Celebrating America’s oldest capital city Do the math! Yes, Santa Fe officially became a town under Spanish law fully ten years before the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth Rock. Santa Fe is America’s oldest capital city and the second oldest surviving European settlement in the United States, following St. Augustine, Florida. Plans are underway for a […]
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Learn about this unusual form of Navajo weaving Saddle blankets occupy a curious niche in the history of Navajo weaving. They are the only type of textile that were simultaneously popular among Anglos, Hispanics and the Navajo themselves. Consequently saddle blankets have an aesthetic and technical history very different from that of the ubiquitous Navajo
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Meet the artists and see the sights of Northern New Mexico To those of us who have no talent for art, a truly skilled artist or craftsperson is a mysterious and exotic wonder. Unfortunately, it’s difficult to meet these elusive creatures in the galleries. New Mexico’s studio tours, however, provide the perfect opportunity to see
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Past, present, and future together in three new facilities in downtown Santa Fe On Memorial Day Weekend, 2009, twenty years of work came to fruition with the opening of The New Mexico History Museum. In a place where history is ever present, it is somewhat surprising that this is the first museum dedicated to telling
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