Roswell Little Leaguers, 1956
Lions Hondo Little League, Roswell, NM Little League World Series Champions, 1956 Guy Bevill Farral Dunham Teddy Garrett Harold Hobson Tommy Jordan Albert Palimino Mike Sandry David Sherrod Harold Sherrod David Smith Richard St. John Richard Storey Blaine Stribling Billy Turley Jimmy Valdez Randy Willis Roswell Little Leaguers 1956;…
Moon Trees in New Mexico
By Rick Hendricks Some astronauts flying on Apollo missions were allowed to take small personal items along. When he went to the moon in 1971, Apollo 14 astronaut Stuart Roosa, a former US Forest Service (USFS) smokejumper, took tiny tree seeds to see how a trip to the moon…
Soldiers of El Paso del Norte Presidio, 1683-1724
By Rick Hendricks The following lists of presidial soldiers who served in El Paso were taken from pay records housed at the time at the William L. Clements Library at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. In 1993 these treasury records were returned to Mexico, to be housed…
Church-State Relations in the Early Nineteenth Century at San Carlos Presidio
By Rick Hendricks The matter began simply enough. In early 1802, Captain Antonio García de Tejada informed Commandant General Pedro de Nava that the chaplain of San Carlos presidio, fray Luis Salgado, had denied the sacrament of the Eucharist to several young women. Father Salgado responded that the captain…
Report on the Mission of Our Lady of Sorrows of Sandia, 1820*
Translation by Rick Hendricks I, the minister who serves it, fray Ambrosio Guerra, provide information about this mission, Our Lady of Sorrows of the pueblo of Sandia; it has been two years since holy obedience placed me in it. It was built in the month of October 1787. Noted…
The Flying Lobos
By Rick Hendricks On Friday 4 October 1929, Roy W. Johnson, football coach of the University of New Mexico Lobos, and Tom Popejoy, graduate manager of athletics at the University took in a game at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, California. They were scouting Occidental College in its contest…
Informe de la Misión de Nuestra Señora de los Dolores de Sandía en 1820*
Transcripción de Rick Hendricks Noticio de esta micion Nuestra Señora de los dolores del pueblo de sandia hay dos años que la santa obe- dencia me puso en ella: Habiendose erecto en el mes de hoctubre del año de mil cetecientos ochen- ta y ciete Ministro que…
A Ninth Cavalry Concert on the Santa Fe Plaza, 1880
By Rick Hendricks 5 October 1880 3. What Shall the Harvest Be? by Philip P. Bliss…
When Ulysses S. Grant Ran for Governor of New Mexico
By Rick Hendricks Ulysses S. Grant once ran for governor of New Mexico. No, not that Ulysses S. Grant! The would-be governor was born Donald R. Waskey to Calvin and Margaret Waskey in Baltimore, Maryland, about 1938. Waskey apparently entered the Air Force and became a nuclear weapons mechanical…
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