The rock in White Rock painted to reflect patriotism on the 4th of July. Photo by Lil Ortega Read More
Arts
Watch Movies In The Park: Elemental @ Ashley Pond July 9
COUNTY News:
The community is invited to enjoy a summer evening in the park with a fun, family-oriented movie. Bring your blankets, pajamas and snacks to watch a movie under the stars!
The Movies in the Park program utilizes various parks throughout Los Alamos County.
Weather cancellations are made one hour before show time.
Schedule:
- July 9: Elemental @ Ashley Pond
- July 23: The Garfield Movie @ Urban Park
- Aug. 6: A Minecraft Movie @ Ashley Pond
Scenes From 4th Of July Summer Concert & Drone Show
Rocking the 4th of July Summer Concert is drummer Dennis Edwards and fellow members of Fortunate Son, a Creedence Clearwater Revival Tribute Band at Ashley Pond Park. Photo by John McHale/ladailypost.com
The crowd dances and sings to their favorite songs at the 4th of July Summer Concert. Photo by John McHale/ladailypost.com
Faces in the crowd at the 4th of July Summer Concert at the pond. Photo by John McHale/ladailypost.com
Scene from the 4th of July Summer Concert at the pond. Photo by John McHale/ladailypost.com
Five hundred drones prepare to create 28 scenes for 22 minutes at the 4th of Read More
Daily Postcard: Pink Lilies Beautify Kilby Street
Daily Postcard: Pink lilies beautify the landscape on the fourth of July along Kilby Street in White Rock. Photo by Annette Maes-Livermore Read More
Award-winning Book Artist And Palace Press Curator Explores Artist Books And Historic Letterpress
Courtesy/Keri Miki-Lani Schroeder
Museum News:
The community is invited to join Palace Press Curator Keri Miki-Lani Schroeder for an artist talk and tour of the Palace Press at New Mexico History Museum in Santa Fe.
What: Keri Miki-Lani Schroeder is an award-winning book artist and the new curator of the Palace Press. This hybrid artist talk, and Press tour will include an introduction of Schroeder’s artist books and fine press projects followed by a presentation about the new evolving plans for the Palace Press.
Guests will be able to view limited-edition books and prints and take a tour of Read More
Daily Postcard: Robin Perches Among Pines & Cottonwoods
Daily Postcard: A robin is spotted perched Friday among pine trees and cottonwoods growing on a small farm in the beautiful Española Valley. Photo by Liddie Martinez Read More
Scenes From 2025 YMCA 4th Of July Children’s Parade
Representatives from American Legion Post 90 serve as the color guard during The Family YMCA 2025 Children’s Parade this morning in downtown Los Alamos, celebrating the 4th of July. Photo by Kirsten Laskey/ladailypost.com
Scene from The Family YMCA 2025 Children’s Parade this morning in downtown Los Alamos. Photo by Kirsten Laskey/ladailypost.com
Scene from The Family YMCA July 4th Children’s Parade Friday morning on Central Avenue. Photo by Kirsten Laskey/ladailypost.com
Scene this morning from the Y’s annual July 4th Children’s Parade. Photo by Kirsten Laskey/ladailypost.com Read More
Scenes From 2025 White Rock Community Independence Day Parade & Carnival At Church Of Jesus Christ Of Latter-day Saints
Participants in all their patriotic splendor take off this morning in the annual Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints White Rock Community Independence Day Parade along Grande Canyon Drive. Photo by John McHale/ladailypost.com
Everyone was invited to participate in this morning’s parade & carnival. Photo by John McHale/ladailypost.com
A joyful Macie Rice provides free pinwheels and leis for participants to decorate the bikes for this morning’s parade. Photo by John McHale/ladailypost.com
Watching snow cones being created appears to have mesmerized the young crowd at this Read More
Op-Ed: A Poem For The Times
By REBECCA SHANKLAND
Los Alamos
2025 Version of “Give Me Your Tired, Your Poor”
[original on the Statue of Liberty by Emma Lazarus]
Give me your rich, your white
Your upper classes taxed for their great wealth
Your moneyed techies full of snobbish spite
Send these, the wealthy upper crust in stealth
Their visas get them in the golden door. Read More
‘The Best Fourth Of July Speech In American History’ … Was Delivered On The Fifth Of July
This Fourth of July—and fifth!—remember Frederick Douglass’ cry for freedom. Courtesy/Everett Historical/Shutterstock
By James West Davidson
slate.com
In the wake of the 2015 Charleston shooting, James West Davidson revisited the meaning of patriotic Fourth of July speeches and their purpose. The best, he argues, was given by Frederick Douglass on July 5, 1852. The original article is reprinted below.
The most remarkable Independence Day oration in American history was not given on the Fourth of July. And it is little remembered today. But it deserves to be, especially given the searing Read More