In one section of Robert Caro’s new memoir of his life as a historian, the 83-year-old author uses the word “write” metaphorically to mean much more than just putting words on a page. In fact, Caro quotes President Lyndon Johnson to suggest the meaning he wants for the word. To give context to Caro’s use of the word “write,” here …

At the same time we have been traveling to Taos almost annually since we moved to New Mexico over four decades ago, Mary and I continue to deliberate just how we really feel about the mountain artists’ community that Kit Carson called home in the mid-19th century. How could we not love the town from which a visitor can view …

For almost three decades I have traveled from my home in Lea County for 2,000 miles north each year to what Canadians call the Great North of their country. I have made this trip in the spring and summer to northern Saskatchewan with family and friends to fish the fertile lakes and rivers of a truly unique place on planet …

On January 9, 1945, a World War II cargo ship the SS Hobbs was launched from Richmond, Calif. On hand for the launching were Cora Evelyn Pribble, her husband L. B., and several family members of Mr. and Mrs. Pribble, who lived in Hobbs. Mrs. Pribble was the designated “Sponsor” of the ship. That meant she would be the one …

Seventy-four years ago on April 6, 1945, a World War II ship named the SS Hobbs was sunk by a Japanese kamikaze attack near the island of Okinawa. The ship was named for the town of Hobbs, and Hobbs resident Mrs. L. B. Pribble was chosen as the “Sponsor” of the ship, an honor that designated her the woman who …

Working men, developers, promoters, adventurers Some of the early photographs of modern Hobbs, those images of the first oil boom in the late 1920s, and 1930s, are fascinating and sometimes hypnotizing pictures of that era which seems so long ago. Take for instance, a photograph I’m going to call the “Sky Hawk” photo of early Hobbs. I am giving it …