South Central New Mexico

One of Lincoln County’s most successful, prolific yet unassuming artists is dismayed. Staring out of the plate glass window of her home in Carrizozo, she points to the place in her sculpture garden where one of her two chickens died earlier that day. “She was just sitting there. I thought she was going to lay an egg,” said Suzanne Donazetti. “I fed her some sunflower seeds and then later I looked out and she had just keeled over. Part of…

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“I think we are Jews.” The thought crystallized during a conference Sonya Loya attended in Glorieta during 1999 where others were exploring their Jewish roots. It was a turning point for the Ruidoso resident who was raised Catholic. Looking back on the conference, she remembers trying to avoid a woman who dogged her, persistently asking questions about her family. Polite at first, Loya finally asked: “Why do you want to know?” “Because it sounds like you are from the Marranos,”…

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