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Moriarty Pinto Bean Festival Local Color
Moriarty is a small town thirty minutes east of Albuquerque on Route 66. Annually, the city hosts a Pinto Bean Festival to honor the lowly pinto bean and those rural folk that live in this area in manufactured homes on subdivided one acre plots that get...
Fossil Hunt NM - South 14
New Mexico was once at the bottom of a great sea. Over millions of years, carbon creatures died and drifted to the bottom of that sea and became preserved in silt. Layer upon layer of silt turned to stone and the fragile bodies of once living creatures...
Railway Market Sax Therapy
On Sundays, during warmer months in Albuquerque, an old train barn opens its huge metal doors to the public. Vendors set up inside to sell their produce, art, clothes, soaps and lotions, health food, get signatures for green projects and alternative...
Gran Quivera Salinas Pueblo Missions
Between Roswell and Mountainair, in New Mexico, there is enough open space to house millions of people, plus livestock. Land stretches from the road as far as you can see. Whether the planet is running out of space or just resources needed to support...
Roswell UFO Museum Little Green Men
When local rancher Mack Brazell found extraterrestrial debris on his ranch and reported it to the local Sheriff a Pandora's box was opened. The local Sheriff called the local Air Force Base and a whirlwind of misinformation, disinformation, cover up was...
Roswell Football New Mexico Military Institute
Saturday night football has pulled into the station. Leaves are turning, temps dip into the forties at night, football practice consumes players, and especially coaches. This Saturdays game matches the Arizona Western Matadors and the New Mexico Military...
Russell’s Travel Center Blast to the Past
Russell's Travel Center sits on a New Mexico hill just before the Texas/ New Mexico State Line. It is close to Endee, one of those almost vanished New Mexico towns that shrink smaller and smaller as time barrels forwards. At Russell's you can gas up,...
Courtyard Texas Oasis
One can see joy when Bedouin travelers top a mountain of sand and wind their way down to an oasis with date trees, water, and a flat place to set up tents, unroll hand woven rugs, and build small fires in the enormous desert night. This courtyard is the...
Water Wheel Observation Point- Palo Duro Canyon
There used to be a small stream here that meandered down the hill and went over the edge of the canyon and fell into a deep dark hole below us. The land's owner built himself an observation platform, erected a light pole, and built a water wheel that...
Sandell Drive In Clarendon, Texas
Drive In movies, in the fifties, were a popular family outing and also a place where teens, borrowing the family car, could get away and explore birds and bees in the back seat of station wagons. The latest Hollywood movies were projected onto huge...
Goodnight Home Snapshots
Snapshots are all I have of the inside of the Goodnight home, taking us back to the late eighteen hundreds and early 1900's. Mr. Goodnight died just after the stock market crash of 1929 and he, at 93, was ready to move on, feeling he had lived in the...
Charles Goodnight J and A Cattle Ranch
Not far from Clarendon, Texas is the homestead and ranch headquarters of Charles Goodnight, a pioneer Texas rancher. In the mid to late 1800's, he controlled a ranch of over a million acres, had 180 cowboys on his payroll, and was an industry by himself....
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