Among our esteemed TACA Board Member’s accomplishments is co-authorship with William Stone of, New Mexico Then and Now. Jerry wrote the extensive essays and a wonderful Afterword for this book of “rephotography.”

He describes happening upon a Volvo full of clowns headed west on State Road 52 from Truth or Consequences. He was traveling with the authors William Stone and Bob Julyan. Jerry also contributed to Bob Julyan’s Place Names of New Mexico.

The travelers discussed the “different and distinct” character of New Mexico towns.

“I wondered aloud and doubtfully whether any other state might have such diverse communities. Or as Bob had said, so few that had the look of what people imagine to be typical American small towns.”

The delightful surreal clown car image came into focus when the trio arrived at the annual Winston-Chloride Spring Fiesta.

At the end of a short summary of the life of Aldo Leopold, who lived in Albuquerque as a city planner from 1913 to 1924, Jerry describes Leopold’s home on South Fourteenth Street. The final paragraph of the book:

“That undeveloped land at the edge of town has long since given way to streets, homes, and a country-club golf course, as have many other natural areas of New Mexico and elsewhere. Nevertheless, many spectacular and beautiful wild places remain in the Land of Enchantment. Here the glories of open land, azure skies, and far horizons are yet unsullied. Here mountains yet rise in shadowed and sun-bright majesty, cliffs and canyons yet tower and plunge, deserts yet shimmer to the horizons, and grasslands yet wave their bounties beneath drifting clouds.

May it be thus forever.”