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What's New in Desert Exposure

Ring in the New Year with Desert Exposure by taking a January-issue tour that ranges from the agaves of our Southwest deserts to New Mexico centennial history to… Minnesota?

Jay W. Sharp’s series on wildlife and plants of the Southwest continues this month with a look at “The Noble Agave.” Discover how the plant that gives us tequila also gives its life for a fatal burst of flowering.

New Mexico celebrates its statehood centennial this month, of course, and we celebrate with a slightly impertinent look at lesser-known facts about our early history. Plus we have a complete guide to this month’s 100th birthday bashes in Silver City and Las Cruces.

And Minnesota? Turns out a bunch of Minnesota refugees have wound up in Las Cruces, where they have a club. Jeff Berg pops in on one of their meetings to see if he can get some good lutefisk.

Also this month, Southwest Storylines columnist Richard Mahler catches up with some of the characters he’s introduced readers to over the past almost four years. We look at how the Imagination Library is making new readers in Grant County, donating books to preschoolers. Restaurant writer Peggy Platonos samples the fare at Silver City’s Café un Mundo. And we travel to Lordsburg to see how local history lovers are trying to save the high school and junior high that once housed the classroom of an eighth-grade Sandra Day O’Connor.

It’s all in a jam-packed January issue. Frankly, we can’t think of a better way to get 2012 off to a good start.

This Month's Features