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PUBLISHER Richard Coltharp 1740-A Calle de Mercado Contents 575-524-8061 Las Cruces, NM 88005 [email protected] 575-524-8061 www.desertexposure.com 19 EDITOR 30 Elva K. Österreich 575-680-1978 [email protected] ADVERTISING COORDINATOR Pam Rossi 575-635-6614 Desert Exposure is published [email protected] monthly and distributed free of charge at choice establishments throughout southern New Mexico. SILVER CITY SALES Mail subscriptions are $54 plus tax Mariah Walker 575-993-8193 for 12 issues. Single copies by mail [email protected] $4. All contents © 2019 OPC News, LLC. All rights reserved. No portion DISTRIBUTION of this publication may be reproduced 30 COORDINATOR without written permission. Teresa Tolonen 575-680-1841 All rights to material by outside contributors revert to the author. [email protected] Views expressed in articles, advertisements, graphics and/or LAYOUT AND DESIGN photos appearing in Desert Exposure Stacey Neal and Monica Kekuewa do not necessarily reflect the views of the editors or advertisers. COLUMNISTS Desert Exposure is not responsible for unsolicited submissions of articles Fr. Gabriel Rochelle, or artwork. Submissions by mail must Sheila Sowder, Bert Stevens, include a self-addressed, stamped Jim Duchene and Abe Villareal envelope for reply or return. It will 26 be assumed that all submissions, including email letters, are intended 4 VIEW FROM HERE • Ways to Not Save Money 20 T OR C • Zia Gallery WEB DESIGNERS for publication. All submissions, State’s gamble on Gila River diversion was a loser New art space opening in Old Town including letters to the editor, may be by Walt Rubel Ryan Galloway edited for length, style and content. 21 TALKING HORSES • Wisdom From a Funny Man Elva K. Osterreich 4 LETTERS TO THE EDITOR • Responses Putting in the time by Scott Thomson Readers share their views 21 BODY, MIND, SPIRIT • A Penny for Your Thoughts 5 EVERYDAY OBSERVATIONS • Christmas Already Young woman speaks of father’s suicide ABOUT THE COVER: The meaning of love by Abe Villarreal by Elva K. Österreich This image of our closest neighbor galaxy, Andromeda, was taken from Dark Sky New Mexico by Brian D. Ot- 6 EDITOR’S NOTEBOOK • Coming Alive 22 CYCLES OF LIFE • Hydration tum. Ottum, using his remote control telescope located Spaceport America awakens by Elva K. Österreich Early and often on your bike by Fr. Gabriel Rochelle at the site, followed Andromeda for total of 10 hours of exposure to capture this image. Dark Sky New Mexico is 6 RAISINGDAD • Fit Like a Kid 24 BODY, MIND SPIRIT • Grant County Events located near Animas and will be hosting its 2019 Star Par- Exercise that is good for the heart Weekly happenings in Grant County by Jim and Henry Duchene ty on Saturday, Oct. 5, weather permitting. The day begins 25 EXPLORATIONS • Visiting the Oasis at 10 a.m. with a tour of the Chiricahua Natural History 8 HISTORIC WEEK • The Foundation of America Aguirre Spring provides relief by David Burge Museum. After a day of events Star Party participants are Silver City DAR celebrates Constitution Week invited on a tour of the facility and a night of sky viewing. 26 SACRED LANDS • Blessing Ceremony For information visit darkskynewmexico.com. 10 CELEBRATE THE SEASON • Everything but the Mescalero Tribe members visit WSMR Kitchen Sink by Chuck Roberts A busy day in the Mimbres Valley Postcards From the Edge 27 ON THE BORDER • Finding Humanity 11 FLOWING WITH THE RIVER • Our River, Our Future Volunteers fill roles often left empty Desert Exposure Travels Presentations, a parade and possibilities by Morgan Smith

12 ARTS EXPOSURE • Arts Scene 28 BORDERLINES • Solidarity On Monday, Aug. Latest area arts happenings The spaces keep getting wider by Marjorie Lilly 12, Desert Expo- sure traveled to 13 WRITTEN WORD • Poet Laureate Joins Board 30 EXPLORATIONS • Monuments to Main Street Festival ready to kick off Sept. 30 September monumental time to visit the 163HK Com- plex fire in Morrow 14 DANCING ON • Changing of the Guard 33 RED OR GREEN • Dining Guide County, Oregon. Dali Ballet Company welcomes by Yvonne Lanelli Restaurants in southwest New Mexico It was carried by Jony Cockman 15 THE TRAIL BEGINS • Trails End Gallery Open 34 TABLE TALK • Ghost Town, Real Food of Silver City who Artists move into Las Cruces Mesquite District Big Doin’s at the Chloride Bank Cafe worked in the Ground Support 15 ARTS EXPOSURE • Dia de los Muertos 34 STARRY DOME • Perseus, Rescuer of Andromeda Unit with Oregon Welcome to join in honoring the dead It’s pointless to defy the Oracle by Bert Stevens Team 6. 16 ON THE SHELF • ‘Blur Dragon Case Studies’ 35 PUBLISHER’S NOTEBOOK • Corazon Roto … Looking at Oriental medicine with Western eyes The difference in differences by Richard Coltharp Susie Byers- dorfer of Silver 16 CALLING ARTISTS • Opportunity 36 32 YEARS IN SILVER CITY • Forgiveness City spent three Vendors, artists needed now Living through abuse, finding healing in love by weeks as a Susan Golightly volunteer at the 17 ON STAGE • Chamber Music at WNMU Imire Rhino & Alina Kiryayeva offers her heart 37 40 DAYS AND 40 NIGHTS • Events Guide Elephant con- What’s going on in September? servation project 17 TALK NERDY TO ME • Spawning Success in Zimbabwe, Image Comics produces 300th ‘Spawn’ 44 NATIVE ROOTS • Native Plants for Pollinators sharing her Des- by Troy Stegner ‘Stacking’ up the benefits of native plants by Mark ert Exposure with Cantrell the critters. 18 ARTS EXPOSURE • Gallery Guide Art venues across the area 46 THE NATURAL WORLD • Lions and Deer and Mustangs If you have guests from out of town who are having a blast and reading Counting down the wildlife by Laurie Ford Desert Exposure, shoot them with your camera and send us the photo 19 ARTISTIC LEGACY • Work of a Master with a little information. Or, if you are traveling, don’t forget to share, do An H. Joe Waldrum retrospective in T or C 47 LIVING ON WHEELS • If You’re Bored, it’s the selfie thing and take a photo of yourself holding a copy of Desert Your Own Fault Exposure and send it to [email protected] or stick it in the mail Advice on how to find a social life by Sheila Sowder to: Desert Exposure, 1740-A Calle de Mercado, Las Cruces, NM 88005. 4 • SEPTEMBER 2019 www.desertexposure.com

THE VIEW FROM HERE • WALT RUBEL Letters to the Editor

Ways to Not Save Money BLM should be horse and burro holding more responsible facilities located in close State’s gamble on Gila River diversion was a loser with wild horses proximity to prisons with wild horse and burro inmate e’ve wasted so much time New Mexico has the most junior icy, and she will soon be appoint- Dear Editor, programs where employ- and money on the failed water rights on the river, Norm ing new members to the Interstate Yes, I agree wholeheart- ment could be offered to WGila River diversion pro- Gaume, a former director of the Stream Commission who share edly with Scott Thomson those inmates who want to posal that we have no choice but Interstate Stream Commission that view. Both U.S. senators from (Desert Exposure July, continue working with the to continue wasting more time and and an opponent of the diversion New Mexico and all three House “Talking Horses”) that there animals after their release money on it. project, explained in an interview I members also stand in opposition. are too many unwanted – a perfect fit with Trump’s That seemed to be the argument did for KTAL-LP community radio. The state took a gamble in 2014. horses and not enough re- recent “Second Step Act.” made to the Albuquerque Journal That means all other users have to The entity responsible for the proj- sponsible horse owners Such initial gentling would by Howard Hutchinson, a mem- be satisfied first and all of the water ect had 10 years, starting in 2004, to willing to make the required provide adopters with a ber of the special entity formed to we divert has to be paid for ahead decide on a water diversion plan, long-term commitment to good start when it comes to oversee the project, who said he of time. or take less money for water con- these animals. I have spent dealing with these animals had been working on the river di- And most years there isn’t servation projects. They went for many years involved with that they are often not pre- version proposal since 1973. enough water to divert, Gaume the diversion plan, knowing that rescue from racehorses off pared for. “Predecessors and mentors of said. That’s why all of the previous there was no consensus outside of the track to my current en- When the 1971 Wild Horse mine have also invested many efforts to dam the Gila have also their small group for that decision. deavor with the wild horses and Burro Act was signed years and lots of money in this is- failed. Now, they have no support and are and burros and within ev- into law to protect our wild sue,” he told the Journal. “It would Leaders of the diversion pro- already blaming others for the col- ery equine sector unwant- horses and burros 53.8 mil- be a tragedy for all that time to be posal once envisioned farmers in lapse that lies ahead. ed horses and burros are lion acres (42.4 of BLM) was wasted.” Catron, Grant, Luna and Hidalgo Much of the passion over this disposed of daily with no allocated as designated hab- In poker, that’s called being counties swapping traditional har- issue has been driven by the fact consideration of their future itat. Today that number has pot-committed with a losing hand. vests of cotton and alfalfa for more that the Gila is the last free-flowing or well-being. If the BLM been almost cut in half – re- No matter how long we stay in the “thirsty” crops like lavender, hemp, river in New Mexico - a claim that would only remove the min- duced to 31.6 (26.9 of BLM) game or how much more money potatoes, pecans and grapes, The diversion supporters dispute, and imal numbers deemed nec- - the majority of which is we throw into the pot, it’s still a los- Journal reported. one I think misses the point. essary using scientific meth- shared with livestock. If ing hand. But, with no hope for meeting The reason the Gila is still ods, and reinstate areas of the federal government The good news is that new Gov. the federal deadline on the re- free-flowing is not because of a prior designated habitat, had honored their original Michelle Lujan Grisham has made quired impact statement, the diver- deep and abiding love for the river we would not have the addi- pledge, we would not be the wise decision to fold. She ve- sion project stands to lose access over the years. There were three tional numbers of unwanted discussing an over popu- toed $1.7 million that had been to $55 million. And so, project lead- previous proposals to build a dam, wild horses and burros con- lation of wild horses and requested by the Interstate Stream ers have dramatically scaled back and all failed because they weren’t tributing to the problem. burros. In addition, even the Commission for the project. their plans. feasible. That is still the case. I do not support the reduced amount of habitat Bills passed by Congress in 1968 They have trimmed $83 million BLM’s $1,000 adoption in- could support these animals and 2004 established the limits and from the proposal, which they said Walt Rubel has centive. This money would if the majority of forage conditions by which New Mexi- would make it more “cost effec- been a journalist be better spent by provid- was not allocated to live- co can divert water from the riv- tive.” But those changes did noth- since 1982, ing some groundwork with stock. The current removal er. Both the money and the water ing to generate support for the pro- working in Las these horses while they are of such large numbers from diversion have strings attached. posal. Cruces since in holding being processed their designated habitat is With the diversion, all of the water Lujan Grisham made stopping 2002. He can for adoption – something we take has to be replaced down- the project one of the planks of her be reached at that can often take months. LETTERS stream. campaign platform on water pol- [email protected]. There are a number of wild continued on page 5 DESERT EXPOSURE SEPTEMBER 2019 • 5

EVERYDAY OBSERVATIONS LETTERS continued from page 4 ABE VILLARREAL unnecessary and based horses that often end up or how you feel when you on one thing – the BLM’s going to slaughter across get up in the morning; it is insistent desire to achieve the border. not about being “nice” or Christmas Already the grossly inaccurate (too I commend Mr. Thom- “friendly” or continuously Used gift wrap bows and the meaning of love low), non-scientific based son for his efforts. I know joyful, or being rock-pol- Appropriate Management what that commitment ished clean. It is the firm s it too early to write about Christ- How many smiles it has brought to Level (the number of wild and passion feels like but conviction that Jesus mas? Not from the feeling of the grandchildren, and others, during cold horses and/or burros that we all must pick our own Christ is exactly who He Icool air in the morning, or the deco- winter nights. Each crease, and each can exist in balance with battles. Thank heaven we said He is – the eternal rations already hung in the Garden Cen- leftover piece of Scotch tape, like a other species, resources are so diverse in these bat- God. ter of your local Walmart. stamp in a passport book. and uses with little men- tles and for the conversa- I would ask everyone For me, it’s never too early. Seeing a used gift wrap bow makes tion of livestock). If lower tion each one provokes. who has this erroneous As I perused the Christmas village me feel like someone thought enough numbers were removed Laurie Ford view of Christianity (as displays, and the football-themed orna- of me, to know that it was truly the water and bait trapping Glenwood being all about “niceness”) ments lining up the counters, it was the thought that counted that Christmas, could be utilized rather to look to a lonely beach in gift-wrap bows that caught my eye. not the fancy box, or perfectly folded than the inhumane and The truth about Libya, back in 2015, where These simple, colorful, familiar bows wrapping paper. costly use of helicopters 21 men bravely gave their have stood the test of time. Maybe it’s We live in a homogenized world. Ev- and would save the tax- true Christianity lives out of love for Jesus, just one bow that has been carried on erything feels, sounds and tastes the payers millions by elimi- Dear Editor, and refused to deny Him. for generations. That might be a pos- same. Individuality is being lost to time. nating costly holding facil- This letter is written in THERE is your true Chris- sibility in my family as my late grand- From our cars, to our houses, every- ities for those horses and response to Susan Golight- tianity. mother Rafaela kept each bow no mat- thing should be represented perfectly, burros who could have ly’s last article. Thank you, Elva, for the ter how tattered, or Scotch-tape filled it without fault. remained wild. I really enjoy reading respect you give to all of presented itself. But a used gift-wrap bow is different. I have visited numerous her articles, and I want our differing viewpoints. We were impatient as she started It exists as an act of endurance, a sign wild horse territories over to thank her for sharing Susan, I won’t turn my opening up gifts, and always told her that something is being passed along the years, with hundreds her experiences with us. I cart away from you. to not worry about the wrapping paper, through every generation, and to me of hours of observation, would like to offer a short Diane Princehouse ribbons, or bows. But she knew some- that’s a symbol of love and thoughtful- and can honestly say that commentary on her last Silver City thing we didn’t. She knew that gift-wrap ness. the vast majority of these statement. bow had a purpose. I hope you receive a used gift-wrap animals are fit – even com- I am so sorry her friends Bananas Growing up, the gift-wrap bow was bow this Christmas. And think about ing off of winter range. turned their carts away the constant survivor during each hol- your grandma, who probably lived With incidents of drought from her in the stores; I and the Border iday season. I imagine that your grand- during the Great Depression, and new the BLM and advocates know how heartbreaking Dear Editor, mother, or maybe yourself, has saved that saving that bow would mean some- work tirelessly to haul in it can be to have someone Why are all these peo- a bow for future use. When you think thing special, to someone, someday. water to provide relief. Un- you have known and trust- ple from Central America about it, using a used gift-wrap bow is fortunately, in many plac- ed your whole life turn on making the long trek to a symbol of the ultimate re-gifted item. Abe Villarreal is the es available water sourc- you! our border with Mexico? For me, seeing a used gift-wrap bow assistant dean of es have been fenced off. With true Christianity, It’s dangerous, expensive on a Christmas Eve present was a sure student activities at I would assume that the it does not matter in the and there’s no promise of sign the special item inside was from Western New Mexico 200 horses in Arizona Mr. least if even the whole getting the asylum they grandma Rafeala. And after seeing that University. When not Thomson was referring to town turned their carts seek in North America. weathered old bow, it almost didn’t on campus, he enjoys were those on tribal lands away from her. True Chris- Our country is fractured matter what came inside. writing about his who have no protection or tianity is not dependent I like to think of how many gifts that observations on life, oversight. This is yet an- on who turns away from LETTERS bow has adorned, through the years. people and American traditions. other sector of unwanted you, or what you look like, continued on page 8 6 • SEPTEMBER 2019 www.desertexposure.com

EDITOR’S NOTEBOOK • ELVA K. ÖSTERREICH Coming Alive Spaceport America awakens to the dawn of commercial space travel

fter lengthy delays, Vir- son dedicate the runway at Space- Also arriving on the scene is gin Galactic has officially port America from the podium at the WhiteKnightTwo, aka Eve, the Amoved into its Gold LEED earth clinging building. And there I mothership that will escort VSS standard Gateway to Space building had the first view of WhiteKnightT- Unity to the edge of space. From Virgin Galactic’s WhiteKnightTwo, VMS Eve, glides into the at Spaceport America. wo and SpaceShipTwo as they ap- there, VSS Unity (named by Pro- Spaceport America runway Aug. 15. Eve is designed to launch a For me, it all started at Hollo- peared in New Mexico over the un- fessor Stephen Hawking), will take spaceship of paying “astronauts” from the edge of Earth’s atmo- man Air Force base in 2004 with finished but strong structure of the commercial travelers to experience sphere when commercial space travel becomes a reality. (Photo the Ansari X Prize. Experimental Gateway to Space. space. by Elva Österreich) space plane SpaceShipOne took the I never doubted this dream would Eve has found her permanent ture through energy efficiency and the community hub of Gaia below $10,000,000 prize and I was hooked. become a reality I would one day home in the Gateway to Space han- sustainability. It was also specifical- through an atrium. The colour pal- I was in Las Cruces for the 2006 see. Enveloped in controversy and gar and will return to Mojave, Cali- ly designed to enable Virgin Galac- ette graduates from Gaia’s earth Wirefly X Prize Cup and back at doubt, Spaceport has stood fast. To- fornia, only to pick up VSS Unity and tic to create an unparalleled expe- tones to lighter white and grey Holloman for the 2007 X Prize Lu- day, regardless of the naysayers, and return her home to New Mexico. rience as its customers prepare for shades, reflecting the sky beyond. nar Lander Challenge. despite oh-so-many bumps in the On Thursday, Aug. 15, Virgin journeys of a lifetime before gradu- This is home to Mission Control, At the New Mexico spaceport road, I still stand grateful to my var- Galactic invited media and select ating as astronauts.” the Mission Briefing Room, the Pi- site, I was there on June 19, 2009, ious employers through the years guests to experience the complet- The first floor is focused on Earth lot Corps and the flight operations as Gov. Bill Richardson directed who yet allow me to track this fancy ed areas of its building, which re- and is named Gaia, representing the team. The Spaceport America run- the groundbreaking in the midst of and follow the chimera of commer- flects founder Richard Branson’s points of departure and return, as way and vast skies are visible from an empty desert, the Jornada del cial space travel in our state. penchant for the luxurious – where well as the purpose of each astro- here, allowing those guiding the Muerto, and the first dirt was turned Now more than 90 employees “future astronauts” paying $250,000 naut’s journey. An elevated, interac- mission to visually connect with the for the Gateway to Space (as yet arrive daily to the facility, filling a a ticket will dine, train and relax as tive digital walkway heightens the craft and weather conditions. unnamed). Costumed actors ap- parking lot and bringing a bustling they await their ride to space. departure experience for the future “This is all becoming very real,” proached the site across the desert, vibe to a once-quiet desert setting. According to a Virgin Galactic astronauts prior to boarding VSS said Virgin Galactic commercial dressed as Spanish conquistadores Not only are they working, they press release, “The Foster + Part- Unity. director Stephen Attenborough. and other ancient travelers, tying have brought families and bought ners Gateway to Space facility pays The second floor is named Cir- “What’s happening here could even- the past to the present and the fu- homes in Doña Ana and Sierra homage to the past in its respect for rus, representing light, air and flight. tually translate into a quicker and ture. counties. Their children have en- the ancient surrounding landscape It is the beating heart of spaceflight cleaner way to get around the plan- In 2010, I watched Richard Bran- rolled in school. while powerfully embracing the fu- operations and is connected to et.”

RAISINGDAD • JIM AND HENRY DUCHENE Fit Like a Kid Exercise that is good for the heart

complain about my father. better get in shape, son. You don’t tal instead?” people who want to get back in In fact, I complain about want to have a heart attack chas- One heart stent later, I was back shape are under the impression Imy father a lot, but I give him ing after her as she’s running into at home thinking about what my they were ever in shape to begin credit for the nuggets of wisdom the street.” father said. with? he’s given me. Before my first “Yeah, yeah,” I thought to my- Exercise? As it turned out, getting back marriage, he warned me, “Son, self. Me? into shape wasn’t that hard. All if you’re ever tempted to cheat, “Sure, pop,” is what I said out I was always in reasonably good I had to do was, well, EVERY- make sure it’s with someone loud. shape. I remember in high school, THING my granddaughter did. It’s tough keeping up with worth losing your marriage over.” You see, I thought I was in we would have won the big game if When she ran, I ran. When she a superhero. (Photo by Jim Good advice. Too bad my ex- good shape. I mean, I read “Men’s only Coach would have put me in. jumped, I jumped. When she ate, I Duchene) wife didn’t follow it, maybe we’d Health” and everything. If I didn’t “We weren’t laughing at you, son” ate. And in the same portions. saw on the other. She loves that still be married. In the end, it exactly follow their advice, I at Coach told me after the game, “we “Grandpa, dance with me,” she see-saw. She sits on one end and worked out better for me. I met least looked at their pictures of were laughing with you.” says, and I do. Of course, her idea I grab the other and push down. my second wife. She’s beautiful sexy women. That got my blood When my youngest daughter of dancing is me picking her up Over and over and over again. AND she loves to cook. That’s a circulating. I could even walk was four, she told me “Daddy, you and swinging her around. Which She’s tireless. nice combination. from the den to the pantry for a need to exercise.” I happened to does wonders for upper body Me? My ex-wife? snack without passing out, but a be laying on the floor at the time, strength. Not so much. Well, she and her boyfriend lost heart attack? watching television. She sat on “Grandpa, play with me,” she Switching tactics, I’ll stand and their jobs when they got caught Pleeease. my ankles. “Pick-a me up,” she says, and I find myself searching put one fat foot on the seat and stealing refrigerators from where I had my heart attack at 55, and ordered. high and low for her. Mostly low. continue. Up, down. Up, down. they worked. How you steal I’m not talking about what Sam- And I did. Bending over to look under beds, Up, down. something that big is beyond me. my Hagar can’t drive. I didn’t have I started doing leg-lifts with her behind doors, around furniture in “Are you tired yet?” I huff. Maybe that’s why I’m still em- it doing anything quite so heroic happily bouncing up and down. a playful game of hide-and-seek. “No,” she says. ployed. Still, it didn’t surprise me. as saving my granddaughter’s life. Flipping over, she climbed on my Of course, I know where she is, “How about now?” I puff. Not when the morning after our I had it, um, walking to the pantry back and I started doing push-ups. but she gets a kick out of my pre- “No.” wedding night I discovered my for a snack. It was fun. She laughed, called tending I don’t. So I have to push through “the wallet missing. “What’s the matter?” my beauti- me her pony, and it was the most Say she’s hiding behind a couch, wall.” “You can’t help the stupid,” my ful wife asked me. exercise I had done in a while. I she’ll call out, “I’m in the kitchen!” Only I never get close to “the father is fond of telling me, and “I don’t think I want this snick- didn’t follow through, so by the and she’ll laugh at having “fooled” wall.” – you know what? – he’s right. erdoodle after all,” I told her. time my granddaughter showed me. “I’m behind the door!” she’ll Finally, she’ll decide she wants When my granddaughter was “Good idea,” she agreed. up, I was determined to get back call out again, laughing her cun- to swing. born, my father also told me, “You “Can you take me to the hospi- in shape. Have you noticed how ning superhero laugh, as I’m mis- “Higher, Grandpa!” she used to led once again. “I’m under the tell me. “Higher!”

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Since The Daughters of the American threefold: to encourage the study fords to all Americans, DAR helps 1976 ® Revolution (DAR) initiated the ob- of the historical events that led to to keep alive the memory of the servance in 1955, when the orga- the framing of the Constitution in men and women who secured Visit our Showroom to see nization petitioned the U.S. Con- September 1787; to inform people our nation’s independence, whose complete selecti on of gress to dedicate September 17-23 that the Constitution is the basis bravery and sacrifice made possi- Custom Window coverings, of each year to the commemora- of America’s great heritage and ble the liberties we enjoy today. tion of Constitution Week. the foundation of our way of life; For information on Daughters Shutt ers and Bedding Congress adopted the resolu- and to emphasize United States of the American Revolution Jacob tion, and Aug. 2, 1956, President citizens’ responsibility to protect, Bennett Chapter call Regent Lucy 2310 N. Temple, Las Cruces, NM • 526-2880 Dwight D. Eisenhower signed it defend and preserve the Consti- Whitmarsh at 575-574-8394. www.SpringCrestNM.com into Public Law No. 915. tution. Meetings are held every second DAR has been the foremost ad- Saturday of the month at the Vis- vocate for the awareness, promo- itors Center at 201 Hudson at 10 tion and celebration of Constitu- a.m., September through May. An Free hands-on class preparing fathers tion Week. exception to the usual meeting By fostering knowledge of and schedule is the September meet- on caring for their newborn and infant. appreciation for the Constitution ing will be Sept. 7. “A class for fathers and taught by fathers.” LETTERS continued from page 5 Conscious Fathering Program of Southern New Mexico over the inhumanity and hor- ed States has labeled a terrorist ror of children as young as four organization since 2001. Under a Contact: Joshua Stoller (575) 526-6682 months in cages with little nutri- plea agreement, Chiquita Brands www.consciousfatheringnm.com @ConsciousFatheringSNM tious food, cold floors to sleep agreed to pay $25 million in res- on and overrunning toilets. titution and damages to the fam- These desperate people are ilies of victims of the AUC. The fleeing their Central American AUC had been paid to protect countries because the banana the company’s interest in the conglomerates have taken their region. Chiquita has also been best land to grow bananas and accused of smuggling weapons pay the local farmers as little (3,000 AK-47’s) to the AUC and as they can. Peter Chapman, in in assisting the AUC in smug- his book “How the United Fruit gling drugs to Europe. Chiquita Company Shaped the World” Brands admitted that they paid MOUNTAINVIEW states that the ultimate goal of AUC operatives to silence union MEDICAL GROUP the contracts for the companies organizers and intimidate farm- was control of the banana trade ers into selling only to Chiquita from production to distribution. In Honduras, where the Unit- WELCOMES The companies would finance ed Fruit Company and the Stan- guerrilla fighters, presidential dard Fruit Company were wor- campaigns and governments to ried about their banana sales, maintain control. the American Army marched The United Fruit Company, in on seven separate occasions an American company, was fre- throughout the early 20th cen- quently accused of bribing gov- tury. ernment officials in exchange Sometimes the army was for preferential treatment, ex- called in to crush strikes, oth- ploiting its workers, paying er times to stop revolutions — little by way of taxes to the but every time, it was to keep governments of the countries business booming. Hundreds where it operated, and working of American soldiers and thou- ruthlessly to consolidate mo- sands of locals died in the Ba- nopolies. Latin American jour- nana Wars. Strikes and revolu- Craig Cannon, MD Angelica Motta, MD Kimberly Miller, DNP Joseph D’Antonio, MD Scotty Smith, MD nalists sometimes referred to tions were crushed and put to Cardiologist Cardiologist Cardiologist Cardiologist the company as el pulpo (“the an end – all while the profits of octopus”), and leftist parties in a handful of companies were Announcing the arrival of Dr. Craig Cannon, Dr. Angelica Motta and Central and South America en- maintained. Kimberly Miller, DNP to our new clinic. We are welcoming these three providers couraged the company’s work- Today, “the banana is the to our new MountainView Heart and Vascular Center where they will be joining ers to strike. world’s fourth major food, after cardiologists Dr. Joseph D’Antonio and Dr. Scotty Smith in providing care and In 1984 United Brands became rice, wheat and milk.” A resident ongoing management for complex cardiovascular diseases. the present-day Chiquita Brands of García Márquez’s Macondo International. In March 2007 provides an epitaph: “Look at MountainView Heart and Vascular Center Chiquita Brands pleaded guilty the mess we’ve got ourselves MountainView Building 3 in a United States Federal court into just because we invited a Medical Plaza, Suite 405 to aiding and abetting a terror- gringo to eat some bananas.” If 4351 E. Lohman Ave. MOUNTAINVIEW MEDICAL GROUP HEART AND VASCULAR CENTER ist organization, when it ad- you want to read more, Wikipe- (575) 522-2233 mitted to the payment of more dia has many entries under “The than $1.7 million to the United Banana Wars.” | MountainViewDocs.com MountainViewRegional.com Self-Defense Forces of Colom- Lee Sonne Like us on Facebook at @MountainViewMedicalGroupNM and @MountainViewRegional bia (AUC), a group that the Unit- Reserve DESERT EXPOSURE SEPTEMBER 2019 • 9

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he 14th Annual Mimbres Solar Cook-off. Solar chefs are trees for shade, edible native Valley Harvest Festival invited to bring a solar hot plate bushes for berries and grass- Twill take place 10 a.m. to or oven to cook together and es for seeds, like Giant Saca- 4 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 28, from are welcome to a potluck of so- ton. His wife, Chelsea, will of- at the San Lorenzo School, 2655 lar-cooked food at 1 p.m. Bring fer samples of mesquite-baked Highway 35. ovens to set up outside the ag goods as well as mesquite flour This family-friendly event is info tent area on Grower’s Row. for sale and information about held facing the Black Range, Organizers suggest bringing a cooking with mesquite and na- with views down the green cooler with blue ice when shop- tive grasses. corridor of the Mimbres River ping at the large farmer’s mar- Artisan vendors include potter Valley to Cook’s Peak, and of- ket on Growers Row. There will Kate Brown, gourd painter Mar- fers something for everyone. be fresh raspberries and just garet Streams, Monika Walters The Harvest Festival is a major picked produce as well as raw with her mosaics and glass and fundraiser for the exemplary milk from a Grade A certified John and Linda Rokoz of Ruck- San Lorenzo Elementary School dairy and frozen range raised us Ridge who make specialty and includes a health fair in the beef from a valley ranch. Shop- kitchen ware, game boards from school. pers will also find apples, pump- reclaimed wood and mixed me- Foods include traditional red kins, Long Island cheese, winter dia items from gourds and old enchilada lunch plates in the caf- Plenty of local apples, a staple of every excellent harvest festival, squash, pinto beans, walnuts bottles. eteria, Filipino food, fry bread will be available at the Mimbres Valley Harvest Festival. (Courtesy and pecans. The horseshoe tournament with fixings, eclectic healthy Photo) Silver City beekeeper Travis begins at noon and has a $10 and green chile cheeseburgers. Kirkland will give a talk on bee- entry fee. Register by contacting Take pies for the pie contest to subjects. Those interested in lessons he’s learned from four keeping followed by Q & A in R.J. Nelson, a man with a pas- the pie tent by 10 a.m. growing the newly, re-legalized years of planting and marketing the ag info booth. sion for the “shoes” at rjriver- The music line up begins hemp plant and those with hemp farm-to-table hemp all over the Mimbreno Asher Gelbart has [email protected]. 11:15 a.m. with River’s Bend seeds and cultivars for the area world. He’ll discuss genetics, a Green Energy Now booth with For more information about Band with their home-grown, or information about how to ob- cultivation, harvest and mar- photo portfolio and displays the festival and vendor forms, Mimbres Valley gospel and folk. tain them, as well as those with keting options for independent of rain water harvesting earth- go to www.mimbresharvest- From 12:15 to 1:30 p.m. Brandon information about portable pro- farmers. works and cistern projects, in- fest.com. Parking is available Perrault takes the stage with cessors or seed mills, are invited Fine’s social media is @or- formation on DIY low-tech sus- at Mimbres United Methodist Tex-Mex, country cool, soft rock to hang out in the hemp booth. ganiccowboy and his website, tainable projects (composting Church and Roundup Lodge. and jazz. And finally, blues man Doug Fine, a New Mexi- that includes National Public toilets & domestic solar hot wa- Corre Caminos will provide a Jammin’ Jeff Cerwinske plays co-based goat rancher, hemp Radio appearances, is dougfine. ter) and solar fountains. shuttle between parking and the from 1:45 to 3:15 p.m. farmer and author of books com. Fine will do a book signing Gabriel Feldman of Honey festival. Golf carts are available Grower’s Row, the farmer’s like “Hemp Bound,” “Too High following his talk at the Harvest Hawk Farm is selling grafted- at the school entrance to trans- market section, also features to Fail” and “Farewell, My Sub- Festival. from-local-heirloom-fruit trees port people with mobility issues informational booths on agricul- aru,” will give a 15-minute talk This year a new festival tra- (apple, plum, apricot, cherry) as to the festival in the field behind ture, industrial hemp and other at the Harvest Festival about dition will be the first annual well as drought-tolerant native the school.

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o man ever steps in photographer Michael Berman • Boarding, Breeding and Training the same river twice, will share his stories and photo- “Nfor it’s not the same graphs about wild places on the • Easy Forest Access river and he’s not the same man.” US/Mexico border. His presen- So said Heraclitus, a Greek phi- tation will feature his new book • Large Pens With Shelters and losopher, 2500 years ago. In cur- “Perdido” about the Sierra San Pasture Options rent, gender-neutral language: Luis, the wildest place in north- “You never step into the same ern Mexico. • All Horses Have Room to Run! river twice.” On Sept. 20, the festival hosts Although this phrase is a met- youth activist Naelyn Pike, who “50 Years Aspiring to Horsemanship” aphor for the constantly chang- will discuss how her family and ing nature of life, it also works the San Carlos Apache Tribe OWNERS BOB AND FLO HALL WEBSITE: foothillsarabians.com if taken literally. Rivers flow have worked to defend Oak Flat 27 EMERALD DRIVE EMAIL: [email protected] and change continuously. The (near Tucson) from a proposed SILVER CITY, NM 88061 Gila River can be clear and an- mine that would devastate one 575-654-6431 kle-deep one day, roiling muddy of their sacred sites. Joining and chest-high the next. Pike in this panel discussion is The Gila River Festival, too, former youth plaintiff Akilah is ever-changing. Fresh and dif- Sanders-Reed. Silver City’s ferent each year. Retaining its Thinking ON, a mountain youth DECLUTTER& STAY COMPLIANT! character, but shifting its flow, climate activists group, will give so to speak. This year, the dates an interactive presentation Sept. for the festival are Sept. 19 - 22, 20. Go DIGITAL for 2019! in Silver City and along the Gila The Gila River Extravaganza River. on Sept. 21 kicks off mid-after- The keynote speaker on Sept. noon with the Monsoon Puppet Doing business in Southern NM and West 20 is climate activist Tim De- Theater’s puppet parade, begin- Christopher, who disrupted an ning at the Murray Ryan Visitors Texas for over 15 years, our locally owned illegitimate Bureau of Land Man- Center and ending up at Gough agement oil and gas auction in Park, where the festivities con- and operated family business offers the 2008 by posing as Bidder 70 and tinue until 10 p.m. There will be outbidding oil companies for free kids’ games, community art following solutions for you: parcels around Arches and Can- projects, photo booths and chill yonlands National Parks in Utah. zone. There will be live music by • MEDIA AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE SECURE Other speakers include Auld Lang Syne from Bisbee, Ar- INFOR ATION DESTRUCTION Sharman Apt Russell, a John izona, Tejano band Caliente and Burroughs awardee for Distin- the San Carlos Apache singers •OFFFICERECORDS MANAGEMEENT guished Nature Writing and au- and dancers will perform in ear- thor of “Standing in the Light: My ly evening followed by the Fort • ON/OFF SITE SHREDDING SERVIICES Life as a Pantheist,” and many Sill Apache fire dancers at dusk. other books. In her presentation, As in years past, the festi- • MORE THHAN 1.25 MILLION CUBIC-FOOT “The Hero’s Journey, Retold,” val features river outings and STORAGEE FACILITY Russell will talk about her per- field trips led by experts. These sonal adventure and encourage events, which are limited to a • CLIMATE CONTROL VAULT the audience to think about their small number of participants to own quest to protect the river, facilitate deep encounters with •DOCCUMENT SCANNINNG land and atmosphere from the the Gila National Forest and threat of climate change. Gila River, feature topics such Adrian Oglesby, water law at- as birding, archaeology and ri- torney and director of the Uni- parian restoration. versity of New Mexico’s Utton To close the festival on Sept.r American Document Transboundary Resources Cen- 22, there will be a ceremony and ter, will give a presentation on le- blessing at the river. Apache el- gal personhood status for rivers ders from near and far will guide Services and nature, which courts have attendees in prayer, followed by recently granted in New Zea- social dances led by Fort Sill land, Colombia and India. In the Apache dancers. U.S., corporations are awarded For more details and registra- 300A N. 17th St. Las Cruces, NM 88005 the rights of people, while na- tion, visit our website at: www. ture remains voiceless. gilariverfestival.org or call us at 647-0060 www.adslcnm.com Guggenheim Fellow landscape 575-538-8078. LC3-XNSP45574 12 • SEPTEMBER 2019 www.desertexposure.com

ARTS EXPOSURE Sewing Machine and Serger service and repair. Arts Scene Free Hand Long Arm quilting. Nice selection of 100% cotton quilting fabrics Upcoming area art happenings Questions? Want to see the fabric? Just give me (Cindy Ugarte) a call at 575-538-2284 and we can get together. SILVER CITY Mimi Peterson’s multilayered, to-trips, they don’t really have to mixed media works on paper travel very far to get some great and canvas present a new way of shots—their backyard is a pho- seeing the world. “Variegated tographer’s dream. There will [email protected] Views,” through Oct. 6, features be a reception from 1 to 3 p.m. works from Joel Armstrong, on Sunday, Sept. 1. Deming Art Ben Brown, Valerie Calloway, Center is located at 100 S Gold ARTisan Painting Carmen Ruiz, Eugene Starob- St., Deming. Its hours are 10-4 insky and Cougar Vigil. Gallery a.m., Monday to Saturday. Info: FREE ESTIMATES hours are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Thurs- 575-546-3663 or www.deming- 1816 N Silver St day, Friday and Saturday, also 10 arts.org. Silver City, NM 88061 a.m. to 2 p.m. Sundays and by (o)575-388-4651 (c)575-574-8246 appointment. Info: lightartspace. TRUTH OR [email protected] com, email info@lightartspace. CONSEQUENCES com or 520-240-7075. Residential, Commercial & Industrial BEST PRICES, BEST SERVICE, HABLAMOS ESPANOL The work of Katherine Beck is • The Grant County Art on display at )s p...”A”© e Stu- Guild is now at 316 N. Bullard dio • Art • Gallery. St., formerly the Hester House in Silver City. A retrospective show St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church • a)s p...”A”© e Studio • honoring former Silver City wa- Holiday Arts & Crafts Faire Art • Gallery, 110 West 7th tercolorist Audrey Goodleaf Street, Silver City, welcomes through Sept. 14. A reception Friday, October 25, 2019 • 4PM - 7PM artist Katherine Beck to the will be 5-7 p.m. Saturday, Sept. Emmit Booher and the other Saturday, October 26, 2019 • 9AM - 4PM “Border Artists” are featured space. An art opening will be 5-7 14, at the Guild Gallery. Audrey, Free Admission • 40+ Vendors • Bake Table at RioBravoFineArt Gallery in p.m. Saturday, Sept. 14, during who passed away last Septem- Lunch • Raffle Truth or Consequences. Silver City’s 2nd Saturday Art ber painting in Silver City during 518 N. Alameda Blvd, Las Cruces, NM 88005 575-526-6333 Walk. Beck will show mixed-me- her golden years. GCAG is open • RioBravoFineArt Gal- dia collages and paintings that every day except holidays, from lery, 110 N. Broadway in Truth explore the creative possibilities 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through or Consequences features The of working with discarded ma- Saturday and noon to 4 p.m. Border Artists through Sept. terials. Her pieces incorporate Sunday. Info: Karen Stephenson 22. The group of 20 active artists cast-offs ranging from junk mail at [email protected]. from southern New Mexico and to old South American street El Paso includes painters, ce- posters, engaging in a larger ALAMOGORDO/ ramic sculptors, photographers, conversation about systemic CLOUDCROFT printmakers and mixed media disintegration and decay, as well artists. Info: borderartists.org, as the potential for transforma- • The Cloudcroft Art So- www.riobravofineartgallery. tion within chaos and break- ciety has a Labor Day art ex- com. down. Info: aspace.studiogal- hibit and sale at the Nivison [email protected], 575-538-3333. Library, in the old red brick LAS CRUCES Evolution at Work: Mimi and Art Peterson schoolhouse, 90 Swallow Pl. in • Colorful farm scenes dec- Cloudcroft. The show will be orate the New Mexico Farm Painting and Sculpture 10 a.m.-4p.m. Friday, Aug. 30, & Ranch Heritage Museum’s Geology of Spirit: Poetry and Photography through Sunday, Sept. 1, and 10 Arts Corridor through Dec. 1. a.m.-1 p.m. Monday, Sept. 2. The Desrochers’ vibrant oil paintings 209 W. Broadway, Silver City, NM show features original art works capture the people and the land- lightartspace.com Thurs - Sat 10 - 5, Sun 10 - 2 by members, including paintings scapes of the Southwest’s farm in several media, photography valleys. and photographic art, pottery, Frontier Faith No. 1 is one jewelry, fiber art, woodwork, of Alec Johnson’s pieces on Mariah's Copper Quail Gallery display at Sterling Fine Art greeting cards and more. CAS beginning Sept. 14. holds monthly meetings from September Show the second Sunday of the month • New work by Crystal Fore- at 1:30 p.m. in the library. New A display of Mixed Media Works by man and Alec Johnson, opens members are welcome, please with a party 4-6 p.m. Sept. 14, contact us at ccartsociety@ at Sterling Fine Art in Silver gmail.com about membership, Bill Kaderly City. Foreman captures ephem- programs, exhibits, or other eral beauty of desert southwest questions. with oil paintings of the place she has lived for most of her life. DEMING Visit Vicky Avery demonstrat- Johnson presents artistic brava- ing the creation of mandalas at the Las Cruces Arts Associa- do with work from several of his tion show at Cruces Creatives series, which includes his love on Sept. 15. of New Mexico. The gallery can be found at 306 N. Bullard St. in • The Las Cruces Arts As- Silver City. Gallery hours are 1 sociation Members present a.m.-5 p.m. Wednesday through “Summer Art and Wine” with Saturday and 1 to 4 p.m. Sunday. its art on the walls of the Am- Info: 505-699-5005 or sterlingnm. “Bryce Canon” is featured at aro Winery, 402 S. Melendres the Deming Art Center Sept. com. St., for the summer months with 1-28. OPENING RECEPTION opening gatherings the second September 7th , 4 to 6 pm • Light Art Space, located at • Lon and Wilhelmina Shel- Friday of September. The exhib- MEET THE ARTIST, LIGHT REFRESHMENTS SERVED 209 W. Broadway in Silver City’s ton and Claude Smith are three iting artists are Diana Ayers, historic art district, is featuring local artists who will have their Margaret Bernstein, Karen Second Saturday: September 14th “Evolution at Work: Mimi and work on display at the Deming Granado, Susie Huck, and Jan Art Peterson,” through Oct. Art Center Sept. 1-28. Lon and Minow. During the association’s 27. This exhibition features the Willy Shelton have both had a members meeting, 1:30-3:30 art of two artists working with camera in hand since they were p.m. Sunday, Sept. 15, at Cruces a variety of methods and mate- kids. Using film, developing a Creatives, 205 E. Lohman Ave., Now Open: Now Open 7 Days a Week! rials. The modern/contemporary lot of bad shots could become Vicky Avery will demonstrate Like us on On the corner of Texas and Yankie Follow us on sculptures of Art Peterson range expensive so they learned to Facebook in Downtown Silver City, NM Instagram from abstract to whimsical, of- concentrate on composition and ARTS SCENE facebook.com/mariahscqg instagram@copper_quail 575-388-2646 ten including found objects. lighting. Although they take pho- continued on page 13 DESERT EXPOSURE SEPTEMBER 2019 • 13

ARTS SCENE September, Patricia Black and continued from page 12 Richard Spellenberg. Black creates one of a kind, meticu- “Creating Mandalas.” The lously crafted art pieces from multi-media artist and bus driver gourds. Spellenberg is a retired with a B.A. in fine arts, an M.A. biology professor from NMSU in divinity, and years of experi- and a botanist who studied plant ence in theater, will create man- diversity, and uses many dif- dalas with colored pencils. Info: ferent kinds of woods. Gallery 575-532-1046. hours are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily. Info: 575-522-2933, www.mesil- lavalleyfinearts.com.

With three days of raucous entertainment, SocorroFest takes place on the first weekend of October at the Plaza Gazebo and the Capitol Bar in Socorro, N.M. What began as a way of The Mesquite Art Gallery fo- recognizing the agricultural bounty of the county has grown cuses on one “round” shape in into a feast for the senses with the spotlight on local bands, September’s artwork. musicians and dancers, showcasing the range of talent that is putting Socorro on New Mexico’s entertainment map. The • “Art in the Round” opens Doug Figgs Trio appears on the plaza stage, closing out the Friday, Sept. 6, at the Mesquite first day, Oct. 4. (Courtesy Photo) Art Gallery, 340 N. Mesquite St., with an opening reception for artists, 5-7 p.m., as part of the Marie Siegrist’s “Frary Peak First Friday Art Ramble. The 16 Weekend at the Galleries Antelope Island Utah” is the fo- artists of the Ten O’Clock Club Oct. 11-14, 2019 cus of the DAAC gallery exhibit offer myriad styles and medi- for September. ums, all round in some fashion. • At the Doña Ana Arts & Each 10th of the month, at 10 Cultural Center Gallery wa- a.m., the artists meet to discuss tercolorist Marie Siegrist’s their work and exchange ideas. work is on exhibit through Sep- Artists in the group devote at Lois Du y tember with an exhibition called least 10 minutes a day to mak- “Frary Peak Antelope Is- ing art. The show runs through land Utah.” The gallery can be Saturday, Sept. 28. Gallery hours found at 1740 Calle de Mercado, are 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Thursday and Suite B-D in Mesilla in the Bul- Friday, and 2-5 p.m. Saturday. “Charcoal and Steel” are the subjects and mediums of the letin Plaza. Info: 575-523-6403 or Info: 575-640-3502, www.mes- Nothing Unseen www.daarts.org. quitegallery.com. work at the Las Cruces Tom- baugh Gallery in September through Oct. 18. • The Branigan Cultural Center, show “Originales” • The exhibit “Charcoal Kate Brown by Lidia Avina is at the center and Steel” opens 11:30 a.m. to through Sept. 7. the exhibit is by 1 p.m. on Sunday, Sept. 8, at regional artist Lidia Avina. “Orig- the Tombaugh Gallery. Art- inales” is a body of work that is ist Michael Nail shows his Dragon y Tea Tray inspired by photographs, sto- pencil and charcoal drawings, ries, and objects of the lives and and artist Mary Lou LaCasse Reception - Sat. Oct. 12, 3 -7pm identity of the individuals in the presents her steel sculptures. artist’s life. The work explores The Mesilla Valley Fine Arts A second reception, with art- 211-C N. Texas St., Silver City memory and Latino culture Gallery features local artists ists talks, will be held 5 to 7 575-313-9631 www.loisduffy.com through paintings and ceramics. Richard Spellenberg and Patri- p.m. on Friday, Oct. 4. The The museum is open from 10 cia Black in September. Tombaugh Gallery is located a.m.-4:30 p.m., Tuesday through • The Mesilla Valley Fine at 2000 S. Solano with regular Friday and from 9 a.m.- 4:30 p.m. Arts Gallery, 2470-A Calle de gallery hours 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. OCTOBER 11th thru 14th, 2019 Saturday at 501 N. Main Street. Guadalupe, across from the his- Wednesday through Saturday. Info: las-cruces.org/museums or toric Fountain Theatre, features The show continues through 575-541-2154. two local artists for the month of Oct. 18.

WRITTEN WORD RED silvercityart.com Poet Laureate joins board Festival ready to kick off Sept. 30 DOT he former Poet Laure- focus on community and his share their stories how bor- ate of the Unites States, commitment to issues of so- ders have played a role in their Weekend TJuan Felipe Herrera, cial justice make him a perfect lives. SWFWW staff will be has joined the Advisory Board fit for the festival. available to record stories at for the Southwest Festival of Besides his laureateship, the Silver City Public Library, at the the Written Word. Herrera, the Herrera is a much-garlanded in a conference room on the U.S.’s first Chicano Poet Laure- author and lives in Fresno, north end of the library during ate, memorably performed at California. He is the recipient the following hours: 2–4 p.m., Galleries Light Hall, Western New Mex- of numerous awards including Friday, Oct. 4; 10 a.m.-4p.m., • 25 Galleries ico University, in 2016 for the the National Book Critics Cir- Saturday, Oct. 5; and 10 a.m.- festival. On several occasions cle Award, the PEN/Beyond noon Sunday, Oct. 6. • Festive Receptions since then, he has expressed the Margins Award, a Guggen- The Southwest Festival of • Meet the Artists his kinship with Silver City. heim Fellowship, a Breadloaf the Written Word kicks off Herrera is the son of migrant Fellowship and an honorary with Masterclasses on Mon- • Local Musicians farmworkers, and his child- doctorate from Oregon State day, Sept. 30 and closes Sun- • Pop-up Shows ai for the Siler Cit hood experiences are reflect- University. day, Oct. 6 with a conversa- • Demos and Workshops ed in his work, which includes Another addition to this tion about writing at 1 p.m. ogers a poetry, prose, Young Adult year’s festival is a story Visit swwordfiesta.org for a novels, theater pieces, and booth, open to everyone. full schedule and in-depth de- picture books for children. His Participants are invited to scriptions of events. 14 • SEPTEMBER 2019 www.desertexposure.com

Deborah Rog- ers, retiring Ar- tistic Director of Dalí Ballet Company, congratulates a young Kaylee Hall in her first performance.

Deborah Rogers, retiring Artistic Director of Dalí Ballet Company, right, and former Dalí soloist, Emily Hutchison, left, in rehearsal. (Courtesy photos) DANCING ON • YVONNE LANELLI Changing of the Guard Dalí Ballet Company welcomes new artistic director

fter 19 years, countless stu- school and studio, the Ruidoso organization, provide a unique ex- Dalí Ballet company. I saw a per- luck in their new ventures.” dents, more than 50 produc- Dance Ensemble, bringing years perience for the children and com- formance and was amazed by its Dalí plans many performances Ations and three locations, of experience as a professional munity of Lincoln County,” Phaup talent and professionalism.” for the 2019-20 season, including Dalí Ballet Company of Ruidoso, dancer, master choreographer and said. Miller taught part-time at Dalí for their stunning “Nutcracker” on formerly Ruidoso Dance Ensem- instructor to Lincoln County. Her Miller said it’s a challenge to keep nearly a year, commuting from El Dec. 21 and 22 at the Spencer The- ble, turns the leotards, tap shoes, professionalism attracted dancers up with “the amazing work done by Paso while still with EPBT, until he ater in Alto, preceded by “Clara’s ballet barres, hopes and dreams from all over southern New Mexi- Ms. Deborah.” But his background decided Ruidoso’s students were Tea” on Dec. 7. Ruidoso commu- of young dancers to a new gener- co and Arizona, providing a unique shows him well-prepared for that his future. nity activities include a float in ation. opportunity for local young people. challenge. “Dalí Ballet Company is very the Aspenfest Parade Oct. 5 and Deborah Rogers, the inspiration “Generations have passed A graduate of the prestigious Na- fortunate to have found Yespari Christmas Jubilee Nov. 8-10. and guiding force of premier dance through these doors and some have tional School of Art in Havana, he Miller,” said J’Lane Zamora, in- Miller and his cadre of instruc- opportunities to the community, grown only to bring their kids to has studied under world-renowned coming president of the Board of tors teach all levels of dance disci- officially retires this month as ar- share their experiences in dance,” teachers from Cuba, Argentina and Directors of Dalí Ballet. “His high plines: ballet, pointe, jazz, contem- tistic director. Her hand-picked said Robert Phaup, Dalí executive Spain, dancing the roles of Esca- energy and caring personality porary, tap and Irish. The studio successor is Yespari Miller, interna- director, who is also retiring. millo in “Carmen,” Sigfrid in “Swan bring new energy and excitement offers Hapkido, the Korean martial tional premier danseur, choreogra- His 42 years in stage production Lake,” Sugar Plum Cavalier in “The to our studio. art, as well. Registration for all pher and instructor, formerly with with major dance companies and Nutcracker” and Birbanto in “Le “Mr. Miller is a very sought-after classes begins now at the studio at El Paso Ballet Theatre. concert tours all over the U.S. re- Corsaire.” He taught in Chihuahua teacher who will take our studio to 143 El Paso Road in Ruidoso, 575- Rogers, as all the dancers know sulted in a tenure with the Spencer and Coahila, Mexico before joining the next level,” Zamora continued. 257-3753. her, recalls with joy how many stu- Theater in Alto as technical direc- the El Paso Ballet Theatre (EPBT), “We will miss Ms. Deborah. We ap- dents spent a major part of their tor. There, he became acquainted where he taught for four years. preciate everything she has taught Yvonne “EV” Lanelli is an childhoods under her tutelage and with Rogers and Dalí. “I knew of Ruidoso only as a our children and how her kind adventure writer/photographer relishes every memory. “Together we saw a great oppor- tourist place.” Miller said. “It wasn’t heart touched us all. We will miss and can be reached at In 2001, she moved to Ruidoso tunity to combine our professional until Marta (Katz, executive and ar- Bob’s wisdom behind the scenes. [email protected], to open the first nonprofit dance skills and through this nonprofit tistic director of EPBT) told me of We wish both of them the best of evlanelli.com.

Over 35 outstanding southwest authors gather to talk about their work and lives writing fiction, non-fiction, poetry, theatre and more.

All events are free and open to the public. See swwordfiesta.org.

Celebrating the power and beauty of the ¡writing sin fronteras! written word, embracing the rich diversity of Southwestern cultures october 4–6, 2019 silver city, nm Proudly sPonsored by Join us in Silver City for a weekend of presentations on ¡writing sin fronteras! (Writing without Borders). All events are Free and Open to the Public.

Now, more than ever, this border-land, our home, is a point of meaningful discussion. Each session will have ample time for Questions and Answers.

The Southwest Festival of the Written Word is known for offering high-quality LULAC Chapter 8003 presenters in an intimate setting. We look forward to seeing you! DESERT EXPOSURE SEPTEMBER 2019 • 15

THE TRAIL BEGINS Trails End Gallery & Studios Open Established artists occupy new spot in Las Cruces Mesquite District

obert Highsmith worked working on a riparian resto- large patio with sail shade cov- with the Cutter Gallery in ration of the Rio Grande project, erings in the back of the gallery RLas Cruces for 16 years. has renovated one of his build- accents the gallery space where “I’ve had many memorable ings in Downtown Las Cruces’ live entertainment and refresh- and successful shows with Mesquite District. ments will be served. Highsmith, them,” Highsmith said. “They The building was an old two- Penny Simpson and John were instrumental in getting a room adobe house at 1732 N. Schooley all watercolorists, will piece of my work in the Capitol Mesquite St. It had been reno- be joined by basket and gourd Art Foundation as well as the vated for commercial use by his artist Patricia Black. Governor’s Award for Excel- father and after this remodel will “We look forward to being lence in the Arts in 2011.” be home of Trails End Gallery & joined by art lovers and collec- The Cutter Gallery has been Studios. There are seven rooms tors at the grand opening and a big influence on the art scene designated as artists’ studios have a warm welcoming for within Las Cruces and in the spaces on one side of the build- Las Cruces’ newest gallery,” state, as well. Now that they ing and the other side is a five- Highsmith said. have closed, there will be a big room gallery for fine art. Biel hole in the art community. started the renovation about Now Highsmith hopes, to help three years and slowly but sure- fill at least a small part of that ly it has been put into shape. CRYSTAL FOREMAN South End of the Great Divide (detail), oil on canvas, 30x40in void. The grand opening of the Highsmith’s good friend and Trails End Gallery & Studio will fellow artist, Gary Biel, after be 5-8 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 28. A

sterling fine art 306 n bullard street OPENING RECEPTION, SAT SEPT 14, 5-7 New Work by Crystal Foreman, Alec Johnson, Gay Marks, Sharon Chastain, Steve Collins

SOUTHWEST Entries for the parade in the theme of the event are always wel- come. (Photo by FeVa Photos)

ARTS EXPOSURE Dia de los PRINT! Muertos Join in to honor the dead FIESTA! lanning is underway for event. And some exciting new the 2019 Silver City Dia entries to the parade are being October 11-13, 2019 Pde los Muertos or “Day of confirmed. the Dead” days of festive remem- Western New Mexico Univer- Silver City, New Mexico brance. This beloved tradition sity will be joining in. Planning is again will feature art, food, music underway and Friday, Nov. 1, the and more. Ofrendas (offerings) WNMU campus will be the set- from the elaborate to the simple, ting for a special concert and art will be created and on display exhibit as part of the Silver City throughout downtown in honor Dia de los Muertos. of those gone before. The ofrenda procession, in the A street festival begins at noon late afternoon of Saturday, Nov. on Sunday, Oct. 27. An array of 2, is the beautiful ending chapter booths featuring traditional art, of the Dia de los Muertos festiv- food and other activities will ities. The procession will visit spread across Market Street and ofrendas throughout downtown. mariachi music will be heard Food vendors, artisans, craft- throughout the afternoon. ers and nonprofits wanting to be The highlight of the day is the part of the street festival should big parade, celebrating the lives submit their applications and re- of those gone before. It will in- serve space now. Contact Diana clude monsoon puppets, big and Ingalls Leyba at 575-388-5725 or small, and participants, young leybaingallsarts@qwestoffice. and old, all in the spirit of the net. 16 • SEPTEMBER 2019 www.desertexposure.com

ON THE SHELF • ELVA K. ÖSTERREICH ‘Blue Dragon Case Studies’ Looking at Oriental medicine with Western eyes

r. Carol Ragle, Doctor of experience it. It is a well-being, five years. New Mexico Oriental Medicine, has brings you back to center, just has rigorous investiga- Dbeen practicing for 26 like yoga would. I love seeing tors,” she said. “It really years. She did so in Silver City people get well and get on with has the best licensing for 15 years and, after moving their next thing in life.” in the United States. I to South Dakota to take care of Ragle said Chinese medicine would do interviews her family, she has continued to fine tunes the body to bring hu- with practitioners to work with oriental medicine. man physical, emotional, mental see if they knew Chi- Ragle will be visiting Silver and spiritual selves together. nese medicine well City and signing “Blue Dragon “In the western world, we are enough to practice in Case Studies: A Western Guide- kind of split apart,” she said. “It New Mexico.” book to Eastern Medicine,” 2-4 (Chinese medicine) brings you Traditional West- p.m. on Saturday, Sept. 7 at the back to your spiritual center, ern medical practices Tranquilbuzz Coffee House. which is a good place to be in are better for acute “I’ve treated over 3,000 peo- this world. I have taught medita- and trauma care, she ple and have written about 100 tion for about 25 years also.” said. Eastern is bet- cases within 60 subject matters, Practitioners in traditional ter for preventive, re- including things like headaches, Carol Ragle Chinese medicine are required covery and chronic Alzheimer’s, immune deficiency, to be licensed in 47 states, she conditions. Western allergies and pain in my book,” went to learn about it, and by the said. In New Mexico, the re- doesn’t really have Ragle said. “Some of the cases time she got done with the four- quirements are more rigorous much for the auto- are from Silver City.” year program, she was well. Pri- than most. Ragle said to qualify immune system; Chinese works When Ragle was 34, she said, or to her pursuit of oriental med- you must have a bachelor’s de- better for that. are an herbalist or acupunctur- she got sick with chronic fatigue icine, Ragle was an educator and gree in pre-med, then four years “Western is more cause and ist. But in the U.S., people are syndrome and, because she was registered nurse (RN), teaching of medical school slanted to ori- effect,” she said. “Chinese is trained in both. Ragle does more trained to work in Western med- anatomy and physiology to nurs- ental medicine. holistic. Where Western picks internal medicine – autoimmune icine, spent thousands of dollars es and high school chemistry “You have to study pharma- different pieces to work on at a and allergies. Others may be trying to “figure out what was students. cology, pathology, anatomy and time, Chinese treats everything more muscular skeletal and oth- wrong with me.” “I love Chinese medicine,” she physiology, and chemistry so together. You can have an emo- er things. When she finally went to an said. “It was to keep the emperor you get a good smattering of tional problem that can become “When you come into my of- acupuncturist, it helped. So, she alive and I think everyone should Western medicine, but you treat physical.” fice, you are a dead battery,” with Chinese medicine,” Ragle Oriental medicine incorpo- she tells her patients. “We use said. rates acupuncture, components herbs to rebuild the battery and “I was an examiner for the of massage, diet therapy and acupuncture to recharge the bat- state of New Mexico for about herbs, Ragle said. In China, you tery.” Calling Artists

• Agave Artists Gallery, 2250 however you must read music. minerals, moods and music. The Calle San Albino next to Josephi- Practices and performances will piece will be included in the na’s in Mesilla, seeks artists for a be mostly during the daytime. We Guild exhibit at the New Mexico new co-op gallery. There is space now have nine singers and have Farm & Ranch Heritage Muse- for 13 wall artists and 20 artists room for more. Both male and um in December. Pieces should total, including jewelers. $100 female singers are invited to join. be a variable of 6 inches: 6 x 6, per month membership, with 90 Contact Chuck Riggs at chuck. 6 x 12, 12 x 12, 12 x 18, 18 x 18, percent of commissions paid to [email protected] or 575 521-1729. or 6 x 18. All textile techniques the artist. One day a month will are acceptable: weaving, felting, be set aside for working in the • Book space available: knotting, knitting, crochet, em- gallery. Interested artists should Moonbow Alterations and Gift broidery, needlework, piecing, contact Vickie Morrow, 602-615- Shop, 225 E. Idaho No. 32, in Las quilting and more. The only color 1146 or vickiemorrow@msn. Cruces has space available to allowed is any shade of blue. No com; or Wendy Weir, 575 650- display and sell local books that entry fee. Multiple pieces from 7543 or [email protected] have been published any time. one person accepted. Pieces re- Info: 575-527-1411 or alicebdav- turned after the exhibit. Deadline • Barbershop singers want- [email protected]. is Aug. 15. Visit mesillavalley- ed (Las Cruces): Prior bar- weavers.com. bershop singing experience • Hope Harbor Arts & Craft preferred but not necessary, Show at Wingfield Park in Ruido- • Renaissance Arts Faire: so is from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Sept. The Doña Arts Council’s 28 and 29 More than 30 vendors (DAAC’s) 48th Annual Renais- are part of this event including sance ArtsFaire will take place Trails End Gallery Sept 28, 5-8 pm artists, crafters, food vendors, on Nov. 2 and 3, at Young Park direct sales vendors, boutiques, in Las Cruces. DAAC is seeking Please join us for the children’s activities and live mu- qualified artists to participate. Grand Opening of the sic. All booth fees benefit Hope This is a juried art show for hand- Trails End Gallery. Harbor a non-profit organization made fine arts and crafts in tex- committed to provide a safe tran- tiles, jewelry, metal, sculpture sitional home for women and and wood, mixed media, painting children who have been affected and drawing, photography and by domestic violence. Hope Har- prints, pottery and glass and recy- Robert Highsmith Patricia Black bor in Capitan. Contact jennie- cled materials. An application fee [email protected] for more for all booths is $35. For a corner information. booth, add $50. Artists apply on- line at www.Zapplication.org. • Mesilla Valley Weavers Guild invites artists to join in the • St. Andrews Episcopal creation of “BLUE,” a collabora- Church Arts & Crafts Fair in tive textile bringing together dis- Las Cruces seeks artists and craft- Penny Simpson John Schooley parate talents into a single piece ers to participate in its Christmas representing the community. The fair, 4-7 p.m. Friday, Oct. 25, and 1732 N. Mesquite | Las Cruces, NM 88001 parts also represent our percep- 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 26. For 575.649.2951 or 575.650.1556 for information | www.trailsendgallery.co tions of things blue in our envi- more details, contact Trish at 575- ronment: sky, water, mountains, 993-4928. DESERT EXPOSURE SEPTEMBER 2019 • 17

TALK NERDY TO ME • TROY STEGNER Spawning Success Image Comics produces 300th “Spawn”

mage Comics’ is no Image was also a three-season HBO se- “Spawn” comic partner will ries that was well received. The Ibook has been ever interfere big deal with Spawn though, was around for a long time. creatively or the toys. McFarlane worked with “Spawn” #300 will be financially Mattel to produce “Spawn” relat- Alina Kiryayeva on the shelves Sept. with another’s ed action figures but they couldn’t 4. That issue will tie work. make the toys with the level of ON STAGE it with “Cerebus” for Now that detail that McFarlane wanted so longest running in- you know the he reclaimed the toy rights to his Chamber Music at WNMU dependent series in history of how characters and started his own comic history. “Cere- Image Comics toy company. McFarlane Toys is Ukrainian pianist Alina Kiryayeva offers her heart bus” even made came to be, let now one of the most popular lines rant County Commu- the nation have characterized an appearance in me tell you a of action figures. The first figures nity Concert Asso- Kiryayeva as “truly amazing” “Spawn” #10. On little bit about produced by the company were, Gciation will feature and “inordinately talented.” Oct. 2, “Spawn” #301 the character of course, “Spawn” characters, classical concert pianist Alina Kiryayeva will offer an Edu- will take sole owner- of Spawn. The but they have grown to feature Kiryayeva in its first offering cational Outreach program for ship of that title. Todd McFarlane original Spawn licensed horror and sports prop- of the season at 7 p.m. Tues- grades 1-6 on the morning of is returning to write and draw a was Albert “Al” Francis erties. McFarlane is writing and day, Oct. 1 at the Western New the scheduled evening concert story for this issue. Simmons. He was a member of directing a “Spawn” reboot film Mexico University Fine Arts from 10:30 to 11:30 a.m. in the Back in the 1990s, Marvel Com- the Secret Service, CIA, NSA and under the Blumhouse banner. Ja- Theater. WNMU Fine Arts Theater. It is ics was loaded with talent. The the NSC during his military career. mie Foxx and Jeremy Renner have Kiryayeva is a chamber mu- free of charge to the children, comic books they were producing His training with these organiza- reportedly been signed to star. No sician who, in addition to a and bus transportation will be were making the company tons of tions made him a very capable release date has been given yet. superb command of her instru- paid by GCCCA upon request money while they were being paid assassin. Al is murdered by his Now you can see the road Mc- ment, also brings to the stage by the school. For more infor- low page rates for their work. friend, Bruce Stinson (codename Farlane navigated to get to the wonderful philosophical in- mation, call Karen at 575-538- The artists were upset that their Chapel), during a mission in Bo- awesome achievement of having sights and enchants audiences 5862. artwork and characters were be- tswana. (Sidenote: Chapel is a the longest running independent with her charismatic presence. Tickets for this concert are ing heavily merchandised, and character created by Rob Liefeld series in comic book history. From Kiryayeva gave her first solo $20 for adults who are sea- they were seeing no part of it. A for his “Youngblood” series at Im- a page rate artist at Marvel to own- recital at the age of 8, and she son ticket holders. Children group of these artists marched age Comics). Al goes to Hell due ing his own toy company and di- has now performed in more to age 17 who are accompa- into the Marvel president’s office to his life as an assassin. In Hell, recting movies, he has proven to be than a dozen countries, includ- nied by an adult ticket holder and demanded the company grant he makes a deal with Malebol- a true entrepreneur forging paths ing her native Ukraine. In 2013 are admitted free of charge. them ownership and creative con- gia to become a Hellspawn in his where none existed. Congratula- she released the solo album WNMU students with a valid trol over their own work. Marvel service. He is sent back to Earth tions on 300 issues of Spawn, and “Sonatas.” She was educated student ID are also admitted and DC presented the attitude that with a badly burned body and only here’s to wanting 300 more. at the Juilliard School of Mu- free of charge. Individual tick- characters are what made a series vague recollections of his past. sic, and she has claimed top ets can be purchased online popular, not the artists. This eventually led Al to seek a Troy Stegner prizes in several international at gcconcerts.org or in Silver Marvel refused to meet their de- way to rid himself of being Spawn. owns Zia competitions in Italy and the City at The Pink Store (Bull- mands. In Issue #185, Al commits suicide. Comics and United States, according to a ard Street), the MRAC Office A few months later, seven of The Legion of Lost Souls that were Games at 125 news release. (Wells Fargo Bank building) or those artists banded together to trapped within Al Simmons were North Main The New York-based music in the lobby at the time of the form Image Comics. The original able to finally leave Earth, except Street in Las blog “Lucid Culture” posted concert. founders of Image Comics are one. Jim Downing had been in a Cruces. He that Kiryayeva’s show was “ter- Season tickets are still avail- Todd McFarlane, Rob Liefeld, Jim coma for years in a hospital. Once also runs Las rifically innovative.” Her artist- able for the 2019-2020 season. Lee, Marc Silvestri, Erik Larsen, his soul was free, he was chosen as Cruces Comic Con and El Paso ry combines with informative Further information and/or Jim Valentino and Whilce Porta- the next Hellspawn. He remained Comic Con. You can contact and entertaining commentary season subscription forms can cio. “Spawn” until issue #250 where Al him at [email protected] or to make for an evening well be obtained in the lobby at this Image Comics was formed with Simmons reclaimed the title. The through www.ziacomics.com or spent. Various community concert or by calling 575-538- two main rules. The first is Image Jim Downing years are not the youtube.com/ziacomics. concert goers from around 5862. does NOT own a creator’s work, best in terms of story-line, but alas the creator does. This is the most it happened, and you should know important rule. Nothing is worse about it. than creating a great character “Spawn” moved beyond comic Yankie-Texas ART DISTRICT only to not have control of what books. There was a very popular at the crossroads of Yankie & Texas Streets in Historic Downtown Silver City happens with it. The second rule “Spawn” movie in 1997. There

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

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he large brown paper that’s been covering the window Tat 415 Broadway in Truth or Consequences is finally coming down. As advertised, Zia Gallery La Paloma Hot Springs & Spa (whose window has been announc- 311 Marr Truth or Consequences, NM 87901 ing “Opening Fall 2019” for several 575-894-3148 lapalomahotspringsandspa.com months) will be added to the grow- ing list of galleries and shops in the NOVEMBER 1, 2, 3 Old Town area. 2ND ANNUAL HEALING SPRINGS The collaboration of husband and wife team John and Durrae RECOVERY RECOVERY Johanek, the gallery will include SPRINGS HEALING RETREAT works of art from a variety of local John (right) with two of his subjects with their finished portraits. and regional artists as well as cre- Off ering introduction to: Artist Carlis Chee (left), who spends some of his time painting in Yoga Nidra Shiatsu Facial Massage ations from the owners. Truth or Consequences, and Mario Portillo (center), owner of the Guided Meditation & Belly Dance 101 “When the space at 415 Broad- Grapevine Bistro, which is located next door to Zia Gallery. Self Hypnosis Gentle Yoga way became available, we didn’t Tai Chi Soaks in natural fl ow hesitate to pursue the gallery,” say Reiki artesian hot spring pools the Johaneks. $30 Retreat fee with “living” water Although prior commitments pre- Contact Liz for retreat details 915-873-7141 or [email protected] vented them from opening sooner, Contact La Paloma for rooms www.lapalomahotspringsandspa.com or call. some interior work was done and selection of other subjects includ- Summer is ending and it is cooling down and is a GREAT time for soaking. groundwork was laid for the fall ing birds and animals. The gallery Walk-in soakers are welcome 7am to 11pm daily. opening. will also feature contributing artists Durrae’s work features fiber from Albuquerque, Las Cruces and Lodging available at La Paloma 575.894.3148 arts ranging from woven baskets beyond. The works include modern La Paloma Hot Springs, Home of the “living” water to felted hats. A spinner, she fash- and abstract paintings as well as di- in Truth or Consequences, NM. ions her hats from yarn she’s spun mensional art and items that reflect and hand felted, accentuating them the flavor of the area. “Come and take the waters.” with adornments such as buttons “We want people to see things at One of Durrae’s pine needle made from local pecan wood. What Zia Gallery that they won’t find any- baskets featuring a Mim- makes her hats unique is the chien- where else,” says John. From unique bres-style turtle. gora she works into her creations. note cards and limited edition prints you’re welcome to visit while John has produced a variety of to tinted archival photos of Hot they’re working. A grand opening artwork, most recently while work- Springs, visitors will certainly find is scheduled for 10 a.m.-9 p.m. Sat- Visit us at ing in the studio space he occupied something special. A small sample urday, Oct. 5. Normal hours are 10 this past winter just two doors down of what to expect can be seen on a.m.-5 p.m. Wednesday through from the gallery. His oversized por- their website at ziagallerynm.com. Sunday and until 9 p.m. on the traits both in watercolor and acryl- A separate portion of the space first and second Saturdays of each www.desertexposure.com ics will be on display as well as a will be used as their studio, where month. 20 • SEPTEMBER 2019 www.desertexposure.com

RioBravoFineArt Gallery trustee Eduardo Alicea-Moreno holds a framed series of images taken by New Mexico artist H. Joe Sierra County Arts Council (SCAC) Waldrum during his obsession with his SX70 Polaroid camera. (Photo by Elva K. Österreich) Sponsored Events – Fall/Winter 2019 www.sierracountyarts.org ARTISTIC LEGACY rt or oeece, Work of a Master ot 9 r, tr , A retrospective from the H. Joe Waldrum Trust October 1, 19, 20 Second Saturday Art Hop retrospective of work for metric abstracts during a period Downtown Historic District Broadway MeTeORiC - the H. Joe Waldrum Trust when he lived part time in New & Main Streets – Free A Desert Carnival for the Mind Awill be featured at the York City. Waldrum also did an Films * Art * Ideas – Free. RioBravoFineArt, Inc. Gallery important series of window im- t r o te ot, Enter the ra e for awesome prizes. in Truth of Consequences begin- ages in a variety of media; exam- ning Saturday, Oct. 12 and end- ples of the window series will in- Monthly Open Mic https://meteoric.world ing Sunday, Jan. 26, 2020. clude works on canvas, linocuts, Ingo’s Art Café, 422 Broadway – Free Waldrum was in the midst of and Polaroid photographs. Some e, eceber 3, establishing a studio and gallery of the works on display have not 3r o o te ot, Jack Glatzer, classical violinist in Truth or Consequences when been exhibited prior to this ret- Monthly Movie Night Rio Bravo Gallery, 110 N. Broadway - he died unexpectedly in Decem- rospective. $10, $5 SCAC members ber 2003. His estate was closed Waldrum began using the SX70 Ingo’s Art Café, 422 Broadway – Free in 2014, with most of his work at Polaroid format in addition to 35 the time of his death going to the mm slides to record images of , eteber 29, r, eceber , Johnny Rawls Blues Band H. Joe Waldrum Trust. This ret- New Mexico that could be used rospective will feature a variety as the basis for his work while Southwest Chamber Winds Spaceport Visitors Center, 301 S. Foch St. Classical music. Grapes Gallery of works from the Trust. he was in New York City. Over $10, $5 SCAC members Harold Joe Waldrum (he pre- his career, Waldrum took thou- 407-409 Main St. ferred H. Joe Waldrum or simply sands of Polaroid images. Many $10 / $5 SCAC members e, eceber 31, 9 Joe Waldrum later in his life) of these images were donated to Turtle Ascension was a highly successful artist the photo archives at the Palace TorC celebrates the New Year with a in northern New Mexico in the of the Governor, an extension of Turtle Ascension at the Healing Waters Plaza 1970’s and 1980’s. In 1985, he the New Mexico History Muse- made the decision to buy and um in Santa Fe, New Mexico. A live on a working ranch near So- selected set of the 35 mm slides to, corro. He continued his artistic that shows the inspiration for work, in particular print making, some of Waldrum’s linocuts and c e oe (www.blackrangelodge.com) while he lived and worked at the aquatints will also be a part of r, tr , ranch. the retrospective. eteber 13, 1 1 In 1996, Waldrum began the Works by Waldrum are includ- process of establishing a studio ed in a number of museums. Pickamania 2019: and gallery in Truth or Conse- One of the most important col- Americana music featuring the quences. He had met and seen lections of works by Waldrum is Je Scroggins Band (je scrogginsbanjo.com), the work of Delmas Howe, an at the Palm Springs Art Museum important figure painter who in Palm Springs, California. An- Peter McLaughlin (petermclaughlin.info), Pickamania 2019 lived in Truth or Consequences other important collection is at the Back Porch Blues Band, the Big Ditch at the time, and Howe had sug- the Tucson Museum of Art and Crickets and more. Wine & beer will be gested that Waldrum choose Historic Block in Tucson, Arizo- Truth or Consequences as the na. The collection of Waldrum’s available from Black Range Vineyards, plus brick place to establish a gallery and work at the Tucson Museum oven pizza, apple pie & ice cream. to return to a full-time effort of Art, along with some pieces $10/Fri. & Sun., $20/Sat., $30/weekend. for his artistic career. Waldrum on loan from the Trust, will be began work on the RioBravoF- on display this summer (2019) Complete schedule at Facebook.com/ ineArt, Inc. Gallery in earnest through September 2019. blackrangelodge or call 575-895-5652 in 1998, and opened the gallery The RioBravoFineArt, Inc. to the public in July 2001. The Gallery has been in continuous gallery now houses the work operation since the death of , October 13, 3- Waldrum left to the Trust. Waldrum. Eduardo Alicea-More- The retrospective features no started working at the gal- Desert Night Acoustic Music Camp Concert Je Scroggins Featuring  e Hard Road Trio, instructors and a broad range of work by lery in 1999 as an assistant to Waldrum. He is best known for Waldrum and was instrumental talented student musicians. hardroadtrio.com a superb series of linocuts and in establishing the gallery and 10 eor, cre eber aquatints of northern New Mexi- overseeing the closing of the co churches. These linocuts and estate in 2014. Alicea-Moreno is aquatints are an important part now the trustee for the H. Joe Sponsored by the Sierra County Arts Council of the retrospective. A number Waldrum Trust; he is also the P.0. Box 1924 Truth or Consequences, NM 87901 • 575.894.0615 [email protected] • sierracountyarts.org of paintings by Joe Waldrum will Director, as President of Rio- also be on display. BravoFineArt, Inc., and Curator Paid for by Truth or Consequences Lodgers Tax. Waldrum did a number of geo- of the gallery. DESERT EXPOSURE SEPTEMBER 2019 • 21

TALKING HORSES • SCOTT THOMSON Wisdom From a Funny Man Putting in the time to love your horse

hile going through an rejections. He said it led him to his to progress and improve, and for commit the time to work on your came a regular visitor to the ER old-fashioned channel “shoulder shrug” response, essen- both of us stay healthy and safe. I own body to be a better rider, be from the scary things she wanted Wsurf one evening last tially, “OK, you’re entitled to your accepted we would never be done. more comfortable for your horse to avoid rather than fix. month, I came across a very fun- opinion, but I’m going to get back I used to laugh when I would and safer in the saddle? Just riding This single issue has cost me ny interview on, of all places, The to work, work harder, get better help someone with their horse and won’t get you there. more friends and business over Golf Channel. The interviewer and make this happen.” He’s done they were shocked to hear how Or, if your horse has been sitting the years than anything else. Too was David Feherty, formerly a pro pretty well for himself. new I was at all this, thinking that around for a year or two with little many horse owners simply don’t golfer of modest success and by all So, what does this have to do my competency came from years or no exercise, you don’t think you want to do the continuous work accounts a bit of an “Irish lad”. I’m with horses? Well, it lands square- of experience. They’d say “you need to put the time in to getting necessary for the safety, perfor- sure he enjoyed a pint or two and ly on one of my biggest frustra- just must be a natural with hors- the horse back in shape slowly, mance and health and well-being probably voiced his strong opin- tions as a trainer. Becoming a es.” They seemed surprised when to cross train his whole body, to of their horses and themselves. ions with more than words. He good horse person – a good leader I’d say I was anything but a natu- strengthen his top-line, to trim off I’ve tried, but I still don’t get this eventually switched to becoming and partner for your horse, a good ral, and that in my first two years some unnecessary pounds before attitude about such a potentially a knowledgeable and humorous steward, a good rider, a caring and of working with my horse I put you ask him to carry you around? dangerous activity. commentator, and a few years ago sensitive owner – is a lot of work in over 2,000 hours of clinics, les- Or, one of my personal favorites. I would ask anybody this. If you was given an opportunity to have and takes a lot of time. Unlike sons, practice, trail rides, ground You tell me your horse is afraid of don’t think you have to constantly his own show. He’s now dipping many other activities in our lives, work and every other thing I could something – a hose, a slicker, a work on yourself and your horse his toe into the world of stand-up it probably takes twice as much do to get better. And this was when piece of equipment, a bike, dogs, to improve or even maintain what comedy. work. Not only do you have to put I still had a full-time job and an ac- or something coming up from you have, or you don’t have the His subject in this particular the time in on yourself – to im- tive, competitive athletic career behind. I give you a plan for how time and just want to hop on and show was Kevin Hart, the well- prove your conditioning, strength, in another sport. It just seemed to we could fix the problem, and you ride, then why do you even have known actor and comedian. A tru- suppleness and coordination, as make sense that you have to put tell me you don’t want to take the a horse? It doesn’t seem like it’s ly funny man who has had success well as your feel, timing, your eye, the work in on yourself and your time to go through all those steps about love or respect for the horse in stand-up and the movies, and and often your mind – but you horse, and keep it up throughout so would rather just avoid the if an owner is unwilling to make especially as the voice of some have to do all this for the horse your riding life, if you’re ever go- thing. So, you love your horse, but the commitment, or doesn’t have popular animated characters. too. With almost every other ath- ing to get better and stay that way. you think it’s OK if he has to go the time, to both members of There was virtually no discus- letic or recreational activity, if you Probably the single most fre- through life afraid of something, a the partnership. No matter what sion of golf during this interview. work on yourself you get better quent response I hear when I ana- fear that could get him or you hurt, someone says, without this com- Hart said he never played, never because your “partner” is just an lyze a horse and rider and offer my because you don’t want to put the mitment it’s just about the human. wanted to and felt it was one of instrument, a racquet, a club or a thoughts on a plan to help them work in to fix it? those activities that makes people ball. Not so, with horses. Improve- improve, no matter what their lev- I had just this conversation with Scott Thomson lives in Silver absolutely mental with the con- ment takes twice as long. el of experience, is “I don’t have someone a few years back and all City and teaches natural stant level of frustration trying to This seemed pretty obvious to the time or the inclination to do all I could do was wish her good luck, horsemanship guide the activities of a little white me early on. Despite possessing that work. I just want to ride.” tell her to have fun but be careful. and foundation ball. natural athletic skills in almost Interesting. So, if you haven’t And I gave her the best advice I training. You At one point in the interview any sport I tried, I realized this was ridden in decades or are in such could ever give – make sure you can contact him Feherty asked Hart a very inter- a different deal. I had to develop awful shape you can’t lift a saddle keep up your medical insurance. at hsthomson@ esting question. He said, “finish a whole new set of skills, both and place it on a horse, or can’t More than anything I could have msn.com of 575- this statement. Everyone wants to physical and mental, in order to be hand walk your horse for a mile or taught her, this advice proved to 388-1830. be famous or great, but …?” Hart a good partner for my horse and, two, you don’t think you need to be the most important as she be- didn’t have to think about it for just as importantly, to give myself very long and answered “but, they a larger margin of safety in a very don’t want to do the work.” dangerous activity. But I also saw Of all the answers he could have I had to do this for the horse, too. come up with, I was surprised by I had to get him conditioned to this one. He explained his answer do what I asked and to be com- with his own career, describing all fortable carrying the weight of a the times he’d been told he wasn’t rider and performing movements funny, that he should look for an- that required him to use his body other career, that he couldn’t act. in different ways. And, it was He told stories of failed auditions, made clear that all this had to be stand-up gig bombs, and constant continually maintained if we were

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THOUGHTS continued from page 21 It’s a military town, suicide rates are extremely high. I think I saw a statistic that [suicides] are the highest they have ever been in the Air Force.” AFSP recently released 2017 suicide statistics. Suicide was the ninth leading cause of death in New Mexico in 2017 and the second leading cause of death for people ages 15 to 34 in the state. More than four times as many people died by suicide in New Mexico in 2017 than in al- cohol-related motor vehicle ac- Kylee Kekahbah collects pennies at her workplace to raise mon- cidents. ey for the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention. (Photo by When Joe moved back to Elva K. Österreich) Oklahoma, he got out of the Air are,” she said. “So, I just took the do anything.” Force and was drinking to cope steps and I got better (with the That’s why Kylee puts out with “emotional stuff,” Kylee help of a great counselor). It’s an a penny jar at work. Her first- THERAPEUTIC MASSAGE said. everyday struggle. People don’t hand experiences with the dev- David Wireman Cathy Wilkerson “He got out of the Air Force understand you are not going to astation and life-long effects of and worked for the Oklahoma go to counseling and feel better suicide have driven her to make LMT# 7563 LMT# 7289 County Sheriff’s Department,” forever. It’s something you are a difference. She said money The Massagemonk Reiki Master she said. “But his drinking was going to struggle with for a real- collected by AFSP goes to men- getting the better of him. He got ly long time.” tal health lobbying efforts, out- 575-956-5994 575-538-1222 a couple of DUIs and lost his Kylee said it took her a long reach programs and on-line ad- • Traveling Massage • Deep Tissue job.” time to come to terms with the vocacy training for anyone who • Sports Massage • Swedish One day Kylee answered the fact she was not responsible is interested. • Trigger Point Therapy • Hot Stone phone and her grandma was on and there was nothing she could Most people are not vocal the line. have done, especially being 11 enough, she said. • Deep Tissue • Lymphatic “She [Grandma] said ‘some- years old. “Tell people ‘if you need any- • Focus Work • Myofascial thing happened with your dad,’” “That’s why I feel like it’s so thing, if you are struggling, you • Reflexology • Craniosacral Therapy Kylee said. “You could hear important for me to speak out,” can come to me,’” she said. “It’s • 30 year Veteran • Energy Work something was wrong. I gave the she said. “It took me a long time too late as an afterthought.” • Vets Welcome • Ortho-Bionomy phone to my mom and my mom to be comfortable enough to be Donations can be made at just dropped to her knees in the an advocate for other people. the open house, Sept. 14. It is • Reflexology living room.” Whether they are an 11-year-old at Xtreme Amplitude in Grana- Mobile massage service available • Gift Certificates Available Kylee, her mother and her sis- kid in middle school or a 23-year- do Center at 700 First St., Suite Call for your appointment & Information ter put up bold faces, trying to old or a 17-year-old and they are 700, Alamogordo, NM, 88310. stay strong. struggling with these thoughts Or mailed directly to that ad- Serving Silver City & Grant County “None of us really knew how or they know somebody who dress. They can also be made at to deal with it,” she said. “It took has committed suicide and they the afsp.org where they can be us a really long tome to accept are struggling about how to fix made in the memory of Joe, or what happened. He was in a dark that, I want to let them know not. place and it was his way out.” that they are not alone. Every- “We are not doing this for no- 575-519-4704 After Joe died, Kylee found body grieves differently, but I toriety,” Kylee said. “Our goal is ‘ ZIRYABS.COM herself sinking into that same know holding it in is not going to to raise as much money as we dark place. Her sister wouldn’t Proud to sell our Silver City made deodorants, toothpastes, talk about it and her mom was salves, and lotions all over the world! busy trying to be strong for the Silver City Zen Center Come in and try our GREAT family. Eventually, Kylee started (Ginzan-ji Zen Buddhist Temple) Skin GIFTS! having suicidal thoughts of her SEPTEMBER Healing HOURS own. Meditation Practice (Zazen) Monday-Friday 8:00 am Salves Tuesday to “That’s when I just turned to Zazen, Kinhin & Dharma Talk Saturday 9:00 am and our Saturday my mom and said I need to talk APPLE 11am-5pm Dokusan (interview with teacher) by appointment CIDER to someone because this is going VINEGAR to end badly for me and I don’t 506 W. 13th St. LOTION! want to put my family through Resident Priest (corner of 13th and Virginia) 1330 Grant Street (across from Penny Park) this anymore than they already Rev. Dr. Oryu Paul Stuetzer Silver City, NM • 575-388-8874 24 • SEPTEMBER 2019 www.desertexposure.com

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Celebrating 18 Years! Grant County Weekly Events Facials • Body Treatments • Spa Manicures & Pedicures • Refl exology • Waxing SUNDAYS First Tuesday, 6 p.m. at the third Wednesday every month, Archaeology Society — First headquarters, next to the October-April at 2045 Memory Sunday of every month, field trip. Chevron/Snappy Mart in Arenas Lane, Silver City; May-September 536-3092, whudson43@yahoo. Valley. Dan Larson, 654-4884. meetings begin with a pot-luck com. Gilawriters — 1:00-3 p.m., Visitors dinner at 6 p.m. at Roundup Center at Hudson and Broadway Lodge in San Lorenzo-Mimbres, MONDAYS in Silver City. Contact Trish Heck, convening for business at 7 p.m. AARP Widowed and Single [email protected] or call Visit www.gcasnm.org, or email Persons of Grant County 534-0207. [email protected], or call —10:30 a.m., second Monday, Multiple Sclerosis Support Group 536-3092 for details. Cross Point Assembly of God — 11:30 a.m., first Tuesday at Babytime Sing & Play — 1 p.m., Church. All singles welcome. a local restaurant; email for this Silver City Public Library, 515 W. Contact Sally, 537-3643. month’s location: huseworld@ College Avenue. Stories, songs, Al-Anon family group, New Hope yahoo.com. rhymes and movement for infants FORMULATED WITH —12:05 p.m. First Presbyterian PFLAG Silver City — First 0-12 months and their caregivers. Church, corner of 20th and Swan Tuesday, 7 p.m., at the Unitarian 90% VITAMINS & MINERALS Free, no registration necessary. GLAM COVERAGE • 12-HOUR LONG-WEAR TRUE-TO-YOU SHADES Streets, Silver City. Open meeting. Universalist Fellowship, 3845 N. 538-3672 or ref @silvercitymail. BREATHABLE • FLAWLESS FINISH. Contact: 313-7891. Swan. Confidential support for com. Open Tuesday-Friday • 108 E. Broadway, In Historic Downtown Silver City Meditation for Beginners — 5:30 LGBTQ persons and their families. Back Country Horsemen — 6 p.m., Personal Attention from Cheri Crane, Owner/Therapist p.m., Lotus Center, 211 W. 575-590-8797. second Wednesday, WNMU Watts 575-534-0033 daturatherapeuticdayspa.com Broadway. Jeff, 956-6647. www. Republican Party of Grant County Hall, opposite CVS Pharmacy, lotuscentersc.org. — 6 p.m., second Monday, 3 Rio Hwy. 180. Subject to change. Silver City Squares — Dancing de Arenas Road (the old Wrangler 574-2888. PSYCHOLOGICAL SERVICES 6:30-8:30 p.m., Methodist Church restaurant). A Course in Miracles — 7:15 p.m., Santa Rita Street entrance. Kay, Slow Flow Yoga — 11:30 a.m.- PAT BARSCH, Ph.D. 600 N. Hudson. Information, 534- 3884227 or Linda 534-4523. 12:45 p.m., Lotus Center, 211 W. 9172 or 534-1869. Broadway, Becky Glenn, 404-234- Licensed Psychologist Silver Chorale – 7-9 p.m. rehearsal, Future Engineers — 4-5 p.m. 5331. 35 years experience First Presbyterian Church, corner Silver City Public Library, 515 W. Southwest New Mexico Quilters 20th and Swan streets, Silver City. College Avenue. Free creative Guild – 9:30 a.m., first Tuesday, Counseling, Psychotherapy New members welcome. Contact construction fun with Lego, Grant County Extension Office, Insurance, Medicaid & Medicare Provider Anne, 288-6939. K’NEX, and Strawbees! For Southwest New Mexico ACLU 2610 N. Silver Street, North entrance. Newcomers and visitors children ages 6-12, no registration 575-534-4084 – noon, first Monday (except necessary. 538-3672 or ref@ September when it’s the second are welcome. 388-8161. 300 W. Yankie St. I P.O. Box 2036 Westerners Corral – 6:20 p.m., silvercitymail.com. Monday), Little Toad Creek, 200 Gin Rummy —1 p.m. at Silver City, NM 88062 N. Bullard St. in Silver City. Bob meets on the third Tuesday of <>DE Tranquilbuzz, corner of Yankie Garrett, 575-590-4809. every even numbered month throughout the year, except for and Texas Streets in Silver City. Grant County Democratic Party TUESDAYS December; when the meeting —5:30 p.m., potluck; 6:20 p.m., Alzheimer’s/Dementia Support is held on the second Tuesday. meeting, second Wednesday, —1:30 p.m., First Tuesday, Senior For more information email Sen. Howie Morales building, Center. Margaret, 388-4539. Jody Bailey-Hall at: Jody_ 3060 E. Hwy. 180. 654-6060. Bayard Historic Mine Tour —9:30 [email protected] or Grant County Federated a.m., Second Tuesday, meet at call 575 342-2621 and leave a Republican Women – 11:30 Bayard City Hall, 800 Central Ave. message. a.m., Third Wednesday, WNMU $5 fee covers two-hour bus tour Cafeteria, Sunset Room. 313- of historic mines plus literature WEDNESDAYS and map. Call 537-3327 for ACA Meeting (Adult Children of 7997. reservation. Alcoholics and Dysfunctional Ladies Golf Association — 8 a.m. Figure/Model Drawing — 4-6 Families) — 6:30-7:45 p.m. tee time, Silver City Golf Course. p.m. Contact Sam, 388-5583. meets every Wednesday at the Prostate Cancer Support Group New Church of the Southwest — 6:30 p.m., third Wednesday, Desert, 714 N. Bullard St. Athena, Gila Regional Medical Center 575-590-8300. Conference Room. 388-1198 ext. We Understand Care, Al-Anon family group — 6 p.m., 10. Arenas Valley Church of Christ, 5 Storytime — 10:30 a.m., Silver City We Practice Compassion. Race Track Road, Arenas Valley Public Library, 515 W. College (the old radio station). Contact: Avenue. For children ages 0-5, no 313-7891. registration necessary. 538-3672 Offering a Continuum of Care in the Las Cruces Community! Archaeology Society — 6 p.m., or [email protected].

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The craggy spires of the Organ Mountains provide a dramatic backdrop at Aguirre Spring Campground. (Photos by David Burge)

EXPLORATIONS • DAVID BURGE Visiting the Oasis Aguirre Spring provides some relief during hot days guirre Spring camp- ground always seems Make plans Alike an oasis of green in the high desert of Southern New Where: Aguirre Spring Campground is located about Mexico. 15 miles east of Las Cruces off U.S. Highway 70. But this year – after a relative- Directions: From Las Cruces, take Interstate 25 north ly wet beginning to the year – the to U.S. Highway 70 and then head east over San campground and its hiking trails Augustin Pass. Turn south on Aguirre Spring Road have come alive with a beauti- and then travel about six miles. The last two miles ful display of flowers and other are steep and are a one-way loop. From Alamogordo, plant life. head west on U.S. Highway 70. “What’s interesting this spring, Cost: $5 per vehicle for day use or $15 for a bus. because of the amount of mois- Camping is $7. Two group sites must be reserved and ture we received, it’s something cost $50 per day, plus applicable day and/or camp- I have never seen – there was a ing fees per vehicle. different plant blossoming each week,” said Rico Smith, a ranger Payment: Cash or check. Pay at one of two “Iron for the Bureau of Land Manage- Ranger” payment stations. ment. “First it was the poppies, Hours: 7 a.m. to sunset during the summer; starting in then the prickly pear, then the October, 7 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily. hedgehog cactus and the sotol.” Pets: Are allowed but must be on a leash at all times. “We have been treated to this Rattlesnakes: Be aware you are in their habitat and beautiful display of blossoming you can run into them in the campground or on the plant life,” Smith said. trails. Even in the summer, Agu- Hiking tips: Bring water and a light snack. Make sure irre Spring remains an island of you have a hat and use sunscreen. Start off early so green in the desert. you avoid the hottest part of the day. It is located about 15 miles Information: 575-525-4300. east of Las Cruces off U.S. High- way 70. The 57-site campground sits when camping out, even in the One question many visitors on the eastern slope of the Or- summer, he said. have: Where is the spring? gan Mountains and provides the “For such a short drive, it is Aguirre Spring doesn’t have The four-mile Pine Loop Trail offers some breathtaking views. You opportunity to hike, picnic and really nice,” Smith said. “Many a main spring like Dripping don’t need to go far to experience the wonders of Aguirre Spring. just enjoy the beauty of the high people come up here just to get Springs Natural Area does on desert. out of the heat.” the western side of the Organ tacular views of the craggy spires ficulty, mostly because it gains It’s also a quick, convenient The campground has been run Mountains, said Smith, a retired of the Organ Mountains, which about 1,000 feet in elevation. way to beat the heat during the by the Bureau of Land Manage- Coast Guard petty officer first loom above to the west, and the You can see a wide variety of summer. Temperatures at Agu- ment since the early 1970s, but class. Tularosa Basin and White Sands plants along the hike – juniper, irre are often five or 10 degrees is now part of the Organ Moun- Instead, a handful of natural National Monument to the east. ponderosa pine, sotol which is a cooler than what you get in Las tains-Desert Peaks National springs will start flowing during It also provides access to two type of agave, prickly pear, ma- Cruces or El Paso, Smith said. Monument, which was created and after a strong rain, he ex- hiking trails. It gets even cooler at night by President Barack Obama in plained. The 4-mile Pine Loop Trail is OASIS and you may need a light jacket 2014. The campground offers spec- classified as moderate in its dif- continued on page 26 26 • SEPTEMBER 2019 www.desertexposure.com

SACRED LANDS • CHARLES ROBERTS Blessing Ceremony Mescalero Apache Tribe members visit White Sands Missile Range

he Mescalero Apache look to strengthen relationships Tribe conducted a recent with our neighbors to ensure Tblessing ceremony on its mission success now and in the ancestral homelands at White future.” Sands Missile Range for the first Although the ceremony took time in more than a century. place on an active test range, The Oscura Blessing Ceremo- WSMR was able to work with ny took place in a meadow near the Mescalero Apache Tribe to Oscura Peak, one of four sa- coordinate travel through the cred mountains than represent range to a site safely prepared the outlying boundaries of the for the ceremony. WSMR also tribe’s ancestral homeland. The provided representatives to be other mountains are Guadalupe on site during the two-day cer- Peak, Tres Hermanas and Sierra emony in case of an emergency. Blanca. The assistance was greatly ap- It has been more than 100 preciated by Medicine Woman years since a blessing ceremony Karen Geronimo, who performed of this type has been performed a blessing ceremony for Ward by by the Mescalero Apache Tribe, gently marking him with yellow whose purpose is intended to pollen from his feet to his head. confirm the tribe’s connection to Geronimo explained that the pol- the four sites, memorialize the len is used for non-Apaches to tribe’s history and strengthen its signify a blessing of happiness culture. and good fortune. Her husband The two-day ceremony Harlyn is a Vietnam War veteran marked the third such event and the great-great-grandson of following ceremonies at Guada- Geronimo, the legendary Apache lupe Peak and Tres Hermanas leader and medicine man who the past two years. Following led the resistance to consolidate Col. Chris Ward listens as Medicine Man Freddie Kaydahzinne (right) shares the history and cul- the ceremony, the tribe will con- his people and force them to live ture of the Mescalero Apache Tribe during the Oscura Blessing Ceremony at White Sands Missile clude with its final ceremony on reservations. Range. Also pictured is Simon Simms. (U.S. Army Photo/Chuck Roberts) near Sierra Blanca which lies “I’m just really happy to be on the Mescalero Apache Indian here,” said Geronimo, who thrilled it all came together. One Reservation. teaches Apache at a Mescalero of the highlights for me was es- White Sands Missile Range Apache school. “It’s an honor corting many of the tribal elders Garrison Commander Col. Chris- to be our here on this military to North Oscura Peak. For many topher Ward said he welcomed reservation where my people of them it was a place they only the opportunity for WSMR to camped before the 1800s, and to knew of through stories and help play a role in allowing the experience their way of life.” to have them visit and see this Mescalero Apache Tribe to per- One of the WSMR employees place as their ancestors did re- form such a meaningful and his- extensively involved in help- ally solidified for me the impor- toric ceremony. ing the tribe prepare the site tance of making this event a re- Ward was an apt listener for the ceremony was Michael ality for the tribe.” during an afternoon visit during Stowe, a senior archeologist The Mescalero people were the first day of the ceremony on from the Environmental Divi- nomadic hunters and gather- Aug. 2, when he had the oppor- sion of the Directorate of Public ers and roamed the Southwest. tunity to sit among tribal elders Works. Stowe was appreciative They were experts in guerrilla Col. Chris Ward poses with members of the Mescalero Apache who shared their history and of the insight he gained into the warfare and highly skilled horse- Tribe during the Oscura Blessing Ceremony at White Sands Mis- culture with Ward as nearby Apache culture. men. The women were known sile Range. (U.S. Army Photo/Chuck Roberts) cooking fires burned to prepare “What an incredible opportu- for their ability to find and pre- fry bread for the evening festiv- nity it was to help the tribe and pare food from many different them in good times and bad. consisting of 463,000 acres of ities to include Blessing songs facilitate this ceremony at one plant sources. The people were Today, three sub-tribes, Mes- what once was the heartland of and dancing. of their sacred places,” Stowe given the name “Mescalero” be- calero, Lipan and Chiricahua, their aboriginal homelands. “It was humbling to be wel- said. “Although there was a lot cause they gathered and ate the make up the Mescalero Apache Story provided by White comed by the tribal elders,” of planning and coordination, mescal plant. It was the staple Tribe. They live on the Mescale- Sands Missile Range Public Af- Ward said. “WSMR will always to have an event like this, I’m of their diets and could sustain ro Apache Indian Reservation, fairs

OASIS continued from page 25 hogany oak and even an aspen the lookout for rattlesnakes and ers that are 23 feet in length tree that seems out of place in recognize you are in their habi- or shorter. But a word of cau- this high-desert environment. tat, Smith said. tion: The last two miles into the The eastern side of the moun- Victor Fernandez, from El campground are steep and along tains gets more moisture, Smith Paso, visited Aguirre Spring and a one-way loop road. explained. walked the Pine Loop Trail. Amenities include fire pits and “And as you go up in altitude, He said it was the first time he vaulted toilets. you see more trees, more pine, had ever explored the eastern Some sites are perfect if you more juniper,” he said. side of the Organ Mountains, want solitude. Others are close While the Pine Loop Trail can after having visited the western by each other and can be linked be steep and strenuous at times, side several times before. up to provide a perfect setting you don’t have to go far to see “I think this side is way more for a family outing. some spectacular scenery. You full of plants and vegetation and There are also two large group can turn around at any time to is much more lush and greener,” sites that need to be reserved make it a perfect hike for people Fernandez said. “I am think- ahead of time. of most abilities. ing of bringing my girlfriend to “I think Aguirre Spring is a The campground also pro- camp here. It doesn’t feel that beautiful campground,” said vides access to the more difficult hot here.” Roger Berry, who is serving as Baylor Canyon Trail, which goes Aguirre Spring Campground and its hiking trails feature a pletho- The campground has 55 indi- the campground host, along with ra of different plant life you don’t always see in the high desert. up one side of the Organ Moun- vidual sites. There are no hook- his wife, Barb. “We have met tains and down the other. Some then turn around and return Wildlife calling the camp- ups for recreational vehicles, a lot of interesting people and people park a car at both ends, back to Aguirre. ground and the surrounding land but water is available at the have enjoyed talking to them. making it a 6-mile trip across the You can also challenge your- home include coyotes, squirrels, camp host site. If you need a place to spend the mountains. self by doing the entire 12-mile lots of birds and lizards. The park can accommodate night or do a hike, this is the ide- Others will walk to the top, round trip. Of course, you need to be on recreation vehicles and trail- al place.” DESERT EXPOSURE SEPTEMBER 2019 • 27

ABOVE: Families at SPJ await their turn for medical care at the clinic. RIGHT: Deming City Manager Aaron Sera and local fire department officials welcome visitors from the south under a banner that says “Welcome” in Portuguese. (Photos by Morgan Smith)

ON THE BORDER • MORGAN SMITH Finding Humanity Volunteers fill roles often left empty

ur goal is to be the Marjorie Lilley described in an In fact, when my wife, Julie died The SPJ Mercado is a site people can ask for assistance model shelter on the earlier Desert Exposure article. in 2016, friends donated enough where local businesses can func- with food, housing, clothing and “Osouthwest border,” Any signs of new economic vi- money in her memory to build tion, thus creating a local econo- school sponsorships. said Aaron Sera, city manager tality here deserve mention and a home for the Elvira Rome- my. SPJ has a library that is open As for the medical clinic, it is of Deming when I arrive with a encouragement. Besides the ro family; previously they had seven days a week and offers a moving experience for those load of food on July 19. We’re in owner, Rossana Cisneros is the been living in a hovel made of a video and computer room as who volunteer as well as the pa- the Armory where they are car- wife of the excellent dentist, plywood and cardboard tacked well as books for all ages. tients. ing for a new influx of migrants, Guillermo Lam who we went to together. Although Elvira died in Two parks have been built. “I think it helps me more mostly from Brazil. As a way of several months ago. January, it is this house that has The Linda Daw Hudson Memo- than them,” Dr. Qurana Mussef, making these migrants feel wel- The key to the prosperity and stabilized her grandchildren and rial Park for children up to the known as Dr. Q, said. “I have come, he and others have made advancement of any commu- given them a path ahead in life. age of 12 has bicycles and play- never met a population so grate- three large banners that say nity comes about through the Although SPJ has built more ground equipment and is en- ful, a population that so much “Welcome” in English, Spanish involvement of people like this than 500 houses, the need is still closed for safety with walls and wants to do better.” and Portuguese. couple or the Romeros who own enormous. For that reason, SPJ a secure gate. The San Mateo Luisa Sanchez who is waiting It has been a struggle for Dem- the Pink Store. is holding its annual fundraiser Community Park is for teenag- for apply for medical school ing. The Customs and Border Pa- The next stop was Juárez. My at the El Paso Country Club on ers and adults and has a soccer said both her parents were born trol (CBP) just dumped several goal was to observe the month- Saturday, Nov. 2. More informa- field and basketball court in Juárez and she wants to give hundred migrants there in May ly medical clinic operated by tion is available at 915-449-5883 A new goal is to build a gym back to the community. Dr. José and essentially said to Deming, Siguiendo los Pasos de Jesús or by going to www.SPJinc.org. not only for sporting activities Manuel de la Rosa is the Found- “This is now your problem.” (SPJ) an El Paso non-profit that SPJ is much more than a but also for music lessons and ing Dean of the Texas Tech Uni- This small town (14,000 pop.) re- has been working on the west house building program, how- theater performances. The goal versity Health Sciences Center sponded with a commitment and edge of Juárez for many years. ever. It’s an economic develop- is to complete this by the fall of dedication that puts to shame I first learned of SPJ through ment organization with several 2019. The San Mateo Communi- HUMANITY the efforts of the CBP with all its its housebuilding efforts. Since community programs. For ex- ty Center also is a place where continued on page 28 money. 2006, SPJ has built more than ample, SPJ opened the medical My next stop on this two-day 500 houses, distinctive with clinic in January 2014 and it has marathon was Palomas and the their yellow and green paint, in been operating at least monthly new store, El Rinconcito that this deeply impoverished area. ever since. DEMING ART CENTER 100 South Gold, Deming, NM Mon thru Sat 10:00 am to 4:00 pm Lon & Wilhelmina Shelton and Claude Smith Reception: Sunday September 1, 2019, 1:00 pm to 3:00 pm Exhibit Duration: September 1, 2019 through September 28, 2019 Tin Punching Classes: September 17 and 18 $15.00 per session. 2 sessions each day. Class by Richard Gabriel Classes are  lling fast. Limited to 10 per session. Call for artists: Membership Exhibit: Month of October Limited to members of the Deming Arts Council You can join the DAC up to intake on October 1, 2019 10:00 am to 1:00 pm. You can enter 3 pieces. Call for artists: Recycled Exhibit: Month of November Art work accepted from all ages. Limited to 3 pieces. Intake November 1, 2019. Deming Arts Center, 100 S Gold St, Deming NM 88030 Jane Fuller, executive director of a Siguiendo los Pasos de Jesús (SPJ) medical clinic and one of 575-546-3663 Check us out on Facebook This project is supported in part by New Mexico Arts, the physicians, Dr. Qurana Mussef. a division of the Department of Cultural A airs www.demingarts.org 28 • SEPTEMBER 2019 www.desertexposure.com

BORDERLINES • MARJORIE LILLY Solidarity The spaces keep getting wider merican and New Mex- people who try to look beyond killed them as well as anybody means that people fleeing from partly succeed. But they need to ican flags flapped and the barriers of language and bor- else. El Salvador or Honduras, which explore other plans, too. Arolled at half-mast in ders and cultures. The countries of Central are south of Guatemala, would My travels in Guatemala for front of J&D Produce, the Sher- I’ve had the sweet experi- America – El Salvador, Gua- be returned to Guatemala when six months in the late 1980s left iff’s Department, and the Dem- ence over the past few years of temala and Honduras – are they reached the United States. me with great memories of the ing Visitors Center, more than watching a 6-year-old girl named wracked by the worst violence There are academics and poli- Guatemalan people. They are a week after the fatal shootings Elsa grow up in Palomas. She since the ’80s. It’s drug violence ticians who believe this is an im- the most cheerful, funny people of 22 Latino people (seven were has a bit of a learning disability, now, in place of the cold war possible plan. The people work- I have ever known. Mexican nationals) at a Walmart and her parents have been pour- violence. Guatemala has more ing on this project are expecting People in my Spanish language in El Paso on Aug. 3. ing on love and prayer for her people fleeing than the other thousands of immigrants to ar- class in Antigua, Guatemala, felt People in Deming were still since she was an infant. two countries. In Guatemala rive at the same time thousands the same way. I remember them trying to make out the meaning When Elsa was much young- alone, 190,000 people have fled are fleeing Guatemala. Only an saying, “Is it their poverty? Is it of the shootings. er, I remember her father Mar- the country because of violence astonishing 260 people applied the climate?” in several conver- Mexican-origin people in cos sitting at the dining room or poverty during the past nine for asylum claims in Guatemala sations. They have a remarkable the area perhaps never really table after dinner with his little months, according to the Na- between January and November talent for shining their hearts thought they could be hunted girl lying on his knees for a long tional Foundation for American 2018. Guatemala is far from hav- to you, mostly at the end of a like rabbits because of their lan- space of time. Policy. ing the kind of facilities to carry conversation. It’s something I’ve guage, the color of their skin or She had a brother who Besides the people fleeing out the plan. never been able to imitate. their culture in this border area worked as a cook at a restau- drug violence, Guatemalans are But there is fear that tens of They’re worthy, as anybody that’s been peaceful for decades. rant in Deming, so she always also fleeing the extreme drought thousands of asylum seekers is, of respect and support in this There are obviously a large had dolls and dresses bought by of the Dry Corridor in the east- would swamp the system of asy- period of emergency for them. number of people who need to him. They painted their house ern part of the country. They lum in Guatemala beyond any Unfortunately, there are pol- break down some walls in their the color that Elsa wanted — don’t have enough to eat. In its real functioning. It seems un- iticians who do not express re- lives. There are those who be- sky blue. haste to take care of the huge likely that they could avoid the spect, and their words are not lieve the Central Americans and Elsa’s mother now stays with numbers of immigrants, the same violence that has caused without effect in the real-life Mexicans flooding the borders her most of the time. Last spring Trump administration has put tens of thousands to flee in the world, as we’ve seen in El Paso are “bad people invading the I sat talking with the two of them together a plan to carry out a first place. so recently. country” (I’ve heard someone in their kitchen, her mother and “safe third country” agreement. It’s hard to believe that the say that recently), instead of I both loving her speechlessly Someone who passes through newly elected (Aug. 11) presi- Borderlines what they really are, in many for her amazing innocence. She or applies for asylum in several dent of Guatemala, Alejandro columnist cases, desperately poor people has a smile like April. countries would be returned to Giammattei, is willing to at- Marjorie frightened for their lives. Without over-idealizing the the first country they entered to tempt the project, but one can Lilly lives in Language barriers can create families in Palomas (some cer- pursue their asylum claim. That only hope that it will at least Deming. a very strong obstacle in form- tainly have fathers that have ing an understanding between beaten their wives), how could social groups. Sometimes peo- one possibly think a family like ple can accumulate hostilities this should be subjected to a Dr. José Manuel for situations that never really massacre? This family has had de la Rosa, the existed. a visa to the U.S. before, and Founding Dean of the Texas However, there will always be the El Paso shooting could have Tech University Health Scienc- es Center in El Paso, works with a patient at the SPJ clinic.

HUMANITY his medical colleagues “were tion facilities, it is IMPERATIVE continued from page 27 asked by the Border Patrol of that Pediatricians be allowed in our hometown of El Paso, Texas, these places,” he said. Corner Florida & Columbus Hwy. in El Paso and spoke of the im- to aid in delivering basic medical “Children are unique in that portance of the consistency of care to these refugees upon their only a well-trained pediatrician PO Box 191, Deming NM 88031 care provided by the clinic. He arrival at the detention/holding will have the skills to pick up (575) 546-3922 and the others also do volunteer facility. The medical care that on the subtle signs in a child work at Annunciation House we provided was seamless, and that can display as mildly ill in El Paso and on behalf of mi- the refugees were taken care of and quickly progress to deathly grants. in a humane manner.” sick. We are the first to see the The team leader is Dr. Carlos In September 2018, however, refugees that are released into Gutierrez, an El Paso pediatri- when the doctors volunteered our care following their stay in cian with 39 years of experience their services to the Border Pa- detention facilities. My recent Serving Southwest New Mexico since 1951 who has been coming to the clin- trol to help at the tent city in experiences now have me won- ic for seven years. His goal is “to Tornillo, they were turned down. dering if they have received any provide medical care to those These doctors are now provid- medical care at all prior to me who can least afford it – the ing pro bono services for those seeing them.” poorest of the poor.” migrants who are released from Gutierrez went to Washing- federal facilities to the various Morgan Smith travels from ton, DC and, on July 12, testified shelters in El Paso. He Gutierrez Santa Fe to the border at least before a subcommittee of Rep- said this “is a detriment to the once a month to document Luna, Grant, Hidalgo, Dona Ana, Catron Counties resentative Elijah Cummings’ services we are trying to provide conditions there and assist House Subcommittee on Over- as it disrupts continuity of med- a number of humanitarian Deming 575-546-9052 or 1-833-4 SNOWDEN (1-833-476-6933) sight and Reform. The topic was ical care.” organizations. He can be www.snowdenexterminating.com medical care for migrants. “With the high number of chil- reached at Morgan-smith@ He pointed out in 2014, he and dren being held in these deten- comcast.net. DESERT EXPOSURE SEPTEMBER 2019 • 29 30 • SEPTEMBER 2019 www.desertexposure.com

EXPLORATIONS Monuments to Main Street Festivals, hikes, tours make September a monumental time to experience southern New Mexico

esigned to celebrate all three national monu- Dments in the Las Cruces area, along with the city’s cultur- al wealth, the 4th Annual Monu- ments to Main Street returns as a month full of events that show- case the vibrant culture, natural beauty, and rich history of the destination. Each September, visitors and locals alike gather to experience a broad array of tours, hikes, and film, wine and green chile festivals. Monument and history buffs will want to explore the Organ Mountains–Desert Peaks Na- Sept. 29 – Massacre Peak and exception. Adding to the week- tional Monument, the iconic Butterfield Trail Hike end’s excitement is the Mesilla and other-worldly White Sands Visitors and locals are invited River Run, inner tube rafting National Monument, and the fas- to take tours, sample southern on the Rio Grande, and several cinating Prehistoric Trackways New Mexico cuisine, and catch guided hikes. National Monument. A variety some sunshine beneath New The City to Sky Plane Tour will of guided tours and excursions Mexico skies in events ranging lift travelers from Las Cruces provide visitors a better under- from Organ Mountains City to airport for flight-seeing along standing of the history of the Sky Plane Tours and White Sands the Rio Grande and above the Mesilla Valley. Some tours re- National Monument Sunset Organ Mountains. Wine lovers quire prior registration and/or Strolls, to film festivals, outdoor will enjoy sampling local grown have limits on the number of fiestas, off-roading tours, yoga in wines from North America’s old- participants; visit www.Monu- the monument, corn mazes, and est wine region at the annual NM ments2MainStreet.com for more everything in between. Harvest Wine Festival. details on timing and fees. Each day throughout the Events this year include: month will provide an intriguing Sept. 8-10 Daily – White Sands National array of options to explore. Each 8th - Join the party for the Monument Sunset Stroll weekend, Southwest Expedi- Monuments to Main Street Kick- Sept. 1 and 14 – Lower Broad tions offers an exciting variety Off Fiesta on Mesquite Street (Photos Courtesy of Monuments to Main Street) Canyon Hike of four-wheel-drive Jeep tours from 4-9 p.m. at Klein Park, Sept. 14-15 Sept. 15 – Top of the World and city-to-sky flightseeing, and 155 N. Mesquite St. Live music coach rides, horseback rides, Ridge Hike New Mexico Wild has scheduled by Nosotros, ballet folklórico, 14th-15th – Diez y Seis de Sep- and various vendors. Sept. 18 – Bird Walk for Begin- a range of intriguing hikes. stagecoach trolley rides, a re- tiembre Festival on the historic ners by the Mesilla Valley Audu- Here are just a few week-by- enactment of the founding of Mesilla Plaza features live mu- Sept. 27-30 bon Society week highlights: Las Cruces, and desserts by La sic, rides, food, games and more. The month concludes with the fa- Sept. 21-22 – The Picacho Reyna Michoacana will official- mous Southern New Mexico State Mountain Outdoor Festival w/ Sept. 1-7 ly launch the month-long event. Sept. 21-22 Fair & Rodeo from Sept. 27 – Oct. 1. 5K Fun Run and Walk The Hatch Chile Festival is Hot-air balloons will fill the sky The Picacho Mountain Out- Visit www.Monuments2Main- Sept. 28 – Organ Mountains a highlight of every Labor Day during the White Sands Balloon door Festival will feature a Chile Street.com for the fully updated Pine Tree Trail Hike weekend and this year is no and Music Festival Relleno cook-off contest, stage- list of happenings.

ARTS EXPOSURE From the Ground Up Mesilla Book Center Regional juried ceramics tradition and display • Books about the West, Mexico, horses, cowboys, Native Americans & More • Children’s books & Toys he Las Cruces Museum of tion 2019. • Gifts & more Art, 491 N. Main St., con- The show includes unique and ‘Some of the best books never make the bestseller lists’ On the Plaza • (575) 526-6220 Ttinues with its outstand- amazing works by artists from Tue-Sat 11 am-5:30 pm ing “From the Ground Up XXIX” Las Cruces and surrounding en- Sun 1 pm-5 pm, Closed Mon regional juried ceramics exhibi- virons. It continues through Sat- urday, Oct. 19, at the museum. There is no charge to visit the museum or the exhibit. Mountain Music Museum hours are 10 a.m.- CHECK US OUT ON CRAIG’S LIST 4:30 p.m. Tuesday-Friday and 9 a.m.-4:30 p.m. Saturday. New & Used Musical Instruments For more information, call Consignments 575-541-2137. Visit www.las-cru- Trade-Ins ces.org/1542/Museum-of-Art. (Courtesy Photo) 2330 S. Valley Drive 523-0603 Claypalooza: A Celebration of Clay M-F 10AM - 6PM • SAT 10AM - 5PM • SUN 10AM - 2PM

oin the Las Cruces Museum their work, followed by a visit to 2 p.m., Saturday, Sept. 7, Las Cru- Fountain Theatre of Art and the Potters’ Guild the exhibit. ces Museum of Art courtyard, 491 Featuring the best independent, foreign and documentary films in the southwest! of Las Cruces for program- • Mesilla Valley Clay Arts Trail: N. Main St. The event includes September 13-19 The Farewell (OC) J 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Friday, Sept. 6. Take kids’ activities, hands-on demon In Mandarin, Japanese & Italian w/ subtitles and English ing in conjunction with the muse- - **Theatre closed Monday, Sept. 16 um’s “From the Ground Up XXIX” a journey of discovery and visit strations with members of the September 20-26 Funan (OC) exhibition. The events are free artists’ studios, museums, galler- Potters’ Guild and opportunities In French w/ subtitles and open to the public. ies and makers’ shops related to to make your own small pottery **Thursday, Sept. 26 1:30 matinee; no evening show • Artists panel discussion: clay. Visit www.pottersguildlc.org piece to take home. September 28-October 3 Manhattan Short Film Festival (OC) 5:30-7:30 p.m., Thursday, Sept. 5, for site locations or contact Mary For more information, contact **Friday, Sept. 27 Theatre closed **Saturday, Sept. 28 No matinee Branigan Cultural Center, 501 N. Lou LaCasse at 575-649-0182 or Museum of Art Curator of Educa- Main St. Join “From the Ground [email protected] tion Bryan Lee at 575-541-2217 or 2469 Calle de Guadalupe, Mesilla • www.mesillavalleyfilm.org • (575) 524-8287 Up XXIX” artists to learn about • Take Shape Saturday: 10 a.m.- blee@lascruces-org. DESERT EXPOSURE SEPTEMBER 2019 • 31

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Sept. 1 Sept. 13 La Gran Fiesta Hatch Chile Festival White Sands National Monument Full Moon Hike Aggie Football vs. University of New Mexico Lower Broad Canyon Hike Sept. 22 Guided Hike Achenbach Canyon Sept. 14 Lower Broad Canyon Hike Picacho Mountain Outdoor Festival Mesilla River Run! Inner Tube Rafting Maars to the Moon Plane Tour Picacho Peak Hike Organ Mountain City-to-Sky Plane Tour at Kilbourne Hole Crater NM Harvest Wine Festival Yoga in the Monument Sept. 25 White Sands National Monument Sunset Stroll Diez y Seis de Septiembre Fiesta – Mesilla Southern New Mexico State Fair Sept. 2 Sept. 15 Sept. 26 NM Harvest Wine Festival Diez y Seis de Septiembre Fiesta – Mesilla Southern New Mexico State Fair Sept. 3 Top of the World Ridge Hike Sept. 27 WWII Bombardier Targets Plane Tour Monumental Jeep Tour to Tonuco Mountain Southern New Mexico State Fair Monumental Jeep Tour Apollo Wild & Scenic Film Festival Sept. 6 Astronaut Training Site Downtown Art Ramble Sept. 28 Sept. 17 Horny Toad Hustle WWII Bombardier Targets Plane Tour Sept. 7 National Public Lands Day Aden Crater: Rugged Wonderland Organ Mountains City-to-Sky Plane Tour Mesilla River Run! Inner Tube Rafting Sept. 18 Bird Walk by the Mesilla Valley Audobon Society Southern New Mexico State Fair Organ Mountain City-to-Sky Plane Tour Yoga in the Monument Yoga in the Monument Sept. 20 Organ Mountains Pine Tree Trail Hike White Sands Balloon and Music Festival La Gran Fiesta Mesilla Valley Corn Maze Sept. 8 Sept. 21 Sept. 29 White Sands Balloon and Music Festival Discovery Site Tour at the Prehistoric Trackways National Monument Horny Toad Hustle Mesilla River Run! Inner Tube Rafting Massacre Peak & Butterfield Trail Hike Slot Canyon Tour Organ Mountain City-to-Sky Plane Tour Slot Canyon Tour Maars to the Moon Plane Tour at Kilbourne Crater Monuments to Main Street Kick-Off Fiesta Southern New Mexico State Fair White Sands National Monument Sunset Stroll Yoga in the Monument Picacho Mountain Outdoor Festival Mesilla Valley Corn Maze Bikepacking & Stargazing Campout to Leasburg Dam State Park

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GRANT COUNTY St. Coffeeshop, baked goods, sand- Cliff Silver City wiches, wraps: B L. ADOBE SPRINGS CAFÉ, 1617 KOUNTRY KITCHEN, 1700 Moun- Tammy’s Café, U.S. High- Silver Heights Blvd., 538-3665. tain View Road, 388-4512. Mexican: way 180, Cliff, 575-535-4500. Breakfast items, burgers, sandwich- Tuesday to Saturday B L D. Visit Tammy’s Café on Face- es: Sunday B L, all week B L D. LA COCINA RESTAURANT, 201 W. book.RVs/Big Rigs welcome, CACTUS JACKS, 1307 N. Pope St. College Ave., 388-8687. Mexican: Mexican/American food. 538-5042. Gluten-free, healthy gro- L D. Gluten free and vegetarian by ceries, grill fast foods and beverages. LA FAMILIA, 503 N. Hudson St., request. Thursday to Sat- Monday to Friday B L D, Saturday 388-4600. Mexican: Tuesday to urday LD, Sunday L. “Bring and Sunday L. Sunday B L D. home cooking to your table” LA MEXICANA, Hwy. 180E and CAFÉ OSO AZUL AT BEAR Memory Lane, 534-0142. Mexican DOÑA ANA COUNTY and American: B L. MOUNTAIN LODGE, 60 Las Cruces & Mesilla Bear Mountain Ranch Road, LITTLE TOAD CREEK ABRAHAM’S BANK TOWER 538-2538. B L, special D by RESTAURANT, 500 S. Main St. 434, BREWERY & DISTILLERY, 523-5911. American: Monday to reservation only. 200 N. Bullard St., 956-6144. Friday B L. CHINESE PALACE, 1010 Highway Burgers, wings, salads, fish, ANDELE’S DOG HOUSE, 1983 Calle 180E, 538-9300. Chinese: Monday to pasta, craft beers and cock- del Norte, 526-1271. Mexican plus Friday L D. tails: Monday to Sunday L D. hot dogs, burgers, quesadillas: B L D. COURTYARD CAFÉ, Gila Regional ANDELE RESTAURANTE, 1950 Medical Center, 538-4094. American: MEXICO VIEJO, Hwy. 90 and Broad- Calle del Norte, 526-9631. Mexican: B L. way Mexican food stand: 956-3361. Monday B L, Tuesday to Sunday B Monday to Saturday B L early D. L D. DIANE’S RESTAURANT, MI CASITA, 2340 Bosworth Dr., 538- AQUA REEF, 141 N. Roadrunner 5533. New Mexican cuisine: Monday Parkway, 522-7333. Asian, sushi: LD. 510 N. Bullard St., 538-8722. to Thursday L, Friday L D. THE BEAN, 2011 Avenida de Mesilla, Fine dining (D), steaks, sea- MILLIE’S BAKE HOUSE, 602 N. 527-5155. Coffeehouse. food, pasta, sandwiches (L), Bullard St., 597-2253. Soup, salads, A BITE OF BELGIUM, 741 N. Ala- salads: Tuesday to Saturday sandwiches, baked goods: Tuesday meda St. No. 16, 527-2483, www. L D, Sunday D only (fami- to Saturday B, L. abiteofbelgium.com. Belgium and ly-style), weekend brunch. NANCY’S SILVER CAFÉ, 514 N. American food: Daily B L. Bullard St., 388-3480. Mexican: BOBA CAFÉ, 1900 S. Espina, Ste. Monday to Saturday B L D. 8, 647-5900. Sandwiches, salads, DIANE’S BAKERY & DELI, PRETTY SWEET EMPORIUM, 312 casual fare, espresso: Monday to The Hub, Suite A, Bullard St., N. Bullard St., 388-8600. Dessert, ice Saturday L D. 534-9229. Artisan breads, cream: Monday to Saturday. BRAVO’S CAFÉ, 3205 S. Main St., pastries, sandwiches, deli: Q’S SOUTHERN BISTRO AND 526-8604. Mexican: Tuesday to Monday to Saturday B L early BREWERY, 101 E. College Ave., 534- Sunday B L. 4401. American, steaks, barbecue, BURGER NOOK, 1204 E. Madrid D, Sunday L. brewpub: Tuesday to Saturday L D. Ave., 523-9806. Outstanding green- chile cheeseburgers. Tuesday to DON JUAN’S BURRITOS, 418 Silver Saturday L D. Heights Blvd., 538-5440. Mexican: REVEL, 304 N. Bullard, 388- BURRITOS VICTORIA, 1295 El B L. 4920. Elevated comfort food. Paseo Road, 541-5534. Burritos: B L DRIFTER PANCAKE HOUSE, 711 Weekdays LD, weekends BD, D. Now serving beer. Silver Heights Blvd., 538-2916. closed Wednesdays. CAFÉ DON FELIX, 2290 Calle de Breakfast, American: B L, breakfast Parian, 652-3007. Mexican, street served throughout. SILVER BOWLING CENTER CAFÉ, tacos, mini-burgers: Wednesday to EL GALLO PINTO, 901 N. Hudson 2020 Memory Lane, 538-3612. Saturday L D, Sunday brunch only 10 St., 597-4559. Mexican: Tuesday, American, Mexican, hamburgers: a.m. to 6 p.m. Wednesday and Sunday B L Thurs- Daily L D. CARILLO’S CAFÉ, 330 S. Church, day to Saturday B L D. 523-9913. Mexican, American: Mon- FORREST’S PIZZA, 601 N. Bullard SUNRISE ESPRESSO, 1530 day to Saturday L D. St. Unit J. 388-1225. Tuesday to N. Hudson, 388-2027. Coffee CHACHI’S RESTAURANT, 2460 S. untain Friday L D, Slices until 7 p.m. shop: Monday to Saturday B Mo o Locust St.-A, 522-7322. Mexican: B ar FRY HOUSE, 601 N. Bullard St. Suite e ge L, early D. L D. C. 388-1964. Seven days L, Sunday CHILITOS, 2405 S. Valley Dr., 526- L, D. 4184. Mexican: Monday to Saturday GIL-A BEANS, 1304 N. Bennett St. SUNRISE ESPRESSO, 1212 B L D. Coffeeshop. Monday to Saturday 8 E. 32nd St., 534-9565. Coffee CHILITOS, 3850 Foothills Rd. Ste. a.m.-noon. shop, bakery: Monday to 10, 532-0141. Mexican: B L D. GOLDEN STAR, 1602 Silver Heights Friday B L, early D, Saturday DAY’S HAMBURGERS, Water and Blvd., 388-2323. Chinese: L D. B L only. Las Cruces streets, 523-8665. Burg- GRANDMA’S CAFÉ, 900 Silver ers: Monday to Saturday L D. Heights Blvd., 388-2627. American, Book your holiday parties! TAPAS TREE, 601 N. Bullard St. PECAN GRILL & BREWERY, 500 Mexican: B L. in The Hub. 597-8272. Monday to S. Telshor Blvd., 521-1099. Pe- Thanksgiving and Christmas dinners GRINDER MILL, 403 W. College Thursday L, Friday and Saturday L D can-smoked meats, sandwiches, are ready for reservations. Ave., 538-3366. Mexican: B L D. (closes at 4 p.m.). steaks, seafood, craft beers: L D. TASTE OF VEGAS, 303 E. 13th St., HONEEBEEGOODS “Mak- DELICIAS DEL MAR, 1401 El Paseo, Blue Dome Gallery 534-9404. Daily L. 524-2396. Mexican, seafood: B L D. Contemporary Art & Fine Craft • Our painters, sculptors, jewelers, furniture makers, ing Life A Little Sweeter,” VICKI’S EATERY, 315 N. Texas, glass artists & potters are known for their excellent craftsmanship and unique style. DICK’S CAFÉ, 2305 S. Valley Dr., 116 N. Bullard. 714-515- 388-5430. www.vickiseatery.com. 524-1360. Mexican, burgers: Sunday 0832. Specialty Bakery and Saturday-Sunday breakfast; Mon- B L, Monday to Saturday B L D. Café Oso Azul day-Saturday lunch; and Friday-Sat- Open for weekday Breakfast 8-9:30, Luncheon, Weekend Brunch 11-3, Nightly 5-7 for more! BLD. Honeebee- DION’S PIZZA, 3950 E. Lohman, urday dinner. Dinner, RESERVATIONS REQUIRED Visit our website for holiday meal & brunch information. goods.com. T-F 8 to 6, SAT 8 521-3434. Pizza: L D. WRANGLER’S BAR & GRILL, 2005 DOUBLE EAGLE, 2355 Calle De The Lodge is perfect for get-aways, events, to 8, SUN 8 -4:30. Hwy. 180E, 538-4387. Steak, burg- Guadalupe, 523-6700. Southwestern, weddings & retreats. Open all year. JALISCO CAFÉ, 100 S. Bullard ers, appetizers, salads: L D. steaks, seafood: L D, Sun. cham- 575.538.2538 • 60 Bear Mountain Ranch Rd. St., 388-2060. Mexican. Monday to TRANQUILBUZZ CAFÉ, 112 W. pagne brunch buffet. P.O. Box 1163 • Silver City, NM 88062 Saturday L D Sunday B. Yankie St. Coffee shop, coffee, EL SOMBRERO PATIO CAFÉ, 363 S. home-made pastries and ice cream, [email protected] JAVALINA COFFEE HOUSE, 117 Espina St., 524-9911. Mexican: L D. Market St., 388-1350. Coffeehouse. fresh fruit smoothies. ENRIQUE’S MEXICAN FOOD, 830 www.BearMountainLodge.com JUMPING CACTUS, 503 N. Bullard W. Picacho, 647-0240. Mexican: B DESERT EXPOSURE SEPTEMBER 2019 • 33

TABLE TALK Ghost Town, Real Food Big Doin’s at the Chloride Bank Café ocated in the historic ghost CBC. New Mexican-American cuisine as town of Chloride, New Mex- The Chloride Bank Café cele- a flavorful blend of many different Lico, the building that houses brates its grand opening from 11 chiles and spices meant to enhance the Chloride Bank Café was built a.m. to 6 p.m. on Sunday, Sept. 1. flavors and not bring the heat. to be a bank in 1884. Although the There will be great food, drawings Reis’s wife and partner Belin- bank had its checks and deposit for gift certificates and the oppor- da, originally from Alabama, en- slips printed, it failed to open as tunity to meet and welcome Chef joys contributing to the CBC with windstream.net. ous large pieces of equipment used the old mining towns tended to be Don and his wife Belinda, the new homemade desserts and dinner While in Chloride (population back in the day. cash poor; the wealth was in the operators of the CBC. rolls. Yell “Roll Tide” when you 14) plan to visit the Pioneer Store The Monte Cristo, once a dance ore they mined. Donald Reis has culinary arts de- meet her! A major Alabama foot- Museum and the Monte Cristo Gift hall and saloon, features the work It did open as a saloon and was grees from both Bradford College ball fan, Belinda said she is really Shop & Gallery, both just across of local artists including paintings, prosperous. Through many dif- in Columbus, Ohio and Le Cordon enjoying life in Chloride. the street from the café and open quilts, ceramics, woodwork, jewel- ferent uses and finally having the Bleu in Austin, Texas and has also The Chloride Bank Café is open daily from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. The Pi- ry, photography and books by local large beams which supported the studied Puerto Rican, Mexican and 11 a.m.-6 p.m. Thursday through oneer Store was built in 1880 and authors about the area’s history. roof removed, the building became Cuban cuisine. Don has worked Monday, closed Tuesday and operated until 1923. It sat sealed Chloride sits on the east edge of a stone derelict. as head chef in many kitchens in Wednesday. The CBC is located at with all its contents, merchandise the Gila National Forest and has an Today the old bank building has Ohio, Wyoming and South Dakota, 136 Wall Street in Chloride, north- and furnishings for more than 70 RV park and vacation rental cab- been resurrected and is filled with where he served as banquet chef west of Truth or Consequences, years before being restored as a ins also built in the 1800s but now period pieces, items reminiscent of for the governor’s retirement party. just 35 miles off I-25 via Highway museum. The museum also in- fully restored and modern on the Chloride’s history and a thoroughly He is very proud to bring New Mex- 52 to Winston, turn left, then 2 ½ cludes the Grafton Cabin and vari- insides. modern stainless-steel kitchen, and ican-American cuisine to the Chlo- miles on paved road to Chloride. now serves as the Chloride Bank ride Bank Café, where he blends For more information, call 575- Café, affectionately known as the all his own spices. Reis defines 743-0414 or email chloridecafe@

L D. Avenida de Mesilla, 652-4953. Sunday also B. FARLEY’S, 3499 Foothills Rd., Steaks, barbecue, seafood, sand- LE RENDEZ-VOUS CAFÉ, 2701 W. 522-0466. Pizza, burgers, American, wiches, salads, pasta: L D. Picacho Ave. #1, 527-0098. French Mexican: L D. pastry, deli, sandwiches: Tuesday to FIDENCIO’S, 800 S. Telshor, 532- HIGH DESERT BREWING Sunday B L. 5624. Mexican: B L D. COMPANY, 1201 W. Hadley LET THEM EAT CAKE, 1001 E. THE GAME BAR & GRILL, 2605 S. University Ave. Suite D4, 680-5998. Espina, 524-GAME. Sports bar and Ave., 525-6752. Brew pub: Cupcakes: Tuesday to Saturday. grill: L D. L D. LORENZO’S PAN AM, 1753 E. COME VISIT US IN SEPTEMBER THE GAME II: EXTRA INNINGS University Ave., 521-3505. Italian, SPORTS BAR & GRILL, 4131 North- INTERNATIONAL DELIGHTS, 1245 pizza: L D. AND ENJOY THE FOLLOWING: rise Drive, 373-4263, Live music on El Paseo Rd., 647-5956. Greek and LOS COMPAS CAFÉ, 6335 Bataan Dollar Off Pints Happy Hour International: B L D. weekends. American, Southwest, Memorial W., 382-2025. Mexican: Sundays and Mondays 5-7 P.M. now serving weekend brunch 10 a.m. JOSEFINA’S OLD GATE CAFÉ, B L D. Saturdays and Sundays: L D 2261 Calle de Guadalupe, 525-2620. LOS COMPAS CAFÉ, 603 S. Neva- LIVE MUSIC BY LOCAL AND TOURING ARTISTS GARDUÑO’S, 705 S. Telshor (Hotel Pastries, soups, salads, sandwiches: rez St., 523-1778. Mexican: B L D. EVERY THURSDAY AND SATURDAY NIGHT! Encanto), 532-4277. Mexican: B L D. Monday to Thursday L, Friday to LOS COMPAS, 1120 Commerce GO BURGER DRIVE-IN, Home Sunday B L. Dr., 521-6228. Mexican: B L D. FULL MENU AND SPECIALS of the Texas Size Burrito, 1008 E. KEVA JUICE, 1001 E. University, LOS MARIACHIS, 754 N. Motel Lohman Ave. , Las Cruces, NM 88005, 522-4133. Smoothies, frozen yogurt: Blvd., 523-7058. Mexican: B L D. SERVED DAILY! 575-524-9251. Monday - Saturday, 7 B L D. LOS MARIACHIS, 5600 Bataan TRY OUR FAMOUS NACHOS! a.m. – 3 p.m. Specializing in Relleno LA NUEVA CASITA CAFÉ, 195 N. Memorial East, 373-0553. Mexican, Burritos and Other Mexican Food Mesquite, 523-5434. Mexican and L D. DOWNLOAD MUSIC CALENDAR & MENU AT GOLDEN STAR CHINESE FAST American: B L. LA MEXICANA TORTILLERIA, www.highdesertbrewingco.com! FOOD, 1420 El Paseo, 523-2828. LA POSTA RESTAURANT DE 1300 N. Solano Dr, 541-9617. Mex- Chinese: L D. MESILLA, 2410 Calle De San Albino, ican: B L D. GRANDY’S COUNTRY COOKING, 524-3524Mexican, steakhouse: L MATTEO’S, 1001 E. University Ave. 1345 El Paseo Rd., 526-4803. Amer- D, Saturday, Sunday and holidays C-1, 888-4310, Authentic Mexican: ican: B L D. also B. Monday through Saturday: B L D. HABANERO’S 600 E. Amador Ave., LAS TRANCAS, 1008 S. Solano Dr., Wonderfully simple menu, pleasant 524-1829. Fresh Mexican: B L D. 524-1430. Mexican, steaks, burgers, dining room and delicious aguas HACIENDA DE MESILLA, 1803 fried chicken: L D, Saturday and frescas.

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THE STARRY DOME • BERT STEVENS Perseus, Rescuer of Andromeda It’s pointless to defy the Oracle

ising in the north-north- If the orbit of the two stars is Mercury is struggling to make east just after sunset, aligned so that one of stars goes an appearance in the evening RPerseus, the Rescuer of in front of the other as viewed sky as well, staying close to Ve- Andromeda, will grace our Sep- from the Earth, then we see peri- nus all month. On Sept.13 Venus tember sky for the rest of the odic eclipses. and Mercury will be 0.3 degrees night. This constellation repre- In the case of Algol, two of apart but will still be too close senting the Greek hero is locat- the three stars are well enough to the Sun to be seen. After that ed along with constellations rep- aligned so they can partially date, Mercury will be above Ve- resenting the other characters eclipse each other. Most of the nus for the rest of the month. in the myth. These include An- time both Algol A and Algol B The two planets set around 7:30 dromeda, Pegasus, Cetus, Cas- are visible from Earth. During p.m. At month end, Mercury will siopeia and Cepheus, all in this 10-hour period every 2.87 days, shine at magnitude -0.2 with a area of the northern sky. the fainter star, Algol B, covers disc that is 5.3 seconds-of-arc Perseus has a long myth, cov- about half of the hotter, brighter across and 85 percent illuminat- ering most of his life. Acrisius, star, Algol A. This causes the to- ed. King of Argos, had been warned tal light from Algol to decrease Thirty-three degrees above by the Oracle at Delphi that he for the 10 hours of the eclipse. the south-southwestern horizon would be killed by his daugh- Thirty-four hours later, Algol A, as it gets dark, Jupiter makes an ter’s son. Out of fear, he locked Perseus begins to rise in the north-northeast as it gets dark on in turn, partially eclipses Algol appearance moving slowly east- his daughter, Danaë, in a tall, these September nights and remains visible for the rest of the B. While this secondary eclipse ward in southern Ophiuchus. At bronze-lined, tower without night. By 10:30 p.m. it has completely cleared the horizon. This can be observed with sensitive midmonth, Jupiter’s disc is 37.3 doors or windows to prevent her constellation is surrounded by other constellations related to his instruments, it is not evident to seconds-of-arc across, shining at from having children. Zeus was mythology, though Cetus is a little further away, since that sea the eye since Algol B contributes magnitude -2.2. The King of the desirous of her and came to her monster was going to eat Andromeda and was killed by Perseus. much less light to the total sys- Gods sets around 11:30 p.m. as a rain of golden coins through tem. Saturn is moving slowly west- the skylight and Perseus was Calendar of Events – SEPTEMBER 2019 (MST) Algol A is a bluish spectral ward in central Sagittarius until conceived. The fearful Acrisius 02 5 a.m. Mars on the far side of the Sun class B8 while Algol B is a red- Sept. 17 when it turns back east- put his daughter and her child 03 8 p.m. Mercury on the far side of the Sun dish K0 star. These stars both ward. It starts the evening 33 de- in a wooden chest and put them 05 9:10 p.m. First Quarter Moon formed at the same time, but Al- grees above the south-southeast- 13 10:33 p.m. Full Moon out to sea. The gods protected gol B was originally more mas- ern horizon and sets around 1:30 17 Midnight Saturn stands still them until they arrived safely on 21 8:41 p.m. Last Quarter Moon sive than Algol A. This caused a.m. Shining at magnitude +0.4, the island of Seriphos. 23 1:50 a.m. September Equinox-Autumn Algol B to burn its hydrogen the Ringed Planet’s disc is 17.2 sec- Perseus had many adven- begins in Northern Hemisphere faster than Algol A. Once Algol onds-of-arc across, while the Rings tures, include the beheading of 28 12:26 p.m. New Moon B used up all the hydrogen in are 38.9 seconds-of-arc across Medusa, who turned any mor- its core, it grew larger and its with the northern face showing on tal who gazed upon her into convinced Cepheus to agree to sei), which means The Demon’s surface cooled to a red color. a down-tilt of 25.2 degrees. stone. The winged horse Pega- allow him to marry Andromeda Head. To the ancient sky gazers, This left the smaller Algol A as The astronomical season of sus sprang from Medusa’s sev- if he killed Cetus. each star in the sky was a fixed the brighter star in the system. Autumn begins on Sept. 23 at ered neck. Keeping Medusa’s When Cetus appeared, Per- beacon, never changing it bright- There is also a third component 1:50 a.m. The Sun will cross the head in a knapsack, Perseus seus pulled Medusa’s head out of ness. Algol, on the other hand, in this star system, but it does celestial equator moving south- was flying Pegasus toward his the knapsack, killing Cetus. He would change its brightness not participate in the eclipses. ward at that instant. Here on home when he saw a beautiful soon married Andromeda. Much regularly every 2.87 days. They Earth, the Sun will rise directly woman chained to rocks on the later in his life, Perseus had could easily see it fade from The Planets for in the east and set directly in the seashore. Landing quickly, the heard of the prophesy that he magnitude +2.3 to magnitude September 2019 west. This causes the days and maiden, Andromeda, told him would kill his stepfather. Staying +3.5 and then brighten back up nights to be of equal length, each that she had been chained there away from his homeland and his again. This made Algol unique or While Mars remains too close 12 hours long. After that, nights by her father. King Cepheus. stepfather, he went to partici- even a “demon star.” to the sun to be seen, Venus re- will continue to get longer, giv- Her mother, Queen Cassiope- pate in a sporting competition. The changing brightness qual- turns to the evening sky in the ing you more time to “keep ia, had boasted that her daughter One of his discus throws went ifies Algol as a variable star. last part of this month shining watching the sky!” was more beautiful than the sea awry, killing a man who turned However, it does not change its at magnitude -3.9. By the end nymphs. Poseidon, god of the out to be his stepfather, fulfilling brightness by changing its size of the month, Venus will have a An amateur astronomer for sea, was outraged by this boast the prophesy. After his death, or surface characteristics, but disc that is 10.3 seconds-of-arc more than 45 and sent the sea monster Cetus Perseus was placed in the sky. by eclipses. Multiple-star sys- across and it is ninety-eight per- years, Bert to ravage the land. The Oracle at The traditional drawings of tems are ubiquitous in the uni- cent illuminated. It will still be Stevens is Delphi told King Cepheus that the constellation Perseus have verse. The orbits of multiple star just above the western horizon co-director of he must sacrifice his daughter to him holding the head of Medusa. systems are randomly oriented as it gets dark. During the month, Desert Moon the sea monster and so she was The star representing the head depending on the rotation of Venus moves from south-central Observatory in chained to the rocks. Perseus of Medusa is Algol (Beta Per- the cloud that formed the stars. Leo to central Virgo. Las Cruces.

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PUBLISHER’S NOTEBOOK • RICHARD COLTHARP Corazon Roto … The difference in differences

e hold these truths Mexicans have a lot more in term is these days, I also must to be self-evident, common with El Paso than we remember I can never fully walk “Wthat all men are would ever admit. And El Paso in the shoes of a Mexican-Amer- created equal, that they are en- has a lot more in common with ican, an African-American, a dowed by their Creator with us than it does with Texas at Muslim-American, or even a Na- certain unalienable Rights, that large. tive American, despite my slight CECILIA “Ceci” McNICOLL among these are Life, Liberty When tragedy struck El Paso Cherokee heritage. Hacienda Realty and the pursuit of Happiness.” Aug. 3, with the horrific mass But I can and should recognize 1628 Silver Heights Blvd, Silver City, NM 88061 We know those words as the shooting, I happened to be in the and acknowledge the difference c: 575.574.8549; o: 575.388.1921 second paragraph of the Decla- city, about five miles from the in the way a Hispanic must feel [email protected] ration of Independence, whose incident. My first two emotions after this mass shooting. Just as www.haciendarealtysc.com writers and signers, most of were sadness, then anger. Those we can and should recognize them slave owners, didn’t real- were followed closely by frus- and acknowledge a difference in ly believe all men are created tration, then more sadness at the the way Jews felt after the Pitts- equal. Either that, or they didn’t pointless loss of precious human burgh synagogue shootings. Or view their African slaves as men. lives. the way Muslims felt after the And it’s pretty clear they didn’t As details emerged, and we New Zealand mosque shootings. believe women were created learned of the hate-filled nature Yes, losses of any life, regard- equal either, denying them vari- of the crime, more anger arose. less of ethnicity, are tragedies in ous rights, including the vote. However, because I thought of and of themselves. While all that was going on the murders broadly, generally, But when differences are in the 1770s, there was another as a senseless waste of human- targeted, and hate is behind it, “civilization” happening 2,000 ity, I missed a key point. there’s a difference. miles to the southwest, exploit- Having been in southern New We all should recognize that. ing and brutalizing natives, in a Mexico for 24 years, I have con- It makes the world feel even world mostly unknown to the stantly been around Hispanics. colder, and it makes the heart New Englanders. I have worked with Hispanics, break even harder. New Mexico is a land settled worshiped and prayed with His- not by the Pilgrims and revolu- panics, dined with Hispanics, Richard tionaries from the British Em- drank beer and tequila with His- Coltharp is pire, but by the conquistadores panics, played basketball with publisher and missionaries of Spain. The Hispanics, danced and sang with of Desert Spaniards and their descendants Hispanics, walked and talked Exposure and had been here for more than 200 with Hispanics on a constant the Las Cruces years when the American expan- basis. I’m Anglo, but both of my Bulletin. He sion collided with New Mexico, daughters are one-quarter His- can be reached at richard@ and different chunks of our land panic. lascrucesbulletin.com. In case became U.S. Territory in various I realized I used the word His- you’re wondering, Corazon deals and battles with France, panic nine times in the previous Roto is Spanish for broken Texas, Mexico and even the Con- paragraph, but I had to force that heart. federacy. to make my point. In day-to-day If you’ve lived in New Mexico life, I don’t use, or need to use, any time at all, you’ve lived with the word because the differenc- and known Spanish speakers es are mostly lost. They are sim- and non-Spanish speakers of all ply friends, colleagues, family. colors, shapes, sizes and heritag- This diverse weave is the fabric es. of our region. All this rambling to say, most So, after the tragedy, even We are Proud to of us in the Land of Enchant- though I knew that almost all ment have long accepted each the victims were Hispanic, I was other’s differences. Anglos live mourning not that specifically, Support and and work side-by-side with Lati- but the general loss of human nos. Latinos live and work side- life. by-side with Natives. Natives Later, though, when I heard Hire Veterans live and work side-by-side with some Hispanic friends speak Anglos. So many have inter- about the tragedy, including married and intermingled over New Mexico Lt. Gov. Howie Mo- We are looking for people with the generations, sometimes it’s rales, I realized how much more various disabilities, Veterans, and hard to tell who’s who, and no personal, pointed and painful it one seems to care. There aren’t was for them. They literally had wounded warriors to support as many Asians, African-Ameri- a target on their backs. our contract work. cans or other nationalities here, And while it’s good to lose dif- yet all over New Mexico, every ferences in many realms, some- ethnic group, regardless of size, times it’s important to remem- Through Tresco has made impacts and imprints. ber differences. And, again, for the most part, we The privileges I get from be- you can fulfill the needs of all respect each other and get ing a straight, white, college-ed- State and Federal contracts like the along. ucated, Christian male may be The only thing I’ve seen really mostly invisible to me, but they Department of Defense in our area! divide us New Mexicans is poli- are nonetheless tangible differ- tics. Or, sometimes, the football ences. Had I been in Walmart teams we root for. that day, even in the line of fire, I Learn More: We sometimes say the Texas might have been spared. state line divides us from the As much as I may consider www.trescoinc.org Tejanos, but we southern New myself an “ally,” or whatever the {575} 528-2200 1800 Copper Loop, Las Cruces, nM 88005 Over 200 EmplOyEEs have a disability

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32 YEARS IN SILVER CITY • SUSAN GOLIGHTLY Forgiveness Living through abuse: finding healing in love was born in 1943 Bremerton, prised him when he was frying eggs wrath, his PTSD. I didn’t act like a anger stayed with me for a long Washington. My biological for breakfast. He swung around man. I didn’t sit right; I didn’t stand time. I took that anger out on my- Ifather was in the Navy and with the frying pan and almost hit right; I cried all the time. I embar- self through self-destructive behav- worked in the big shipyard there. I her in the head. He had fast reflex- rassed him. I didn’t like sports. I ior. Lots of drugs, and dangerous have no memory of that. I have no es. In fact, his reflexes were so fast didn’t like hunting and fishing. I and risky behavior. I rode chopped memory of my biological father. In that he boxed and boxed in his free liked playing house. I liked jump hogs and dared police to catch me. fact, I have very little memory of time. He boxed at the Marine base. rope and hopscotch. I had dolls I worked in a “chop shop” build- my life before I was five years old. He boxed with Archie Moore, the and loved dressing them up and ing bikes for Hell’s Angels. I used Five years old, I believe, was my world heavy weight champion. He playing with them and he took my to hand load my own ammo and Susan as a kid age when my mom, my older broth- boxed with my brother’s friends. dolls away. go shoot up hillsides. I would pick er and I moved in with my mom’s Everyone boxed. I didn’t box, I shut At the age of 13, I ran away. After fights. I always got beat up, but that Because I was blinded by my parents. They owned a chicken my eyes, swung my arms, and cried. hiding at night in a boxcar, I was didn’t stop me. I was so angry. anger, I missed knowing a good and rabbit ranch in east San Di- Tobie’s family was straight out picked up by the police. They took Then I got saved. I found that person. When I went to see Tobie, ego – a town called Encanto. My of Grant Wood’s famous painting, me to the police station. When my there was more than just me. I many years later – long before I had older brother told me before that “American Gothic.” His mother’s parents came to get me I told the found that there was a greater forgiven him. I found, instead of a we lived in foster homes. I have no name was Biddy; his father’s name police, “I will not go with them.” power that loved me. God woke big strong boxer of a man, I saw a memory of that, but I do remember was Fagin, his sisters’ names were They argued with me, but I said I me up every morning at 4 a.m. skinny falling-down drunk person. people saying to me, “You probably Cork and Skinny, and his broth- would just run away again. So, they For months, I would lie spread I was ashamed and scared and ran don’t remember us, but you used to er’s name was Fran. Tobie didn’t put me in the juvenile detention eagle and prone on the floor of away. That was the last time I saw live with us when you were little.” I understand my mother who want- center. I loved it. I mean, I loved our school bus and just weep. I Tobie. He passed away without me heard that from a lot of people. ed to be an independent modern being there. For the first time in my realized, I needed to forgive Tobie. being able to make peace with him. My step-father, Tobie, came to woman. My mother worked in the life I felt safe. How could I do that. I had so much It makes me cry to write this. We live with us when I was around six local convenience store and was After several foster homes and anger, so much hate. But God was all do things we regret. We all try years old. Before that, I remem- involved in the PTA and other stuff. some couch surfing with high relentless. And it came to me – I so hard to be a good person, and ber being happy. I could be a girl My mother was rarely home and school friends, I moved home in needed to walk in Tobie’s shoes. we all often fall so short. I can only and dress how I liked. When To- Tobie drank. He had a refrigerator my 11th grade year. My parents put I took his name. I became Tobie. think of the Sufi practice where we bie came into my life, everything in the garage filled with beer and a little camper trailer in the back- Most people in Silver City knew me go from partner to partner saying, changed. He made it his goal in life drove a beer truck. I rode with him yard for me. By this time, Tobie as Tobie. I still get called Tobie now “I’m sorry, please forgive me, I love to make a man out of me. From once – a father son work day. He would come home from work and and then. you.” Tobie, wherever you are, I’m that point on, my life was filled drank a beer at every bar he deliv- pass out. So, if I avoided being seen I have forgiven Tobie and have sorry, please forgive me, I love you. with fear and misery. ered to. Tobie was a likable guy – if or heard, things worked out pretty come to love him. He was a farm Tobie grew up on a farm in Ne- you weren’t me. well, and I was able to graduate boy from Nebraska who had bad Susan Golightly just turned braska. He, like so many young I can remember the places from high school. The main thing things happen to him. He didn’t 76 years old. She still stays men, went off to fight in World War where I was left lying in a fetal po- was the beatings stopped. know how to deal with it. He was active riding her bicycles and II. He marched across North Africa, sition from being beaten – the hall- I was so angry growing up. a good man who wanted to help is currently building a storage and then up into Italy. He fought way, the garage, the kitchen, my Sometimes, I was just filled with people and often helped our neigh- shed in her yard. Susan’s hold and he fought, and he marched, own and my little brother’s room. hate. I used to fantasize about bors. When I was 15, I rode my bi- both a BA and an MA from and he marched. And, he came He would take his belt off and hit dropping cinder blocks on cars cycle from San Diego to San Fran- WNMU. Both times she was home with PTSD. It was called me and hit me and hit me until from an over pass. I remember the cisco and back. I planned to leave valedictorian. The first time as shell shock then. He almost killed I was curled up on the floor just police catching me throwing rocks at 5 a.m. Tobie got up and fixed me a man and the second time as a his sister “Skinny,” when she sur- whimpering. I was the object of his at cars. I got a beating for that. That breakfast. woman.

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Medicine returns to discuss and Springs Natural Area, 15000 Drip- Shady Pines — 9-11 a.m. and 2-5 p.m. at 200 Fox (facing Wren) half- sign “Blue Dragon Case Studies: ping Springs Road, Las Cruces. way up the middle unpaved road A Western Guidebook to Eastern Info: www.locallascruces.com. to the Lodge in Cloudcroft. Explore Medicine.” Info: bluedragondom@ Saturday Night Dance at the the fairy gardens and eavesdrop gmail.com. Munson — 5-7 p.m. at the Mun- on chamber music jams. Info: 361- Live Music: Alison Reynolds — 8 son Center, 975 S. Mesquite St. 557-1960. p.m. at Little Toad Creek, 200 N. Cost: $3. Info: 575-528-3000. Bullard St. Downtown Silver City. FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 6 Info: 575-313-1266. Live Music: Flat Blak — 8 p.m. at Columbus/Luna County Little Toad Creek, 119 N. Main St., Silver City/Grant County — 7 Downtown Las Cruces. Info: 575- — Crafts and Farmers Market Live Music: The Oversouls a.m.-noon at La Plazita Park, cor- 313-1266. 7:30 p.m. at Little Toad Creek, 200 ner of Broadway and Highway 11 N. Bullard St. Downtown Silver in Columbus. Info: 575-531-2663. City. Info: 575-313-1266. SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 8 Silver City/Grant County Truth or Consequences/ Alamogordo/Otero County Sunday Brunch music — 1 p.m. Sierra County at Little Toad Creek, 200 N. Bullard Fiesta de La Luz — 5-11 p.m. in the town of La Luz. Annual church Sierra County Farmers’ Market St. Downtown Silver City. Info: — 8:30 a.m.-noon at Ralph Ed- fiesta, entertainment, food and 575-313-1266. wards Park, Riverside and Cedar, games. Cost: Free. Info: 575-430- Truth or Consequences. Info: 575- 7801. Alamogordo/Otero County 894-9375. White Sands Balloon and Music Las Cruces/Mesilla Festival — 7 a.m. launch from Alamogordo/Otero County White Sands National Monument. First Friday Art Ramble — 5-8 p.m. downtown Las Cruces. Info: White Sands Balloon and Music Gates open at 6 a.m. Bring water — 7 a.m. launch from 575-541-2150. Festival and get there early to ensure en- Ed Brabson Balloon Park in Al- — trance to the park. Cost: Free. Info: Live Music: Smokin Blue Band amogordo; 2 p.m. music begins; 7 8 p.m. at Little Toad Creek, 119 N. 575-437-6120. pm. Balloon glow. Food and mem- Main St., Downtown Las Cruces. orabilia vendors will be on site. Info: 575-313-1266. Las Cruces/Mesilla Cost: Free. Info: 575-437-6120. Mesilla River Run! Inner tube Columbus/Luna County Alamogordo Farmer’s Market rafting trip on the Rio Grande — — 8:30 a.m. at 1991 White Sands — 7 9 a.m. in Mesilla at Calle de Norte Crafts and Farmers Market Blvd., the north end of Alameda a.m.-noon at La Plazita Park, cor- bridge, 3440 W. Picacho Ave., Las Park, next to the Toy Train Depot in ner of Broadway and Highway 11 Cruces. Cost: $15 for adults and Alamogordo. Info: 575-682-3323. in Columbus. Info: 575-531-2663. $10 for children. Info: www.swex- Alamogordo Western Frontier peditions.com. — 9 a.m.- 5 p.m., 401 SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 7 Gun Show Slot Canyon Tour — 9 a.m.-noon, Fairgrounds Road, Alamogordo. meet at the Old Doña Ana County Silver City/Grant County Buy, sell or trade guns, knives, Courthouse, 215 W. Amador. In — 9 Silver City Farmer’s Market ammunition, military surplus, jew- the shadow of the Robledo lies a.m.-noon in Historic Downtown elry and handcrafts. Cost: $6. Info: a slot canyon within the Organ Silver City at Eighth Street be- 575-430-8681. Mountain-Desert Peaks National tween Bullard Street and the Big — 10 a.m.-11 Monument. Cost: free. Info: RSVP Ditch. Info: silvercityfarmersmar- Fiesta de La Luz p.m. in the town of La Luz. Annual to [email protected]. [email protected]. church fiesta, entertainment, food Monuments and Main Street Book signing and talk: “Blue and games. Cost: Free. Info: 575- — 4-9 p.m. — 2-4 Kick-Off Fiesta Dragon Case Studies” 430-7801. at Klein Park, 155 N. Mesquite The Cirque Mei Chinese acrobats take their lighter-than-air ac- p.m. at the Tranquilbuzz Coffee — St, Las Cruces. Live music with tion to Silver City’s WNMU Fine Arts Center Theatre on Sept. 28. House in Silver City. Former Silver Oliver Lee Ranch House Tour 10-11 a.m. at Oliver Lee Memorial Nosotros. Stagecoach trolley rides, (Courtesy Photo) City resident and doctor of Oriental State Park, about 12 miles south Organ Mountains painting class of Alamogordo, take U.S. Highway and crafts, reenactment of found- 54 about 8 miles and turn east ing of Las Cruces and much more. on Dog Canyon Road for 4 miles. Cost: Free. Info: www.locallascru- Meet at the visitor center to check ces.com. in. Info: 575-437-8284. Live Music: Skivi Meredith — 5 p.m. at Little Toad Creek, 119 N. Las Cruces/Mesilla Main St., Downtown Las Cruces. Farmers Arts and Crafts Market Info: 575-313-1266. — 8 a.m.-1 p.m. At the Plaza of Condensed Schedule Las Cruces, Info: 575-805-6055. MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 9 Friday, Oct. 18 Aden Crater: Rugged wonder- Silver City/Grant County land guided hike — 9 a.m.-2 p.m. meet at the Women’s Intercultural Widowed and Single Persons — 10:30 a.m. Center, 303 Lincoln St. in Anthony. of Grant County at Cross Point Assembly of God Cost: free. Info and reservations: Sat. Oct. 1 Church, 11600 U.S. Highway 180 [email protected]. E. Entertainment is harpist Karen Mesilla River Run! Inner tube Nelson. Cost: Lunch $12. Info: — rafting trip on the Rio Grande 575-537-3643. 9 a.m. in Mesilla at Calle de Norte bridge, 3440 W. Picacho Ave., Las Cruces. Cost: $15 for adults and TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 10 $10 for children. Info: www.swex- Ruidoso/Lincoln County peditions.com. Children and Youth Summit — 11:30 a.m. at Sacred Yoga in the Monument — 9 a.m. meeting at Organ Mountains Dripping Grounds Coffee and Tea House,

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2704 Sudderth Drive in Ruido- all weekend or $10 Friday and food, music, burn out, 49 awards Sunday and $20 Saturday. Info: 575-744-9137. so. The South Central Mountain Sunday and $20 Saturday. Info: categories and more. Info: 5758- 575-895-5652. Children and Youth Summit is ded- 575-895-5652. 442-9237. Second Saturday Art Hop — Las Cruces/Mesilla icated to the building of networks Oliver Lee Ranch House Tour — 6-9 p.m. in Downtown T or C Farmers Arts and Crafts Market between organizations and individ- Las Cruces/Mesilla 10-11 a.m. at Oliver Lee Memorial along Main, Broadway, Foch, and — 8 a.m.-1 p.m. At the Plaza of uals and improving development Live Music: The Casual Fridays State Park, about 12 miles south Austin streets. Galleries, studios, Las Cruces, Info: 575-805-6055. of children’s and youth programs — 8 p.m. at Little Toad Creek, of Alamogordo, take U.S. Highway shops and restaurants open late Lower Broad Canyon Hike — 8 in Lincoln and Otero counties. Info: 119 N. Main St., Downtown Las 54 about 8 miles and turn east for exploration. Info; promotion@ a.m.-noon, meet at the Old Doña [email protected]. Cruces. Info: 575-313-1266. on Dog Canyon Road for 4 miles. torcmainstreet.org. Ana County Courthouse, 215 W. Meet at the visitor center to check Old Time Fiddlers Dance — Amador. Explore Broad Canyon WEDNESDAY, Ruidoso/Lincoln County in. Info: 575-437-8284. 7-9 p.m. New Mexico Old Time which drains the west side of the SEPTEMBER 11 Vince Neil and Vixen live — 8-10 Touch a Truck MOPS fundraiser Fiddlers Playhouse, 710 Elm St., Sierra de las Uvas Mountains sur- p.m. at the Inn of the Mountain — 10 a.m.-2 p.m. at Christ Com- Truth or Consequences. $4 Info: rounding Desert Peaks. Cost: free. Silver City/Grant County Gods in Mescalero. Lead vocalist munity Church, 2960 N. Scenic — 9 Silver City Farmer’s Market of Motley Crue performing with Drive, in Alamogordo. Fire trucks a.m.-noon at the Ace Hardware Vixen for epic night of rock’n’roll. to tractors on hand for families to Parking Lot, 3025 U.S. Highway Cost: $25. Info: www.innofthe- explore, includes vendors, food 180 E., Silver City. Info: silvercity- mountaingods.com. and fun. Info: 575-642-3681. [email protected]. Thank a Police Officer Day — 10 CARNEY FOY, CPA a.m.-2 p.m. at the Otero County THURSDAY, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 14 Fairgrounds Pavilion in Alamogor- CERTIFIED PUBLIC ACCOUNTANT SEPTEMBER 12 do. Meet local police officers and Silver City/Grant County Truth or Consequences/Sierra enjoy food, fun and fellowship. — 9 County Silver City Farmer’s Market Info: oteroleoappreciation@gmail. a.m.-noon in Historic Downtown P.O. Box 2331 (575) 388-3111 Sierra Twirlers Square Dance com. Silver City at Eighth Street be- 212 N. Arizona Street (575) 388-2770 — 5:30-8 p.m. at the Fiddlers — tween Bullard Street and the Big A Penny for Your Thoughts Playhouse, 710 Elm in T or C. Main 3-6:30 p.m. at Xtreme Amplitude Silver City, NM 88062 [email protected] Ditch. Info: silvercityfarmersmar- stream and plus dancing. Info: Gym, 700 First St. in the Granada [email protected]. 505-804-3842. Shopping Center, Alamogordo. Second Saturday Gallery Walk An open house and fundraiser in — 5-7 p.m. in Silver City, various Las Cruces/Mesilla honor of Joe Don Kekahbah and locations. Info: 575-538-5555. all who have lost their battle with *Music on the Downtown Plaza: — 8 p.m. at — 8 Live Music: Calista mental health and for those who Mariachi Real de El Paso Little Toad Creek, 200 N. Bullard p.m. on the Las Cruces Plaza. are still fighting. Info: 575-488- St. Downtown Silver City. Info: Thursday nigh music night serves 9267. 575-313-1266. up mariachi music. Info: Info: 575- 80th Annual Otero County Fair & 541-2550. — 6:30-7:30 p.m. Deming/ Columbus/Luna County Rodeo Parade along 10th Street in Alamogordo. — 7 Crafts and Farmers Market Info: 575-434-0788. FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 13 a.m.-noon at La Plazita Park, cor- Silver City/Grant County ner of Broadway and Highway 11 Truth or Consequences/ Live Music: Dale & Waylon — 8 in Columbus. Info: 575-531-2663. p.m. at Little Toad Creek, 200 N. Sierra County MainStreet Market — 8-11 a.m. Bullard St. Downtown Silver City. at 700 S. Silver Ave. in Deming. Elephant Butte Balloon Regatta 6:45-10 a.m. at Elephant Butte Info: 575-313-1266. Info: 575-546-2674. — ADOBE TECHNIQUES, LLC Lake State Park, Highway 195, El- Concete Pumping & Decorative Gravel, ephant Butte. Info: 505-908-0909. Columbus/Luna County Alamogordo/Otero County Shotcrete, Slabs, Block Laying, Crafts and Farmers Market — 7 Sierra County Farmers’ Mar- Bobcat, Dirt, Gravel and Pavers Alamogordo Farmer’s Market — 8:30 a.m.-noon at Ralph a.m.-noon at La Plazita Park, cor- — 8:30 a.m. at 1991 White Sands ket Edwards Park, Riverside and Ce- ner of Broadway and Highway 11 Blvd., the north end of Alameda dar, Truth or Consequences. 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Info: RSVP to [email protected]. torcycle Rally — 10 a.m.-7 p.m. Yoga in the Monument — 9 a.m. at the Ruidoso Downs Race Track at Organ Mountains Dripping and Casino. Info: www.motorcy- Springs Natural Area, 15000 Drip- clerally.com. ping Springs Road, Las Cruces. Info: www.locallascruces.com. THURSDAY, Diez y Seis de Septiembre Fiesta SEPTEMBER 19 — 11 a.m.-5:30 p.m. at the Historic Silver City/Grant County Mesilla Plaza in Mesilla. Live music, — rides, food games and more. Lucibela: live performance 6:30 p.m. at the WNMU Gar- Parade starts at 11 a.m. on Avenida dens. Cultural season concert by de Mesilla. Cost: free. Info: www. Brazilian vocalist Lucibela blends a monuments2mainstreet.com. musical cornucopia of the islands Music Experience: Classical using guitars, cavaquinho, saxo- — 7:30-9:30 at the DAAC Drinking phone, accordion and violin. Cost: Arts & Cultural Center, 1740 Calle Free. Info: 575-538-6469. de Mercado in Mesilla. Features the talents of La Catrina String Quartet Truth or Consequences/ and Jim Sherer as special guest. Sierra County Cash bar offered by Dry Point Dis- tillers. Info: 575-523-6403. Sierra Twirlers Square Dance — 5:30-8 p.m. at the Fiddlers — 8 Live Music: Mungo Jerry Playhouse, 710 Elm in T or C. Main p.m. at Little Toad Creek, 119 N. stream and plus dancing. Info: Main St., Downtown Las Cruces. 505-804-3842. Info: 575-313-1266. Alamogordo/Otero County Ruidoso/Lincoln County — Adobe Art Expo — 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Otero County Fair and Rodeo In Cloudcroft, Lumberjack Day is celebrated with contests and music Sept. 21. (Courtesy Photo) 9 a.m.- 11 p.m., 401 Fairgrounds at the Adobe Plaza, 200 Mechem Road, Alamogordo. Amusement Drive in Ruidoso. Info: sum- Truth or Consequences/ Historic Mesilla Plaza in Mesilla. trip to the Fort Bayard Preserve rides, lamb show, goat show, [email protected]. Sierra County Live music, rides, food games and — 8 a.m. meet-up at the south exhibits and pavilion. Info: Otero- Eli Young Band live — 8-10 p.m. Elephant Butte Balloon Regatta more. Parade starts at 11 a.m. on parking lot of the Fine Arts Center countyfair.com. at the Inn of the Mountain Gods in Theatre at Western New Mexico — 6:45-10 a.m. at Elephant Butte Avenida de Mesilla. Cost: free. Mescalero. Cost: $25. Info: www. Lake State Park, Highway 195, El- Info: www.monuments2mainstreet. From the Known to the Unknown University for carpooling. Info: han- — 1 p.m. at the innofthemountaingods.com. [email protected]. ephant Butte. Info: 505-908-0909. com. (Brick Walls) Pickamania — 5:30-9 p.m. at the — 5 p.m. Alamogordo Public Library, 920 Sunday Brunch music — 1 p.m. Live Music: Anna p.s. Black Range Lodge, 119 Kings- at Little Toad Creek, 119 N. Main Oregon Ave. Alamogordo. Info: SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 15 at Little Toad Creek, 200 N. Bullard [email protected]. St. Downtown Silver City. Info: ton Main St. Kingston. A regional St., Downtown Las Cruces. Info: Silver City/Grant County music festival featuring Americana 575-313-1266. 575-313-1266. Las Cruces/Mesilla Gila Native Plant Society field music and Apple Pie. Cost $30 Mesilla Valley Jazz & Blues — 10 a.m.-3 all weekend or $10 Friday and Society concert with The Cool- Fall Prevention Fair p.m. at Good Samaritan – Las Sunday and $20 Saturday. Info: side Collective — 7 p.m. at First 575-895-5652. Christian Church, 1809 El Paseo in Cruces Village Social Center, Eagle Mail Services 3011 Buena Vida Circle. Vendors, *Second Sunday on the Animas Las Cruces. Cost: $10. Info: 575- A MAIL & PARCEL CENTER speakers, information and free Creek Trail — 9 a.m.-2 p.m., 55 640-8752. smoke detectors and night lights. UPS • FedEx • US Mail • Private Mailboxes Animas Creek Road in Caballo. Art studios, farms, birding trails, Ruidoso/Lincoln County Info: 575556-2103. Re-Mailing • Fax • Copy • Notary labyrinth, creek trail and shops. Adobe Art Expo — 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Ruidoso/Lincoln County Open 9–5 Mon–Fri Info: 575-743-0224. at the Adobe Plaza, 200 Mechem Denise Dewald, Owner 50th Annual Golden Aspen Motor- 2311 Ranch Club Road Ph (575) 388-1967 *Black Cat Poetry Reading — Drive in Ruidoso. Info: sum- cycle Rally — 10 a.m.-7 p.m. at the Silver City, NM 88061-7807 Fax (575) 388-1623 1-2:15 p.m. at Black Cat Books & [email protected]. Coffee, 128 N. Broadway in Truth Ruidoso Downs Race Track and Casino. Info: www.motorcyclerally. [email protected] or Consequences. Info: 575-202- TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 17 com. 8642. Las Cruces/Doña Ana County “Where to photograph in Oc- Alamogordo/Otero County FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 20 tober” — 7 p.m. with the Doña Food Truck Festival — 11 a.m.-6 Ana Photography Club, Cruces Silver City/Grant County T p.m. at the Heart of the Desert, on Creatives, 205 E. Lohman, in Las Live Music: Jim Dixon — 8 p.m. U.S. 54/70 in between Alamogor- at Little Toad Creek, 200 N. Bullard Cruces. Ann Chase presents the do and Tularosa. Live music with short program with is followed by St. Downtown Silver City. Info: 575-313-1266. Rosewater Blues and Hear No Evil. viewing of members’ photographs Cost: Free. Info: 575-434-0035. for the month’s theme, “flora.” Cost: Free. Info: www.daphoto- Deming/ Columbus/Luna County Good Time Las Cruces/Mesilla club.org. Crafts and Farmers Market — 7 Top of the Ridge Hike — 9 a.m.- a.m.-noon at La Plazita Park, cor- Motors noon, meet at the Old Doña Ana Ruidoso/Lincoln CountyT ner of Broadway and Highway 11 County Courthouse, 215 W. Ama- 50th Annual Golden Aspen Motor- in Columbus. Info: 575-531-2663. dor. Gentle walk up a lush ridge to cycle Rally — 10 a.m.-7 p.m. at the a breathtaking summit of Top of Ruidoso Downs Race Track and Alamogordo/Otero County the World Ridge. Cost: free. Info: Casino. Info: www.motorcyclerally. Otero County Fair and Rodeo — 2 ios los oad, ilver Ciy, M RSVP to [email protected]. com. 9 a.m.- 11 p.m., 401 Fairgrounds 575--7772 • 575-956-756 Diez y Seis de Septiembre Road, Alamogordo. Pancake Fiesta — 11 a.m.-5:30 p.m. at the WEDNESDAY, breakfast, amusement rides, rodeo, steer show, cattle show, SEPTEMBER 18 street dance, exhibits and pavilion. C • Silver City/Grant County Info: Oterocountyfair.com. Silver City Farmers’ Market — 9 a.m.-noon in the Ace Hardware Las Cruces/Mesilla Parking Lot, 3025 U.S. Highway La Gran Fiesta — 5 p.m.-midnight 180 E, Silver City. Info: silvercity- at Plaza de Las Cruces, 100 N. [email protected]. Main St. in Las Cruces. CARE’s signature cancer fundraiser fea- Alamogordo/Otero County tures live music with Bobby Pulido, Otero County Fair and Rodeo — craft and art vendors and food 9 a.m.- 11 p.m., 401 Fairgrounds trucks. Cost: $25 at the gate. Info: 1950 Hwy 180 East Road, Alamogordo. Rabbits, 575-649-0598. Open Mon.–Sat. swine, exhibits and pavilion. Info: Silver City, NM Contra Dance — 7:30-10:30 p.m. 9am–5pm Oterocountyfair.com. at the Mesilla Community Center, 575-313-1507 2251 Calle de Santiago, Mesilla. Fall la are arrivi e al ave e la a Las Cruces/Mesilla Rus Bradburd and Dennis Daily of all er. Hrry i r all yr all lai ee. Beginner Bird walk with the Las Cruces are the band and Lew- Or r ill e li r e ea Seeer 2 Mesilla Valley Audubon Society is Land from Carlsbad is calling. ’ rry e ill e e r e liay — 7:45 a.m.-noon at Tellbrook No partner is needed, beginners Park, 4290 E. Winchester Road, e ee y e and newcomers are welcome. Las Alturas area. Cost: Free. Info: Cost: $6. Info: 575-522-1691. A alay Hay Plai 575-528-8696. a Ta r aer Ruidoso/Lincoln County rea year Ruidoso/Lincoln County 50th Annual Golden Aspen Mo- 50th Annual Golden Aspen Mo- torcycle Rally — 10 a.m.-7 p.m. Happy Planting! DESERT EXPOSURE SEPTEMBER 2019 • 41 at the Ruidoso Downs Race Track State Park, about 12 miles south and Casino. Info: www.motorcy- of Alamogordo, take U.S. Highway clerally.com. 54 about 8 miles and turn east on Dog Canyon Road for 4 miles. SATURDAY, Meet at the visitor center to check SEPTEMBER 21 in. Info: 575-437-8284. Silver City/Grant and Catron Socorro/Socorro County Counties — 9 The Great New Mexico Chile Silver City Farmer’s Market — 1-8 p.m. at the So- a.m.-noon in Historic Downtown Taste-Off corro Soccer and Rodeo Complex, Silver City at Eighth Street be- 1 Rodeo Drive, Socorro. Includes tween Bullard Street and the Big fireworks and a burning of the Ditch. Info: silvercityfarmersmar- pepper event. Info: 505-980-8762. [email protected]. Deming/ Columbus/Luna County Las Cruces/Mesilla Crafts and Farmers Market — 7 a.m.-noon at La Plazita Park, cor- Farmers Arts and Crafts Market — 8 a.m.-1 p.m. At the Plaza of ner of Broadway and Highway 11 Las Cruces, Info: 575-805-6055. in Columbus. Info: 575-531-2663. Picacho Mountain Outdoor — 9 a.m.-4 p.m. at the Truth or Consequences/ Festival Joe Neri Blues Dawg Blues plays the Blues Brunch Sept. 1 at Silver City’s Little Toad Creek. (Cour- Willows at Picacho Mountain, 8149 Sierra County tesy Photo) Willow Bloom Circle, Las Cruces. Sierra County Farmers’ Market Promoting the great outdoors with de Las Cruces, 100 Main St. in — 8:30 a.m.-noon at Ralph Ed- a run/walk, cycle race, vendors Las Cruces. Must attend 7 p.m. wards Park, Riverside and Cedar, In the House or In the Barn... and clubs showcasing, demonstra- meeting Sept. 11. Cost: Free. Info: Truth or Consequences. Info: 575- tions, tours, beer tent, chili relleno RSVP [email protected]. 894-9375. cook-off and more. Cost: Free. La Gran Fiesta — 5 p.m.-midnight — 7-9 Old Time Fiddlers Dance Info: 1-877-808-6877. at Plaza de Las Cruces, 100 N. p.m. New Mexico Old Time Fid- — 9 a.m.-noon, Main St. in Las Cruces. CARE’s dlers Playhouse, 710 Elm St., Truth Slot Canyon Tour meet at the Old Doña Ana County signature cancer fundraiser Pet Sitting or Consequences. Cost $4 Info: Free Consultation • Insured • Bonded Courthouse, 215 W. Amador. In features live music with Michael 575-744-9137. the shadow of the Robledo lies Salgado, craft and art vendors and a slot canyon within the Organ food trucks. Cost: $25 at the gate. Alamogordo/Otero County Mountain-Desert Peaks National Info: 575-649-0598. 575-313-0690 7:30 a.m.- www.frumpyfox.net • Silver City, NM Lumberjack Day — Monument. Cost: free. Info: RSVP Illusions 360 MD: Raze is Back 3:30 p.m. at Zenith Park in to [email protected]. Cloudcroft. Lumberjacks, art show, — 9 a.m. music, pancake breakfast and Yoga in the Monument at Organ Mountains Dripping more. Info: 575-682-2733. Springs Natural Area, 15000 Drip- Alamogordo Farmer’s Market ping Springs Road, Las Cruces. — 8:30 a.m. at 1991 White Sands Info: www.locallascruces.com. Blvd., the north end of Alameda Park, next to the Toy Train Depot in Discovery Site guided hike at — 2-6 Alamogordo. Info: 575-682-3323. Prehistoric Trackways p.m. meeting at the Trackways — Otero County Fair and Rodeo Monument northwest of Picacho 9 a.m.- 11 p.m., 401 Fairgrounds Avenue and Shalem Colony Trail, Road, Alamogordo. Birthday second parking lot. Cost: free. Info: party, rodeo, live music, street RSVP to 575-525-4300. dance, exhibits and pavilion. Info: Oterocountyfair.com. Bikepacking and Stargazing — campout to Leasburg Dam State Oliver Lee Ranch House Tour — 3 p.m. start at Plaza 10-11 a.m. at Oliver Lee Memorial Park

ALUMNI HOMECOMING 2019 OCTOBER 3, 4 & 5

THURSDAY OCT 3 SATURDAY OCT 5 6 P.M. 8 A.M. Kick off Social & Homecoming 5k Fun Run! Registration, Fry House @ the HUB 9 A.M. 6:30 P.M. Pancake Breakfast, College & Bullard Alumni Association Elections 10:30 A.M. WNMU Homecoming Parade FRIDAY OCT 4 1 P.M. 10 A.M. Alumni Gathering Athletic & Alumni Hall of Fame Banquet at Board President Alfred Ogas’ Home held under the tent on the Pool Patio 4 P.M. 5:30 P.M. Alumni Scholarship Tailgate Reception: Noche Ranchera Ticket Holders 6 P.M. Fine Arts Center Theatre MUSTANG FOOTBALL 7 P.M. vs. UT Permian Basin Live Concert: Noche Ranchera Featuring WNMU Mariachi Plata, Questions? WNMU Office of Alumni Affairs Angelica Padilla & Friends [email protected] | 575.538.6675

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In memory of Travelin’ Jack, Roving Bulldog Reporter, his person, Jill Lane will be in Silver City on Saturday, Aug.31, for a book signing, “On the Road with Jack and Jill, A Pet Travel Guide,” co-written by them. The Visitor Center at 201 N. Hudson Street will be hosting Jill from 10 a.m. to 12 noon after which she can be found at The Rock Center at 413 N. Bullard Street from 12:30 - 2:30 pm. A portion of each book sale will be donated to the local animal shelter, High Desert Humane Society.

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No job too big or small La Catrina Quartet, made up of Daniel Vega-Albela, Jorge Martínez-Ríos, Simón Gollo and Jorge The house Doctor does it all!! Espinoza play for the Doña Ana Arts Council’s “Classical Drinking” event Sept. 14. (Courtesy Photo) Free stiates — 7:30-9:30 p.m., Atkinson Recital rides, horseback rides, a country Music Series # 1. NEA National Hall, 1075 N. Horseshoe St. in band, Native American dancing Heritage Fellow and two-time 503-939-1467 Las Cruces. Experience the world and drumming and more. Cost: Grammy nominee Rahim AlHaj N S OS DOCOR of illusions and magic. Portion of Free. Info: 1-877-808-6877. performs in collaboration with the proceeds benefit childhood obesity Picacho Peak hike — 9 a.m. amazing Iranian tar virtuoso Sahba Silver City, NM • housedoctornm.com awareness efforts. Cost $30. Info: at Fairacres Post Office, 3800 Motallebi. Cost: $15. Info: 575- 575-222-0885. W. Picacho Ave. in Las Cruces. 538-6469. Live Music: Jim Dixon — 8 p.m. Picacho Peak is a 4,959-foot peak at Little Toad Creek, 119 N. Main just northwest of Las Cruces. This WEDNESDAY, JAMMIN’ JEFF St., Downtown Las Cruces. Info: 1.5 mile hike provides views of the SEPTEMBER 25 575-313-1266. Mesilla Valley and Organ Moun- GUITAR PLAYER • PERFORMANCE • INSTRUCTION • REPAIR Silver City/Grant County tains. Cost: Free. Info: RSVP to — 9 Ruidoso/Lincoln County [email protected]. Silver City Farmer’s Market a.m.-noon at the Ace Hardware 575 65-578 Ruidoso Annual Kite Festival — 9 — 5 p.m. at Live Music: Calista Parking Lot, 3025 U.S. Highway a.m.-4 p.m. at the White Mountain Little Toad Creek, 119 N. Main St., 180 E., Silver City. Info: silvercity- Recreation Complex. Info: 575- Downtown Las Cruces. Info: 575- Since 62 [email protected]. 257-5030. 313-1266. 50th Annual Golden Aspen Mo- Las Cruces/Mesilla torcycle Rally — 10 a.m.-7 p.m. Alamogordo/Otero County The Marketplace 409 Bullard St., Downtown Silver City at the Ruidoso Downs Race Track — Southern New Mexico State Fair Otero County Fair and Rodeo — Doors open at 9 and Casino. Info: www.motorcy- 9 a.m.- 11 p.m., 401 Fairgrounds and Rodeo a.m. at the Southern New Mexico clerally.com. Road, Alamogordo. Amusement State Fairgrounds, 12125 Robert rides and exhibit pick-up. Info: Larson Blvd. eerat ural Pa uer ea SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 22 Oterocountyfair.com. Silver City/Grant County Ruidoso/Lincoln County THURSDAY, Jeff Cerwinske Sunday Brunch music — 1 p.m. at Little Toad Creek, 200 N. Bullard 50th Annual Golden Aspen SEPTEMBER 26 St. Downtown Silver City. Info: Motorcycle Rally — 9 a.m.-2 p.m. Truth or Consequences/Sierra 575-313-1266. at the Ruidoso Downs Race Track County cell 575 65-578 and Casino. Info: www.motorcy- Sierra Twirlers Square Dance Las Cruces/Mesilla clerally.com. — 5:30-8 p.m. at the Fiddlers 155 acetrac d Arenas alley, NM 880 Playhouse, 710 Elm in T or C. Main Picacho Mountain Outdoor Fes- stream and plus dancing. Info: tival: Cowboy Country Day — 9 TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 24 a.m.-4 p.m. at the Willows at Pica- Silver City/Grant County 505-804-3842. cho Mountain, 8149 Willow Bloom Rahim Alhaj and strings — 7 p.m. Circle, Las Cruces. Promoting the at the WNMU Light Hall Theater. FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 27 great outdoors with stage coach Fourth Annual Presiden’s Chamber Silver City/Grant County Octoaderfest — at Little Toad Creek, 200 N. Bullard St. Downtown Silver City. Info: 575-313-1266.

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Las Cruces/Mesilla DRIVEWAYS - GRADING The Iveys at the Southern New Mexico State Fair and Rodeo — 6:30 p.m. at the Southern New UTILITY TRENCHES - DEMOLITION Mexico State Fairgrounds, 12125 Robert Larson Blvd. RETAINING WALLS - STUMP REMOVAL Wild and Scenic Film Festival — 7-11:30 p.m. at the Fountain Theatre, 2469 Calle de Guadalupe, EROSION CONTROL Mesilla. Cost: $15. Info: 575-524- 8287. Live Music: Con Sal y Limon — 8 TREE CLEARING - TOP SOIL p.m. at Little Toad Creek, 119 N. Main St., Downtown Las Cruces. FERTILIZER Info: 575-313-1266. Alamogordo/Otero County *Fourth Fridays — 6-9 p.m.at the Alameda Park Zoo, 1021 N. White Sands Blvd. in Alamogordo. Live [email protected] music, food and craft vendors. S C, NM wner: ominic ahlBredine Info: 575-439-4279. DESERT EXPOSURE SEPTEMBER 2019 • 43

Las Cruces/Mesilla FRIDAY, OCTOBER 4 ner of Broadway and Highway 11 Farmers Arts and Crafts Market Silver City/Grant County in Columbus. Info: 575-531-2663. — 8 a.m.-1 p.m. At the Plaza of New Mexico Outdoor Econom- Las Cruces, Info: 575-805-6055. ic Conference — 8 a.m. Grant Alamogordo/Otero County Trails End Gallery & Studios County Conference Center, 3031 Alamogordo Farmer’s Market Grand Opening — 5-8 p.m. U.S. Highway 180 E. in Silver City. — 8:30 a.m. at 1991 White Sands at 1732 N. Mesquite St. in Las Conference includes an evening Blvd., the north end of Alameda Cruces. Robert Highsmith, Penny reception at the San Vicente Creek Park, next to the Toy Train Depot in Simpson, Patricia Black and John River Walk Park and a choice of Alamogordo. Info: 575-682-3323. Schooley are featured in this new complimentary outdoor tours in the Las Cruces gallery at opening. region. Info: www.outdooreconom- Truth or Consequences/ Info: 575-649-2951. icsnm.com. Sierra County Sierra County Farmers’ Market SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 29 Deming/ Columbus/Luna County — 8:30 a.m.-noon at Ralph Ed- Silver City/Grant County Crafts and Farmers Market — 7 wards Park, Riverside and Cedar, Sunday Brunch music — 1 p.m. a.m.-noon at La Plazita Park, cor- Truth or Consequences. Info: 575- at Little Toad Creek, 200 N. Bullard ner of Broadway and Highway 11 894-9375. St. Downtown Silver City. Info: in Columbus. Info: 575-531-2663. Zia Gallery Grand Opening — 10 575-313-1266. a.m.-9p.m., 415 Broadway in T or SATURDAY, OCTOBER 5 C. New gallery features fiber arts Las Cruces/Mesilla Silver City/Grant County and paintings for opening exhibits. Live Music: Jason Chaffee — 5 Silver City Farmer’s Market — 9 Info: ziagallerynm.com. p.m. at Little Toad Creek, 119 N. a.m.-noon in Historic Downtown Old Time Fiddlers Dance — Main St., Downtown Las Cruces. Silver City at Eighth Street be- 7-9 p.m. New Mexico Old Time Info: 575-313-1266. tween Bullard Street and the Big Fiddlers Playhouse, 710 Elm St., Ditch. Info: silvercityfarmersmar- Truth or Consequences. $4 Info: TUESDAY, OCTOBER 1 [email protected]. 575-744-9137. Silver City/Grant County Las Cruces/Doña Ana County Alina Kiryayeva in concert — 7 Deming/ Columbus/Luna County p.m. at the WNMU Fine Arts The- Crafts and Farmers Market — 7 Farmers Arts and Crafts Market ater. Kiryayeva is a classical con- a.m.-noon at La Plazita Park, cor- — 8 a.m.-1 p.m. At the Plaza of cert pianist and chamber musician Las Cruces, Info: 575-805-6055. from the Ukraine and presented by the Grant County Community Concert Association. Cost: $20. Info: 575-538-5862.

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 2 Silver City/Grant County Silver City Farmer’s Market — 9 Tubist Dr. Jim Shearer, is the “Classical Drinking” artistic director a.m.-noon at the Ace Hardware appearing Sept. 14 in Mesilla. (Courtesy Photo) Parking Lot, 3025 U.S. Highway 180 E., Silver City. Info: silvercity- SATURDAY, ner of Broadway and Highway 11 [email protected]. SEPTEMBER 28 in Columbus. Info: 575-531-2663. Silver City/Grant County THURSDAY, OCTOBER 3 Truth or Consequences/ Silver City Farmer’s Market — 9 Silver City/Grant County Sierra County a.m.-noon in Historic Downtown New Mexico Outdoor Econom- Silver City at Eighth Street be- Sierra County Farmers’ Market — 8 a.m. Grant — 8:30 a.m.-noon at Ralph Ed- ic Conference tween Bullard Street and the Big County Conference Center, 3031 wards Park, Riverside and Cedar, Ditch. Info: silvercityfarmersmar- U.S. Highway 180 E. in Silver City. Truth or Consequences. Info: 575- [email protected]. Conference includes an evening 894-9375. Octoaderfest — all day at Little reception at the San Vicente Creek — Toad Creek, 200 N. Bullard St. Old Time Fiddlers Dance River Walk Park and a choice of 7-9 p.m., New Mexico Old Time Downtown Silver City. Info: 575- complimentary outdoor tours in the Fiddlers Playhouse, 710 Elm St., 313-1266. region. Info: www.outdooreconom- Truth or Consequences. $4 Info: Cirque Mei: Chinese Acrobats icsnm.com. — 7 p.m. at the WNMU Fine Arts 575-744-9137. Center Theatre. Traditional and Truth or Consequences/ Alamogordo/Cloudcroft/ contemporary Chinese circus acts Sierra County Otero County in a colorful and lively celebration Sierra Twirlers Square Dance of Chinese circus arts. Cost: $15. Alamogordo Farmer’s Market — 5:30-8 p.m. at the Fiddlers — 8:30 a.m. at 1991 White Sands Info: 575-538-6469. Playhouse, 710 Elm in T or C. Main Blvd., the north end of Alameda stream and plus dancing. Info: Park, next to the Toy Train Depot in Deming/ Columbus/Luna County 505-804-3842. Alamogordo. Info: 575-682-3323. Crafts and Farmers Market — 7 a.m.-noon at La Plazita Park, cor-

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“Butterfly Landscapes of New Mexico” by Steve Cary breaks new ground by organizing butterflies around ele- ments of landscape and habitat helping butterfly lovers find the more than 300 kinds of butterflies scattered in the state’s diverse Landscape.

Butterflies are one of the most common of the pollinators. They may not be conducive to the neat- Mis Amigos Pet Care Center est of gardens, but they are delightful and excellent for the ecosystem. (Courtesy Photos) NATIVE ROOTS • PATRICIA HURLEY Native Plants for Pollinators

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August, I feel like I’ve been hold- walk this spring, I noticed a few of Include sunny patches, a water email: [email protected] ing my breath waiting for the rains them soaring above the creek. My feature and a muddy area for but- to come. There is a certain ele- daughter took pictures of several terflies. www.snap-sw-nm.org ment of drama and magic to our swallowtails “puddling” in the wet Don’t use pesticides or herbi- Monsoon season. Our veggie gar- sand, which is how they get min- cides, they kill pollinators and dens suddenly resemble jungles erals and salts. All four of these poison the environment. Learn Sonsore Dae Retaurat Siler Cit NM and our native shrubs and flowers native trees grow in our riparian to live with some leaf and flower break their heat dormancy coming areas. damage. One of my favorite signs alive with blooms. Now through Some common native host on Facebook states “If something fall, even into winter, is a great shrubs for larvae in the Silver is not eating your plants, your time to plant in the Southwest. It City region include: four-wing garden is not part of the ecosys- is a break from the relentless heat saltbush, legumes like false indi- tem.” If you do encounter a pest and sun of early summer and even go, and Fendler’s buckbrush. The outbreak, seek out organic means if we don’t get a lot of rain, we get Saltbush Sootywing and the West- of control. A safe alternative for the cloud cover and humidity. The ern Pygmy-Blue larvae feed on the aphids is Dr. Bronner’s or other soil is still warm to stimulate root four-wing salt bush. Native wild- dish soap and water. Flea bee- growth and the cooler fall tem- flowers that provide food for lar- tles can be a persistent problem perature is just around the corner. vae and nectar for adult butterflies on penstemons, which we use This time of year, it is easy to include penstemons, buckwheats, Bon-Neem for, a combination of notice all the pollinators gather- mustards, Indian paintbrush, and organic neem oil and concentrat- ing pollen and nectar. Much of the milkweeds. Many native grasses ed pyrethrins, which are found literature on gardening for polli- are host to several of the skipper in chrysanthemums. Spray in the nators emphasizes nectar plants butterflies. To match butterflies to evening when pollinators are not for adults. Planting for pollina- habitat and region in New Mexi- active. tors is not just about the blooms co, read “Butterfly Landscapes of The pollinator partnership web- to attract adults because moths New Mexico” by Stephen J. Cary. site has some excellent regional and butterflies lay their eggs on When creating pollinator friend- guides for pollinator plantings certain native plants that their lar- ly gardens plant large bunches of for Arizona and New Mexico. To vae are adapted to eat. Having a the same plant so pollinators can see their list of native plants that garden full of colorful blooms is be more efficient, minimizing for- attract bees, butterflies, bum- only half the picture for support- aging time. Plant a lot of different blebees, flies, moths and hum- ing pollinators, if there are no host species in clumps so that there mingbirds for the Southwest go plants for the larvae to eat there is a diversity of blooming plants to https://www.pollinator.org/ will be no adults to pollinate the throughout the growing season. guides. Another good resource flowers. Vary the size, shape, color and that lists hundreds of native plants Some important host trees for time of your blooms to attract a that were visited by pollinators many butterflies in our area in- diversity of pollinators. Don’t be can be found at https://www.nrcs. clude net-leaf hackberry, hoptree, too tidy, leave flower stalks until usda.gov/Internet/FSE_PLANT- willows, cottonwoods and oaks. late winter so the birds can eat MATERIALS/publications/nmp- New Mexico’s largest butterfly, the seeds, and leave some leaf mctn12632.pdf. The study focuses the two-tailed swallowtail, lays litter, twigs, and rotting wood for mostly on bees and took place at its eggs on hoptree, chokecher- nesting material for bees, beetles ry, serviceberry and velvet ash. and birds. Minimize landscaping GARDENING These elegant butterflies are hard cloth, many native bees need bare continued on page 47 DESERT EXPOSURE SEPTEMBER 2019 • 45

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THE NATURAL WORLD • LAURIE FORD Lions and Deer and Mustangs, Part 3 Counting down the wildlife to nothing

ast summer a young buck Wild burros was killed in Glenwood mind their own for invading a local’s gar- business on a L New Mexico den. Such a response to losing a hillside. (Photo tomato is lawful as landowners by Laurie Ford) are permitted to kill any wildlife that is damaging their property or simply just posing a threat. Over the winter some goats were killed a few miles south, in Pleasanton, by a mountain lion, or lions, resulting in any lions found in the area to be de- stroyed. Six months later several local chickens fell prey to two subadult lions; most likely due to the death of the areas resident tom leaving his territory wide open for the youngsters to move in. The young lions were tracked back to Pleasanton and then lost. Despite research proving that subadult lions can successfully be relocated, their fate is usually lethal. In New Mexico you do not need a license to kill a lion that has preyed on livestock, or even one you “think” might do so. And then just a few months ago a little herd of wild burros who had been roaming private and public grazing lands south of Glenwood for decades, were rounded up by a rancher and disposed of because they were destiny of these burros is most presence. Consider this scenar- cougar, but habitat quality, that too high all along and should consuming forage that was in- likely bleak. io on a wider scale taking place cougar related depredation inci- be reduced. The elimination of tended for the cattle. The legal All three of these incidents all over our country. dents in the state were relative- trapping for sport is being con- status of such free-roaming, un- that happened in just a small The mule deer population in ly small and public safety prob- sidered and new harvest limits protected wild horses and bur- radius are examples of the det- New Mexico peaked at 200,000 lems were infrequent; citing one will be set “to align with data.” ros is questionable in New Mex- rimental impact human activi- in the year 2000. Cougar num- of two fatal attacks in New Mex- Most of the free roaming hors- ico and has been a contentious ties can have on wildlife and of bers, as elusive as the ghostlike ico over the past century. Yet, it es in New Mexico have been topic for years. Regardless, the our growing intolerance of their lion itself, were estimated to be was decided to increase cougar removed by individuals and the anywhere between 1,266 and hunting quotas and by 2012 the Livestock Board and the remain- 3,043. A few hundred wild hors- limit had escalated to 750 – half ing protected ones are still being es lived on designated habitat of which could be females – and targeted for removal. The mass while small numbers of unpro- the season extended to year- influx of energy development on tected free roaming horses and round to include those months public lands not only threatens burros could be found in a few females are caring for their these horses, but all our wildlife. regions of the state. While occa- cubs. The only new data avail- So, every year we continue sionally observed in urban areas able at the time was the number to count how many deer and these animals were content to of lions killed which historically cougars are killed. We know remain in the wild. averaged under 200 each year. how many wild horses or burros But things started changing. The focus of attention re- have been removed. But we still Towns began to expand, infring- mained on the plummeting don’t seem to consider their re- ing on wildlife habitat, and sight- deer numbers hovering around maining numbers as being part ings of the deer, cougars and 80,000. The ensuing hunter dis- of a sustainable equation. wild horses and burros became satisfaction became the major Habitat loss, human activities more frequent. New Mexico was concern for the state who was and our growing intolerance is Earth Matters in the midst of one of the longest reliant on the healthy income making it increasingly difficult A show about earthly matters that impact us all! durations of drought, lasting 329 hunters generated. To boost for our wildlife to find refuge weeks, and the deer population hunter success the sale of hunt- anywhere. These are the real was declining in sync with the ing licenses was decreased by threats, not the ethical hunt- U 89.1 deteriorating habitat. The war roughly 7.5% and, for the first er who hunts for the right rea- R FM on cougars and the free-roam- time in history, 9 million acres sons. And, if we do not begin to U ing wild horses and burros, who of state trust land was opened embrace the use of non-lethal K generated little revenue for the to both hunting and the newly forms of predator control when state while utilizing their public expanded cougar trapping using possible, and the alternatives lands, was accelerating. leg hold traps. Limits on cougars and solutions recommended Hunting and wildlife manage- rose to four per hunter. by the studies our own wildlife ment activities are regulated by With less competition, and agencies initiated, the conse- a n g the Game Commission in New more public lands to hunt, the quences will not be short term. r d Mexico and every four years the success rate for hunters in- o s . t r “Bear and Cougar Rule,” which creased and an average of 1000 Laurie Ford r c e m specifically dictates manage- more deer were harvested every moved to a m g in at ment of bears and cougars, is year. With such positive data the New Mexico g live revised. state can now justify increasing 15 years ago. Brought to you by Two lengthy, and costly, sci- license sales and adding addi- Photography Gila/Mimbres Community Radio Gila Resources Information Project ence-based studies by the Hor- tional hunts in the near future. and horses New Mexico Wilderness Alliance Upper Gila Watershed Alliance nocker Wildlife Institute and The “Bear and Cougar Rule” is have always Southwest Environmental Center Gila/Mimbres the New Mexico Department of up for renewal next year. During been her passion. For the Community Game and Fish were available to the last hunting year 409 cou- past five years she has been EVERY Tuesday, Thursday and Sunday at 10am, Radio Thursday evening at 8pm help guide in the decision mak- gars where killed – a jump of 25 travelling around the west, Tuesday at 10am on KTAL-LP 101.5 FM in Las Cruces ing when the rule came up for percent from the previous year. camping in wild horse areas renewal in 2004. Both conclud- But recent data and user group to observe and photograph Podcasts available: find us on ed that a declining deer popu- input is now suggesting that the animals in their natural http://gmcr.org/category/earth-matters FaceBook! lation was not attributed to the the hunting quotas have been environment. DESERT EXPOSURE SEPTEMBER 2019 • 47

LIVING ON WHEELS • SHEILA SOWDER If You’re Bored, It’s Your Own Fault Advice on how to find a social life in a new community

his place is really bor- that’s painful. Never fear. I’m going Political campaigns? Visitors cen- be friendly and cooperative and come them. We don’t let a little ing! There’s nothing to to give you the benefit of my many ter? Helping kids to read? Building willing. You may have some great rejection bring us down. So, get “Tdo in this town.” experiences, and the experienc- houses for Habitat for Humanities? ideas, but make sure the group is ready! Smile! And JOIN IN! I hear this lament all the time es of other RVers I’ve talked to, in How about a community radio sta- ready to receive them from you be- from RVers that, either by choice building a social network in a new tion? Helping to preserve historical fore you offer. Sheila and or circumstances, are based in Sil- place. Hopefully you’ll be inspired sites, or finding new homes for Don’t take on more than you can husband, ver City for an extended period. to take a chance. pets, or rescuing wildlife. I volun- handle. Most organizations tend to Jimmy, have And this complaint isn’t restricted The number one rule for finding teered recently for a Science Day ask too much of those that are will- lived at Rose to our town – it’s echoed through- friends is showing up – repeatedly. for Girls and even got a free lunch. ing, which results in burn-out. Valley RV out the country by RVers and oth- Find out where your potential peer And don’t overlook the communi- Don’t be shy about inviting a Ranch in ers who have moved into new com- group hangs out. For me here in ty’s big events that wouldn’t exist new acquaintance to meet for cof- Silver City munities. Silver City, it’s our unique coffee without volunteers. fee. Who knows, she might say yes. since 2012, following five years It’s hard to be the new guy, houses. Somewhere else it might All right, RVers, now make your of wandering from Maine whether at a new job, a new neigh- be a park, a community center or a Go to church plan. Remember, we’re adventur- to California. She can be borhood, or a new town. It seems diner. Make eye contact and smile, ers who face our fears and over- contacted at [email protected]. everyone already has their friends, talk to people. A “good morning” Even a town of 10,000 or so like and, well, you really hate to seem can lead to an entire conversa- Silver City has a broad variety of pushy. Guess what? – you need to tion. Ask questions. Listen. Peo- churches. And if you aren’t into tra- Gila Friends Meeting be a little pushy or you’ll be sitting ple love to talk, especially about ditional religion, check out the Uni- The Religious Society of Friends at home watching bad sitcoms in- themselves and what they consider tarians, Buddhists or Sufis. Even stead of out there enjoying your theirs. All they need is an opening agnostics and atheists often have Quaker Meeting new life. and a willing listener. their own organizations. “You have to be willing to con- Subscribe to the local newspa- for Worship nect with people and try new stuff,” pers, check the online local events Join a gym Sundays 10-11a.m. as one Rose Valley RVer said. “You listings, and read the posters or exercise class can’t be an introvert and expect on downtown business bulletin Church of Harmony For more info: 575-590-1588 people to come to you.” boards. This is where you find out Enough said. 609 N. Arizona St. Silver City NM 88061 [email protected] But what if I really am an intro- what’s going on, and it amazes me Let me end with a few words of vert, you might ask. To which I, an how many people don’t do of any advice. If you join an organization introvert by nature, answer, “Get of these. or club and, after a few gatherings, nterdenoinational over yourself.” are still getting the cold shoulder alley Counity Church I know it’s not easy for a lot of Join something from the members, give it up. Some us to take the first step in meeting groups are actually cliques and 19-A Racetrack Road, Arenas Valley, NM new people, especially if these peo- If you belong to one of the na- don’t welcome newcomers. Don’t Phone: 575-538-9311 ple are already in an established so- tional organizations, transfer your fight it, just leave and try some- Website: www.vccsilvercity.com cial group. Why would she want to membership to your new location. thing else. We are a community of faith called by Jesus meet me? we ask. What if he thinks Or join a local interest group. In Don’t charge into a group with to practice love of God and neighbor and I’m being presumptuous? We imag- Silver City we have a diverse se- all kinds of recommendations for ine the disinterested expression, lection, ranging from hiking and changes. First get the lay of the boundless compassion for all. the obvious brush-off. And that biking to trapshooting and rock- land, volunteer for the grunt work, Sunday Worship at 10 A.M. might happen. hounding. Birds and horses and But RVers: We’ve already prov- cars and astrology and astrono- en that we’re fearless adventurers, my and archaeology. Writers and leaving the safe and predictable readers and gun buffs and movie to take on the unknown and con- buffs and golfers and the Thistle quer it. We’ve known breakdowns Pipes and Drums. Plus, every type on busy freeways and lonely dirt of craft known to man. One RVer roads, floods and flies and broken who spends six months in Silver awnings. Noisy parks and nosy City every year found a ham radio neighbors and bad directions. group right here in town. Another We’ve been lost and confused and a who now lives here year-round little bit scared. We’ve also known performed in a community theater sunrises over mountain tops, sun- production last month. My hus- sets over oceans, the early morning band, Jimmy, joined an arts asso- peace of a New England lakeshore ciation when we first moved here, and the late evening fragrance of and at one point I was a member of desert sage. We’re descendants of a memoir-writing group. those pioneers who headed west, travelers into unknown territories, Volunteer willing to go despite their fears. However, it’s one thing to be Many non-profits rely on vol- rejected by nature – that’s not per- unteers to function, and you can sonal. But to be rejected by an ac- access the non-profits in your ZIP tual person, right to your face, well, Code online. What interests you?

GARDENING continued from page 44 the Los Lunas Plant Material Cen- as any native plant sales they may ter in Central New Mexico. host. Many of the natives listed in these publications are plants that Tricia Hurley is we grow and sell at Lone Moun- co-owner with tain Natives in Silver City. Prob- her husband, ably the most well-known host Mark Cantrell, of plant we sell are the native milk- Lone Mountain weeds, host to the Monarch and Natives in Queen butterflies. While popular Silver City. They native plants are available at re- have been growing, selling and tail nurseries, many natives can learning about native plants for be difficult to find. Find your local the past 13 years where they have a native plant chapter on the New home nursery and sell at the local Mexico Native Plant Society web- farmers market in downtown Silver site (NPSNM.org). They can put City. Contact them at lonemtn@q. you in touch with local growers com or visit their website at www. who specialize in natives as well lonemtnnatives.com. 48 • SEPTEMBER 2019 www.desertexposure.com

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