Gabrielle Porter

4 days ago | santafenewmexican.com | Gabrielle Porter

A small wildfire with "high spread potential" is burning near the border of the Valles Caldera National Preserve and the Santa Fe National Forest, officials said on Monday evening. The 30-acre Twin Cabins Wildfire isn't currently threatening any people or property, according to the interagency New Mexico Fire Information website, but is burning in oak brush, ponderosa pine and Douglas fir in the Jemez Ranger District. It isn't clear how the fire started.

2 weeks ago | santafenewmexican.com | Gabrielle Porter

When George Blue Spruce Jr. accepted his first postmilitary job practicing dentistry for the Indian Health Service, he found himself in for a rude awakening. It wasn't culture shock, exactly. Born to parents from Laguna and Ohkay Owingeh pueblos, Blue Spruce was raised on the Santa Fe Indian School campus where he rubbed shoulders with students from around New Mexico and the Southwest.

3 weeks ago | santafenewmexican.com | Gabrielle Porter

There's a stereotype about William Shakespeare, and John Andrews wouldn't stand for it. "You've got to make the general public realize that Shakespeare isn't stuffy," said Andrews, an acclaimed Shakespeare scholar and longtime Santa Fe resident, according to a 1986 story in the Washington Post. Andrews, a Carlsbad native with degrees from Princeton, Harvard and Vanderbilt universities, was no lightweight.

1 month ago | santafenewmexican.com | Gabrielle Porter

For nearly three-quarters of a century, the small white envelopes have held their secrets. Postmarked from Gallup and addressed in tidy capital letters to Cpl. Hiroshi Miyamura, the envelopes hold letters written by Tsuruko "Terry" Miyamura, the young soldier's wife of fewer than three years at the time as the Korean War raged on. The letters were returned to Terry Miyamura long before her husband was.

1 month ago | yahoo.com | Gabrielle Porter

William "Bill" Dupuy's love of local news started early. Growing up in Baton Rouge, La., Dupuy was just 11 or 12 when, according to family lore, he convinced his father to put an antenna on the roof of their house so he could pipe in straight to the neighbors' radios. Bill DupuyBill Dupuy"He'd find something to say," said Dupuy's wife, Ellen Dupuy, laughing in a recent interview.