Santa Fe Fashion Designer Touts Style, Comfort to Boot
Wendy Lane Henry vividly remembers the first pair of cowboy boots she ever bought.
She was a teenager walking through a Neiman Marcus department store in Miami when she spotted a pair of burgundy-colored alligator skin boots.
“They were so different,” said Henry, standing inside her store, Back at the Ranch, in Santa Fe, surrounded by hundreds of handmade cowboy boots she designed.
Reclaiming and Expanding Native Foodways in New Mexico, One Seed at a Time
SAN PEDRO — For the past 34 years, Roxanne Swentzell has worked to save the seeds of her ancestors.
“I remember getting a small pouch of a variety of Pueblo white corn that had been passed down from my great-great-grandmother,” said Swentzell, pulling out an ear of Pueblo red meal corn from a large storage bin at the Flowering Tree Permaculture Institute’s San Pedro Homesite — a farm, permaculture teaching center and future seed bank just outside Santa Clara Pueblo.
Some New Mexico Counties Resist Inoculation Against COVID-19
Mama T’s Road to Ruin — known for a chile-smothered chicken-fried steak that’s big enough to be served up on a car hood — is a can’t-miss joint if you’re anywhere close to this small town in Quay County.
Juneteenth: A Celebration of Black Joy Planned in Santa Fe
In the mid-1970s, Charles E. Becknell, then in grade school, attended one of the first official Juneteenth celebrations in New Mexico.
At the time, the holiday commemorating the end of slavery was an obscure one to many people outside the Black community.
A Night at Santa Fe’s GreenTree Inn
Nights at the GreenTree Inn are rarely quiet.
During his first stay in the spring of 2020, Noah Armijo awoke to the sound of gunshots in the parking lot nearby.
“I heard a pop-pop-pop,” 31-year-old Armijo said, describing the sound of the firearm being discharged just a few hundred feet from his room. “I didn’t sleep after that.”