By Chris Cozzone In 1805, “throwing one’s hat into the ring,” meant climbing into the squared circle to challenge a fellow pugilist. A hundred years later, in 1912, the phrase had expanded into politics, reaching peak usage when Theodore Roosevelt, who had been an amateur boxer and a big…
Major Works by Paolo Soleri Soleri, Paolo. Arcology, the City in the Image of Man. Engineering Societies Library Collection (Library of Congress). Cambridge, Mass: The MIT Press, 1969. Soleri, Paolo. Arcosanti: An Urban Laboratory? San Diego, Calif: Avant Books, 1984. Soleri, Paolo. The Bridge between Matter & Spirit Is…
Paolo Soleri By Rick Hendricks* Paolo Soleri was born in Turin, Italy, on 21 June 1919. At sixteen, Soleri opted for…
History of Greeks in Albuquerque, 1900–1952 By Katherine Pomonis The first Greeks started coming to Albuquerque around the late 1890s. This is their story from 1900 through 1952. This 52-year period was the era when the Greeks of Albuquerque established their community and the St. George Greek Orthodox Church. …
Partial Bibliography of the Writings of Fabián García Compiled by Rick Hendricks Press Bulletins of the State College Experiment Station 351 Plant Pollinizers in Orchards 363 Tomato Culture 378 A Good List of Varieties of Fruits for New Mexico 379 Cold Frames and Early Cabbage 384 Size of Apple…
9 11 1885 by Suzanne Stamatov David Herbert Lawrence was born on 11 September 1885 in Eastwood, Nottinghamshire, England. His father, John Arthur Lawrence, had been a miner at Brinsley Colliery since he was seven years old. His mother, Lydia Beardsall Lawrence, tried to lift her children out of…
By Rick Hendricks Fabián García was born in Chihuahua on 20 January 1871 to Ricardo García and Refugio Romero de García. Orphaned of both parents soon after his birth, García moved to the Mimbres Valley in southwestern New Mexico with his paternal grandmother, Jacoba García, when he was…
By Robert J. Torrez Former New Mexico State Historian Governor Antonio de Otermin and approximately 2000 Spanish refugees spent the winter following their expulsion from New Mexico at what was supposed to be a temporary camp near El Paso de Norte, present day Cuidad Juarez. Here Otermin established his…
lime, plaster; Use of Lime in Colonial New Mexico; Documentary Evidence for Lime Kilns in El Paso An Essay by Rick Hendricks, PhD Background One of the earliest recorded uses of whitewash or plaster in New Mexico dates from 1583. In Diego Pérez de Luján's account of the…
by Malcolm Ebright Genízaros, according to the traditional short definition, are Indian captives sold to Spaniards who then became household servants. Most Genízaros in New Mexico were Plains Indians captured by other Plains tribes and then sold to individual Hispanos or Pueblos. The legal basis for this arrangement is…
