February 2022 Online & In-Person New Mexico History & Culture Opportunities

THE ALBUQUERQUE HISTORICAL SOCIETY
www.albuqhistsoc.org

& THE HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF NM
www.hsnm.org

Encourage your participation in the following on-line history & cultural events:

(AS COVID & MASKING REGULATIONS CHANGE, CHECK WITH THE SPONSORING AGENCY TO MAKE SURE THE PROGRAM IS STILL IN PERSON.)

BLACK HISTORY MONTH – get more information from history.com/topics/black-history/black-history-month. The City of ABQ’s Office of Equity and Inclusion is sponsoring various programs as is the UNM African American Students. Contact oeievents@cabq.gov or Nichole Rogers at 768-4521.

CONSIDER PURCHASING A MUSEUM OR CULTURAL CENTER “YEARLY PASS”. Great prices at many local museums! Use the pass a few times and you’ve paid for it.

WALKING TOURS BEGIN AGAIN FEBRUARY 5, 2022, FREE DOWNTOWN WALKING TOURS, 10 AM, DOWNTOWN CENTRAL (1ST – 8TH ST.)  Sponsored by the Albuquerque Historical Society. Parking is not free so be sure to pay meters, parking lots, or parking garages. Tours continue no matter the weather.

ALBUQUERQUE HISTORICAL SOCIETY PROGRAM February 20, 2pm, Facebook Live.  Former Special Collections Library Branch manager Kathy Seidel presents The Ten Dons Plus One – The Men’s Social and literary Club of ABQ 1904-1960s. The group could only have 10 men at one time. Their monthly gathering included a sumptuous meal and  scholarly program. Albuquerque Historical Society website, albuqhistsoc.org.

DO YOU HAVE A FEW HOURS EACH MONTH TO HELP THE WHEELS MUSEUM? Volunteers are needed so the Museum can be open more; run the model railroad trains, also help needed with events, marketing, fund raising. Call Leba Freed at 243-6269.

New Mexico Legislature meets  through Feb. 17, 2022. Go to nmlegis.gov to get contact info for members of the House and Senate, daily agendas, webcast info.

FEBRUARY 1, Observance of Lunar New Year, Year of the Tiger.

FEBRUARY 1, 5-7 pm, free but donations accepted. Visit the Silver Iris Luxury Rail Car Santa Fe Rail yards. Presented by the Wheels Museum. For more info contact Leba Freed at 243-6269, leba4@aol.com or Janet Coen at 243-6269 or text 818-0479. jmariecoen@unm.edu.

FEBRUARY 1, 10:30 am, virtual. ABQ Genealogical Society presents the Military Research Group.

FEBRUARY 2, 9am-5pm. Free admission on 1st Wednesday, ABQ Museum. 

FEBRUARY 2, 12-1 pm, Zoom, free.  Sam Adams: An African-American Civil War Veteran and his New Mexican Lifevirtual, presented by NM History Museum photo archivist Hannah Abelbeck.. More info and link at nmhistorymuseum.org. Program is on Facebook Live and questions may be entered into the chat box. All programs are recorded and may be watched at the FriendsofHistoryNM.org.

FEBRUARY 3/4, 11 am and every Thursday/Fri. in FEBRUARY in person, $2. Tour of Torreon Mundos de Mestizaje fresco by Frederico Vigil. National Hispanic Cultural Center. More info at nhccnm.org.

FEBRUARY 4, 10 am-5 pm, all day free admission – 1st Friday, Balloon Museum

FEBRUARY 4, 5-8 pm, free, In-person, Albuquerque Artwalk – downtown Albuquerque. Meet the artists in person. Street music and vendors. Most artists will be along Central. Download map and descriptions at abqartwalk.com.

FEBRUARY 5, 9:30-11:30 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”.

FEBRUARY 5 , 1 pm, $20, El Dia de los San Patricios Lecture and Film 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. You may also call 615-7141.

FEBRUARY 5, 2-4 pm, free. Showing of Harvey Girls – “movie matinee” at Special Collections Library, Edith & Central NE.

FEBRUARY 6, 8am-12 noon, free. Bosque Wild Guided Hike. Meet at the Open Space Visitor Center, 6500 Coors NW. Call 768-4960 for more info or depps@cabq.gov.

FEBRUARY 5/6, 12 noon, admission. Cultural Dance Program representing various pueblos. In-person, admission fee.  Indian Pueblo Cultural Center. Go to indianpueblo.org for more info.

FEBRUARY 6, 13, 20, 27 —  Sunday morning admission free from 9 am-1 pm at the Albuquerque Museum and the City’s International Balloon Museum.

FEBRUARY 6,  9 am-3 pm, kids under age 12, $10; adults,$20, fundraiser. Celebrate Africa with a meal inspired by food from Ghana. 50/50 Pub, 2122 Central SE. Part of Black History Month.

FEBRUARY 8, 5:30 PM, free. Virtual. Pajarito Room of Fuller Lodge, 2132 Central Ave., Los Alamos. Daniel Cordele presents Literary Los Alamos: the Manhattan Project in Fiction, Drama, Poetry and Screen. Los Alamos Historical Society. More info at losalamoshistory.org.

FEBRUARY 8, 2-4 pm, Cancelled, virtual and in person, $5 donation. Pueblo Book Club, Indian Pueblo Cultural Center. More info at indianpueblo.org.

FEBRUARY 8, repeated Feb. 22, 11am-12 noon, free, virtual. Indigo Across the Globe, visit the ABQ Museum’s current exhibit about the history and use of indigo dye. Contact ebecker@cabq.gov or 764-6515 for more info. cabq.gov/museum.

FEBRUARY 9, 10:30 am, free, Virtual. The ABQ Genealogical Society presents a workshop on Breaking Down Brick Walls. For more info go to AbqGen.org/events.

FEBRUARY 10/11, 11 am, person, $2. Tour of Torreon Mundos de Mestizaje fresco by Frederico Vigil. National Hispanic Cultural Center. Register at nhccnm.org.

FEBRUARY 12, Observance of birthday of President Abraham Lincoln. (16th US President, 1809-1865)

FEBRUARY 12, 10am-4pm, admission fee, in person. STEAM Day at the National Museum of Nuclear Science and History. Lots of fun, hand-on, interactive science activities for children. (Fun for Adults too).Nuclear Museum, 601 Eubank SE. More info at NuclearMuseum.org.

FEBRUARY 12, 11:30-2:30 PM, fundraiser tickets $50 couple, $30 individual. Celebrate Valentines Day at the Wheels Museum. Enjoy an authentic Fred Harvey Box lunch, tours, dancing, door prizes, and the movie “My Darling Clementine” with Henry Fonda. Call the Wheels Museum at 243-6269 or Janet Coen, jmariecoen@unm.edu for ticket info. Wheels, 1100 2nd St. SW.

FEBRUARY 12/13, 12 noon, in person, admission fee. Cultural Dance Program representing various pueblos. Indian Pueblo Cultural Center. Go to indianpueblo.org for more info.

FEBRUARY 12, 10:30 am, in person, free. Ever Changing, Ever Growing – Courage and Compassion – Shared Stories of New Mexico’s Japanese American WW II experience. Program based on Feb. 19, 1942, the Executive order 9066 removing and incarcerating all persons of Japanese ancestry from the west coast. Presented by the New Mexico Japanese Amercan Citizens League. Special Collections Branch Library, Edith & Central NE. 848-1376. Be aware of surrounding parking regulations.

FEBRUARY 12, 1 pm, in-person, free. Casa San Ysidro in Corrales. Rod Frechett presents, New Mexico’s Money: Coins of the Colonists 1536-1812.More info by calling Aaron Gardner at 898-3915 or agardner@cabq.gov.

FEBRUARY 13, 2 pm, free, in-person. Sandoval County Historical Society presents Dr. Monika Ghatta speaking on “Los Arabes of New Mexico”. DeLavy House, off Highway 550 in Bernalillo. Turn in between the IHOP and the Santa Ana Star Casino. More info at sandovalhistory.org.

FEBRUARY 14, 12 noon, free, Zoom. Press Women presents County Commissioner Debbie O’Malley speaking about the various services and issues affecting County government. Contact Linda Lockett at lockettabq@comcast.net to get the link to the program.

FEBRUARY 14, VALENTINE’S DAY

FEBRUARY 12/13, 12 noon, in person, admission fee. Cultural Dance Program representing various pueblos. Indian Pueblo Cultural Center. Go to indianpueblo.org for more info.

FEBRUARY 17, 5-8pm, free in person. Third Thursday “Live After 5”,  watch Santa Fe artist Gasoli dye indigo. Music from South American group Baracularga. ABQ Museum. 6-8 pm  cabq.gov/museum.

FEBRUARY 17/18, 11 am, in person, $2. Tour of Torreon Mundos de Mestizaje fresco by Frederico Vigil. National Hispanic Cultural Center. Register at nhccnm.org.

FEBRUARY 19 , 1 pm, $20, Who was Joaquin Murrieta? The Real Zorro, identity in the 19th century Southwest  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.

FEBRUARY 19 – Observance of Ex. Order 9066 issued by President Roosevelt in 1942. During WW II, It removed and incarcerated all persons of Japanese ancestry from the west coast.

FEBRUARY 19. 12 noon – 2pm, free soccer clinic provided by the Black Diamonds and United Soccer for Black History Month. Register your youth soccer team and get more information from info@somosunidosfoundation.org. Dennis Chavez Community Center, 715 Kathryn SE.

FEBRUARY 19, 2pm, free, Zoom. The Valencia County Historical Society presents State Historian Rob Martinez presenting a program about the History of New Mexico Music. Use this link to access program, https://sites.google.com/view/vchs/events

FEBRUARY 19, 1-5 PM, free, in person. Specifically at 2pm, program by curator. Opening of  –The Printers Proof Artist and Printer collaboration. Albuquerque Museum. cabq.gov.

FFEBRUARY 19/20, 12 noon, in person, admission fee. Cultural Dance Program representing various pueblos. Indian Pueblo Cultural Center. Go to indianpueblo.org for more info.

FEBRUARY 19, 5:30-7:30 pm, admission fee, In-person. STEAM night at the ABQ Balloon Museum. Lots of interactive and immersive adult and family science activities: touch tables, games and more. More info from Allie Burnquist, aburnquist@cabq.gov or 768-6032.

FEBRUARY 20, 2pm, free. Facebook Live. “10 Dons Plus One” presented by Kathy Seidel, former manager of the Special Collections Branch.  The Ten Dons Plus One – The Men’s Social and literary Club of ABQ 1904-1960s. The group could only have 10 men at one time. Their monthly gathering included a sumptuous meal and  scholarly program. Albuquerque Historical Society website, albuqhistsoc.org.

FEBRUARY 20, 2 pm, free, Zoom. The Corrales Historical Society presents When New Mexico was China, presented by NMSU History professor Elizabeth Harodowich. Early cartographers thought Asia and American were part of the same continuent. Link provided at CorralesHistory.org or contact swinstead15 @gmail.com.

FEBRUARY 21, FEDERAL HOLIDAY PRESIDENTS DAY & OBSERVATION OF GEORGE WASHINGTON’S BIRTHDAY.

FEBRUARY 24, 5-7 pm, admission fee. Pivot Skateboard Art. Exhibit opening and reception. Indian Pueblo Cultural Center.

FEBRUARY 24/25, 11 am and every Thursday/Fri. in FEBRUARY in person, $2. Tour of Torreon Mundos de Mestizaje fresco by Frederico Vigil. National Hispanic Cultural Center. More info at nhccnm.org.

FEBRUARY 26, 11am-12 noon, free. Tour of Special Collections Library (constructed in 1925) RSVP at 505-8481376. 423 Central NE.

FEBRUARY 26, POD CAST BEGINS. free. View into the Collection: Our earthly creatures in clay form. IPCC curator Amy Johnson presents a variety of animal creatures. Indian Pueblo Cultural Center.www.indianpueblo.org.

FEBRUARY 26/27, 12 noon, in person, admission fee. Cultural Dance Program representing various pueblos. Indian Pueblo Cultural Center. Go to indianpueblo.org for more info.

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 is open. 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

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

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/

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

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.

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.
  • 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: