Gila Regional Medical Center celebrated its first quarter-century in 2009, one of many milestones in a continuum of hospital service in Silver City going back to 1883. Although known by different names and housed at various sites over the years, our local hospital has always been dedicated to meeting community needs. Today GRMC—one of the few county-owned hospitals remaining in New Mexico—is the medical hub for southwest New Mexico, providing a wide range of services and medical specialties to the people of Grant, Luna, Hidalgo and Catron counties.

An exhibit of photographs by Jan Haley. The exhibit travels to Silver City from the New Mexico Museum of Natural History in Albuquerque, and is presented in collaboration with The Nature Conservancy. “Free Flow” features some 40 photographs, following the Gila River from its headwaters on the western slope of the Continental Divide to the Arizona border. Maps and interpretive text, poetry by Carol Sinor, and a video component are also included in the exhibit. Haley’s photographs provide a comprehensive look at how the river has shaped the landscape and the wildlife that is nourished by it. Riverscapes, aerial views, and intimate close-ups illustrate the Gila’s journey from its high mountain source to the arid canyon lands where it leaves New Mexico. The images also appear in Haley’s book, Free Flow: The Gila River in New Mexico, published last year by University of New Mexico Press. Jan Haley, a Hillsboro resident, published her first book of photography, Max Evans’ Hi Lo Country: Under the One-Eyed Sky, in 2004. Copies of her Gila River book are available through the Museum Store.