rambling, Monday July30

Did you miss the New Mexico Centennial Newsletter post or notice that it disappeared? I inadvertently deleted the post cleaning out duplicate post (another story), but here's the link: New Mexico Centennial Foundation | eNewsletter. Spanish Market in Santa Fe was the lead story, which is now too late to celebrate. Go next year then; pictures and the Spanish Colonial Arts Society blog can tide you over until then. Visit the museum. Read the out of date newsletters.

Learn Spanish. I recommend Instituto Cervantes in Albuquerque. There are also a number of online resources such as this one. Curating a learning resource site that includes qualified local instruction would be a good project.

Now for what's coming (no, none are listed as official Centennial events...by now, don't you know better than even to ask?)

On building neighborhoods

"The neighborhood is the basic building block of human civilization, whether in a big city, small town or suburban community. It’s also the place where you can have the most influence in making a better world."

Shareable's blog post, 25 Ways to Enliven Your Neighborhood, lists suggestions, drawn from The Great Neighborhood Book, that focus on strengthening neighborhoods. These include:

Mountain Arts on Broadway: August Calendar

  

… because the month is almost upon us. (image from Art on the Range, June 12) #Mountainair's art center, 122 E. Broadway (at Ross Ave) is a project of the Manzano Mountain Art Council. This calendar is effective August 1. For cost of classes, if not listed as free, contact presenter. To present a class, to rent art studio or meeting space, or for other information contact art center director, Kent Potter, 847-0295, kentfp720@yahoo.com.

August:

NM# Centennial newsletter

…marking a light Centennial week, especially after deleting two Friday events already over. Centennial Journeys and Spanish Market look particularly appealing. So does catching up on events we missed in the Centennial albums on Facebook. 

New for You: A Centennial Journeys Moment          Interested in hearing about some of the weird, wacky and wonderful characters and events in New Mexico's history? We're sharing Centennial Journeys with you! Centennial Journeys is a series of two-minute programs offering interesting and often overlooked pieces of New Mexico’s history from the arrival of United States troops in 1846 to the present. Listen for them on your favorite New Mexico radio station, and now each newsletter will now feature a Centennial Journeys program as well. This week find out about New Mexico's remarkable Camel Corps of 1857. To hear more Centennial Journeys programs, please visit NMBroadcasters/centennial.

Placemaking News: You Are Where You Eat

I was going to ramble today, but saw this (and had already been thinking about market spaces (albeit more modest ones), shopping local and the grocery store). Playgrounds too. We have a farmers market, a full service grocery store, a pharmacy, a community park, and an active informal market system (a sign of community health albeit deplored by the pimp my property values crowd). Just super scaled down. So come into town Saturdays, hit the Mountainair Farm & Garden Market, stop at the grocery story, check your mail, scope out the yard sales and who or whatever is parked in the island across from the elementary school. Businesses that were part of our community identity are gone. Don't pretend it doesn't matter. It does, so let's take care the ones we have left.

But there's good news too. The grocery will be getting lottery again soon. EBT is in the works. Yes, it was unfortunate to have the gap,and perhaps it could have been avoided, but it's not forever.

These days, grocery shopping is a chore. Fortunately, the Market Cities movement is growing larger every day! Not displaying correctly? View here You Are Where You Eat: Re-Focusing Communities Around Markets

Volunteers Needed for Next #Mountainair Community Mural Project

Danielle Norris Gardner, director of project and artist, starts the next Manzano Mountain Art Council Community Art Project Wednesday, July 18, from 10 am to 1 pm at Mountain Arts on Broadway. Danielle was awarded the project in a competition to paint the east wall of the art center building. Her design includes a large undulating shape zigzagging down the outside wall with glittery fishscale made of recycled aluminum cans. 

Volunteers are needed every Wednesday until the project is completed. Come help and have some fun. This is one of the art council's many Mountainair Community Art Projects (mostly but not exclusively mosaic murals). Others are: mosaics at the Senior Center, Library, B Street, Meds and More, Alpine Alley and the murals on the Salinas Pueblo Missions National Monument Visitors' Center and the west side of the Laundromat. For more information email: mmacevents@gmail.com.

Saturday ramblings

…covering yesterday, today & tomorrow, here (#Mountainair ) & there. If that does not cover bases, nothing will. Yesterday, in the figurative sense, is the past, Jubilee. The short version, which may or may not get fleshed out: last Saturday was Jubilee's 37th iteration, making it the longest running local event. High points: Parade, Salinas Car Show, Maurauders' Mud Bog.... and rain. 

File the July 4 Outlaw BBQ Poker Tournament under "yesterday" too even if don't have much in the way of details  or any pictures. Word is that turn out was up from last year, costumes were a hit, ditto teacher run Pie and Cake contests and everybody had a good time. 

Parade albums on view at Mountainair Farm & Garden Market, here and here, plus visiting candidate Janice Arnold Jones' album. Shown here, prize winning & popular float from local business, Ruthie's Flowers & Gifts. 

Photo gallery from Mountainair Marauders Motorsports Mud Bog, 7/7/12

Mountain Arts on Broadway Calendar for July

The art center, 122 E. Broadway (at Ross Ave.) in Mountainair, is a project of the Manzano Mountain Art Council. Calendar is effective July 1. For cost of classes if not listed as free, contact presenter. To present a class, or rent art studio or meeting space, contact art center director, Kent Potter, 847-0295, kentfp720@yahoo.com.

July 

July 12: #NMCentennial Newsletter

…but still no #Mountainair event listed. Surely the Saturday July 14 concert in the Shaffer Hotel garden would have been a natural. You can still participate. Please note The Centennial Letters Project highlighted below. Do your part for the Centennial by writing a letter in 2012! Psst... great project for students...

The New Mexico History Museum will collect letters throughout the year and offer a selection of them for visitors to read. Most important, we'll hold onto them for future historians to learn more about our lives. Send your letters—handwritten, typed or computer-printed—to Centennial Letters Project, New Mexico History Museum, 113 Lincoln Ave., Santa Fe, NM 87501.

Newsletter not Displaying well? Click here New Mexico Centennial eNewsletter | July 12, 2012 Music of the New Mexico Frontier at the New Mexico History Museum    Music of the New Mexico Frontier: From the Santa Fe Trail to Statehood Centennial Music by Mark Gardner and Rex Rideout.

July14: Los Lunas Musuem Photo History Lecture

Nancy Brown-Martinez, UNM, writes,

Dear friends


Please share this invitation. You are all invited to attend the book signing and lecture by Baldwin G. Burr on IMAGES OF AMERICA:  LOS LUNAS featuring historic photos of Los Lunas from the archives across the state of NM

 2-4 PM - Saturday, July 14 at the Los Lunas Museum of Heritage and Art, 251 Main St, Los Lunas, NM. For more info call 505-352-7720 or email Cynthia Shetter

Reminder: Community Chorus performance Sunday July 8

…from Patty Mahoney, 

The #Mountainair Community Chorus will present their traditional Jubilee/ Independence Day Concert, "Give Me Liberty and I Will Sing" at the Mountainair Baptist Church on Sunday, July 8, 2pm. Admission free.

Tomorrow in #Mountainair: get your #Jubilee on

Parade theme is Wild Wild West; lineup is 9am at Hwy 60 and Limit Ave, starts 9:30 am. 


Methodist Church 3rd annual STUFF Sale, 8:30am-3pm, 301 Sunset


Mountainair Farm & Garden Market, 9am-1pm or until sold out, T & C on US60, across Roosevelt from P.O.

Salinas 3rd Annual Car Show at Salinas Pueblos Missions National Monument Visitors Center, NPS. Registration/Set-up, 8-11am. Show, 11am-4pm. Awards, 4 pm. Contact Norma Piñeda 847-2585 ext. 21

Mountainair Marauder Mud Bog, 11am. Black Bart's Adventures.

Chavez Memorial Park Events begin at 10:30 am following parade. Games include Horseshoe Tournament. Holy Smoke BBQ Lunch by Mountainair Fire Department, 

NO fireworks display due to weather conditions.

Vendors: Animal Humane of NM, providing humane education for all ages; Spay & Neuter / T-N-R; 505 Pit Crew

Town of Mountainair, Jubilee 2012, contact TownClerk@MountainairNM.gov 847-2321 (Fax: 505-847-2589) for more information). Poster in pdf format for download, Jubilee Poster, include June 30-July 8 events

Almost There! July 4, 2012 #Mountainair Outlaw BBQ

 + pie/cake & costume contests with $100 cash prizes. Schedule: BBQ Dinner 2PM to 5PM; Texas Hold’Em Poker Tournament 6PM-10PM. 


Update and more details as posted July 2 (previous post, May 8), edited to update for today, July 4. Tournament organizer and Mountainair Town Council member Barbara Chung writes, 

Well, the big event is TODAY and we’re getting pretty excited about it!  Here’s some last-minute details for you:

NM Centennial Celebrates Independence Day!

yes, we have no Centennial Event listed for Mountainair. Is this an ongoing oversight, a failure to delegate. a Mountainair Moment, or is there a NM Centennial boycot because the town already had one? What's your best guess? 
The 4th is a family holiday, so you might prefer to stay home, picnic with family and friends in the Chavez Memorial Park, try the BBQ and your hand at poker at the July 4th Outlaw BBQ and Poker Tournament. Mountainair's annual Jubilee ~ pancake breakfast, parade, Mud Bog, BBQ in the Park, games ~ will be Saturday July 7

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Freedom Days Electric Light Parade & The Healing Fields

July 4th will mark the 26th anniversary of the Freedom Days Electric Light Parade in Farmington. The parade will take place in the evening on Main Street, from 9pm to 11pm, to commemorate the patriotic holiday and honor veterans.

Opening the Freedom Days Celebration is "The Healing Fields: Lest we forget – A time of Remembrance, A Time of Honor."