New Mexico Mercury

Provincial Matters, 10-28-2013

V.B. Price's weekly collection of appreciations and observations.

Book Review - Leaving Tinkertown: The story of a father, a daughter and a museum

The first sentence of Leaving Tinkertown,—“I was conceived in a pickup camper on the New Mexico State Fair Grounds when my parents were on the road with the carnival.” — is definitely a keeper. You immediately sense you are going to hear about some unusual people. And you do.

This memoir tells the story of Ross Ward, the artist and collector who created the unique Tinkertown Museum in Sandia Park. It is also a story of Ward’s developing Alzheimer’s disease, of his daughter’s love and effort to cope with her father’s decline, of a young woman coming to terms with the end that awaits us all...

Weekly Poem: At Gathering for Mother Earth | Tewa Women United, written on site

The corn is singing
all colors of corn are singing
and we are listening.

The sun is singing
the sky is blue singing
to all manner of listening.

The listening when
we don’t even know
we are listening...

Debt Ceiling

El Machete

Hidden Treasures

“Some people say that they are “basura humana” or human garbage but I feel that they are “tesoros escondidos” or hidden treasures, Pastor José Antonio Galván says of the one hundred mental patients in his asylum in the desert on the west of Juárez, Mexico.It’s been almost three years since my first visit with him, this imposing, quick witted, relentlessly optimistic man who has saved the lives of so many of Mexico’s mentally ill...

Friday Voyage: Bryce Canyon

A magical jaunt through otherworldly hoodoos and the calcium of stars.

Henry and the Gays

Humphrey's World

Mercury Q&A with Suzanne Sbarge of 516 ARTS

We talk with Suzanne Sbarge, Executive Director and Founder of 516 ARTS, about its array of innovative exhibitions, how it started and the logistics of pulling off large, collaborative projects.

Provincial Matters, 10-21-2013

V.B. Price's weekly collection of appreciations and observations.

Operation Streamline

El Machete