Before paved highways connected New Mexico’s towns, a general store could be the center of an entire mining camp. It sold flour, candles, boots, blasting…
In Santa Fe, architecture is shaped by intense sunlight, high-desert temperatures, adobe traditions, and a strong sense of place. For one Jewish architect,…
Rosh Hashanah arrives with familiar sounds and flavors: the shofar, round challah, candlelight, apples, and honey. For many Jewish families, dipping a crisp…
Language carries history, humor, ceremony, family memory, and a community’s understanding of place. In New Mexico, Indigenous languages are part of the…
For generations, families in northern New Mexico have carried stories about ancestors who arrived in the region during the Spanish colonial period, observed…
The Santa Fe Trail was a commercial road, a military corridor, and a meeting ground connecting Missouri with Santa Fe after 1821. Long before railroads crossed…
For five decades, the Albuquerque Jewish Community Center has been a place where Jewish life becomes visible, welcoming, and shared. Its 50th anniversary…
A Sukkot harvest festival at a Jewish-owned orchard in the Mesilla Valley brings the holiday’s ancient agricultural roots into vivid local focus. Beneath rows…
In a quiet room somewhere in New Mexico, women gather around yarn, needles, patterns, and stories. Their work may look like a familiar craft circle, yet each…