Please join us in Las Vegas, New Mexico, for Heritage Week 2010, where we will celebrate our 175th Birthday with over 40 exciting historic events!
In 1835, Spanish settlers applied for a communal land grant from Mexico, asked to settle in a rolling valley beneath the Sangre de Christo Mountains. New Mexico wasn’t yet a State of …

I added a new page to this site. I wrote a rant on the state of our high schools, a rant fueled by my son’s negative experience attending Robertson High School in the City Schools district. Keep in mind that my words are a rant and not a fully crafted story.
I’m working full time – I have to do so …

King Stadium hides in the brush that was once Camp Luna. A WPA project, the stadium wastes time in silence, its stone bleachers reminiscent of ancient Rome. I’m writing a magazine story on this forgotten bit of Las Vegas architecture, and will post more information – and more photographs – for My Tiny Vegas readers soon.

by Birdie Jaworski
A massive football player, his uniform black, heavy, robotic, runs through a modern city, a flutter of torn books beneath spiked shoes. He carries a graduation cap in one hand, stolen from the head of a statued scholar, the other hand extended in an evil claw toward a group of diminutive young children sitting at simple desk – …

Historic Building and Homes Tourby Birdie Jaworski
A stately stone building sits sentry at the Bridge Street entrance to the Las Vegas Plaza, its expertly renovated rough-hewn exterior a study in late 19th Century architecture. Now the administrative home of the West Las Vegas School District, the two-story building looks elegant, composed, serene. It wasn’t always so self-possessed, however. Like many …

by Birdie Jaworski

A ring of wind-scarred red clay barracks once bustled with ordered activity. Wagon trains carting ammunition, grains, the thimble and shine that makes a soldier’s life bearable, rolled off the Santa Fe trail, dusty from the long journey from Fort Leavenworth and St. Louis. Men in deep blue uniforms off-loaded precious cargo, storing it in the heavily patrolled …

by Birdie Jaworski
The black locomotives of the first trains in New Mexico territory belched hot white steam into the tree-lined skies. The Mexican-American war had ended, had left deep distrust in the hearts of the territory citizens, many of whom had lost entire families in the bloody dispute. The largest city in the territory those days was Las Vegas, New …