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The Mysterious Power of Dripping Springs – by Jay W. Sharp

July 25, 2020Posted inHistory, Instagram
The Spanish have a word for it: “duende.” Literally it means “elf” or “imp” or “troll,” but in a more mystical sense, it alludes to a “mysterious power” and a “spirit of the earth,” said 20th century Spanish poet and dramatist Federico Garcia Lorca. You can feel Garcia Lorca’s duende at Dripping Springs, a small life-giving mountain rivulet
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The wonders of our Organ Mountains – by Jay Sharp

July 7, 2020Posted inHistory, Instagram
“The Organ Mountains, one of the most picturesque and rugged mountain ranges in the Southwest, form the skyline approximately10 mi east of Las Cruces, New Mexico…, in southern Doña Ana County….,” said William R. Seager in his report Geology of Organ Mountains and southern San Andres Mountains, New Mexico, 1981.
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Las Cruces / Mesilla: A Mecca for the Adventurous – by Jay Sharp

July 6, 2020Posted inHistory, Instagram, Visit Las Cruces
Unlike stratified neighboring mountain ranges, which had origins in ancient and placid seas, the Organs – purportedly named by the Spanish for their resemblance to the pipes of the great organs in the cathedrals of their home country – emerged from the molten interior of the earth in a complex sequence of violent magmatic eruptions, lava flows, structural warping and fracturing and relentless erosion.
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Jay W. Sharp – History Columnist

July 6, 2020Posted inHistory
Jay published over 400 articles. He served as the regional vice president for the Texas Archaeological Society, president of the Houston Archaeological Society, president of the El Paso Archaeological Society and vice president of the Doña Ana Archaeological Society, and a docent for New Mexico’s Farm & Ranch Heritage Museum.