Young Traveler
Summertime in East Pecos, for George, Sadie, Trini and me was exciting and full of adventure. We were getting so good at choza building that I bet them all I would finish first. . Once we finished them we would pretend each one of…
Born with Irrigation Boots On
By Estevan Rael-Galvez My dad is one of the hardest workers I have ever known. He has never been a religious man, but to know him is to recognize a deep spirituality, literally grounding his belief in the tangible world around him, combined with a type of faith that…
El Retrace
Every Sunday the men would gather on the back porch of Uncle Evan’s house known as El Retrace . They would take in the sun against an adobe wall as they spoke of starting the spring plowing. About three o’clock more men gathered with musical instruments and did a bit of…
Healer and the Cross
By Alice Bullock There was no ladder on the ranch, nor was there any white paint, but there was the ten-foot high Cross on the west wing of the Morley ranch house near Datil. It had not been there the day before, but the next morning, there it was….
A Spanish Engagement
The Prendorio "If you don’t mind telling me, I should like to hear about your engagement and wedding. For I think the old Spanish engagements were very romantic.” “You refer to the prendorio, or engagement announcement. I think we took marriage more seriously in the old days. As, no…
Gold Fever in Ojo de la Casa
as told by Patricio Gallegos Stories of William Eckert and Juan Maria Gallegos, retold by J. P. Batchen Whenever men gathered along the old Santa Fe Trail and told of tales they had heard of New Mexico, there was repeated by someone, the legend of the old Montezuma Mine…
Evil Eye
My cousin Doris was a beautiful baby and she had the sweetest smile a child could have. In our village, there were superstitions about giving the evil eye to babies such as Doris. Doris would not quit crying and she cried as though she were in great pain. Her…
A Son’s Plea to Governor Miles
Men’s New Dorm University of New Mexico Albuquerque, New Mexico February 3, 1942 Honorable Governor Miles Governors Mansion Santa Fe, New Mexico Dear Sir; Last week thirty Japanese from Clovis were sent to Ft. Stanton to be interned. This action affected me very much because my parents are Japanese…
Sacred Duty: Tamasaku Watanabe, Japanese Christian Minister
Sacred Duty: A Biographical Sketch of Tamasaku Watanabe, Japanese Christian Minister in U.S. Justice Department Internment, 1941-45* Gail Y. Okawa Department of English Youngstown State University My maternal grandfather, Tamasaku Watanabe, immigrated to the United States from Hiroshima, Japan. That act in itself did not distinguish him, of…
Albuquerque’s First African-American Neighborhood
Albuquerque’s East End Addition By Michael Ann Sullivan The East End Addition was the first African-American suburb in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Built between 1950 and 1972, it is a small enclave of residential homes on the single city blocks of Virginia and Vermont streets, north of Lomas Boulevard, and…
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