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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…
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…
Governor Mateo Antonio de Mendoza Díaz de Arce, 1760 By Rick Hendricks Mateo Antonio de Mendoza Díaz de Arce was baptized on 28 September 1696 in Burgos. His parents were Francisco Mendoza y Martínez de Fuidio and Teresa Díaz de Arce y Maeda. The casa solar of the Díaz…
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…
On Tuesday evening, February 19, 1889, Ada Hulmes, the piano player at Silver City's Monarch saloon, shot and killed John V. “Jack” Brown, a Silver City carpenter and also the fire chief of that town in southwestern New Mexico Territory. As reports of the killing spread, people flocked to…
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…
1881 By Priscilla Solis Ybarra, Ph.D. Adelina (Nina) Otero Warren—suffragist, educator, politician, entrepreneur, and writer– was born in 1881 in La Constancia, New Mexico, near Los Lunas. She was the second child of Manuel B. Otero and Eloisa Luna Otero. Both her parents had deep roots in New Mexico,…
