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Charlie McDonald
Last updated on Monday, December 23, 2002
Charlie McDonald Charlie McDonald holds a B.A. in English from Texas Western College. Folksinger, guitarist, travel writer, high school teacher, he has been writing freelance articles for the past four years for such magazines as Historic Traveler, Army Times, Senior Magazine, Reno Air Magazine (Excursions), and Texas Magazine (Houston Chronicle). Living on the border of Texas and New Mexico has afforded him many pleasant trips to Zia country - trips he'd like to share with you.
Articles by Charlie McDonald
You'll not find prigs at the annual Las Cruces Renaissance Craftfaire this November, but you'll find plenty of good, clean fun.
Perhaps a few jugglers, a few mimes, a few armored knights engaged in combat, surely a few jesters. But no prigs. You'll probably encounter a wench hawking flowers or cookies in her best Eliza Doolittle accent, "Hey, lye-dee. Buy a cookie frum a poor gel. Just 50 cents. 'Taint much tapie."
What hath Bacchus wrought? Drive down to 4201 Highway 28 at La Union, New Mexico and you'll find out. Twice a year vintners Ken and Denise Stark stage their festivals at La Viña Winery - the April Jazz Festival and the October Wine Festival. Both times of year are delightfully sunny and warm in Southern New Mexico. You wouldn't expect to find a world-class air museum in tiny Santa Teresa, just outside El Paso, Texas, but there it sits. The War Eagles Museum is an eye-opening find for nostalgia buffs such as Lt. Col. (Retired) Lloyd Mettes of Oxford, Indiana, who said, "I flew seventy P-38 missions during World War Two - reconnaissance mostly, but a few combat missions." Looking at the black beauty (one of only seven left in the world) sitting on the hangar floor, he said, "This is really an early version of the P-38."
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