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May 16, 2008 5:00 pm to 6:00 pm

On Friday, May 16, from 5:00 – 6:00 pm, Garcia Street Books will feature well known Santa Fean, Fabian Chavez Jr., who will be celebrating the University of New Mexico Press publication, Taking on Giants: Fabian Chavez Jr. and New Mexico Politics, by David Roybal, political journalist and editorial columnist for the Albuquerque Journal. The book is an anecdotal account of Chavez's thirty year career dedicated to a variety of state posts in New Mexico, blazing new trails into civil rights, education, business, government, and politics. Chavez was instrumental in the creation of the...

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May 9, 2008 5:00 pm to 6:00 pm

On Friday, May 9, Jack McCarthy will launch his deluxe limited edition of Jonah Redux, a witty narrative taken from the Old Testament with some liberties that contains powerful relief print illustrations to bring the great, albeit misunderstood story of Jonah to life.

The event takes place at Garcia Street Books, 376 Garcia Street, from 5:00 - 6:00 pm. An exhibition of the prints related to the book will run through May 26. Jack McCarthy has been a printmaker for thirty years and has exhibited throughout the United States. His prints are in collections in this country as well as Brazil,...

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You know the drill: Go out with your single friends, have one too many margaritas, end up giving the person you’ve been dirty dancing with all night your phone number, wake up the next morning with a headache and a vague recollection of a slobbery kiss, and dodge the phone for the next two weeks. But isn’t there a better way to meet the love of your life?

Yes, yes, yes! I took an unofficial poll of friends and acquaintances and found that most of them met their partners Not at a Bar. After all, if you’re seeking someone who enjoys early morning hikes, you want to meet them somewhere other...

Monday, May 5, 2008
by Hillary Welles • SantaFe.com

Mary Lou Cook, activist, teacher, minister and mentor turns 90 years old in an unprecedented tribute to kindness. The Mary Lou Cook Legacy Celebration is scheduled for Sunday, April 27th, from 1pm – 4 pm, at the Milner Plaza, Santa Fe Folk Art Museum, Museum Hill.

The Mary Lou Cook Legacy Celebration (MLCLC) was conceived as more than a tip of the hat to Mary Lou Cook’s 90th birthday. It was created as a reminder of the legacy that she leaves and to the opportunity every Santa Fean has to live a meaningful life. The focus for the celebration is kindness; kindness for ourselves, each...

Santa Fe Living Treasure and NM Community Foundation Luminaria, Mary Lou Borders Cook (MLC), mother of three (Caren, Courtney and Sam Jr.), grandmother and great grandmother, turns 90 on April 29, 2008. Though born in Chicago, MLC, as she prefers to be called, spent her childhood in El Paso, TX; went to high school in Kansas City, MO, and graduated from the University of Kansas with a BFA in 1939. In 1940 she married Sam Cook and together, following Sam’s career, they raised their family in El Paso, Kansas City, MO, Milwaukee, WI, and Des Moines, IA, before settling in Santa Fe in 1969,...

Monday, April 21, 2008
by Leslie Nathanson

This month Hal Wingo delves into the world of mind-body connection and alternative health care with Dr. Larry Dossey, New York Times best-selling author, world traveling lecturer, and consultant. Hal joins our staff of monthly columnists after a career as editor of Life and People magazines.

Friday, February 29, 2008 at 3:10 AM
by Hal Wingo • SantaFe.com

New Mexican bred Gordon Tooley emanates contentment. Unlike most of the world, he doesn’t crave more. In his early twenties, while working on a 700-acre farm in Maine, where he had followed his sweetheart Margaret, he witnessed a tree grafting demonstration. “I was like, ‘That’s me!’ I wanted to have a tree farm, and to grow things that are not common.”

Not a typical life goal. “I flunked out of Southwest Studies at Fort Lewis College. I wasn’t a theoretical kind of person.” A hands-on person, he obtained an AA degree from Colorado Mountain College in Outdoor Studies, worked at Mesa...

Tuesday, May 1, 2007
by Barry Fields • localflavor magazine

At the age of 15, Fred Harvey left his native England for the United States. Upon his arrival in New York City, Mr. Harvey began working in the restaurant business in New York. The Civil War was bad for restaurants, but good for the railroads, and Mr. Harvey made a career change. Over the next 20 years, Mr. Harvey moved ever westward and ever higher in railroad business, but never forgot the restaurant business. Travelling for the railroads over the time reinforced Mr. Harvey's view that improvement was needed in the food department.

Upon arrival in Kansas in 1870, Mr. Harvey met Charlie...

Tuesday, January 15, 2008

November 15, 1887 - March 6, 1986

Perhaps the most famous, and infamous, woman artist of the 20th century was born in a farmhouse on a large dairy farm in Sun Prairie, Wisconsin. Georgia O'Keeffe was the second of seven children in a family which prized education. Throughout her childhood Georgia took private art lessons from teachers in Wisconsin and later in Virginia.

After graduating high school in 1905, O'Keeffe studied at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Georgia fell ill with Typhoid fever and left the Art Institute after one year. In 1907 she attended the Art Students...

Tuesday, January 15, 2008

Santa Fe, NM. Dec. 15, 2002.

John O'Hea Crosby, whose vision and determination a half century ago created The Santa Fe Opera, died today in Palm Springs California. He was 76. Mr. Crosby served as the company's general director from its founding in 1957 until 2000 when he retired.

John Crosby was born in New York City, July 12, 1926 to Laurence Alden and Aileen O'Hea Crosby. He attended schools in New York and Connecticut, and as a young boy made his first trip to New Mexico to attend the Los Alamos Boys School. It was then that he fell in love with the northern New Mexico landscape....

Tuesday, January 15, 2008
by Joyce Idema