EXPLORING ALDO and ESTELLA’S QUERENCIA
We recognize that many recent querencia observations in New Mexico literature, memoirs, and scholarship have not been associated with Aldo’s work. Some commentators have attributed the exclusion of Hispanic culture recognition to political forces of colonialism and racism. Cover of A New Mexico Land Ethic Handbook.Photo Courtesy Leeanna Torres SHARE: Richard L. Rubin (Arroyo Seco, […]
SEEING NEW MEXICO THROUGH LITERARY GEOGRAPHY
By Richard Etulain “From 1900 onward, several themes and settings have been of central importance for novelists and historians as they have dealt with the state of New Mexico in their writings. Looking forward to the country’s 250th anniversary, it is rewarding to consider and evaluate how New Mexico writers have treated ideas, places and […]
NEW MEXICO 1776
By Rob Martinez
“While the British can claim 1620 as the year of the start of English dominion over what would become the 13 colonies, Spanish language and culture, mixed with Mexican Indian, Puebloan and later arrivals such as the Navajo and Apache, were already surviving and thriving in New Mexico for over a generation.”
FROM EMILY WITH LOVE: A MASTER CLASS IN YEARNING
By Monika Dziamka
Using letters and poetry as vehicles for her innermost emotions, her writing strategically expressed her desires. Though she wrote her letters surely with the intention of privacy, there was always some risk they could be discovered, which could invite a long list of devastating consequences.
TONY HILLERMAN
A clear, major draw to Hillerman’s novel is his ability to keep an enticing mystery — or, in this case, a set of mysteries — before his readers, leading them to nonstop reading.
PAINTING PUEBLO CULTURE
By Kim Suina Melwani
In the early-to-mid-20th-century, a new Pueblo painting tradition — spurred by external influences — was developing, and a few Pueblo women stood out, both for their talent and rarity.
FROM REACTION TO PRESENCE: RETHINKING HOW COMMUNITIES CREATE CHANGE
By Teresa Heupel
“People are mobilized, but depleted. Connected digitally, yet emotionally fragmented. Passionate, but burned out.
This raises an important question.
Is awareness alone enough to create lasting change”?
NEW MEXICO’S AMAZING BLACK HISTORY
By Rob Martinez, State Historian of New Mexico.
“African history runs deep in New Mexico. Black history is often framed within the institution of slavery, but in New Mexico, New Mexicans of African descent were ambassadors, explorers, colonists, soldiers, cowboys, discoverers, settlers, businessmen, educators, and much more.”
SCANNING FOR STORIES
It was a Friday afternoon in November and I was driving on a state road through the hills of the Mimbres Valley. The entire landscape was bathed in a golden hue because the tree leaves had made their full conversion to a bright yellow color just before falling off the branches.
REFLECTIONS ON THE LOSS OF A NEW MEXICO CIVIL RIGHTS LEADER
By Carlyn N. Pinkins, M. A.
“The Dr. Harold Baileys of the world should inspire us all to do what we can to leave our communities, our towns and cities – our great state – better places than we found them. While we do our part to create the Dr. Harold Baileys of the future, we should also strive to make sure that the Dr. Harold Baileys of our past and present are never forgotten.”