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Lyn Kidder
Last updated on Monday, December 23, 2002
Lyn Kidder and her husband, Frederic Moras, left her home state of Pennsylvania in 1989, heading west in a VW Vanagon with no fixed plans except to try and work and see the West. They spent seven years traveling and working (and skiing!) in Arizona, Colorado, Idaho, Alaska and Wyoming. Lyn then began writing, with Frederic contributing the photography.
Lyn Kidder Lyn has been published in Alaska Magazine, Alaska Geographic, Ceramics Monthly, Wyoming Farmer-Stockman, Medical Laboratory Observer, New Mexico Magazine and New Mexico Business Journal. While living in Barrow, Alaska (300 miles north of the Arctic Circle, right next door to Santa Claus) she wrote "Barrow, Alaska from A to Z," the only guidebook to that northernmost community, and "Tacos on the Tundra," the story of the world's northernmost Mexican restaurant and the crazy woman who started it all, Fran Tate.
Lyn and Frederick have now settled in the cool pines of Ruidoso, New Mexico, where they are discovering the many wonders of the Land of Enchantment. Lyn gets out to area bookstores to do signings of "Tacos on the Tundra" so watch for her - you'll know her by her sequinned sombrero!
Articles by Lyn Kidder
A “glittering fragment of the rainbow” is how Aububon described the hummingbird. Part of summer in New Mexico is being dazzled and entertained by the antics of these little feathered bits of airborne jewelry. Would you like to go to a place where people know your name, where you can visit with friends and neighbors while keeping in touch with what’s happening around the world and down the street? Snow Country magazine called Ruidoso, New Mexico’s Ski Run Road “a 15-mile corkscrew with precious few guardrails.” Well, it’s actually only a little more than 12 miles up to Ski Apache (sometimes it just feels like more) and hey - there are more guardrails than there used to be.The sound of water cascading over the immense wooden wheel is sometimes barely audible over the traffic on Ruidoso’s main street. But the wheel turns as steadily as it did more than a century ago. Inside the adobe walls of the old Dowlin Mill , two flint millstones slowly grind a handful of dried yellow corn into fine meal.
The mill, Ruidoso’s oldest building, was built by Paul Dowlin, a Civil War veteran and retired Army captain who served at nearby Fort Stanton. It was his second attempt in the mill business. The first mill, built at the junction of Ruidoso River and Carrizo Creek, was swept away by heavy rains just a few weeks after its completion.
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