As we commemorate the 100th anniversary of the Gila Wilderness in 2024, the Gila River Festival will not only celebrate this important milestone in protecting America’s first Wilderness River, but will also look to the Gila’s future. By exploring themes of long-term protection, climate resilience, cultural exchange, and stewardship, we will envision together the Gila […]
Do you have a knack for crafting suspenseful plots and intriguing mysteries? The Arizona Mystery Writers are calling on storytellers from the Southwest to put their detective hats on and pen down their best mystery, suspense, or thriller story. This contest is a fantastic opportunity for writers of all levels from Arizona, New Mexico, Nevada, […]
There must be a dozen reasons why people write books. George Orwell wrote an essay in 1946 “Why I Write” and gave us four: [1] sheer egoism, a desire to seem clever and be talked about, [2] aesthetic enthusiasm, an interest in the perception of beauty in the natural world, [3] historic impulse, a desire […]
In celebration of the Gila Wilderness 100 anniversary, this call asks photographers to submit images about wilderness (does not have to be images from the Gila). All types of photography are welcome including Black and white, color, alternative processes, 3 dimensional, etc. Open to all photographers living in Grant County, New Mexico Each Photographer can display up […]
“Aye, como pasan los años.” This was a phrase that my maternal grandmother’s adopted tia, Rosa V.Castillo, would voice in bittersweet reminiscence as my generation, unbothered and uninterested by theconversations of our elders, played and grew before their wistful eyes. Rosa Castillo was born in Silver City, New Mexico, in 1917, just five years after New Mexico wasadmitted into the Union as a […]
Warming weather means one thing for local golfers — tee time! And now that the town of Silver City is once again managing the municipal course known as Scott Park, many of those golfers are singing the praises of town management and the facility’s golf pro, Len Zamora. “I decided it was time to return […]
We respectfully acknowledge that the entirety of southwestern New Mexico is the traditional territory, since time immemorial, of the Chis-Nde, also known as the people of the Chiricahua Apache Nation. The Chiricahua Apache Nation is recognized as a sovereign Native Nation by the United States in the Treaty of Amity, Commerce, and Friendship of 1 July 1852 (10 Stat. 979) (Treaty of Santa Fe ratified 23 March 1853 and proclaimed by President Franklin Pierce 25 March 1853).
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