Posts Tagged ‘Espanola’

Española – Low Riders

Tuesday, August 16th, 2011

Low and Slow – The Low Riders of Española

Prestigious Low RiderDespite modern stereotypes, low riders are a celebrated family tradition in Española, New Mexico. The town was even nicknamed “The low rider capital of the world” decades ago. This video is a companion to the State of the Re:Union episode, Española – The Land Remembers, and explores the incredible culture of these amazing vehicles and their owners.

Discover why this pastime is as much about community as it is about cars, check out the full episode for more information on the surprising history of low riders and share your thoughts by posting your comment below.

Tags: , , , ,
Posted in Espanola, Uncategorized | View Comments

Dear Sacred Places

Monday, September 27th, 2010

If you’ve heard our show before, you’ve heard the intimate letters residents have written to the place they call home.  We feature these Dear ___ letters on the show, and here on the website, and we encourage anyone of you to write your own letter to your hometown.

Marian Naranjo is the eldest daughter of eight siblings, a mother of four children and a grandmother of six grandchildren.  She’s a traditional potter and tribal member of Santa Clara Pueblo, located in north-central New Mexico in the area known to the nineteen sovereign Pueblo Nations and archeologists as the Tewa Basin.  Marian says she claims her “ancestry from our last migration from the Puye cliff dwellings, located to the west within the Jemez Mountains. Within and around the four mountain ranges that surround the Tewa Basin are the sacred aboriginal ancestral homelands of the Pueblo peoples, my people, who have been the caretakers and guardians of these places for millennium.” (more…)

Tags: , , , , , , ,
Posted in Episode Centered, Espanola | View Comments

Española – The Land Remembers

Wednesday, September 15th, 2010

Listen to Our Newest Episode Here!

Tags: , , , , , , , , , ,
Posted in Episode Centered, Espanola, Uncategorized | View Comments

It Flows

Monday, July 12th, 2010

For the first episode of our new season of shows, we spent the third week of June in the Española Valley of New Mexico, a place none of us had been to before.  It was truly eye-opening and exciting to spend time with farmers, santeros, mechanics, therapists, professors, oral historians, addicts, cashiers, musicians and poets…

The reason we ventured southwest-ward in the first place was because of water.  Specifically the way in which the people of the valley, for well over 400 years, have thought about, shared and used water.  In New Mexico, there are more than 1,000 acequias, which are not only man-made irrigation ditches, but also an entire culture and decentralized democracy in and of themselves. (more…)

Tags: , , , , , , , ,
Posted in Espanola | View Comments