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 Phillipsthe owner of the old Dowlin Mill
and long-time photographer in Ruidoso.
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."
Refreshments after the presentation.
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.
