I worked for the Deming Headlight for three years. Then I went to Silver City and worked for the Daily Press for about seven years.
I moved to Nebraska to be closer to my kids and grandkids and was editor of my hometown newspaper until I retired. That was the same daily paper where I started as sports editor-reporter when I was 19.
I love New Mexico.
After I watched the movie,
All Those Pretty Horses I got interested in Cormac McCarthy. I ended up reading just about everything he’s written. A number of his books of fiction are set in Southern New Mexico and across the border. While the characters are fictional, I assume, the landmarks, locations, etc are very faithful. I enjoyed keeping a map handy to cross-reference the travels. If you’ve never read him let me share a couple of differences. When there are Mexicans involved and speaking Spanish he uses that language and one needs to have at least a rough working knowledge of Spanish to follow, as there’s no translation. The other thing he does is writes with limited punctuation. Therefore he doesn’t use quotes for speech but simply indents with new paragraphs when the characters speak. It takes a moment to become comfortable reading this style but it does accomplish what he attempts…not to clutter the page with punctuation. His best well known work is probably
No Country For Old Men. He also wrote,
The Road which was also done as a movie. It’s about a man and his son after total collapse of society due to some cataclysmic event in this Country. One had to work hard to find any “Hope” in that movie.
I'll be spending 6 weeks in El Paso starting in late September testing software at Fort Bliss. I expect to get to Alamo to see relatives on my late Mom's side and to Deming to visit the grave of my paternal grandparents.