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ALBUQUERQUE, NM (CGE) - Walking into the western clothing shop in downtown Taos, New Mexico, you're confronted with a sea of cowboy hats, shirts, vests, belts and other western clothing items spread out through a store that's been in operation for 38 years.
The store's proprietor, Pablo Martinez, whose cultural heritage includes Spanish, Italian and Indian roots that date back 400 years, told CGE that the tug of the mountains that look down on the 9,000 foot-high small town brought him back to the area he was born and raised in, where his father and grandfather raised sheep.
Martinez said he's happy with the quality of people who come visit the town before they decide to settle down in it. Whether of means or no means, people come to Taos for its clean air and open spaces, blue skies and layered mountain landscapes that combine to dazzle you, then coax you to settle down there on a on-going basis.
Watch and listen as Pablo Martinez talks candidly about the town he loves, the challenges it faces, and why water scarcity, a factor across New Mexico, which will celebrate its 100th birthday as a state next year, will be the factor that ultimately limits commercial development, a prospect Martinez is OK with.
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