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Another Time in This Place

Tessie Rael de Ortega and Judith Cuddihy

Things sold at the store were flour, sugar, salt, kerosene for the lamps, matches, salt, baking powder, baking soda, and vinegar.

Evidence of Clovis, Folsom, and Oshara/ Upper Rio Grande Cultures in Questa Area

Exploration, Mapping, and the Fur Trade

An Introductory Note

San Antonio church is the biggest treasure our forefathers left for us. It was built with a lot of faith and sacrifice. They brought the

…a posse of eight men… went up Red River canyon… caught Conelly in a cabin and brought him down to the justice of peace.

There were no lunch boxes; we just used an empty pail from jam or syrup.

J.P. Rael’s poem Los Pobladores de Questa (The Founders of Questa) is probably the first written history of Questa.

…first-person accounts of Rio Colorado [Questa] have been included to give a first-hand view of what life was like here over the years.

Water was and is the basis of everyday life in this high mountain desert. Acequias were often built even before the houses or church in