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From the Editor
Fall Greetings! October is my favorite month for
many reasons: Fall is at its peak, the colors are
brilliant and I am a fall baby. The mornings are
cool and crisp, sometimes foggy, and lead to brilliant
afternoons. Herbs and flowers are ready for their
final harvest and this month we have a fabulously simple recipe for
making your own potpourri from nature's fall bounty.
Our feature this month is an interview with author and
activist Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, discussing her
informative new book, Roots of Resistance: A History
of Land Tenure in New Mexico, as well as a little
about herself and her passage from her Oklahoma roots to
Professor
Emeritus of Ethnic Studies and Women's Studies at
California State University, her travels and her trials.
She is a fascinating woman and has been many places in
recent history that most of us can only dream about and
is in New Mexico on tour this month.
We have lots of other
interesting information for you including arts events, a
movie review which we were asked to do prior to its
release in September although the soonest I could get
the review up was this month. We have a
scrumptious apple cake and good old fashion chocolate
chip cookies just like those from the kitchen of their inventress, Ruth Wakeman. We'll also show you how
to make a cozy southwestern afghan and take you to a
little German town in Texas for an exciting Oktoberfest.
So make a cup of tea and
pull up a chair and enjoy our October issue of Southwest
Flair!
Cheryl Bruedigam, Editor |
