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Re: Insight New Mexico - Levi Romero on Juan Estevan Arellano

WilliamHMee — Sun, 28 Nov 2021 14:31:08 -0000

What a wonderful interview! I had been studying Juan Estevan Arellano's (1941-2014) articles in the Green Fire Times when I first bought his book: the translation of Obra de Agricultura by Gabriel Alonso de Herrera, 1513 ( I also got: Enduring Acequias: Wisdom of the Land, Knowledge of the Water). This type of agriculture existed and exists not only in the American Southwest but from the Philippines to India to the Middle East. Arellano’s stories of milpas, waffle gardens, querencia, La Resolana, Las Cabañuelas and community water distribution systems (suertes); are a treasure of agricultural experience in a frontier land. In almost all of Juan Estevan Arellano's articles you will read not only the 400 year Spanish experience in the cultural landscape but also of the Native Americans. The stories and customs of Mesoamerica like the Mayans, Aztecs and Incas; plus the roots of the Moors, Romans and Greeks.

At the time, I was doing a grant for the Northern Rio Grande National Heritage Area on Agriculture in Agua Fria Village. I saw him at a N.M. Mexico Acequia Association's, Congresso de Acequias, and contacted him by phone and email. Hoping to work more closely with him. Sadly, he passed within a few months.

Re: ICON, HERO, HOMEBOY - Arc Publishing

WilliamHMee — Thu, 06 Jun 2019 20:34:50 -0000

I have heard bits and pieces of this story before, thanks Julie Anne Grimm for putting it all together.

Re: Grapes Expectations | Cover Stories | Santa Fe Reporter

WilliamHMee — Tue, 28 May 2019 22:56:13 -0000

It was illegal to make wine in the Americas without a license from the King of Spain who wanted a tax from it. The Catholic Church in Mexico was granted a waiver to grow grapes and to serve wine at communion. Enterprising Clergy supplemented the church's income by selling wine. By 1598 grapes were being grown in the lower Rio Grande valley by clergy. http://newmexicohistory.org...

The devastation of New Mexico grapes was achieved when Revenue Agents of ATF burnt the fields along the Rio Grande from El Paso to the Colorado border during prohibition.

Re: When you can’t lead a horse to water, take a camel

WilliamHMee — Thu, 09 May 2019 16:30:17 -0000

What a great story. Glad you added the prehistoric significance as well as the US Camel Corps.

Re: Seeing the Way to Weed | Cover Stories | Santa Fe Reporter

WilliamHMee — Wed, 17 Apr 2019 13:40:37 -0000

I've commented many times that maybe we are too late. Susie screwed us every year since 2010. The competitive advantage over other areas is gone. Maybe the only market left for us is Texas.

Re: Letters to the Editor | Letters to the Editor | Santa Fe Reporter

WilliamHMee — Wed, 17 Apr 2019 13:24:06 -0000

I agree with Bob Dowling. Over the last twenty years about two million in parking fees have been missing or even just poorly accounted for. It has made for great SF Reporter stories, but not much sense to run a break even operation that scars tourists.

The speed cameras have problems their own problems as mentioned. Another one is people aren't going to pay the fines until a warrant is issued. Then this is going on a record. So a background check 20 years later will stop you from getting that 6 figure job you always wanted.

Re: Letters to the Editor | Letters to the Editor | Santa Fe Reporter

WilliamHMee — Wed, 10 Apr 2019 13:35:28 -0000

The proposed valuations for taxes are out and Agua Fria Residents are saying they are up 300%. What has happened? Certainly services have not increased 300%.

Re: Galloping into Recovery | News | Santa Fe Reporter

WilliamHMee — Fri, 05 Apr 2019 14:05:51 -0000

They used BLM horses to break and we got two once like 10 years ago?

Re: Galloping into Recovery | News | Santa Fe Reporter

WilliamHMee — Fri, 05 Apr 2019 14:04:11 -0000

No. Seemed very successful. Often inmates who were interviewed especially Native American were very happy.

Re: Galloping into Recovery | News | Santa Fe Reporter

WilliamHMee — Wed, 03 Apr 2019 14:12:40 -0000

The sad thing is that our own inmates on Highway 14 had such a program with 10 acres of alfalfa for the horses watered by their own sewer system.

Re: Trump campaign starts selling 'Pencil-neck Adam Schiff' t-shirts

WilliamHMee — Sat, 30 Mar 2019 12:25:24 -0000

This is totally characteristic of Trump, he will sell anything to make a buck. It is really a sad commentary on the Resident of the White House. And if you can see this and buy one of the T-Shirts---you are really a major part of the problem.

We already had the PizzaGate shooter take a AR-15 to a a D.C. Pizza parlor and all the other bombers, shooters, Klan demonstrations,; fueled by Info wars, Breitbart, Daily Caller and Fox News. We need a Class Action Lawsuit against them all--- calling on restraining orders on these violence inciting actions. This is not freedom of the press----it has crossed over to the dark side---it has become the Supreme Court's ruling on you can't yell FIRE in a crowded theater. You can't continually divide society and then when people die say: "it was taken out of context." No you wanted, you worship, you secretly call for this violence against liberals and People of Color. At some point, you must be made to pay the legal price or there is no more USA. Even just the symbolic cancellation of the Trump Tweet account would be a step in the right direction. A wake up call to those "all-in" on the call for a new Civil War. This Nation can not sustain itself on Hate Speech alone.

What ever happened to a simple T-shirt that says: "Trump 2020"---I mean really

Re: Lisa Law Built a Museum in Mexico | Arts | Santa Fe Reporter

WilliamHMee — Wed, 27 Mar 2019 12:46:14 -0000

The more I learn about Lisa Law, my friend, the more I am amazed. Her life in the Taos communes, her work with Wavy Gravy on the Big Tesuque music festival, her feeding of the masses at Woodstock, etc. It could and should be a movie!

Re: Chuck Todd blames Obama for America’s division: Why couldn’t he ‘bring this country together’?

WilliamHMee — Thu, 21 Mar 2019 17:40:15 -0000

Russian Agents? Obama should of had Trump publicly questioned.

Re: Chuck Todd blames Obama for America’s division: Why couldn’t he ‘bring this country together’?

WilliamHMee — Thu, 21 Mar 2019 17:39:21 -0000

Clint Watts (former FBI) in his Senate Intelligence Committee testimony in 2017, said he was watching two Russian Agents in this country in 2012 and they were Tweeting that: "Obama is a Muslim born in Kenya" and Trump started retweeting their tweets. Then birthierism arose out of this.

Re: Chuck Todd blames Obama for America’s division: Why couldn’t he ‘bring this country together’?

WilliamHMee — Thu, 21 Mar 2019 17:32:02 -0000

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Re: Chuck Todd blames Obama for America’s division: Why couldn’t he ‘bring this country together’?

WilliamHMee — Thu, 21 Mar 2019 17:31:05 -0000

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Re: Chuck Todd blames Obama for America’s division: Why couldn’t he ‘bring this country together’?

WilliamHMee — Thu, 21 Mar 2019 17:26:08 -0000

For those that poop, poop this comment. Remember that the right wing Republicans referred to Obama as the black man in the WHITE House (notice punctation---think of the Civil Rights marchers with signs "I am a MAN").

Re: Chuck Todd blames Obama for America’s division: Why couldn’t he ‘bring this country together’?

WilliamHMee — Thu, 21 Mar 2019 17:23:31 -0000

He wasn't perfect but then again he didn't: tell 9014 lies in 773 days (Trump), do 52 Tweets this weekend proving he is mentally unstable (Trump), cheat on his 3 wives with porn stars and by the raping of a 13 year old girl with Jeff Epstein (Trump), etc.---https://williamhenrymee.wor...

Re: Chuck Todd blames Obama for America’s division: Why couldn’t he ‘bring this country together’?

WilliamHMee — Thu, 21 Mar 2019 17:15:20 -0000

Great comment. Here is what I have complied over the years: https://williamhenrymee.wor...

Re: Even More Castles, Ruins and Mysteries | Cover Stories | Santa Fe Reporter

WilliamHMee — Thu, 28 Feb 2019 23:28:54 -0000

Mr. Antonio Gallegos was the sacristan of San Isidro Church and kept the records and organized the music for funeral masses and weddings. He also was the Director of the annual Christmas play called Los Pastores, which performed around the city. The script for this play came out of Spain through Mexico in the 1860's. Mr. Gallegos was a savadore or a masseuse who specialized in deep muscle therapy. In Oral History interviews people swear by his work.

Re: Even More Castles, Ruins and Mysteries | Cover Stories | Santa Fe Reporter

WilliamHMee — Thu, 28 Feb 2019 23:19:50 -0000

So I added some. The County Assessor's Office says the house at 521 Galisteo Street was built in 1880 with an addition in 1955. New owners bought it in 2010, and their address is in Albuquerque.

The payback was for "voting against land swindles that developers were trying to do" said the daughter, Gloria who has been dead more than 20 years.

Re: Even More Castles, Ruins and Mysteries | Cover Stories | Santa Fe Reporter

WilliamHMee — Wed, 27 Feb 2019 23:21:44 -0000

The daughter of the man that owned it told me he was a store owner next to Mr. Lujan's General Store on Sandoval St. (Mr. Ruybal) He became a City Councilor and after he got off, the other councilors ran Paseo de Peralta on that bad curve right through his swimming pool as payback. He had three daughters that inherited and none wanted to take full ownership so they let it sit there, each trying to wait out the other.

Re: Even More Castles, Ruins and Mysteries | Cover Stories | Santa Fe Reporter

WilliamHMee — Wed, 27 Feb 2019 18:36:19 -0000

Thanks for this article but it is essential that this further statement that I gave the interviewer be included in the discussion, and it comes from my experience with a Santa Fe Bulletin Board posting of this same picture on the Agua Fria house:

"I am going to turn off commenting because the silliness of the devils and witches has sort of taken over this posting. I hope come Halloween that people don't start breaking into homes in an effort to see spirits in some PizzaGate-Style rumor because I have posted what is true and what is not."

So we had a lively discussion about the old Antonio Gallegos house on Santa Fe Bulletin Board, that I had deleted some comments ("I'm going over there and F- up a devil" was one), and to post some facts about the house. https://www.facebook.com/gr...

I was very afraid that the talk of witches, devils, and even a child slave ring would result in that guy coming with an AR-15 to the Pizza Parlor again wanting to "free the children."

We are blessed in this Village to have historic structures, archaeological excavations and actual oral histories of what was done at these places. This particular house has a unique history that was central to our Village's identity. But let's respect the house and it's owners this Halloween. The idea that what is written on social media is gospel must be dispelled.

Re: Santa Fe New Mexican joins papers who fire comic strip

WilliamHMee — Sat, 23 Feb 2019 16:34:33 -0000

Non Sequitur was a very clever strip. I didn't see the F-word. But I am reminded during Watergate how another cartoon was on the edge: Doonesbury. It and Saturday Night Live led the "resistance." Because everyone was afraid of Tricky Dick Nixon. Plus no one wanted to be anti-Vietnam War although it was just a pawn in the Nixon playbook to pay off his California based defense contractors. Nixon had a g.d. "Enemies List," as Trump is rumored to have. I think Non Sequitur may be as patriotic as the "Four Dead in Ohio"---that Neil Young sung about in Kent State. Even Walter Cronkite was backing the man and when he flipped the resistance started winning.

Chastise them and back off to the fight.....

Re: Letters to the Editor | Letters to the Editor | Santa Fe Reporter

WilliamHMee — Sat, 23 Feb 2019 16:28:31 -0000

Chastise them and back off to the fight.....