Priscilla Visits the Silver City Museum
Big Blend's Spirit of America Tour travel mascot, Priscilla, aka Queen of the road, has a look at the Silver City Museum in Silver City, NM. Director Tracy Spikes shows her around.
Home in Silver City, New Mexico
Our home in Silver City, New Mexico.
Silver City Museum & the 8 Keys of Excellence
Silver City Museum Director, Tracy Spikes, along with Charmeine Wait, the Curator of Education and Tom Oberg, the Curator of Exhibits, relate some of the 8 Keys of Excellence to the museum in Silver City, New Mexico. This is part of Big Blend's Spirit of America Tour and the 8 Keys of Excellence Movement.
Native American Pottery Collection Returns To Silver City
(SILVER CITY) -- Thirty years ago, Dr. Cynthia Bettison was a graduate student sifting through the dirt on a ranch outside silver city. Studying archaeology, she was looking for what was left of the Mimbres Native American people.
Today, she is the curator of the museum at Western New Mexico University. She says, even then, she knew she'd be back.
I said to my cohort...I'm gonna come back and fix this place...9 years later, the position opened up and everybody that heard me say that gave me the advertisement. I'd already applied, of course.
The Mimbres were a curious people. They lived from about A.D. 200 until the 1100's. Before they left, they swept the floors clean.
There was still plenty of evidence to be found, though. Mimbres families buried their ancestors close by...with a well-worn bowl placed on the head of the body.
Someone would pass away...and a portion of the floor would be dug up...they would be buried underneath the floor.
The bowls were painted, some in two or three different colors. Dr. Bettison says they're called a polychrome -- she chose one with a rattlesnake neck and head and the body of a turkey for the symbol of the museum. She says the two animals probably represent the intermarriage of clans.
Academic researchers brought back all the material...a lot of material.
The tools and pottery of the collection are so vast that it takes several rooms to store it all. Not all of it is open to the public, so the museum has dedicated a couple of rooms to just store racks and racks of the pottery.
Really what it did, it transformed our little museum that was known for...looted...Mimbres pottery into this incredible academic research museum...there will never be another collection like the NAN Ranch Collection.
That's because the excavation was performed on private property and before New Mexico law prevented moving any Native American remains, even for research.
Bettison says it could take decades to sort through everything here. For now, the material is waiting for a new generation of archaeologists to tell its story.
Sloan Patton reported.
Snow Day in Silver City
Western New Mexico University.
Silver City, New Mexico
A Brief Introduction to Santa Rosa, NM
This video provides an overview of Santa Rosa, NM, and DPAC projects it has completed to move itself into the future, focusing at toursim, economic development, design, and historic preservation. Some narrated information, renderings and some photographs taken from the 2004 UNM DPAC Plan for Santa Rosa, as well as from the City of Santa Rosa website, srnm.org
City of Taos, New Mexico
Taos adventures in architecture segment from Polar Bear Pueblo, an Intrepid Berkeley Explorer free, two-country video. The film starts in New Mexico with the Carlsbad Caverns, Taos Pueblo, White Sands, Roswell, Santa Fe, and much more. Moving north, it then features the incredible polar bears of Churchill, Manitoba, Canada, as seen from a tundra buggy.
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New Mexico Mining Museum
The New Mexico Mining Museum in Grants is one of the best self guided adventures in the state.
Silver City Grant County Chamber Of Commerce
With genuine sincerity and honesty, Silver City Grant County Chamber of Commerce would like to welcome you to Grant County, New Mexico. This place is a collection of communities and cultures offering history, art, education, and commerce, along with a quality of life deemed rare in America today. They invite you to log onto their website at SilverCity.org, for interesting local articles and updates, events and activities, community announcements, and a copy of their Visitors Guide.
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MIKE'S TRIP TO SILVER CITY, NM
VISIT TO ZOO, PETROGLYPHS, COPPER MINE, OLD FORT CUMMINGS
Millicent Rogers Museum Overview
Mark Lane Foster in Alamogordo, New Mexico - 2017
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The Inn On Broadway
Sandra Hicks talks about her Inn On Broadway in Silver City, New Mexico
Holiday Inn Express - Silver City, NM
Hotel and Resort photography & video by PhotoWeb (photowebusa.com)
For a comfortable stay in a 100% non-smoking hotel, choose the Holiday Inn Express® hotel of Silver City, New Mexico. Our hotel's location near Grant County Airport (SVC), Western New Mexico University and Hwy 180 make us an ideal stop for both leisure and business travelers.
From touring local mines to shopping in our Arts & Cultural District, Silver City offers a variety of attractions. You can explore the Gila National Forest, home to the Gila Cliff Dwellings National Monuments, hike through the Gila Wilderness, and swim in the many hot springs a favorite of our hotel's guests. In Silver City's historic downtown guests can shop and visit the galleries through these streets marked with Old West charm.
Business travelers will find numerous companies like Freeport McMoRan Mining Company, Gila Regional Medical Center, and Western New Mexico University are located near this hotel in Silver City. Our business amenities include a 24-hour Business Center and a second-floor conference room with a breakout area.
We go beyond other hotels in Silver City to offer service and quality amenities that exceed your expectations. Guests can start each morning with a delicious meal from the complimentary hot breakfast bar, relax in the whirlpool, and workout in the newly renovated Fitness Center. Our Silver City, New Mexico hotel's staff looks forward to serving you.
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Silver City Idaho Ghost Town
Photos and music by SailfishSoundSystem and Metanoid
Silver City-Grant County Symposium on Preparedness
This is a 6 minute clip from 2 hours of Day One of the Silver City, Grant County Symposium on Preparedness held at Western New Mexico University March 7-8, 2014. Speakers included volunteers from all walks of life who came together to speak to wildfire preparedness, building wildfire-resistant structures, environmental impacts on crime, preserving seeds for self-sufficient food growing, community gardens & harvesting, handling fear and stress, and other related issues. Credit: Chris Aquino, Editor; Media Technology Services, Western New Mexico University, Videographers.
El Camino Real del Tierra Adentro Heritage Center - 2014
El Camino Real de Tierra Adentro is the earliest Euro-American trade route in the United States. Tying Spain's colonial capital at Mexico City to its northern frontier in distant New Mexico, the route spans three centuries, two countries, and 1,600 miles. El Camino Real was blazed atop a network of footpaths that connected Mexico's ancient cultures with the equally ancient cultures of the interior West.
El Camino Real de Tierra Adentro began in Mexico City. As the Royal Road of the Interior Lands, the frontier wagon road brought Spanish colonists into today's New Mexico.
Once travelers crossed the arid lands above Ciudad Chihuahua, they followed the wide Rio Grande Valley north into New Mexico. Many of the historic parajes (campsites) and early settlements created by the Spanish colonists became today's modern cities in the Rio Grande Valley. In the United States, the trail stretched from the El Paso area in Texas, through Las Cruces, Socorro, Belen, Albuquerque, and Santa Fe to Ohkay Owingeh (San Juan Pueblo), the first Spanish capital in New Mexico. In Mexico, the historic road runs through Chihuahua, Durango, Zacatecas, San Luis Potosi, Aguascalientes, Guanajuato, and Queretaro to Mexico City.
New Mexico True OVERview
Three minutes of aerial video, all around beautiful New Mexico.
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music: Softly Inspiring fr. AudioBlocks
Shot with DJI Inspire 1 and DJI Phantom Vision 2 Plus
All flights were either in non-restricted airspace or with permission.
Scenes (in order of first appearance):
Albuquerque skyline
Santa Fe skyline
Las Cruces from I-10 rest area (w/ “The Roadrunner” by Olin Calk)
Valles Caldera National Preserve
Rio Grande Gorge near Taos
Bisti/De-Na-Zin Wilderness
Black Range outside Kingston, near Emory Pass
Taos Ski Valley
Blue Hole, Santa Rosa
Twin Warriors Golf Club, Santa Ana Pueblo
San Lorenzo Canyon near San Acacia
Rio Grande Rafting (Racecourse section)
Gila Cliff Dwellings National Monument
Bottomless Lakes State Park
Jal Lake
Clayton Lake State Park
Elephant Butte Lake State Park
Rio Grande at Arroyo Hondo
Rio Grande at Corrales
Storrie Lake State Park
Sugarite Canyon State Park
Taos Pueblo
Western New Mexico University, Silver City
Santa Ana Star Center, Rio Rancho
Lea County Courthouse, Lovington
Union County Courthouse, Clayton
Fort Sumner Historic Site/Bosque Redondo Memorial
National Hispanic Cultural Center, Albuquerque
Las Vegas (Plaza, Charlie’s Spic and Span, Castaneda Hotel, Highlands University)
San Jose de Gracia Church, Las Trampas
El Santuario de Chimayo
Artesia (and “Derrick Floor & Oilfield Pioneer Monument” and “Partners” sculptures)
Lake Carlsbad Beach Park, Carlsbad
Clayton and Eklund Hotel
Red River
Silver City Downtown
The Lodge at Cloudcroft
Hobbs High School
Cleveland High School, Rio Rancho
Lovington High School
City of Rocks State Park
Hobbs Welcome Sign
Trestle Recreation Area, Cloudcroft
New Mexico Farm and Ranch Heritage Museum, Las Cruces
Cordova
Ruidoso Downs
Ghost Ranch Education & Retreat Center
Hillsboro
Raton
Hubbard Museum of the American West, Ruidoso Downs
Corrales
Jemez Mountains
Brantley Lake State Park
Burro Avenue, Cloudcroft
Rockwind Community Links, Hobbs
Elephant Butte Dam
Zia Park Racetrack, Hobbs
John Dunn Bridge, Arroyo Hondo
El Rancho de las Golondrinas
Victory Ranch Alpacas, Mora
Ruidoso
Organ Mountains-Desert Peaks National Monument, Las Cruces
Santa Fe Railyard
Sandia Peak Tramway, Albuquerque
Wheelwright Museum Of The American Indian
Study of Southwestern Jewelry. The Wheelwright Museum's newest exhibit showcases the color silver with our collection of jewelry pieces made by Navajo and Pueblo Native Americans.