Time travel’s not all that hard if you follow your nose. Smells go straight to the emotional memory center of the brain, returning many to their mother’s kitchen by way of a whiff of freshly baked bread, to their father’s workshop by the dusty scent of fragrant woodwork, or to dreamy, long-forgotten vacations on the ozone fresh portent of incoming rain. Here, I ride the dark, luxuriant aroma of newly tanned cowhide back to the farm’s old tack room. My early childhood smelled like this. With luck, my Heaven will too.

It’ll smell like Lou Taubert’s.

Trout Unlimited’s new film, “Querencia,” explores the resiliency the small town of Questa, New Mexico, which is situated below spectacular mountains and above the undeniable beauty of the nearby Rio Grande Gorge. When tragedy struck at the fabric of the small village—first through collapse of the town church and later through the closing of a nearby mine, Questa’s main economic driver—its citizens rallied together to rebuild and maintain its existence.