ISBN 978-1-890689-83-4 ($29.95) (pbk.,alk.paper)

In New Mexico, people have a keen interest in the villages of their ancestors and derive part of their identity from their villages. Although the villages of the lower Rio Grande, the Rio Aba- jo, have been a significant part of New Mexico, they have not been studied as often as villages in the upper Rio Grande, the Rio Arriba. This book is an effort to begin to fill a gap that has long existed in scholarly studies and histories. It is also intended to appeal to an audience that enjoys local New Mexico history and has a keen interest in the Rio Abajo region, especially the people and the politics of Valencia County. Covered in this work are some of the notable people of the area, i.e., Col. J. Francisco Chaves, Henry Connelly and the Oteros, who had significant roles in the history of nineteenth century New Mexico. Rarely have their lives been covered in this detail, especially in the context of their region and villages. Winner, 2012 NM-AZ Book Awards ABOUT THE AUTHOR Francelle Alexander is a native New Mexican, having grown Order Form — Among the Cottonwoods up in Albuquerque, both the South Valley and the North Valley. She attended UNM where she earned her B.A. and M.A. After a career in the Albuquerque Public Schools, she lived and worked Copies ______$29.95 each ($32.35 each in new mexico) overseas. For almost ten years, she was able to travel and study $5.50 shipping for the first copy; $3.00 for each add’l copy villages in Asia and Europe. Upon returning from abroad, she began extensive research on the villages of Peralta and Los Pi- Card No.______nos (now Bosque Farms). Expire Date______

COMMENTS ON THE BOOK 3-digit cvs no. from back of card______This book is the first that I have read that has put my family VISA or Mastercard stories in the context of the history and geography of the region, linking everything together. It has answered so many questions Name______and connected me to more of my family’s history, which rein- forces my love of family traditions and culture. This book will Address______be invaluable to anyone studying New Mexico history.—Maria City______Toledo-Ifill, descendant of many families in Valencia County. State/Zip______New Mexico is well known for its cities and its science, but the real heart of the state can be found in the little towns and Daytime phone______villages that dot the landscape along the many “roads less traveled.” It is in these communities that the vibrant traditions that Email address______define the New Mexico culture continue to thrive. Peralta and Los Pinos (now Bosque Farms) are two of these villages with rich histories that date back to the early nineteenth century. This landmark book is a must read for anyone who wants to experience New Mexico village life first hand and should be on Rio Grande Books every serious historian’s bookshelf.—John Taylor, noted New 925 Salamanca NW Mexico historian and author. Los Ranchos, NM 87107 505-344-9382 [email protected] FREE SHIPPING on orders www.LPDPress.com received by 4/10/13 64 TRADICIÓN March 2013 Southwest Books by Barbe Awalt

The Old Man’s Love Georgia O’Keeffe in Southwest Art Defined was taken. You have to Story by Rudolfo Anaya. New Mexico by Bar- by Margaret Moore go in the back for the Published 2013 by Univ. bara Buhler Lynes & Booker. Published 2013 of Oklahoma Press, 176 Carolyn Kastner. Pub- by Rio Nuevo Publish- list. Both of these things pages, softback, $19.95, lished 2012 by Museum ers, hardback, 204 would make the book B&W, ISBN 978-0-8061- of New Mexico Press, pages, full color with longer and more expen- 4357-6. paperback, $34.95, 144 many photos, ISBN 978- sive but that is me and Rudolfo Anaya is pages, 80 color plates, 1-933855-75-2. what I like. I also hated one of our authors, ISBN 978-089013-574-1. This is as beauti- the “graffiti” cover with a and, frankly, he is a Everybody wants ful book and a great bunch of art forms scat- nice guy. This is the more and more Geor- resource to know what tered about. The suggest- story of the passing of gia! This book explores you are talking about ed read is missing a lot Rudolfo’s wife, Pat, and Georgia fascination when you refer to the of great books by Gloria what Rudy still feels for with Hopi kachinas different types of South- Fraser Giffords, Father her. Yes, it is a fictitious or katsina tithu from western Art. The book Tom Steele, Charlie Car- person who grieves loss 1931 to 1986. The book is organized into brief rillo, Kathy Flynn, Lane but it is Rudy. The book accompanies a touring definitions of various art Coulter, E Boyd, and is sad and funny and it exhibit of 53 works by forms and usually there many more. I am not is New Mexico. Rudy O’Keeffe. It is a interest- are one or more pictures being territorial! Some has so many fans and ing idea and look into to illustrate it. Some of the greatest books they will want this book two cultures. There are of the pictures are full were not published by because it is a piece of also contributions by page and they are stun- us. The book shows Na- Rudolfo Anaya. It will others that make this ning and that is where tive American, Hispanic make you cry! I am not book very informative my first problem comes and even Mexican art sure you want to read and not the usual art – I want to see all of but no cowboy art and this on a plane because book. Great reading for the pictures large or the weren’t they in the people will look at you an art person. small ones larger. My Southwest? This is the and wonder what’s second problem is that I problem with setting wrong. wanted to see where the yourself up to be an au- art was or the picture thority and leaving out

TRADICIÓN March 2013 65 an influence that did Arapaho Women’s Quill- Deadly Deception: A The Plazas of New have importance. That work: Motion, Life, and Jemimah Hodge Mys- Mexico edited by Chris Creativity by Jeffrey D. tery by Marie Romero Wilson & Stefanos being said it is a nice Anderson. Published Cash. Published 2013 Polyoides with photog- book with a lot of good 2013 by University by Camel Press, paper- raphy by Miguel Gan- information. It would be of Oklahoma Press, back, 189 pages, B&W, dert. Published 2011 by very helpful to a begin- hardback, $39.95, 216 $12.95, ISBN 978-1- Trinity University Press, ning collector. pages, 14 color & 41 60381-893-3. hardback, 100 archival B&W plates, ISBN 978- & color pictures, 352 NOTE: We are men- Right in the front of 0-8061-4283-8. pages, $45, ISBN 978-1- tioned for our Charlie this book was a blurb Not a lot has been 59534-083-2. Carrillo book that we from a review I did for written about this dis- The plaza in New wrote and New Mexi- Tradicion Revista, of Shad- tinctly female art form. Mexico is a throwback can Hispanic Pottery & ows Among The Ruins. Let’s Arapaho Quillwork ap- to European plazas. Navajo & Pueblo Ear- be clear, I love Marie pears on cradles, robes, They are a place to rings books we pub- Cash doing this writing moccasins, pillows, tipis, gather, for business, for lished. In addition, a because her voice is a and much more. It has a town to make a state- number of our friends different voice and she a deeper meaning in ment, and for people — Native American and has lots of experiences the religion and culture to relax and celebrate. Hispanic — are included to draw on. This is not of Arapahos than just The Plazas of New Mexico in the book. a book that is heavy but art. This book takes a rather a simple mystery is a book that docu- look at museum collec- and who-done-it. That ments plazas and how tions, early writings, and is what I love about the they might be the “new” the sacred patterns of series. Sometimes you solution to urban plan- the quillwork to draw just need escapism! It is ning. There are site conclusions about the well written and a great plans, photos, elevation importance of the art to gift for stockings, travel- drawings, histories, and the people. An interest- ers, beach people, or many contributors to ing study for students of commuters. It is kinda the book that point out Native American art. good for anyone! Also the value of plazas. This see Marie’s art too! She is a fascinating view of is multi-talented! something we take for granted and may be the next, big idea. My one criticism is the use of yellow-green on the cover. The light color makes it hard to read

66 TRADICIÓN March 2013 text on the back cover In the Country of Empty Pablita Velarde: In Her exhibits, footnotes, and and flaps. It is a great Crosses: The Story of Own Words by Shelby it is a brilliant work and a Hispano Protestant Tisdale. Published gift for someone who Family in Catholic 2012 by Little Stand- necessary for anyone studies architecture and New Mexico by Arturo ing Spruce Publishing, who is interested in plazas. Madrid with photos by hardcover, 319 pages, Native American art. Miguel Gandert. Pub- B&W and color with It is a shame that this Sister Rabbit’s Tracks lished 2012 by Trin- many archival photos, book had to be hindered by Emmett “Shkeme” ity University Press, $85 for ALL three books Garcia and illustrated softback, $24.95, (other below), ISBN by technical problems by Victoria Pringle. many B&W photos, 978-0-9857636-0-2. that could have been Published 2013 by UNM 218 pages, ISBN 978- I had a few problems avoided. Press, softback, 40 159534131-0. pages, full color, $18.95, with this series of books. Helen Hardin: A I was prepared ISBN 978-0-8263-5268-2. My first problem is I Straight Line Curved by to not like this book. You can never have hate books with noth- Kate Nelson. Published The author says it is a 2012 by Little Stand- enough New Mexican ing on the cover except memoir and those can ing Spruce Publish- Pueblo stories commit- the embossed title. If be deadly but instead it ing, hardback, color ted to paper. They teach you are going to all that and B&W photos, 288 really is a history. It is and kids love them. trouble to get a huge pages, $85 for the set a very artsy, a beautiful This is another tale series of books printed of 3 books, ISBN 978-0- book. That being said 9857636-1-9. passed down through in Korea why not do a the photos are wonder- This book did not fall generations. Sister Rab- cover that will sell the ful and I would have apart –yea! Helen Har- bit teaches children a book and advertise what liked them a little larger din was the daughter valuable life story with is in the book? My sec- and with the captions of Pabilita Velarde and a positive ending. The ond problem was when with the picture so I an abstract painter of papercutting technique I opened this book to could see what they unusual vigor and fame of illustrating the book start reading it, the book were rather than go- though she died early at will lend ideas to have fell apart – literally. The ing to the back of the age 41. She was a Santa kids do their own pa- binding was a crime. book. It is wonderfully Clara legend. She had percuts. Kids never have That being said there written and gives a real many “hippie” tenden- enough books and this are a few things right feeling for New Mexico. cies and was a true free is no exception. about the book. The text The little stories make it was large and easy to spirit. This book is easy easy reading and a good read. This is the ultimate to read and again the gift for someone inter- collection of Pablita Ve- be-all of her life, art, ested in families in New larde photos, facts, and and family. Again, it is Mexico. information. There is a must have for anyone art, family photos, list of who studies, teaches, or

TRADICIÓN March 2013 67 is interested in Native again, if you are in the creation and since we Rio Grande Books American art. Who field or want the infor- published and helped mentioned, a photo by knows what she could mation this is the book with the first book on Paul Rhetts in the book, have accomplished had to get. the New Mexico Na- and Charlie Carrillo is she lived to be a senior. NOTE: The new tional Heritage Fel- wearing the car shirt we museum, Pablita Ve- lows and the exhibit, gave him so we are a Margarete Bagshaw: Teaching My Spirit to larde Museum of Indian A Century of Masters, we little biased. Women in the Arts is wondered – a lot. But it Fly by Margarete Bag- Saved in Time: The shaw. Published 2012 by located at 213 Cathedral is a good book. There are Fight to Establish Floris- Little Standing Spruce Place in Santa Fe near omissions in the index sant Fossil Beds Nation- Publishing, hardback, the Cathedral. Golden and Bibliography and in al Monument, Colorado 266 pages, color and by Estella Leopold and B&W photos, $85 for Dawn Gallery that some cases the author previously was the sole has blinders on. It took Herbert Meyer. Pub- set of 3 books, ISBN lished 2012 by UNM 978-0-9857636-2-6. executor of the estates us 22 years to be sort Press, paperback, Again, this is a of Hardin and Velarde of knowledgeable with $24.95, 176 pages, wonderful collection of is transferring art over the New Mexico art- B&W photos – maps photos history, art and and Little Standing ists. We attended Esther – charts – tables, ISBN fast about Margarete Spruce Publishing is Martinez’ funeral and 978-0-8263-5236-1. Bagshaw and her family. being transferred to the probably know more I didn’t know the There is truly something Museum from Golden about Charlie Carrillo significance of the Flo- in the genes because all Dawn Gallery. There than we care to know. rissant fossil beds – they three women are gifted. is a website at http:// We know Ramon, Irvin, were the center of the Margaret is the daughter pvmiwa.org/ and the late Eliseo and nation’s first environ- of Helen and grand- Paula. There is a lot of mental case and the Ute Artists of New Mexico tribe lived and hunted daughter of Pablitia. The Traditions: National good information about book has some obvi- Heritage Fellows by these artists that New in them. When devel- ous design problems as Michael Pettit. Pub- Mexicans need to know opers swooped in to buy does the series but it is lished 2012 by Museum and be proud of. I wish land the national park of New Mexico Press, again the encyclopedia there were more photos. issue became very clear. hardback, color & B&W This would be a must on Margarete. These photos and one map, I hope every school and are such good books $29.95, 176 pages, ISBN library in New Mexico have for people inter- with great information 978-0-89013-575-4. has a copy of this book ested in environmental and you want some- I was prepared to to know the people and issue, Colorado, fossils, one knowledgeable on hate this book. I had why they are great. and science students. books to sit down with heard the horror sto- NOTE: There are a them. But in any case, ries that came with its number of LPD Press/

68 TRADICIÓN March 2013 Texas State Parks and second title where it is Kitchen’s Opera House: A Guide to Southern Ar- the CCC: The Legacy of spelled out. A minor Gallup, New Mexico izona’s Historic Farms & the Civilian Conserva- by Roger Zimmerman. Ranches: Rustic South- tion Corps by Cynthia thing but…….. Published 2012 by west Retreats by Lili Brandimarte with The Block Captain’s Digital 1 Presentations, DeBarbieri. Published Angela Reed. Published Daughter by Demetria paperback, 193 pages, 2012 by The History 2013 by Texas A&M Uni- Martinez. Published many B&W photos, Press, paperback many versity Press, hardback, 2012 by University of ISBN 978-0-9727395-0- B&W photos, $19.99, $25, many color & B&W Oklahoma Press, pa- 4. 157 pages, ISBN 978-1- photos, 167 pages, ISBN perback, 104 pages, It is unfortunate that 60949-460-5. 978-1-60344-819-2. $14.95, ISBN 978-0- it was not more attrac- I have book envy This is a beautiful 8061-4291-3. tively laid out or the over this. It is a very book. It was funded by Demetria Martinez type feels dated. But, it good idea with history, Texas Parks and Wild- is a force of nature! She is valuable information recipes, historic pictures, life Department. The is great. This book is about Gallup, its history, what is included is CCC built Texas parks small but a perfect read and the buildings. Gal- accommodations, and between 1933 and for plane, train, beach, lup is a truly interesting contact information. 1944. The pictures are beside the bed, or on a place because of the Every state ought to do a varnished so they pop. cold winter night. This buildings and the infor- book like this. I was left The history and write is the story of Guada- mation has to be pre- a little cold by the cover up is great. The archival lupe Anaya, a pregnant served. This is the whole but I can go beyond the photos are wonderful. waitress and new block story of one building’s “tell a book by its cover.” Again, I sound like a captain. This is a collec- renovation. While in A great book for people broken record but every tion of letters she writes many parts of the book who want to explore or state needs to document to the unborn baby, it is very academic and to know a little about the help they got from Destiny. It gives the technical it does share their state. CCC and their state flavor of Albuquerque, the history of Gallup. parks. On the back cover the people, and the hard I, for one, think every of the book Andrew times of undocumented major renovation needs Sansom says it is hard aliens. A good read and to be documented and to imagine that Texas a good gift. this is good to pass on to would have a state park students of architecture system without CCC and Gallup. and that sums it all up. My one criticism is the “CCC” in the first title is bad and should be switched with the

TRADICIÓN March 2013 69 In The Shadow of A Harvest of Reluctant the third custodian of markers should do this. Billy The Kid: Susan Souls: Fray Alonso de the mission churches If you have kids you McSween and the Benavides’s History Lincoln County War by of New Mexico, 1630 of New Mexico. This need a book like this in Kathleen P. Chamber- translated & edited is a good little book to your car. Why don’t we lain. Published 2013 by by Baker H. Morrow. give the student or the have a book like this in UNM Press, paperback, Published 2012 by teacher a view of local New Mexico? Because $27.95, 312 pages, 22 UNM Press, paperback, culture. we do – in 2004, by B&W photos and 4 $19.95, 144 pages, 27 David Pike, Roadside New maps, ISBN 978-0-8263- B&W photos and 1 History Along The Way: 5279-8. map, ISBN 978-0-8263- Stories Beyond the Mexico. BUT Pike’s book If there is anything 5157-9. Texas Roadside Markers does not have the 64 I hate it is another Granted, this is very by Dan Utley & Cynthia markers dedicated to esoteric, but if you are Beeman. Published 2013 women. Billy the Kid book- there by Texas A & M Univer- must be hundreds a history buff or stu- sity Press, flexbound Sagebrush and Sand written with varying dent of history this is (paperback with flaps), Dunes: An Anthology of facts. But this book is essential. According to 335 pages, color and Southern New Mexico about Susan McSween UNM Press, “It is the B&W photos, $23, ISBN History edited by Mar- 978-1-60344-769-0. tha Shipman Andrews and that is a different most thorough account This book is a great & Rick Hendricks. Pub- matter. Not a lot has ever written of New idea and, yes, it came lished 2012 by the Doña been written about her. Mexico’s early Span- Ana County Historical from Texas. How many Susan and her husband ish period, providing a Society, paperback, $15, times have you driven opened a competing portrait of the Pueblos, 257 pages, B&W histori- the Apaches, and the by a roadside marker cal pictures, ISBN 978- mercantile to challenge 1470091941. Navajos at a time of and wished you knew the Murphy-Dolan store First of all, Martha fundamental change, the story behind it? Or, and the Lincoln County and Rick are award- and the first full picture if you have had kids in War began. Susan sur- winning authors of ours of European colonial the car and they yelled, vived the battles, began and very nice people. life in the southern “What is that about?” very wealthy, and was They both have a pas- Rockies, southwestern In a fun way the book a person who directly sion for getting history deserts, and the Great looks at the markers, viewed history being of Southern New Mex- Plains.” This book was gives the back story, made. A good read that ico out and shared. Not written during the 1625 maybe a sidebar on a shows woman do play all New Mexico history walk of Fray Alonso de related place or event, an important part in is about Santa Fe. This Benavides from Mexico and the result is a travel history. book is a selection of the City to New Mexico. book for people who articles in the Southern This Portuguese priest care about Texas. Every New Mexico Historical Re- was elected to serve as state that has roadside

70 TRADICIÓN March 2013 view. They are a fascinat- er. What really turned Pueblo Revolt. It is a Ledger Narratives: The ing mix that will help me off to the text was it frank look at a person, Plains Indian Drawings of the Lansburgh Col- people doing historical looked like there were a the environment, the lection at Dartmouth research. The article I set number of pages and people, and the times College edited by Colin liked best was the “His- the text was shoved in. with a new understand- Calloway. Published tory of Stahmann Farms, There is no air. The back ing. He was no angel 2012 by University of 1926-1990” by Theresa cover is particularly bad but would you be if you Oklahoma Press, paperback, many color Hanley. This may be the with text shoved right had to make a place for photos, $29.95, 283 largest pecan farm in up to the edge. This is a yourself in a strange pages, ISBN 978-0-8061- the United States and a beginner’s design mis- world? A great book for 4298-2. true Las Cruces main- take. historians and students. This book is a re- stay. This book is some- Juan Domínguez de Micaela: Waking Up sult of the exhibit of thing historians and Mendoza: Soldier and To Poetry by Adalu- the ledger drawings at students of New Mexi- Frontiersman of the cia. Published 2013 by Hood Museum of Art can history will love. Spanish Southwest, Cholita Prints & Pub- at Dartmouth College. It My one criticism is that 1627-1693 edited by lishing Co., hardback, is a massive collection some of the pages are France Scholes, Marc 32 pages, $19.95, all Simmons, & José Anto- in color, ISBN 978-0- that anyone interested text oriented and might nio Esquibel and trans- 9742956-5-7. in or studying ledger get tiring but the infor- lated by Eleanor Adams. This seems to be a drawings will have to Published 2012 by UNM mation is wonderful! new company and artist have. Each drawing is Press, hardback, $65, pictured, has materials The Secret of a Long 488 pages, 5 B&W pho- in Santa Fe who was Journey by Sandra tos – 3 maps – 6 charts, born in Peru. I actually used in the drawing, Shwayder Sánchez. Pub- ISBN 978-0-8263-5115-9. went on the website when and where it was lished 2012 by Florican- This is the final and there was a lot to purchased, and shows to Press, paperback 184 the way of life many pages, $22.95, B&W, edition in the Coro- see. This is a bilingual ISBN 978-1-888205-35-0. nado Historical Series. book for kids. It is bright Plains Indians were a This is a beach book It features the life of a and kids will probably part of. This is one of or a plane book. Read it solider/colonist in New like it. It has a Glossary the largest and most to relax and space out. Mexico from age 13 for help with words. A in-depth collections of It is the story of a secret to 56. This is not light great gift for kids that ledger drawings and is that goes to generations reading but invaluable will mean something! remarkable. An art per- through Spain, Flanders, to students who want a son needs to know that Mexico and finally to first-hand telling of the Native Americans drew New Mexico. Catherine events between Span- to express themselves. Robles Shaw has a iards and the Pueblo sweet santo on the cov- Indians and the 1680 TRADICIÓN March 2013 71 son’s father. And isn’t that what a book is sup- posed to do. I have been Unique Piece of to the Museum and it is very nice and a part of Southwestern History Northern Arizona. The book is written by Ted For Sale Danson’s nephew and it gives the reader insights into the way things were in Northern Ari- Edward Bridge Danson: zona in the 1950s, the Steward of the New art world, the museum West by Eric Penner world, a special family, Haudry. Published and how the Museum 2011 by the Museum of Northern Arizona of Northern Arizona, came to be what it is includes original portfolio case, book, paperback, 211 pages, 50 hand-colored wood-block prints, B&W with photos, today. It is a fascinating $16.50, ISBN 978-0- part of history and it is and documentation letter 89734-150-9. the epitome of what I (estimated value $35,000) I had no idea that the always say - you have driving force behind the to put oral history in Museum of Northern a book to preserve it. Arizona was Ted Dan- Bravo!

16th Annual Fiesta de Colores The 16th Annual Fiesta de Colores will be held May 3rd to 5th at the St. Teresa Community Center in Grants, NM. This show, with over thirty artists, features some of the finest traditional and contemporary Hispanic art in the region. This year several au- Portfolio of Spanish Colonial Design thors and illustrators have been added to the festival in New Mexico published in 1938 to show some of the best books from the region: No. 6 of 200 Extremely rare Friday/Saturday/Sunday -- all day Nicolas Otero - How Hollyhocks Came to New Mexico by Rudolfo Anaya Jerry & Cherie Montoya - Three Dog Night Charlie Carrillo - Shoes for the Santo Niño Saturday 11am -- Carla Aragon - Dance of the Eggshells 11am -- Sabra Brown Steinsiek - The Tale of the Prong- horned Cantaloupe 12noon -- Slim Randles - Home Country and A Cow- inquiries welcome boy’s Guide to Growing Up Right Rio Grande Books 1pm --Travelin’ Jack and Jill Lane - Terrie Q & Travelin’ 925 Salamanca NW Jack’s Pet Friends and From Shelter to Star. Los Ranchos, NM 87107 Stop by & talk with these great authors/illustrators. 505-344-9382 [email protected] www.nmsantos.com

72 TRADICIÓN March 2013 A Moment in Time The Odyssey of New Mexico’s Segesser Hide Paintings edited by Thomas E. Chávez Painted in New Mexico sometime in the first half of the eighteenth century, the 352 pages 87 illustrations; 6 x 9 two large works of art that have become known as the Segesser Hide Paintings were sent ISBN 978-1-936744-04-6 ($21.95 pb) to Lucerne, Switzerland in 1758 by a Jesuit missionary. Rediscovered after World War II by a Swiss ethno-historian, the paintings returned to New Mexico in 1986. As works of art they are unique. As historical documents they are revealing. They are the most novel and important artifacts, if not works of art, of New Mexico’s Colonial history. The history, intrigue, and inherent value of the Paintings has no bounds. Scholars have marveled over them. This book is an anthology that brings together a sampling of those scholars who have seen and studied the Paintings. The information gleaned from the Paintings inspired them to think about history and art in different ways. Five of this book’s authors have passed away, others continue to learn and share. The true value of the Segesser Paintings is that knowledge continues to radiate from them. This book is but a example of that benefit, an important contribution to New Mexico’s Centennial.

ABOUT THE EDITOR Thomas E. Chávez received his Ph. D. in History from the University of New Mexico. He served for twenty-one years as director of the Palace of the Governors in Santa Fe, New Mexico and retired as Executive Director of the National Hispanic Cultural Center. He has published nine books and many articles of history. He is a recipient of a Fulbright Research Fel- lowship and was recently awarded the Premio Fundación Xavier de Salas in Spain for his work promoting “understanding” between Spain and the United States.

The Segesser Hides are on permanent display at the Museum of New Mexico History in Santa Fe, New Mexico. FREE SHIPPING on orders received by 4/10/13 Table of Contents The Segesser Hide Paintings: History, Discovery, Art by Thomas E. Francisco Xavier Romero: A Hitherto Unknown Santero by Thomas J. Chávez Steele, S. J. Pictorial Images of Spanish North America by Bernard L. Fontana Indian Auxiliaries and the Segesser Paintings by Oakah L. Jones An Odyssey of Images: The Influence of European and New World Joseph (López) Naranjo: Tewa Interpretar by Joe S. Sando Prints on Eighteenth Century Hide Paintings in New Mexico Treachery and Tragedy in the Texas Wilderness: The Adventures of Jean byKelly T. Donahue l’Archévèque (a.k.a. Juan Archibeque) in Texas by Kathleen Gilm- The Segesser Hide Paintings in Relationship to the European ore and Native American Traditions by Howard D. Rodee Material Culture as Depicted in the Segesser Hide Paintings by Diana “In the Style of that Country;” The History of Hide Painting DeSantis and Charles Bennett in New Mexico by Donna L. Pierce Some Comments on the Weapons in the Segesser Paintings by Howard Buried Treasure: Spain’s Legacy in High Plains History by James A. D. Rodee Hanson The Use of the Gun in the Villasur Massacre by Jeffrey Hengesbaugh Some Mission Records and Villasur by Fray Angélico Chávez Conservation Report on the Segesser Hide Paintings by Bettina Ra- phael Rio Grande Books 925 Salamanca NW Los Ranchos, NM 87107 505-344-9382 [email protected] www.nmsantos.com

TRADICIÓN March 2013 73 Contemporary Hispanic Market Artists The annual Contemporary Hispanic Market is held each year on the last full weekend of July on Lincoln Street just off the Plaza in Santa Fe and a Winter Market which is held at the Santa Fe Convention Center in December. Fea- tured here are six of the artists you can meet at the Market.

Leroy E. uilloume ark imenez GGuilloume’s subjects are purposely resquez r MMark Jimenez J is from Santa Fe, New devoid of recognizable facial features FLeroy makes recycled, art.J He. en- Mexico, and has been making jewelry to show the viewers that people are all deavors to create a work that uses the for 38 years. He is documented as the the same and not different. He also puts remains of an industrial environment tenth generation New Mexican artist two or more people in his work to show and he puts it together with care and and craftsperson dating back to 1732. that people are social beings. People are respect for its past use. By working with Mark’s mother is from Chimayo, New most happy when they are with family scrap and found metal he taps into a Mexico, and comes from eight genera- and friends. He believes art to be one source of abundant material. This dis- tions of weavers. Mark’s father is from of the universal languages and his work carded material tells a story that he Hot Springs and Animas, New Mexico, seeks beauty that speaks to all people. translates into an abstract, present-day and they are known for their stone reality. His technique is a result of his carvings and print making. Mark’s jew- mastery of welding which he has per- elry represents the “Past, Present, and fected through years of practice. Future.” Each piece of jewelry has sym- bolism that reminds us of the bless- ings from family and friends and their efforts in life. We are the breath of the people that have come before us.

74 TRADICIÓN March 2013 Marion C. Carolyn D. artínez Barela MMarion’s work was cutting edge be- aberry Christopher fore computers and recycling were in MVibrant, lively colors invite you to artinez vogue. She takes discarded parts from share the delightful vision of native MChristopher has a drive and pas- computers and other electronics and New Mexico artist Carolyn D. Barela sion to achieve the ultimate artistic turns them into jewelry, wall art, and Maberry. Inspired by things that she expression. He is the owner of Nativo sculpture that fascinates and makes loves Carolyn shares her New Mexico Design, a small graphic design firm in you laugh. She calls it Mixed-Tech in colors that sing and sway across Albuquerque. Christopher is a graphic Media Circuit Board Art. She has won her oil paintings. Over a quarter cen- designer by trade and specializes in all countless awards and is respected by tury involved in the art business has in- aspects of marketing including web her peers. Traditional art icons have a creased her ability and skills in provid- design and multipage publications. His base in everything Marion does even ing outstanding pieces. She is always photography is focused on the details though the result is very new and mod- seeking new experiences to broaden and beauty of New Mexico’s natural ern. She is truly an original in her art. her techniques and appeal of her work. landscapes and the distinctive cultures of northern New Mexico.

TRADICIÓN March 2013 75 Becoming a Part of My History Through Images & Stories of My Ancestors by Andrés Armijo 1 68 pages 137 illustrations; 8 ⁄2 x 11 ISBN 978-1-890689-75-9 ($29.95) (Trade paper)

A perfect model for anyone interested in knowing about themselves and their world through research into genealogy and photographic collections, this book is a personal journey into the Becoming author’s past, but it is also a fascinating account of family life in New Mexico, neighborhoods in Albuquerque, the rites and ritu- als of Hispanos, how a family through the ages pictured itself, a Part of My History and how all this information and reflection enlightens the author. “Everything is Illuminated,” while it educates and entertains the reader. This is an original and creative approach to personal and local history. This is a new take on the story of photography and genealogy as it focuses on the importance of the family. ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Beginning his career as a Spanish instructor at the University THROUGH IMAGES & STORIES of New Mexico, Armijo has been on the UNM staff for the OF MY ANCESTORS past fifteen years, working in academic programs. He has degrees in Spanish and Southwest Hispanic Studies. COMMENTS ON THE BOOK: Armijo’s book is a new take on the story of photography Andrés Armijo in Nuevo México, the importance of familia. His critical exploration takes us beyond the snapshot to more fully understand it. The family album, and the shoeboxes of pictures, become a place where deep and compelling meanings can be found and recovered. Photographs that have been generally for- gotten provide a unique window into the past. Armijo’s book leads us into those images and helps us find new ways to examine the deeper meaning of New Mexico’s rich visual history.—Miguel Gandert, Photographer and Professor of Communication and Journalism, University of New Mexico

One of the great truths in life is that to know what we’ve come from lets us know ourselves better and helps us determine where we’re going. It is such a search that Andrés Armijo describes in Becoming a Part of My History: Through Images and Stories of My Ancestors. It is replete with charming anecdotes that remind us of our own family stories. It is enriched with photographs of several generations of family, a photographic genealogy rare in studies of one’s ancestors. It can be enjoyed by anyone interested in their own and other families’ histories. A gem of a book.—Nash Candelaria, novelist, short story writer 2011 Best First Book, BOOK REVIEW: New Mexico Book Awards The text and photos in this book would be wonderful in demonstrating to students or adults how to research their family and present them in an interesting way.—ReadingNewMexico.com FREE SHIPPING Rio Grande Books on orders 925 Salamanca NW received by Los Ranchos, NM 87107 4/10/13 505-344-9382 [email protected] www.nmsantos.com 76 TRADICIÓN March 2013 Out of the Shadows The Women of Southern New Mexico Winner, 2012 edited by Martha Shipman Andrews New Mexico-Arizona 218 pages; 6 x 9 pb ISBN 978-1-890689-82-7 $17.95 Book Awards

The Wild West of New Mexico, with Billy the Kid, Pat Garrett, Geronimo, and the U. S. Cavalry center stage, is so powerful and entertaining a myth in the popular imagi- nation that the lives and contributions of New Mexico’s women — especially those of Southern New Mexico — have been largely overlooked. Visual images provide a particularly evocative means of examining the dark spaces behind the overshadowing Western myths so dominated by the concerns and exploits of men. The extensive photograph collections of the Rio Grande Historical Collections and the Hobson-Huntsinger University Archives of the New Mexico State University Library’s Archives and Special Collections Department give witness to the experiences of women as they helped to settle the mountains and deserts of New Mexico between 1880 and 1920. Photographs from these collections capture the unexpected: the self-reliance of women ranchers, the craftsmanship and industry of Native Ameri- can women, the comfortable lives of a prominent Hispanic mercantile family, and the opportunities for women created by educational institutions. The accompanying es- says by noted scholars and archivists have found the lives of women in southern New Mexico to be not full of endless toil and deprivation but rather, in the words of young Mildred Barnes from the mining community of Lake Valley, “delightful, exciting, and filled with a sense of abundance.” ABOUT THE EDITOR Martha Shipman Andrews is University Archivist and associate professor at New Mexico State University, Las Cru- ces. She is current editor of the Southern New Mexico Historical Review. She edited The Whole Damned World: New Mexico Aggies at War: 1941-1945, recipient of two 2009 New Mexico Book Awards and the Centennial Award as one of the “100 Best Books of New Mexico.” CONTENTS Introduction by Rick Hendricks Home-Making In The Sacramento Mountains: The Photographs Of G.E. Miller And The Blazer Collection by -Mar garet D. Jacobs Women’s Lives Once Lived: The Amadors of Las Cruces by Terry R. Reynolds Bygone Days on the Black Range by Linda G. Harris The Mescalero Basketmakers by Joan M. Jensen “That’s My Mountain!” Agnes Morley Cleaveland by Darlis A. Miller “It’s not the work that bothers me, but it’s the chores:” Women on ranches, through primary sources by Charles Stan- ford and Maura Kenny Educating the Useful Woman by Martha Shipman Andrews Sisters of Loretto by Wendy C. Simpson Southern New Mexico Women’s Clubs by Charles Stanford New Mexico Women In Writing: A Guide to the Circulating Collection at NMSU Library by Mardi Mahaffy FREE SHIPPING Rio Grande Books on orders in collaboration with the received by New Mexico State University Library 4/10/13 925 Salamanca NW Los Ranchos, NM 87107 505-344-9382 [email protected] www.LPDPress.com

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For three centuries, the Fiesta de Santa Fe has commemorated historical events including the Spanish reconquest of New Mexico by Don Diego de Vargas in 1692 and the confraternity of the Rosary ELVIS ROMERO named in honor of La Conquistadora. Over the generations the oldest community celebration in the country has evolved to include AND DE elaborate parades and processions, including the royal court of De- FIESTA Vargas and La Reina, and memorably, the burning in effigy of Zozo- bra, or Old Man Gloom, drawing locals and visitors each autumn. SANTA FE featuring “Children are the heart of Fiesta,” reflects Andrew Lovato as he recalls his schoolboy experiences growing up in Santa Fe in the 1960s. Enter Lovato’s altar ego, a fictional character named Elvis Romero, who with his cousin Pepa engage in a scheme to rescue Zozobra’s Zozobra from his inevitable demise. In a Huck Finn tale for all

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