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One-Stop Shop: New Mexico State Historic Preservation Division Launches Public Portal To Make Kickstarting Preservation Projects Easier

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NMDCA News:

SANTA FE — The New Mexico State Historic Preservation Division has launched a new digital tool to make it easier than ever for users to submit vital information for projects that advance New Mexico’s cultural legacy.

Earlier this year, the Historic Preservation Division (NMHPD) launched a public portal for the submission of all projects and applications needing review. These forms include everything from consultation letters, to permit and tax credit application forms, and even nominations for the State and National Registers of Historic Places.

“This new public portal streamlines Read More

Diné Fight Against Coal Plant Exhibition Opens April 19

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One of 40 black and white photographs by photographer Carlan Tapp featured in a new exhibition, ‘A Question of Power’, opening April 19 at the New Mexico History Museum in Santa Fe. Courtesy/NMDCA

NMDCA News:

The story of three remarkable Diné (Navajo) women who helped defeat the construction of a coal-fired power plant on the Navajo Nation, known as Desert Rock, is the focus of a new exhibition, “A Question of Power,” at the New Mexico History Museum in Santa Fe.

The museum, together with the Museum of New Mexico Foundation Women’s Board, is hosting a public opening reception, 1-3 p.m., Sunday, Read More

Posts From The Road: Jackrabbit Trading Post On Route 66

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HERE IT IS: The famous bright yellow sign with the black rabbit and the large red letters alerts travelers that they have arrived at the Jackrabbit Trading Post. This sign was used in the Pixar movie ‘CARS’ giving the trading post additional notoriety. Photo by Gary Warren/ladailypost.com

Trading Post: The Jackrabbit Trading Post is housed in an old railroad building. The train tracks are on the other side of the road, running parallel to Route 66. The face of the building is painted with various southwestern figures and designs, making it impossible to miss when driving by. Photo by Gary Warren/ladailypost.co Read More

Fr. Glenn: Hail The King!

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Fr. Glenn Jones: 

A very blessed and happy Easter and Easter season to all of you! And we ask for the same for the whole world. In these days of strife and division, what could be better than to have Jesus, the Prince of Peace, risen again to bring kindness, graciousness and charity to the hearts of all?

Ah, but what Catholic term as “concupiscence”—the “stain” of the turning away from God in Original Sin remaining even after baptism—keeps tending to weigh us down like a stone. How is it manifest? By our never-absent bickering, hatreds, jealousies, selfishness, along with all the negativities that Read More

Dendroglyphs On Valles Caldera National Preserve

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Volunteer Steve Daly shows a dendroglyph to Victoria Prieto Ruarte, a National Park Service intern, and Trish Weller, a fellow volunteer. Courtesy/Elizabeth Miller

Los Amigos de Valles Caldera News:

Los Amigos de Valles Caldera Board Member Billy Smith saw the article “What the Trees Tell Us” by Elizabeth Miller in the Spring 2026 National Parks Conservation Association Spring Newsletter.

This article discusses the dendroglyphs that exist on the aspen trees on Valles Caldera National Preserve.

Los Amigos would like to pass along the link to this informative article about the sheepherders Read More

Scenes Of Lowrider Celebration At Los Alamos Post Office

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The Los Alamos Post Office invited the community to celebrate the nationwide issuance of Lowrider stamps, view six cool lowrider vehicles and listen to music this morning. Photo by John McHale/ladailypost.com

Los Alamos Post Office Manager Gabriel Lopez displays the reason for the celebration this morning in Los Alamos and across the nation … the newly issued low rider stamps. Photo by John McHale/ladailypost.com

Scene at the low rider celebration this morning at the Los Alamos Post Office. Photo by John McHale/ladailypost.com

Josh Smith holds up his daughter Miranda, 2, so she can Read More

La Acequia, Nuestra Madre: Art And history Of New Mexican Waterways Opens May 2 At Millicent Rogers Museum

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Erin Currier. Courtesy/Artist Steve Chavez

Tres Graces de La Acequia (After Picasso) Mixed media collage, acrylic on panel. Photo by Erin Currier

Millicent Rogers Museum:

The Millicent Rogers Museum is proud to present La Acequia, Nuestra Madre: Art and history of New Mexican waterways. Co-curated by artist Toby Morfin and Claire Pelaez Motsinger, this exhibition explores the rich topic of water stewardship through the work of contemporary artists of New Mexico, many of whom have parallel working practices in art making and care of the land.

Rooted in the Indigenous practices of gathering Read More

US Poet Laureate Arthur Sze To Attend Santa Fe International Literary Festival May 15-17

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U.S. poet laureate Arthur Sze

SFILF News:

SANTA FE — The Santa Fe International Literary Festival (SFILF) announced today the addition of U.S. poet laureate and longtime Santa Fe resident Arthur Sze to its star-studded 2026 Festival, taking place May 15-17, 2026.

Sze, whose laureateship was announced in September, joins Ada Limón, the first Latina U.S. poet laureate, Navajo Nation poet laureate Jake Skeets, Santa Fe poet laureate Tommy Archuleta, and other acclaimed poets in the Festival’s poetry programming. Other featured Festival authors include literary giants Isabel Wilkerson, Read More

Melding The Present With The Past … Los Alamos County To Renovate Manhattan Project Dormitory Building

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From left, the Manhattan Project Dormitory as it currently looks versus what Los Alamos County plans to do to the building and the surrounding area. The plan includes relocating the Manhattan Project National Historical Park’s visitor center and offices to the dormitory building as well as renovating one of the dorm rooms to be a one-bedroom suite for park staff. Courtesy/LAC

By KIRSTEN LASKEY
Los Alamos Daily Post
kirsten@ladailypost.com

A 79-year-old building known as the Manhattan Project Dormitory, 1725 17th St., is unique. It is one of the few remaining buildings built during Read More

An Open Book: At The Passover Seder Table

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By DAVID IZRAELEVITZ
Los Alamos

Family gatherings at the Ellis household were a symphony of activity, conversation, and food, with my mother-in-law, Faith, serving as both conductor and principal violinist. Like any esteemed musician, she had her favorite pieces. She was famous for her pepper-infused boiled fish balls, or gefilte fish, a dish as much a part of the Passover season as a recital of Handel’s Messiah is to Christmas observance.

Having grown up without the benefit of extended family nearby, I found those multigenerational gatherings of grandparents, aunts, uncles, and cousins Read More