“Pow Wow Highway” (1989), starring A Martinez, Gary Farmer, Wes Studi and Graham Greene with music by Robbie Robertson. Based on the novel by David Seals and directed by Jonathan Wacks who was, at one time, the head of the film program at the College of Santa Fe and produced by HandMade Films, a George Harrison company. Filming locations in New Mexico include Santa Fe. Underlying this comedic road movie is a search of what it means to be a…
Driving west on US 70 out of Alamogordo, New Mexico, the San Andres and Organ Mountains rise straight up from the desert floor. To the north, triangulated sections of the San Andres Mountains divide the Tularosa Valley from the Jornada del Muerto, a desolate segment of the Camino Real where so many early travelers lost their lives. To the south, the Organ Mountains, named by seventeenth century Spanish explorers for their pipe-like spires, puncture the sky. US 70 cuts through…
It may be the season for giving, but while for some the time translates into grandly presenting big-bowed and flashy-wrapped presents to acquaintances, Alto residents Jodee Damron and her husband, Don, have quietly been giving back to strangers all winter long for decades. Jodee has been the perennial treasurer for the Ski Apache Adaptive Sports (SAAS) program and a force behind the annual Silent Auction while Don has donated services and maintained equipment, consistently offering expertise in a field with…