Flyover Country?

Thesis: talk is as good in Magdalena, or the Spur, as anywhere. It was Sissy Olney, fourth generation rancher and lion hunter, who on seeing me reading Sybille Bedford in that bar, asked me if she were the one who had written “that big fat book about Aldous Huxley”. Joel Becktell is a world- class …

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House Band

Regular readers know that Querencia’s home bar is the Golden Spur Saloon, and has been for thirty some years, since Betsy Huntington was alive, first under Steve Grayson’s management (see Q- the- book, which has scenes set there). Montana Pettis (who is not thirty yet!) is the son of present owner Darryl, also bartender and …

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Bar 2, Q C # 5

Says Lib, “The thing is, we’re multicultural–we just don’t know it.” Mmmyes. Karaoke night at the Spur. Cody Henderson — his father is Lee, who owns the ranch we hunt on, and his mother was born Lorraine Lopez — as Cupid, about to sing “Landslide” with Linda (Rael) Mansell, born in Taos and married into …

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Season’s Change: A little Photo Bogging

… to hold you. Apologies for light content; I have been very busy on everything from house repair to mushrooming to just exercising for my health (exhausting). I am also trying, no, plotting, to revive Q- the- Book, at least in NM… Meanwhile: Monday, my neurologist gave me a thumbs- up. Performance was up in …

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Old Mines: Abbadon and Gehenna

Two posts from the excellent writer “Nagrom” at Rum and Donuts. The first is an essay on an acquaintance of ours who died exploring one of the old mines in the Magdalena mountains (our mountain range probably has a hundred such– someone with the knowledge could doubtless cross the range underground). The second is a …

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