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Arts Scene Traveling the River Frisco Box exposure Page 11 Page 16 Page 20 NOVEMBER 2020 Arts & Leisure in Southern New Mexico Volume 25 • Number 11 2 • NOVEMBER 2020 www.desertexposure.com EDITOR’S NOTEBOOK • ELVA K. ÖSTERREICH Some Things Never Change ‘A person’s a person no matter how small’ hen I visited Estonia nia I had a child at home in New one side and at other times heavi- with my aunt in 2009 it Mexico, preteen, loved his bicy- er on the other, she (or he) is Wwas under the burden cle. He went everywhere, prac- shifting the child from one side of history. My grandmother had ticed jumping over things, even to the other as she carries it. always hated the color red, the broke his arm hitting a rock in a “It looks like a giant ground color of invaders, murderers – ditch. There in the streets of Tal- sloth walks through a puddle the Germans, the Russians. She linn in Estonia, there were chil- also, it looks like they (people) On the shores of the ancient Lake Otero, a mother and child leave had to flee on a fishing boat, with dren on their bicycles jumping are jumping in the mud,” Bustos their footprints in this ice age landscape. (Art courtesy of Karen Carr) her children, as Russian tanks over things, riding on the curbs, said. “It looks like many of the took aim and fired at the boat. laughing, chattering – in Russian. activities they did back then, has produced evidence through one species and despite the In modern day Estonia, the “Look,” I said to my aunt, “Peo- they are doing today – walking footprints showing how animals brain-bending we get, training divide is yet divisive and bitter ple are the same everywhere.” quickly, keeping them (children) may have been hunted – but to violent and divisive behaviors between some Estonian and “No,” she said. “They are not. up out of the mud. White Sands still has many sto- and beliefs, no one can change Russian residents of the country. They are Russian.” “The neat part of the story is ries to tell in the fossilized prints that. When a baby cried in the Russian occupied since World But the truth is, they are the people are always people. It’s al- including the traces of children night, whether 10,000 years ago War II, the country houses fami- same. Their brains learn the ways been that way – connecting playing in puddles that formed in or yesterday, a parent answered lies who were told to move there same ways, they break their us back through time. It doesn’t giant sloth tracks, friends jump- the call, laughed at the strange from the Russian motherland. bones when they fall. They cry, matter where you come from ing between mammoth tracks faces she made and comforted They were given the possessions holler and laugh. Children every- and where you live. You can see and the steady stalking of hu- her with reassuring mumbles. and homes of the Estonian res- where play the same, absorb the interactions through time. We mans in search of large prey. This is our world, so much idents. Now Estonia is free, but same – running kites in Afghan- think White Sands is new, but we Designated a megatracksite more than you expect, so many the children’s children of those istan; hovering over Mancala in realize it’s been visited for thou- in 2014, White Sands contains stories to be told. Russians still reside in Estonian Africa; collecting shells on the sands of years.” the largest collection of ice age homes, farm their fields, rock shores of the United States; rid- Bustos said they noticed the (Pleistocene epoch) fossilized Elva K. the old cradles they found there ing bicycles in Estonia. new prints a couple of years ago footprints in the world, which Österreich is during the war. When White Sands National (2018). have been left behind by more editor of Desert Who really belongs there? Park Resource Program Manag- “We call them ghost prints,” he than just humans. Mammoth, gi- Exposure and Those who grew up in the hous- er David Bustos sees 10,000-year- said. “We only see them when the ant ground sloth, dire wolf, and would love to es, whose parents and grandpar- old footprints crossing the sands moisture is just right. Once we American lion tracks have been meet Desert ents lived there too, who know at the edge of Lake Lucero, he recognized what they were we found at White Sands. Exposure nothing else, live their lives and also sees people being people. worked with a team of experts.” “That’s how it goes out there,” readers in Silver City or work their jobs? Or is it those There are prints, extending A new paper published in Qua- Bustos said. “Who expects there any of our coverage areas. who were displaced some 75- almost a mile, of a small person ternary Science Reviews docu- to be anything out there? But Please contact her at editor@ plus years ago, with their heri- (child) and a bigger person (pos- ments the world’s longest fossil- there is so much more than you desertexposure.com or by cell tage and the land their ancestors sibly a mother) traveling together. ized human trackway discovered expect. There are many stories phone at 575-443-4408 to set worked for thousands of years, Sometimes the little prints disap- at White Sands National Park. An to be told.” a place and time to meet. The their homes ripped away by de- pear, the bigger person is picking international team of scientists, Across time and across the quote in the headline of this structive regimes? up the smaller person. 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