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General Uncategorized 2020-05-122019-08-27 Harper Sullivan

Alamogordo’s Atari Landfill

It was 1982, in America—a time and a place steeped in the fear of nuclear war, burdened by the worst economic recession since the Great Depression, and occasionally made bearable by…
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General Uncategorized 2020-04-282019-08-27 Harper Sullivan

The River Serpent

When it comes to tales of enormous and legendary amphibians, Scotland boasts its elusive mascot in the waters of Loch Ness, China shares rumors of a gorge-dwelling creature that chases fishermen, and South Africa…
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General Uncategorized 2020-04-142019-08-27 Harper Sullivan

Land of Entrapment

It may well be that there are as many reasons to avoid talking about the strangeness of New Mexico as there are reasons to talk about it.   As conversational subject matter,…
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General Uncategorized 2020-03-312019-08-27 Harper Sullivan

Pterosaurs Alive!

New Mexico, one hundred million years ago, lay nameless and borderless and partially submerged beneath sprawling, shallow, briny seas.   Dinosaurs of every size and appetite wandered to the edge of these seas,…
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General Uncategorized 2020-03-172019-08-27 Harper Sullivan

Black Holes at Home?

Occasionally, when a star explodes, its field of gravity will cause that star’s remains to collapse in upon itself, in a world-shaking cascade of unstoppable force and motion.   With relentless…
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General Uncategorized 2020-03-032019-08-27 Harper Sullivan

A Legacy of Strangeness

If you were to drive about two hours east of Santa Fe, watching from your car as the sagebrush desert rocked past and rose into wooded hills, you might just…
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General Uncategorized 2020-02-182019-08-27 Harper Sullivan

History on the Rocks

New Mexico may not have America’s highest literacy rate, lowest rate of infant mortality, an intelligent method of dealing with drunk drivers, or really any sort of a plan at…
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General Uncategorized 2020-02-042019-08-27 Harper Sullivan

Hell on a Mesa

Tourists!  Come to New Mexico!  Come to the Land of Enchantment.   Spend a weekend flying down the slopes of Taos Ski Valley.  Explore the shops of the historic Santa Fe plaza.  Marvel at…
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General Uncategorized 2020-01-212019-08-27 Harper Sullivan

Elephant Butte’s Giant Catfish

The stories take place in the southwestern part of New Mexico—in the watery, sand-sifting darkness of Elephant Butte Reservoir—along the concrete base of Elephant Butte Dam.  The reservoir is large—sprawling up forty…
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General Uncategorized 2020-01-072019-08-27 Harper Sullivan

The Smallest of Small Towns

As of 2007, almost two million people live in New Mexico.  Almost 500,000 of these live in Albuquerque.  And more than 300,000 live in Las Cruces, Santa Fe, Rio Rancho,…
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