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COAL CAMP CHAT WITH MARY KING

  By Pat Veltri   Along with its abundance of flora and fauna, and its varied opportunities for outdoor recreation, Sugarite Canyon State Park, eight miles northeast of Raton, features a historic early twentieth century coal mining camp. Many visible remains of the once thriving coal camp can still be…

THE CITY OF BETHLEHEM: A CHERISHED TRADITION SPONSORED ANNUALLY BY THE RATON LIONS CLUB

  By Pat Veltri   “It will remain a sacred display without commercialism.”  That’s a recorded proviso in the archives of the Lions Club, a service organization that has partnered with the city of Raton for almost seventy years in the yearly setting up of the City of Bethlehem, a…

COAL CAMP CHAT WITH EMAGENE SARACINO

By Pat Veltri     Hundreds of white iron crosses, marking the graves of men who died in the mines, fill the Dawson Cemetery. The crosses, most of them bearing death dates of 1913 and 1923, are the only tangible reminders of the coal camp town of Dawson, New Mexico. …

World Premiere of RATON PASS, the Movie

By Pat Veltri   In Memory of Bob Allen, a lifelong Ratonian, who possessed a wealth of knowledge about the town’s history, and didn’t mind sharing it with those of us who were interested.   Somebody dared him to do it, so the young man boldly walked across the dance…

THE DEBUT OF TELEVISION IN RATON

THE DEBUT OF TELEVISION IN RATON By Pat Veltri  (In Memory of Wally and Utha Clark)    For several days in the early part of 1953, rumors abounded in Raton as townspeople pondered why officials from ARF Products Inc., a Chicago based electronics firm, were making nightly visits to Raton’s…

COLLECTOR PROFILE: Salt and Pepper Shakers

COLLECTOR PROFILEBy Pat Veltri   TOPIC:  Salt and Pepper Shakers    Stamps, coins, pencil sharpeners, statues of saints, polka records — my mother, Margaret Christy, an avid collector, collected all of these things and more. While I was growing up in the small town of Aguilar, Colorado, Mom’s collections were…

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