Slow down. Look closer. At Corvallis Walking Tours, we slow down and look closer. What began as a walking tour site has evolved into a thoughtful chronicle of places, people, history, travel, and everyday observations from Corvallis (formerly), Silver City and far beyond. Through essays, reflections, local discoveries, and stories gathered over more than twenty years, writer Esther Powell invites readers to explore the world with curiosity, humor, and attention to the details that are so often overlooked.
- 2025 – 2026April 18, 2026 Silver City, NM Last week some folks who came into the museum were looking for the house where the great grandfather of one of them had run a boarding house. It was a boarding house for decades, she said. Her grandfather and another child had put handprints into the cement on a… Read more: 2025 – 2026
- June – December 31, 2024December 25, 2024 Albuquerque, New Mexico The lumenaria walk had some unexpected surprises last night. Farols – fires – along the streets were traditional on Canyon Road, Santa Fe in the last quarter-century of the 1900s, but for some reason I did not expect them in Albuquerque. And they were not there in quite the… Read more: June – December 31, 2024
- January February, March 2024March 18, 2024 Silver City, New Mexico Windy all day today. The university gym was closed last week. This week it is open, but I cannot face going back quite yet. Big discussion today about dogs (and people!) who are leaving feces around town. This is worse than it was when I moved here, along… Read more: January February, March 2024
- October -November 2023December 5, 2023 Silver City, New Mexico Today I was walking to the store and a yellow leaf fell down in my path. Oh, I thought – Fall is coming. !!! No, Winter is almost here! Our citizens have been driving through yellow and brown leaves for weeks. Yet the weeping willows are still green.… Read more: October -November 2023
- September, 2023September 27, 2023 Silver City, New Mexico Today the museum is aflurry with all the activity involved in getting a new exhibit up. The volunteers are coming this evening to get a first look at it (an honor!) as well as see the new greeters’ desk that one of the staff has just finished putting… Read more: September, 2023
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