The Corridor Volume 2 Issue 2 - March 2016

The 

Corridor 

Holiday 

Shopping 

Guide 

Serving the Communities of North Central New Mexico 

March 2016 

COMMUNITY NEWS, 

VIEWS, AND MORE 

JUNE 2015 community news, views & more 

Santa Fe Trail - Camino Real - Turquoise Trail - Route 66 

2015 

SUMMER GUIDE 

. 

Get Your Motor Running! 

Head out on to the 4th Annual Motorado Classic Motorcycle Show 

Sunday, June 21, 2015 from 10 am to 3 pm at La Tienda in Eldorado 

INSIDE 

School is out and it’s time for summer! 

THE CORRIDOR 

SUMMER GUIDE 

2015 

Early 

Summer 

Edition 

Fun events, things to do, and places to go from June to mid-July 

Art, Food & Drink,Columns & Comments, Kids Page & More 

Volume 1 - Number 1 March 2015 

Volume 1 - Number 4 June 2015 

JULY 2015 community news, views & more 

Santa Fe Trail - Camino Real - Turquoise Trail - Route 66 

AUGUST 2015 

SEPTEMBER 2015 

October 2015 

THE CORRIDOR 

SUMMER GUIDE 

Volume 1 - Number 5 July 2015 

Volume 1 - Number 5 July 2015 

November 2015 

The 

Corridor 

Holiday 

Shopping 

Guide 

2015 

OUTDOOR 

OUTDOOR 

FAMILY 

SUMMER FUN FUN 

Parades, Fireworks, Pancakes, BBQ, 

Movies, Art, Music, Beer . . . and Cats 

INSIDE 

2015 

Now Showing: 

Wildlife in 

the “Corridor” 

“Primpin’ an’ a Preenin’ #27” © 2008 by Lori Musil Madrid, New Mexico lorimusil.com 

In this issue: 

Our Holiday Shopping Guide 

- PLUS - 

Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta 

A New Music Store in Santa Fe - A Computer Charity 

A Colorful Recycle Project from Tinkertown 

“Quaking Aspens” - The People of Cicuye / Pecos 

The late-fall cascade of Artists’ Studio Tours 

Our Side Trips visits wineries, breweries, eateries 

and things to see and do during the Balloon Fiesta 

Community Calendar - Visual Corridor - Bits & Bites 

Acorn’s Corner - School News - The Corridor Back Page 

Mid 

Summer 

Edition 

The Corridor reaches out - Downtown Springer, New Mexico - Corridor staff photo by Marc-Paul LaRouche 

Volume 1 - Number 9 November 2015 

. 

RODEOS 

PARADES 

COUNTY FAIRS 

HORSE SHOWS . . . AND MUCH MORE 

INSIDE THIS ISSUE: 

- Las Vegas, NM Heritage Days, 

1ooth Cowboy’s Reunion 

and Hundred Horse Parade 

- Summer Series at Hipico Santa Fe 

- Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival 

- Santa Fe Indian Market 

- Santa Fe Opera Festival 

LATE Summer Edition - 2015 Meadow City Music Festival 

PLUS: 

Following the pathways of Ernest Thompson Seton: 

A celebration of his 155th birthday at 

The Academy for the Love of Learning 

Volume 1 - Number 6 August 2015 

December 2015 

Volume 1 - Number 10 December 2015 

From The Editor 

Feature - The Corridor year in review - highlights 

Community Spotlight - Eldorado at Santa Fe 

The Trowel - Pre-Spring gardening, seed exchanges 

Upcoming Events for March 

Art & Culture - Quilts, music, art, photography, and Meow Wolf 

2015 

THIS MONTH WE CELEBRATE THE HORSE ! 

Reviews, commentary, a “Side Trip” on Santa Fe’s south side, 

art tours, quilts, county fairs, more horses, 

and oh yeah - back to school ! 

Happy Holidays from The Corridor 

- IN THIS ISSUE - 

Castles of Goodness - a Legacy in Gingerbread 

Ski Areas, Outdoor Events and Torchlight Parades 

Our December Holiday Shopping Guide 

Gifts Ideas and More Gift Ideas 

Helping Hands for the Holidays 

Upcoming Events in December - So Much to Do ! 

Holiday Shopping in Your Neighborhood 

Bits & Bites - Favorite Holiday Recipes - From Us to You 

Side Trips - Santa Fe to Ranchos de Taos on the Low Road 

Acorn’s Corner - Kid’s Events, Coloring, Mini Snowman Pizzas 

The Corridor Back Page 

HARVEST ! 

Volume 1 - Number 7 September 2015 

January-February 2016 

IN THIS ISSUE: 

A Family Farm Market in Moriarty 

Farmers’ Markets in the Corridor 

A New Cooperative Grocery for Santa Fe 

Eldorado Coffee Roaster Turns Twenty and Moves to New Digs 

Local Fire Departments Are Looking For Volunteers 

Preventative Fire Safety at Eldorado Fire & Rescue Service 

New Mexico Artists’ Studio Tours Every Weekend Through Nov. 8 

Supermoon Lunar Eclipse Coming in September 

Take a Side Trip Along the Salt Missions Trail Scenic Byway 

- PLUS - 



CELEBRATING THE ARTWORK OF ALLAN HOUSER 

A photo gallery of artworks in public spaces 

in and around Santa Fe, NM 

(foreground) Phillip Haozous - “Allan Houser Haozous” 

(background) Allan Houser -“Homeward Bound” , 1989 - bronze edition of 6 

exhibition loan to MIAC by Allan Houser Inc. © Chiinde LLC 

Corridor staff photo © 2016 by Marc-Paul LaRouche 

Museum of Indian Arts and Culture 

Adjacent to the Museum Hill Cafe in Santa Fe, NM 

IN THIS ISSUE 

A Gallery of photos featuring the artwork of famed Santa Fe artist Allan Houser 

Out & About in The Corridor 

The Trowel - Gardening Tips & Tricks 

Health & Wellness for the New Year 

Upcoming Events for January and February, 2016 

The Visual Corridor 

Blinded with Science - A look at 3-D printing 

Tales from the Trails - Old Route 66 in New Mexico and Cerrillos Hills history 

Side Trips - Wagon Mound and Cimarron 

Bits & Bites - Food thoughts, restaurant suggestions and a bit about books 

Acorn’s Corner - Photo contest, coloring contest, etc. 

Volume 2 - Number 1 January / February 2016 

The Corridor Enters Our Second Year . . . 

Presenting highlights from our inaugural issues 


T H E C O L O R S 

O F F A L L 


BALLOONS 

PUMPKINS 

CHILES 

Volume 1 - Number 8 October 2015 

Volume 2 - Number 2 March 2016 

- PLUS - 

Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta 

A New Music Store in Santa Fe - A Computer Charity 

A Colorful Recycle Project from Tinkertown 

“Quaking Aspens” - The People of Cicuye / Pecos 

The late-fall cascade of Artists’ Studio Tours 

Our Side Trips visits wineries, breweries, eateries 

and things to see and do during the Balloon Fiesta 



COMING IN APRIL 

- 2016 NM Artists’ Studio Tours 

- Tinkertown Opens April 1st 

- Art Speaks in Taos 

- Jazz at Museum Hill in Santa Fe 

- Los Poblanos Volunteer Work Day 

- Railyard Artisan Market in Santa Fe 

- El Museo Winter Market in Santa Fe 

- Pond Skimming Champ. in Taos 

- Rio Mora Monthly Hike 

- National Park Week - FREE WEEK 

- Pecos NHP Legacy & Lore 

- Glimpses of the past in Las Vegas 

Plus new Side Trips, Bits & 

Bites, Blinded with Science, 

The Trowel, Art & Culture, 

Tales of the Trails, Acorn’s 

Corner and More . . . 

Blinded with Science - “The Grammys of Innovation” 

Tales of the Trails - The beginnings of Southwest 

archeology 

Side Trips - Jemez Mountain Trail 

Bits & Bites - Wine tour, overnight fun in Taos, book blog 

Acorn’s Corner - Spring break activities

COMMUNITY NEWS, VIEWS, AND MORE 

Why “The Corridor” 

In our inaugural issue of The 

Corridor we talked about why 

we gave our new publication 

the name The Corridor, the kind 

of information we hoped to 

bring our readers, the communities 

that we served, and how 

we hoped to “modernize” the 

old-fashioned idea of the community 

newspaper. 

Our intention with the name 

The Corridor referred to the 

many trails and “corridors” on 

which people in this part of the 

country have traveled and settled 

since there were humans 

inhabiting the West. 

We began by identifying the 

Santa Fe Trail, Camino Real, 

Turquoise Trail and Route 66 as 

the major “corridors” that our 

paper served. Beginning with 

our June issue we added these 

trails to the masthead to help 

identify our distribution area. 

Along the way, as we expanded 

into more of north central New 

Mexico, we identified the Old 

Spanish Trail, the Salt Missions 

Trail, even the Old Pecos Trail 

and Old Las Vegas Highway, 

as being a part of our readership 

area. Rather than add all 

of these additional byways to 

our masthead, we have simplified 

our coverage statement to 

“Serving the Communities of 

North Central New Mexico”. 

Old School vs New Tech 

we also talked about our hope 

to combine the convenience and 

convention of having a printed 

paper ro provide communication, 

share news and views, as 

well as providing a delivery 

vehicle for businesses and services 

to offer their wares to the 

public. 

At the same time, we planned to 

keep the number of pages that 

we print each month to a small 

number, no more than 24 pages, 

in order to keep our costs down 

and keep waste to a minimum. In 

order to provide additional information, 

such as our calendar of 

events, more in-depth stories and 

to provide a repository for each 

edition of The Corridor as it was 

printed, we launched a concurrent 

online edition of The Corridor, 

www.thecorridornm.com. 

After major building and re-building 

by our webmaster and graphics 

administrator, Jefferson 

LaRouche, we now have a dynamic 

web presence that allows 

us to bring the hope of converging 

the old school and the newest 

technologies. 

Today you can view and read all 

of the past issues of The Corridor 

online, view our event calendar, 

business directory, find restaurants, 

find the closest place to 

pick up your copy of The Corridor 

(even if you visiting elsewhere in 

New Mexico). 

You can also check out other pages, 

such as the Side Trips page, 

which now includes a map along 

with a reprint of each edition of 

Sude Trips to see where the trip 

would take you (an how to get 

there to make your own excursion). 

In this issue our feature story 

talks a little about how far we 

have come since we started, some 

of our regular features and pages, 

and a visual review of some of 

our artwork and Side Trips. 

Be sure to check out Jefferson’s 

page, “Blinded with Science”, 

where he recalls a trip to the 

Xprize cup in 2006 and explains 

what the prize is about and 

where it is going in the future. 

ON THE COVER: 

Our 1st year in review 

11 issues of The Corridor 

“Serving the Communities 

of North Central New Mexico” 

In This Issue - March, 2016 - Volume 2, Number 2 

FRONT PAGE 

2 - From the Editor - Looking back and looking ahead 

3 - Highlights from our first year 

4 - Highlights from our first year 

5 - Community Spotkights - Eldorado at Santa Fe 

6 - The Trowel - Gardening tips and tricks, seed exchanges, etc. 

7 - Advertising in The Corridor and the 

2016 New Mexico Artists Studio Tour Guide 

8 - Upcoming events in March 2016 

9 - Arts & Culture - Quilts, Music, Art, Photography ... and Meow Wolf 

10- Blinded with Science -The Grammys of Innovation 

11 - Tales from the Trails - The Beginnings of Southwest Archeology 

12 - Side Trips - Jemez Mountain Trail 

13 - Side Trips - Jemez Mountain Trail 

14 - Bits & Bites - Wine Tour, Overnight Fun in Taos, Book Blog 

15 - Acorn’s Corner (Kids’ Page) - What to do for Spring Break 

16 - The Corridor Back Page - Corridor Sponsor Display Advertising 

(Call us at 505-438-9600 to get your ad on the Corridor Back Page) 

Editor/Publisher - Marc-Paul LaRouche 

Assistant Editor - Deborah A. LaRouche 

Website and Graphics Administrator 

- Jefferson Pierre LaRouche 

Contributors: Milicent McFarland, Marty Gerber 

The Corridor is a publication of Streamlynx, LLC 

dba Streamlynx Communications 

7 Avenida Vista Grande #252, Santa Fe, New Mexico 87508 

SALES 505-438-9600 MOBILE 505-913-9652 

Please remit all hard copy to the above address 

Send all electronic remittances to: editor@thecorridornm. 

As always, we welcome your comments and your submissions. 

Send us your feedback to editor@thecorridornm.com, 

or by snail mail at The Corridor, 7 Avenida Vista Grande #252, 

Santa Fe, New Mexico, 87508. 

You can also call our office at 505-438-9600. 

Best regards, 

Marc-Paul LaRouche 

Editor and Publisher 

The Corridor Community News, Views & More 

Advertise in The Corridor 

For more information about advertising in the print and online 

versions of The Corridor, please call our sales office at 

505-438-9600 or visit our advertising page at 

www.thecorridornm.com/advertising . 

The Corridor is a monthly community newsmagazine serving the I-25 / US-285 / 

New Mexico 41, old Route 66, the Turquoise Trail, the Salinas Salt Missons Trail, 

and the old Spanish Trail corridors of north central New Mexico. 

The current publication will be from 16 to 24 pages, 11” x 17” 35# Hi-Brite newsprint, 

full color, with 7,000 copies distributed to 100+ distribution sites along the 

corridor area, including pickup locations in Las Vegas, Pecos, Eldorado at Santa 

Fe, Lamy, businesses along the Old Las Vegas Highway / Old Pecos Trail, Santa 

Fe, along the Turquoise Trail, Galisteo, Cerrillos, Madrid and Cedar Crest, along 

old Rte 66 at Edgewood and Moriarty, Placitas, Sandia Crest, Taos, Los Alamos, 

Springer, Cimarron, Tucumcari, Raton and the Albuquerque Sunport. 

Visit http://thecorridornm.com/find-the-corridor/ 

for a complete list of pickup locations. 

2 | The Corridor - March 2016 www.thecorridornm.com


It’s a little hard to believe 

but it has been a year now 

since we launched The 

Corridor. 

CORRIDOR HIGHLIGHTS 

OUR FIRST YEAR IN REVIEW 

Some of the cover art from our first year 

We have printed and distributed 

over 66,000 copies of The Corridor 

since March, 2015. We started 

with 10,000 copies in March 

and April, pared it down to 5,000 

for a couple of months as we increased 

and refined our distribution, 

and will print 7,000 copies 

for our March, 2016 anniversary 

issue. 

We now distribute to over 100 locations 

throughout North Central 

New Mexico, from the Albuquerque 

Sunport to the visitor center 

in Raton. In between, readers 

will find The Corridor in a dozen 

or more locations in Eldorado, another 

20+ locations in Santa Fe, as 

well as Taos, Los Alamos, Las Vegas, 

Placitas, Bernalillo, Moriarty, 

Edgewood, Cedar Crest, Galisteo, 

Lamy…even Russell’s Truck 

stop in Springer and the truck stop 

at Clines Corners. These days we 

are logging over 600 miles each 

month to get The Corridor to our 

readers. 

This month we thought it would 

be fun to do a quick review of the 

year with hightlights from each issue 

of The Corridor from March, 

2015 through February, 2016. 

We have learned a lot over this 

past year. We have met a lot of 

interesting people and told a lot 

of stories about our communities 

and the people who live there. 

For our inaugural edition of this new publication we 

wanted to illustrate our initial coverage area by highlighting 

iconic images from each of the communities 

we served. We were most fortunate in comissioning 

our cover art to be produced by Joshua Kydd, 

a world-renowned commercial artist and illustrator, 

who is now a resident of Las Vegas, New Mexico. 

The piece is color pencil and ink on Bristol art paper. 

Since then, Joushua has become a local celebrity in 

Las Vegas, where he frequently shows and sells his 

artwork. 

For June we composited a vintage Harley Davidson 

onto a photo of the road from Galisteo to Lamy. 

For July we wanted to portray Outdoor Family Fun. 

Our own graphic designer and webmaster Jefferson 

Pierre LaRouche composited this scene of a car 

parked at a drive-in movie, with July 4 fireworks exploding 

in the night sky. 

Our monthly calendars have introduced 

fun and interesting 

events and activities from our entire 

readership area, allowing us 

to broaden awareness of what is 

happening throughout north central 

New Mexico. 

We have created some special 

pages and departments that have 

taken on a life of their own. Our 

Side Trips and Kids Page have become 

mainstays each month. 

We are also thankful for the many 

contributors who have brought us 

their pictures, stories, reviews, 

commentary and expertise over 

the year. We look forward to 

continuing these offerings and 

encourage our readers to help us 

to contribute to the depth of information 

and entertainment in The 

Corridor. 

www.thecorridornm.com 

Referring to her work on the cover art for the May 

2015 issue of The Corridor, local Santa Fe artist 

Leslie ‘Magdalena’ Friedman, Alumni of California 

College of Arts said she enjoyed bringing the different 

objects together against a dreamlike high desert 

landscape, where even mundane objects can be 

beautiful. 

On a visit to Museum Hill this 

January we found this snowy scene 

to be especially appropriate for our 

combined January-February issue. 

We used this photograph to introsude 

our feature story on world-reknowned 

Apache artist and sculptor 

Allan Houser. The sculpture in the 

background, “Homeward Bound” 

was created by Allan Houser. The 

life-size bronze in the foreground, 

“Allan Houser Haozous” is the 

work of Phillip Haozous, one of 

Allan Houser’s sons. 

For November we wanted to illustrate our feature 

on “Wildlife in the Corridor”. artist Lori Musil, 

owner of Art & Antiques in Madrid, New Mexico, 

was gratious in allowing us to use her painting 

“Primpin’ and a Preenin’ #27” from her art card 

collection. 

The Corridor - December 2015 | 13 

The Corridor - March 2016 | 3


A look back at some of our Side Trips 

March, 2015 - Santa Fe to Madrid and Cerrillos 

along the Turquoise Trail 

April, 2015 - San Miguel Church along the 

Santa Fe Trail National Scenic Byway 

Lewis Antique Auto and Truck Museum 

905 Route 66 in Moriarty, NM 

The Historic Fuller Lodge and Art Center - Los Alamos, NM 

November, 2015 - Los Alamos, NM and 

Bandelier National Munument 

June, 2015 - Old U.S. Route 66 

Moriarty and Edgewood 

San Francisco de Assis Mission Church - Ranchos de Taos 

December, 2015 - Santa Fe to Ranchos de Taos 

along the river road (“the Low Road”) 

September, 2015 - Along the Salt Missions Scenic Byway 

January-February, 

2016 

Wagon Mound to 

Cimarron, NM 

The old Mills Mansion - Springer, New Mexico 

July, 2015 - Las Vegas, Fort Union and Mora, NM 

4 | The Corridor - March 2016 

Historic St. James Hotel, Cimarron, NM 

www.thecorridornm.com


Community Spotlight 

on Eldorado at Santa Fe 

Aarin Richard of Zen 

Sharpening works 

on a chef knife. Find 

him in The Eldorado 

Supermart at The Agora 

in Eldorado - Saturdays 

from 10 am to 2 pm. 

(505) 913-7179 

Zen Sharpening Keeps 

It Sharp at The Agora 

If you’ve been to the Eldorado Supermart at the 

Agora Shopping Center in Eldorado on Saturdays, 

you’ve undoubtedly seen a very busy Zen 

Sharpening, working on knives, garden tools 

and scissors for folks in the local communities. 

When asked about his popularity, owner Aarin 

Richard explained; “Attention to detail is key. 

Many of my customers are quite particular 

about their knives and some of the knives I 

work on are very expensive. I use a slow, water-cooled 

system which allows me to create a 

very precise bevel and eliminates the danger of 

over heating the steel of a fine knife”. 

Overheating can ruin the temper of steel, which 

is the risk of using a high speed abrasive such as 

a belt sander, that many sharpeners use. “I also 

test every single knife before I hand it back to 

the customer to ensure it is slicing perfectly. My 

customers are fantastic and some travel long 

distances to have me work on their pieces.... It’s 

all about precision”. 

HAPPY EASTER ! 

We have some 

cute new things 

in stock as well as 

several things 

ON SALE. 

Come See Us ! 

From the Gang at 

Que Sera Alpacas ! 

OpenWednesday, Saturday and Sunday afternoons, 

1-4 pm or by appointment. 

66 Jacinto Road, Santa Fe, NM 87508 

(Off Hwy 285, just south of Eldorado) 

Call Anne at 505-310-3369 for more 

information or visit our website: 

www.queseraalpacas.com 

Daniel E. Brannen, Jr. 

Attorney at Law 

NOW WHAT: Jennie 

Cooley Opens Again 

with a Wink 

With a chubby gas can/slide guitar, 

a raven in a “onesy”, an electric 

coyote and Al Roker, the weatherman, 

Jennie Cooley is on the road 

again! 

“It’s a studio or a gallery by chance” 

The former Canyon Rd. gallery 

owner says with a smile. And there 

will be plenty of smiles as art from 

Santa Fe favorites; Dennis Larkins, 

Holly Wood, Leah Saulnier, Gilbert 

Candelaria, Estaban Bojorquez, 

Don Kennell and David Cudney 

surround Cooley’s own. 

Paintings, prints, sculptures and fun 

crowd around Cooley’s press where 

gallery visitors can make their own 

art with no- rules monotypes. 

“It’s a big ideas in a small space, 

with artists garnered from my galleries 

and “Cirque de Cooley” and 

yes there will be scheduled events 

with music, balloons and a few tattoos.” 

She adds. 

Attorney Daniel E. Brannen, Jr. 

Opens Law Offices in Eldorado 

Attorney Dan Brannen has opened a law office 

in the La Tienda Condominiums at 3 Caliente 

Road, Suite 5 in Eldorado at Santa Fe. Dan 

has been a lawyer since 1993. He first moved 

to Santa Fe with his wife, Jen, and children 

in 2003, settling in Eldorado in 2008. He is 

licensed to practice law in New Mexico and 

Pennsylvania. He shares his office with his 

wife Jennifer, a law clerk for the firm. 

Dan tells us that his office will offer community, neighborhood law, 

including wills, divorces, small business law, etc. He says he wants to 

be a part of his community. “I like to help people. Law takes a person 

with a problem, and makes it better.” 


American Artist & 

Writer Jennie Cooley 

“It’s hours by chance or appointment, 

or art with a Cubano from 

Café Oasis. It’s got to be “Hair on 

Fire Fun”, “Now What” and a little 

irregular.” the artist promises. 

With the growing success of the 

licensed Jennie Cooley Signature 

Lines and fine art shows on both 

coasts, The Artist/Writer Cooley is 

ready to get down to work at home. 

The studio/gallery opens this month 

“18 minutes from the Plaza” in the 

La Tienda Center in Eldorado. Just 

off 285 and Ave Vista Grande it 

won’t be “just another roadside attraction”. 

American Artist 

Jennie Cooley MSU 

“HARD TO FORGET” 

“It’s life’s little moments awkward 

and universal with reds and oranges 

and sometimes a four letter word” the 

American Artist and writer explains. 

Painting and printing from coast to 

coast, showing and selling on both, 

her unique visual narrative style is 

collected and licensed internationally. 

Cooley’s art with words, mostly 

spelled correctly, has a solid foundation 

with a background built on 

bronze, acrylic, inks, a little glitter 

and years of experience in newspapers, 

advertising and TV, sort of a 

Mad-Man-Woman. 

“I like to make people smile and then 

to think. I love it when they laugh out 

loud or shake their head”. She adds 

winking. 

“And I do make some stuff up” Cooley 

concludes with a nod to the MSU 

she often adds to her name. 

Art by Jennie Cooley 

Jennie Cooley Studio 

in La Tienda Shopping Center 

in Eldorado at Santa Fe 




Milicent 

McFarland 

The Trowel 

PRE-SPRING 

GARDENING 

by Milicent McFarland 

It is a warm 55 ° and the 

garden is calling to me. 

I cannot resist. Every year I plan on doing less and 

buying more at the farmer’s market or enrolling in a 

CSA—and every year the soil beckons. 

Gardening is not for the weak of heart here in the arid 

Southwest where rainfall totals less than 12 inches a 

year, drying winds are the norm in several seasons and 

shockingly cold temps (18°) can happen in mid-May, 

after warmth has spurred leafing out. 

And then there are the critters: packrat, gophers, mice, 

rabbits---all ready to make a meal or at least suck 

the moisture out of the plants you have so carefully 

cultivated. 

So why continue? Because of successes like this 

morning when I was able to harvest greens from the 

raised bed I have kept covered for the last several 

months with two layers of floating row cover. Seeds 

were planted originally last fall in mid-September. I 

hand watered the bed periodically and also sprinkled 

gopher repellant pellets monthly and watered them 

in to discourage depredation. I have trapped gophers 

successfully, on occasion, but the repellant pellets seem 

to be keeping the critters at bay and they are cleaner to 

deal with. 

So where to plant what? —That requires pondering 

the previous year’s plantings in order to rotate crops. 

The goal is to discourage overwintering soil borne 

diseases or bugs that like to prey on members of the 

same Family (e.g. Nightshade, which includes tomatoes, 

potatoes, peppers and eggplants.). 

GARDENING TIPS & TRICKS 

New Mexico State Forestry 

Conservation Seedling Program 

Photo: NMForestry 

Ordering for Spring 2016 ends on April 15, 2016. 

Distribution of orders will be March 7, 2016 

through April 22, 2016. 

For more than forty years, the Division has offered 

low-cost seedlings to landowners to plant for 

reforestation, erosion control, windbreaks, or 

Christmas tree plantations. The Forestry Division 

offers over sixty different species for sale over the 

course of the fall and spring sales. 

These seedlings are sold in small containers, large 

containers, and bare root. To participate in the 

program you must own at least one acre of land in 

New Mexico and the seedlings purchased through 

the program must be used for conservation 

purposes. 

Seedlings may be picked up in Santa Fe, at one 

of the distribution points across the state (spring 

only) or shipped via UPS at no extra charge. 

http://goo.gl/mFbBBT 

Seed Exchanges: 

Photo: Michelle Bevell, Taos Seed Exchange 

And I am stymied. All I want to do right now is to get 

some early cool weather crops started: Swiss chard, 

spinach, kale, and lettuces. But I have to keep the entire 

future garden in mind—so I need to tentatively at least 

pencil in proposed planting areas. 

In order to do that, I need to review the “rules” of 

rotating which include focus on not just plant families, 

but alternating heavy feeding plants, like cabbage, with 

lighter feeders, like lettuce. Also include nitrogen-fixing 

plants, like beans and peas. 

That requires more thought as three of my favorite 

crops have been Nightshades—tomatoes, peppers and 

potatoes—that can be prone to fungal diseases, which 

can last in the soil for up to four years. All three are 

subject to bugs. And tomatoes and peppers are heavy 

feeders. 

And so I decide to plant early spring peas, which will 

be harvested and out of the garden by the time I want 

to plant zucchini and other squash, or pumpkin, in this 

same bed. Check on the seed package or with a local 

nursery for the best planting times for your area. 

I have discovered through much trial and error that it 

pays to wait until the end of May to plant any cukes or 

squash, to avoid the squash bug and cucumber beetle 

both difficult insects to eradicate. 

So, I end the day having gotten one bed planted, 

watered and covered. Tomorrow…the future potato 

bed? 

Further Reading 

Rotating Vegetable Crops for Garden 

Success 

https://goo.gl/zvktPj 

The Key To Keeping A Rich Vegetable 

Patch 

http://goo.gl/vBmKYP 

Annual Santa Fe Seed Exchange - Tuesday, March 15 from 

3 pm – 6 pm at Frenchy’s Barn at Frenchy’s Field (intersection 

of Agua Fria and Osage) If you are looking for seeds 

and ideas for your vegetable garden, come to the Santa 

Fe Seed Exchange. The City Parks Division and Home 

Grown New Mexico are hosting this event for all community 

gardens, school gardens and home gardeners. It’s 

free and you’ll get great seeds! 

www.homegrownnewmexico.org/ 

3rd Annual Taos Seed Exchange - March 19 10am at the 

Juan I. Gonzales Ag Center 202 Chamisa Road in Taos. 

This will be the 3rd Annual, the big one, with demonstrations, 

and lots of gardeners and extension agents to 

speak with. It is co-sponsored by the Taos Seed Exchange 

and the Taos County Cooperative Extension Service of 

NMSU. http://sweetlyseeds.com/taos-seed-exchange/ 

New Mexico State University is an equal opportunity employer. All programs are 

available to everyone regardless of race, color, religion, sex, age, handicap, or 

national origin. New Mexico State University, Taos County and the U.S. Department 

of Agriculture cooperating. If you are a person with a disability who is need of an 

auxiliary aid or service to participate in any Taos county Extension events, please 

call Tony at 758-3982 at least two weeks prior to the event. 

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Los Alamos 

Tue Mar 8 

Los Alamos Lecture Series: Rosie the Riveter - 

Mesa Public Library, 2400 Central Ave, Los Alamos. 

7-8 pm Celebrate Women’s History Month. Enjoy 

Ann Beyke in her performance as Rosie in this NM 

Humanities Council Chautauqua program. 

Thu Mar 10 

Los Alamos Winter Farmers Market - Crossroads 

Church, 97 East Road, Los Alamos 8am-12pm. 

Second Thursday of each month. Started in 1970 it’s 

a great place to support local foods and buy direct 

from growers and producers. 

Fri Mar 11 

Los Alamos Concert Association Dover Quartet 

Concert - Duane W. Smith Auditorium on the Los 

Alamos High School, 1300 Diamond Drive, Los 

Alamos. 7-9pm Mozart: Quartet in B-flat Major, 

K. 458; David Ludwig: Pale Blue Dot; Beethoven: 

Quartet in F Major, Op. 59, No. 1 

Mon Mar 14 

Pi Day at Bradbury Science Museum - Bradbury 

Science Museum, 1350 Central Ave, Los Alamos. 

11am-5pm In honor of this special occasion, 

the Bradbury Science Museum will be offering a 

number of events and activities. 

Tue Mar 22 

Bandelier Takes Over PEEC - Los Alamos Nature 

Center (PEEC) 2600 Canyon Rd, Los Alamos 6 – 8pm 

Bandelier rangers and our scientist partners will 

showcase current efforts to understand our park’s 

ecology and history in the context of a changing 

climate. Come to the Nature Center and hear minitalks 

throughout the evening. 

Fri Mar 25 

Fourth Fridays: Bradbury Science Museum - 1350 

Central Ave, Los Alamos 10am–6pm The museum 

is staying open late until 6 p.m. offering access to 

exhibits and special activities for all ages. 

Las Vegas & Pecos 

Thu Mar 17 

Glimpses of the Past “Artist in Residence: Images 

from Fort Union.” - Santa Fe Trail Interpretive Center 

Building, 116 Bridge Street, Las Vegas. 7–8:30pm 

View the remarkable images of Fort Union taken by 

renowned New Mexico artist Steve Martin as part of 

the Artist in Residence program. 

Sun Mar 20 

Pecos NHP Legacy & Lore - Pecos National Historical 

Park, NM-63, Pecos 1:30–2:30pm Capitán Rafael 

Chacón witnessed much in the formation of 

modern New Mexico during the battles of Valverde 

and Glorieta. As Chacón, Dr. Enrique Lamadrid 

demonstrates a shifting world. Free entrance from 

1-2:30 ask at the Visitor Center 

Sat Mar 26 

Pecos NHP Civil War Event - Battle of Glorieta Pass - 

Pecos National Historical Park, NM-63, Pecos 10am– 

4pm Living history, black powder demonstrations, 

compelling speakers will all commemorate the 

battle of Glorieta at one site in the park. $7 park 

admission per person. 

Route 66, Turquoise Trail & Placitas 

Ongoing: 

March 1-31 

Placitas Community Library Quilt Show – Placitas 

Community Library, 453 Hwy 165, Placitas. 

See next page for more information. 

Tue Mar 8 

Friends of Tijeras Pueblo Lecture Series - Tijeras 

Pueblo Archaeological Site, Sandia Ranger 

Station, 11776 Hwy 337 Tijeras. 6:30-7:30pm 

Research at Creekside Village: Addressing Early 

Village Organization in the Tularosa Basin by David 

Greenwald. $5 non-members. 

Sat Mar 26 & 27 

Easter Extravaganza - Old Windmill Dairy, 52 Paso 

Ranch Rd, Estancia. Come for the Easter Egg hunt. 

Pet the baby goats, chicks and ducklings. Visit with 

the Easter bunny and enjoy some awesome food. 

We have two Easter Egg hunts each day. Children $9 

and adults $12.50 

Fri Apr 1 

Upcoming events for March 

Tinkertown Reopens - Tinkertown Museum, 121 

Sandia Crest Rd, Sandia Park 

Santa Fe & Cerrillos 

Ongoing: 

Saturdays 

Santa Fe Farmers Market - 1607 Paseo De Peralta, 

Santa Fe 8am-1pm 

Weekends 

El Museo Cultural de Santa Fe Winter Market - 555 

Camino de la Familia, Santa Fe. Sat 8am-3pm, Sun 

9am-4pm. 

Sundays - 

Railyard Artisan Market - Santa Fe Farmers Market 

Pavillion, 1607 Paseo De Peralta, Santa Fe 10am- 

4pm 

Thu Mar 3 – Sun Mar 6 

The 39 Steps’ at Santa Fe Playhouse 142 E De 

Vargas St, Santa Fe. Alfred Hitchcock’s silver screen 

tale of intrigue and murder hits the stage . 7:30 pm 

Thu–Sat, 2 pm Sun santafeplayhouse.org. Also Mar 

10-13. 

Fri Mar 4 

First Friday Open House - Ralph T Coe Foundation 

for the Arts, 1590 B Pacheco Street, Santa Fe. 1-4 

pm Behind the scenes access to our collection 

of over 2,000 works of global indigenous art, 

experience our intimate on-site exhibitions, walk 

through the collections, meet our staff, and learn 

more about what we do. 

Sat Mar 5 

Cerrillos Hills State Park - Volunteer Training - 

Cerrillos Hills State Park, Co Rd 59, Cerrillos 10am– 

12pm 

5th In Music Ski Santa Fe - Ski Santa Fe, 1477 NM- 

475, Santa Fe. 12-3pm Controlled Burn will play at 

our mid-mountain bar and grill, Totemoff’s. Your 

Season Pass or daily lift ticket is your entry to the 

fun. 

Cerrillos Hills State Park - Landscapes for the People 

- Cerrillos Hills State Park Co Rd 59, Cerrillos 2-3 

pm Authors Ren & Helen Davis will share about 

George Alexander Grant, First Chief Photographer of 

the National Park Service. 

Sat Mar 5 & Sun Mar 6 

Santa Fe Pro Musica Concert The Lark Ascending - 

Lensic Performing Arts Center, 211 W San Francisco 

St, Santa Fe. Sat at 4pm and Sun at 3pm. Under the 

baton of Thomas O’Connor, the Santa Fe Pro Musica 

Orchestra performs with acclaimed violinist Colin 

Jacobsen 

Mon Mar 7 & Tue Mar 8 

Banff Film Festival World Tour - Lensic Performing 

Arts Center, 211 W San Francisco St, Santa Fe 7-10 

pm. Features a collection of exhilarating and 

provocative films that explore life in the mountains. 

$16 one night/$28 for both. 


The 39 Steps’ at Santa Fe Playhouse 142 E De 

Vargas St, Santa Fe. Alfred Hitchcock’s silver screen 

tale of intrigue and murder hits the stage . 7:30 pm 

Thu–Sat, 2 pm Sun santafeplayhouse.org. 

Fri Mar 11 

Cerrillos Hills Star Party - Cerrillos Hills State 

Park 7–9pm Catch the green laser guided tour of 

bright stars and constellations followed by close-up 

views of star clusters, nebulae and distant galaxies 

through telescopes. Main parking lot, ½ mile north 

of Cerrillos village on County Road 59. $5 

Sat Mar 12 

Coro de Cámara: ‘New York Nuance’ - First 

Presbyterian Church 208 Grant Ave, Santa Fe. 

7pm. Music by Big Apple composers like Leonard 

Bernstein, Fats Waller, and others, including the 

West Side Story suite. Free (suggested donation $20) 

Austin Piazzolla Quintet - GiG Performance Space 

1808 2nd St, Santa Fe. 7:30pm A performance by 

the Texas tango ensemble specializing in the music 

of Argentine composer Astor Piazzolla. $20 

Sun Mar 13 

Cerrillos Hills State Park Geology Hike - Cerrillos 

Hills State Park 11am-12pm. Decode the ancient 

past through the eyes of a geologist. Local rock 

hound Scott Renbarger will be your guide. $5 

Tue Mar 15 

Santa Fe Institute Community Lecture Series: Gary 

Marcus “Smart Machines...and What They Can 

Still Learn from People” Lensic Performing Arts 

Center 211 W San Francisco St, Santa Fe 7:30pm. 

Best-selling author and entrepreneur Gary Marcus 

provides a cognitive scientist’s perspective on AI. 

Tickets are free, reservations required. 


Meow Wolf House of Eternal Return’s Opening 

Weekend - Meow Wolf, 1352 Rufina Cir, Santa Fe 


Fri Mar 18 

Juan Siddi Flamenco Santa Fe - Lensic Performing 

Arts Center, 211 W San Francisco St, Santa Fe 7:30- 

9:30pm This fiery ensemble of fourteen dancers 

and musicians delivers a bold theatrical experience 

for aficionados and flamenco newcomers alike. 

Sat Mar 19 

6th In Music Ski Santa Fe - Ski Santa Fe, 1477 NM- 

475, Santa Fe 12–3pm Enjoy Sean Healen, on the 

deck at Totemoff’s. 

Lunesa & Tim O’Brien Concert - Lensic Performing 

Arts Center, 211 W San Francisco St, Santa Fe 

7:30–9pm. Ireland’s Lúnasa, described by the 

Associated Press as “the hottest Irish acoustic group 

on the planet,” joins forces with America’s Grammywinning 

country/bluegrass singer-songwriter Tim 

O’Brien. 

Sun Mar 20 

Santa Fe Symphony: Brahms & Stravinsky - Lensic 

Performing Arts Center, 211 W San Francisco St, 

Santa Fe 4–6pm The Santa Fe Symphony and 

Guest Conductor Oriol Sans celebrate the arrival of 

spring with a program dedicated to sunshine, fun, 

innovation and surprise. FREE preview talk at 3:00 

pm. 

Thu Mar 24 

GlobalFEST on the Road: Creole Carnival - Lensic 


Santa Fe 7:30-9:30pm. 


Thu Mar 24, Fri Mar 25 & Sat Mar 26 

Baroque Holy Week Concert – Loretto Chapel, 207 

Old Santa Fe Trail, Santa Fe. Thu & Fri 7:30-9:30pm, 

Sat 6-9pm Powerful music, miraculous setting. The 

Santa Fe Pro Musica Baroque Ensemble presents this 

springtime favorite featuring music of Bach, Handel 

and Telemann. 

Sat Mar 26 

Annual Jeff Gladfelter Memorial Bump Run - Ski 

Santa Fe, 1477 NM-475, Santa Fe 11am–3pm This 

is the time to show off your mogul skills to local 

judges and compete for awesome prizes. 

Sun Mar 27 

David Crosby Solo Acoustic Concert - Lensic 


Santa Fe 7:30-9:30pm. 

Fri Apr 1 

First Friday Open House - Ralph T Coe Foundation 

for the Arts, 1590 B Pacheco Street, Santa Fe 1–4 

pm Behind the scenes access to our collection 

of over 2,000 works of global indigenous art, 

experience our intimate on-site exhibitions, walk 

through the collections, meet our staff, and learn 

more about what we do. ralphtcoefoundation.org 

Taos, Red River, Angel Fire & 

Sipapu 

Ongoing: 

Mar 1–Apr 25 

Annual Taos Pueblo Closure 

Mar 3-Apr 24 

Art Speaks - Works by Renowned Taos Pueblo 

Artists at Taos Community Auditorium Encore 

Gallery 133 Paseo Del Pueblo Norte, Taos . While 

Taos Pueblo closes for quiet time visitors can see 

Pueblo art at the Encore Gallery of TCA, right in the 

center of the Town of Taos. 

Mar 5-20 

Fiesta del Sol Spring Break Celebration – 

Angel Fire Resort. It’s our Spring celebration 

with live music, themed days, cool contests, 

and great spring skiing and riding. 

Mar 5-20 

Night Skiing - Angel Fire Resort. Night 

skiing on the front side of the mountain from 

4-8 p.m. $24 (or $12 with a same-day ticket). 

Terrain includes 50 acres of groomed trails as 

well as a few terrain park features. 

Mar 6-19 

Red River Ski Area Spring Break Beach 

Weeks – Red River turns up the heat with 

its annual Beach Weeks. Tank tops and hula 

skirts are spotted frequently zipping down 

the slopes during this annual event. 

Fri Mar 4 & 11 

Tour Red River with a NFS Ranger - Red 

River Ski & Summer Area, 400 Pioneer Rd, 

Red River 1:30-3 pm 

Sat Mar 12 

Sipapu Cardboard Derby - Sipapu Ski & 

Summer Resort, 5224 NM-518, Vadito, 

9am–12pm 

Fri Mar 18 

Dog Days at Enchanted Forest - Enchanted 

Forest Cross Country Ski Area, 29 Sangre 

De Cristo, Red River. Cross country ski or 

snowshoe the trails of the with your fourlegged 

friends. 

Sat Mar 19 

Fatty Paddy Mountain Bike Race - Angel 

Fire Resort, 10 Miller Ln, Angel Fire 9am- 

4pm Bring your fat tire mountain bikes and 

dress in your favorite St. Paddy’s Day outfit 

for some friendly competitions and Brew Ski 

as the snow season ends and the dirt season 

begins. 

12th Annual Pond Skimming Contest 

at Sipapu - Sipapu Ski & Summer Resort, 

5224 NM-518, Vadito 1-3pm Skiers and 

boarders try to stay dry as they race down the 

mountain and attempt to skim across “Lake 

Sipapu”. Prizes awarded to best finishers. 

Sat Mar 19 & Sun Mar 20 

“Into The Light” Chamber Music Concert. 

Harwood Museum 238 Ledoux St, Taos. 5pm. 

A multimedia collaboration with sound 

and light artist Sasha vom Dorp inspires 

a program of music informed by light by 

Schubert, Benshoof, and Brustad on cello, 

violin, flute, and viola. 

Sun Mar 20 

Red River Ski Area Pond Skim 400 Pioneer 

Rd, Red River 3-4pm 

Moonlight Hike and Campfire - Sipapu Ski 

& Summer Resort, 5224 NM-518, Vadito 

6:30-8:30pm Explore the mountain by 

moonlight! Join us for our FREE guided tour 

from the base area to mid-mountain, where 

a big roaring campfire and hot chocolate 

awaits. 

Sat Mar 26 

Spring Beer Tasting Festival - Rhoda’s 

Restaurant Deck, 116 Sutton Pl, Taos Ski 

Valley 3:30-6pm. Sample beers from across 

the Southwest and sample food from some 

of Taos’ best restaurants. 

Sun Mar 27 

Easter Egg Hunt - Taos Ski Valley 9:00am – 

12:00pm 

Easter Egg Scavenger Hunt - Sipapu Ski 

& Summer Resort, 5224 NM-518, Vadito. 

9am–4pm Part scavenger hunt, part ski 

adventure! Search our mountain, lodge and 

base area to find laminated letters. 

Sun Apr 3 

Pond Skimming Championships - Taos Ski 

Valley 12:00pm – 4:00pm 




Eight Placitas Artists Exhibit Quilts 

at Placitas Community Library 

In celebration of National 

Quilting Month, eight Placitas 

quilters are exhibiting their 

artistic quilts in the Collin Room 

of the Placitas Community 

Library. The quilts will be on 

exhibit during regular library 

hours from Feb. 27th to March 

31st. The public is invited to 

meet the quilter s at a reception 

in their honor on Friday, 

March 11th from 5:00 to 7:00 

p.m. There is no admission fee 

for the reception or the exhibit. 

A total of 14 art quilts will be on 

display at the Placitas Community 

Library. Several well-known 

Placitas artists, including Jo 

Anne Fredrikson, Judith Roderick, 

Rod Daniel, and Jim Carnevale, 

will have quilts included in 

the show. Many of the quilts will 

be for sale through the Placitas 

Community Library. 

Visit http://goo.gl/lV2JXB for 

more. 

“Red Ravens” quilt 

Art Speaks 

Works by Renowned 

Taos Pueblo Artists 

Mar 3, 2016 - Apr 24, 2016 

While Taos Pueblo closes for 

quiet time, between March 1 

and mid-April, visitors can see 

Pueblo art at the Taos Community 

Auditorium Encore Gallery, 133 

Paseo del Pueblo Norte in Taos. 

The exhibition speaks of tradition 

in contemporary times, recognizes 

talent within families, and includes 

works in stone, clay, india ink 

on clayboard, and oils. Opening 

Reception Thursday March 3, 

4-6pm. http://tcataos.org/ 

“Into The 

Light” 

Chamber Music 

Concert at 

the Harwood 

Mar 19, 2016 - Mar 20, 2016 

A multimedia collaboration with sound 

and light artist Sasha vom Dorp inspires 

a program of music informed by light 

by Schubert, Benshoof, and Brustad on 

cello, violin, flute, and viola. Saturday 

and Sunday, 5pm. 

7th Annual East Mountains 

Community Writing 

Contest 

Moriarty Public Library is sponsoring a 

writing contest open to residents of East 

Mountain and Estancia Valley areas. 

Deadline to enter is March 19. Adult 

and kids categories. Entry forms and 

rules are available at the Moriarty Public 

Library and on their website at www. 

moriartylibrary.com 

globalFEST on the 

Road: Creole Carnival 

at the Lensic 

March 24th 

7:30pm to 9:30pm 

globalFEST’s first tour, Creole 

Carnival, honors the roots of 

African musical currents, crossed 

with a fusion of sounds from 

the Americas, and revolving 

around Carnival, the pre-Lent 

festival celebrated globally that’s 

everyone’s favorite excuse for a 

party. From Brazil (Casuarina) 

— the superpower of celebration 

— to Haiti (Emeline Michel) and 

Jamaica (Brushy One String), 

each country has its own rich 

traditions for music, dancing, 

costumes, and cutting loose. 

Spanning 35 cities ranging from 

Lisner Auditorium to Massey 

Hall in Canada, globalFEST’s 

international trio of artists, will 

explore, expand, and upend 

notions of Carnival, without 

losing sight of where magic and 

religious fervor intersect with a 

madcap, no-holds-barred soiree. 

http://goo.gl/Jn0XdF 


‘Jazz Greats: 

A Photographic 

Exhibition by Paul 

Slaughter’ 

Santa Fe University of Art and 

Design, 1600 St Michaels Dr, 

Santa Fe - Through April 20, 

2016 

Photography by Paul Slaughter 

at SFUAD’s Marion Center for 

Photographic Arts, featuring 

subjects like Miles Davis, Dizzy 

Gillespie, Wynton Marsalis, 

Sonny Rollins, and other jazz 

icons. Free, through April 20, 

505-473-6011, santafeuniversity. 

edu. 

Connoisseurship and Good Pie: 

Ted Coe and Collecting Native 

Art 

Wheelwright Museum of the 

American Indian, 704 Camino 

Lejo, Santa Fe - Through April 

17, 2016 

The Wheelwright Museum 

of the American Indian is 

pleased to announce a major 

exhibition of Native American 

Art, Connoisseurship and Good 

Pie: Ted Coe and Collecting 

Native Art, open through April 

17, 2016. Ralph T. “Ted” Coe 

was a curator, museum director, 

connoisseur, and collector known 

to travel hours out of his way to 

discover a new Native artist or a 

good slice of pie. The exhibition 

is in collaboration with the Ralph 

T. Coe Foundation for the Arts, 

Santa Fe. 

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Meow Wolf Grand Opening 

Opening Night Gala 

1352 Rufina Circle, Santa Fe, NM 

March 17 - 5:00 - 11:00 pm 

The Opening Night Gala is the true first 

look at Meow Wolf’s House of Eternal 

Return! Join the artists, investors, and 

V.I.P. guests as you explore Meow Wolf’s 

incredible 20,000 sq. ft. wonderland. Gala 

Admission also includes food, drink, and 

entertainment! $250 per person. 

Public Opening 

March 18 - 2:00 pm - 2:00 am 

We will open our doors at 2:00pm on 

Friday, March 18th and stay open until 

2:00am. This will be the first day of regular 

operations for Meow Wolf! $15-$25 

March 19-20 - 10 am - Midnight 

The Opening Weekend continues on 

Saturday and Sunday with special 

entertainment and giveaways. Open from 

10am – Midnight on both nights! $15-$25 

General Admission Tickets also available 

now for all normal operating days (not 

opening weekend) ! $10-$18 www.meowwolf.com/tickets 




BLINDED WITH 

Hi there. 

My name is Jefferson LaRouche. 

I’m from Eldorado, but now I’m 

living with my wonderful fiance 

in an apartment in Albuquerque, 

creating graphics and ads for 

this paper as well as updating the 

website. I’ve also been a lifelong 

enthusiast towards computer 

science, physical science, 

astronomy, design, engineering, 

and new technology. Here’s some 

insight on some related subjects. 

The Armadillo Aerospace team getting 

one of their crafts, Texel, ready to 

perform the Lunar Lander challenge at 

the Xprize Cup 2006 event. 

My younger self in front of a replica of 

SpaceShipOne, the spaceplane that flew 

the first commercially-funded suborbital 

flight (which won the Ansari Xprize) 

The Grammy’s of Innovation 

The event was built 

“Inspired by the Orteig Prize, the original 

XPRIZE was announced in 1996, offering a 

$10 million prize to the first privately financed 

team that could build and fly a three-passenger 

vehicle 100 kilometers into space twice within 

two weeks. The prize, later titled the Ansari 

XPRIZE for suborbital spaceflight, motivated 

26 teams from seven nations to invest more 

than $100 million in pursuit of the $10 million 

purse. On October 4, 2004, the Ansari XPRIZE 

was awarded to Mojave Aerospace Ventures, 

marking the dawn of the personal spaceflight 

revolution and signifying a radical breakthrough 

in prize philanthropy.” 

from http://www.xprize.org/sites/default/files/xprize_backgrounder.pdf 

Ten years ago, Governor Bill Richardson made Spaceport 

America, a . It was created in order to build public interest in 

commercial space travel. 

This was not the first time New Mexico was made famous for 

commercial spaceflight, though. In 2004, the Mojave Aerospace 

Ventures team won the Ansari Xprize with SpaceshipOne. This was 

part of the first Xprize Cup - a private space expo that lasted in New 

Mexico until 2007. 

My parents and I were fortunate enough to be able to take a trip to 

Las Cruces in 2006 (and Alamogordo the next year), upon which 

we got to see quite the well-recieved Hollywood-style event fit for 

VIP guest to the event and Apollo 11 astronaut Buzz Aldrin. 

civil engineering 

masterpiece of 

spacecraft artifacts, 

inflatable earths 

and moons, robots, 

shipping containers, 

and many air and 

spacecraft tests 

necessary to continue 

for the $2.2 million 

Google Lunar Xprize 

Competition (which is 

still underway). 

One of my favorite 

games for PC growing 

up was RollerCoaster 

Tycoon (available 

at www.rollercoastertycoon.com). 

In 

the game, you are 

in charge of building 

and maintaining 

a theme park. This 

event looked exactly 

like something someone 

would have built 

in that game. Former 

relics from the Apollo 

and Shuttle Program, 

along with a replica 

of SpaceShipOne. airplanes 

flying, rockets 

launching for various 

prizes, space elevator 

solar panel concepts 

being tested, and 

many aircraft on display 

parked right on 

the walkway. 

around the shipping 

containers used to 

transport everything 

there, which doubled both 

as indoor spaces and 

advertising space outside, 

the insides full of various 

booths, diaramas, and the 

lunar module acent stage. 

Unfortunately, they only 

had one more event in 

Alamagordo the next year 

due to the economy for 

private space exploration 

not yet ready for New 

Mexico. 

Ten years later, the 

private space industry is 

making quantum leaps 

of innovation; for the first 

time ever both private 

companies SpaceX and 

Blue Origin have created 

launch vehicle rockets that 

have landed from space. 

Also, due to astronomical 

advances in speed 

with many computer 

components (e.g. processors 

are getting 

faster at exponential 

rates), the Xprize foundation 

has recently announced 

(among many 

other competitions) the 

IBM Watson AI XPRIZE, 

which they describe on 

their website as “...a 

$5 million competition 

challenging teams from 

around the world to develop 

and demonstrate 

how humans can collaborate 

with powerful 

cognitive technologies 

to tackle some of the 

world’s grand challenges”. 

You can read more 

about the new challenge 

here: 

www.xprize.org/ai 

For an event in New Mexico, this expo was massive. The 

campus of the event, built on an airport, was definitely a portable 

Left: Astronaut Edwin 

“Buzz” Aldrin, second 

man to set foot on 

the moon, posing for 

photographers at the 

2006 Xprize Cup 

Right: the entry to the 

2006 Wirefly Xprize Cup 

Corridor Staff Photos by 

Debbie LaRouche 



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The Beginnings of Southwest Archeology 

Story and Photos by the National Park Service 

Alfred V. Kidder (second from left) and crew in 

front of field shack at Pecos, NM 

west and to determine cultural ties and differences 

among them. 

Ancestral Pueblo people. In 1936, Kidder 

used the Navajo term “Anasazi” to define a 

specific cultural group of people living in the 

southwest between approximately 200 BC 

and 1300 AD. This term had been employed 

by excavators for many of the “ancient people” 

since the early explorations of Richard 

Wetherill, and had been used in the work of 

the Pecos Conferences. The modern preference, 

more culturally sensitive, is to refer to 

the people as “ancestral Puebloans.” 

Removed and relocated. During Kidder’s 

studies and excavations at Pecos Pueblo, 

particularly between 1915 and 1929, pottery 

and other artifacts were sent to the Robert S. 

Peabody Museum, Andover, Massachusetts, 

while excavated human remains were sent to 

the Peabody Museum at Harvard. In the early 

1900s, no archeologist consulted with Native 

American descendants concerning the excavation 

of their ancestors’ homes and graves. 

Claims not considered. Although Kidder 

was aware of the longstanding relationship 

between the abandoned Pecos Pueblo and 

the modern Pueblo of Jemez, he did not consider 

that any local population had a claim 

on artifacts and remains. By a 1936 Act of 

Congress, the Pueblo of Jemez became the 

legal and administrative representative of the 

Pueblo of Pecos, which had been privately 

owned during Kidder’s excavation. 

Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation 

As a consequence of the Native American 

Graves Protection and Repatriation Act 

(NAGPRA), which requires federal and other 

museum facilities to inventory, establish 

cultural affiliations, and publish in the Federal 

Register any and all Native American human 

remains and certain objects in their possession, 

the Pueblo of Jemez made a formal 

claim on behalf of the Pecos people. This repatriation 

was primarily due to the efforts of 

William J. Whatley, the Jemez Pueblo tribal 

archeologist, who searched through museum 

records for these remains and artifacts 

for eight years. The human remains from 

Kidder’s excavations were returned to the 

Jemez people in 1999 and ritually reburied 

From 1915 to 1929, Alfred V. Kidder 

conducted site excavations at 

the abandoned pueblo in Pecos, near 

Santa Fe, New Mexico. He examined 

levels of human occupation at the pueblo 

going back more than 2000 years and 

gathered a detailed record of cultural 

artifacts, including a large collection of 

pottery fragments and human remains. 

Establishing chronology. From these 

items, he was able to establish a continuous 

record of pottery styles from 2000 

years ago to the mid- to late-1800s. Kidder 

then analyzed trends and changes in 

pottery styles in association with changes 

in the Pecos people’s culture and 

developed a basic chronology for the 

Southwest. With Samuel J. Guernsey, 

he established the validity of a chronological 

approach to cultural periods. 

A new archeology. Kidder asserted 

that deductions about the development 

of human culture could be obtained 

through a systematic examination of 

stratigraphy and chronology in archeological 

sites. This research laid the foundation 

for modern archeological field 

methods, shifting the emphasis from a 

“gentlemanly adventure,” adding items 

such as whole pots and cliff dwellings 

to museum coffers, to the study of potsherds 

and other artifacts in relation to 

the cultural history. Pioneering archeologists 

in other regions of the United 

States completed the transformation of 

professional methodology initiated by 

Kidder. 

A first. His Introduction to the Study of 

Southwestern Archaeology, published 

in 1924, was the first synthesis of North 

American prehistory based on professionally 

recovered empirical data. In 

spite of his efforts at documentation, 

Kidder’s conclusions have sometimes 

been criticized for a lack of integration 

between his field reports and his later 

synthesis and interpretation of that data. 

However, Kidder clearly emphasized 

archeology’s need for a scientific “eye” 

in the development of fact collecting 

techniques and clear definitions. 

Pecos Conference. In the late 1920s, 

Kidder started the Pecos Conferences 

for archeologists and ethnologists 

working in the American southwest. 

In 1927, a temporal system of nomenclature 

known as the Pecos Classification 

System was established for use in 

southwestern sites. Archeologists have 

since used the sequence, with later variations, 

to assign approximate dates to 

dozens of sites throughout the Southat 

Pecos National Historic Park. In a sense, 

they rejoined Kidder, as he too is buried on 

a hillside not far away, close to Pecos Pueblo.Over 

the last thousand years the Cerrillos 

Hills, with its tricultural history, have held an 

unusually important place in the history of 

the American Southwest. The Cerrillos Hills 

turquoise and lead deposits played a central 

role in the commerce and economy of the 

prehistoric Indians of the greater Rio Grande 

Valley, and it is probable that these mineral 

deposits influenced the early Spanish explorations 

and settlement of New Mexico. 

Pottery sherds found in the Cerrillos Hills 

date the use of the mineral resources from 

about AD 900, and the Hills are the source 

of much of the lead that was used for glaze 

paint by Rio Grande Pueblo potters between 

AD 1300 and 1700. Analysis of the sherds 

in the Cerrillos Hills indicated a large portion 

of them came from the nearby San Marcos 

Pueblo, which between the middle 1300s and 

the middle 1400s was the major center of pottery-making 

in the upper Middle Rio Grande 

Valley. Archaeological sites present today 

and associated with the Puebloan mining 

activities in the Hills include turquoise pits, 

quarries, lead or galena mines, refining areas, 

workshops, hearths, campsites, and sherd areas. 

The Mina del Tiro, on private property 

adjacent to the CHSP lands, is perhaps one of 

the most ancient and longest-worked galena 

lode mines in the New World. 

There are numerous sites on the Park lands 

that are registered with the Museum of New 

Mexico’s Laboratory of Anthropology, including 

three prehistoric stone rings and a 

petroglyph at the summit of Grand Central 

Mountain. 

Read more about the field and history of 

archaeology here: 

http://www.nps.gov/parkhistory/online_books/kcc/epilogueb.htm 

Trenching into the main Pecos ruin, 1920. 

“Here we found a most complex state of affairs; 

a jumble of early walls, some fallen, others partly 

incorporated into the bases of later structures,” 

- Kidder, Southwestern Archaeology 





The Jemez Mountain Trail 

from Bernalillo to 

Jemez Springs 

By Marc and Debbie LaRouche 

Dancers at Zia Pueblo 

http://www.newmexico.org/pueblos-tribes-nations 

Coronado Historic Site - 485 Kuaua Road, Bernalillo, NM 87004 

http://www.nmmonuments.org/coronado - website photo 

Coronado Historic Site and the ruins of Kuaua Pueblo 

are located just minutes north of Albuquerque (off of I-25, Exit 242) 

in Bernalillo on US 550. Kuaua was the northernmost of the twelve 

villages. Its name means “evergreen” in Tiwa. It was first settled around 

AD 1325 and was occupied by approximately 1,200 people when Coronado 

arrived. Conflict with Coronado and later Spanish explorers led to 

the abandonment of this site within a century of first contact. Today, the 

descendants of the people of Kuaua live in the surviving Tiwa-speaking 

villages of Taos, Picuris, Sandia, and Isleta. 

Open 8:30am - 5pm Wednesday through Monday. Closed Tuesdays. 

Closed New Year’s Day, Easter, Thanksgiving, and Christmas Day. 

Admission: $3. A combination ticket, good for admission to both Jémez 

and Coronado Historic Sites is available for $5. Sunday admission for 

New Mexico residents with ID is free. Wednesday admission is free to 

New Mexico Seniors with ID. Children 16 and under are always admitted 

free. http://www.nmmonuments.org/coronado 

Zia Pueblo - The Zia Pueblo Indians have continuously occupied 

Zia Pueblo since about 1250 A. D. The Pueblo of Zia is part of the Keres 

Nation. The traditional language is Keresan, but many speak Spanish, 

some speak Navajo, and most also speak English. Zia artists are known 

for their unique pueblo pottery style. 

“Although the Pueblo itself is inconspicuous, its Sun 

symbol is familiar to all New Mexicans, for it is the 

official New Mexico State insignia appearing on the 

state flag and adopted by the New Mexico Legislature 

in its salute, “I salute the flag of New Mexico, 

the Zia symbol of perfect friendship among united 

cultures.” 

- http://www.newmexico.org/pueblos-tribesnations 

Santa Ana Garden Center 

and the Hyatt Regency Tamaya Resort and Spa 

Two of the many enterprises of the Santa Ana Pueblo 

http://www.santaana-nsn.gov/ 

As you drive north on US550 toward San Ysidro, you will 

pass two pueblos, Santa Ana and Zia. 

Santa Ana Pueblo The location of the original Santa Ana Pueblo 

is unknown, for all the members of the community either left or were 

killed during the Pueblo Revolt of 1680. After the re-conquest of the 

New Mexico territory by the Spanish in 1692-1694, the place known 

as Tamaya or the Old Santa Ana Pueblo was founded about eight miles 

northwest of Bernalillo. 

The people of the Santa Ana Pueblo usually maintain two places of residence, 

one a farming community along the Rio Grande and the other a 

traditional home on the north bank of the Jemez River. 

White Ridge Bike Trails 

www.newmexico.org 

Tucked away in rugged and scenic country southwest 

of the community of San Ysidro, New Mexico, is the White Ridge Bike 

Trails Area. Just to the west is the newly designated Ojito Wilderness. 

Both sites are a short distance from U.S. 550. This region is known for 

its geological, cultural and paleontological resources, as well as for its 

scenic qualities. 

Location / Access: 

Traveling northwest toward Cuba on US 550 from Bernalillo, the drive 

is approximately 20 miles. Before San Ysidro (about two miles), turn left 

onto Cabezon Road (County Road 906) at the intersection of Cabezon 

Road and US 550. Follow the left fork. Travel 4.4 miles to the gravel 

parking lot. 

White Horse Bike Trails and Ojito Wilderness http://www.blm.gov/nm/ 

st/en/prog/recreation/rio_puerco/white_mesa_bike_trails.html 

San Ysidro is 23 miles west of Bernalillo on US 550. Turn right onto 

NM Highway 4 to continue on to Jemez Springs. Our advice - Do 

follow speed limits in the area. 

White Ridge Bike Trails - BLM photo - www.newmexico.org 



Ponderosa Valley Winery - Ponderosa, NM - Corridor staff photos 

If you enjoy tasting local wines, 7 miles from San Ysidro 

on NM Hwy 4, take NM 290 (about 3 miles) you will find the Ponderosa 

Valley Winery. Ponderosa is one of New Mexico’s older wineries. 

Owners Henry and Mary Street first planted 500 vines on their property 

in Ponderosa, NM in 1976 with the help of the Soil Conservation Service. 

Their “flagship” wine is the New Mexico Riesling (also one of our 

favorites on a recent visit), as well as their Jemez Red, both made from 

grapes grown in their Ponderosa vineyard. The tasting room is open 

Tuesday - Saturday 10 am - 5 pm, Sunday 12 pm - 5 pm. Find them online 

at http://www.ponderosawinery.com/ or call Mary at 1-800-winemkr 

or email at winemaker@ponderosawinery.com . 

The Jemez Mountain Trail 

from Bernalillo to 

Jemez Springs 

By Marc and Debbie LaRouche 

Los Ojos Restaurant and Saloon in Jemez Springs - - Corridor staff photo 

Los Ojos Restaurant and Saloon This funky mountain-town 

establishment is a favorite for tourists and bikers as well as locals. Worth 

a quick visit and maybe a bite and some refreshments. While the service 

was lacking in motivation during our visit, the burger and fries were hot 

and excellent. Visitors will enjoy the Western-kitsch interiors, replete 

with coffered tin ceiling, mounted dead animal heads on the walls and 

other miscellany. www.losojossaloon.com 

Walatowa Visitor Center - Jemez Pueblo 

http://www.jemezpueblo.com/ 

After your visit to the Ponderosa Valley Winery, return to Hwy 4 and turn 

right (north) about 1.5 miles to the Walatowa Visitor Center 

www.jemezpueblo.com 

Jemez Pueblo – The Pueblo of Jemez has a closed village policy 

due to the lack of tourism facilities and out of respect for the privacy of 

those who live there. The village is therefore open to the public only on 

Feast Days. The Pueblo now chooses to no longer allow these days to be 

publicized due to over capacity and for the reasons stated above. Visitors 

should go to the Walatowa Visitor Center, which is open year round. 

Please do not wander around the village. At the Walatowa Visitor 

Center you are able to visit the Museum of History and Culture, see a 

reconstructed fieldhouse, browse the giftshop, and take a guided hike of 

the scenic Jemez Red Rocks. There also is a Santa Fe National Forest 

information center. The Walatowa Visitor Center is open from 8am-5pm 

daily. During the winter months (January through April), the Visitor Center 

is open Wednesday through Sunday 10:00am-4:00pm. 

Gilman tunnels - Corridor staff photo 

About 1 mile from the Walatowa Visitor Center take a left onto NM485 to drive 

to Gilman Tunnels. The tunnels are about 4 miles from Hwy 4 along a narrow 

winding road, sometimes a single lane. Here you will find two train tunnels 

which were blasted through the rock in Rio Guadalupe Canyon by Santa Fe 

Northwestern Railway (SFNW) which were used to haul lumber from the Jemez 

Mountains. The railway opened in 1924 but never recovered financially from the 

Wall Street Crash of 1929 and ceased operations in May 1941 following flood 

damage from the Rio Guadalupe. There are a few pullouts to enjoy the views 

and take photos. The road is closed just past the second tunnel, but you can hike 

along the road and enjoy spectacular views of the rocky canyon and river below. 


The Jemez Springs Bath House - Jemez Springs, NM 

Corridor staff photo 

The Jemez Springs Bath House was one of the first structures 

to be built in what is now Jemez Springs, built between 1870 and 1878. 

The Otero and Perea families initially operated the Bath House. In 1924 

Charlie Clay operated the Bath House and in 1940 Dr. Bruington gave 

the Bath House to the Catholic priests who in turn sold it to the Village of 

Jemez Springs in 1961. http://www.jemezspringsbathhouse.com/ 

The Jemez National Historic Landmark - Jemez Springs, NM - Corridor staff photo 

The Jemez National Historic Landmark is one of the 

most beautiful prehistoric and historic sites in the Southwest. It includes 

the stone ruins of a 500-year-old Indian village and the San José de los 

Jemez church dating to 1621/2. The village of Giusewa was built in the 

narrow San Diego Canyon by the ancestors of the present-day people 

of Jemez (Walatowa) Pueblo. The name Giusewa refers to the natural 

springs in the area. 

In the 17th century, the Spanish established a Catholic mission at the 

village. The mission was short-lived, and, in time, the people abandoned 

the site and moved to the current location of Jemez Pueblo. The massive 

stone walls were constructed about the same time the Pilgrims landed 

at Plymouth Rock. The heritage center contains exhibitions that tell the 

story of the site through the words of the Jemez people. A 1,400-foot 

interpretive trail winds through the impressive site ruins. 

Open 8:30am - 5pm Wednesday through Sunday. Closed Monday & Tuesdays. 

Closed New Year’s Day, Thanksgiving, and Christmas Day. Special Easter 

hours. 

Admission: $3. A combination ticket, good for admission to both Jémez and 

Coronado Historic Sites is available for $5. Sunday admission for New Mexico 

residents with ID is free. Wednesday admission is free to New Mexico Seniors 

with ID. Children 16 and under are always admitted free. 

http://www.nmhistoricsites.org/jemez Admission is free to NM residents on 

Sunday. 




The Second Annual 

Corrales Wine Loop Wine and 

Cheese Pairing Event 

& BITES 

Local books, food, drinks 

& 

news 

Mark your calendars for Saturday and Sunday 

March 12th and 13th 2016, and join us 

between the hours of 12 to 5 pm for a cheese 

and wine pairing event. For just $15 you 

get to taste 3 wines paired with 3 cheeses at 

4 of your favorite wineries. That’s 12 wine 

tastings, and 12 cheeses for $15. Tickets can 

be purchased in advance or during the event 

at Acequia, Corrales, Matheson, or Pasando 

Tiempo Wineries. See you there!! 

http://acequiawinery.com/ 

corraleswinery.com 

www.mathesonwines.com 

www.pasandotiempowinery.com 


The boardwalk on Kit Carson 

near Eske’s Brewery in Taos 

Overnight Getaway in Taos 

by Debbie LaRouche 

On our distribution run for the January/February issue of The Corridor we decided to make a little 

staycation by staging in Taos for the night. We live in Eldorado, so the propect of the trip back down 

the hill in pitch-black night through the Embudo Canyon is not our favorite. We booked a room at the 

Historic Taos Inn in one of the many ground-level rooms, in one of the former homes that make up the 

compound surrounding the hotel. We were given a wonderful room with a queen size bed, full bathroom 

and a wood burning fireplace, complete with firewood. Our room had 2 comfortable Mexican 

lounge chairs, a small table and a dresser complete with wine and beer glasses - even a corkscrew. 

Our visit happened to coincide with the championship playoff game between the Denver Broncos and 

the Pittsburgh Steelers. Our room was steps away from the hotel bar and restaurant. The bar had the 

football game on and there was live music in the lobby of the hotel. As we planned to return to the 

Hotel and restaurant for dinner later that night, we ventured out and took a stroll to Eske’s Brewery, 

a funky locals favorite, where we enjoyed their nachos and a flight of beer samplers while picking up 

bits and pieces of the game from one of their TVs, all the while taking in the local ambience and Taos 

“vibe”. The beer sampler had some winners! Our favorites were the Green Chile Beer, Barley Wine 

and Scottish Ale. 

After a brief respite in our cozy room back at the hotel we decided to make the (very) short trek to dinner 

at Doc Martin’s, the famous restaurant at the Taos Inn. We started with some drinks, a nice Pinot 

Grigio for me and Marc declared that he had to try the Sazerac (an authentic New Orleans specialty 

brought to the bar by a local NOLA expat), a concoction of rye whiskey, bitters and absinthe. This 

drink has a nice kick and a faint sweetness from the absinthe, a licorice-style liquer. Not for the faint 

of heart but an interesting experience! Our appetizers inculded Green Chile Stew and Seared Scallops. 

The Green chile stew was wonderfully spicy, temperature hot and was the highlight of the meal. The 

Seared Scallops were a bit undercooked, barely seared. We would have sent this back, but our waitress 

was not very attentive and we only saw her at the beginning and end of the meal. My entree was 

Doc’s Chile Relleno Platter. Tasty, not very spicy and, for me, way too much food for one. Either 

share this platter or order the smaller appetizer version. Marc ordered the Local Lamb Shank, which 

was prepared perfectly, braised with red wine, horseradish and mashed potatoes. 

Overall our trip was quite successful. After “planting” an outdoor box on the Taos plaza and a rack 

inside Cid’s Market for The Corridor, plus a few more stops, we made our way East for the next leg 

of our journey delivering The Corridor. The visit to Taos was a fun adventure that we recommend to 

anyone visiting our area as well as locals looking for a quick getaway. 

. . . ON BOOKS 

Of Pages and Paper 

By Marty Gerber 

(from Marty’s Blog) 

Downtown Taos - view 

toward Taos Mountain 

Marty Gerber is the editor 

and co-owner of 

TerraNova Books 

www.terranovabooks.com 

Recently, I read a true paean to ebooks. “Last 

summer,” the author wrote, “I read Heart of 

Darkness on my cell phone. I read in line at 

the supermarket, sitting in my dentist’s waiting 

room, and even by sneaking peeks during traffic 

jams.” 

Now, granted that Heart of Darkness isn’t a book 

of impressive length, I still consider this a pretty 

impressive feat. Mainly it’s impressive for the 

powers of concentration required by type that’s 

maybe a sixteenth of a inch tall (as well as by 

Conrad’s mystical, mystifying, and gripping 

tale). 

The proud phone reader, though, was quick to assure 

us that actually, he goes both ways. (“I love 

print books.”) But he’s still pretty boggled by the 

fact that he remains in a distinct minority. 

Our room in the Taos Inn 

My guess is that it comes down to the eternal 

thrust and parry between science and soul. You 

can sure list a slew of reasons that e-readers can’t 

be matched, from changeable fonts to synching 

with a dozen other gizmos to toting around 

the OED in your back pocket. But, at least for 

anyone first captured by the magic of words on a 

page when that page was made of paper, there’s 

a look and a feel and a sense and a heft—and 

yes, a romance—that transcends all the acknowledged 

utility of electronic impulses. 

But let’s face facts: We who once knew a world 

without computers are dying off a lot quicker 

than the kids we raised. And what happens when 

the lights go out on the last folks in the hospice 

who didn’t learn their ABCs on a screen? 

For reading’s survivors, the habits they came 

out of the playpen with are the ones they’ll be 

shaped by. No need for the kind of relics consigned 

to the little old shop in an out-of-the-way 

neighborhood whose faded sign whispers “Used 

Books.” 

I can see the place now: an ideal setting for some 

ambitious author’s fable for phone about the 

long-ago days of paper, ink, and pages you’d feel 

as you went from one to another. It would start 

out, “Once upon a time ….” 



AC 

RN’S 

CORNER 

“There are more than 

400 national park sites in 

the United States. They 

include parks, battlefields, 

monuments, seashores, 

historic sites, and recreation 

areas that are nationally 

significant. For 99 years 

the National Park Service 

has preserved these places 

because they are important 

to our nation.” 

-NPS.gov on the 100th 

anniversary of the National 

Park Service. 

Find out more: 

http://goo.gl/TvvPJ7 

You are invited to 

color in the official 

National Park Service 

arrowhead above or to 

create your own design in 

the blank to the right. 

The winners of this 

contest will see their 

artwork published in the 

April or May issue of 

The Corridor. 

Please submit a scan of 

your artwork to: editor@ 

thecorridornm.com. 

Happy coloring ! 

Coloring Contest 

Santa Fe 

Hat Making Tour - Montecristi Hats 

322 McKenzie Street, Santa Fe 

March 1 - April 14, 2016 Mon-Sat 

10am-4pm 

Receive 15% any hat purchase for kids 

18 and under. 

Buy 2 get 1 free - Ski Santa Fe: 

Mar 2 - Mar 30, 2016 

Buy 2 Adult Full Day Lift Tickets and 

Get 1 Child (12 & under) Lift Ticket 

Free. 

Canyon Road Gallery Tour 

Mar 5 - Apr 2, 2016 

Saturdays 10-11:30am 

Children 10 and under are free when 

you book online and use promo code 

KIDSFREESF. 

Edgewood 

Wildlife West Nature Park: Open 10-6 

starting in mid-March. New Kid’s 

Interactive Trail. 

Pajarito Mountain Ski Area 

Car Load Days: Everyone in your car 

skis or rides for just $99 on March 23 

and March 30 2016 (limit six people 

per vehicle). Just mention the CAR 

LOAD DAYS DEAL when purchasing 

your lift ticket. 

Kids 6 and Younger Ski FREE: 

Skiers and snowboarders 6 years old 

and younger get a FREE lift ticket 

everyday. No blackout dates. Just 

What to do for Spring Break: 

mention the 6 and Younger Ski FREE 

Special when purchasing your lift 

tickets. 

Sipapu Ski Area 

Car Load Day: Everyone in your car 

skis or rides for just $50 on March 23 

2016 (limit six people per vehicle). 

Just mention the CAR LOAD DAYS 

DEAL when purchasing your lift ticket. 

Questions? Call us at 800-587-2240. 

Taos 

Tubing at Taos Ski Valley 

March 3 – 6, March 10 – 20, March 

24 - 27 

Adults 18 and over $15 | Children 

7-17 $10 | 6 and under Free 

Twirl: A Play & Discovery Space 

Daily activities for kids & 

Techsploration Workshops 

March 21-April 21 

OPEN DAILY 10AM to 6PM 

225 Camino De La Placita, Taos, New 

Mexico 87571 575.751.1402 

Taos Public Skating 

Adults $3.00, Children $2.00 including 

skate rental 

Monday-Friday: 10:00 am – 5:00 pm 

Saturday: 2:00 pm – 5:00 pm 

Sunday: 1:00 pm – 4:00 pm 

Saberdog Comic: Origin Story Introduction 

4th graders get a free NPS 

pass in 2016: 

Once, there was a lab full of labradors. Then they got lost playing “fetch” with 

their human trainers and they stumbled into a spare landing craft. 

They crash landed in their home planet, which they called Unlok. 

The Every Kid in a Park pass 

admits the fourth grader and any 

accompanying passengers in a 

private, non-commercial vehicle 

at per vehicle fee areas, or the pass 

owner and up to three accompanying 

adults at sites that charge per person. 

FREE access to all of the federal 

lands and waters across the US for a 

full year starting September 1, 2015 

ending August 31, 2016 

www.everykidinapark.gov 




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