Let’s talk chile. YUM. Specifically, Hatch Valley grown green and red chile. Over the last 110 years the commercially produced chile peppers are an incredible addition to culinary habits of Americans. People then wouldn’t recognize what we have...

Here are some more New Mexico stories tied together with it happened in New Mexico. I will talk about things you notice when driving and some railroad and chile stories. Many things that happen in New Mexico are not unique but are typical of th...

 In writing New Mexico stories, some have been odd. Use of fertilizer by the Aggie football team, or White Sands rockets go missing. A New Mexico governor who traveled with a casket and needed it. Oh, in 1957 an Airforce bomber dropped a H...

On this American Veterans Day, the men and women of New Mexico have served in times of war and peace. Someone gives up their time to serve the nation. For each whether it is an enlistment of two-year, four-year, six-year or they serve until ret...

The official New Mexico mammal like six other states is the black bear with a population of six thousand bears. We even had Smokey Bear, a three-month-old cub found after a fire near Capitan. But I would like a different state mammal, one that ...