Otero County Heritage Festival featured wild west show, chile roasting, vendors

Nicole Maxwell, Alamogordo Daily News
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Heavy rains ceased in time for the Otero County Heritage Festival put on by the Flickinger Center for Performing Arts and the Tularosa Basin Historical Society to begin at 4 p.m. Aug. 20. in Alamogordo.

The festival included a street dance, vendors, a wild west show, green chile roasting and art and photographic exhibits in Patrons Hall.

There were also Alamogordo High School students' films being presented in the Flickinger Center for Performing Arts.

The Flickinger Center for Performing Arts and New Mexico State University-Alamogordo hosted Desert Light Film Festival in April where some of the films were shown including the award-winning documentary by Alamogordo High School "The Story of Francois Jean Rochas."

A festival goer looks at photos taken by G.E. Miller on display at Patrons Hall. The Otero County Heritage Festival was held Saturday, August 20, 2022 on the 1100 block of New York Avenue in Alamogordo. The event featured a wild west show, chile roasting, art and photography exhibits in Patrons Hall and local vendors including Cadwallader Farms, Nichols Farms and The Local Bodega

One of the exhibits in Patrons Hall was of photos taken by G.E. Miller of southern New Mexico, primarily of Alamogordo, Cloudcroft, Mayhill and loggers, families and businesses at the time.

G.E. Miller, short for Green Edward Miller lived from June 4, 1870 until May 25, 1954.

"It is clear from even a brief look at Miller's photographic output that his eye and lens took in a view of this territory that was both broad in scope and explicit in its particulars," Dennis Daly said in the 2002 book "Scenes of Our Past from the Camera of G.E. Miller: which was published by the Tularosa Basin Historical Society.

Angie Cadwallader of Cadwallader Mountain Farms, who also serves as on the Alamogordo Public Schools Board of Education, shows off plums, peaches apples and jams at the Cadwallader Farms booth at the Otero County Heritage Festival. The Otero County Heritage Festival was held Saturday, August 20, 2022 on the 1100 block of New York Avenue in Alamogordo. The event featured a wild west show, chile roasting, art and photography exhibits in Patrons Hall and local vendors including Cadwallader Mountain Farms, Nichols Ranch and Orchards and The Local Bodega.

Patron's Hall is being used as a mini Tularosa Basin Historical Society Museum. Patron's Hall closed its regular hours in 2021. It is available for rent as a special events venue.

For more information about Patron's Hall, call 575-437-2202. For more information about the Tularosa Basin Historical Society call 575-434-4438.

Nicole Maxwell can be contacted by email at nmaxwell@alamogordonews.com, by phone at 575-415-6605 or on Twitter at @nicmaxreporter.

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