This website has been a long time a-borning, and thanks go to our Webmaster, Lif Strand of Quemado, New Mexico, for encouraging me to finally pull it together. Her expertise has been invaluable: thank you, Lif!

Ten years of stories, histories, photos and more, will no longer sit in the Gazette archives, but will be online for readers to access! So if you missed a story or interview in a printed edition, it will now be online! Historian Jay Sharp will be submitting his Southwest histories, and Mary Alice Murphy’s interviews with pioneer descendants will also be a link, as will articles from Jesse Hardin, Dexter Oliver, Luis Pérez, and others. Permissions have also been obtained by talented local photographers to post their images on the site.

 

History of The Glenwood Gazette . . .

I created The Gazette in August 2000 – to fill a niche providing information to include the smaller rural, unique communities not served by publications in larger nearby towns . . . and to honor and recognize the unique character, peoples, and cultures of the frontier regions and authentic small towns of New Mexico and Arizona.

• The Gazette has grown from an 8-page issue delivered around Southwest New Mexico to what is now usually a 36-page issue delivered throughout Southern and Southwestern New Mexico, Southern and Eastern Arizona, and to hundreds of subscribers.
• And --- the Gazette’s website will be accessible to countless more readers than those in our usual delivery area of print-edition Gazettes.
• The September 2010 edition marks our 10 th Anniversary!

With this website, the opportunities for featuring archived and new materials are limitless. Histories, interviews, photographs, community information, recipes, and more will continue to be posted to the site each month. The print edition will continue to be delivered as before — however, the website will enable us to post much more content than will fit into 36 pages of printed Gazettes each month .

CALENDARS . . . The Regional Calendar of Events has been listed each month on www.foreverfrontier.com, but will be moved to the Gazette website as of this month.

In addition to the Regional Calendar of Events, separate calendars will also be featured for . . . Las Cruces, Ruidoso & Cloudcroft, Sierra County, and Roswell.

 LINKS … The Gazette website provides an opportunity for you to have your business website listed under our link “Websites of Interest.”

Please email me and send your request to be posted --- and do me the (reciprocal) favor of also listing glenwoodgazette.com on your own site! I look forward to hearing from you.

WEBSITE ADVERTISING . . . The website will also feature advertising in the near future, which will be separate from Gazette printed editions. More information to come!

I sincerely appreciate the fondness that readers continue to have for The Glenwood Gazette.

Creating it each month is a true labor of love. And since driving and delivering is a welcome change from sitting for hours at the computer, I will continue to deliver print editions, as well.

I hope that everyone will enjoy this new site --- and I welcome your ideas and suggestions, regarding this ongoing creation.

See you down the road! . . . .

Best regards, Gale

Gale Moore, Publisher
The Glenwood Gazette & "Forever Frontier" The Annual Visitors Guide
PO Box 4077
Silver City, NM  88062                  575.388.4806
gale@cybermesa.com or gazettelady777@yahoo.com

CR Edmunds is a pen name for a Catron County NM resident who wishes to remain anonymous. Edmunds' website and blog, One Still Free, is from the point of view of a ruralist, contrarian individual and provides thoughts on what's what "because it's still a free country".

Go to CR Edmunds' blog

Mary Alice Murphy, Silver City, NM
www.maryalicemurphy.com
575.534.3058

Mary Alice Murphy is a freelance writer and photographer. Her columns have run in the monthly issues of the Glenwood Gazette for several years. Her photos have also been featured in several editions of the Forever Frontier guide produced by the Gazette. She now features an "old-timer" each month, also.

Mary Alice runs her own online newspaper - the Grant County Beat - which can be viewed at www.grantcountybeat.com. She has written and continues to write for several magazines. Mary Alice also writes press releases for several organizations.

The Silver City-Grant County Chamber of Commerce has used Mary Alice's photos for advertising area attractions. National Scenic Byways of the U.S. Federal Highway Administration used one of her photographs on a nationally released poster.

At Mary Alice's website, www.maryalicemurphy.com, she sells photographs of Southwest New Mexico landscapes, critters and flowers for download, as well as hard-copy prints, note cards and postcards.

On another website, www.writingmam.com, Mary Alice offers a membership program on how to write non-fiction articles.

Go to Gazette articles by Mary Alice Murphy

Dexter Oliver

Dexter Oliver, as a federal employee, represented the Alpine Ranger District at the first wolf meeting at Hannigan Meadow in 1994; helped the federal Wildlife Service trapper catch “problem” wolves in 2002 (and wrote a report filed with the Clifton Ranger District); monitored wolf scat on the A-S Nat’l Forest in 2001/2002; and lived and worked on the San Carlos Apache Reservation in 2007 as a tribal employee doing necropsies on cattle being killed by large predators. He was “trained” by FWS/AZGF at the Sevilleta NWR wolf pens in NM and at the Alpine, AZ wolf crew headquarters. He has radio tracked wolves on the A-S Nat’l Forest and San Carlos Reservation, 2002 and 2007.

Oliver has written about wildlife reintroductions in the Southwest in a book, Tracks In The Sand: Tales From Outside City Limits; RANGE MAGAZINE, Fall 2007, “The Open Air Zoo Exposed”; Wildlife Control Technology, Jan.-Feb. 2009, and THE PROBE, The National Animal Damage Control Association’s newsletter, March/April 2003.

Born in Old Horse Springs, NM, Linda has lived most of her life in Reserve. She became interested in photography as a teenager, and for the last eight years has been engaged in capturing memorable images. Linda's favorite subjects are sunsets and landscapes; living in Catron County, she has a limitless supply of subjects!

Photography has been George's passion for many years. He began taking photos while working as a Wilderness patrolman in the Glenwood district of the Gila Wilderness in the early 1970s. His desire to share the rugged beauty of the Gila was the inspiration for his early images. In 1986 he moved to Santa Fe, managed a full service color lab, and began his career as a fine art photographer. His ongoing series of photographs, "Enchanted Water," is an expression of the photographer's passion for sharing mystical places that touch the soul. George and his wife Melinda own and operate Silver Imaging Photo Lab, and when not in the lab, George is back in the Gila Wilderness taking photographs, where his inspiration first began.

Combining 20 years of marketing with a love of photography, Shelley captures images of the Catwalk and other Southwest subjects. Her prints and cards can be found in Southwest New Mexico at Mogollon Artisans in Mogollon and Casitas de Gila Guest Houses in Gila. When not out capturing images, she is on the road improving the image of child nutrition programs in school districts across the country.

Mary Alice Murphy, Silver City, NM
575.534.3058

An international award-winning photographer, Mary Alice enjoys exploring the angles of architecture, the shapes and colors of nature, and the majesty of landscapes. She is also a talented writer for the Silver City Daily Press, and a contributor to The Glenwood Gazette.

John O'Loughlin
PO Box 914, Santa Clara, NM 88026
575-313-2282

John O'Loughlin is an avid hiker and and photographer. Exploring remote areas of the Gila Wilderness, he has the opportunity to capture scenes that only a few dedicated back-country travelers ever see. John especially enjoys the wild and rugged canyons and mountaintops, and likes to compose scenes from unique and "never before seen" angles. John and his wife Judy live in Santa Clara, NM. Accompanied by friends and dogs, they backpack into the Gila often, and day-hike every weekend.

Gene Peach has been photographing the cultures and landscapes of New Mexico for almost twenty years. His advertising and editorial photographs have been published in nearly fifty countries and featured on more than 200 publication covers. Gene lives in Santa Fe, and works in a broad variety of styles and subject matter. He specializes in location portraiture and magazine stories, and also shoots architectural interiors and exteriors, real estate, resorts, landscapes, and events. Gene shoots assignments throughout the region and maintains a comprehensive stock photo library of New Mexico. In addition to commercial clients, Peach is available for individual and family portraits, weddings, and events. Gene's personal projects focus on rural American cultures. Making a Hand: Growing Up Cowboy in New Mexico, his seven-year project documenting ranch and rodeo children, was published by the Museum of New Mexico Press.

Lif Strand has been taking photographs since she got her first Brownie camera as a child. She graduated to her father's Leica as a young woman taking photography classes in college, where she focused on still lifes and landscapes. Although she enjoyed playing in the darkroom, she loves the freedom of digital photography. Strand is webmaster for the Glenwood Gazette Online.

Gale Moore, Publisher
The Glenwood Gazette & "Forever Frontier" The Visitors Guide
PO Box 4077
Silver City, NM  88062                  575.388.4806
gale@cybermesa.com

Lif Strand, Webmaster
webmaster@glenwoodgazette.com

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