Mary Bishop
Last updated on Monday, December 23, 2002
Mary Bishop
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Mary Bishop recently moved to Las Cruces from New England, where she was a freelance writer for a suburban newspaper and an editor/proofreader. She was a member of the Boston Writers' Union and wrote a screenplay that was placed with Woofenill Works, an agency in New York City. Waiting to sell that script, she prudently kept her day job (high school English teacher). Now she's retired and devoting her time to golf, chile and enjoying the scenes and sunshine of the Southwest.
Articles by Mary Bishop
For golfers in Southern New Mexico, there's some good news and some bad news. Sometimes an aspect of the game swings both ways.
For travelers on I-10 in Southern New
Mexico, there's an escape from the truck traffic and even from the 20th
century: a side trip to the ghost town of Shakespeare,
located about three miles south of Lordsburg. Because this
place is privately owned by the Hill family, a visitor has to catch one of the
weekend tours (Call ahead to schedule).
Tucked into an old stucco wall on Calle de Guadalupe just off the Plaza in Mesilla, NM, is the facade of the Fountain Theater, probably the oldest movie theater in New Mexico. Early records are hazy, but since about 1913 when vaudeville acts shared the stage, the Fountain has been showing movies. These days the Mesilla Valley Film Society rents the theater from the Fountain family of Las Cruces. In an old-fashioned setting that is so retro it's becoming fashionable again, cutting-edge cinema winds down the century.
