CITY OF DUST

The lost and wondrous wreckage of America. The ceaseless road to nowhere. Yeah, that's my home.

Tuesday, March 01, 2016

A Tale of Two Towns: Acme & Frazier, NM

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Those of you who are fans of the Roadrunner and Wile E. Coyote might be excited to hear that there was once a town in New Mexico named Acm...
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Sunday, February 28, 2016

Get the Motor Running: Highway, New Mexico

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After last month’s epic 1,600 word post on the bayside ghost town of Drawbridge, California , let’s make some concessions to time and ADHD...
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Monday, January 18, 2016

My Mother was the Marshland: Drawbridge, CA

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My mother was the marshland. My father was the railroad. I was born in 1876 after they met on Station Island. Some now say that I am a gho...
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Thursday, November 26, 2015

The Real Desert

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This month I'd hoped to finally finish a piece on Drawbridge, California, the ghost town in a salt marsh, but time has moved too quick...
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Friday, October 23, 2015

No Rattlesnakes/No Pinto Beans: Cedarvale, NM

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Let’s stay in central New Mexico for one more post and add yet another piece to the picture of a region that in the 1920’s was the country...
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Monday, September 21, 2015

Pinto Beans and Singing Conventions: Claunch, New Mexico

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Of all the places we could go from long-lost Centerpoint, New Mexico , which we visited last time, perhaps it makes the most sense to simp...
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Tuesday, August 11, 2015

Too Small to be a Village, Not Large Enough to be a Town: Center Point, New Mexico

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On Highway 55, about 40 miles south of Mountainair, New Mexico, is a charming old one-room schoolhouse. It’s one of those abandoned places...
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