My Strange New Mexico

The life of Dr. John Ballou Newbrough was often impressive, often unique, and often strange — and at its strangest, it was in New Mexico.   Born in Ohio in 1828,…

On the morning of October 5th, 2004, dark clouds hung above the brown desert mountains just west of Socorro — a west-central New Mexico town of almost 10,000 people. The day was…

Dulce, New Mexico is located almost in the center of the northern edge of the state, on New Mexico’s Jicarilla Apache Reservation.   Dulce is a small town, yet it looms large…

The past, and the history that fills it, can be thrilling — but the future, and the history not yet made, could be even more so.  New Mexico’s past, with…

These mountainside communes housed an eclectic population of restless youth from around the world—poor kids, wealthy heirs, idealists, addicts, and self-proclaimed “dope smoking, vegetarian Jesus freaks.”   These youth wanted to…

On the western edge of Albuquerque stand five calm, reddish black volcanoes, all in a line.  These volcanoes—JA, Black, Vulcan, Butte, and Bond Volcanoes—divide the city from the mostly empty desert…

Allegedly the history of life on Earth and life in dimensions parallel to our own, Oahspe attracted an international group of followers who became known as Faithists. In October of 1884, 20 of…

The story is a simple, although strange, one.  It is repeated often, with many variations, among New Mexico's understandably tiny diving community.   Just about 120 miles east of Albuquerque, on…

It was December, 1961, in the desert just southeast of Carlsbad.  Tufts of dry grass bent low beneath a winter wind, sand swirled across a desert plain, and here and…

Mr. Edwards was a successful Taos businessman who rode a good horse, carried hundreds of dollars in his pockets, and traveled using mules to carry his belongings.  In the fall…