Tales of the Tularosa Basin: Lucy Raley, Part II

Tales of the Tularosa Basin: Lucy Raley, Part II

Candice McDonaldFor the Alamogordo News By Christmas, Lucy Raley had buried three of her beloved; she felt unanchored from the world. Her husband had been shot to death by Bill McNew; she had miscarried a baby boy who she had already begun to imagine in her arms—then, eight days before Christmas, in Alamogordo, her mother died. Lucy’s siblings insisted she take all her mother’s canning jars full of tomatoes, pickles, beets, peaches, figs, okra, …