THE PAST 100 YEARS

From the Santa Fe New Mexican: Aug. 29, 1918: Miss Ruth Kelsey of the Museum staff left for the snake dance on the Hopi reservation. The preliminary ceremonies have been in progress since last week. A dispatch from Flagstaff says that instead of being held at Oraibi, where it is staged every alternate year, it having been at Walpi last year, the snake dance this year is booked for … midway between Walpi and Oraibi.

Aug. 29, 1968: Dist. Atty. Alfonso Sanchez apparently has lost the primary election.

In unofficial returns from the three counties making up the district — Santa Fe, Los Alamos and Rio Arriba — Sanchez lost the Democratic nomination to James Thompson of Espanola by 93 votes out of more than 13,000 cast.

Aug. 29, 1993: HERNANDEZ — Six weeks ago, 74-year-old Tillie Maestas watched in horror as a wall of water roared into her yard. Trembling and alone, she sat in the corner of her home praying she would survive.

Today, she prays for the day water will flow again through her kitchen faucet and bathroom pipes.

Nearly two months of washing her dishes in water hauled to her front porch by her son and using her sister’s bathroom across the street have been hard on Maestas.

Hers was among at least 30 homes damaged July 12 when a flash flood struck this small community just north of Española.