Framedlight

  The time had come to leave Las Cruces and drive north to Albuquerque from where Anne and Michael were to fly home. I thought I would show you the house where we stayed in Las Cruces as it was very nice. Although probably built of breeze block, it had an adobe finish in line with much of the housing there. There were 3 bedrooms, a good sized living room and a small garden which looked over a large natural area before the beginning of Las Cruces commercial district. Michael had to do a work zoom meeting in the morning, so Alan, Anne and I went to the Farm and Ranch Heritage Museum that was very close to the house. The outside activities were rather limited as it was out of season but the interior exhibitions were very good. Especially one about the effects on the Tularosa Basin of the coming of the missile range and research into the atom bomb. Many ranchers and their families had to leave the homes and farms they had built up over years. Recompense was either limited or never received