Roswell

Roswell, New Mexico, 1980
South of the town of Roswell is the old Air Force base. It was a huge military complex, bigger that the town itself, and though the base was closed, the place still served Roswell with an excellent International class airport. In addition to this, many of the buildings were re purposed; the Eastern New Mexico University had a sizable branch here, as well as a Job Corps Center. I was part of this Job Corps Center, and in fact was in the first group of young people to arrive when it opened in 1979. Every few days a bus load of kids would come, until finally we had 500 altogether, but that took some time. For a while it seemed as though we had the whole abandoned military base to ourselves, and abandoned was the word for what we found.
Technically we were trespassing, but there…