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General Uncategorized 2021-12-222020-06-18 Harper Sullivan

An Oasis Becomes a Mirage

The story is a strange one, although set in and around a seemingly ordinary place.  Its details come from interviews with family members of the people involved, and from Towns of…
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General Uncategorized 2021-11-242020-06-18 Harper Sullivan

The Hippies of Placitas

When the weather warms, birds fly north along the Sandia Mountains of New Mexico — swooping over the picketed steel towers on the mountains’ highest point, gliding up the mountains’…
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General Uncategorized 2021-10-132020-06-18 Harper Sullivan

The Faithists of 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,…
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General Uncategorized 2021-09-152020-06-18 Harper Sullivan

The 2004 Socorro Hailstorm

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…
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General Uncategorized 2021-08-182020-06-18 Harper Sullivan

The Cabbit of Dulce

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…
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General Uncategorized 2021-07-072020-06-18 Harper Sullivan

The Space Elevator

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…
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General Uncategorized 2020-12-082019-08-27 Harper Sullivan

The Hippies of Placitas, Part II

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…
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General Uncategorized 2020-11-102019-08-27 Harper Sullivan

The Great ABQ Volcano Hoax

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…
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General Uncategorized 2020-10-272019-08-27 Harper Sullivan

The Faithists, Part II

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…
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General Uncategorized 2020-09-292019-08-27 Harper Sullivan

The Blue Hole Worm Hole

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…
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