Historic San Antonio Church in Questa, New Mexico,
Historic San Antonio Church in Questa, New Mexico, where "New Mexico Spanish" speakers are a dwindling cohort of culture keepers. Source: Village of Questa

Stuff you need to know, 4.13.23

“New Mexico Is Losing a Form of Spanish Spoken Nowhere Else on Earth”
by Simon Romero, The New York Times
April 9, 2023

A dialect from the state’s earliest Spanish-speaking settlers has endured for over 400 years in the state’s remote mountain villages. But its time may be running out.

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“Scientists searching the deserts of New Mexico for minerals critical to energy, technology”
by Adrian Hedden, Carlsbad Current Argus
April 9, 2023

The U.S. Geological Survey announced beginning in April it would search for evidence of 23 minerals via aircraft over the Deming and Lordsburg areas. The survey, intended to cover 10,000 square miles in New Mexico, is part of a national effort to generate three-dimensional maps of possibly exploitable underground geology up to 1 kilometer beneath the surface.

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Diana Tittle
Diana Tittle

Diana Tittle, a member of the board of Sierra County Public-Interest Journalism Project, was the editor of the Sierra County Sun, the Citizen's precursor. A former resident of Truth or Consequences who now lives part-time in northern New Mexico, she spent her 42-year professional career in Cleveland, Ohio, where she worked as a newspaper reporter, magazine writer and editor, book author and publisher and publishing consultant. She is the recipient of a Cleveland Arts Prize for Literature.

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