City of Moriarty Calls for Vendors Ahead of September Pinto Bean Fiesta Weekend
MORIARTY, N.M. — Decades before the interstates cut across Torrance County, railcars laden with dryland pinto beans rattled out of the Estancia Valley to feed...
Bull Bash set for Saturday in Edgewood
EDGEWOOD — Top-tier bulls and bull riders are set to converge along the historic Mother Road as the 6th Annual Bull Bash on Old 66...
The Keepers of the Neon Flame: The Sunset Motel and the Soul of Route 66
Part I: The Airway Station and the Salt Lakes MORIARTY – In the late 1950s along Route 66, a self-taught, WWII bomber pilot named Bill...
Route 66 Comes Alive: East Mountain High Students Build Immersive Escape Room for Centennial
SANDIA PARK — For the students at East Mountain High School, history isn’t just something bound to the pages of a textbook. It is a...
The Moriarty Shortcut: How a Cross-Country Footrace Helped Bring Route 66 to the East Mountains
TIJERAS, N.M. — While the 1928 “Bunion Derby” was a cross-country spectacle, it was the steep, rugged slopes of the East Mountains that fundamentally altered...
The Song is Ending: New Mexico’s Iconic Musical Highway Falling into Harsh Disrepair
TIJERAS, NM — It was once hailed as a triumph of “fun engineering” a stretch of the Mother Road that didn’t just carry travelers but...