One of the things visitors to New Mexico notice is some of the unusual names of our towns. Candy Kitchen, Coyote, Eureka, Arroya Seco, Mosquero, Abiquiu, Galisteo, Tucumcari, Carrizozo, Pie Town and the most unusual Truth or Consequences. Yep, ...

In the Old West, especially New Mexico there was incredible dining with the Fred Harvey Company which ran the Harvey House chain of restaurants, hotels connected to the railroads. Founded in 1876, it served people traveling on trains and train ...

If you are new to New Mexico I want to take you on a small short but interesting tour of the Land of Enchantment. New Mexico is the 47th state in the union and is the 5th largest state in the Union. It has just over 2 million residents. If it w...

New Mexico chile, that wonderful, tasty pepper, became a commercial crop a hundred years ago. Before that it was a prized delicious garden vegetable. Most often red chile was dried and used. Fabián García, started a shift to the common use of c...

Today I am talking about a fascinating New Mexican, Ed Adams of the fabled legend of the Lost Adams Diggings. I talked about lost gold a couple weeks ago and several people wanted more stories. Here is a story based on true events. Treasure hun...

Fabián García is often given the title, The founder of New Mexico Commercial Food Production. While we think of him on Chiles Peppers, he was instrumental on Pecans, Onions, Alfalfa, and Cotton. There are a couple buildings named for him on the...

Recently I was talking about how when the California Column came to New Mexico during the Civil War many of the soldiers were also Gold Miners. They found lots of gold back then. Any moment, even today we may hear of gold found. That is the man...

In the Old West, prospecting for gold was a prime motivation for some people. Nothing was better than finding gold in New Mexico. This was surprising because the people prospecting for gold were not in New Mexico to do that. They were Civil War...

One of the artistic icons of New Mexico who created art for all time was born in Roswell, New Mexico in 1904, eight years before New Mexico became a state. Initially he was a cowboy first and artist second. Then the entire world took notice of ...

In today’s world, if you wish to go from St. Louis to San Francisco, it is a little over 1700 miles and you can drive it in a day or four hours in an airliner. In 1858 that trip could take 576 hours on the first Butterfield stagecoach with the ...

We know about the 1803 to 1806 Lewis and Clark’s expedition ordered by President Thomas Jefferson from St. Louis to the Pacific Ocean. Jefferson ordered two other expeditions from St. Louis both led by Captain Zebulon Pike. The second one went ...

Most of you know me from my doing Enchanting Stories of New Mexico for the Fresh Chile Company where I talk about New Mexico History and Culture. but I have another role. I am a tour guide for the facilities of the Fresh Chile Company in Las Cr...

Hatch Valley grown chile peppers are special for many reasons. Let’s talk about seven things to know about those outstanding chile peppers which are made into delicious salsa at the Fresh Chile Company. While not secrets, many people might not ...

It’s been hot in New Mexico. A friend said I probably like to look at pictures of winter snow in Colorado. I do for a reason tied to the Hatch Valley. When I see in winter a snowflake falling on the San Juan Mountains of Colorado I realize that...

The Old West, of which New Mexico was certainly a part, had many interesting characters who were handy with a gun. I want to talk about a few of them and some of the things they did. You won’t see any of this in a Hollywood movie, but it certai...

We in Southern New Mexico love to see people smile when they get a good taste of our chile harvest and the products that come from the Southern New Mexico chile fields. It just makes our day, week, month and year when we provide great chile pro...

What to talk about today? How about great food that is good for you and tastes good and on top of that it is America’s food. Not from somewhere else, from New Mexico. I want to talk about New Mexico’s flavor enhanced Green and Red chile which i...

Let me tell you about someone who had an enormous impact upon New Mexico Agriculture. While there are others with a claim to the title I think of him as Mr. New Mexico Agriculture. The Agriculture Building on the campus of New Mexico State Univ...

When talking about the development of agriculture in Southern New Mexico I always like to talk about military forts 150 years ago like Fort Selden just north of Las Cruces. While we all have watched Hollywood movies of forts, they are not true ...

This is Memorial Day 2025 week and I want to celebrate someone special. When I interviewed people from World War Two there was a bad week in April 1945. On the 12th President Roosevelt suddenly died and six days later Earnie Pyle was killed on ...

Here on the last Monday in May is the United States Federal holiday, Memorial Day. It honors and mourns those U. S. military personnel who died while in the service of their country. Importantly, it also honors the families of those service mem...

Do you like chile? I certainly do and I also spend lots of time thinking about chile. I tell everyone about Southern New Mexico's goodness of chile. In the last few years there's been a new wave of flavor to enjoy. Previously chile tasted preci...

An interesting fact came out of the recent Kentucky Derby and it connect in an odd way with New Mexico chile and onions. Sounds like a stretch but every horse running in the race could trace lineage back to Secretariat, the famous Triple Crown ...

There was a time when New Mexico didn’t have any businesses, no corner markets, restaurants, dry goods stores, nothing at all other than an individual here or there might barter. Today we have lots of businesses. When did New Mexico commerce be...

As youngsters we played Cowboys and Outlaws. As the Outlaw we shouted, “You got me" and fell to the ground. Cowboys always got the outlaws. I think of Old West writer Eugene Rhodes who was asked why in 1895 he let outlaws stay at his ranch in S...