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East Mountain Living Spring 2015 East Mountain LIVING Spring /Summer Edition 2015 ESTANCIA SALT LAKES HISTORY ARTIST GARY BYRD CLINES CORNERS - NOT JUST ANOTHER FOOD PANTRIES - MEETING THE NEED ROADSIDE ATTRACTION THE PLIGHT OF BUTTERFLIES TURQUOISE TALES TAGAWA GREENHOUSE GEOCACHING IN THE EAST MOUNTAINS Compliments of the East Mountain Directory™ • Serving the East Mountains for 36 years • Vol. 9 - No.1 EASTMOUNTAINDIRECTORY.COM 1 License 92560 • Bonded & Insured • GUTTERS • SNOW STOPS • SOFFIT AND FASCIA • SEAMLESS GUTTERS SPECIALIZING IN APARTMENTS & HOTELS NATIONWIDE CALL FOR FREE ESTIMATE LET ME HELP YOU SAVE MONEY RESIDENTIAL • COMMERCIAL Mark & Jave Gambini with boom. Offi ce (505) 286-4096 Fax (505) 286-4190 Mark Gambini, OWNER 2 EAST MOUNTAIN LIVING|SPRING/SUMMER 2015 Food Pantry Open Tue-Fri 12 to 3:45 www.bethelstorehouse.org (505) 832-6642 Hwy 41, 1 mile south of Rt. 66 Moriarty Our Thrift Store Open Mon-Sat 10-5 Donation Center 9-4:30 M-F, 10-4:30 Sat Grower’s Market Late July to Mid Oct. (Fridays 2-5pm) It’s fast, easy and tax-deductible! EASTMOUNTAINDIRECTORY.COM 3 EAST MOUNTAIN LIVING TABLE OF CONTENTS LETTER FROM THE EDITOR ............................................................6 EAST MOUNTAIN ATTRACTIONS ....................................................8 HISTORICAL Estancia Salt Lakes - Worth Their Weight in Gold ................................9 CULTURE Clines Corners - Not Just Another Roadside Attraction ......................12 TURQUOISE TALES Sandia Man Cave - the Darkness at the End of the Tunnel: ..................16 PROFILE Elaine’s Bed & Breakfast - A Home Away From Home .........................18 THE GREAT OUTDOORS Geocaching - Place Detectives ........................................................20 LOCAL FLAVOR Turquoise Trail Bakery ...................................................................22 ARTIST Gary Byrd - From Cowboys to Cougars ............................................24 COMMUNITY Food Pantries - Meeting the Need ....................................................26 NATURE A Wing and a Prayer ......................................................................28 BUSINESS Tagawa Greenhouses - Estancia Grown ...........................................32 LOCAL REAL ESTATE OVERVIEW ................................................36 RESTAURANT REVIEW Head for the Hills ..........................................................................38 COMMUNITY EVENTS • SUMMER 2015 .........................................40 FARMERS MARKETS ......................................................................44 SUMMER FUN JUST FOR KIDS ......................................................46 ABOUT THE COVER Advertising Information: Our cover photo of a Swallowtail butterfly was Paul Rothberg • 550-6837 taken by Michael Meyer. Read our related story [email protected] “A Wing and a Prayer” on page 28, which shares information about the plight of the butterfly and what Mary Safford• 410-9114 we can do. [email protected] 4 EAST MOUNTAIN LIVING|SPRING/SUMMER 2015 Edgewood Furniture & Mattress Store FURNITURE CONNECTION Locally Owned & Operated See Our Expanded Selection Of Accessories 505 286-4776 5 Linnie Ct off Old Historic Route 66 Financing Available! In Edgewood, NM Layaway Gift Certifi cates Living Room • Dining • Bedroom • Mattresses • Accessories • Gift Items FurnitureConnectionnm.com EASTMOUNTAINDIRECTORY.COM 5 LETTER FROM THE EDITOR Published by Since East Mountain Living is a bi-annual publication, we try to include in each issue a story or two with a seasonal focus—for example, a holiday wine guide in our Fall/ Winter issue, a hiking or gardening story in our Spring/Summer. Other than that, though, we don’t assign Supporting and Promoting Local specific editorial themes to the magazine. Businesses in the East Mountains But once I sat down and read all the stories for this issue, it MeyersArt, Inc. occurred to me that there is a common denominator running DBA: East Mountain Directory 12126 North Hwy 14, Suite B through its pages. Whether reporting on New Mexico’s PO Box 331 ancient salt trade, a longtime popular eatery, a commercial Cedar Crest, NM 87008 greenhouse operation, or a new bakery, it seems that our Tel: 505-281-9476 Fax: 505-281-6787 editorial team’s minds were on themes covering nourishment, [email protected] sustenance, and sustainability. On-line Directory: Another common thread ties together this issue’s historical eastmountaindirectory.com features. The individuals and families who staked their claims Publisher: in the East Mountains, long before supermarkets, streetlights Michael Meyer and tony subdivisions, did so against odds that would make Editor: even today’s most intrepid gambler think twice. Rena Distasio That two of our country’s major roadways run right through the East Mountains certainly helped encourage these Contributors: early entrepreneurs, as Dixie Boyle tells us in her article on Dixie Boyle the establishment of Cline’s Corners. Today, road warriors Jeanne Drennan crisscrossing the country are rarely more than an hour away E. H. Hackney from some kind of service, whether food, gas, or shelter. But Kelly Koepke Chris Mayo imagine motoring across the United States in the 1930s and Beth Meyer ’40s, when the Mother Road was in her infancy and pioneers Mike Smith like Roy Cline were just waking up to the economic potential Craig Springer of automobile travel. Printed By The region is not without its scoundrels and scandals, Starline Printing • 505-345-8900 either, as Mike Smith so often points out in his ongoing East Copyright 2015 by MeyersArt, Inc. Mountain Living column, Turquoise Tales. This issue he takes The information provided in East a look at one of our area’s greatest archaeological hoaxes, Mountain Living is intended to inform made even more disgraceful because it was perpetuated by the reader about activities and events someone with a long list of supposedly impeccable credentials in the East Mountain communities. While every effort is made to verify in his field. the facts published, MeyersArt Inc. Still, our lives are made richer by our history, good or bad, does not hold itself, any advertiser, or ridiculous or grand. Even better, there is still room to grow anyone writing for this publication re- sponsible for any error or any possible that history into tales for future generations. consequences thereof. Advertising Information: ATTENTION WRITERS Paul Rothberg • 550-6837 We are always looking for good writers along with [email protected] ideas for stories. If you would like to contribute, contact Rena at 281-4864 or [email protected]. Mary Safford• 410-9114 [email protected] 6 EAST MOUNTAIN LIVING|SPRING/SUMMER 2015 Auto • Home Life • Bank Great service doesn’t cost more. Dave Daniels 1841 Old Hwy 66 Edgewood, NM (1 Mile West of Post Offi ce) 505 286-8100 [email protected] About Our Contributors: Dixie Boyle grew up on a ranch in central New Mex- nesses small and large, profit and not for profit, better ico and developed a love for history and travel. A retired communicate via brochures, website copy, newsletters, high school teacher, she now works as a freelance writer, press releases, and ghostwritten articles. a summer fire lookout at Capilla Peak in the Manzano Chris Mayo relocated to the East Mountains from Mountains, and a park guide for Salinas Pueblo Mis- Prescott, Arizona, in 2006. He started as a freelance writer sions National Monument in Mountainair in winter. Dixie with Navy publications when he was in the service and has recently published her eighth book, The Enchantment of continued writing for a variety of trade magazines since New Mexico: Local Stories about the Land & People. leaving the Navy in 2002. He and his wife are the parents Jeanne Drennan has lived in the East Mountains of two young boys. with her family since 2004. She is an occupational thera- Beth Meyer is a former teacher, private tutor, and pist, writer, and home-school mom of three, and loves certified Reading Specialist. She has taught creative and to be out on a lake whenever the opportunity presents it- analytical writing in both public and private schools. She self. She has an unquenchable passion for learning and moved to the East Mountains in June of 2010 to join her teaching others how to experience wellness, and she is the husband, Mike Meyer, owner and publisher of the East author of Live Well. Be Well. 14 Simple Ways to Excellent Mountain Directory and East Mountain Living magazine. Health. Mike Smith is the author of Towns of the Sandia E. H. Hackney is a retired engineer, and now writ- Mountains, a writer for the Weekly Alibi, and is at work er and author. He writes fantasy novels under the name on a genre-expanding memoir, Shadows of Clouds on the Geoffrey Ganges. Revelation, the first book of his By the Mountains. His essays have appeared in Tin House, Booth, Blood trilogy, has been published, and book two is in the Eunoia Review, The Florida Review, The Baltimore Review, works. He lives on the east slopes of the Sandia Mountains and elsewhere. with his wife and two opinionated cats. Craig Springer’s ancestors arrived in Cerrillos in Kelly Koepke brings creativity and vitality to busi- 1878. He lives with his wife, Felicia, and their three young- ness writing projects for her clients around the world. She sters at the edge of the woods between the ghost towns of contributes to a variety of publications, and helps busi- Venus and Barton on sod busted for beans a century ago.
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