1st Friday on March 4 at 7 pm "The Old Dowlin Mill"

Join Lyn Kidder on a visual journey down memory lane of days-past Ruidoso.  Kidder published with Arcadia Publishing another Images of America book on Ruidoso using the photos of 

Carmon Phillips

the owner of the old Dowlin Mill 
and long-time photographer in Ruidoso.   

Photographer Carmon Phillips and his wife Leona Mae moved to Ruidoso in 1945. Her family owned a cabin there and the young couple had visited as often as their wartime-issued gas coupons would allow.They leased the old adobe mill, which was practically a ruin, and went to work restoring it. They built a small building on a adjoining lot, a building that served as a gift shop, photo processing lab and their home until 1951, when the shop was moved to the mill.

An enthusiastic promoter, Phillips photographed nearly every aspect of Ruidoso life during the 1950s and 1960s. His collection of more than 6,000 negatives was donated to the Hubbard Museum of the American West by his daughter, Delana Clements.

"Carmon was interested in so many things, and he worked so hard to document the life of Ruidoso. Even if you don't know the people in the photos, they make a charming portrait of early Ruidoso."

Lyn Kidder and her husband, Frederic Moras, left Pennsylvania in 1989 heading west. 

They spent seven years traveling and working (and skiing!) in Arizona, Colorado, Idaho,

 Alaska and Wyoming.  

Lyn began writing with Frederic contributing the photography. 

In 1997, the couple landed and stayed in Ruidoso .

Lyn has been published in Alaska Magazine, Alaska Geographic,

Ceramics Monthly, Wyoming Farmer-Stockman, 

Medical Laboratory Observer, New Mexico Magazine

and New Mexico Business Journal.

She had poetry published in Verbalize, a medium of the students of 

liberal arts at a small Wyoming college. 

While living in Barrow, Alaska, (300 miles north of the Arctic Circle, 

right next door to Santa Claus) she wrote Barrow, Alaska from A to Z, the only guidebook to that northernmost community, and Tacos on the Tundra,

the story of the world's northernmost Mexican restaurant and

the crazy woman who started it all., Fran Tate. 

Refreshments after the presentation.