First Lady Susan Wallace, storyteller and writer, tells of a winters' day when she took a walk and discovered hundreds of years of New Mexico's history–neglected in a shed. Here, in her own words, she tells of her discovery: North of El Palacio, is a waste spot of earth,…
By Sharon Snyder “The heart of history is the power of memory, the creation of tradition, the significance of place, the importance of stories, the richness of language, the meanings of silence, and the employment of imagination.” That quote from Arizona State University Professor Peter Iverson shows the vast…
Las Vegas Daily Optic, August 18, 1890 Mr. Chairman and Gentlemen, I coincide with both speakers who have preceded me. This meeting has a two-fold object, to devise means to stop the wrongdoing, and do the right. The people are to rise in their might and squelch the land…
By Michael Miller In the year 2010, New Mexico’s rich Hispano literary tradition reached the four-century mark. Beginning with the publication of Historia de la Nueva Mexico in Spain in the year 1610, publishing in and about Nuevo México has flourished and endured over the centuries. This vibrant and…
5 14 1910 By Rick Hendricks Eleanor Burnham Adams was born on 14 May 1910 in Cambridge Massachusetts. Charles was a Provincetown Adams, that is, the Adamses who fought on the losing side of the American Revolution. Her…
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 Genaro Padilla Gaspar Perez de Villagra published Historia de la Nueva México the same year that William Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale was performed at the Globe in London. Villagra’s poem was published in Alcala de Henares, Miguel de Cervantes birthplace, and, as it turns out, is chronologically tucked…
Forgotten Lessons and Missing Links: Adolph Bandelier as a Pioneering Scientific Historian By Rick Hendricks, Ph.D. New Mexico State Historian Introduction Santa Fe, 26 March 1888 Had a very bad night. Suffered a great deal, could not sleep. Walking and lying down equally painful. A sitting posture is the…
2 26 1879 by Michael Ann Sullivan In December of 1917, Mabel Dodge closed her apartment in Greenwich Village, and took a long slow train ride to Lamy, New Mexico to meet her husband Maurice Sterne and her son Paul. Although she planned only a brief vacation, the 38-year-old…
“Friday, Febuary 1, 1980. There was a full moon that Friday night. I watched it move across the patch of sky framed by the window near my bunk, noticing how it turned the desert surrounding the penitentiary ghost white.” “Friday, Febuary 1, 1980. There was a full moon…
