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Anne Sullivan
Last updated on Monday, December 23, 2002
Anne Sullivan says her lifetime as a New Yorker and a stage manager for Broadway and touring musicals did little to prepare her for life in New Mexico. After moving to a small adobe in Lemitar in 1970, learning to drive, driving off a mountain, setting her house on fire, being flooded out three times, she moved to a log house in Datil in 1987 where, with one dog, three cats, one horse, two word processors and an answering machine, she remains relatively disaster-free.
Anne Sullivan Anne has been published in New Mexico Magazine, New Mexico Wild Life, Fibrearts, Rocky Mountain EMS and Serape. She writes regularly for the Magdalena Mountain Mail. She is available to write anything for anyone on Southwest New Mexico that isn't too technical. She's also willing to travel to other parts of the state if expenses are paid.
Articles by Anne Sullivan
Along U.S. 60 in the northern part of Catron County, the largest county in New Mexico, three towns interrupt the remote mountain landscape. Datil, Pie Town and Quemado are a day's horseback ride from each other. Pickups have replaced the horses, but ranching remains the main occupation in the area although real estate development is gaining a toehold. January, the start of a new year, a new century, a new millennium. A year, a blank slate in which the furnace hasn’t yet broken, the road hasn’t mudded out, the chimney hasn’t caught fire, the pump hasn’t quit. All these joys of winter life in Datil’s Swingle Canyon are yet to come. Magdalena has seen it all. From the days of lead, zinc and silver mining in the 1880s and cattle shipping when the railroad spur from Socorro reached the town in 1884 to test missies flying overhead, Magdalena has grown and shrunk and grown again. The often rocky path that leads from yesterday to today runs smooth and little changed at the Salome Store in Magdalena, New Mexico. Located on Route 60, 25 miles west of Socorro, the family-run General Merchandise store opened its doors in 1910 and hasn't closed them since. March, whether lionish or lambish, is a month of motion in upper Southwest New Mexico. Snowbirds from Minnesota and Michigan crowd U.S. 60 with their fat motorhomes, heading back north from the sun-burnt winter in the deserts of Arizona and California. The highway is further clogged by residents of southwest Catron County departing during school’s spring break for exotic destinations like Alamogordo or Las Cruces.Around the 4th of July every year, Roswell, New Mexico hosts a UFO festival built around the Roswell Incident. Months before, the motels in and around Roswell can be sold out. The hoopla included a parade, film festival, rock concert, costume contest, bicycle run and a glow-in-the-dark golf tournament. Any spare time the visitor had could be spent at the two UFO museums. Any spare money could be spent for T-shirts, toys, gimmicks and statues that only the outer limits of the imagination can curb.
But what about the other UFO crash in 1947, the one on the San Agustin Plains?
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