In 1973, a Mexican anthropologist assembled a group of people from different countries, religions and cultures to cross the Atlantic on a raft with minimal comforts, no motor and a single sail. He was hoping to observe conflict and even violence, but it didn’t turn out the way he’d anticipated. We talk to filmmaker Marcus Lindeen about his documentary about the original journey—and the reunion 43 years later. 

"Before Stonewall" is an award-winning and groundbreaking documentary from 1984 about LGBT America before 1969. We talk to co-director Robert Rosenberg about the making of the film, which includes elders who came of age in the 1920s, and the making of a civil rights movement.

We talk to Santa Fe Opera dramaturg Cori Ellison about the operas in this summer’s season—history, production, casting and the beauty and drama of both classics and a world premiere.

David K. Randall’s new book "Black Death at the Golden Gate: The Race to Save America from the Bubonic Plague” is the vividly told story of the advent of modern medicine, and the science and politics of the fight against a brutally lethal bacterium.

At the age of 23, Erica Elliott went to teach school on the Navajo reservation. After a rocky beginning, she fell in love with the people and their culture—and witnessed miracles that even now as a medical doctor she cannot fully understand.

Tomás Rivera of the Chainbreaker Collective talks about what it will take to ensure fairness and equity for the most vulnerable people and neighborhoods in Santa Fe—especially as the former College of Santa Fe campus is developed.

For centuries, pueblos have fought to assert and maintain their rights to land, water and self-determination. In the new book “Pueblo Sovereignty: Indian Land and Water in New Mexico and Texas,” historians Malcolm Ebright and Rick Hendricks explore the long history—and many successes—of this struggle.

Doug Lynam found his calling as a money manager while serving as a monk and taking care of the monastery’s finances. He brings spiritual, environmental and practical perspectives to his work. We talk about his new book “From Monk to Money Manager: A Monk’s Financial Guide to Becoming a Little Bit Wealthy—and Why That’s Okay.” 

A tribute to the life of Nobel Prize-winning scientist and co-founder of the Santa Fe Institute, Murray Gell-Mann, who died on May 24. Gell-Mann discovered the subatomic particle the Quark, and worked in many disciplines, including linguistics, archaeology, history and economics.