Pablo Agustin Trujillo (1916–1997) [English version]
On a warm day in the middle of June 1990, in Taos, New Mexico, Pablo Agustin Trujillo stands proud and smiling dressed in his Fiestas costume and tuning his guitar. He is in the...
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Pablo Agustin Trujillo (1916–1997)
[To read this story in English, click here.] En un día cálido de mediados de junio de 1990 en Taos, Nuevo México, Pablo Agustin Trujillo se pone de pie orgulloso y sonriendo, vestido en...
The Boy Who Rode His Pony 1,600 Miles To Meet The President
One day in late spring of 1928, fourteen-year-old high school sophomore Boyd Manson Jones decided he was going to ride his horse from his home outside Gallup, New Mexico, all the way to Washington,...
Nell “Nellie” Catherine Bunyan Jennings Hardwick
It has been quite some time since I published one of my Postcard Stories. The reason is that I came across a postcard whose author is connected to a convoluted web of interesting characters....
“And the day he died it was a birthday and I noticed it was mine.”
I have always liked Graham Nash’s song, Cathedral, and it is hard not to hum it when strolling through the Santa Fe national cemetery while taking gravestone photos for people. I’m always scanning others...
When Sears & Roebuck were the industry disrupters
With Sears now in decline and fading fast it is interesting to look back at how this mighty giant was once a major threat to established brick and mortar stores at its founding. Richard...
Cemetery Tales: The Odd Sandstone Tombstone in the Santa Fe National Cemetery
I recently started taking cemetery photos for the website FindAGrave.com. The site has been useful to me in my genealogy research and this is my way of giving back. The way it works is...
Uncle Otto’s Final Mission
23 July 1945. That is the date my Uncle Otto Anthony Mittelstadt and his plane, a model F4U-4 Corsair only months old, disappeared off the coast of Okinawa just as WWII was coming to...
Postcard Story: A Happy Easter
My criteria for purchasing old postcards could be described loosely as follows. They should picture an interesting place or location. They should be personalized, that is, they should have a message written on them...
Early 20th Century Autocamping
The rise of the automobile in the very early part of the 20th century created a unique cultural movement that lasted for some 25 odd years. In 1910 there were approximately 460,000 automobiles in...
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