Editing Moriarty, New Mexico (section)

== Culture ==
Every October, Moriarty plays host to the Pinto Bean Fiesta, which is composed of a bunch of simple games in Crossly Park, as well as a parade and crowning of a "Pinto Bean Queen."

The Albuquerque Soaring Club (ASC), established in 1960 in Albuquerque, New Mexico, is currently headquartered at the Moriarty Municipal Airport. Moriarty boasts some of the finest year round soaring conditions in the United States, including 15 knot thermals to 22,000&nbsp;ft, mountain wave to 34,000&nbsp;ft, and orographic lift off the Manzano, Sandia, Ortiz, and Sangre de Cristo mountain ranges. Many flights in excess of 300 miles are recorded each year. Many pilots have achieved all of their soaring diamonds out of Moriarty. Moriarty airport is also home to the United States Southwest Soaring Museum, and has a commercial glider operation, Sundance Aviation.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://abqsoaring.org/|title=Home|website=abqsoaring.org}}</ref>

Moriarty also serves as a fireworks Mecca for the Albuquerque metropolitan area with two year around stores as well as at least two other large tents which set up for the sixteen-day selling period allowed by New Mexico State Law from June 20 to July 6. Vendors sell both Black Cat and TNT brand fireworks. All vendors are located along old Route 66 and competition is always fierce. Almost all Class C fireworks are allowed for sale and use in Moriarty including firecrackers, mortars, Roman candles, and cakes up to 500&nbsp;grams (the maximum allowance), and though pop rockets have been banned throughout New Mexico for the last three years, larger stick rockets are still allowed.

Moriarty is named after the first permanent settler in the town, Michael Timothy Moriarty.<ref>{{Cite web |title=City of Moriarty - Our History |url=http://www.cityofmoriarty.org/index.php?page=our-history |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140219222941/http://www.cityofmoriarty.org/index.php?page=our-history |archive-date=2014-02-19 |access-date=2023-04-14 |website=www.cityofmoriarty.org}}</ref>