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September 13, 2024
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In Gratitude
We thank anonymous sponsor for sponsoring the New Mexico Rural Library Initiative.
This fall, each of 55 rural libraries, including Abiquiu, El Rito and Vallecitos, will receive about $16,000 from the New Mexico Rural Library Endowment. Next year the amount should be higher as there is now $30 million in the endowment. Our goal is $60 million, about $1 million for each library, including about 5 that will soon be eligible. Each library would then receive about $45,000 per year from the interest earned by the endowment. Most of these libraries are under-resourced, despite that they offer free internet, children's and adult programming and so many other things. Library directors earn low salaries; buildings are in need of repair. Annual disbursements will make a huge difference. The New Mexico Rural Library Initiative (NMRLI) spearheaded establishment of the endowment. We appreciate advocacy from Abiquiu and surrounding communities over the years. Your advocacy is why we've made so much progress. It's time again to contact legislators. Our own legislators, Senator Leo Jaramillo and Representative Susan Herrera are strong supporters of the endowment, but it still is helpful to contact them and thank them for their work. The most important to contact are Finance Committee members, especially the chairs and vice chairs. List attached for legislators and finance committee. NMRLI recently became a 501 (c)(3) non-profit, so we can now accept donations to support our work. They can be sent to NMRLI, PO Box 25, Embudo, NM. 87531. We are also seeking people to serve on our board. You may contact shelneymark@windstream.net if you are interested. Thank you From our local libraries El Rito Public Library With monies from the NM rural libraries endowment fund, El Rito Library will be able to make needed repairs on our building, improve staff salaries and create new exciting programs. Many thanks for promoting full funding by the NM Legislature for this important initiative!! ~Lynett Gillette From Pueblo de Abiquiu Library These funds will help us with operations, salaries, professional development, collections and our Digital History Archive. Truly grateful. ~Andie Manzanares Thank you Contributors and Paid SubscribersPaula B
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News and FeaturesNote: Our News and Features are offered as links. Click to read full articles. If you missed the News last week, we also include "Previous Features".
Did you know that there are hundreds of different varieties of garlic? I didn’t, and I had no idea that there are two subspecies of Allium sativum, the relative of onions, leeks, chives etc., distinctive because of its pungent odor and taste. It took a visit with La Madera garlic farmer Bill Page and his wife Claudia to divest me of my ignorance. And as it so often happens with these interviews, it was a delight to meet my hosts and experience where they live. The scenery around La Madera is absolutely stunning. Read More
When Cillian Murphy and Matt Damon crossed the New Mexico desert in Oppenheimer, they did it by Dragon. That’s the nickname of a locomotive — part of the Sky Railway co-owned by Game of Thrones mastermind George R.R. Martin and New Mexico entrepreneur Bill Banowsky — that thrust Murphy’s Robert J. Oppenheimer and Damon’s Colonel Leslie Groves to their destinies and became one of the key Oppenheimer locations. Read More
"Dark Silhouettes,” a film produced by Northern New Mexico College (NNMC) Film & Digital Media Arts students Natalia Tealer, Lukas LeDoux and Nicholas Taylor, has been selected for the New Mexico Student Filmmakers Showcase. The showcase, which features film screenings and an awards ceremony, takes place from 11 a.m. – 3 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 14, 2024, at the National Hispanic Cultural Center in Albuquerque, N.M. The event is free to the public. Read More
Piñon trees are more patient than I am. Famously, they produce cones and nuts in cycles—every three to seven years, the internet tells me, which tracks with my undoubtedly flawed observations on my near-daily walks. Read More
Also know as: Crepis runcinate ssp. Barberi, Sunflower Family (Asteraceae)
Found in moist, alkaline meadows Seen blooming in September near the Rio Chama Read More
It’s not always easy to tell from my desk, but it really does help to keep things tidy. As a Windows user since the mid 80’s, I can tell you that Windows is full of clutter. Apple is quite a bit tidier, but browsers, in general, are the worst. Read More
Previous Features
I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again, because it spares me coming up with an original thought: I was an English major for a reason, and that reason is power tools.
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Also Known as: Ipomopsis longiflora, Phlox Family (Polemoniaceae)
Found in open, sandy areas Seen blooming in late August near Hwy 554 Read More
As I noted last month, historically, stock markets tend to be volatile in September and October, which is to say they can be fairly negative. Then in November/ December there is often a year end rally. No idea if that will happen this year. It’s been pretty positive so far in 2024 so maybe we will defy history. Read More
If you're like most folks you probably don't spend a lot of time thinking about what will happen after you pass away.
After all, that isn't the most pleasant of topics. Read More
These days, smartphones come with powerful cameras. The more expensive ones come with up to 50 megapixels, separate zoom, wide-angle, and main cameras, and one phone even has a Leica lens. Plus, the built-in software does a lot of adjustments on the fly, so you’ll get a decent photo quite easily. Maybe that’s why the opinion persists that it doesn’t take much to come up with a great photo – I bet, even Ansel Adams heard this.
Read More Tres Semillas SaleFinal bids were due in this week and we hope by next week to have something to report.
The petition and 234v signatures (actual and digital) have been sent to Tres Semillas. Voter RegistrationRegistration Deadline
The registration deadline for the 11/5/24 General Election is 10/8/24 online and by mail and 11/5/24 in-person. Day of election voter registration is available. You may register to vote online! You will need your social security number and driver's license or state ID number to complete the form. Mailed and online registration closes 28 days before an election. Same-Day Voter Registration: SDR is available at your County Clerk’s office or at any polling location in your county on Election Day. Additional Early Voting locations may also provide SDR – it’s best to check with your local county clerk. You’ll need to bring the following: 1. An ID issued by the federal government, a state government, a federally recognized Indigenous nation, tribe, or pueblo, or an educational institution containing your name and photo, AND includes your registration address. OR 2. An acceptable ID with your name and photo paired with another document showing your name and registration address, such as a utility bill. Automatic Voter Registration (Effective July 1, 2025) If you provide a document proving your US citizenship during a DMV transaction, the DMV will check the voter registration database to see if you are registered. If not, you will be registered, offered an opportunity to affiliate with a political party, and told that the county clerk will mail you information about declining registration. *** Not sure if you are registered? Check your registration online Come Celebrate 25 Years on the Rocks with Us!
Mesa Prieta Petroglyph Project invites you to attend our Symposium at Northern New Mexico College at the Center for Fine Arts on September 13-14, 2024. Over the last 25 years our mission has focused on the protection and preservation of the cultural landscape of the Mesa Prieta region of the northern Rio Grande Valley. We welcome summer youth alumni, recorders, docents, scholars, tribal and community members who have been connected to the project over the last 25 years to share in a two-day symposium. The Symposium is free to registered participants with a suggested donation of $25/day to support our continued mission.
Our featured speakers include Katherine Wells, Founder of the Project and Author of Life on the Rocks, Dr. Richard Ford, Professor Emeritus, University of Michigan, and Poet Kamella Cruz from Ohkay Owingeh. A detailed agenda with speakers and panels will be posted on our website. The Symposium will be from 8:30am-5:00pm both days and include light morning refreshments and lunch from La Fonda Del Sol and the Feasting Place. In addition, invited youth dance groups will take part in the 25th Symposium. 
If you have a story to tell, send it in. If you want, interview your friend, relative, teacher, co-worker. If you think it would be interesting, I bet other people would too. Give it a try and send something in to us.
Carol Bondy
Abiquiu Lake: Fishing for walleye was fair to good when using clown-pattern crankbaits and jig heads tipped with worms. Contact the Abiquiu Lake Main Office at 505-685-4371 for updated lake conditions and closure information.
Rio Chama: Streamflow below El Vado Lake Monday morning was 97 cfs; streamflow below Abiquiu Lake Tuesday morning was 143 cfs. Fishing for trout was good when using San Juan worms, white Sparkle Minnow flies, emerger flies and egg-pattern flies near Chama. Please remember, from the river-crossing bridge on U.S. Highway 84 at Abiquiu upstream 7 miles to the base of Abiquiu Dam is special trout waters with a bag limit of only two trout. Scene Around Town
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Art, Music, Film and BooksAbiquiu News Photography ExhibitCome see the photography that has been featured in the Abiquiu News. A portion of each image will support the Abiquiu News. Support the News and our photographers. Read Jessica Rath's article "The Art of Photography" about our photographers in last week's News
~Carol From Pueblo de Abiquiu Library and Cultural Center
PALCC Board Meeting - Sept 18 at 6pm at the Library
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Continuing
August 20, 2024 to September 30, 2024 
🎉 Exciting News! 🎉 The annual Art Basket Raffle is here, and it's bigger than ever! Thanks to the incredible generosity of our community and artist members, we're offering three stunning baskets filled with artwork, jewelry, and a luxurious local lodging stay! Each basket is valued at over $1,400! 🎨✨ Every ticket you purchase supports the Abiquiú Arts Council 501(c)(3) and our iconic Abiquiú Studio Tour event. 🙏 Don't miss your chance to win big and give back. Get your tickets online or at local businesses like the Abiquiu Inn, Café Sierra Negra, and Abiquiú Dome. 🎟️ Click to Order Online
The Locals’ Picks Book List
Zach Hively Casa Urraca Press has created a place for locals in our area to recommend books to each other, and a place to find book suggestions with a personal touch.
Have a book to recommend? Send it to Zach at casaurracaltd@gmail.com – title, author, and the reason you suggest it.
The full Locals’ Picks list is available to view here on Bookshop. A purchase from Casa Urraca's link helps support independent bookstores. Abiquiu’s Casa Urraca Press earns a commission from every shopping trip that starts with the above Bookshop link—you can shop the entire Bookshop site in addition to the locals' picks. Plus, a percentage of every book (at least 10%) goes straight to independent bookstores. This is an opportunity to support small businesses with the same convenience as large online retailers. 
Call me Zach Hively Because that is My NameBefore he started writing for the Abiquiú News, Zach Hively was out there writing his column and driving other newspapers out of business. This book, at long last, is the culmination of those efforts. And it is finally, officially, irrevocably released into the world.
Herein, Zach Hively does his best to evade all the challenges of navigating the world. The perils of rental housing? Finding friendship as a hermit who rather dislikes people? Bears? There’s nothing he can’t talk his way through—or out of—in these short essays. You can get your own copy of Call Me Zach Hively Because That Is My Name online at Casa Urraca Press, or wherever you order your books. Abiquiu Book Club
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Nicholas Herrera: El Rito Santero
Herrera felt called to become a saint maker.As a modern santero, Herrera creates bultos, retablos, and large-scale mixed media works, many of which detail rich and often challenging chapters in his storied life. Through varied mediums, this exhibition surveys Herrera’s personal identity, family history, relationship to place, and political ideology. Still a “village artist,” Herrera continues to reside, regenerate, and create on the land of his family.Harwood Museum of Art is proud to exhibit the first solo museum exhibition of Nicholas Herrera.
Location TBA
NOTE: Correction on time on above event 5 - 7 PM
Announcements and Classes
NEW Fall offerings at Soulfire Yoga!
Radiant Core and Back Clinic Unlock the power of your core and back through a yogic lens. This clinic delves into strengthening your core physically and supporting back health, while also exploring the subtle energies of your inner radiance and deep stability. Expect a holistic approach that not only enhances your practice but also supports your well-being beyond the mat. Saturday, Sept 21 9:30-11 or Sunday, Sept 22 9:30-11 $20 (Studio or Zoom) ✨✨✨✨✨✨ Intro to Ayurveda - Explore the Ritual of Daily Self Care Discover the ancient wisdom of Ayurveda in this fun, interactive class—complete with a hot cup of chai! You’ll dive into the basics of this holistic system, exploring the doshas, the role of yoga, and the impact of diet and lifestyle choices. Learn the rituals of intentional self-care and seasonal alignment. To complete the experience, enjoy a grounding yoga practice and a soothing warm oil self foot massage before settling into a restorative savasana. Friday, Sept 27 9-11 or Saturday, Sept 28 9:30-11:30 $35 (Studio Only) To register or to get more information, please contact, Joy 802-855-3003 or Joyousom@gmail.com Ghost Ranch Workshops September
Photo Fundamentals with Sandy Kaplan | September 22-28 Portrait Photography Amid Nature’s Beauty with David Rider | September 22-28 Splash of Chaos: Painting Ghost Ranch with Antonio Darden | September 22-28 Fundamentals of Chimayo Weaving with Lisa Trujillo | September 22-28 Contemporary Southwest Silver with Bill Derrevere | September 22-28 Hike the ‘Ologies with Connie B Burkhart | September 22-28 Pastels: Finding Form for Inspiration with Maureen O’Neill | September 22-28 Printed, Stitched and Bound with Alanna Austin | September 22-28 High Desert Course with Sean Hudson | September 28-30 Women in Welding with Connie B Burkhart | September 29 - October 5 October Healing Grief with the Sacred Wheel with Cheryl Downey | October 1-6 Healing Colonial Legacies: Developing Empathy for Personal, Historical and Land Based Trauma with Deanna Dartt | October 6-11 Native Americans and Museums with Deanna Dartt | October 10 Southwest Native Traditions in Metalsmithing with Steve and Cree LaRance | October 6-11 Paper from Place: Handmade Paper from Local Plants with Leah Mata Fragua | October 6-11 Discovering Healing Herbs in Northern New Mexico with Dr. Denise Gabaldion-Thronas | October 6-11 Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teaching of Plants with Robin Wall Kimmerer | October 11-13 Celebrating Women with Susan Weber and Lynn Motley | October 13-18 Practically Painting with O’Keeffe with Anna Koster | October 13-18 Making Poems, Making Books with Anita Skeen and Cindy Hunter Morgan | October 13-18 Writing and Healing: Beginner’s Mind, Deep Play with Joan Logge | October 13-18 Fly Fishing around Ghost Ranch with Davud Kadlec and Tom Nichols | October 13-18 Connecting with Eyes, Heart, Hand: Plein Air with Natasha Isenhower | October 28-Nov 3 November Navigating Paths if Change on Life’s Journey with Jeannie Bowman | November 18-23 Christian Perspectives on Dementia Diagnoses and Care with Dr. Carl Greiner | November 22-24 |
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Cherry
Cherry was found in the burn area of the Ruidoso fires - not only did she find a way to escape the flames, but she also protected her two little pupparoos. All three survivors found safety with us, and we were able to enroll mama Cherry in our Paws in the Pen program for 8 weeks of 24/7 training at the Penitentiary of New Mexico! Cherry is a 2yo snuggle-bean beauty, with a bright smile as wide as the whole world. She wants nothing more than to give and receive love - she’s a heart wrapped in fur and always wants to do the right thing while giving 110%! Cherry is one of the most trainable dogs we have had in our prison program, and she is a favorite of literally everyone. Cherry will soon graduate and she is ready to find her perfect home where she can loaf, love, play, roll in the grass, and be absolutely adored. Apply on our website and we can schedule a meet and greet with approved adopters! Don’t miss this girl - she’s one in a million! Monday-Saturday 11am-4:30pm. www.espanolahumane.org 505-753-8662 
Eira
Eira came from a nightmarish ordeal - she is one of 19 (yes, 19!) kitties found inside a sweltering RV. But they are out of that world now, and thanks to some comfort & care, they’re safe, sound, and full of life. Each kitty has their own quirky personality, and from horror to happily ever after, these little ones are proof that even the darkest situations can have a bright beginning. Eira and her fellow survivors are available for adoption from the shelter; they go home spayed or neutered, up to date on vaccines, and microchipped! www.espanolahumane.org 505-753-8662 
Stella jumped out of the truck at Los Caminos on Sunday (or Monday, can’t remember). Someone may have taken her home with them as she’s very friendly. If you have her please call Jesse at (505)780-1138 thanks.
This sweet 7 yr young female lab mix can no longer be cared for by Abiquiu Lake non-resident owner. She is spayed, up to date on all shots, and very playful. Friendly with other dogs. Eager to please a new owner and family.
Call Trant 505-358-6688 |
