September 2021 New Mexico History & Culture Opportunities

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FREE SATURDAY WALKING TOURS, 10 AM, DOWNTOWN CENTRAL (1ST – 8TH ST.)  MEET YOUR GUIDE IN FRONT OF TUCANO’S RESTAURANT AT 1ST & CENTRAL SW. Sponsored by the Albuquerque Historical Society.

The September 19 virtual program of the Albuquerque Historical Society (AHS) presents Richard & Shirley Cushing Flint speaking on their book: Overhaul: a Social History of the ABQ Locomotive Repair Shops. The AT&SF shops were the City and state’s largest employer from the 1880s-1950s. Its payroll drove the ABQ economy.  For more info go to the website, albuqhistsoc.org.

OPEN HOUSE FOR HISTORIC LOCOMOTIVE 2926, free food, pictures of the train, merchandise for sale, music. 1833 8th St. NW. More info at 2926.us.

NEW MEXICO STATE FAIR, SEPTEMBER 9-19. More information at  StateFair.expoNM.com. 

EAST MOUNTAIN HISTORICAL SOCIETY announces the recorded program of Rt. 66 and Historic NM License Plates. Go to EastMountainHistory.org/recorded.html  to view.

SEPTEMBER 1, 12 noon, free, virtual on the You Tube channel of the NM History Museum in Santa Fe. Go to NMHistoryMuseum.org. The Apache treaty of 1852, presented by Jeff Shepherd, Professor of history at UTEP.  The website of the Friends of History has links to all the past programs, FriendsofHistoryNM.org. 

SEPTEMBER 2, San Estavan Feast Day, Acoma Pueblo

SEPTEMBER 2/3, 11 am and every Thursday/Fri. in September, in person, $2. Tour of Torreon Mundos de Mestizaje fresco by Frederico Vigil. National Hispanic Cultural Center. More info at nhccnm.org.

SEPTEMBER 3, 5-8 pm, free, In-person, ! ART WALK DOWNTOWN CENTRAL. Meet the artists in person. Street music and vendors. Most artists will be along Central. Download map and descriptions at abqartwalk.com.

SEPTEMBER 3 and other Fridays in September, 4:30-7:30 pm, free. La Familia Growers Market, 100 Isleta SW @ Bridge Blvd. Includes arts and crafts, kids’ activities, food trucks, music, heritage work

SEPTEMBER 3-5, free. Fridays/Saturday 7-9 pm; Sunday 1-3 pm, Music in the Old Town Plaza Gazebo. Bring your own chair. More details on the City’s website, cabq.gov/oldtown or call 311.

SEPTEMBER 3 & 10, 7:30 pm, free. Shakespeare at the Open Space Visitor Center., 6400 Coors NW. Sept. 3, Hamlet; Sept. 10, Twelfth Night. Performance is outdoors so bring chair or lawn blanket. 

SEPTEMBER 4, St. Augustine Feast Day, Isleta Pueblo.

SEPTEMBER 4 , 1 pm, $20, Anthropological Genetic History, Coronado & Spanish Exploration of the Southwest presented by Angel de Cervantes from the New Mexico DNA Project and the Iberian Peninsula DNA Institute. Pay by check. To pay and get a link for the program contact angelrcervantes@gmail.com

SEPTEMBER 4/5, 11am, 2 pm, in person, admission fee. Cultural Dance Program representing various pueblos. Indian Pueblo Cultural Center. Go to indianpueblo.org for more info.

SEPTEMBER 4, 8:30-11:30 am. Help Clean-up Historic Fairview Cemetery,  700 Yale SE. Come and hoe tumbleweeds and goat heads. The cemetery is open dawn to dusk and accessible through the gates of Fairview Memorial Park. Wear hard soled shoes & bring your own tools. Trash bags provided.  www.HistoricFairviewCemeteryABQ.org or facebook.com/HistoricFairviewCemetery. “Where the Past meets the Present”.

SEPTEMBER 4, 6 pm, Concert is free but there is $2 per car parking fee. Concert at the Elena Gallego Visitor Center, 7100 Tramway NE. Performance by the Meandering, a duo of guitar and folk music.

SEPTEMBER 4 & other Saturdays in SEPTEMBER, 8 am – 12 – Downtown Growers Market at Robinson Park, 8th & Central NW. Mask not required if you are vaccinated. (Honor System)

SEPTEMBER 5, 8 am, free but you must preregister at 768-4950. Guided Nature Walk / Bosque Wild. Leaves from the Open Space Visitor Center, 6400 Coors NW. www.cabq.gov/openspace.

SEPTEMBER 6, OBSERVANCE OF LABOR DAY

SEPTEMBER 7, OBSERVANCE OF ROSH HASHANAH

SEPTEMBER 7, 5:30-6:30 pm, free, in person or Zoom. Levi Romero speaks on The University of New Mexico, Mi Querencia, A Narrative Cruise through the Manito Homeland. UNM Zimmerman Library. Sponsored by the Center for Southwest Research. To request Zoom link contact tjaehn@unm.edu.

SEPTEMBER 5, 12, 19 & 26, 10 am-2 pm and other Sundays.  Rail Yards Market. Various vendors, 777 1st St. SW.

SEPTEMBER 8, 6 pm, free, virtual. Bookworks presents  New Mexico Remembers 9/11. Go to the Bookworks website, bkwrks.com to register and receive a link.

SEPTEMBER 8, 10:30 am, virtual, free. That 1st Trip to the Courthouse, suggestions for genealogy research. ABQ Genealogical Soc. abqgen.org.

SEPTEMBER 8, Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Feast Day, Laguna Pueblo (Encinal) Corn Dance at San Ildefonso Pueblo.

SEPTEMBER 9/10, 11 am and every Thursday/Fri. in SEPTEMBER in person, $2. Tour of Torreon Mundos de Mestizaje fresco by Frederico Vigil. National Hispanic Cultural Center. Register at nhccnm.org.

SEPTEMBER 9, 12 noon, virtual, free. Museum of Las Cruces “History Notes” presents Patrica Kiddney speaking on Women Survivors of the Battle of Columbus. Go to las-cruces.org/1523/museums.Contact Kayla Myers for link and more information. kmyers@las-cruces.org, 575-541-2154

SEPTEMBER 9, 3 pm, virtual, $10 for non members. Historic Santa Fe presents Nancy Owen Lewis speaking on Pastures Possessed: The Cattle Mutilation Conspiracy. Go to the website HistoricSantaFe.org to register and pay fee.

SEPTEMBER 10, 7:30 pm, free. Shakespeare at the Open Space Visitor Center. Sept. 10, Twelfth Night. Performance is outdoors so bring chair or lawn blanket. 

SEPTEMBER 10, 1:30-3pm, free but you must reserve a spot. Tour the Tamarind Gallery at UNM, 2500 Central SE. More info at tamarind.unm.edu.

SEPTEMBER 10, 1 pm, Zoom. Colcha Embroidery. National Hispanic Cultural Center. www.nhccnm.org.

SEPTEMBER 11/12, 11am, 2 pm, in person, admission fee. Cultural Dance Program representing various pueblos. Indian Pueblo Cultural Center. Go to indianpueblo.org for more info.

SEPTEMBER 11/12, 10am-5 pm, free. Corrales Art Studio tour. Download the map at CorralesArtStudioTour.com.

SEPTEMBER 11, Observance of Patriot’s Day, 20th anniversary of 9/11.

SEPTEMBER 11, 10:30 am, in person, free. Women in the History of “Manned Spaceflight” presented by Loretta Hall. Pioneering women in Space history. Special Collections Library, Edith & Central NE. 848-1376.

SEPTEMBER 11, 9am-12 noon, free, in person. Clean up of the Valle de Oro National Wildlife Refuge, 7851 2nd St. SW. Contact friendsofvalledeoro.org for more information.

SEPTEMBER 12, 11 am – 3pm, $5 per dog. Doggy Paddle Swim with your dog. Cosponsored by the Parks and Recreation Dept. and Animal Welfare. Rio Grande outdoor pool. Contact the City at 311.

SEPTEMBER 12, 1 pm, free, virtual. Bookworks presents Sam Shepard and New Mexico by John Millar. Go to the Bookworks website, bkwrks.com to register and receive a link.

SEPTEMBER 12, 3 pm, free, virtual. Bookworks presents Not A Nation of Immigrants by Roxanne Dunbar Ortiz and Nick Estes. Go to the Bookworks website, bkwrks.com to register and receive a link.

SEPTEMBER 13, 12 NOON, free, Zoom. Press Women presents State Sen. Daniel Ivy Soto speaking on the upcoming Albuquerque election Nov. 2 and the effort behind consolidating NM elections (school boards). Contact Linda Lockett at lockettabq@comcast.net to get the link to the program.

SEPTEMBER 14, 2pm, virtual and in person, $5 donation. Pueblo Book Club, Indian Pueblo Cultural Center. Book is Southwestern Pottery. More info at indianpueblo.org.

SEPTEMBER 14, free, virtual. Michael Ettema speaks on the pottery of Maria & Julian — Pottery Revolution. Contact the Los Alamos Historical Society, losAlamosHistory.org to get the link.

SEPTEMBER 16/17, 11 am and every Thursday/Fri. in SEPTEMBER in person, $2. Tour of Torreon Mundos de Mestizaje fresco by Frederico Vigil. National Hispanic Cultural Center. Register at nhccnm.org.

SEPTEMBER 16-18, Globalquerque celebration of immigrant and indigenous culture in the US. National Hispanic Cultural Center. Ticket info at globalquerque.org.

SEPTEMBER 16, observance of Yom Kippur.

SEPTEMBER 16, 6-8 pm, in-person, free. THIRD THURSDAY AT THE ALBUQUERQUE MUSEUM. Music of the 1930s/40s outdoor in the amphitheater. All galleries open. Go to cabq.gov/museum for more details and  listing of activities. Info from Jessica Coyle, 764-6517,   jcoyle@cabq.gov.

SEPTEMBER 18 , 1 pm, $20, Anthropological Genetic History, the Spanish founding of Florida and the Spanish Jesuit Massacre. Presented by Angel de Cervantes from the New Mexico DNA Project and the Iberian Peninsula DNA Institute. To pay and get a link for the program contact angelrcervantes@gmail.com

SEPTEMBER 18, 3 PM, free, virtual. Joe Sabatini presents J.R. Willis Postcard Artist & Gallup Arts Entrepreneur. Sponsored by the Gallup New Deal Art Project. Live on the Facebook pages of Gallup Arts and the Octavia Fellin Public Library. More info at www.galluparts.org/newdeal.

SEPTEMBER 16/17, 11 am and every Thursday/Fri. in SEPTEMBER in person, $2. Tour of Torreon Mundos de Mestizaje fresco by Frederico Vigil. National Hispanic Cultural Center. Register at nhccnm.org.

SEPTEMBER 18, 9-11 am, free. Family Nature Club meets for a hike at the Open Space Visitor Center, 6400 Coors NW. You must preregister at play.cabq.gov.

SEPTEMBER 18, 6 pm, free Sunset concert series presents Sun Sounds, a duo of electronic beats with folk inspired vocals. Open Space Visitor Center, 6400 Coors NW.

SEPTEMBER 18/19, 11am, 2 pm, in person, admission fee. Cultural Dance Program representing various pueblos. Indian Pueblo Cultural Center. Go to indianpueblo.org for more info.

SEPTEMBER 19, 2pm, free. Go to albuqhistsoc.org to connect to the Facebook page of the ABQ Historical Society. Richard & Shirley Cushing Flint discuss the AT&SF engine shops that drove the Albuquerque economy for over 75 years.

SEPTEMBER 19, 2pm, free, in person. Kathy Flynn speaks about Revisiting New Deal Art in New Mexico (the WPA) Corrales Historical Society at the old Corrales Church. Also sponsored by the Historical Society of NM. Old Corrales Church, 966 Old Church Rd. www.corraleshistory.org. 

SEPTEMBER 22, 6 pm, free, virtual. Bookworks presents  A Sports Fan’s Guide to Rt. 66 written by Ron Clements. Go to the Bookworks website, bkwrks.com to register and receive a link.SEPTEMBER 22, 1st day of fall.

SEPTEMBER 23/24, 11 am and every Thursday/Fri. in SEPTEMBER in person, $2. Tour of Torreon Mundos de Mestizaje fresco by Frederico Vigil. National Hispanic Cultural Center. Register at nhccnm.org.

SEPTEMBER 24, 12 noon, Zoom, free.  Lecture on New Mexico history topic. Sponsored by the Historical Society of New Mexico. Will be recorded for future viewing on its you tube channel. Go to hsnm.org then programs then events. Request Zoom link by emailing,  hsnmgeneral@gmail.com.

SEPTEMBER 25, 9am-5 pm, free, in person. Locomotive 2926 annual Open House, 1833 8th St. NW. Free hot dogs & soda, music, photo opportunities. learn about the renovation of Locomotive 2926. www.2926.us.

SEPTEMBER 24-26, 10 am-4pm, free in person. Harvest Festival at Casa San Ysidro in Corrales. 973 Old Church Rd. Hands on demonstrations.  

SEPTEMBER 25, St. Elizabeth Feast Day, Laguna Pueblo

SEPTEMBER 25, 2:30-4:30 pm, in person, free. Main Library Welcome Back Bonanza for kids. Games, activities.

SEPTEMBER 23/24, 11 am and every Thursday/Fri. in September, in person, $2. Tour of Torreon Mundos de Mestizaje fresco by Frederico Vigil. National Hispanic Cultural Center. Register at nhccnm.org.

SEPTEMBER 25, 11 am, free. tour of Special Collections Library. Call 848-1376 to reserve a spot.

SEPTEMBER 25/26, 10 am -5 pm, free. Sandia Heights Artist annual studio tour. Download brochure at SandiaHeightsArtists.com.

SEPTEMBER 25, 9am-12 noon, free. “Company’s Coming” neighborhood clean up. Register your neighborhood with the City’s Solid Waste Dept. to get free trash bags and gloves. Contact 311.

SEPTEMBER 25/26, 11am, 2 pm, in person, admission fee. Cultural Dance Program representing various pueblos. Indian Pueblo Cultural Center. Go to indianpueblo.org for more info.

SEPTEMBER 24 and other Fridays, 4:30-7:30 pm, free. La Familia Growers Market, 100 Isleta SW @ Bridge Blvd. Includes arts and crafts, kids’ activities, food trucks, music, heritage workshops. Sponsored by the South Valley Main Street. Contact Biana Encinias @ 400-3635 for more info or southvalleymainstreeet@gmail.com.

SEPTEMBER 26, 10am-5 pm, in person, $5 person. Aki Matsuri Japanese Fall Festival. NM Veterans Park, 1100 Louisiana SE. Japanese dancing and singing, Japanese Food, art, taiko drumming, martial arts. More info at nmjacl.org. 

SEPTEMBER 26, 12 noon-5 pm, in person, free. Fiesta For Life East Mountains Celebration, Los Vecinos Community Center, 478 1/2 Old Rt. 66. East Mountains Historical Society sells their 2022 calendar. Dance Music vendors, car show, food trucks, (beer/wine).

SEPTEMBER 27, 5:30-7 pm, free, in person. Coco Roe presents a Brief History of Valles Caldera National Preserve. This talk examines the geological, political and cultural history of Valles Caldera. Hans Bethe House, 1350 Bathtub Row in Los Alamos. More info at www.losalamoshistory.org.

SEPTEMBER 30 , San Geronimo Feast Day, Taos Pueblo

SEPTEMBER 30, 11 am and every Thursday/Fri. in SEPTEMBER in person, $2. Tour of Torreon Mundos de Mestizaje fresco by Frederico Vigil. National Hispanic Cultural Center. Register at nhccnm.org.

OCTOBER 1-3, GREEK FESTIVAL AT ST. GEORGE GREEK ORTHODOX CHURCH.

Friday only Tours, 2pm, of the Randall Davey Audubon Center & Sanctuary, end of Upper Canyon Rd. Santa Fe. Only five people per tour. $5 donation requested. Call 505-983-4609 to make reservation.

AMERICAN INDIAN EDUCATION AT UNM, iaie.unm.edu. Watch several previously recorded programs about Native American education, the Dine language and more.

EL RANCHO DE LAS GOLONDRINAS. Go to Golondrinas.org and click on the Facebook icon on the right to watch a variety of past programs. Examples are: The Truchas Mill, El Horno, Sheep to Blanket, Chile & Wild Greens, NM Remedios.

NEW MEXICO HUMANITIES COUNCIL has numerous programs on their YouTube Channel including What Public Memorials mean in New Mexico, A Tribute to Rudolpho Anaya, Creating a Multi Cultural NM. Go to their website www.nmhumanities.org. Blackdom,  a panel discussion about the southern NM town founded in 1903. There are programs about the French in New Mexico, Japanese Internment camps during WW II, Women’s Suffrage and the Rio Grande. Go to nmhum.org  You tube channel.

HISTORIC SANTA FE FOUNDATION (historicSantaFe.org) offers two free programs to watch: Ron Duncan Hart speaking on the Early Jews in NM; Rob Martinez – The Enduring Hispanic Music of NM.

The Wheels Museum, 1100 2nd St. SW has reopened. Times are Monday-Thursday, 9am-12 noon. Call first to confirm, 243-6269 or info@wheelsmuseum.org.

Commemoration of the adoption of the 19th Amendment to the US Constitution giving women the right to vote. Various Speakers including elected officials, poets, One Albuquerque Media Facebook page.  https://www.facebook.com/OneABQMedia/videos/321398079104075

Corrales Historical Society celebrates the 50th anniversary of the incorporation of the Village of Corrales and the 300th anniversary of the Corrales area. Historical displays all year at the Corrales Village Hall and in the windows of the Corrales Library. View more than 1500 photos now at UNM through econtent.unm.edu/digitalcollection/chs. More info on the website of CorralesHistory.org.

MURALS OF ALBUQUERQUE (www.murosabq.com) This shows over 130 murals in the ABQ metro area. You click on each picture and it shows the mural, gives its title and address, describes the image, and the artists.

ONLINE TOUR OF THE 15 HISTORIC MURALS AT THE INDIAN PUEBLO CULTURAL CENTER The tour gives details  of the artist and the dance or ritual illustrated in the mural. https://indianpueblo.org/pueblos-pigments-and-prominence-the-murals-of-ipcc/

Virtual Tour of the Downtown Main Library, 1975. Presented by Modern Albuquerque and sponsored by the Urban Enhancement Trust Fund. More information including the YouTube link to the live stream is on their Events page. See www.modernabq.org/events

Historic Carizozo, NM, see the winners of the New Mexico Magazine 2020 Photo Contest at the Tularosa Basin Photo Gallery. It is now open on Friday/Saturday 10 am-5 pm and Sundays from 12 noon-5pm. PhotoZozo.org, 575-937-1489.

Cibola County History Museum, 525 West High St., Grants NM. Social distancing and masks required. Go to cibolaHistory.org for more information.

OASIS SENIOR LEARNING IS PROVIDING ONLINE PROGRAMS. Contact 884-4529 or visit albuquerque.oasisnet.org for more information.

NUCLEAR MUSEUM – The Museum has a huge collection of oral history interviews (also transcribed) called Voices of the Manhattan Project. There are some 600 interviews of individuals who were either at the Manhattan Project or a family member who worked there. The  interviews are organized into 39 categories such as: Internment of Japanese Americans, Life in the Secret cities,  Hispanic employees, Native American. https://www.nuclearmuseum.org/educate/atomic-heritage-foundation  https://www.manhattanprojectvoices.org/

VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITIES

Historic Fairview Cemetery, 700 Yale SE. invites anyone to come and hoe tumbleweeds and goat heads. The cemetery is open dawn to dusk and accessible through the gates of Fairview Memorial Park. Wear hard soled shoes & bring your own tools.   www.HistoricFairviewCemeteryABQ.org or Facebook.com/HistoricFairviewCemetery. “Where the Past meets the Present.

”Watch Early Jews in New Mexico presented by Ron Duncan Hart. Sponsored by the Historic Santa Fe Foundation. Go to HistoricSantaFe.org. for information.

75TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE END OF WW II – The War Years: Selected Images from the NM Digital Collection. Go to the website of the Center for SW Research/Zimmerman Library,  Elibrary.unm.edu/cswr/

VISIT THE EXHIBITS AT THE MAXWELL MUSEUM OF ANTHROPOLOGY maxwellmuseum.unm.edu 

THE NEW MEXICO HISTORY MUSEUM has put many programs on Facebook or YouTube including The Santa Fe River in NM History presented by William Mee, ex. director of the Santa Fe Watershed Association and Andy Otto from Agua Fria. There are six videos telling the story of The Harvey Girls. YouTube https://www.YouTube.com /user/NM museum . Look up the titles. More info at the NM History Museum website, nmhistorymuseum.org.
For Facebook, click on: https://www.facebook.com/events/3051120368304586/
For YouTube, go to:  https://www.youtube.com/user/NMmus

TRIBUTES TO AUTHOR RUDOLFO ANAYA AND LINKS TO HIS ARCHIVES AT THE UNM CENTER FOR SOUTHWEST RESEARCH https://anaya.unm.edu Because of Rudolfo Anaya’s literary and cultural significance to New Mexico and to honor his legacy, UNM Libraries’ Department of Digital Initiative and Scholarly Resources (DISC) created the Rudolfo Anaya Digital Archive, a comprehensive online guide to his life and work. Oral histories, draft manuscripts, book covers, and an extensive bibliography of Anaya resources are available in the online archive. CSWR staff, and indeed, the entire UNM Libraries community is deeply saddened by Mr. Anaya’s death, one of New Mexico’s great writers and cultural icons.  While his passing is a great loss, by placing his papers with CSWR he left an incredible gift to New Mexico. His work will be treasured and preserved in perpetuity in the Center for Southwest Research and Special Collections for future generations to enjoy. For detailed descriptions of the material in the Rudolfo A. Anaya Papers please see the CSWR finding aid at  https://rmoa.unm.edu/docviewer.php?docId=nmu1mss321bc.xml#crit To access the Rudolfo A. Anaya Digital Archive, please visit https://anaya.unm.edu/

Many museums now have virtual tours. Many museums and history organizations are providing free lectures & programs by using Zoom, YouTube or the Facebook page of the organization.(Note: you do NOT have to be a Facebook user to view the Facebook page of many organizations). Some of these require pre-registration so you may receive a “specific link and password”. The programs are recorded to watch later. Most programs are free but some groups are requiring payment of a fee prior to getting a link or password to access the site.

*****AMAZING HISTORY / CULTURE OPPORTUNITIES ONLINE*****

Many of the museums and cultural centers in the ABQ metro area have put programming on their websites, Facebook pages or YouTube links. This includes everything from:

  • concerts, history lectures, video tours of various museum collections,
  • photograph pod casts, curriculum and study guides for children, audio interviews,

All of this is free and even “low tech” individuals can navigate these websites There are YouTube channels available at no cost to watch to all. You are urged to explore many websites but especially these:

  • CORONADO HISTORIC SITE- Watch numerous programs from the website of the Friends of Coronado Historic Site. Kuaua.org/presentations. You can also just listen by phone. All info on their website.
  • NEW MEXICO HISTORY IN TEN MINUTES (newmexicohistory.org) On the home page, go to the bottom and click on Video of the Month. The entire list of episodes will appear by clicking on the corner of the video. NM State Historian Rob Martinez is most engaging and informative and there are more than 40 Episodes. The episodes may be heard in chronological order or by topic which is introduced in the first minute or so of the episode.
  • NATIONAL HISPANIC CULTURAL CENTER (www.nhccnm.org) La Hilacha Podcast-numerous podcasts including the 1918 Pandemic: What does History teach us by NM State Historian Rob Martinez. There are many videos about NM history related topics from the La Canoa series including Nina Otero Warren, New Mexican 20th Century Mujerota. You may visit various exhibits.
  • NEW MEXICO PBS PODCASTS ON WOMEN & THE RIGHT TO VOTE. go to NewMexicoPBS.org/new-mexico-and-the-vote-podcast/
  • ALBUQUERQUE MUSEUM OF ART & HISTORY http://www.cabq.gov/culturalservices/albuquerque-museum Picture This! Podcast – short 5-6 minute podcasts (combo of voice and photographs) by Museum photo archivist Jill Hartke. The podcasts include: baseball in ABQ, downtown businesses in the early 1920s, local photos from 1969-1970, Lovelace astronauts, Streetcars and Motorettes (ABQ 1907-1920s).
  • CIVIC AUDITORIUM HISTORY VIDEO (1957-1986) www.modernabq.org. Go to the Resources Tab, then the drop down to the three Civic Auditorium videos. They tell the story of the structure: why it was built, how it was used and why it was ultimately demolished.
  • OUR FAIR NEW MEXICO: A VIRTUAL CONCERT SERIES OF NM MUSIC http://www.newmexicoculture.org/virtualconcerts. There are numerous concerts by NM artists ranging from harpist Otilio Ruiz, Jemez flutist Marlon Magdalena, Lone Pinon, Dos Gatos, and Rob Martinez playing Northern NM music.
  • INDIAN PUEBLO CULTURAL CENTER (indianpueblo.org)  You may read about current and past exhibits. These include Matriarchs at the Heart of Pueblo Families and Recipes from a Pueblo Kitchen. The website also gives an overview of each of the 19 NM pueblos and lists the individual websites. Go to NativeAmericanHeritageMonth.gov for links to the Smithsonian, National Endowment for Humanities, National Park Service, National Archives, Teacher resources and more.
  • YOU CAN STILL WATCH THE INDIGENOUS PEOPLES DAY PROGRAM RECORDED OCTOBER 12 AT THE INDIAN PUEBLO CULTURAL CENTER – GO TO THEIR WEBSITE, indianpueblo.org.
  • COULD COLUMBUS HAVE BEEN JEWISH AND SHOULD WE CARE? (YouTube) presented by Norma Libman  and the New Mexico Jewish Historical Society. Use this link. To contact Norma directly go to her website www.normalibman.com.  https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC4pesp7e8EmbyZJmt4ze9oQ/
  • LAS CRUCES MUSEUM SYSTEM has many interesting history programs on their website/Facebook Page/YouTube. On line at the Las Cruces Museum Facebook page. www.facebook.com/LCmuseums/   Call 575-541-2154 for more information, Kayla Myers.  las-cruces.org/1523/museum. Branigan Center.

Holocaust Museum and Gellert Education Center NM, 616 Central SW. Go to the website nmholocaustmuseum.org. Questions call 247-0606.

ALBUQUERQUE OASIS LIFELONG LEARNING PRESENTS VARIOUS NM TOPICS www.albuquerque.oasisnet.org  or 884-4529.

ALBUQUERQUE HISTORICAL SOCIETY ARCHIVED VIDEO PROGRAMS The Albuquerque Historical Society provides videos of scheduled program presentations that are live-streamed to the Society’s Facebook page. If viewed live, the Facebook live-stream event allows those who are unable to attend the opportunity to participate in the question and answer session following the event.  The video presentations are permanently available in the “Videos” section of the AHS Facebook page, on the AHS YouTube Channel, as well as linked to from the appropriate AHS Program pages. Presentations captured on Facebook videos to date include:

DISCLAIMER: All information should be checked with the sponsoring entity as changes may have occurred.