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In August, a retired photographer from Los Alamos donated to EMHS nine photos that were taken in Golden, NM in 1895.

“…who built the church and how old is it? …members of the EMHS Oral History Project/Map Committee have been tracking down two divergent stories about the origins of the … church.”

If you’ve traveled U.S. 60 to Willard, you’ve passed Lucy, an old NM railroad town, and likely never saw it; a tall railroad berm parallel to the highway has long kept Lucy hidden.

Moises Gonzales says as a child, family and friends would gather for barbecue after Catholic Church on Sunday, and Gonzales’ grandfather “always told a story I thought was fiction.” The story told by his grandfather basically was this: “I was born in La Madera and we were Indians; we were Comanche. Then we became Apaches, and we’d hunt buffalo and bring back all these captives.” Gonzales says he never understood why his grandfather said these things. “I never processed it.” He has since learned that what his grandfather said was true.

Imagine driving west on Route 66 through Tijeras Canyon and having to pull over to make way for a Japanese submarine heading straight toward you. It happened! To understand this strange encounter on the road, let’s step back about 75 years in time.

One of the biggest surprises at Casa San Ysidro museum in Corrales, managed by the City of Albuquerque, is three historic buildings originally from the East Mountains, each of which was dismantled, moved and painstakingly put back together under the supervision of the museum’s founder, Ward Alan Minge.

“I am confident that never before with such a small gas bag and with a bare one hundred pounds of ballast, has a balloon gone so high above the earth and made the speed which we did on our way across the Manzano mountains,” Blondin noted at the time.