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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 8 47 EDITOR 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] $5. All contents © 2019 OPC News, LLC. All rights reserved. No portion DISTRIBUTION of this publication may be reproduced 29 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, Elva K. Österreich do not necessarily reflect the views of and Monica Kekuewa the editors or advertisers. Desert Exposure is not responsible for unsolicited submissions of articles COLUMNISTS or artwork. Submissions by mail must 10 Susan Golightly, include a self-addressed, stamped Sheila Sowder, Bert Stevens, envelope for reply or return. It will Jim Duchene and Gabriele Teich be assumed that all submissions, 4 RAISINGDAD • Attack of the Annual show and sale at In Effect 27 HITTING THE ROAD • A Man and including email letters, are intended Chickenbutt Gallery His Cars WEB DESIGNERS for publication. All submissions, Kids just want to be kids by Jim Saltzman defies normal by Jess including letters to the editor, may be Ryan Galloway and Henry Duchene 16 ARTS EXPOSURE • Arts Fair Williams edited for length, style and content. Elva K. Osterreich Celebrates 10 Years 5 LETTERS TO THE EDITOR • What Las Cruces brings expansive 28 SOUTH OF THE BORDER • Christ- is Race? collections to town mas on the Border Desert Exposure readers respond Reaching out to hearts and needs 17 ARTS EXPOSURE • Rokoko by Morgan Smith 6 EDITOR’S NOTEBOOK • Getting Closing the Future Wrong Art sale and farewell by Elva K. 29 BORDERLINES • Seeing Them Predicting the century? by Elva Österreich Through K. Österreich Helping those who fall through 18 ON SCREEN IN LAS CRUCES • the cracks by Marjorie Lilly 6 VIEW FROM HERE • A Welcome Film Festival Offers Film Gems Journey Glamour, workshops, parties and 30 HERITAGE EXPLORATIONS • White Sands park by Walt Rubel Richard Dreyfuss From Ranches to Rockets A huge outdoor laboratory 7 SCREEN TIME • Rising to the 19 PUBLISHER’S NOTEBOOK • Challenge Banana Benevolence 31 ON SCREEN •New Footage to Movies portray the allied victory What the world needs now Old Murder in World War II is more whimsy by Richard Filmmaker wants to keep inci- Coltharp dent alive to be solved 8 A FINE TIME • Love Local, Urban Challenge Fun Run 20 BODY, MIND SPIRIT • Grant 32 RED OR GREEN • Dining Guide Territorial Charter Day in Silver County Events Restaurants in southwest New City Weekly happenings in Grant Mexico County 10 HISTORY BLAST • ‘Killing Pat 34 TABLE TALK • The Chile Garrett’ 21 TALKING HORSES • Riding Made Advantage Author discusses lawman’s death Easy –Sort Of Conference honors father of You can be a good rider in 10 industry 11 IN THE STREAMS • Native Fish years by Scott Thomson of New Mexico 35 VIEW FROM THE CUBE • The Audubon offers free lecture pro- 22 BODY, MIND SPIRIT • Baby Forklift That Went to the Moon gram in Silver City Workshop Striving for balance Couples with babies needed for 11 WESTERN HERITAGE • Live study 36 STARRY DOME • Lepus, the Hare Fountain Trial Chased by Orion by Bert Stevens Pat Garrett festival recreates 23 CARING DECISIONS • Estate event Planning 37 40 DAYS AND 40 NIGHTS • Ensuring your wishes are carried Events Guide ABOUT THE COVER: 12 ARTS EXPOSURE • Gallery Guide out What’s going on in February? Apolinaria Garrett, the widow of Pat Garrett, is holding the gun Art venues across the area that killed Billy the Kid. The photo was taken Oct. 7, 1934, by “El 24 32 YEARS IN SILVER CITY • On 45 LA PANTALLA PLATA • “Lewis 13 MUSIC EXPOSURE • ‘Broadway Being a Weed and Clark and George” Paso Herald-Post” editor L. A. Wilke. Apolinaria is standing on the on Stage’ Weeding: Removing the unwant- A farce that keeps you guessing porch of her Las Cruces home. She was too sick to leave her house, NMSU brings the music to life in ed by Susan Golightly by Hap Hasard so the gun was delivered to her by her attorney U. S. Goen. Pat Gar- Las Cruces rett loaned the gun in 1906 to Tom Powers for display in the Coney 25 TUMBLEWEEDS • Following the 46 LIVING ON WHEELS •It’s All Island Saloon. After Powers died, his estate claimed the gun. Apoli- 13 CALLING ARTISTS • Opportunity Trackways About Freedom naria sued for the return of the gun, which was awarded to her by Vendors, artists needed now Looking for ancient signs of life Why move into an RV? by Sheila the Texas Supreme Court on March 7, 1934. The photo is provided by David Burge Sowder courtesy Dan Crow, Sally Kading, Bob Gamboa and Karla Steen. 14 ARTS EXPOSURE • Arts Scene Historian David Thomas has included this photo in his new book, Upcoming area arts happenings 26 DINOSAUR DISCOVERIES • 47 HIGH PLACES • Fort Bayard Ancient Fossils, New Ideas Champion Tree “Killing Pat Garrett, The Wild West’s Most Famous Lawman – Murder 16 ARTS EXPOSURE • Erotica, Not Exploring evolution, current Weekend getaway or morning or Self-Defense?” which he will talking about during February at var- Pornography theories about dinosaurs hike by Gabriele Teich ious locations. See Pages 10 and 11 in this issue. 4 • FEBRUARY 2020 www.desertexposure.com

RAISINGDAD • JIM AND HENRY DUCHENE Attack of the Chickenbutt Kids just want to be kids. ids are funny. As you can tell, my grand- Her big heart also extends Jim Duchene’s My granddaughter, daughter has a good sense of hu- to her great-grandfather’s dog. granddaughter at Know five, will ask me mor, but she’s also very sweet. Whenever the mangy creature is age two. (Photo “Guess what?” with a mischie- Earlier today, she went to the by himself, she’ll carry him over by Jim Duchene) vous grin. pantry and got two Fruit Roll- to join us. Okay, I’ll bite. Ups. I thought they were both ”He doesn’t like being alone,” “What?” for her, so I told her to put one she’ll explain. “Chickenbutt!” she’ll say. back. Lately, she’s been watching a And she’ll laugh and laugh and “But this one’s for grandpa,” cute cartoon on Netflix called laugh. she told me, meaning my father. Chip & Potato. It’s about a kin- It’s become a running joke be- “I’m going to show him how to dergarten-aged puppy who has a tween the two of us. eat it.” secret friend, a mouse she calls

Valentine’s Potato. five dollars. For my granddaugh- It’s not gay! One Night Only “Grandpa,” my granddaughter ter I’d up that to 20. It’s not straight! said, lifting her head up from the “Are you going to buy it for It’s the $1.98 iPad she was watching. She used her?” my beautiful wife asked me. to call me daddy because that’s “No,” I said. “What she doesn’t in it’s 22nd Year! what she heard my daughters know won’t hurt her.” call me, but now she calls me You know, for such a tiny grandpa. Or by my first name. Or woman she sure can punch. kid. She has a lot of names for On Saturdays, my granddaugh- me. ter and I will go to Las Fuentes, “Yes,” I answered. my father’s favorite restau- “If I see a bad mouse, I’ll rant, and buy him enchiladas scream,” she told me, “but if I for lunch. This past weekend I see a good mouse, I’m going to thought he’d like something dif- call her Potato.” ferent, so we bought him menu- I was touched by that, so I do instead. thought I’d buy her a Potato “They didn’t have enchiladas?” stuffed animal. I didn’t want to he complained. drive around looking for it, so I bypassed his complaint by I went to the Target website on telling him the menudo was the internet. They didn’t have from his great-granddaughter. one, so I went to the Walmart “She always remembers me,” website. They didn’t have one my father said, smiling. “You either. Hey, if Walmart doesn’t know what your brother gives have one, they don’t exist. me? Cookies. HARD cookies. Only they do. What teeth I have, he wants me On Ebay, I found homemade to lose.” Chip & Potato dolls. For FIFTY The Saturday before Christ- bucks. PLUS shipping. I checked mas, on our way to the restau- on Amazon. Theirs was $124.00! rant, we bought my father a I love my granddaughter, but holiday tin of cookies for des- racy raunchy ridiculous rated R adults only that was way past my price- CHICKENBUTT point. Which, since you ask, is continued on page 5 February 14, 7:30 pm Fine Arts Center Theater

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CHICKENBUTT continued from page 4 Letters to the Editor sert. Shortbread. You know, hear those kinds of stories. The SOFT cookies. After putting in last time my granddaughter was What is Race served Anglos as an excuse to superior to, the history of slav- our special order for gourmet in the hospital due to complica- allow them inferior schools, ery influencing opinions and just enchiladas, we usually go over tions with her asthma, my father Anyway? restricted access and all the difficulty dealing with differenc- to the Friends of the Public Li- told me the sad story of Laurel Editor: evils of Jim Crow politics. (But es. Read about how Americans brary Bookstore to look around. Griggs, a 13-year-old actress Racism seems to be rampant somehow this did not restrain shunned the Irish 100 years ago The ladies who volunteer there who had recently died from a nowadays. It appears to me European-American men from and heaped on them many of the love to see my granddaughter massive asthma attack. I can’t rather blind to talk about “white impregnating African-American same prejudices African Ameri- and she loves to see them, plus imagine her family’s pain. race, black race, yellow race” in women.) cans experience. My grandpar- she generally makes out like a “Consider yourself lucky,” my spite of the fact that we are all When a horse is bred with a ents emigrated from Germany bandit. One lady in particular father said when OUR little girl one race: the human race. donkey, the resulting offspring, and were called “stupid krauts” is especially smitten with her. finally came home from the hos- I notice that bulls of any col- our beloved mules, are infertile. by non-Germans here. When her mother passed away, pital. or are turned out with cows of This is what happens when two I no longer select “white” on she brought some of her moth- My wife gently took hold of multiple colors, and no one sin- different species breed. Notice questionnaires because I am not er’s jewelry, necklaces mostly, my arm to keep me from saying gles out the black ones from the that Barack Obama had a Euro- an albino, a truly white human. to sell. When we got there, she something I’d regret. other colors – they are all just pean-American mother and an I am a European-American most told my granddaughter to pick You know, for such a tiny cows and bulls. The separation African father. He fathered two likely with Neanderthal blood. whichever necklace she wanted. woman she sure leaves bruises. of people into races is simply a girls. The “white” designation in my My granddaughter’s eyes grew Still, it’s best to concentrate made-up idea to support a point Why do we differentiate what opinion only serves to reinforce wide. She couldn’t believe her on the good things in life. I took of view. A major example is de- is actually a difference of cul- the higher rank undeservedly as- good fortune. To this day, she both my granddaughter and my fining those with African her- tures, not ancestry? Theories cribed to European-Americans. wears that necklace whenev- youngest daughter to the mov- itage as being less smart, less include the need for some peo- Lee Sonne er she dresses up like a Disney ie “Cats” when it was playing able, and harder to teach. This ple to have some group to feel Catron County princess. in theaters awhile back. Why it I don’t know if my grand- wasn’t a hit, I don’t know. Well, daughter was thinking about the maybe I do. My daughter took a kindness and generosity of these 10-minute nap while watching it. ladies, but before we got out of Me? I loved it. the car, she looked at me and “Grandpa’s crying,” my grand- asked, “Can we give my friends daughter whispered, ratting me the cookies?” out to my daughter and anyone I told her that was a good idea, else within earshot when Jenni- and it was. I felt bad that I wasn’t fer Hudson sang the show-stop- the one who came up with it, but per “Memory.” I’m usually a day late and a dol- I leaned closer. lar short when it comes to things “Snitches get stitches,” I like that. teased, making my daughter Sadly, as every parent and laugh. grandparent knows, children On the drive home, I asked my also come with their share of granddaughter, “Did you like the heartbreak. As it turns out, my movie?” granddaughter suffers from “Yes,” she told me. asthma. If her asthma gets too “What was your favorite bad, she could end up in the hos- part?” pital, which has happened. “Chickenbutt!” In such situations my father always has some story he insists Jim and Henry Duchene on telling us about a child who may be reached at has died. I think he means it to theduchenebrothers@gmail. be comforting, but I’d rather not com.

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EDITOR’S NOTEBOOK • ELVA K. ÖSTERREICH Getting the Future Wrong Can predictions lead the way into the 21st century? here are so many things the churches wholesale and the global life expectancy to rise to percent say the potential risks tells us, we have an insatiable 2020 brings that were pre- church members by the millions.” 77.1 years by 2050. they face because of data col- need to know what is coming so Tdicted, expected in the Church members would “perish “Computerized health moni- lection by companies outweigh we can grapple with it as soon science dreams of yesteryear. by the sword of war, revolution tors built into watches, jewelry the benefits. as possible and, if possible, be We have smartphones that do and anarchy.” The dead would lie and clothing which diagnose With face and voice recogni- prepared. everything from connecting us unburied. In 1920 all earthly gov- both acute and chronic health tion software becoming more “In the future, more people by voice to others, to linking into ernments would disappear, with conditions are widely used. In and more widely used, privacy will be staying home. Envi- the world through the Internet worldwide anarchy prevailing. addition to diagnosis, these mon- is eroded away and some of the ronmental disaster, political where we can call up virtually For 2020, well known psy- itors provide a range of remedial most frightening scenarios writ- tumult and economic precar- any information we could care chic and astrologer Jeane Dix- recommendations and interven- ten by science fiction authors of ity will fuel Americans’ sense to find about anything. on predicted that Armageddon tions,” Kurzweil wrote in “The the past, could be coming true of reclusion and retreat. Cook- But, predictably, there is plen- would take place this year. She Age of Spiritual Machines.” as we speak. ing, nesting, home delivery ty of stuff the folks of the past previously predicted the world On that he was close, since In 1996, the Harvard School services and quality time will got wrong, the predictions were would end on Feb. 4, 1962. I we have many of those items of Public Health and the World ascend. We’ll curl up with loved off base and those who thought guess we’ll see. that help with motoring and Health Organization predicted ones and technologies in our the world would be over by Some other things that hav- diagnosis; unfortunately, they that by 2020, the world’s top bunkers, watching the world now, failed in that forecast. en’t happened by 2020 include don’t really help us live longer. two causes of the global burden through windows and screens.” An early French bishop, Hilary antigravity cars, invisible com- Kurzweil predicted privacy of disease – a measurement of – A prediction by Faith Popcorn of Poitiers, announced the world puters, voting electronically would be a huge political and the number of healthy life years (the Nostradamus of market- would end in the year 365. Three from home, cars that can go social issue and that “each indi- lost because of sickness, dis- ing) made in 1987 about 1990 Romans predicted Jesus would months without refueling, hu- vidual’s practically every move ability or early death – would be return in the year 500, with one mans set foot on Mars, anti- (will be) stored in a database ischemic (coronary) heart dis- Elva K. of the predictions being based gravity belts revolutionizing somewhere.” ease and unipolar major (clini- Österreich is on the dimensions of Noah’s warfare, nuclear energy replac- While this is not quite at this cal) depression. editor of Desert Ark. And those are only a few ing natural gas and Americans stage, it’s getting there quickly In 2017, the most recent year Exposure and from the first century CE. working 26 hours a week. with anyone on the grid inevita- the data set was published, the would love to And since that first century, To me the predictions most bly traceable. Your smartphone five leading causes of the global meet Desert the world should have ended fascinating are those that don’t follows you; your web brows- burden of disease were neona- Exposure readers during at least 189 times, with several quite hit the mark but are dis- er traces you and if you live in tal disorders, ischaemic heart her office hours, 10:30 a.m.- of the predictors revising their turbingly close. Futurist Ray certain places in the world you disease, stroke, lower respira- 12:30 p.m. in Silver City on dates as mankind stubbornly Kurzweil predicted in 1999 that are under 24/7 high-tech surveil- tory infections and chronic ob- Thursday, Feb. 13, at the insisted on surviving past their human life expectancy would lance. In the United States many structive pulmonary disease. Tranquilbuzz Café, located original predictions. rise to “over one hundred” by adults say they do not think it This is what we do – try to at the corner of Yankie and The International Students 2019. But though life expec- is possible to go through daily leap into the future with some- Texas streets. If that is not a Association said in 1918, Chris- tancy in many industrialized life without having data collect- thing to look forward to. Ad- good time, Elva will be glad to tendom would go down as a nations continues to inch up, it ed about them by companies or dressing human fears makes us arrange another day to meet system to oblivion and be suc- has been going in the opposite the government, according to try to understand not only our and you can always reach her ceeded by revolutionary gov- direction in America. The Unit- a survey of U.S. adults by Pew past and present, but what we at [email protected] ernments. God would “destroy ed Nations predicts the average Research Center. More than 80 face in the future. As history or by cell phone at 575-443-4408.

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here are hundreds of equally by all members of the to make White Sands our coun- nomic powerhouse for Southern Mexico moon. thousands of parks in the community. Parks are for relax- try’s 62nd national park. New Mexico.” There’s always a fear that a na- TUnited States, from our ing, for playing, for picnics, for U.S. Sen. Martin Heinrich and Having two national parks tional designation like this will in smallest towns to our biggest strolling and for connecting with Rep. Xochitl Torres Small were nearby should help in our mar- some ways spoil what has been cities. our neighbors. They provide able to get language converting keting of the Organ Mountains/ so special. That White Sands Las Cruces has six large parks patches of green life among the White Sands from a national Desert Peaks National Monu- will become too crowded, too - Apodaca, Klein, Mesilla, Pi- concrete and steel that make up monument to a national park ment as travelers plan package commercialized. That the peace- oneer Women’s, Veterans and a city. included in the Defense Authori- trips of these unique sites. ful feeling you get when alone Young Park, as well as smaller Parks are a vital part of any zation Act. Along with changing Park Superintendent Marie among the dunes will be lost parks throughout the city. thriving community, which is the status of the site, the bill also Sauter said White Sands, with among the chattering tourists. New Mexico has 34 state why voters in Las Cruces ap- included a land swap between its unique gypsum dunes, was My hope is that proper man- parks, including the Mesilla Val- proved general obligation bonds the park and White Sands Mis- worthy of national park designa- agement of the new national ley Bosque, which at one time last year to invest in our parks sile Range. tion. She said her staff is excited park will mitigate those con- was set to lose its state park sta- and trails. White Sands will be the sec- about the potential to share the cerns, and we will be able to tus in a transfer to the Game and Of all the thousands of parks in ond national park in New Mex- site with more new visitors. share it more widely with the Fish Department. America, only the very best and ico, joining Carlsbad Caverns. Along with new marketing op- rest of the world without losing Parks are a tiny bit of so- most unique are designated as Torres Small said the fact both portunities, I would assume the what makes the site so unique. cialism that almost everybody national parks. That elite group national parks are in the same designation will also mean in- This designation was a major can agree with. They provide a had stood at 61, when President region of the state will provide creased investment for the site, accomplishment for Sen. Hein- universal refuge to be enjoyed Donald Trump signed legislation “the potential to make it an eco- though perhaps not right away. rich and Rep. Torres Small at a

The president’s budget propos- time when all of the news coming

Q = J, P = X = P J, = Q “Desert Dumbfounder” by Dave Thomas is a simple substitution cipher; one letter stands for K, = Y Clue: al for fiscal year 2020 would cut out of Washington, D.C. is about #44 another. Solution is by trial and error. Solution will appear in next month’s Desert Exposure. Send full solution, or just the Secret Words, to [email protected], and be recognized! funding for national parks by 14 what is not getting done. It gives TIPS:www.nmsr.org/secretword.htm and www.nmsr.org/cypher-how2.jpg percent. us something to look forward to "L AJH GPILWGE JME ZBMBCGE AZGM L XBVME BVW L AJH IZBHGM TR Heinrich said he is working in not just the next new year but with Sens. Lamar Alexander and in all of those that will follow. MJHJ WB KJCWLILKJWG." - UVHGVU BX HKJIG ZLHWBCR'H QVDLG Angus King to address a backlog of infrastructure projects at na- Walt Rubel TCRJMW, BM WZG UJCH 2020 “MJUG WZG CBSGC” Y-12 IZJDDGMNG tional parks. has been a White Sands has always been journalist Use the answer key below to track your clues, and reveal Secret Words! a special place for us to enjoy since 1982, A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z and share with visitors. No mat- working in Las ter where your guests have come Cruces since Previous Solution: "SOME OF YOU MAY HAVE NOTICED THE NASA Congrats to #43 solvers : TEST OF THE BOEING STARLINER SPACECRAFT AT WHITE SANDS Skip Howard*, Shorty Vaiza*, from, they’ve never experienced 2002. He can be reached at MISSILE RANGE NOV. 4. IT'S AMAZING HOW HISTORY REPEATS Mike Arms*, Will Adams*, anything quite like a sea of white [email protected]. ITSELF." - JIM ECKLES *Secret Words:”DEBUT WORKMANSHIP” and Connie Tull*! dunes under a full southern New DESERT EXPOSURE FEBRUARY 2020 • 7

SCREEN TIME Rising to the Challenge Allied victory in World War II

The Fort Bayard Historic Pres- Febr. 6 through March 19, doors ed across U.S. Highway 180 from ervation Society commemorates open at 6:30 p.m. and the movies the Village of Santa Clara, six the 75th anniversary of the end begin at 7. Admission is free, do- miles east of Silver City. of World War II throughout 2020. nations are accepted. For more information, contact As part of that effort, the winter Dr. Doug Dinwiddie, retired Dr. Doug Dinwiddie at 575-388- film series at the Santa Clara Ar- military history professor, will 4862, or email him at history- mory building is entitled “Rising introduce the films and offer [email protected]. to the Challenge: Allied Victory historical context to the stories To stay up to date on happen- in World War II.” they tell. ings with the Preservation Soci- Every Thursday evening from The Armory Building is locat- ety, visit www.fortbayard.org.

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Feb. 6 The Longest Day Classic film depicting the events Robert Pittman of June 6, 1944 D-Day in Certified Advanced ROLFER® Normandy, France Center for Healing Arts, 300 Yankie St., Silver City Feb. 13 To Hell and Back The autobiographical story of Med al of Honor recipient Audie Murphy, who plays himself Appointment or free consultation: Feb. 20 Band of Brothers The Battle of the Bulge episode 575-313-4379 telling the true story of Easy Company, 101st Airborne Division

Feb. 27 Flags of Our Fathers The story of the men who were immortalized in the photograph of the Iwo Jima flag raising

Mar. 5 The Great Escape Based on a true story, this classic CARNEY FOY, CPA relates the largest attempted POW escape from German captivity CERTIFIED PUBLIC ACCOUNTANT Mar. 12 Schindler’s List Another true story, about one German industrialist’s efforts to save Jews from the death camps P.O. Box 2331 (575) 388-3111 Mar. 19 Downfall Accurate account of Hitler’s last 212 N. Arizona Street (575) 388-2770 days in his Berlin bunker Silver City, NM 88062 [email protected]

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11745 Hwy 180 E, Silver City, NM www.misamigospetcare.com 575-388-4101 Who killed him? Was it murder? Was it self-de- • New family details: Garrett had a four-month- fense? old daughter the day he killed Billy the Kid. She Award-winning author and historian David died tragically at 15. Another daughter was blind- Thomas draws on newly discovered information ed by a well-intended eye treatment; a son was HAPPY HOLIDAYS! and will discuss this fascinating story which is paralyzed by childhood polio; and Pat Garrett, Jr., I would like to thank all my loyal customers for their detailed in his new book, “Killing Pat Garrett: The named after his father, lost his right leg to amputa- patronage during this last year. Wishing Wild West’s Most Famous Lawman -- Murder or tion at age 12. all a Blessed and Safe Holiday season. Self-Defense?” Pat Garrett met two U.S. presidents: William For sewing machine service and repair, or long The book’s awards include 2019 Best Book McKinley and Theodore Roosevelt. President Roo- arm quilting, call me (Cindy) at 575-538-2284 Awards Finalist, United States History; 2019 Best sevelt he met five times, three times in the White Indie Book Notable 100 Award Winner; 2019 Royal House, brought the law to hardened gunmen, over- Dragonfly Book Award Winner, second place, His- saw hangings. His national fame was so extensive torical Non-Fiction. the day he died that newspapers from the East to CALL CINDY FOR INFORMATION AND APPOINTMENTS Supplementing the text are 102 images, includ- the West Coast only had to write “Pat Garrett” for 575-538-2284 • Silver City, NM W@M.CM ing six of Garrett and his family which have never readers to know to whom they were referring. been published before. It has been 50 years since a Garrett also had devastating lows. He expe- new photo of Garrett was published, and no pho- rienced heartbreaking family tragedy. He was tos of his children have ever blocked for re-appointment SilverSilver CityCity CopperCopper QuailQuail been published. as El Paso customs collec- Garrett’s life has been ex- tor by unjustified personal February Guest Artist MyronFebruary Weckwerth Guest Artist tensively researched, yet, animus. He was pursued MyronMimbres- Weckwerth and ruthlessly for a loan that he Pueblo- Style Gourds the author was able to un-

ArtistMimbres- Reception: and cover an enormous amount had co-signed as a favor for Pueblo-Saturday, Feb.Style 15th, Gourds 4-6pm of new information. Thomas a friend. He had his ranches had access to over 80 letters and livestock confiscated New Series Artist Reception: by Mariah Walker Saturday, Feb. 15th, 4-6pm that Garrett wrote to his and sold on the Las Cruces wife. He discovered a multi- public square. "The Love of Rescues" tude of new documents and Despite his reputation as Part of proceedsNew Series will be donated to the High Desert Humane Society details concerning Garrett’s a gunman, when faced with by NowMariah Open: Walker Now Open 7 Days a Week! killing, the events surround- public humiliation, Garrett On the corner of Texas and Yankie in Downtown Silver City, NM ing it and the personal life of responded with commend- Like us on 575-388-2646 Follow us on Facebook Instagram facebook.com/mariahscqg"The Love of Rescues" silvercitycopperquail.com instagram@copper_quail the man who was placed on able dignity. Queried after trial for killing Garrett. losing his custom collector Part of proceeds will be donated Some of the new infor- job, he reportedly replied: “I to the High Desert Humane Society mation Thomas found in- simply take my medicine.” cludes: Thomas said this book is Now Open: Now Open 7 Days a Week! • The true actions of written so the reader can On the corner of Texas and Yankie in Downtown Silver City, NM “Deacon Jim” Miller, a pro- experience Garrett’s life as Like us on 575-388-2646 Follow us on Facebook Instagram fessional killer, who was in he did, as it happened, event facebook.com/mariahscqg silvercitycopperquail.com instagram@copper_quail Las Cruces the day Garrett by event. Foothills Arabians Lois Duffy Art We are an 80 acre full service facility offering... • Boarding, Breeding and Training • Easy Forest Access • Large Pens With Shelters and Pasture Options • All Horses Have Room to Run!

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ileen Henry, fisheries tech- is home to a unique group of endem- degree in agricultural science in Eileen Hen- nician for the U.S. Forest ic fish, and Henry will address the fisheries and wildlife at New Mex- ry, fisheries EService will discuss the Na- importance of preserving and re- ico State University in Las Cruces. technician tive Fish of New Mexico at 7 p.m., storing the native fish throughout After her undergraduate education, for the U.S. Wednesday, Feb 5, at Western New our ever-changing environment. she worked in fisheries conserva- Forest Ser- vice, works Mexico University’s Harlan Hall, As water is a scarce resource in tion throughout New Mexico. Her with native the region, water quality and quan- experience ranges from land man- corner of 12th and Alabama streets fish int he in Silver City. tity are appropriate indicators of agement agencies to private envi- wild. Henry will focus on the issues environmental health. Native fish ronmental companies. Henry now (Courtesy that native New Mexican fish face often reflect these conditions by the lives in Silver City and works for the Photo) and the management efforts to con- size and health of their populations. Gila National Forest. serve them. The arid and sometimes Henry grew up in southern New For more information contact harsh environment of the Southwest Mexico and received a bachelor’s [email protected]. WESTERN HERITAGE ELVA K. ÖSTERREICH Live Fountain Trial Pat Garrett Festival recreates event

hree years after Albert tain and his Fountain and his 8-year- son on Feb. 1, Told son, Henry, went 1896. missing in the desert between 2:30 p.m.: La Luz and Las Cruces, two men Fountain were tried for the murder. There murder trial is plenty of evidence of kidnap- re-enactment ping and murder and Pat Garrett of the 1899 was called in to investigate, it is Local historian courtroom his exploration of the facts that David Thomas trial of the brought the trial to fruition. people accused of the murder, That 14-day trial has been ab- Oliver Lee and James Gilliland. breviated and will be presented The script is taken entirely from live during the afternoon of the the actual transcripts of the tri- Pat Garrett Festival, Feb. 29, al. Followed by a Q&A. along with several other festive 4 p.m.: “The Fountain Mur- events at the Rio Grande The- ders – What Answers do we atre, 211 N. Main St., in Las Cru- Have Today?” presented by Karl ces starting with music with Dan Laumbach of Human Systems Crow and friends. Research Inc. of Las Cruces. Crow will be playing some of Laumgach will summarize what his own songs as well as some he has learned about the Foun- popular cowboy music. His com- tain murders after decades of pany includes John Wood, Ash research. Soular and Don Kinghorn, who 7 p.m.: “The Left Handed will perform nine historic west- Gun” (1953), a movie directed ern songs. Songs include “Law- by Arthur Penn with Paul New- dog Lament,” “The Coffin Note,” man as Billy the Kid and John “Bob Fitzsimmons,” “Rodeo Dehner as Garrett. Lady,” “Latigo,” “Knockin’ On At the time the movie was Heaven’s Door” and “Sidekicks made, many believed the Billy & Saddle Pals.” was left-handed because they Festival events begin at noon: did not realize the famous tin- Noon: “Sing the Legend” type photograph of Billy revers- 2 p.m.: “The Disappearance es the image left to right. of Colonel Fountain,” A presen- Tickets for the festival are tation by David Thomas of the $10. Visit PatGarrettWestern- events leading up to and follow- Heritage.com for more informa- ing the disappearance of Foun- tion.

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We strongly recommend gallery patrons and by appointment. call locations before visiting as ARTS EXPOSURE Virginia Maria Romero Studio, gallery hours are subject to change 4636 Maxim Court, 644-0214. By and do so often. Contact Desert appointment, [email protected], Exposure at 575-680-1978 or editor@ Gallery Guide virginiamariaromero.com. desertexposure.com to update listings. All area codes are 575 unless Cow Trail Art Studio, 119 Cow Trail St.. 520-240-7075. Open 10 a.m.-5 located in the restaurant at OYO’s. 6 Ruidoso indicated otherwise. in Arenas Valley, 12-3 p.m. Monday, p.m. Thursday to Saturday; 10 a.m.-2 a.m.-2p.m. Art Ruidoso Gallery, 808-1133, or by appointment, 706-533- 1897, p.m. Sunday; and by appointment. Deming Arts Center, 100 S. Gold St., artruidoso.com, 615 Sudderth Drive, Silver City www. victoriachick.com. Contemporary photography and other 546-3663. Monday to Saturday 10 Ruidoso, 11a.m.-5 p.m., Thursday- Alaska Mudhead Studio-Gallery, 371 Creative Hands Roadside Attraction media. Workshops, exhibitions and a.m.-4 p.m. Sunday. Camino de Viento in Wind Canyon. Art Gallery, 106 W Yankie, Silver City. events. [email protected] www. Gold Street Gallery, 112-116 S. Gold The Adobe, 2905 Sudderth Drive, 257- By appointment, Letha Cress Wolfe, 303-916-5045 Hours are 10:30 a.m.- lightartspace.com. St., 546-8200. Open noon-4 p.m. 5795, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday through potter, 907-783-2780. 5:30 p.m. Wednesday to Saturday, Lloyd Studios, 306 W. Broadway Monday to Saturday. Saturday. Anthony Howell Studio, 200 W. Market and 11 a.m.-4 p.m. Sunday. By St. 590-1110. Sculpture, custom Orona Art Studio, 546-4650. By DJ’s Jewelry, 618 Carrizo Canyon St. 574-2827. By appointment only. appointment at other times. knives and swords. 10 a.m.-6 p.m. appointment. lyntheoilpainter@ gmail. Road, 630-1514, 10 a.m.-5 [a]SP.“A”©E, 110 W. Seventh St., 538- Elemental Artisans, by appointment Wednesday to Saturday and 10 a.m.- com, www.lynorona.com. p.m. Monday through Saturday. 3333, aspace.studiogallery@ gmail. only, 215-593-6738. 2 p.m. Sunday. Reader’s Cove Used Books & Gallery, Specializing in turquoise, Native com. Finn’s Gallery, 300 N. Arizona St., 406- Lois Duffy Art Studio, 211C N. 200 S. Copper St., 544-2512. American traditional, New Mexican Barbara Nance Gallery & Stonewalker 790-0573 Texas St., 534-0822. 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Monday to Saturday 10 a.m.-5 p.m. contemporary and estate jewelry. Studio, 105 Country Road, 534-0530. Francis McCray Gallery, 1000 College Saturday or by appointment. Original Photography by Daniel Gauss. Earth-N-Stone, 2117 Sudderth Drive, By appointment. Stone, steel, wood Ave., WNMU, 538-6517. 10 a.m.-3 paintings, cards and prints. www. Studio LeMarbe, 4025 Chaparral SE, Suite 14, 257-2768, 808-1157. and paint. Sculpture path. www. p.m. Monday to Friday. loisduffy. com, loisduffy@ signalpeak. 544-7708. By appointment. Gazebo Potters, 2117 Sudderth Drive barbaraNanceArt.com. The Glasserie Studio and Store, 106 net. Thursdays Gallery, 207 S. Silver St. No. 7, 808-1157. Pottery classes, Blue Dome Gallery, 307 N. Texas, E. College Ave., 590-0044. 11 a.m.-6 Lumiere Editions, 104 N. Texas St., 545-2994. Art works, plants and a workshops, wheel time, kiln firing and second location at 60 Bear Mountain p.m. Monday to Saturday. 956-6369. Vintage and contemporary boutique. Thursdays 11 a.m.-3 p.m. works by local potters. Road, 534-8671. Open 11 a.m.-5 Grant County Art Guild Gallery, 316 photography. Monday to Friday. Josie’s Framery, 2917 Sudderth p.m. Monday to Saturday. www. N. Bullard St. 10 a.m-5 p.m. Monday The Makery, 206 N. Bullard St. 590- Columbus Drive, 257-4156. Framing, gallery bluedomegallery. com. through Saturday; 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. 1263. Freestyle weaving studio and Village of Columbus Library, 112 representing regional artists and Borderlands Gallery, Stephan Hoglund Sunday. GCAG.org. Broadway St., 531-2612, 8 a.m.-7 school of fiber, book and paper arts, photographers. Studios, 211 W. Yankie St., Silver City. Guadalupe’s, 505 N. Bullard St., 535- 11 a.m .- 4 p.m. Thursday to Monday, p.m. Monday to Saturday. LongCoat Fine Art, 2801 Sudderth 218-370-1314. www.stephanhoglund. 2624. Thursday to Saturday, 10 a.m.-4 www.makerysvc.com. Drive, Suite D., 257-9102, 10 a.m.-5 com. p.m. Manzanita Ridge, 107 N. Bullard St. Rodeo p.m. Monday through Saturday The Cliffs Studio & Gallery, 205 Leyba & Ingalls Arts, 315 N. Bullard 388-1158. Chiricahua Gallery, 5 Pine St., 557- Contemporary Masters and historical N. Lyon St., corner of Yankie and St., 388-5725. 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Monday Mariah’s Copper Quail Gallery, 211-A 2225. Open daily except Wednesday, works of art. Lyon streets, 520-622- 0251. By to Saturday. Contemporary art ranging Texas St., corner of Yankie and Texas 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Mountain Arts, 2530 Sudderth Drive, appointment. from realism to abstraction in a variety streets, 388-2646. Fine arts and 257-9748, www.mountainartsgallery. Common Ground, 102 W. Kelly St., of media. www.LeybaIngallsARTS. crafts. Hillsboro 534-2087. Open by chance or by prior com, [email protected]. Mimbres Regional Arts Council Barbara Massengill Gallery, 895-3377, com, 10 a.m.-6 p.m. daily. arrangement. 575-534-2087. Light Art Space, 209 W. Broadway Gallery, Wells Fargo Bank Bldg., open weekends and by appointment. Tanner Tradition, 624 Sudderth Drive, 1201 N. Pope St. 538-2505, 9 a.m.- 257-8675. Monday through Saturday, 4 p.m. Tuesday to Sunday www. Mesilla 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Quality Native mimbresarts.org. Doña Ana Arts Council Arts and American art and jewelry. Molly Ramolla Gallery & Framing, Cultural Center, 1740 Calle de Thunder Horse Gallery, 200 Mechem 203 N. Bullard St., 538- 5538. www. Mercado, Suites B and D, 523-6403, 9 Drive, Suite 1, 257-3989. info@ ramollaart.com. a.m.-5 p.m. Monday to Friday. thunderhorsegallery.com, 11 a.m.-5 Wednesday thru Sunday Ol’ West Gallery & Mercantile, 104 W. Galeri Azul, Old Mesilla Plaza, 523- p.m. Tuesday to Saturday. Bronze Broadway St., 388-1811/313-2595, 8783. Monday to Saturday, 10 a.m.-6 sculpture by Rory Combs, Sarinova 10 a.m - 5 p.m. 8:30 -10 a.m. Monday to Friday. p.m., Sunday, 11 a.m.-6 p.m. Galeria glass and fine art. The Place at the Palace, at 201 N. on the Plaza, 2310 Calle de Principal, The White Dove, 2825 Sudderth Drive, No. A, 257-6609, 9:30 a.m-4 p.m. open until 9 p.m. for Bullard St. 575-388-1368. 526-9771. Daily 10 am.-6 p.m. Soul River Gallery, 400 N. Bullard Mesilla Valley Fine Arts Gallery, 2470 daily, Authentic Native American Second Saturday Art Hop St. 303-888-1358; 10 a.m.-3 p.m. Calle de Guadalupe, 522- 2933. Daily jewelry and artifacts. Monday and Wednesday and 10 a.m.- 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Kenneth Wyatt Galleries of Ruidoso, 5:30 p.m. Thursday to Saturday. Ouida Touchön Studio, 2615 Calle 2205 Sudderth Drive, 257-1529, www. Sterling Fine Art, 306 N. Bullard St. de Guadalupe, 635-7899. By kennethwyatt.com. Fine art by the Silver City, 505-699-5005, 11 a.m.-5 appointment. ouida@ouidatouchon. Wyatt family. FIBER ART FINE ART FUNCTIONAL ART p.m. Wednesday to Saturday and com, www.ouidatouchon. com. 1-3 p.m. Sunday, or by appointment. The Potteries, 2260 Calle de Santiago, Ruidoso Downs Abstract to realism, workshops and 524-0538, 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Tuesday to Pinon Pottery, MM. 26465 U.S. Hwy. lessons available. sterlingnm.com. Saturday; noon to 5 p.m. Sunday. 70, 937-0873, 937-1822, www. Studio Behind the Mountain, 23 Rokoko, 1785 Avenida de Mercado, pinonpottery.com. Pottery by Vicki 415 Broadway - T or C Wagon Wheel Lane, 388- 3277. By 405-8877. Conley and other area artists, fine art appointment. www. jimpalmerbronze. by Anita Keegan and Virgil Stephens. com. Las Cruces Studio Upstairs, 109 N. Bullard St., Big Picture Gallery, 2001 Lohman Ave, Alamogordo FEBRUARY 2020 AD 574-2493. By appointment. Suite 109, 647-0508. 10 a.m.-5 p.m., Creative Designs Custom Framing & Syzygy Tile Gallery, 106 N. Bullard St., Tuesday to Friday. 9:30 a.m.-1 p.m. Gallery, 434-4420, 917 New York Ave. 3.88 x 3 inches 388-5472. Saturday. Patron’s Hall/Flickinger Center for Tatiana Maria Gallery, 305 N. Bullard Blue Gate Gallery, 4901 Chagar St. Performing Arts, 434-2202, 1110 St. 388-4426. (intersection of Valley Drive and Taylor New York Ave. Tree Spirit Gallery, on-line only at Road, open by appointment, 523- www.cogan-cogan.com. 303-888- 2950. Tularosa 1358. Camino Real Book Store and Art Horse Feathers, 318 Granado St. 21 Latigo Trail, 941-387-8589. Gallery, 314 S. Tornillo St. 523-3988. 585-4407. Art, southwest furniture Sculpture by Barbara Harrison. By Thursday to Sunday, 11 a.m.-5 p.m. and decor. appointment only. Cottonwood Gallery, 275 N. Main St. The Merc, 316 Granado St. 505- 238- Wild West Weaving, 211-D N. Texas, (Southwest Environmental Center), 6469. Art gifts by regional artists, 313-1032, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday 522-5552. Monday to Friday, 9 a.m.-6 books. João Galera Memory and Desire to Saturday, www. wildwestweaving. p.m. Silver City and WNMU Artist in Residence 2640 El Paseo Road, com. Cutter Gallery, Capitan Wind Canyon Studio, 11 Quail Run 541- 0658. 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Tuesday to Heart of the Raven, 415 12th St., February 7 - March 8th, 2020 Road off Hwy. 180, mile marker 107, Friday, 10 a.m.-3 p.m. Saturday. Reception, February 8th 5 - 7pm 937-7459, Functional and decorative 574- 2308, 619-933-8034. Louise Justus Wright Galeria, 266 W. pottery, classes. Artist Lecture, February 20th 5:30 - 7pm Sackett, 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Monday and Court Ave., 526-6101, jud@ Wednesday and by appointment. delvalleprintinglc.com. 8:30 a.m.-5:30 209 W. Broadway, Silver City, NM lightartspace.com Carrizozo Wynnegate Gallery, 1105 W. Market p.m. Monday to Friday. Malkerson Gallery 408, 408 12th St. in St., 575-534-9717, noon – 4 p.m. Las Cruces Arts Association, located Carrizozo, 648-2598. Saturday and Sunday, also open for in Cruces Creatives, 205 E. Lohman Tularosa Basin Gallery of Red Dot Tour, artist showings and by Ave. lascrucesarts.wixsite.com/arts. Photography, 401 12th St. in appointment. Las Cruces Museum of Art, 491 N. Carrizozo, 575-937-1489, 10 a.m.-5 Yada Yada Yarn, 621 N. Bullard St. Main St., 541-2137. 10 a.m.-4:30 388-3350. p.m., Tuesday to Friday; 9 a.m.-4:30 p.m. Thursday to Monday; noon to 5 Zoe’s Studio/Gallery, 305 N. Cooper p.m. Saturday. p.m. on Sundays. Exclusive exhibit St., 654-4910. By chance or Mesquite Art Gallery, 340 N. Mesquite venue for the winners of New Mexico appointment. St., 640-3502. 11 a.m.-5 p.m., Magazine’s photography contest and Mimbres Thursday to Friday; 2-5 p.m. Saturday. the largest photo gallery in the state. Chamomile Connection, 3918 U.S. M. Phillip’s Fine Art Gallery, 221 N. Highway 35, 536-9845. Lynnae Main St., 525-1367. Lincoln McConaha. By appointment. New Dimension Art Works, 615 E. Old Lincoln Gallery, 1068 Calle la Kate Brown Pottery and Tile, HC Piñon St., 373-0043. By Appointment. Placita, across from the visitor’s 15 Box 1335, San Lorenzo, 536- NMSU University Art Gallery, Williams center in Lincoln, 653- 4045. Coffee 9935, [email protected], Hall, University Ave. east of Solano, bar featuring 45 New Mexico artists, www.katebrownpottery.com. By 646-2545, 8 a.m.-4 p.m. Tuesday to 10 a.m.-4:30 p.m. Tuesday-Saturday appointment. Sunday. Nopalito’s Galeria, 326 S. Mesquite St., San Patricio Bayard 8 a.m.-8:30 p.m. Friday to Sunday. Hurd La Rinconada, NM 281 U.S. Hwy. Kathryn Allen Clay Studio, 601 Erie Quillin Stephens Gallery, behind 70, 653-4331, www. wyethartists.com. St., 537-3332. By appointment. downtown Coas Books, 312-1064. By Monday through Saturday 9 a.m.-5 appointment only. p.m. Works by Peter Hurd, Henriette Northern Grant County Tombaugh Gallery, Unitarian Wyeth, Andrew Wyeth, N.C. Wyeth Casitas de Gila, 50 Casita Flats Road, Universalist Church, 2000 S. Solano and resident artist, Michael Hurd. Gila, 535-4455. By appointment. Drive, 522-7281. Wednesday to Friday gallery@ casitasdegila. com, www. 10 a.m.-2 p.m. or by appointment. White Oaks galleryatthecasitas.com. Unsettled Gallery & Studio, 905 N. White Oaks Pottery, 445 Jicarilla Drive Mesquite, 635-2285, noon-5 p.m. (three miles past White Oaks), 648- Deming Wednesday; 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Thursday 2985. Daily, 10 a.m-5 p.m. Porcelain Community Gallery, 1721 E. Pine St. to Friday; 10 a.m.- 4 p.m. Saturday, pottery by Ivy Heymann. DESERT EXPOSURE FEBRUARY 2020 • 13

MUSIC EXPOSURE • MIKE COOK ‘Broadway on Stage’ NMSU brings the music to life in Las Cruces

ew Mexico State Uni- night-only musical revue high- The show is directed by Lisa “I Got Rhythm,” from “Girl Cra- Brown”; “Loverly” from “My Fair versity Theatre Depart- lighting what’s hot on Broadway Hermanson, with Christa Fred- zy,” sung by Christa Fredrickson; Lady”; “Medley” from “Beautiful: Nment’s production of right now, along with some tradi- rickson as musical director. “It’s Not About Me” and “Just the Carole King Musical;” “9 to 5” Broadway on Stage show is per- tional favorites from years gone NMSU Theatre Department Breathe” from The Prom; “She from the musical with that same formed at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, by, performed by NMSU theatre Head Wil Kilroy is the emcee Used to Be Mine” and “When He name; and “You Will Be Found” Feb. 22 at the ASNMSU Center students and faculty and com- and Brian Theodorson is the fea- Sees Me” from “Waitress: The from “Dear Evan Hansen.” for the Arts, 1000 E. University munity members. tured musician. Musical,” sung by Melis White; Other performers include Del- Ave. Tickets are $20-$25. A re- All sponsors receive two tick- Songs include “Anything You “Shy” from “Once Upon A Mat- la Bustamante, Christa Fredrick- ception will follow the 90-min- ets to the show, get their names Can Do” from “Annie Get Your tress,” sung by Susie Ouderkirk; son, Susie Ouderkirk, Meagan ute show, in the center’s sec- in the program and are included Gun,” sung by Calvin Chervinko “Summer Nights,” sung by Josh- Higgins, the Cen10 Singers from ond-floor rehearsal hall. in announcements during the and Brianna Horvath; “Holding ua Jackson, “Greased Light- Centennial High School and Broadway On Stage is a one- performance. Out for a Hero” and “Footloose”; ning” and “Beauty School Drop- Singing Out choir. NMSU students out,” sung by Wil Kilroy, from For information or tickets, and faculty “Grease”; “Happiness” from contact Susie Ouderkirk at 575- and commu- “You’re A Good Man, Charlie 646-5122 and [email protected]. nity members performing during the 2019 Broadway on Stage at Concete Pumping & Decorative Gravel, NMSU. (Photo courtesy of Shotcrete, Slabs, Block Laying, Christa Fred- Bobcat, Dirt, Gravel and Pavers rickson) LICENSED, BONDED & INSURED (#367590) FREE ESTIMATES ROHAN STITES, OWNER SILVER CITY, NM • WWW.ADOBETECHNIQUES.COM Call to Artists

• Friends of Organ Mountains Cruces may submit proposals for Desert Peaks announce a call exhibitions for the 2021 calen- to artists to apply for the Organ dar year. Non- traditional media Mountains-Desert Peaks National or subject matters welcome. All Monument Artist-in-Residence artwork must be for sale. Include Program. Feb. 28 is the dead- a letter of proposal with informa- line to apply for the May 1 – 31 tion about the artist, type of work opening. The Artist in Residence to be shown and USB flash drive Program provides an artist and the containing eight representative public an opportunity to interact to images as JPG files. For group better enhance the understanding shows, supply a list of all mem- of our public lands as well as the bers and two images from each unique qualities an artist’s eye can member. Info: [email protected] Dinosaur capture. Apply at www.organmtn- or uuchurchlc.org/about-us/our- friends.org art-gallery Discoveries • Memorial Medical Center’s Art • Male barbershop quartet look- Initiative seeks works of art for ing for experienced tenor or lead Ancient Fossils, New Ideas the Administration Building of the singer. Must be able to read music MMC Cancer Center on Telshor and be available to practice at Avenue and the MMC HealthPlex, least once a week. Contact Chuck Surgical and Women’s Imaging Riggs: 575-521-1729; chuck. Center on Northrise. Mediums: oil [email protected]. Find out how advanced technologies reveal watercolor, acrylic, dyes, collag- es, ceramic, mixed media, indoor • The Mesilla Valley Swing Band how dinosaurs lived, moved, and behaved! and outdoor sculpture, pottery, has openings for baritone sax, fabric, weaving, quilting, stained trumpets, trombone, drums and glass and others. Themes: hospital percussionist. The band rehearses January 25 - September 12, 2020 appropriate, warm, positive, hu- from 6-9 p.m. Wednesdays at The morous and uplifting, with people, First Christian Church, 1809 El Hosted at the Museum of Art animals. Deadline: ongoing. Paseo Road. Contact Jim Helder, Submit 3-4 jpgs of completed 575-373-2188, 575-540-9701 or This exhibition is organized by the American Museum of Natural History, New works with title, medium, size, [email protected]. York (amnh.org), in collaboration with the California Academic of Sciences, price, artist name, email, phone, bio and personal pic to: Janice • New Horizons Band of Las San Francisco; The Field Museum, Chicago; the Houston Museum of Natural Jones, [email protected], Cruces is looking for players. The Science; and the North Carolina Museum of Natural Science, Raleigh. and Cynthia de Lorenzi, Cynthia. band rehearses 6:45-8:15 p.m. [email protected]. Tuesdays in the NMSU Music Building, 1075 N. Horseshoe. Con- Museum of Art • Tombaugh Gallery: Submission tact band Director Judy Bethmann 491 North Main Street, Las Cruces, NM 88001 deadline: April 10. Regional artists at [email protected] or 575-541-2137 • www.las-cruces.org/museums within a 200-mile radius of Las www.nhsocruces.com. facebook.com/LCMuseums @LCMuseums

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SILVER CITY ARTS EXPOSURE Verde and Gary’s Rock Shop will be featuring local artists and artisans and their work. Locat- Arts Scene ed on Main Street south of the courthouse, these four venues Upcoming area art happenings offer a variety of creations, each location specializing in some- day and 10 a.m.-5:30 p.m. Thurs- thing different from the others. day through Saturday. Info: 707- Info: [email protected]. 490-4367. CARRIZOZO

Myron Weckwerth and his Mim- bres-style gourds are featured at Silver City Copper Quail. • For the month of Febru- ary, Silver City Copper Quail Stirling Fine Art in Silver City is hosting guest artist Myron feature Gay Marks paintings for The J. Malkerson Gallery 408 in Weckwerth, known for his Mim- February. Carrizozo features Susan Weir “Marilyn and Elvis out for a bres-style gourds. Meet Weckw- João Galera, WNMU artist in Ancker with “Flights of Fanta- stroll,” is one of many quirky erth in person from 4-6 p.m. on residence, drawings, tapistries Feb. 8 with a reception 5-7 p.m. sy” pottery. photos put together by FeVa Saturday, Feb.15 during the art- and ceremics on display at The show continues through Light Art Space. Fotos at the Mimbres Region ist reception. Light refreshments March 3. The gallery is located at Art Council Gallery. • J. Malkerson Gallery will be served. Also for Febru- but it is the act of drawing that 306 N. Bullard St. in Silver City. 408 in Carrizozo is featuring ary, Mariah Walker is display- makes him forget time. He is Info: sterlingnm.com. • Silver City photographers, Susan Weir Ancker, PhD, for ing a new series of work titled currently exploring the theme of Sandy Feutz and Tom Vaughan the first Exhibition of 2020 enti- “Love of Rescues.” A portion personal and collective memory have put together a FeVa Fotos tled “Flights of Fantasy: Ex- of the proceeds from this se- for his creations. In this exhibi- photography exhibit at the Mim- ploits of Winged Scholars.” ries will be donated to the High tion he will present drawings, bres Region Art Council Gallery. Ancker is not only a ceramic Desert Humane Society. The gal- tapestries and ceramics. Also on The show is titled “Silver City instructor with many years of lery is located at 211A N. Texas, view is the work of gallery art- is a State of Mind” and is avail- experience, but she is also one Silver City. Info: 575-388-2646. ists Joel Armstrong, Valerie able for viewing throughout the of the leading ceramic artists in Galloway, Carmen Ruiz, Eu- month of February during regu- Lincoln County and Southern • Light Art Space, located at gene Starobinskiy, Art Peter- lar MRAC office hours, 9a.m. to New Mexico. This exhibition 209 W. Broadway in Silver City son and Mimi Calise Peter- 4p.m., Tuesday through Friday. includes more than 30 pieces of features “Memory and Desire” son. Gallery hours are 10 a.m. The landscape art of Michelle The MRAC office and gallery is her artwork that have been cre- with artist João Galera Feb. 7 to 5 p.m. Thursday, Friday and Jenkinson can be found at Soul located in the Wells Fargo Bank ated in the past five years. She to March 8. A reception for the Saturday, also 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. River Gallery. Building at 1201 N. Pope Street is especially well-known for her artist is 5-7 p.m., Saturday, Feb. Sundays and by appointment. in Silver City. colorful Ceramic Fantasies and 8 and an artist talk takes place Info: lightartspace.com, email • Soul River Gallery, 400 N. Mythical Muses. This is a unique 5:30-7 p.m., Thursday, Feb. 20. [email protected] or 520- Bullard St, in Silver City is host- RESERVE opportunity to view and acquire Brazilian artist Galera is the first 240-7075. ing show a large selection of • SODAD a beautiful piece of her work. Silver City and WNMU Artist original oil paintings by Michelle in Reserve is The J. Malkerson Gallery 408 in Residence. He arrived in Sil- • Sterling Fine Art, 306 N Jenkinson a local landscape art- celebrating has been displaying the work ver City in June, 2019. He is a Bullard Street, historic down- ist. The gallery, gift and home Valentine’s and hosting exhibitions for well- multi-artist, who does drawing, town Silver City, is featuring the decor destination is open 10 Day week- known Lincoln County Artists painting, collage and sewing, work of Gay Marks beginning a.m.-3 p.m. Monday and Wednes- end with for the past 16 years. This Exhi- Hearts and bition will add to that Legacy. th Arts from 11 9th Annual Buffalo Roast Fundraiser a.m.-4 p.m. DEMING 9 Annual Buffalo Roast Fundraiser The town of on Feb. 15, • The Deming Art Center th Human Systems Research, Inc. Reserve is an art walk is presents the annual “Dem- 9a nonprofi AnnualHuman t for anthropological BuffaloSystems Roast Research,research Fundraiser and preservation Inc. a nonprofi t for anthropological research and preservation celebrating through the ing Student Exhibit,” (Junior Valentine’s Day Human SystemsPresentsPresents Research, Inc. art district. High and High School) which a nonprofi t for anthropological research and preservation weekend with a Take a stroll will be on display Feb. 1-27. Presents Hearts and Arts through Re- We have a dedicated group of event. LabyrinthLabyrinth ofof Blood:Blood: serve and vis- teachers who bring the best out Labyrinth of Blood: it the venues in their students. The exhibit displaying creations from our lo- opens with an artist reception ApachesApaches andand thethe SpanishSpanish EmpireEmpire cal artists. Hearts and Arts takes from 1-3 p.m., on Sunday, Feb. 2, Apaches and the Spanishbyby MarkMark Empire SantiagoSantiago place. Tawnya’s Trading Post, There will be a drawing for two by Mark Santiago Options Unlimited, Studio photos at the reception. Deming

Over the course of several centuries, the Apache peoples repeatedly confronted and confounded the northern movement of the Spanish Empire into what is now the Southwestern Borderlands. From the late 16th century through the beginning of the 19th, Apaches and Spaniards engaged in almost constant warfare. Whether viewed as a series of relatively small, local conflicts, conflated by an imperial perspective, or as a generations-long struggle for control of ancestral lands and resources against outside invasion, the war (or wars) between the Spanish Empire and the various Apache peoples were among the longest and the most important in the history of North America. Haphazardly at first, but then with increasing momentum from the mid 1700s, the Spaniards unleashed all the power and subtleties available to their modern nation-state against a tribal society. Alternating extreme violence with offers of food and security on what were essentially reservations, by the 1790s the Spaniards had imposed on the Apaches a form of mutual accommodation that resembled peace more than war. This talk will examine the origins, course, and results of this long, bloody, and labyrinthine struggle. Saturday, March 14, 2020 at the New Mexico Farm and Ranch Heritage Museum Advance Ticket Sales Only - $50 per person Saturday,For tickets and info Marchrmation call 575.524.9456 14, 2020 at the New Mexico Farm and Ranch Heritage Museum Saturday,Advance Ticket Sales March Only - $50 per 14, person 2020 at theFor N etiwc kMexicoets and F infoarmr mationand Ranch call He575.524.9456ritage Museum Advance Ticket Sales Only - $50 per person For tickets and information call 575.524.9456 DESERT EXPOSURE FEBRUARY 2020 • 15

Art Center is located at 100 S le Belleza (Sonoma Ranch area) work and inspiration. The show Gold St., Deming. Its hours are in Las Cruces, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. continues through the month of 10-4 a.m., Monday to Saturday. each Saturday and noon to 4 February at the Tombaugh Gal- Info: 575-546-3663 or www.dem- p.m. Sundays in February. Look lery, 2000 S. Solano Drive in Las ingarts.org. for the Blue Flag. For informa- Cruces. Regular gallery hours are tion: 575-520-9245. from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., each week, LAS CRUCES Wednesday through Saturday. • A newly created format showcases artists’ work on • In February, Mesquite Art The Agave Artists of Las Cru- Gallery in Las Cruces features Facebook at “Las Cruces NM ces is celebrating new artists Artists & Art Showcase” on during For the Love of Art the work of The Southwestern a page is specifically for the month. Calligraphy Guild. The guild many undiscovered artists and studies artisans in Las Cruces and Doña five new artists, as well as its calligra- Ana County. No matter what it is six-month anniversary, during a phy, as you do, painting, photography, reception from 4 to 7 p.m., Sat- well as, Kurt Van Wagner is one of the Gourd ornaments by Terry Mc- sculpting, pottery, jewelry, fiber urday, Feb. 8. The artists joining related featured artists at the Mesilla Catherin are a few of the gourd Valley Fine Arts Gallery. arts, woodworking, decorative are: Lucie Raine, photography; delights at the Tombaugh paper arts arts, etc., anything created by Betty Krebbs, pastels; Ken Gallery in Las Cruces. includ- from 11 a.m. until 3 p.m. on Feb. you is welcome to be displayed. Krebbs, oils; Gael Guyotte, ing book- 15. Refreshment will be served. Please note, this FaceBook page jewelry and small sculpture; and • The gourd artists are back at binding, Gallery hours are 10 a.m. to 5 is meant to be a digital art gal- Sonya Fe, oils. Also as part of the Tombaugh Gallery, this time The Southwestern marbling, p.m. daily. Info: 575-522-2933, lery, rather than a sales tool. For the Love of Art Month, from 1 showing off their spirit animals. Calligraphy Guild journal- www.mesillavalleyfinearts.com. This new FaceBook page is the to 3 p.m., on Feb. 22 member art- Each of the four southwest artists has taken over the ing, water- creation of Robert Paquette, a ists Leslie Toombs, Paul Vakse- has a unique style, but each gourd Mesquite Art Gal- color and • Trails End Gallery is at long-time volunteer for many lis and Ana Maria Uranga invite will embody the essence of an lery for February. more. The 1732 N. Mesquite, Las Cruces. Las Cruces community service the public to a plein air session in animal – turtles, giraffes, dragon- exhibit opens Thursday, Feb. Artists included are Robert organizations. Josefina’s Garden located at flies, bears, cats, dogs and horses 6 and continues through Feb. Highsmith, Gary Biel, Patri- the gallery’s side yard, accessi- are all represented. Their work 29, with a reception 5-7 p.m., cia Black, John Glass, John • New ble through the cafe patio or at encompasses everything from Feb. 7 During the Friday Art Schooley, Virginia Romero, Mexico Wa- 2250 Calle de San Albino, Mesil- carving to painting, pyrography Ramble. Info: 575-640-3502. Penny Simpson, C.C. Cun- tercolor So- la. Bring your art supplies or just to embellishing with clay. Syl- ningham, Nancy Frost Be- ciety South- yourself, ask questions and enjoy via Henrickson discovered the • The Mesilla Valley Fine gin, Susi and Richard Bergq- ern Chapter some refreshments. Children gourd as a canvas after moving to Arts Gallery, 2470-A Calle de uist, Linda Hagen, Jeri Meeting will are welcome. Info: Wendy Weir, Las Cruces and finding wild buf- Guadalupe, across from the his- Desrochers, Linda Gendall, be followed events coordinator, 575-339-9870; falo gourds in the desert. Steph toric Fountain Theatre, features Rhoda Winters and Jerry Her- by presen- [email protected]. Ross exclaims that the gourd “is two local artists for the month of nandez. Info: 575-650-1556. tation by the most versatile canvas I have February, Ray Baird and Kurt Jacques ever seen.” Brenda Blackweld- Van Wagner and would like to • “Local Color: Landscape Barriac, er has been carving gourds for introduce the gallery’s newest and Architecture” with the Jacques Barriac, “Chinese about 25 years. She likes to say members, Linda Hagen and Mesilla Valley Weavers Guild painter of “Japa- Painting and that her “work is where the gourd Brent Flenniken. Baird’s work will be in the New Mexico Farm nese egg plants,” Mounting on ends and the art begins.” Ter- as an oil painter can be lightly & Ranch Heritage Museum’s presents “Chi- nese Painting Rice Paper,” ry McCatherin likes to create described as impressionism, and Arts Corridor. The show will be and Mounting on from 2 to 4 ornaments featuring southwest uses translucent, complemen- on display through April 5. The Rice Paper,” at p.m., Feb. 9 designs using the wild buffalo tary colors that represent his Guild includes weavers, spinners, Good Samaritan at Good Sa- gourds. She tells people that her feelings, rather than a true rep- knitters, basket makers, and oth- Feb. 9. maritan So- “ornaments are the result of a resentational image. Van Wag- ers interested in the textile arts. ciety Village, Social Center, 3011 northeast tole painter meeting a ner has emerged as an accom- Members draw inspiration from Buena Vida Circle Las Cruces. Kim Miller’s Forever Flowers southwest surface.” A reception plished self-taught digital artist. the southwest landscape and the This event is free and open to the Yard can be found at Impres- for the artists will be from 11:30 He transforms his personal pho- environment in which they live. public. Using modern materials, sions Studio in Las Cruces. a.m. to 1:30 p.m. on Sunday, Feb. tographs into collectable works The Farm & Ranch Heritage Mu- Barriac, a watercolor artist from •Marj Leininger, “Gypsy 2 at the gallery. All of the artists of art. The Gallery will also cel- seum is at 4100 Dripping Springs El Paso, will demonstrate how Sage Artist” and Kim Miller, will be available to discuss their ebrate “For The Love of Art” Road. Info: 575-522-4100 to mount a very thin Chinese “Forever Flowers Yard Art,” painting on a rigid backing. He are sharing resources creativity Coming to Grant County March 2020 will also review various aspects and encouragement For Love of Chinese watercolor paintings, of Art month. They work in a including traditional and West- range of media- from watercolor CO.STARTERS is a 9-week program that ern Chinese painting techniques, on yupo, acrylic, colored pencil equips aspiring entrepreneurs with the brushes, and the great many and draped figures to reclaimed papers that can be used. Info: glass designing yard art such insights, relationships, and tools needed nmwatercolorsociety.org. as totems, flowers, birdbaths/ to turn business ideas into action. feeders and solar cholla cac- • Agave Artists cooperative tus. Their work can be seen at Hosted by Grant County nonprofit: Southwest New Mexico ACT - gallery celebrates the works of Impressions Studio, 4116 Cal- FOR MORE INFO, call 575-538-5560 or email [email protected]

World Turtle Day Reading the Rocks Page 36-37 Getting Batty Page 25 CALLPage 24 FOR ARTISTS and WRITERS May 2019 May 23 is World Turtle Day exposure Volume 24 • Number 5 Arts & Leisure in Southern New Mexico In 2019 Desert In addition, on Saturday, May 23, we will Exposure held a cover hold a poetry/story reading reception for the art contest calling for show and are calling for turtle related poems, turtles in honor of stories and essays to be selected for reading World Turtle Day, on that day. Several of those pieces may be May 23. chosen to appear in the May edition of Desert Exposure. The collection of amazing and For information and to submit art or writing beautiful work that to this collaborative turtle tale, contact Desert resulted deserves a Exposure editor forum of its own and the folks at Elva K. Österreich at editor@desertexposure. the Tombaugh Gallery in Las Cruces agreed. com or by phone at 575-680-1978. So we will showcasing the turtle art work submitted last year and would like to invite Please send images and text by email by other southern New Mexico artists to submit April 5 and we will coordinate delivery work to the May turtle show at the gallery. of the art works to the gallery. 16 • FEBRUARY 2020 www.desertexposure.com ARTS EXPOSURE Erotica, Not Pornography Annual show and sale at In Effect Gallery, Las Cruces

n Effect gallery is pleased to announce our first “pop-up” shows in town,” he said. “And cer- upcoming fifth annual Erotica art show and tainly, it was the first erotic pop-up. Response Isale from 6 to 10:30 p.m. Friday, Feb. 14. Ad- from both artists and attendees was so strong ditional showings will be from 1 to 4 p.m. Satur- that we decided to do it again … and again …” day and Sunday Feb. 15 and 16. The show was born out of running across As a part of the special fifth anniversary cel- old work, Lujan said, going back in time and ebration there will be a guest artist, John G rediscovering the old life drawings that were Hynes from New York, as well as others. done in college, laying in dusty corners. They Local Taos Indian artist Dennis Lujan has were brushed off and framed and all the while, been producing art shows since about 1990, bringing back the spirit of freedom that allowed having owned three different galleries in differ- the artists to create them, he said. Then, as the ent cities. Here in Las Cruces his In Effect Gal- show grew, more artists were finding the way lery was originally a “brick and mortar” gallery to show that rare side of new ideas about body on Griggs Street downtown. normally left unseen in the area. Now, five years After giving that up to “go private” Lujan later the interpretation of the human form con- thought the unique space in his new home was tinues to amaze as it is constantly interpreted begging for some sort of “event” so one day he and reinvented, Lujan said. Pornography and said “We’re doing an erotic art show” in honor any depiction of degradation of people are not of local artists group Artforms, “For the Love of accepted., although there is a “green room” for Art” Month. the more risqué work. Lujan said from the start the turnout of art- Every year this show presents the works ists has been incredible every year. Although he of 25-30 artists, both local and from across has always reserved the right to refuse art in the country (many showing for the first time), the case of Erotica, Lujan has never turned an showcasing more than 120 pieces of all kinds artist away. of media and styles, from oils to acrylics to il- The quality and breadth of work that is sub- lustrations. Additionally, Lujan said, a variety of mitted often sees multiple pieces from one art- types of 3D art makes this fun evening unlike ist. His real worry every year is that he will see anything offered in the area. too much good art that can’t all be shown. For more information contact Lujan at den- “Erotica has truly evolved over the years, the [email protected] or call Jeff at 575-640- inaugural show in 2016 was actually one of the 8485. “Just Joan” by Dennis Lujan ARTS EXPOSURE Arts Fair Celebrates 10 Years Las Cruces brings expansive collections of art, fine crafts

he Doña Ana Arts Coun- More than 100 artists from materials, and woodwork-met- 5 p.m. on Friday to participate pieces, price their work, and cil’s (DAAC) Las Cruces across the country, some re- alwork-sculpture. Fair hours in the procession that will start discuss their art with the public. TArts Fair, the area’s most turning favorites and other are 5 to 8 p.m. on Friday, and promptly at 5:10 p.m. Photos In addition, each exhibiting art- expansive collection of art and first-time exhibitors, offer work 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Saturday may be taken of the procession ist will contribute an item to a fine crafts, will celebrate its 10th in eight categories, including and Sunday. The cost is $10 for participants. silent auction, which will open anniversary when it returns to jewelry, mixed media, fabric, adults and free for children 12 Friday evening will also give Friday evening and close Sun- the Las Cruces Convention Cen- painting and drawing, print years and younger. Tickets are art collectors the first opportu- day at 2 p.m. All fair proceeds ter on Friday through Sunday, making and photography, por- good for all three days. Tickets nity to see and buy work direct- benefit DAAC’s many children’s March 6, 7 and 8. celain-pottery-glass, recycled are available online at www. ly from the more than 100 artists art programs. daarts.org, by calling the DAAC who have booths at the fair. Tickets are $10 for adults. office 575-523-6403, or at the A Cantina with a bar, food, Children aged 12 and under are door. and non-alcoholic beverages admitted free. As part of the 10th anniver- available for purchase will be Ticket holders may reenter Territorial Charter Day sary celebration, the fair will open on Friday evening and Sat- the event all three days at no kick off Friday evening, March urday. additional charge. The DAAC February 15, 2020 6 at 5 p.m., with a special pro- DAAC is donating space for offices, 1740 Calle de Mercado cession and blessing by the a student booth, representing in Mesilla, are open between elders and dancers of the Tor- emerging artists from New Mex- the hours of 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., tugas Indians and the Tortugas ico State University. Students Monday through Friday. The Las Celebrate Silver City's Independent Spirit Parish Church. Visitors to the participating in the fair are chal- Cruces Convention Center is lo- Fair are encouraged to arrive at lenged to learn to display their cated at 680 E. University Ave. 9am, Downtown Arch - Fun Run

10am-2pm, Museum Annex - Mining Family Activities

11am, El Sol Theater - Story of the Territorial Charter Trails End Gallery February 1 - March 14

11am-5pm, Murray Lobby - Fort Bayard & Gun Exhibit presents Artist Reception

11am-Close, Little Toad Creek - Drink Specials SATURDAY • Feb 8th • 5-7 12pm & 2pm, Silver City Museum - Storytelling For The Love of Arts

12:30 & 2pm, El Sol - Music by Danny Cordova

1pm, El Sol - Line Dancing with the Silver Stompers

1:30, El Sol - Folklorico Dancing with Cielito Folklorico

3pm-5pm, Old James Stadium - Burlesque Baseball

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All Events Are FREE except the Ball 1732 N Mesquite Las Cruces, NM 575.649.2951 Rhoda Winters Open Tues-Fri 10-4 • Sat 10-3 DESERT EXPOSURE FEBRUARY 2020 • 17 ARTS EXPOSURE • ELVA K. ÖSTERREICH Beginnings Gallery closes as owners move on to next adventure

.me Alamag was always invented jewelry out of water they came to the Las Cruces an artist. putty, “stuff you fill cracks in the area. They made that dream real A “My mom started paint- wall with,” and she got too many after being here for 6 years. ing when I was in the womb, so orders for the jewelry, that Mitch “As an artist I am always feel- I was working in the womb,” stepped in and helped by com- ing like my creations are chil- A.me said. “She gave me free ing up with a system of creating dren that need a home,” A.me reign in my room to draw on the more than one of a kind pieces. said. “I wanted to create a per- floors and the closets and she al- “So that’s where we really manent home for our work and ways encouraged me even when started our collaboration,” A.me invite other artists to have that I didn’t think I was an artist be- said. “It happened by accident. experience. I wanted it to be a cause at school everyone was I needed help and that was the place that was always accepting always drawing reality and I had beginning relationship of how of creation.” no desire to draw from reality I we have worked together for 35 As working artists, Mitch and just drew from my head.” years.” A.me work full-time creating A.me Alamag and her partner Mitch have been running the The little girl would even draw A.me said she goes into dark and selling art apart from the Rokoko Gallery in Las Cruces for 10 years and are moving out to on her sheets, then wake up place, comes up with something gallery and it became time to let find their next adventure. (Photo By Elva K. Österreich) with body prints of characters and Mitch comes in and engi- go of the facility. from sleeping on the ink. Her neers it and makes it nicer and “It just was hard to keep open she said. “Every time we did a walking through the material life partner Mitch has also been figures out a way to do it better. one day a week and get our work themed show, it forced us to do world and she didn’t need mate- creating since he was young, al- “He is really the systems man- done and do what we needed to pieces we had never done be- rial things while “Mitch needed ways building things and making ager and he makes things run so do as artists,” A.me said. fore.” home and needed life and he had things. I can still be in a space of inven- They will be selling all sorts of They take their work to vari- much more needs.” Together Mitch and A.me cre- tion,” she said. “I think it’s kind stuff, chairs, tables and umbrel- ous shows around the country, Together, these opposite peo- ated the concept for and built of like a big sacrifice because I las, A.me said. including one that is just for gal- ple have grown to know they the Rokoko Gallery in Las Cru- see him as just as much an in- “We went thought our home leries and they get orders from work well together. And have ces 10 years ago. Now they are ventor, but we have always had got out art that has been laying those. lived off being artists for 35 moving out and into the next this role.” there for years, because we are A.me said they are really sad years, through tough times and phase of their lives. There will The couple have found their always doing new stuff and just to be selling the gallery, but not better ones. be a closing sale at the gallery lives built motto by motto. would want to clear out some of too sad because it is time for “Now I’ve learned to appreci- from noon to 5 p.m. on Feb. 8 “Our first motto was ‘emerging the old things,” she said. change. For A.me, leaving the ate stability,” she said. “I would and Feb. 15. Where everything from the depths,’” Mitch said. But Mitch and A.me saw gallery is like leaving her art in come up with something and be will be sold at excellent prices. “It’s as if we were part of a growth in their patterns and other’s hands. done with it. So, he made me The gallery is located at 1785 mythology with its own chapters artwork as they ran the gallery “I feel like it’s not mine to be- stand still a little longer, taught Avenida de Mercado. – ‘emerging from the depths,’ too. She said the different shows gin with and to let it go gives it me there is merit in selling the The couple met in the last ‘a bridge between worlds,’ ‘the they would hold brought them to life,” she said. “I look at my work work. month of art school, he was an cosmic soul caboose,’” A.me do things they would never oth- like I am co-creator with the per- “It was a dream to have this architect and she, a painter, “and added. erwise have done. son who walks away with it. We place, but I realize we are always we didn’t relate to each other They had a gallery in Venice “Like when we created a are partners and you are the oth- changing, always going through artistically at all. I thought he Beach, California, from 1990 to theme like ‘Mixed Nuts’ I did er part of it.” phases and 10 years was a good was way too anal and he thought 1994, but the rent kept getting pieces with nuts, almonds,” A.me said she is like a nomad long time.” I was way too messy and we higher and eventually they de- didn’t have any appreciation of cided to leave. After that it was each other’s artistic vision.” always a dream to create a home It was when A.me was making for their work again. So, when ELIMINATE YOUR ELECTRIC BILL

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ON SCREEN IN LAS CRUCES Film Festival Offers Film Gems Glamour, workshops, parties and Richard Dreyfuss myriad of events is ment Award for Screenwriting at planned for the 2020 Las the festival. Schulman, an Amer- Poster Artist ACruces International ican screenwriter best known Film Festival (LCIFF), March for his semi-autobiographical Artist Luis Navarro has 4-8, 2020. Now in its fifth year, Academy Award winning screen- been in Las Cruces for close LCIFF brings independent film, play, “Dead Poets Society.” He to 20 years and has let his love industry experts, celebrities, was also hired to rewrite the of the area drive his design for film makers, film students and hit movie “Honey, I Shrunk the the 2020 Las Cruces Interna- film lovers together for a five day Kids” and had just seven days tional Film Festival commem- extravaganza. to turn it from a drama into a orative poster. Presented by New Mexico comedy. Other scripts include Navarro has incorporated State University and Visit Las comedies “Welcome to Moose- images of a light bulb, a hot Cruces, LCIFF screens indepen- port,” “What About Bob?,” and air balloon, family, spotlights dent films, presents workshops, “Holy Man,” which stars Eddie and more, all opening up into and hosts various celebrities, Murphy. Schulman directed the galaxy. social events and parties. Out- the1997 black comedy “8 Heads “The light bulb is classic, standing achievements by indus- in a Duffel Bag,” which stars Joe because everyone who has try professionals are recognized Pesci as a gangster attempting to ideas, they do see the light- and honored. transport a bag of severed heads bulb,” Navarro said. “And the LCIFF is the largest universi- across the United States. galaxies – it’s like we are all ty-affiliated film festival in the Schulman here, you know. The world is United States. The Creative Me- earned a BA trying to figure out what to dia Institute at NMSU offers a in philoso- do.” class on producing a film festi- phy from his It’s the element of bring- val and students are required to hometown ing community together that have hands on experience at the university, draws him to the film-festival festival – everything from solic- Vanderbilt, project, Navarro said. iting film entries to overseeing and will pres- “It’s just, like, let’s try to be workshops, acting as projection- ent a screen- Bella Heathcote good to each other,” he said. ists, film maker liaisons, market- writing work- “It’s better if everyone helps ing, social media and more. Film shop at the festival. each other. I see it as giving students and independent film- Actress Bella Heathcote (“Tim back to the community and to makers can interact with celeb- Burton’s Dark Shadows,” “Fifty other artists.” rities and accomplished industry Shades Darker”) will present a Navarro’s interest in art professionals as well as with one Actor Richard Dreyfuss is slated to appear be in town for the panel on Amazon Prime’s “Man goes as far back as he can another at the festival. 2020 Las Cruces International Film Festival March 4-8. In this in the High Castle” (in which remember, as he became con- LCIFF organizers say they year’s opening night film, “Astronaut,” Dreyfuss is the lead char- she plays Ni- scious of images, pictures in strive to produce an outstanding acter Angus. On March 5 Dreyfuss will receive the Outstanding cole Dörmer) books and everything around Achievement in Entertainment Award during the festival. film festival to promote indepen- along with him. He ultimately graduat- dent film making and audiences trigued with space. Although he staff plan to join them for the the series’ ed from the Los Angeles Art for these films, entice tourists to is beyond the age requirement, screening as well as cast mem- showrunner Academy, where he honed his the area and showcase the area he enters a competition hosted bers Richard Dreyfuss, Graham and stunt talent by learning the science as a viable film location based by billionaire entrepreneur and Greene and Krista Bridges for coordina- and fundamentals of art. on its unique scenery, mild cli- company founder Marcus Brown the Q&A following the screen- tor. She will Moving to Las Cruces in mate and talent base to create a for the first commercial space ing. receive the 2001, Navarro said he is in- positive economic impact. flight. Director/writer Shelagh On March 5, Dreyfuss will re- LCIFF Out- Judge Reinhold spired by the myriad of cul- This year’s opening night McLeod and the film’s producers ceive the LCIFF Outstanding standing Achievement in Drama tures and creative people in film, “Astronaut,” screening at 7 said they are delighted to be able Achievement in Entertainment Award. southern New Mexico —as p.m., March to screen the Award. Judge Reinhold of “Beverly well as his love of local green 4 stars Rich- film at what Academy Hills Cop” and “Fast Times at chile. ard Dreyfuss they consider Award Winner Ridgemont High” fame will re- “I have met a lot of great as Angus, an “ground zero” Tom Schul- ceive the Mark Medoff Legacy artists here,” he said. “In the elderly wid- for the reality man will re- Award two decades I’ve been here, ower who that inspired ceive the Mark For tickets, details, and up- art exposure has grown in the has always the film. Vir- Medoff Life- dates, visit www.LasCrucesFilm- city. If art moves, it’s good for been in- gin Galactic time Achieve- Fest.com or call 575-649-6149. the economy and the city.” Graham Greene Krista Bridges Tom Schulman

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Marvella Montelongo smiles for Steve Braithwaite as Braithwaite and Montelon- “Banananaut” Steve Braithwaite, creator of the Big Banana Car, talks with Issiah go’s mom, Yesenia, buckle her in for a ride in the Big Banana Car. Her big sister, Astorga and Araceli Hernandez after giving them a ride. Salome, got a ride, too. (Photos by Richard Coltharp) PUBLISHER’S NOTEBOOK • RICHARD COLTHARP Banana Benevolence What the world needs now is more whimsy

ew Mexico is no stranger The design was based on a real to astronauts. banana. Braithwaite sliced the N Borman Autoplex in banana into segments, traced Las Cruces is named for one, the segments, projected the and two other New Mexicans – segments and enlarged them to Harrison Schmitt of Silver City create a wood frame. He put re- and Edgar Mitchell of Artesia – bar around the wood, wrapped walked on the moon. the frame in chicken wire he But Steve Braithwaite has to sprayed urethane foam. Then be the first “banananaut” to tra- he carved the foam into banana verse the Land of Enchantment. shape, wrapped it in Fiberglas He hit the Las Cruces area and, of course, had it painted recently while driving his home- bright yellow. built Big Banana Car on his “The “I worked mostly on Sundays,” World Needs More Whimsy said Braithwaite, who built the Grand Tour.” car in Pennsylvania. And when he says, “Big Ba- It’s in the Guinness Book of nana Car,” the description is 100 World Records as the world’s percent accurate. largest motorized banana. Steve Braithwaite gives the Montelongo ladies a ride in the Big Banana Car. He finished building the car in Braithwaite had a sign business 2011 and kicked off the tour in in Michigan and worked for many The Big Banana Car April 2018 from the Santa Moni- years doing aerial photography. splits. The car’s creator, Steve Braithwaite, ca Pier in California. His source of income now? visited Las Cruces last “Selling rides in the banana “I’d built a lot of hot rods,” month, selling rides to Braithwaite said. “But this time car,” he said with a shrug. raise money for five- I wanted to try something ‘com- “In the summer, I go to the lo- year-old cancer victim pletely different,’ as they would cal ice cream parlor with the big- Zymyrah Aguirre Nunez say on Monty Python.” gest parking lot, put the time out of Hatch. Learn more And when he says it as they on Facebook, and start giving about the car at www. would say on Monty Python, he rides, mostly to children.” bigbananacar.com, or means it, with the same British As he travels the country, go to Facebook.com/ BigBananaCar. accent as the Python troupe. he bypasses motels and goes “I grew up in Woodstock, near “couch surfing” with friends he’s Oxford, England,” he said. “But met over the years, which is how I’ve lived in the U.S. for 33 years he landed in Mesilla in late De- now.” cember. But why a banana? He also gets many surprising In line at a convenience donations, such as the water store, waiting in line to pay, pump B&G Automotive put in Braithwaite spied a basket of the banana car. fruit, containing a long banana. “I asked them how much and He picked it up, began imagining they said, ‘No charge.’” where seats and wheels would I can’t believe how people go, and started laughing. He then just give me free stuff. There’s realized he had not moved as the no reason at all for it. I don’t de- line in front of him disappeared, serve any of that.” and the line behind him was pil- And then it struck him. The ing up. idea came with a soundtrack of “Oh, sorry,” he said to the the laughter and the giggles he forward. with cancer. She got to ride in me and pulling me over. He got crowd who must have been hears behind him when driving “I want to find children who the car, and Braithwaite donat- out of the car, came up to me looking askance. kids around. are sick or hurt, and who don’t ed a day’s ride proceeds – more and said, “The reason I stopped With the idea in place, he be- “A parent sent me a note that have health insurance, and do than $1,000 – to her plight. you is, at that light back there, gan looking for the right vehi- said, ‘Our child is 10. And once what I can.” He’s also doing a children’s when it turned green, you peeled cle to turn into the Big Banana he saw your Banana Car, that’s In Las Cruces, Braithwaite book, currently being illustrat- out.” Car. all he talked about for a week. connected with Yoli Diaz of ed. Here’s one of the true stories “I knew I wanted it to have “I was naïve, I guess,” CARE (Cancer Aid Resource from the book. PUBLISHER’S NOTE: If you four seats in a row,” he said. Braithwaite said. “I didn’t expect and Education, Inc.). Diaz iden- “In West Virginia, I was at red want to learn more or want to “And there were only two vehi- the reaction I get from kids. It’s tified an amazing five-year-old light,” Braithwaite said. “When donate to Braithwaite’s efforts to cles with a frame wide enough just magical. That I built a car girl from Hatch, whose smile is It turned green, I turned, and I help sick children, go to www. and long enough. And this 1993 that has that effect is amazing to nearly as big as the Banana Car. looked in the rearview mirror bigbananacar.com, go to Facebook. Ford F-150 had two gas tanks me.” Zymyrah Aguirre Nunez is only and here was a police officer, com/BigBananaCar, or www. that were inside the frame.” His idea is to pay the magic 5, but last year was diagnosed passing the other cars behind carelascruces.org. 20 • FEBRUARY 2020 www.desertexposure.com Celebrating 16 Years! BODY • MIND • SPIRIT Grant County Weekly Events DATURA SUNDAYS 12:45 p.m., Lotus Center, 211 W. Avenue. For children ages 0-5, no Archaeology Society — First Broadway, Becky Glenn, 404- registration necessary. 538-3672 Celebrating 18 Years! Sunday of every month, field trip. 234-5331. or [email protected]. Facials • Body Treatments • Spa Manicures & Pedicures • Reflexology • Waxing 536-3092, whudson43@yahoo. Southwest New Mexico Quilters com. Guild – 9:30 a.m., first Tuesday, THURSDAYS Indulge Your Cocaine Anonymous — 2 p.m. Grant County Extension Office, Blooming Lotus Meditation — at the New 180 Club, 1661 2610 N. Silver Street, North 5:30 p.m., Lotus Center, 211 W. Valentine with U.S. Highway 180 E. Everyone entrance. Newcomers and Broadway. 313-7417, geofarm@ with drug or alcohol problem is visitors are welcome. 388-8161. pobox.com. welcome. allwaterman@yahoo. a STRESS Westerners Corral – 6:20 p.m., De-stressing Meditations — com. meets on the third Tuesday of Noon-12:45 p.m., New Church of FREE TREAT every even numbered month the SW Desert, 1302 Bennett St. MONDAYS throughout the year, except for from 313-4087. AARP Widowed and Single December; when the meeting Grant County Rolling Stones Gem Persons of Grant County is held on the second Tuesday. DATURA! and Mineral Society —6 p.m., Gift Certificates for a —10:30 a.m., second Monday, For more information email second Thursday, 2045 Memory Relaxing Experience. Cross Point Assembly of God Jody Bailey-Hall at: Jody_ BareMinerals® Beauty and Skin Care Church. All singles welcome. [email protected] or Lane, Silver City. Anita, 907-830- Contact Sally, 537-3643. call 575 342-2621 and leave a 0631. Open Tuesday-Friday Cheri Crane Al-Anon family group, New Hope message. Historic Mining District & Tourism Owner/Therapist —12:05 p.m. First Presbyterian Meeting — 10 a.m., second 108 E. Broadway Thursday, Bayard Community In Silver City, NM Church, corner of 20th and WEDNESDAYS 575-534-0033 Center, 290 Hurley Ave., Bayard. Visit our website: daturatherapeuticdayspa.com Swan Streets, Silver City. Open ACA Meeting (Adult Children of meeting. Contact: 313-7891. Alcoholics and Dysfunctional 537-3327. Grant County Federated Families) — 6:30-7:45 p.m. Little Artist Club — 10:30-11:30 Republican Women – 11:30 meets every Wednesday at the a.m., Silver City Public Library, a.m., Third Monday at Silver New Church of the Southwest 515 W. College Avenue. Free Silver City Zen Center Bowling Center on Memory Lane. Desert, 714 N. Bullard St. Athena, creative fun for children ages 0-5. (Ginzan-ji Zen Buddhist Temple) 313-7997. 575-590-8300. No registration necessary. 538- Meditation for Beginners — 5:30 Al-Anon family group — 6 p.m., 3672 or [email protected]. Meditation Practice (Zazen) Monday-Friday 8:00 am p.m., Lotus Center, 211 W. Arenas Valley Church of Christ, 5 TOPS — 5 p.m. First Presbyterian Broadway. Jeff, 956-6647. www. Race Track Road, Arenas Valley Church, 1915 Swan, 538-9447. Zazen, Kinhin & Dharma Talk Saturday 9:00 am lotuscentersc.org. (the old radio station). Contact: Vinyasa Flow Yoga — 11:30 a.m.- Silver City Squares — Dancing Dokusan (interview with teacher) by appointment 313-7891. 12:45 p.m., Lotus Center at 211 6:30-8:30 p.m., Methodist Archaeology Society — 6 p.m., W. Broadway, Becky Glenn, 404- 506 W. 13th St. Church Santa Rita Street third Wednesday every month, 234-5331. Resident Priest (corner of 13th and Virginia) entrance. Kay, 956-7186 or Linda October-April at 2045 Memory WildWorks Youth Space — 4 p.m. Rev. Dr. Oryu Paul Stuetzer Silver City, NM • 575-388-8874 590-1499. Lane, Silver City; May-September For children ages 10+ Space for Silver Chorale – 7-9 p.m. meetings begin with a pot-luck youth to hang out, experiment, rehearsal, First Presbyterian dinner at 6 p.m. at Roundup create and more. Free, no Church, corner 20th and Lodge in San Lorenzo-Mimbres, registration necessary. Silver City Swan streets, Silver City. New convening for business at 7 p.m. Public Library, 515 W. College members welcome. Contact Visit www.gcasnm.org, or email Avenue, 538-3672 or ref@ Anne, 288-6939. [email protected], or call silvercitymail.com. Southwest New Mexico ACLU 536-3092 for details. Yoga class — Free class taught – noon, first Monday (except Babytime Sing & Play — 1 p.m., by Colleen Stinar. 1-2 p.m. September when it’s the second Silver City Public Library, 515 W. sD, , Monday), Little Toad Creek, 200 College Avenue. Stories, songs, Episcopal Church fellowship hall, N. Bullard St. in Silver City. Bob rhymes and movement for infants Seventh and Texas. 574-5451. linical schologist sicloga lnica Garrett, 575-590-4809. 0-12 months and their caregivers. Free, no registration necessary. FRIDAYS Board Certi ed in Clinical Health Psychology Overeaters Anonymous — 7 p.m., TUESDAYS 538-3672 or ref @silvercitymail. 575 42-26 Alzheimer’s/Dementia Support com. First United Methodist Church. ebsite arieeilsDcom —1:30 p.m., First Tuesday, Back Country Horsemen — 6 654-2067. Senior Center. Margaret, 388- p.m., second Wednesday, Silver City Woman’s Club — 10:30 4539. WNMU Watts Hall, opposite CVS a.m., second Friday, 411 Silver Bayard Historic Mine Tour —9:30 Pharmacy, Hwy. 180. Subject to Heights Blvd. Monthly meeting, a.m., Second Tuesday, meet at change. 574-2888. lunch is at noon. Lucinda, 313- Bayard City Hall, 800 Central Brain Injury and Stroke Support 4591. Ave. $5 fee covers two-hour Group — 3-4 p.m. third Women’s Al-Anon Meeting: bus tour of historic mines plus Wednesday. GRMC Billy Sasper Women Embracing Recovery — literature and map. Call 537-3327 Rehab & Wellness Center, 300 E. 5:30 p.m., La Clinica Health and for reservation. 16th St., Silver City. Birth Center, 3201 Ridge Loop, Figure/Model Drawing — 4-6 A Course in Miracles — 7:15 p.m., Silver City. Contact:313-7891. Dr Elizabeth Babits p.m. Contact Sam, 388-5583. 600 N. Hudson. 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Visit us at www.desertexposure.com DESERT EXPOSURE FEBRUARY 2020 • 21 TALKING HORSES • SCOTT THOMSON Riding Made Easy – Sort Of You can be a good rider in about 10 years ate last century – seems barn, so wanted quick results off for someone like me. So, that seemed simple horses, including most of the weird to say that about rather than some long drawn out Almost 30 years later, I still enough. Just two things to think wrecks, come from over or late Lyour life – I decided the process. can laugh at my own stupidity about when riding your horse. reactions to something they feel best way to get started with This instructor was also a and arrogance. His original esti- What am I feeling from my horse (or think they feel) because they horses was to take riding lessons good diplomat so was able to mate may have been 10 years too and what do I do in response? If don’t have the muscle memory with an accomplished trainer. At frame his answer without once short for what it really takes to only it was that easy! in place. the time it didn’t appear to be a rolling his eyes and revealing his become a true rider, a rider with Now I really understand what So, a little hiccup gets a yank difficult sport, especially when I thoughts that I must be a real balance, a fluid following seat, my first instructor was saying. on the reins, a kick in the side looked at the physical abilities jerk. the ability to separate aids, feel, To develop the appropriate re- or a loss of balance, leading to of many of the riders I saw out His response was this. If you soft hands and a oneness with actions to all the different move- a buck or shy, or a braced and on the trails, so I thought a few ride three or four times per the horse. ments you’ll feel from a horse, resistant horse, when all that riding lessons would give me week, with at least one of those Years later when I started you must develop the muscle was needed was a little massage all I needed to know, including rides coming under the eye of a teaching myself, after a ton of memory to react appropriately. with one rein. There’s no way to whether or not I really wanted good objective trainer, you can lessons, lots of hours and many And, there is no other way to interpret what you’re feeling and to spend my limited free time be a good rider in about 10 years. miles, I was determined to figure develop muscle memory that be- react at the necessary level with hanging out with horses. He wasn’t talking about just sit- out a way to put riding into sim- comes almost instinctive when softness and good timing with- My first riding instructor was ting on a horse and getting car- pler terms for the average recre- needed than to practice, prac- out the muscle memory. a beautiful rider. He was young, ried around while you pulled on ational rider. It’s not easy. But a tice, practice. This is true for I thought about this a while athletic and patient. He was cap- the reins to turn or stop while few years ago, I heard something any physical activity. If you want back when I was riding a stu- tain of the Harvard equestrian talking with your friends. He from a rodeo professional that to be good at something that re- dent’s horse, trying to give them team, proving he was as smart was talking about becoming a rang true. quires movement, whether it’s a visual of what their horse was as he was a good rider. He was real rider. To paraphrase what was a making quilts, bowling, becom- doing and how and when I would skilled in all riding disciplines. Well, I had to laugh at this. I’d much longer conversation, rid- ing a top surgeon or hitting a react and make an adjustment to He went on to become an ac- always been known as a natural ing is just about two things, feel softball, you have to practice the help and teach the horse. Their complished and well-known athlete and any activity that re- and reaction. You can say the movements as many times as it reaction was “you make it look equine vet. quired coordinated body move- same thing about just about any takes for them to become part of so easy.” My thought was, “how I remember asking him in an ments, the ability to use left or physical activity, or anything your muscle memory. ironic.” This person had proba- early lesson, “how long is this right, the skill to do different that you ride. What do you feel With riding, given your move- bly ridden for twice as long as going to take?” In other words, things with various body parts at and how does your body react to ments are in response to and in I have, but I know never really it doesn’t look very hard so will the same time, or some amount what you feel? concert with a horse, you need took lessons or practiced the act I be competent enough after a of rhythm and finesse came pret- With horses you try to have a lots of quality, correct reps to of riding. They just rode. They few lessons to ride with my wife, ty easily to me. Nothing physical soft feel and move with a supple know in a split second that you never understood the correla- maybe get my own horse and had ever taken me that long to rhythm, whereas on your moun- might only need a slight adjust- tion between the movements of look really good in the saddle? learn and master, and since I saw tain bike you are more likely to ment with your right rein or your the horse and the appropriate After all, I was a busy guy and riding as an athletic activity that need strength and quick twitch left leg to react to and commu- and timely reaction from the rid- I wasn’t getting into this for so- required the same set of skills, I movements to stay upright. nicate with your horse. If you er. And, since they never prac- cial reasons or to hang out at the thought his estimates were way Think of the difference between have to think about it before ticed responding to what they what a bull rider has to react to your body can do it, then you’ve felt, the didn’t have the muscle during those 8 seconds vs. what missed the moment. a dressage rider is reacting to I’m convinced most of the HORSES during a test. issues people have with their continued on page 22

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y trouble with the law ever, I was now allowed to go ent, I just learned to hide it. isolate them for just trying to Everyone and everything in began when I was 13 out to the common areas to We live in a broken society have a good life. our world is unique. No two Myears old. I happened watch TV, play ping pong, and where most everyone is afraid They fled a dangerous and snowflakes are alike, no two to be out on the streets around play basketball. At certain of being different – of not be- horrible situation, risking ev- trees, no two cats, no two per- three in the morning when the times during the day, we could longing. We all want to belong. erything to find a safe life for sons, no two anything. So, why police stopped me and asked go outside. The food was okay, Unfortunately, one of the ways their children and themselves. do we try so hard to be the what I was doing. I told them but I’ve never been picky about to feel we belong is to point Because they had ethical and same as everyone else? We all I was waiting to catch a bus to food. In truth, I didn’t mind it out, isolate and to weed out moral standards, they didn’t just want to be accepted and to go home. there. those who are different. stay and succumb to the pres- belong. Actually, I was walking I’ve been put in jail four We punish people for being sures of the gang culture that By accepting others who may around to stay warm, and be- times for just being different. different. Most people in our surrounded them. These are be different from ourselves and cause I didn’t want to go home. Not because I broke any laws, prisons are people of color; the people who have what it helping them find a way to be- They didn’t believe me. Maybe or because I was causing any that is, they are perceived as takes to become good citizens long, we will not only benefit it was because I had a hunting trouble, but because I looked different from the white major- and productive members of ourselves, but we will begin to knife strapped to my calf un- different, either in my appear- ity. our society. In many ways, we feel we belong to the family of derneath my pants leg. They ance – long hair and a beard I grew up in a broken home. are turning away the best peo- wo/man. took me down to the police sta- – or I was out and about when Many of us have. I made the ple. tion. Because I was under-age, people were supposed to be in mistake of not keeping my All the rhetoric about immi- Susan just I had no rights and they could bed or at work. troubles from the attention of gration is not based on facts, turned do what they wanted with me. Because I looked and acted the authorities, so I was put in but the desire to keep out those 76 years At the police station, they differently from how society jail. I was punished and treated that are perceived as different. old. She still put me in a jail cell with a lot thought I should look and act, I as a criminal for trying to find a Just as our attitude about what stays active of men. Some were drunk and was suspected of having crimi- safe place to grow up in. is a weed is based on whether riding her there was vomit on the floor. I nal intent. In other words, I was Right now, there are many in- we like the way the plant looks bicycles and scrunched myself into a corner arrested and punished for be- dividuals and families who, for and not on whether it is bene- is currently building a and tried to be invisible. The ing different than the “norm.” no fault of their own, are trying ficial. storage shed in her yard. She next day they transferred me In those days, you could be to find a safe place to live, a life Why are we so afraid of what earned both a BA and an MA to juvey – a juvenile detention arrested for vagrancy for not where they can feel secure and is different? Maybe it is be- from Western New Mexico center. being able to prove you had belong. cause we are afraid that our University. Both times There they put me in a cell all an income or a home address, Our country is treating these own often deep and repressed she was valedictorian, the by myself for a week. Isn’t that even if you were just passing people like criminals, just like feelings of being different first time as a man and the solitary confinement? What did through town. they treated me when I was might be exposed by being second time as a woman. She I do to deserve that? That all happened before I young. They separate the chil- kind to and helping those who has lived all over the country After a week had gone by, was 21 years old. After that, dren from their parents and are perceived to be different and has had more than they gave me a roommate who I learned to be more circum- guardians and put them in cag- from ourselves. Perhaps it is her share of life changing masturbated all the time. How- spect. I was still just as differ- es. They humiliate them and the fear of guilt by association. experiences.

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ots of places like to say Make plans they are a hidden gem. But LPrehistoric Trackways Na- Location: Prehistoric Trackways tional Monument really fits that National Monument is about 10 miles northwest of Las Cruces in billing. the Robledo Mountains. Nestled away in the Robledo Directions: Take Interstate 25 Mountains just outside of Las north from Las Cruces. At the Cruces, the Prehistoric Track- Dona Ana exit, take New Mexico ways contains world-class fos- Highway 320 west to N.M. 185. sils dating back millions of years. Then go north about a half mile But the decade-old national to Shalem Colony Road. Turn monument often goes unnoticed west on Shalem Colony. Go by both local residents and visi- about 1.25 miles and cross over tors to southern New Mexico. the Rio Grande. Prehistoric Trackways, locat- Take a right on Rocky Acres ed about 10 miles northwest of Trail. Go about a quarter mile Las Cruces off Shalem Colony and then turn left on the only dirt Road, preserves about 5,000 road, Permian Track Road. acres of unique geology and pa- leontology. Cost, hours: Free. Generally, While the national monument the monument is always open is just a few minutes outside but there are no developed New Mexico’s second largest facilities like restrooms. city, there are no signs guiding Camping: There are no formal your way in. Visitors have to campsites, but dispersed camp- know where they are going and ing is allowed. what they are looking for. Pets: Are allowed if on a leash. But once they find the monu- Guided tours: Are held on the ment, the enterprising visitor is third Saturday of every month. rewarded with scenic views of They start at 9 a.m. October desert landscape and mountains through April and then at 8 and a plethora of recreation op- from May to September. Meet tions. at the second parking lot in the “There are beautiful canyons monument. in the interior with bedrock cliffs of yellows, reds and grays that Fossils: Leave only footprints are very striking,” said monu- and take only photos. Visitors ment paleontologist Colin Dunn. are prohibited from taking fossils “Not many people explore the or other items with them. interior, unfortunately. No other Cautions: The hike to the place in south-central New Mex- Discovery Site goes through ico can one so quickly and easily a natural arroyo. Watch for flash flooding during monsoon access the special character that Here is a fossilized footprint thought to be from a mammal-like reptile known as Dimetrodon. (Pho- season. Rattlesnakes are also this monument has.” tos by David Burge) common. The monument offers about 30 miles of trails for hiking, Dunn said. years. he added. What to bring: Lots of water, mountain biking, horseback rid- “There are no dinosaurs, no Trace fossils document, in “What you usually see are snacks, sunscreen and sturdy ing and even off-road vehicles. dinosaur bones or dinosaur foot- stone, the movements or be- early conifer tree branch im- shoes. But it is mostly known for its prints,” he said. “It is all before havior of animals, insects and pressions,” Dunn said. “Some- fossils, but even those are large- the dinosaurs.” marine life that once inhabited times you will see petrified Information: 575-525-4300 or ly misunderstood. What you can see -- if you look the area, Dunn said. They also logs or pieces of petrified wood www.blm.gov/visit/ptnm. Many visitors come expecting carefully -- are trace fossils dat- include impressions of plants from those trees, footprints and to see dinosaur bones or fossils, ing back more than 280 million that lived millions of years ago, tail drags from small salaman- der-like animals, footprints from small running lizards.” The largest fossil you will see Trackways on your own, but the is about the size of your hand fossils are small and difficult to and is thought to be from the Di- find if you don’t know what you metrodon, a mammal-like reptile are looking for. The monument easily recognizable by the large also has very few interpretive sail on its back, Dunn said. signs to guide your visit. In addition, you can see spec- To make Prehistoric Track- tacular examples of sedimentary ways more user-friendly, the formations like mud cracks, rip- BLM hosts free guided hikes ple marks and raindrop impres- on the third Saturday of every sions. month. The monument was created in Dunn leads hikers out into the 2009 by an act of Congress and is monument and shows them the administered by the U.S. Bureau history and geology of the area, of Land Management (BLM). giving a fun crash course on the “Of course, I’m biased, but we area. don’t have many opportunities His guided hikes only touch to see these types of fossils,” on a small part of the monument Dunn said. “The preservation but for the first-time visitor, they style is so great. You would have are the perfect introduction. to travel a long way to see some- “I do recommend that thing like this elsewhere and it is people come out on the right here in our own back yard. guided hike,” Dunn said. And then you get to learn about “The tracks are fairly small and the geological history and learn they are very easy to miss. When Paleontologist Colin Dunn leads guided hikes at Prehistoric Trackways National Monument every what happened to the Las Cru- third Saturday. Here, he talks about some of the things you can find on the way to the Discovery ces area through time.” TRACKWAYS Site. You can explore Prehistoric continued on page 26 26 • FEBRUARY 2020 www.desertexposure.com

DINOSAUR DISCOVERIES Ancient Fossils, New Ideas Exploring evolution, current theories about dinosaurs

inosaur Discoveries: An- teries of dinosaurs: what they cient Fossils, New Ideas, looked like, how they behaved Dan engaging exhibition and how they moved. that reveals a vivid picture of “This exhibit illustrates how what living, breathing dinosaurs scientists are using new ideas, were really like, is open at the new discoveries, and new tech- Las Cruces Museum of Art, 491 nologies to revolutionize our N. Main St. The exhibit will be understanding of dinosaurs,” on display through Sept. 12. said Mark A. Norell, curator The exhibit introduces how of Dinosaur Discoveries and current thinking about dinosaur chair and Macaulay Curator of biology has changed during the the Division of Paleontology at past two decades and highlights the American Museum of Natu- current research by scientists ral History. “Our work reaches from the American Museum of across many disciplines involv- Natural History and other lead- ing paleontologists, biomechan- ing paleontologists around the ical engineers, paleobotanists world. and others to showcase how Using a combination of major we go about reconstructing the fossil finds, captivating comput- mysterious life of dinosaurs.” er simulations, and provocative The exhibition is divided into models, Dinosaur Discoveries four major themes: “How Dino- introduces a dynamic vision of saurs Moved,” “The Liaoning dinosaurs and the scientists who Forest,” “How Dinosaurs Be- Dinosaurs are moving into the Museum of Art in Las Cruces and will reside there through Sept. 12. study them. haved” and “Extinction.” (Courtesy Photo) This exhibit examines in great In “How Dinosaurs Moved,” detail recent scientific sleuthing biomechanical studies of dino- million-year-old forest in China were used for defense, mate rec- The Museum of Art is open 10 and the array of investigative saur movement are explored, that has changed our thinking ognition or display. “Extinction” a.m.-4:30 p.m. Tuesday through tools – from bioengineering and the exhibit features the dif- about dinosaur evolution. presents the evidence for theo- Friday and 9 a.m.-4:30 p.m. Sat- computer software to CT scans ferent movement styles of Tyran- “How Dinosaurs Behaved” re- ries concerning the end of the urday. – used by modern scientists to nosaurus Rex and Apatosaurus. considers the purposes of horns, dinosaur age, including asteroid For information, visit www. reinterpret many of the most “The Liaoning Forest” is a diora- frills, crests and domes on many impact, global climate change las-cruces.org/1542/Muse- persistent and puzzling mys- ma depicting a section of a 130 dinosaur skulls, asking if they and massive volcanic eruptions. um-of-Art or call 575-541-3120.

FEE FREE DAYS BLM Opens Access Public encouraged to explore lands

o encourage visitation and ap- BLM-managed public lands offer a preciation for America’s public wide array of recreational opportuni- Tlands, the U.S. Bureau of Land ties, including hiking, hunting, fishing, Management (BLM) has announced camping, mountain biking, horseback that it will waive recreation-related riding, boating, whitewater rafting, visitor’s fees during five 2020 Fee-Free off-highway vehicle driving, rock climb- Days. On these five days, recreation-re- ing and more. lated fees for all visitors to agency-man- Americans make approximately 67 aged public lands across the nation will million visits annually to BLM-man- be waived. aged lands, supporting approximately “One of the greatest assets we have 48,000 jobs nationwide and contribut- in this country is our public lands,” ing almost $7 billion to the U.S. econ- said Deputy Director of Policy and Pro- omy. grams. William Perry Pendley. “With On fee-free days, site-specific stan- our fee-free days, we hope that Ameri- dard amenity and day-use fees at BLM cans will get outside to enjoy these na- recreation sites and areas will be tional treasures – the 245 million acres waived for the specified dates. of public lands across our nation, most Other fees, such as overnight camping, You can see some spectacular examples of erosion and nature at work along the of which are in the West and Alaska.” cabin rentals, group day use and use of hike up to the Trackways Discovery Site. (Photos by David Burge) The remaining fee-free days for 2020 special areas, will remain in effect. are Feb. 17 (President’s Day), June 13 For more information on recreation TRACKWAYS (National Get Outdoors Day), Sept. 26 opportunities on BLM-managed public continued from page 25 (National Public Lands Day) and Nov. lands, visit www.blm.gov/programs/ 11 (Veterans Day). recreation or www.recreation.gov there is a guide that can point them out, fossils from marine life that have been you can really appreciate the value.” discovered there. Two of out every three months, the At one time, this area was under an an- guided hike goes out to the Discovery cient sea. This hike, also about 3 miles Joints and Site. That’s where Jerry MacDonald found round trip, contains several hills that may fractures the first significant slab or trackway of be challenging for some hikers. are visible in the rock that fossils in 1987. Some of the trackways have been ex- formed when cavated to protect and study them. Some This area had long been known for fos- the Robledo sils, but MacDonald is largely credited can be viewed at the Las Cruces Museum Mountains with bringing national and international of Nature and Science, which serves as were being attention to the trackways. an unofficial visitors center for the mon- uplifted and The hike out to the Discovery Site is ument. created. about a 3-mile round trip. The trail follows Others have been transported to the a natural arroyo, making for uneven and New Mexico Museum of Natural History sometimes challenging terrain for hikers and Science in Albuquerque for safe keep- to traverse. ing and further study. During the third month, the guided hike Dunn said there are plans to add more takes visitors out to the Site Flood area, interpretive signs at the monument and where they can see petrified wood and make improvements to some of the trails. DESERT EXPOSURE FEBRUARY 2020 • 27

HITTING THE ROAD • JESS WILLIAMS A Man and His Cars Saltzman defies normal

ucked away in quiet cul- “The track was set up with de-sac in Las Cruces is a pylons in a configuration that Thouse with a normal look- matches courses all over the ing two-car garage, but when the country,” he said. “I did five runs, doors open, the normalcy van- and three of them counted. The ishes in an instant. crazy thing about that course Ron Saltzman’s garage is deep was the finish line, which was enough for three cars to park right up next to a fence, so you one behind the other on one side had to get there quick and then and two deep on the other side. stop quickly, too.” As if that weren’t enough, he has Saltzman also has a complete- a lift on one side that lets him ly restored 1979 Volkswagen pack one more car up top, near Super Beetle convertible. He the ceiling. calls it his favorite car to drive “They all run, and they all need between Mesilla and El Paso on work,” he said with a chuckle, N.M. 28. standing next to his 1968 AMC “With the top down, going AMX, a muscle car that he said through the pecan orchards, you he drives when he feels the need just can’t beat that feeling,” he for speed. For the most part, he said. said HE has done the mechani- In addition to his three classic cal work himself. cars, Saltzman has a Ford Expe- AMC produced fewer than dition, a Honda Element, a Jeep 20,000 AMX models between Cherokee and a smattering of 1968 and 1970, and not many are bicycles, as well as a motorcycle Ron Saltzman at the wheel of his 1968 AMC AMX muscle car, one of very few still on the road. (Photos left on the road. and an ATV. They all fit in the by Jess Williams) Up on the lift, above the AMX, garage together. Adjacent to the is his 1967 Jaguar XKE, which he line of classic cars and the lift, back.” bringing the ceiling into play. other cars he’s owned through has owned for the last 50 years. Saltzman has a work bench and When he was designing the “I have to remember to re- the years, including MGs, Tri- He said he has won awards in tool boxes that would give any house, Saltzman said he knew move the radio antennas, but umphs and Alfa Romeos, just to both showing and racing, with grease monkey a hard case of exactly what he wanted in terms otherwise, they all fit,” he said. name a few of 40+ cars he has himself behind the wheel. Most mechanical envy. of the garage space. His builder The left upright arm of the lift owned in the past. recently, he took a third-place “I work out here on these cars wanted to construct a full deck – where the motor is located – is “It’s a long list,” he said. speed-trial trophy in Truth or all the time,” he said. “The lift re- over the garage, but Saltzman in- marked with neat white paint at Recently retired – he sold his Consequences, coming in just 2 ally makes things easy, because sisted that the deck be smaller, all the stopping points for each business last summer – Saltz- seconds behind the first-place I don’t have to get down on the so that the lift could accommo- vehicle. man said his garage is his refuge, finisher. ground and slide around on my date any of his vehicles without “The trickiest part is moving and the place he goes to tinker everything around when I want and toil, regardless of the weath- Saltzman stands in to work on one of them,” he said. er outside. half of his garage – the half where “It’s like one of those puzzles “It’s completely climate-con- his three vintage where there’s one piece missing, trolled in here,” he said. “I tried autos are stored. The and you have to move all the oth- a swamp cooler at first, but it garage holds seven er pieces around to get the blank just made everything muggy and vehicles, an ATV, a spot where you need it.” rusty. That wasn’t going to work, motorcycle and mul- Saltzman cracked a wry smile so I put in a central heating and tiple bicycles, as well remembering one afternoon cooling unit. Now, I can regulate as a dizzying array of when he was moving all the cars the garage as easily as I can the tools and automotive around for one reason or anoth- house. Even the garage doors memorabilia. er. have a ridiculous R-rating to “The next day, my neighbor help keep the heat and cold out.” came over and said he was hurt Saltzman said he drives all of that I had a party and didn’t in- his vehicles fairly regularly, and vite him, but then he realized he shows the vintage ones from they were all my cars.” time to time. He considers them Although the Jaguar, the AMX works of art. and the VW are his current dar- “Look for me at a car show,” lings, Saltzman said he estimates he said. “I’ll talk your ear off that he’s tinkered with dozens of about these machines.”

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SOUTH OF THE BORDER • MORGAN SMITH Bringing Christmas to the Border Reaching out to hearts and needs

ou have a good heart,” a man stand- “Ying behind me says in Aldo Sheri and Kenia awaiting their Christmas boxes at Operation Spanish. It’s Friday, Jan. 10 and Christmas Child. (Photos by Morgan Smith) we’re at La Casa del Migrante in Juárez. Arrayed on the concrete in front of us are some 100 pairs of shoes. Dozens of migrants are standing in a big circle, waiting to pick shoes for themselves and DEMING their children. His words make me think of ART CENTER the good hearts of those who 100 South Gold, Deming, NM Mon thru Sat 10:00 am to 4:00 pm made this possible, the many Gift boxes at Operation Christmas Child people in my hometown of San- ta Fe who provided the shoes Exhibit: and clothing. Intermediate and High School Students’ Show That morning, 213 migrants were at La Casa waiting for Artists Reception: their asylum hearings, none February 2, 2010 of which were scheduled until March. The vast majority had Show Duration: come some 2,000 miles from the February 1, 2020 through February 27, 2020 much warmer Central Ameri- can countries of Guatemala and Check out our Little Gallery Gift Shop. Honduras, countries where the This month Jewely Mosier murder rate is more than five is the Little Gallery Featured Artist. times higher than here in the

United States. By the time they Sorting shoes at La Casa del Migrante Check our Facebook page and reached Juárez, their clothing Website (demingarts.org) for info about classes. was in tatters and their shoes a wreck. The gratitude they ex- pressed for the shoes and cloth- Deming Arts Center, 100 S Gold St, Deming NM 88030 ing was heart wrenching to me. 575-546-3663 Check us out on Facebook Earlier we were in Palomas This project is supported in part by New Mexico Arts, a division of the Department of Cultural Affairs www.demingarts.org (pop. 4,000), some 60 miles west of Juárez for the annual Christmas party of La Casa de Amor para Niños, an orphanage established by immigration at- torney Jim Noble and his wife, Pat, 20 years ago. Some 300 residents of Palomas attended, enjoyed music played by nine Clowns at Operation Christmas Child talented young musicians from Corner Florida & Columbus Hwy. Ascención to the south, Frito boxes for local children. dered? Thinking of Anapra’s PO Box 191, Deming NM 88031 pies and gifts. The 12 volun- Santa Fe businessmen and rutted, dirt streets, the dilapi- teers from Santa Fe were joined brothers Carlos Garcia, with dated houses, the violence and (575) 546-3922 by others from Durango, Colo- Maestas and Ward Commercial a minimum wage of only $9.80 rado; Silver City; Las Cruces; Real Estate, and Hector Garcia, a day. (At $7.25 an hour, the El Juárez, Mexico; and El Paso. the owner of Aztec Upholstery, Paso minimum wage earner just In addition to La Casa’s res- were both born in Juárez, have across the border receives $58 idential program for 12 young their own program there, Amigo a day or six times more.) I don’t women, Pat Noble has raised Fiel. They are also in charge of ask questions and just make scholarship funds for more than Operation Christmas Child for sure they get their gifts. Serving Southwest New Mexico since 1951 100 children. Nine of these are all of Mexico. This involves put- The migrant issue is a criti- now in college, fulfilling Pat and ting together some 800,000 gift cal one and my wife and I have Jim’s belief that a high school boxes in the United States and been bringing food and clothing degree isn’t enough. then having them distributed to La Casa del Migrante since One of these students is Mi- throughout Mexico. They them- 2018. At the same time, it’s es- guel Angel Peredes. With Pat’s selves handle the distribution sential not to forget the human encouragement, I’ve been spon- of these gift boxes at churches needs of those Mexican families soring him since 2014 but I had and community centers in the who struggle to survive on the Luna, Grant, Hidalgo, Dona Ana, Catron Counties never met him. He is now 20 Juárez area. In this case, they border. Deming 575-546-9052 or 1-833-4 SNOWDEN (1-833-476-6933) years old, going to college at were assisted by some 30 vol- The leaders of La Casa de the Instituto Superior de Nuevo unteers from the Flagstaff, Ar- Amor para Niños, Amigo Fiel www.snowdenexterminating.com Casas Grandes, south of Palo- izona area, most of whom had and Operation Christmas Child mas, and studying computer never been to Juárez before. have been doing that for de- engineering. It’s young people Several hundred little chil- cades. Thanks to them for bring- like him who will be the future dren came pouring into the ing Christmas to the border. of Mexico. building for music, clowns, After distributing the shoes food, laughter and, most im- For the last nine years, and clothing at La Casa del Mi- portant, the thrill of a Christmas Morgan Smith has been grante, I worked my way across gift. Most of these children have traveling to the border at least Juárez to Anapra, the “colonia” parents or grandparents with once a month to document on the west edge of the city them but the solemn little boy, conditions there and to and found a bright blue build- Aldo (7) and his sisters, Kenia assist several humanitarian ing where Operation Christmas (5) and Sheri (12) sitting next organizations and families. Child was holding one of its to me were alone. Where were He can be reached at Morgan- distributions of Christmas gift their family members, I won- [email protected]. DESERT EXPOSURE FEBRUARY 2020 • 29

Librada Valdez (Photos by Marjorie Lilly) Francisco Beltran BORDERLINES • MARJORIE LILLY Seeing Them Through Helping those who fall through the cracks

here’s no gas to heat 20 years ago. When I went to his Many of the stories of hunger 77-year-old Librada Val- office to ask if I could use this she knows are really appalling. Tdez’s house this winter special deal to help Palomas, he There is the case of 68-year- and, too often, not enough food. said I could just explain to the old Trinidad Reyes, who is in a Her husband died a while ago, cashiers what I was doing, and wheelchair. He used to work for and she tries to make up for the they would comply – no problem. the town government but start- lack of income by selling used It wasn’t so easy to get the ed having spells of vertigo and clothing in front of her house in food over the border to Mexi- eventually gave up work alto- Palomas. can soil. At first Maria Lopez, gether. He’s lucky to be getting “Some days I sell something, the Palomas woman I work some Mexican social security to other days I don’t sell anything,” with closely to get food, had pay for his hospital expenses. she said with a wry smile. problems finding someone at Trini freely allowed me to take She’s self-possessed and fair- the Aduana (Mexican Customs) some photos of him, but when ly cheerful, though forced to who would give us permission his wife wheeled him around rely on charity. A woman down in advance to bring the food outside, he was visibly pained. the street called Toña helps her over to Palomas. One man told I asked Maria how much he out with food sometimes. But her that if you have a large num- and his wife eat. Trinidad Reyes Librada’s married son in the ber of a certain kind of item, “Twice, sometimes. Some- state of Michoacan makes little they fear that it’s being brought times once,” She said slowly, his very few belongings scat- pocket. He welcomed the bag of income as a farm worker and over as merchandise to sell. with emphasis. tered around on the floor where food he got. can’t help. But after some persistence, There was a 30-year-old wom- he sleeps. He is very cheerful More donations Librada was grateful for the an official gave her the written an Maria brought me to, Tania and certainly healthy for his requested big bag of food she got a week permission she needed to show Betancourt, who had the hair on age. after the new year started. She to Aduana employees in order one side of her head shaved off He tells how he had crossed There are other organizations was one of 40 families that re- to bring the food across. because of an operation she had. over illegally to work in the and individuals who collect ceived the same kind of bag Maria recruited two cousins “I have lots of water in my United States ever since he food for people in Palomas, with the help of donations from of hers, Adrian and Adriana, head,” she smiles. She’s been was about 16 (he can’t remem- but I think there is an import- Casa de Amor (an orphanage with her 7-month-old baby boy, given three months to live. Rel- ber exactly). He reaches back ant niche for food distribution supported by a church in San- to help. It took us at least three atives sitting around her and in in his mind to remember how among these particular people. ta Fe) from readers of this col- hours to choose the flour, rice, the living room looked deeply he worked in New Mexico, Ar- This food goes especially to the umn, and from GoFundMe. beans, cooking oil, instant cof- gloomy. izona, California, Colorado, helpless elderly. Everyone lends a hand fee, powdered milk, La Mod- Another somewhat older Wyoming, Kansas and proba- We are going to continue re- erna noodles, bread and more woman, Miriam Prieto, has a bly more places. He worked in questing donations for as long The distribution was a suc- that we needed. A nyaxykE serious case of cancer. She cattle ranching, agriculture and as we can. Almost none of these cess, especially because of red-headed employee found walked up to my car window mining – whatever he could find. people’s situations improve as the way Mark Shultze of Pep- the odd items we needed from and lifted her shirt to show me He stopped working in 2005. He the year advances, as most of per’s Supermarket in Deming a storage room, arranged and a scar from an operation. makes about $200 a month from them can’t do seasonal agricul- helps out social service orga- hauled the groceries to the “I don’t have a stomach,” she the Social Security he gets from tural work in summer. nizations. He offers them a 50 check-out counter with us, then said. the many jobs he did. The donations will continue percent discount on food for on to Adrian’s truck. It was a lot In the westernmost part Francisco realizes he gets so to get doubled by Pepper’s for distribution to poor people of work, but fun, too. of town, near the tall, met- little because he was so often needy recipients. Casa de Amor and for fund-raising dinners. Some desperate stories al-pronged, international wall, cheated by his employers or sends donors a record of their In other words, they get their an 87-year-old man named Fran- work contractors over the time donations for tax deduction money doubled. The $550 from As usual, this assistance was cisco Beltran lives alone in a he worked – 73 years. As the con- purposes. It’s a win-win-win sit- donations we raised magical- based on the compassion of Ma- cement-block house. Another tractors have done in the chile uation. ly turned into $1,100, and each ria Lopez, who is committed to man who had lived in the two- fields in southern New Mexico family got $27 worth of food. keeping watch on hunger in the room house had gotten drunk for years, the Social Security Borderlines Mark (as everybody calls southwest sector of Palomas one night and started a fire that deposits supposedly made to columnist him) has been fantastically gen- (the poorest part of town). She killed him. This made the smoke- Francisco from the money he Marjorie erous to the community since has worked in the past for Casa charred room unlivable. Francis- earned was often not recorded Lilly lives in Pepper’s started up more than de Amor to assist elderly people. co lives in the other room with and ended up in the employers’ Deming.

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HERITAGE EXPLORATIONS From Ranches to Rockets

Burro drawing water at the Tucker ranch, circa General Electric employees posing on the V-2 A huge outdoor laboratory 1930. (Photo courtesy of Human Systems Re- rocket. GE had the contract to work on the V-2 at search and WSMR) the Proving Ground. (Photo courtesy of WSMR) new exhibit at the New exhibit tells is uniquely New Mexico Farm & Ranch Mexico because of the scope of AHeritage Museum ex- research and what was at stake. plores the dramatic transforma- The story begins with ranch- 10TH ANNUAL tion of life in the Tularosa Basin ers from Texas settling in the in the 1940s and beyond. basin in the late 1800s where “Home on the Range: From they found grass tall and plenti- Ranches to Rockets” stretches ful. What they didn’t know was through two galleries and is on that they had arrived during a display through January 2021. particularly wet climactic peri- Visitors will learn about ranch od and raising cattle would not life in the Tularosa Basin during be as profitable as they once the early 20th century, and how believed, according to Tookey. events taking place halfway The challenging, yet rewarding, around the world brought about lifestyle these ranch families changes that for many ranch- chose changed quickly and dra- ers were permanent. The area matically in 1942. eventually became White Sands After the Japanese attack on Missile Range, drawing some of Pearl Harbor thrust the United the world’s greatest minds in States into World War II, an ex- science and engineering. ecutive order established a mili- “We want people to under- tary training range in the region. stand what ranch life out there The ranchers were told they was like and what happened to needed to immediately move those folks,” said Leah Tookey, their families and livestock, as March 6-8, 2020 curator of history. “At first, it they would not be allowed back LAS CRUCES was just the ranching story, but until the end of the war. The we then decided to get into the families performed their patri- CONVENTION CENTER military and science part of it. otic duties and complied with There’s a whole section about the orders. Most would never ABEL GARCIA 680 E UNIVERSITY AVE, LAS CRUCES the science and research that return. 2020 FEATURED ARTIST goes on out there.” While the basin was used While private land being tran- to test rockets, missiles and sitioned into U.S. government bombs -- including the atom- • ORIGINAL WORK BY OVER 100 REGIONAL ARTISTS property wasn’t uncommon during the 1940s, the story this ROCKETS • QUICK ART COMPETITION FOR ADULTS & STUDENTS continued on page 31 • LIVE ENTERTAINMENT • SILENT AUCTION

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ON SCREEN • ELVA K. OSTERREICH New Footage Added to Bowling Alley Murder Case Film Filmmaker wants to keep incident alive to be solved

n Saturday, Feb. entered, with his two daugh- 10, 1990 two killers ters, two-year-old Valerie Teran “Ostormed a bowling and six-year-old Paula Holguin. alley in Las Cruces and shot He went into Senac’s office and [seven people] in the back of stumbled onto the crime scene. the head and started a fire on a The gunmen then shot all seven desk,” said documentary film victims multiple times in the maker Charlie Minn. “It is still head at point-blank range. They the largest unsolved mass shoot- then set the office on fire by ig- Las Cruces Bulletin Reporter Peggy Williams was on the scene ing in the nation today.” niting some papers before leav- during a press conference in 1990 following the bowling alley Minn’s 2011 film, “A Night- ing the alley. murders. mare in Las Cruces” is being Houser, Teran, and his two re-released with additional in- daughters were killed. Repass, it, children ages 2, 6, 12 and 13.” the area since who don’t even terviews at the end and can be despite being shot five times, The lead investigator, Minn know about the murders. After seen on the 30th anniversary of called 9-1-1 on the office phone, said, thinks to this day that it the film was released the first the incident, Feb. 10, at Allen “A Nightmare in Las Cruces,” allowing emergency services to was some kind of drug payback time in 2011, leads came pour- Theaters Cineport 10. Tickets documentary film directed by respond immediately and saving situation. He said, according to ing in and he hopes that hap- are available starting on Jan. 27 Charlie Minn, is being rere- her life along with her mother’s Holguin, the killers were looking pens again. leased on the occasion of the for the one-time only showing. and Ida Holguin’s. Senac died in for something in the file cabinets. For more information visit 30th anniversary of the Las Cru- But if it sells out, the theater ces bowling alley murders with 1999 due to complications from “It’s pathetic that it hasn’t www.bowlingmassacre.com. will hold a second showing on new interviews included. her injuries. been solved,” he said. “It’s a Feb. 12, Minn said. Minn said some money was cloud hanging over their [Las On the morning of that Feb. when two men entered through stolen from a safe and police Cruces’s] head and the fact that Mesilla Book Center 10, 34-year-old Stephanie C. an unlocked door. One pulled classified the incident as a rob- its unsolved makes it worse. I • Books about the West, Mexico, horses, cowboys, Native Americans & More Senac, the bowling alley man- a .22 caliber pistol on Holguin bery, but some people think the feel the community should do • Children’s books & Toys ager, was in her office prepar- and ordered her into Senac’s burglary was a diversional tactic. more. Some awareness has to • Gifts & more ing to open with her 12-year- office, where she, Repass and “I saw the case on ‘Unsolved be thrown at this thing.” ‘Some of the best books never make the bestseller lists’ old daughter Melissa Repass Houser were already being held Mysteries’ in April 1990,” Minn Minn said he wants his film On the Plaza • (575) 526-6220 and Melissa’s 13-year-old friend by the other gunman. said. “I was very struck and af- to get people talking about it Tue-Sat 11 am-5:30 pm Amy Houser. The alley’s cook, Soon after, Steve Teran, the fected by it. I think what struck again. There are people born in Sun 1 pm-5 pm, Closed Mon Ida Holguin, was in the kitchen alley’s 26-year-old mechanic, me most was the unfairness of Fountain Theatre Featuring the best independent, foreign and documentary films in the southwest! ROCKETS ing, the land might very well WSMR when she was employed have gone back to the ranchers at the New Mexico Museum of Feb. 7 Fantastic Fungi continued from page 30 after the war,” Tookey said. Space History in Alamogordo. Feb. 14 The Song of Names ic bomb in 1945 -- it was also The museum’s exhibits staff When she began working at the Feb. 21 Van Gogh & Japan used to launch America’s space and curators spent months of New Mexico Farm & Ranch Her- Saturday, Feb 22 No matinee program and other scientific researching and planning this itage Museum a few years later, Thursday Feb 27 1:30 matinee; no evening show programs, some in the private exhibit, and construction in the she suggested this story as a fu- Feb. 28 Invisible Life sector. galleries was extensive. ture exhibit. In Portuguese & Greek w/ subtitles “For decades, White Sands The exhibit features every- The museum collaborated 2469 Calle de Guadalupe, Mesilla • www.mesillavalleyfilm.org • (575) 524-8287 Missile Range has been referred thing from replica structures with WSMR and the New Mex- to as a huge outdoor laborato- that include a ranch house, tool ico Museum of Space History ry, a place where weapons and shed and a military block house, on this exhibit. The project fits civilian projects can be tested,” to items as big as a V-2 rocket with the recent appreciation of Mountain Music said Jim Eckles, longtime pub- engine and a Loki Dart rocket, space exploration in the Las CHECK US OUT ON CRAIG’S LIST lic information officer for the and as small as toys and kitch- Cruces region, where space fes- Range, and co-curator of the ex- en utensils. Interactive activi- tivals in Las Cruces and El Paso New & Used Musical Instruments hibit with Tookey. ties for children include period have been organized in the past Consignments “If it hadn’t been for the V-2 games and a paper rocket-mak- couple of years, and where rockets that were discovered in ing station. nearby Spaceport America is Trade-Ins Germany and brought to New Tookey became interested beginning commercial space- 2330 S. Valley Drive Mexico for research and test- in the subject during a tour of flight soon. 523-0603 M-F 10AM - 6PM • SAT 10AM - 5PM • SUN 10AM - 2PM

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Red or Green? is Desert Exposure’s guide contact Pam Rossi at pam@lascrucesbulle- as specified. to dining in southwest New Mexico. We are tin.com or 575-635-6614. Though every effort has been made to in the process of updating and modifying We emphasize non-national-chain make these listings complete and up to these listings. We are asking restaurants to restaurants with sit-down, table service. date, errors and omissions are inevitable pay a small fee for listing their information. With each listing, we include a brief cate- and restaurants may make changes after Restaurant advertisers already on contract gorization of the type of cuisine plus what this issue goes to press. That’s why we urge with Desert Exposure receive a free listing. meals are served: B=Breakfast; L=Lunch; you to help us make Red or Green? even For other establishments, listings with D=Dinner. Unless otherwise noted, restau- better. Drop a note to Red or Green? c/o or essential information will be $36 a year and rants are open seven days a week. Call for Desert Exposure, 1740-A Calle de Mercado, expanded listings, up to 10 lines, will be exact hours, which change frequently. All Las Cruces, NM 88005, or email editor@ Southwest New Mexico’s Best Restaurant Guide $48 a year. To buy a listing in Red or Green?, phone numbers are area code 575 except desertexposure.com. Bon appétit! ? GRANT COUNTY CAFÉ OSO AZUL AT BEAR COURTYARD CAFÉ, Gila Regional 388-2060. Mexican. Monday to Sat- SILVER BOWLING CENTER CAFÉ, Silver City MOUNTAIN LODGE, 60 Medical Center, 538-4094. American: urday L D Sunday B. 2020 Memory Lane, 538-3612. Amer- ADOBE SPRINGS CAFÉ, 1617 Silver Bear Mountain Ranch Road, B L. JAVALINA COFFEE HOUSE, 117 ican, Mexican, hamburgers: Daily L D. Heights Blvd., 538-3665. Breakfast 538-2538. B L, special D by Market St., 388-1350. Coffeehouse. items, burgers, sandwiches: Sunday DIANE’S RESTAURANT, 510 JUMPING CACTUS, 503 N. Bullard SUNRISE ESPRESSO, 1530 B L, all week B L D. reservation only. N. Bullard St., 538-8722. Fine St. Coffeeshop, baked goods, sand- N. Hudson St., 388-2027. CACTUS JACKS, 1307 N. Pope St. wiches, wraps: B L. Coffee shop: Monday to Sat- CHINESE PALACE, 1010 Highway dining (D), steaks, seafood, 538-5042. Gluten-free, healthy gro- KOUNTRY KITCHEN, 1700 Moun- urday B L, early D. 180E, 538-9300. Chinese: Monday to pasta, sandwiches (L), salads: ceries, grill fast foods and beverages. tain View Road, 388-4512. Mexican: Friday L D. Tuesday to Saturday L D, Monday to Friday B L D, Saturday Sunday D only (family-style), Tuesday to Saturday B L D. and Sunday L. LA COCINA RESTAURANT, 201 W. SUNRISE ESPRESSO, 1212 weekend brunch. College Ave., 388-8687. Mexican: L E. 32nd St., 534-9565. Coffee D. shop, bakery: Monday to DIANE’S BAKERY & DELI, LA FAMILIA, 503 N. Hudson St., 388- Friday B L, early D, Saturday The Hub, Suite A, Bullard St., 4600. Mexican: Tuesday to Sunday B L only. 534-9229. Artisan breads, B L D. pastries, sandwiches, deli: LA MEXICANA, Hwy. 180E and TAPAS TREE, 601 N. Bullard St. Memory Lane, 534-0142. Mexican in The Hub. 597-8272. Monday to Monday to Saturday B L early and American: B L. Thursday L, Friday and Saturday L D D, Sunday L. (closes at 4 p.m.). LITTLE TOAD CREEK TASTE OF VEGAS, 303 E. 13th St., DON JUAN’S BURRITOS, 418 Silver 534-9404. Daily L. Heights Blvd., 538-5440. Mexican: BREWERY & DISTILLERY, 200 N. Bullard St., 956-6144. VICKI’S EATERY, 315 N. Texas St., B L. 388-5430. www.vickiseatery.com. erary is alentines nth DRIFTER PANCAKE HOUSE, 711 Burgers, wings, salads, fish, pasta, craft beers and cock- Saturday-Sunday breakfast; Mon- Ce Celerate ith s Silver Heights Blvd., 538-2916. day-Saturday lunch. Breakfast, American: B L, breakfast tails: Monday to Sunday L D. WRANGLER’S BAR & GRILL, 2005 served throughout. Hwy. 180E, 538-4387. Steak, burgers, MEXICO VIEJO, Hwy. 90 and EL GALLO PINTO, 901 N. Hudson appetizers, salads: L D. Broadway Street Mexican food stand: St., 597-4559. Mexican: Tuesday, TRANQUILBUZZ CAFÉ, 112 W. 956-3361. Monday to Saturday B L Dollar-Off Pints Happy Hour Wednesday and Sunday B L Thurs- Yankie St. Coffee shop, coffee, home- early D. day to Saturday B L D. made pastries and ice cream, fresh Sundays and Mondays 5-7 P.M. MI CASITA, 2340 Bosworth Drive, FORREST’S PIZZA, 601 N. Bullard fruit smoothies. St. Unit J. 388-1225. Tuesday to 538-5533. New Mexican cuisine: Live Music by local and touring artists Monday to Thursday L, Friday L D. Friday L D, Slices until 7 p.m. Cliff Every Thursday and Saturday Night! FRY HOUSE, 601 N. Bullard St. Suite MILLIE’S BAKE HOUSE, 602 N. Full menu and Specials served daily! C. 388-1964. Seven days L, Sunday Bullard St., 597-2253. Soup, salads, Duck Creek Café, U.S. High- L, D. sandwiches, baked goods: Tuesday Try our famous nachos! to Saturday B, L. way 180, Cliff, 535-4500. Visit GIL-A BEANS, 1304 N. Bennett St. Duck Creek Café on Face- Download music calendar & menu at Coffeeshop. Monday to Saturday 8 NANCY’S SILVER CAFÉ, 514 N. Bul- a.m.-noon. lard St., 388-3480. Mexican: Monday book.RVs/Big Rigs welcome, www.highdesertbrewingco.com! GOLDEN STAR, 1602 Silver Heights to Saturday B L D. Wednesday to Saturday LD, Blvd., 388-2323. Chinese: L D. PRETTY SWEET EMPORIUM, 312 Sunday LD. “Bring home Hours: Mon-Sat 11am-Midnight • Sun Noon-11pm GRINDER MILL, 403 W. College N. Bullard St., 388-8600. Dessert, ice cooking to your table” Ave., 538-3366. Mexican: B L D. cream: Monday to Saturday. 1201 West Hadley Ave. Las Cruces, NM 575.525.6752 Q’S SOUTHERN BISTRO AND DOÑA ANA COUNTY www.highdesertbrewingco.com HONEEBEEGOODS “Mak- BREWERY, 101 E. College Ave., 534- Las Cruces & Mesilla ing Life A Little Sweeter,” 4401. American, steaks, barbecue, ABRAHAM’S BANK TOWER brewpub: Tuesday to Saturday L D. RESTAURANT, 500 S. Main St. 434, 116 N. Bullard St. 714-515- 523-5911. American: Monday to 0832. Specialty Bakery and REVEL, 304 N. Bullard St., Friday B L. more! BLD. Honeebeegoods. 388-4920. Elevated comfort ANDELE’S DOG HOUSE, 1983 Calle com. T-F 8 to 6, SAT 8 to 8, food. Weekdays LD, week- del Norte, 526-1271. Mexican plus SUN 8 -4:30. ends BD, closed Wednes- hot dogs, burgers, quesadillas: B L D. days. ANDELE RESTAURANTE, 1950 Calle del Norte, 526-9631. Mexican: JALISCO CAFÉ, 100 S. Bullard St., Monday B L, Tuesday to Sunday B L D. AQUA REEF, 141 N. Roadrunner Parkway, 522-7333. Asian, sushi: LD. THE BEAN, 2011 Avenida de Mesilla, 527-5155. Coffeehouse. A BITE OF BELGIUM, 741 N. Ala- meda St. No. 16, 527-2483, www. abiteofbelgium.com. Belgium and American food: Daily B L. BOBA CAFÉ, 1900 S. Espina St., Ste. 8, 647-5900. Sandwiches, salads, casual fare, espresso: Monday to Saturday L D. BRAVO’S CAFÉ, 3205 S. Main St., 526-8604. Mexican: Tuesday to Sunday B L. BURGER NOOK, 1204 E. Madrid Ave., 523-9806. Outstanding green- chile cheeseburgers. Tuesday to Saturday L D. BURRITOS VICTORIA, 1295 El Paseo Road, 541-5534. Burritos: B L D. Now serving beer. CAFÉ DON FELIX, 2290 Calle de Parian, 652-3007. Mexican, street For the full event schedule of our tacos, mini-burgers: Wednesday to Silver City and Downtown Las Cruces Saturday L D, Sunday brunch only 10 locations, visit our Facebook or our a.m. to 6 p.m. calendar at littletoadcreek.com CARRILLO’S, 330 S. Church St., 523-9913. Mexican, American: Mon- day to Saturday L D. DESERT EXPOSURE FEBRUARY 2020 • 33

PECAN GRILL & BREWERY, 500 LOS COMPAS CAFÉ, 603 S. MILAGRO COFFEE Y ESPRESSO, Sunday to Tuesday, Thursday to PAISANO CAFÉ, 1740 Calle de Mer- S. Telshor Blvd., 521-1099. Pe- Nevarez St., 523-1778. Mexican: 1733 E. University Ave., 532-1042. Saturday. L D. cado, 524-0211. Mexican: B L D. can-smoked meats, sandwiches, B L D. Coffeehouse: B L D. ORIENTAL PALACE, 225 E. Idaho PEPE’S, 1405 W. Picacho Ave., 541- steaks, seafood, craft beers: L D. LOS COMPAS, 1120 Commerce MIX PACIFIC RIM CUISINE AND Ave., 526-4864. Chinese: L D. 0277. Mexican: B L D. DELICIAS DEL MAR, 1401 El Drive, 521-6228. Mexican: B L D. MIX EXPRESS, 1001 E. University Paseo, 524-2396. Mexican, seafood: LOS MARIACHIS, 754 N. Motel Ave. D3, 532-2042. Asian, Pacific: B L D. Blvd., 523-7058. Mexican: B L D. Monday to Saturday L D. DICK’S CAFÉ, 2305 S. Valley Drive, LOS MARIACHIS, 5600 Bataan Me- MOONGATE CAFÉ, 9345 Bataan 524-1360. Mexican, burgers: Sunday morial E., 373-0553. Mexican, L D. Memorial W., 382-5744. Coffee B L, Monday to Saturday B L D. LA MEXICANA TORTILLERIA, 1300 shop, Mexican, American: B L. DION’S PIZZA, 3950 E. Lohman, N. Solano Drive. 541-9617. Mexican: MOUNTAIN VIEW MARKET 521-3434. Pizza: L D. B L D. KITCHEN, 1300 El Paseo Road, DOUBLE EAGLE, 2355 Calle de MATTEO’S, 1001 E. University Ave. 523-0436. Sandwiches, bagels, Guadalupe, 523-6700. Southwest- C-1, 888-4310, Authentic Mexican: wraps, salads and other healthy fare: ern, steaks, seafood: L D, Sun. Monday through Saturday: B L D. Monday to Saturday: B L early D. champagne brunch buffet. Wonderfully simple menu, pleasant NELLIE’S CAFÉ, 1226 W. Hadley EL SOMBRERO PATIO CAFÉ, 363 dining room and delicious aguas Ave., 524-9982. Mexican: Tuesday to S. Espina St., 524-9911. Mexican: frescas. Friday B L. L D. MIGUEL’S, 1140 E. Amador Ave., NOPALITO RESTAURANT, 2605 ENRIQUE’S MEXICAN FOOD, 830 647-4262. Mexican: B L D. Missouri Ave., 522-0440. Mexican: W. Picacho Ave., 647-0240. Mexican: MI PUEBLITO, 1355 E. Idaho Ave., L D. B L D. 524-3009. Mexican: Monday to Fri- NOPALITO RESTAURANT, 310 S. FARLEY’S, 3499 Foothills Road, day B L D, Saturday and Sunday B L. Mesquite St., 524-0003. Mexican: 522-0466. Pizza, burgers, American, Mexican: L D. FIDENCIO’S, 800 S. Telshor Blvd., 532-5624. Mexican: B L D. THE GAME BAR & GRILL, 2605 S. Espina St., 524-GAME. Sports bar and grill: L D. THE GAME II: EXTRA INNINGS SPORTS BAR & GRILL, 4131 North- rise Drive, 373-4263, Live music on weekends. American, Southwest, now serving weekend brunch 10 a.m. Saturdays and Sundays: L D GARDUÑO’S, 705 S. Telshor Blvd. (Hotel Encanto), 532-4277. Mexican: B L D. GO BURGER DRIVE-IN, Home of the Texas Size Burrito, 1008 E. Lohman Ave. , Las Cruces, NM 88005, 524-9251. Monday - Satur- day, 7 a.m. – 3 p.m. Specializing in Relleno Burritos and Other Mexican Food. GOLDEN STAR CHINESE FAST FOOD, 1420 El Paseo, 523-2828. Chinese: L D. GRANDY’S COUNTRY COOKING, 1345 El Paseo Rd., 526-4803. Amer- ican: B L D. HABANERO’S 600 E. Amador Ave., 524-1829. Fresh Mexican: B L D. HACIENDA DE MESILLA, 1803 Avenida de Mesilla, 652-4953. Steaks, barbecue, seafood, sand- wiches, salads, pasta: L D. HIGH DESERT BREWING COMPANY, 1201 W. Hadley Ave., 525-6752. Brew pub: L D.

JOSEFINA’S OLD GATE CAFÉ, 2261 Calle de Guadalupe, 525-2620. Pastries, soups, salads, sandwiches: Monday to Thursday L, Friday to Sunday B L. KEVA JUICE, 1001 E. University Ave., 522-4133. Smoothies, frozen yogurt: B L D. LA NUEVA CASITA CAFÉ, 195 N. Mesquite St., 523-5434. Mexican and American: B L. LA POSTA RESTAURANT DE MESILLA, 2410 Calle de San Albino, 524-3524. Mexican, steakhouse: L D, Saturday, Sunday and holidays also B. LAS TRANCAS, 1008 S. Solano Drive, 524-1430. Mexican, steaks, burgers, fried chicken: L D, Satur- day and Sunday also B. LE RENDEZ-VOUS CAFÉ, 2701 W. Picacho Ave. #1, 527-0098. French pastry, deli, sandwiches: Tuesday to Sunday B L. LET THEM EAT CAKE, 1001 E. University Ave. Suite D4, 680-5998. Cupcakes: Tuesday to Saturday. LORENZO’S PAN AM, 1753 E. University Ave., 521-3505. Italian, pizza: L D. LOS COMPAS CAFÉ, 6335 Bataan Memorial W. Drive, 382-2025. Mexican: B L D. 34 • FEBRUARY 2020 www.desertexposure.com

PHO A DONG, 504 E. Amador TERIYAKI BOWL, 2300 N. Main Ave., 527-9248. Vietnamese: L D. St., 524-2055. Japanese: Mon.-Sat. TABLE TALK • MELISSA R. RUTTER PICACHO PEAK BREWING CO., L D. 3900 W. Picacho Ave., 575-680- THAI DELIGHT DE MESILLA, 6394. www.picachopeakbrewery. 2184 Avenida de Mesilla, 525-1900. Maintaining the com Thai, salads, sandwiches, seafood, PLAYER’S GRILL, 3000 Herb steaks, German: L D. Wimberly Drive (NMSU golf course TIFFANY’S PIZZA & GREEK clubhouse), 646-2457. American: AMERICAN CUISINE, 755 S. Chile Advantage B L D. Telshor Blvd. #G1, 532-5002. Pizza, RANCHWAY BARBECUE, 604 N. Greek, deli: Tuesday to Saturday Conference honors father of state industry Valley Drive, 523-7361. Barbecue, B L D. Mexican: Monday to Friday B L D. VINTAGE WINES, 2461 Calle de his year’s conference will ROBERTO’S MEXICAN FOOD, Principal, 523-WINE. Wine and include experts who will 908 E. Amador Ave., 523-1851. cigar bar, tapas: L D. speak on various topics Mexican: B L D. WOK-N-WORLD, 5192 E. Boutz T including: developing and im- ROSIE’S CAFÉ DE MESILLA, 300 Road, 526-0010. Chinese: Mon.- N. Main St., 526-1256. Breakfast, Sat. L D. proving the New Mexico chile in- Mexican, burgers: Saturday to ZEFFIRO PIZZERIA NAPOLET- dustry’s sustainable competitive Thursday B L, Friday B L D. ANA, 136 N. Water St., 525-6757. advantage, molecular advances SAENZ GORDITAS, 1700 N. “Owner Gary Ebert and his very in breeding, the H2A program, Solano Drive, 527-4212. Gorditas, attentive and efficient staff serve up updates on the New Mexico chicken tacos. Mexican: Monday to gourmet-style pizza on hand-tossed Chile Certification Program as Saturday L D. crusts.” (August 2009) Pizza, pasta, well as afternoon processing SANTORINI’S, 1001 E. University also sandwiches at adjoining Popu- and pest management breakout Ave., 521-9270. Greek, Mediterra- lar Artisan Bakery: Mon.-Sat. L D. sessions. nean: Monday to Saturday L D. “The agenda offers confer- SALUD DE MESILLA, 1800 Anthony ence participants a wide assort- Avenida de Mesilla B, 323-3548. ERNESTO’S MEXICAN FOOD, ment of information and educa- American, Continental: B L D. 200 Anthony Dr., 882-3641. Mexi- tion in growing, processing and THE SHED, 810 S. Valley Drive, can: B L. enjoying chile peppers,” said 525-2636. American, pizza, LA COCINITA, 908 W. Main Drive, Stephanie Walker, NMSU Co- Mexican, desserts: Wednesday to 589-1468. Mexican: L. operative Extension Service’s Sunday B L. vegetable specialist and confer- SI SEÑOR, 1551 E. Amador Ave., Chapparal ence chair. 527-0817. Mexican: L D. EL BAYO STEAK HOUSE, 300 The conference features SPANISH KITCHEN, 2960 N. Main Paloma Blanca Drive, 824-4749. St., 526-4275. Mexican: Monday to Steakhouse: Tuesday to Sunday B booths from companies that can chile harvest and ensuring safe- Saturday B L D. L D. assist New Mexico chile pepper ty of processed product also SPIRIT WINDS COFFEE BAR, TORTILLERIA SUSY, 661 Paloma growers to sustain excellence will be provided.” 2260 S. Locust St., 521-1222. Blanca Drive, 824-9377. Mexican: and encourage profitable yields. A highlight each year is the Sandwiches, coffee, bakery: B L D. Monday to Saturday B L D, Sunday Some of these companies in- student research poster compe- ST. CLAIR WINERY & BISTRO, B L. clude Western Blend Fertilizer, tition. Students are encouraged 1720 Avenida de Mesilla, 524-2408. Biad Chili, LTD. CO. Presidio to present their research find- Wine tasting, bistro: L D. Doña Ana and Farm Credit of New Mexico. ings to the public. Judges are SUNSET GRILL, 1274 Golf Club BIG MIKE’S CAFÉ, 614 E.Thorpe “In addition to the production recruited and posters awarded The 2020 New Mexico Chile Road (Sonoma Ranch Golf Course Road. Mexican, breakfasts, burgers: session, this year’s conference according to a specific criteria. Conference hosted by New clubhouse), 521-1826. American, B L D. will also feature an afternoon The student with the top post- Mexico State University’s Chile Southwest, steak, burgers, seafood, processing track,” Walker said. er presentation will receive s a Pepper Institute will honor pasta: B L D. “Talks on adding value to the travel award to allow the stu- Fabian Garcia, the Father of dent to attend a professional the New Mexico Chile Industry. research conference of their Garcia was born in 1871 in Chi- huahua, Mexico and graduated choice. in 1894 as a member of the first For more information on the graduating class of New Mexico conference, contact the Chile College of Agriculture and Pepper Institute at 575-646-3028 Mechanical Arts (now NMSU). or register online at chile.nmsu. He passed away in 1948 from edu/conference. complication of Parkinson’s Disease. (Courtesy photo) Mountain Lo Bear dge

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VIEW FROM THE CUBE • DAVE DOOLING The Forklift That Went to the Moon Striving for the balance of preventing misinformation

he forklift didn’t go to the moon, for a new gas bottle, the operator placed But the Smithsonian, at least, doesn’t Space History since February 2012. but a simple misunderstanding il- steel stanchions with velvet ropes around have to worry about velvet ropes any- He started his science-writing career Tlustrates the respect and credence the forklift to keep guests from climbing more. Their design guidelines ban them in 1970 soon after he worked as a that the public gives museums. aboard. because the ropes are too high and wide summer-hire security guard for the Starting in the late 1950s, the Nation- A few minutes later, deputy director for visually impaired patrons to detect Apollo 11 launch. He moved west in al Air and Space Museum occupied more Melvin Zisfein walked through the hall on readily with their canes. 2002 to serve as education officer at and more of Smithsonian’s old Arts and his way to the cafeteria and passed a mid- the National Solar Observatory in Industries Building until funding was re- dle-aged couple discussing the artifacts. Dave Dooling has been education Sunspot until joining the museum in leased for a new building. “Did that really go to the Moon?” the director of the New Mexico Museum of 2012. The most important artifacts – like the wife asked as she pointed at the forklift. Wright Flier, the Spirit of St. Louis, and a Her husband gave her an incredulous New Mexico-era Goddard rocket – were look: “Of course it did. Why do you think exhibited in the north hall, with its en- they have the rope around it?” trance facing onto Washington’s National Our patrons are inquisitive and curious, Mall. but space can be complex, so patrons Inevitably, the Space Race produced take what we present as writ in stone. new items that were shoehorned in after This drives our passion to be accurate – curators figured how to rearrange what is it correct? – without being too precise they couldn’t bear to move out. – detail that will drive the patrons away. On such a day, a Mercury capsule was It’s a fun challenge as we work to let you being gently repositioned when the fork- sample space exploration without being lift moving it ran out of gas. Before going overwhelmed.

Apollo Lunar Module 2 (LM-2) holds a key spot in the rotunda of the Arts and Indus- tries Building in the early 1970s. (Pho- to courtesy Smithsonian Institution) Columbia, the Apollo 11 Command Module, is gently eased out of the Arts and Industries Building on its way to the new National Air and Space Museum in 1975. The tight squeeze highlights how the simplest things, like door size, can become major challenges. (Photo courtesy Smithsonian Institution)

New Mexico Museum of Space History The New Mexico Museum of Space History in Al- amogordo is a division of the New Mexico Department of Cultural Affairs, under the leadership of the Gover- nor’s Commission to the New Mexico Museum of Space History.

Dedicated October 5, 1976, as the International Space Hall of Fame, the New Mexico Museum of Space History’s mis- sion is to inspire and educate, to promote and preserve, and to honor the pioneers of space exploration. The museum is located at 3198 State Route 2001 in Alamogordo and can be contacted at 575-437-2840 or toll free 1-877-333-6589. Hours are 10 a.m.- 5 p.m. Mon- day and Wednesday-Saturday; noon – 5 p.m. Sunday (closed Tuesday). www.nmspacemuseum.org

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sweethearts artist opening saturday . feb 8 . 5-7 36 • FEBRUARY 2020 www.desertexposure.com THE STARRY DOME • BERT STEVENS Lepus, the Hare Chased by Orion and his dogs forever epus, the Hare, hangs a the range of colors to which we ator, a theoretical concept that third of the way up in our can see. Since its light is spread allows the dominant color to Lsoutheastern sky as it gets across the spectrum, the star ap- be computed from the tempera- dark on these February eve- pears white. ture. For Alpha Leporis, this nings. The central star is Arneb, While a star’s light can be bro- peak is in the green part of the the brightest star in the constel- ken down into individual colors, spectrum, with equal amounts lation. The other stars in the the overall color of the star is of energy above and below the constellation form a pinwheel based on its temperature. The at- peak color, giving it a white around it. Lepus is the 51st con- oms in its atmosphere emit light color. Our Sun has a surface stellation in size among the 88 because they are composed of temperature of ten thousand de- official constellations with only charged particles (electrons and grees Fahrenheit, two thousand 290-square degrees. photons). The color of the light degrees cooler than Alpha, shift- Lepus, the Hare, is a little east of the meridian in February. The There is no great myth behind depends on the speed the atom ing the dominant energy output stars surrounding the central star of Arneb, seem to form a pinwheel shape around it. As a medium-small constellation far Lepus, but this rabbit is being is moving. The individual atoms into the yellow part of the spec- from the Milky Way, there are few deep sky objects. However, chased by neighboring constel- move at different speeds, which trum. This redder color makes Hind’s Crimson Star is an amazingly red star in this constellation. lation Orion, the Hunter, and his means they radiate in light in our Sun appear as a yellow, It is carbon star, with an atmosphere that has an unusually high two hunting dogs, Canis Major different colors, with the faster spectral class G2, star. abundance of carbon in its atmosphere. and Canis Minor. Even without atoms emitting bluer light and Another star in Lepus, Hind’s a surrounding myth, Lepus is slower atoms radiating redder Crimson Star (R Leporis) is a one of the constellations the light. smoky red color, described by Calendar of Events – February 2020 (MST) Second Century Greek astron- The average speed of the its discoverer, British astron- omer Ptolemy listed among the atoms in a star’s atmosphere omer J. R. Hind in 1845 “like a 01 6:42 p.m. First Quarter Moon 09 12:33 a.m. Full Moon 48 classical constellations in his depends on its temperature. drop of blood on a black field.” 10 7 a.m. Mercury greatest distance from astronomical and mathematical While there are always some at- With a relatively cool surface the Sun (18 degrees) treatise, the Almagest. oms traveling slower and some temperature of only 3,600 de- 15 3:17 p.m. Last Quarter Moon The brightest star in Lepus is traveling faster, there are more grees Fahrenheit, the peak en- 16 3 a.m. Mercury stands still Alpha Leporis, whose classical atoms traveling around the aver- ergy output is in the red part of 23 8:32 a.m. New Moon 25 7 p.m. Mercury passes between the name is Arneb, which is Arabic age speed. This speed generates the spectrum, providing this star Earth and the Sun for “hare.” This is an old star, the dominant color of the star. with its red color. 14 times more massive than our The color of the light from the R Leporis is a dying star, burn- Sun. It is at the lower luminosity star is spread across the spec- ing helium in s shell around the westward back to the western Shining at magnitude -2.0, the end of the supergiant range, in- trum, with the most energy at core. Helium burning results in end. King of the Gods’ disc is 33.2 dicating that it is either just ap- the dominant color generated carbon, which rises to the sur- The Goddess of Love contin- seconds-of-arc across. It rises proaching the supergiant phase by the larger number of atoms face of the star giving it an un- ues to dominate the evening around 4:30 a.m. or possibly just past it. Even travelling at the average speed. usually high abundance of car- sky as the first “star” to appear The Ringed Planet rises so, it is still one hundred twen- The average speed defines tem- bon. This carbon forms sooty after sunset, 35 degrees above around 5:15 a.m. reaching al- ty-nine times the diameter of our perature. compounds that absorb blue the west-southwestern horizon. most 12 degrees above the Sun. At a distance of 2,218 light- The hotter the temperature, light, contribute to this star’s Venus moves from western Pi- east-southeastern horizon as years, it still puts out enough the higher the average speed reddish color. sces to eastern Pisces during it gets light. The Rings are 34.5 energy to be glow at magnitude of the atoms and the bluer the the month. At midmonth, its seconds-of-arc across, tilted +2.6 in our sky. Arneb is a spec- dominant color. Since there are The Planets for disc will be 16.9 seconds-of-arc 22.1 degrees downward with the tral class F0 star. Stars of this atoms moving faster and slower February 2020 across and it will be sixty-eight northern face showing. The disc spectral class have a surface than the average speed, there is Mercury makes a brief appear- percent illuminated. Venus of the planet is 15.2 seconds-of- layer that is at a temperature light both bluer and redder than ance in the evening sky during shines at magnitude -4.2, setting arc across as it shines at mag- near 12,000 degrees Fahrenheit. the dominant color. the first two-thirds of the month, around 9:15 p.m. nitude +0.6. Saturn is almost 12 At this temperature, the star The star’s surface is what shining at magnitude +0.0. After six hours of a planetless degrees above the east-south- radiates light fairly evenly over physicists call a blackbody radi- Reaching its farthest distance sky, Mars rises around 3:15 a.m. eastern horizon as it gets light. from the Sun on February 10, Moving eastward from south Enjoy the morning planets this Mercury will be almost eleven central Ophiuchus to central month and “keep watching the Gila Friends Meeting degrees above the west-south- Sagittarius this month, Mars sky!” The Religious Society of Friends western horizon as it gets dark, glows at magnitude +1.2 with a setting around 7:15 p.m. disc that is 5.1 seconds-of-arc An amateur Quaker Meeting The Messenger of the Gods across. Mars is 27 degrees above astronomer has a disc that is 7.2 seconds- the south-southeastern horizon for more than for Worship of-arc across that is half-illumi- as is gets light. 45 years, Bert Sundays 10-11a.m. nated. Mercury spends the en- Seventeen degrees above the Stevens is tire month in Aquarius, moving southeastern horizon as it gets co-director of Church of Harmony For more info: 575-590-1588 from the western end of it to the light, Jupiter is moving slowly Desert Moon 609 N. Arizona St. Silver City NM 88061 [email protected] eastern end and then turn back eastward in central Sagittarius. Observatory in Las Cruces.

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40 DAYS AND 40 NIGHTS What’s going on in FEBRUARY? Desert Exposure would like to of homicidal old folks. Cost: $17 FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 7 include your special events, from adults. Info: lcctnm.org. Las Cruces/Doña Ana County any southern New Mexico commu- “The Killing Game” — 8 p.m. at the Black “Arsenic and Old Lace” — 7:30 p.m. nity, in our listing. Please submit Box Theatre, 420 N. Main St. in down- at Las Cruces Community Theatre. your event title, time, location and town Las Cruces. A play by Eugene A black comedy about a family contact information to editor@ Ionesco featuring an unnamed city of homicidal old folks. Cost: $17 desertexposure.com; Desert Ex- in an unnamed country beset by an adults. Info: lcctnm.org. posure 1740-A Calle de Mercado, unnamed plague. Info: 575-523-1223. “The Next Five Years” presented by Las Cruces, NM 88005; or call Live Music: Pint and a Half — 8 p.m. Blank Conversations — 7:30 p.m. at Elva at 575-680-1978. at Little Toad Creek, 119 N. Main the Mayfield High School in Las St. downtown Las Cruces. Info: Cruces. A 2003 musical about a SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 1 575-313-1266. writer and an actress as they reflect Silver City/Grant and Catron on their five-year relationship told Counties SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 2 from opposite perspectives. Info: Silver City Farmer’s Market — 10 Truth or Consequences/ blankconversations.org. a.m.-1 p.m. in Historic Downtown Sierra County “The Killing Game” — 8 p.m. at the Silver City at Eighth Street between Live Long & Prosper: A Festival of “The Next Five Years,” a play presented by Blank Conversations Black Box Theatre, 420 N. Main St. Bullard Street and the Big Ditch. Healthy Living — 10 a.m.-1 p.m. at in Las Cruces, can be seen at Mayfield High School between Feb. in downtown Las Cruces. A play Info: silvercityfarmersmarket@ the T or C Civic Center, 400 W. 7 and 15. (Courtesy Photo) by Eugene Ionesco featuring an un- gmail.com. Fourth St. in T or C. Cost: Free. named city in an unnamed country My Little Leather Valentine — 1-3 Info: 575-223-0989. City Public Library, 515 W. College My French Film Festival — 7-9 p.m. beset by an unnamed plague. Info: p.m. at the Silver City Museum Ave., Silver City. Children 0-5 are at Stone Soup, 417 N. Broadway, T 575-523-1223. Annex, 312 W. Broadway, Silver Las Cruces/Mesilla invited to join in stories songs, or C. Showcasing a new genera- Shirley Shrimp — 8 p.m. at Little City. Share your love with someone “Arsenic and Old Lace” — 2 p.m. at rhymes, movement and simple tion of French-language filmmaker Toad Creek, 119 N. Main St. down- special by using leatherwork to Las Cruces Community Theatre. crafts. Caregivers must attend. to viewers across the globe. Info: town Las Cruces. Info: 575-313- make a valentine the will last a lot A black comedy about a family Cost: Free. Info: 575-538-3672. 802-279-2207. 1266. longer than paper or candy. Info: of homicidal old folks. Cost: $17 Lunch and Learn: Filming Wildlife in 575-597-0229. adults. Info: lcctnm.org. Africa and Around the World — noon Las Cruces/Doña Ana County SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 8 Mattocks Ruin Walking Tour — 1-2 “The Killing Game” — 2:30 p.m. at at the Global Resource Center at “Dinosaur Discoveries: D is for Dino- Silver City/Grant County p.m. at the Mimbres Culture Heri- the Black Box Theatre, 420 N. Main Western New Mexico University. saur” — 9 a.m. at the Museum on Create your own Valentine’s cards and tage Site, 12 Sage Drive, Mimbres. St. in downtown Las Cruces. A Program with Peter Riva, literary Nature & Science, 411 N. Main St. masks — 10 a.m.-5 p.m. at the Guided tour by historian Bill Hud- play by Eugene Ionesco featuring agent and producer. Info: col- in Las Cruces. “Discovery Pre-K – Grant County Art Guild, 316 N. son. Info: 575-536-3333. an unnamed city in an unnamed [email protected]. Junior Paleontologists.” Cost: Free. Bullard St in Silver City. Children Live Music: Electric Swamp Poets country beset by an unnamed Future Engineers — 4-5 p.m. at the Info: 575-522-3120. and adults welcome. Info: rebecca- — 8 p.m. at Little Toad Creek, 200 plague. Info: 575-523-1223. Silver City Public Library, 515 W. “The Killing Game” — 7 p.m. at the [email protected]. N. Bullard St. Downtown Silver Live Music: Sunday Vibes — 7 p.m. at College Ave., Silver City. Children Black Box Theatre, 420 N. Main St. Chocolate Fantasia: Cupid Carnaval — City. Info: 575-313-1266. Little Toad Creek, 119 N. Main St. 6-12 are welcome to join in with in downtown Las Cruces. A play 11 a.m.-4 p.m. all across down- downtown Las Cruces. Info: 575- creative construction and exper- by Eugene Ionesco featuring an un- town Silver City, headquarters at Truth or Consequences/ 313-1266. imenting fun. Cost: Free. Info: named city in an unnamed country the Family Karate Center, 416 N. Sierra County 575-538-3672. beset by an unnamed plague. Info: Bullard St. For the cost of a tasting Live Long & Prosper: A Festival of Ruidoso/Lincoln County Panorama images with Ned Haws — 7 575-523-1223. ticket, participants can collect 20 Healthy Living — 10 a.m.-4 p.m. at Lost Hiker Hootenanny Wintermarmel- p.m. at the Universalist Unitarian the T or C Civic Center, 400 W. aden — 3-5 p.m. at Lost Hiker Base Meeting House, 3845 N. Swan St., Fourth St. in T or C. Cost: Free. Camp, 26394 U.S. Highway 70 Silver City. Haws will talk about Info: 575-223-0989. E, Ruidoso Downs. Bring strings, creating panorama images using Old Time Fiddlers Dance — 7-9 p.m. spoons, washboard, harmonica HDR and stitching techniques at at the New Mexico Old Time Fid- and play with an awesome group the Silver City Photo Club. Cost: dlers Playhouse, 710 Elm St., Truth of people while enjoying delicious Free. Info: [email protected]. or Consequences. Cost: $4. Info: beer. Kids and dogs are welcome Native Fish of New Mexico — 7 p.m. 575-744-9137. too. Info: 575-937-4516. at Harlan Hall, at WNMU, on the southwest corner of 12th and Ala- Las Cruces/Mesilla MONDAY, FEBRUARY 3 bama streets. Eileen Henry, fisheries technician for the US Forest Service Farmers Arts and Crafts Market — Silver City/Grant County is speaking for the SWNM Audubon 8:30 a.m.-1 p.m. At the Plaza of Lunch and Learn: “Filming Wildlife program. Cost: Free. Info: swn- Las Cruces, Info: 575-805-6055. in Africa and Around the World” — [email protected]. “Dinosaur Discoveries Extravagan- noon-1 p.m. in the WNMU Global za: Jaws, Paws and Claws” — 9:30 Resource Center in the ABC Room. Las Cruces/Mesilla a.m.-12:30 p.m. at the Museum of Presentation by Peter Riva who Farmers Arts and Crafts Market — Art, 491 N. Main St. in Las Cruces. addresses the hidden secrets of The Black Box Theatre in Las Cruces presents “The Killing Game” 8:30 a.m.-1 p.m. At the Plaza of “Ancient Fossils, New Ideas” filming in Africa, especially East weekends through Sunday, Feb. 9. (Courtesy Photo) Las Cruces, Info: 575-805-6055. invites visitors to explore paleon- Africa. Info: [email protected]. tology through the lens of 21st century scientists. Cost: Free. Info: TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 4 THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 6 575-522-3120. Silver City/Grant County Silver City/Grant County “Dinosaur Discoveries Extravaganza: WildWorks — 4 p.m. at the Silver Minecraft Club — 4-5 p.m. at the Virtual Reality Experience” — 9:30 City Public Library, 515 W. College Silver City Public Library, 515 W. a.m.-12:30 p.m. at the Museum on Ave., Silver City. Children 10 and College Ave., Silver City. Children Bear Creek Nature & Science, 411 N. Main St. over are welcome to experiment 6-12 are invited to play and explore in Las Cruces. “Ancient Fossils, and create with robots, electronics, Motel & Cabins collaboratively with Minecraft in a New Ideas” invites visitors to ex- games and more. Cost: Free. Info: social setting. Info: 575-538-3672. plore paleontology through the lens 575-538-3672. Pink Leopard, Live Jazz — 6-8 :30 p.m. of 21st century scientists. Cost: Edwina & Charles Milner Women in the at Diane’s Restaurant and Parlor, 510 Free. Info: 575-522-3120. Arts Lecture/Exhibit closing with quilter N. Bullard St. Silver City. Eve West “Dinosaur Discoveries Extravaganza: Anne Parker — 6:30 p.m. at Parotti Bessier vocalist and Ben Schlamb Gallery Tour” — 1:30-2:30 p.m. at Hall, WNMU followed by closing on piano. Info: 575-538-8722. the Museum of Art, 491 N. Main St. reception at 7:30 p.m. Cost: Free. in Las Cruces. “Ancient Fossils, Info: 575-538-6273. Las Cruces/Mesilla Fabulous getaway nestled in the tall pines of Pinos Altos New Ideas” invites visitors to ex- Fort Bayard Film Series, The world “Work Flow: From Camera to Editing” plore paleontology through the lens at War: “The Longest Day”— 7 p.m. •Fireplaces • Secluded Balconies — 6:30 p.m. with Doña Ana Pho- of 21st century scientists. Cost: at Santa Clara National Guard • Porches tography club, Cruces Creatives, Free. Info: 575-522-3120. Armory, 11990 U.S. Highway 180 205 E. Lohman in Las Cruces. • Telephone & WiFi “Dinosaur Discoveries Extravaganza: in Santa Clara. Cost: Free. Info: Presentation with Debbie Hands • Satellite TV Artventurous” — 1:30-2:30 p.m. at 575-388-4862. and a short program with Dale • Barbeque Grill the Museum on Nature & Science, Taylor about Manual Alvarez-Bra- • Hot Tub in Cabana 411 N. Main St. in Las Cruces. Truth or Consequences/ vo, a Mexican photographer who “Ancient Fossils, New Ideas” Sierra County • Meeting Room with Lodge w/kitchen produced work from the 1920s invites visitors to explore paleon- Sierra Twirlers: Square Dancing — • Cabins with Kitchens are available until the 1990s. Cost: Free. Info: tology through the lens of 21st 5:30-8 p.m. at the New Mexico daphotoclub.org. • Gift Shop • Pet Friendly • Venue for Events century scientists. Cost: Free. Info: Old Time Fiddlers Playhouse, 710 575-522-3120. Elm St., Truth or Consequences. “Arsenic and Old Lace” — 7:30 p.m. WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 5 Mainstream dancing, no partner at Las Cruces Community Theatre. Silver City/Grant County needed. Cost: $3. Info: 575-313- A black comedy about a family Storytime — 10:30 a.m. at the Silver 9971. 38 • FEBRUARY 2020 www.desertexposure.com

Americana and country music. Info: an unnamed city in an unnamed Peters. Cost: $12 if you want lunch. 575-682-2337. country beset by an unnamed Info: 575-537-3643. plague. Info: 575-523-1223. Book Talk: “The Tortilla Star” — 4 p.m. Las Cruces/Mesilla at the Silver City Public Library, Farmers Arts and Crafts Market — Truth or Consequences/ 515 W. College Ave., Silver City. 8:30 a.m.-1 p.m. At the Plaza of Sierra County An English teacher opens her heart Las Cruces, Info: 575-805-6055. Sierra County and Hot Springs, New to a richer definition of family as “Arsenic and Old Lace” — 7:30 p.m. Mexico, 1900-1940 — 11 a.m.-noon she is welcomed into the world of at Las Cruces Community Theatre. at Black Cat Books & Coffee, 128 undocumented immigrants. Cost: A black comedy about a family N. Broadway, in T or C. author Free. Info: 575-538-3672. of homicidal old folks. Cost: $17 Sherry Fletcher will discuss and adults. Info: lcctnm.org. answer questions about Sierra Alamogordo/Otero County “The Next Five Years” presented by County and Truth or Consequenc- Karaoke Monday — 6-9 p.m. at Blank Conversations — 7:30 p.m. at es. Info: 575-894-7070. Cloudcroft Brewing Company, the Mayfield High School in Las Black Cat Poetry Reading — 1-2:15 1301 Burro Ave. Cloudcroft. Info: Cruces. A 2003 musical about a p.m. at Black Cat Books & Coffee, 575-682-2337. writer and an actress as they reflect 128 N. Broadway, in T or C. Meet- on their five-year relationship told ing of the Black Cat Poets. Info: TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 11 from opposite perspectives. Info: 575-202-8642. Silver City/Grant County blankconversations.org. Minecraft Club — 4-5 p.m. at the “The Killing Game” — 8 p.m. at the Las Cruces/Mesilla Silver City Public Library, 515 W. Black Box Theatre, 420 N. Main St. “Chinese Painting and Mounting on College Ave., Silver City. Children in downtown Las Cruces. A play Rice Paper” — 2-4 p.m. at the Good 6-12 are invited to play and explore by Eugene Ionesco featuring an un- Samaritan Society Village, Social collaboratively with Minecraft in a named city in an unnamed country Center, 3011 Buena Vida Circle, social setting. Info: 575-538-3672. beset by an unnamed plague. Info: Las Cruces. New Mexico Water- Pink Leopard, Live Jazz — 6-8 :30 575-523-1223. color Society Southern Chapter p.m. at Diane’s Restaurant and Drag Queen Downtown — 8 p.m. at meeting followed by presentation Parlor, 510 N. Bullard St. Silver T.G. Sheppard brings his classic sounds to the Spencer Theater Little Toad Creek, 119 N. Main St. by Jacque Barriac, watercolor artist for Performing Arts in Alto on Feb. 8. (Courtesy Photo) City. Eve West Bessier vocalist and downtown Las Cruces. Info: 575- from El Paso. Cost: Free. Info: Ben Schlamb on piano. Info: 575- samples of chocolate confections Truth or Consequences/ 313-1266. nmwatercolorsociety.org. 538-8722. from participating businesses. Sierra County “The Next Five Years” presented by Valentine boxes for collecting in Second Saturday Art Hop — 6-9 P.m. Ruidoso/Lincoln County Blank Conversations — 2 p.m. at Alamogordo/Otero County are also available. Ceremonies and downtown Truth or Consequences. Country Music Star T.G. Sheppard — 7 the Mayfield High School in Las *Trivia at Rocket City — 6-7:30 p.m. award will be given out at 4:30 p.m. Participating businesses include p.m. at the Spencer Theater for Cruces. A 2003 musical about a at the Rocket City Family Fun at Little Toad Creek Brewery and galleries, studios, shops and Performing Arts, 108 Spencer writer and an actress as they reflect Center, 3751 Mesa Village Drive, Distillery at 200 N. Bullard St. Cost: restaurants on Broadway, Main and Road, Alto. Fusion of classic coun- on their five-year relationship told Alamogordo. Put your knowledge $25. Info: mimbresarts.org. points in between. Info: director@ try, R&B rhythms and pop produc- from opposite perspectives. Info: to the test. Info: 575-437-6334. *Mattocks Ruin Walking Tour — 1-2 torcmainstreet.org. tion. Cost $39. Info: 575-336-4800. blankconversations.org. p.m. at the Mimbres Culture Heri- Old Time Fiddlers Dance — 7-9 p.m. “Arsenic and Old Lace” — 2 p.m. at Las Cruces/Doña Ana County tage Site, 12 Sage Drive, Mimbres. at the New Mexico Old Time Fid- SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 9 Las Cruces Community Theatre. Pat Garrett’s mysterious death Guided tour by historian Bill Hud- dlers Playhouse, 710 Elm St., Truth Silver City/Grant County A black comedy about a family presentation — 12:30-1:20 p.m. at son. Info: 575-536-3333. or Consequences. Cost: $4. Info: Live Music: Jason Chaffee — 2 p.m. of homicidal old folks. Cost: $17 the New Mexico Farm & Ranch Second Saturday Gallery Walk — 5-7 575-744-9137. at Little Toad Creek, 200 N. Bullard adults. Info: lcctnm.org. Heritage Museum, 4100 Drip- p.m. all over downtown Silver City. St. Downtown Silver City. Info: Sunday Vibes — 7 p.m. at Little Toad ping Springs Road, Las Cruces. Info: 575-538-5555. Alamogordo/Otero County 575-313-1266. Creek, 119 N. Main St. downtown Historian David Thomas will be DJ Manda & Martyn Pearson — 9 p.m. *Live music: Chris Baker— 6-9 p.m. “The Killing Game” — 2:30 p.m. at Las Cruces. Info: 575-313-1266. talking aobu the story in his new at Little Toad Creek, 200 N. Bullard at Cloudcroft Brewing Company, the Black Box Theatre, 420 N. Main book, “Killing Pat Garrett: The Wild St. Downtown Silver City. Info: 1301 Burro Ave. Cloudcroft. Singer St. in downtown Las Cruces. A Ruidoso/Lincoln County West’s Most Famous Lawman: 575-313-1266. songwriter from Las Cruces with play by Eugene Ionesco featuring *Lost Hiker Hootenanny Wintermarmel- Murder of Self-Defense?” Cost: aden — 3-5 p.m. at Lost Hiker Base Camp, 26394 U.S. Highway 70 E, Ruidoso Downs. Bring strings, spoons, washboard, harmonica and play with an awesome group of people while enjoying delicious beer. Kids and dogs are welcome too. Info: 575-937-4516.

MONDAY, FEBRUARY 10 Silver City/Grant County Babytime Sing & Play — 10 a.m. at the Silver City Public Library, 515 W. College Ave., Silver City. Sto- ries, songs and rhymes for infants 0-24 months and their caregivers. Info: 575-538-3672. “An American Living in France” with the Widowed and Single Persons of Grant County —10:30 a.m. at Cross Book Talk at the Silver City Point Church, 11600 U.S. High- Public Library on Feb. 10 way 180 E. Program is by Sandra features “The Tortilla Star.” (Courtesy Photo) AFFORDABLE PLUMBING H NEW CONSTRUCTION REMODELS HEATING-COOLING REFRIGERATION COMMERCIAL-RESIDENTIAL HYDRO JET DRAIN CLEANING www.affordableplumbing575.com r Service - 7 ays a ee 575-527-4699 1595 W. Amador, Las Cruces, NM 88005 DESERT EXPOSURE FEBRUARY 2020 • 39

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Time Fiddlers Playhouse, 710 Elm reborn as “Dottie” and set in the 8:30 a.m.-1 p.m. At the Plaza of Borderless Brass Band — 7 p.m. with Lunch and Learn: “The Evolution of St., Truth or Consequences. Main- musical 1920s to show in the Las Cruces, Info: 575-805-6055. a coffee social at 6:30 p.m. at the Human Breast Milk: It’s More Than stream dancing, no partner needed. Black Box Theatre in Las Cruces “Arsenic and Old Lace” — 7:30 p.m. First Christian Church, 1809 El on Feb. 14 and 15. (Courtesy Just a Meal” — noon at the Global Cost: $3. Info: 575-313-9971. at Las Cruces Community Theatre. Paseo Road. El Paso based New Photo) Resource Center at Western New My French Film Festival — 7-9 p.m. A black comedy about a family Orleans Dixieland jazz group. Info: Mexico University. Program with at Stone Soup, 417 N. Broadway, T of homicidal old folks. Cost: $17 575-640-8752. 9 a.m. beginning with Urban Chal- Fred Fox on this amazing sub- or C. Showcasing a new genera- adults. 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windmill, a water tank, eral store, where Lewis comforts where towns are far apart; the and overheard the locals talking and a blue sky in south- “Lewis and Clark a crying woman. Her car has trip will turn into a spree kill- about a movie ready to start Aern New Mexico. Two and George” been stolen, and with it the trail- ing as it works toward the gold filming in the village, by Director men are digging beside the tank. Dark Matter Productions, er containing her dead mother. mine. This may be shocking, un- McCall. I found his house, full They might be employees of a 90’, (1997), Color, from The plot of this movie is intri- til you realize: McCall is enjoying of very busy people, and it was well service, but the big numbers Netflix DVD. Written and cate, unpredictable, and works himself by writing scenes like like a homecoming for me. If you on their coveralls say they are Directed by Rod McCall very well to keep up the action. one where Lewis is standing by have ever worked on a film set, AWOL from prison. The box they (“Cheatin’ Hearts”) The viewer is never quite sure the Caddy, thinking, and a van you can easily tell the people unearth holds two cigars, cash, who all the players are, and load of New York tourists drive apart; a producer is as different a museum grade Colt .45 Peace- Filmed in New Mexico where they fit in, but it fuels into the rest area, jump out, and from a grip as a horse is from a maker, and the first of a series the dynamics of the script. This take endless pictures of this “au- zebra, and when I spotted the of maps leading to a gold mine. buddy-buddy-femme fatale/road thentic cowboy.” production manager at her desk, While they are enjoying the ci- movie has a clever script by Di- Clark and George, off search- I went over and tried for a job. gars, in a nearby town a woman towing a U-Haul trailer. rector McCall, with a lot of mov- ing for clues, hear gunfire and Alas, crew was all filled up and climbs over the fence from the On down the lonely road, the ing parts that fit together and return to find the dudes all laid ready to go. It is good to see they municipal zoo, with a black bag lads find a stalled convertible, connect to keep the plot turning out on the gravel, covered with made a very enjoyable movie wi- containing a rare snake. with the owner waiting. The like a big clock. Lewis and Clark stage blood. Lewis pretends to hout my help. The cast is strong, The woman is George (Rose sign on the Mustang’s side pro- are an odd pair, Lewis being the apologize: “ I know you’re up- the locations in Truth or Con- McGowan) and she hitches a claims: Reverend Red’s Roving handsome sociopath who loves set, alright. I’ll admit I screwed sequences, Kingston, and Hills- ride with a cowboy in an old Rodeo Revival, Praise the Lord. and leaves women, Clark as the up. It won’t happen again.” This boro are scenic, and the script F-100. When he goes inside a Red (James Brolin) looks sur- smart but socially hapless nerd. is farce, and you realize McCall has more twists than Highway cafe to get them coffee, she prised when Lewis puts the Colt Who should pull up to the is doing a sendup of violent films 152 over the Mimbres Range. slopes off with his truck. Mean- against his cheek, but then Lew- general store but George in her like “Pulp Fiction” (1994), which while, the Danger Boys are on is forgets Red to defend himself stolen car, and Clark seizes his in turn was Tarantino’s homage Hap Hasard (nom-de-plume) the road in a ‘62 Cadillac, which when Clark (Dan Gunther) be- chance to get away from Lewis to Noir films. has held all the temporary Lewis (Salvator Keureb) got rates him for shooting the previ- by hopping in with her, and they Before it is over there will be positions that can be held in from the owner by the expedi- ous hijack victim. The argument are gone. Clark talks and talks double and even triple crosses, New Mexico entertainment, ent of shooting him with the old rages as they drive off wearing until he realizes George nev- and you’ll discover that George 1993- 2010. Then he wanted Colt. Meanwhile, the Ford has Red’s hat collection, and with er speaks. Lewis will catch up is not mute, she’s just too smart to act, so appeared on stage shot craps in a cloud of smoke, Red himself locked in his car’s with them after shooting a pes- to reveal her hand. in 20 different regional and George makes off with a trunk. ky Sheriff, and their long road One day I was having lunch productions around southern rose beige ‘59 Olds 98 hardtop Clark pulls the car off at a gen- winds through the Southwest, at the vintage cafe in Hillsboro, New Mexico.

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hear it over and over here at as just plain Hege) got the same er than a van. And unless you’re Rose Valley RV, Silver City: answers from her mostly British part of the minimalist group that I“Then we sold our house and Swedish RVers. Even the enjoys “free-camping,” constant- and moved into the motorhome ones who, like many of the RV- ly looking for places you can full time.” And each time, I want ers at Rose Valley, spend months legally or illegally park for free, to know why? Such a drastic or years at a time in the same you’re going to opt for the safety change! What were they looking location. Her people told her and convenience of a paid site in for, and have they found it? Was that a house and possessions an RV park with water and elec- it worth it and do they have any “own their owner,” that life was tricity and showers and laundry regrets? too complicated with proper- facilities. Even the cheapest I just finished reading a book ty upkeep and taxes, and many parks, if you pay by the night, called “Caravans: Lives on complained about feeling iso- are expensive over the long run. Wheels in Contemporary Eu- lated and exhausted by a world Most fulltime RVers transi- rope,” written by a Swedish so- that seemed to be moving too tion from continual to part-time cial anthropologist named Hege fast. Many were old enough to travelling that they alternate Hoyer Leivestad as her post- receive retirement income and with periods of several months doctoral thesis. And sure, I had were looking for a new phase of of stationary camping, often at to wade through terms like “en- life, a sense of the possible. “It’s the same location every year, be- forced presentism” and “present our time now. We’ve worked our cause the monthly rate at most continuous,” but most of it is whole life to be able to do this,” parks is considerably less than about her living at a couple of one British woman told her. a month of single-night rates. RV parks in Sweden and Spain Freedom to do what? I ask. Quite a few of them make Rose over several years, getting to Traveling and exploring new Valley their home for the sum- know the permanent residents places are mentioned the most, mer, or for the winter. We also in an effort to find answers to the even by the permanent residents have people who split their time very questions I asked. It’s been of the parks. Hege concluded between Silver City and one oth- interesting to read her conclu- that traveling in an RV combines er location, generally on a sea- sions and compare them to my the familiarity and security of sonal basis. own findings that are based on home with the unfamiliarity However, it’s the people who completely unscientific survey- and adventure of the road. And have given up traveling com- ing and often just plain nosiness. indeed, many of us did start off pletely and stay in one park For example, an answer I of- traveling, moving around the year-round that intrigue me, ten get when I ask why is “We country, discovering new plac- even though I’m one of them. It a payment on a small house or have bought a house or rent- wanted the freedom.” Free- es where we stayed briefly and can’t be assumed that it’s a mat- condo. No, it’s not just the mon- ed an apartment. Instead, we dom from what? I ask. “Oh, you then moved on. ter of finances, because monthly ey, because when asked why, bought a new, larger RV which know,” they say, “things, sched- But you know what, folks? site rental and electricity, not to these people still mention trav- we put on the same site in the ules, obligations, the house, the Traveling is expensive, even mention a payment on the RV, is eling. same park where we’d been liv- yard, all that stuff.” when you take your home with cheaper than continual traveling A few years ago, we decided And sure enough, Hege Hoyer you. First, the gas, especially if but still approximately the same we needed more room than our WHEELS Leivestad (hereafter referred to you’re travelling in anything larg- as an apartment rental or even old motor home had. We could continued on page 47

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WHEELS HIGH PLACES • GABRIELE TEICH continued from page 46 ing for several years. This happens often here, and Hege found it happens often at Fort Bayard Champion Tree the parks in her study. A weekend getaway, or quick morning hike When asked why we live in an RV, my husband, Jimmy, responds that “our home f you are from Silver City or there- cold. But not only do you learn about the is on wheels, so if we don’t like our neigh- abouts you have probably done this history of the Fort, which started out as a bor, we can leave.” There have been a cou- Ieasy hike before. For us, coming stronghold against raiding native Ameri- ple of times when we didn’t particularly from Las Cruces for a fun weekend at can bands, then turned into a tuberculo- like our neighbor, but we didn’t leave. the print festival in Silver City in the fall, sis sanatorium and finally a VA hospital. However, the point is we could leave. We it was a first timer. On the tour we also learned how local could be packed up in the time it takes If it hadn’t been among the 100 or so volunteers managed the conservation house dwellers to bring the boxes up from hikes in the “Hiking New Mexico” guide before it was declared a National His- the basement, and off we’d go. (Falcon) we would have never been toric Landmark. We heard interesting It’s the possibility of traveling, the poten- made aware of it. Silver City offers so stories of antiques hidden in barns and tial for mobility. The dream, if you wish. many hikes in the Boston Hill area alone, basements for safe keeping. We crave the security and stability of a per- nobody could ask for more. A walking tour of the whole fort is manent residence, the satisfaction of a so- But we found it and what’s more, also offered every Saturday, starting at 9.30 cial network, the similarity of the RV park wanted to see Fort Bayard, which turned a.m., but you are free to walk about on to a small village with its information net- this into a bit more than a half-day tour. The largest alligator juniper tree in the your own any time the gate is open. And works, helping hands and sense of commu- Passing the old Fort, we stayed on the state can be found on Big Tree Trail you can bring the kids. near Fort Bayard. (Photo by Gabriele nity. But, as Hege explained, we also need well-maintained dirt road (FR 536) for The museum has a school room on the Teich) that sense of the possible, the knowing 4.5 miles and then followed the sign for third floor that would be interesting for that traveling and its inherent adventures National Recreational Trails until we proach in time for us to give them space them to see. And the parade grounds of- are within our reach, anytime we decide hit the parking lot. From there we took to pass us. We have also made it a habit fer a great space for some Frisbee toss- we want it. what’s aptly called the “Big Tree Trail.” to ask the first riders how many are in ing. Remember that whole day on the I enjoyed Hege’s book and am sure it With only 200 feet elevation gain the their group to avoid surprises. lawnmower? Please be kind and leave gained her that advanced degree. I also 3.5-mile round trip hike is easy to ac- After we returned to our cars, we vis- a donation for those friendly folks who feel a certain amount of satisfaction (and complish. The reward: See up close the ited the old Fort itself. The area around sacrifice their time at the Fort every sure, some self-congratulations) that I had largest alligator juniper tree in the state the parade grounds is vast – and it has a weekend. reached the same conclusions through of New Mexico. It towers over 60 feet lot of grass. Sitting on the wrap-around With Silver City only seven miles away, my informal snooping. Now when people tall. Almost unbelievable that this is a porch, one gentleman told me it takes a there are many options to spend the rest ask me why we live in an RV, I’ll be able to juniper. Next to it you will find a picnic whole day with a motorized lawnmower of the weekend. If I go back and hike explain it in such an erudite manner that table for a break before you return on to cut the grass on the property. some more, you will read it here. they’ll either be greatly impressed or just the same path. The trail system here is And it’s entirely run by volunteers. Ev- Hit the trails and stay safe! roll their eyes and walk away. extensive, so you have several options to ery Saturday, Sunday and Monday they take a different route back and make it give an interesting free tour of one of the Of German origin, Gabriele Teich has Sheila and husband, Jimmy, have lived a longer hike. Just check the map at the buildings on the west side of the parade called Las Cruces at Rose Valley RV Ranch trailhead – or snap a picture with your grounds which has been turned into a her home for more in Silver City since phone for later reference. museum. It opens from 9:30 a.m. to 1:30 than 20 years — 2012, following five Despite it being late October, we were p.m. (April through October). Check and loved every years of wandering from glad for the occasional shade along the the website fortbayard.org for updated minute of it, hiking Maine to California. way. I don’t recommend this hike for the information before you go. Unless you the mountains She can be contacted at hot summer months. Mountain bikers are there in the heat of the summer you in the immediate [email protected]. like this trail as well. In our experience might want to bring a sweater for the surrounding area and all over this they were polite and announced their ap- tour, the building is not heated and VERY beautiful state.

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