#tribal-messenger

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Tribal Messenger 2026-08-01

Commune newsletter that serialized Baer's informal first-draft solar book across eight issues from March to October 1973, teaching solar physics through junkyards and everyday obje…

Bob Buffington 2026-08-01

Photographer credited for the March 1973 'Solar Energy' insert photographs of New Mexico passive solar installations in the Tribal Messenger.

Ellie McGilly 2026-08-01

Illustrator who drew the artwork for Baer's April 1973 Tribal Messenger solar energy chapter.

Peter Glaser 2026-08-01

Proposer of the orbital solar-power satellite (funded by a $200,000 AD Little grant) that Baer critiqued in his 1973 Tribal Messenger chapter.

Flow Shot 1 2026-08-01

Circa-1968 publication by the Lama Foundation cookbook fund, confirmed published and listed on the Dome Cookbook cover but not in the archive.

Federal historic registry under which the Baer House likely qualifies via Criterion A (broad historical patterns) and Criterion C (distinctive construction methods).

Sol Shot 1 2026-08-01

Circa-1968 cookbook-fund poster in the curator's possession pending scan; if 'Sol' means solar it would be Baer's earliest solar publication, predating Sunspots by about seven year…

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Tribal Messenger Cover (1973)
Tribal Messenger Cover (1973)

Cover of the 'Solar Energy' insert in The Tribal Messenger, March 12, 1973 — a hand-drawn sun face above a photograph of the Baer house roofline and Sandia Mountains.

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