By Brian D’Ambrosio It took Deana McGuffin a year of haggling with her father, L.L. McGuffin, to convince him to teach her how to make a pair of boots. Only after 10 years in the business did her dad finally tell her that she was “a good bootmaker,” without qualifying...
By Tania Soussan Students at schools from Santa Rosa, to Moriarty, to Albuquerque have benefitted from donations of guitars from the Freedom in Music Project, which strives to enrich the lives of at-risk youth by making music more accessible to them. The Project,...
By Brian D’Ambrosio Mr. Davey is that rare being, a man who loves life in just about all its phases, in all its various and conflicting passages – even in its teeming idiocies – just so long as it continues to leap and glow and throb as he does himself every day, day...
By Tania Soussan Bob Kanegis’ grandparents fled Lithuania during the anti-Jewish pogroms at the turn of the 20th century. Though the threat of these massacres and the couple’s immigration to America may have been the most generationally significant events in the...
By Brian D'Ambrosio Keb’ Mo and Bonnie Raitt have been recognized for decades as some of America’s finest Grammy winning blues musicians. Jackson Browne has been churning out popular rock songs since the 70s. Emmy Lou Harris has been called one of this nation’s most...
By Lewis Lang As technology has become an essential part of life, it has brought with it numerous benefits and conveniences, along with a variety of risks. This is particularly true for seniors, who can sometimes be more vulnerable to scams. Scams using technology to...
By Autumn Gray Medical decisions are some of the most personal choices we make throughout our lives. Unfortunately, about two-thirds of Americans relinquish that control, potentially resulting in treatments they would not want, increased suffering, higher care costs,...
By Tania Soussan Emmy award-winning journalist Arthur Alpert worked for a news wire service in Paris, covered combat in Vietnam and produced network TV coverage of the Apollo 11 moon mission. But it was in New Mexico that he chose to settle, first as news director at...
Little League was the first organized youth sports program in the world. It was founded on the belief that youth baseball and softball have the power to teach life lessons that build stronger communities and individuals. Carl E. Stotz, a resident of Williamsport,...
By Brian D’Ambrosio Chris Turri’s mind is a sea of imagination, its ripples all of the ideas that color his world. Indeed, the Corrales artist unites his deep love of petroglyphs and Native American symbolism with his imaginative ability to bring out the beauty in...
