New Mexico: The Land of Enchantment with Austin Graff

The Preamble

Sharon McMahon

History, Education

4.9 • 15.3K Ratings

🗓️ 13 December 2021

⏱️ 32 minutes

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In this episode, Sharon tells Austin Graff fascinating stories about New Mexico and its 60-year journey in becoming a U.S state. New Mexico - or the land of enchantment, as some call it - is home to ancient cultures and breathtaking landscapes. The region has been continuously inhabited for over 1,000 years and some of the artifacts found in New Mexico date back to the time of the Egyptian pyramids. Unfortunately, due to prejudice against Indigenous and Hispanic people, Congress was hesitant to add New Mexico as a state. Join Sharon and Austin as they uncover how New Mexico became a state and explore the many wonders within its borders.

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0:00.0	Hello friends. Thank you so much for joining me today. I am here with my friend
0:06.5	Austin Graf who is a fantastic contributing writer for the Washington Post. I
0:11.6	absolutely loved chatting with him about the
0:16.4	land of enchantment. What a fascinating history. I have so many fun facts for you. Your minds are going to explode. So let's dive
0:27.2	into my conversation about New Mexico with Austin Graf. I'm Sharon McMahon, and welcome to the Sharon Says So
0:35.7	podcast.
0:38.1	Well, Austin, thank you so much for joining me.
0:40.8	I am absolutely delighted to know you and delighted to be able to chat with you today.
0:46.1	We've been chatting before about your experiences. As an American growing up in Russia, which is I could literally like how much time do you have?
0:56.0	Talk about this topic.
0:59.0	Oh, no, thanks for having me and it was quite the experience, one that you actually might be able to relate to because Russia and Minnesota are very cold places.
1:06.7	It is true and it is also very true that geography, weather, etc. shapes a culture.
1:15.8	Yes, it is 100% does.
1:17.8	Oh, it really does even in just how the colors people use in just buildings. So in Russia if you're not used to it it can be a little bit jarring, but a lot of the buildings are truly gray and white and brown kind of similar to winter more like darker just cold colors and not much color and so if you're not used to that they recommend that you take a little break from Russia every few months and kind of go to like Spain or Turkey where there's a lot of great colors but it really does affect the culture, the landscape, the architecture, everything.
1:52.0	Mm. It shapes who you become.
1:55.0	When you grow up where the weather is such an obstacle to overcome, it shapes who you become.
2:00.1	And I personally love it because I love cold weather and I find cold weather exciting and I always want to visit cold weather destinations.
2:08.7	If I could just like be teleported to the South Pole, I would love that. I live here at this research
2:14.8	station and it's minus 60 outside. Side me up. I agree. Like top of my travel
2:20.8	list is Antarctica and I've researched like how to make it possible and there's
2:24.8	several options now for a tourist to visit Antarctica but it really is like I would love that because it's
2:30.2	cold and there's penguins and it's just darker there's not much sunlight
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