SANTA FE, N.M. —

It's a community spectacle filled with fun, excitement and renewal.

For over a century, Old Man Gloom has been giving people all over the world a needed emotional release.

Zozobra has given many a new and fresh start after seeing their worries and troubles burn away.

It's a tradition that's become embedded into New Mexico's culture. It's an idea — a story — that's credited to one man with the aspiration and vision to create a new and different type of canvas.

The man behind Zozobra? Will Shuster.

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Nov. 26, 1893, a time when one man who would make an enormous impact on New Mexico's culture was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

William Shuster was the second of three children. As th

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