Downtown Silver City along the Big Ditch was hopping from the Farmers' Market to the Visitor Center, with activities for kids, inlcuiding a squash derby by the Grant County Extension Service and hands on things for kids to do and short history lessons for adults and kids, put on for Big Ditch Day by Silver City MainStreet.
Photos by Mary Alice Murphy
Downtown Silver City July 19, 2014
Downtown Silver City July 19, 2014
Enter the Farmers' Market and hear music and watch dancing.
Downtown Silver City July 19, 2014
Rylie James, 6, works on his squash derby vehicle at the Grant County Extension Office table.
Downtown Silver City July 19, 2014
Sebi Castello,7, Joseph Costell, 9, Phoenix Fort, 7, and Tripp Lorette, 7, are in various stages of creating their squash derby vehicles.
Downtown Silver City July 19, 2014
Tripp Lorette sends his squash derby vehicle down the course.
Downtown Silver City July 19, 2014
Sam Lowry, Extension ag and 4-H agent, prepares an adult-sized squash derby vehicle.
Downtown Silver City July 19, 2014
Silver City MainStreet Board President Lucy Whitmarsh stands with Pat Garrett, AKA Scott Green. Garrett came to Silver City to try to arrest Billy the Kid. It is unknonw if he succeeded.
Downtown Silver City July 19, 2014
Miner Lorenzo Carrasco AKA Raul Turrieta, along with his brother, Juan Carrasco, came to Silver City from Mexico to teach people how to smelter silver.
Downtown Silver City July 19, 2014
Once a month the Silver City Watershed Keepers clean up the Ditch and test the water, which is mostly up to standards. From left, Andrew Kindlof, Gabriel Gilmore and Page Adams stand with the exhibit of items that have been found in the Ditch.
Downtown Silver City July 19, 2014
A contrast of Lucy in period dress and taking a photo of the big Ditch with a modern camera.
Downtown Silver City July 19, 2014
Jamie Thomson helps put a blue jay costume on Zeyah Pearson, 5, in preparation for the Monsoon Puppet Parade held later Saturday.
Downtown Silver City July 19, 2014
Zeyah Pearson in the blue jay costume.
Downtown Silver City July 19, 2014
Addison Pearson, 7, in the large fish costume.
Downtown Silver City July 19, 2014
Zeyah, just liike a woman, has tried on another costume. This time she is the fisherman in a boat and is trying to catch the fish, her brother Addison.
Downtown Silver City July 19, 2014
Do a wolf and a miner have anything to talk about? Evidently so.
Downtown Silver City July 19, 2014
Zoe Flores, 4, paints a fish.
Downtown Silver City July 19, 2014
Zia Flores, 6, is just about to finish painting her fish.
Downtown Silver City July 19, 2014
Silver City Poets Laureate Elise Stuart, now serving in the posiiton, and First Poet Laureate Bonnie Buckley Maldonado write and emote.
Downtown Silver City July 19, 2014
Rebecca Brewer AKA Pat Ross explains that most of Brewer Hill was owned by Rebecca, who donated land for a church, which still stands today. She helped poor people afford property and also sold herbs.
Downtown Silver City July 19, 2014
Spindling and spinning, Connie Powers, Randi Olson and Kathi Anderson choose to sit in the shade.
