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.)
NEW MEXICO STATEHOOD DAY, JANUARY 6, 1912 – Visit a New Mexico museum or historical site to celebrate the “Land of Enchantment’s” 110th birthday. Watch this 10 minute video about “The Long Road to Statehood” by State Historian Rob Martinez, https://www.youtube.
CONSIDER PURCHASING A MUSEUM OR CULTURAL CENTER “YEARLY PASS” as a holiday gift. Great prices at many local museums ! Use the pass a few times and you’ve paid for it.
WINTER BREAK — AHS 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 or parking garages.
JANUARY 16, 2pm, Facebook Live. The Life of Erna Fergusson presented by historian Joe Sabatini. (Celebrating her Jan. 10th birthday) Librarian and Albuquerque history presenter Joe Sabatini will discuss the life and legacy of Ernestine Mary “Erna” Fergusson on the occasion of her 134th birthday. An Albuquerque local aristocrat, she was the daughter of Territorial and U.S. Congressman H.B. Fergusson and the granddaughter of Santa Fe Trail merchant Franz Huning. Erna was a teacher, reporter, author, Southwestern cultural ambassador, library advocate, a founder of the Albuquerque Historical Society and the first female dude wrangler. She is commemorated by a city branch library named in her honor. 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.
PUEBLO GINGERBREAD HOUSE DISPLAY & CONTEST, free – Come see unique, southwestern pueblo style gingerbread houses. Lobby of the Indian Pueblo Cultural Center, 2401 12th St NW
JANUARY 1 – OBSERVE NEW YEAR’S DAY HOLIDAY
JANUARY 1, 2 pm, open to the public. Swearing in of Mayor Tim Keller and new councilors Dan Lewis, Louis Sanchez, Tammy Fiebelkorn, and Renee Grout. Albuquerque Convention Center.
JANUARY 2, 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.
JJANUARY 2, 12 noon, admission. Cultural Dance Program representing various pueblos. In-person, admission fee. Indian Pueblo Cultural Center. Go to indianpueblo.org for more info.
JANUARY 2, 9, 16, 23, 30 — Sunday morning admission free from 9am-1pm at the Albuquerque Museum and the City’s International Balloon Museum.
JANUARY 4, Albuquerque Public Schools. Students return from winter break.
JANUARY 5, registration opens for classes with Oasis.
JANUARY 5, 12-1 pm, Zoom, free. “The Civil War in the Far West.” virtual, presented by Megan Kate Nelson Ph.D. More info and link at nmhistorymuseum.org. Watch on the You Tube of NM Historic Sites. Go to nmhistoricsites.org for more information
JANUARY 5, 5 pm, virtual. Watch the swearing in of the four new members of the Albuquerque Public Schools Board of Education. Comments are expected from each person: Danielle Gonzales, Dist. 3; Crystal Tapia Romero, Dist. 5; Josefina Dominguez, Dist. 6; Courtney Jackson, Dist. 7. Go to aps.edu then go to Board tab and agenda.
JANUARY 5, 9am-5pm. Free admission on 1st Wednesday, ABQ Museum.
JANUARY 6, NEW MEXICO STATEHOOD DAY. Visit the website of the NM State historian. NewMexicoHistory.org. Also watch the 10 minute episode on statehood presented by NM State Historian Rob Martinez. https://www.youtube.
JANUARY 6, 11 am-11:30 am, admission. Observance of Three Kings Day and the installation of newly elected officials at all the pueblos. More info at Indian Pueblo Cultural Center, www.indianpueblo.org.
JANUARY 6/7, 11 am and every Thursday/Fri. in JANUARY in person, $2. Tour of Torreon Mundos de Mestizaje fresco by Frederico Vigil. National Hispanic Cultural Center. More info at nhccnm.org.
JANUARY 7, 10am-5 pm, all day free admission – 1st Friday, Balloon Museum
JANUARY 7, 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.
JANUARY 8, 9-11:30 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.HistoricFairvie
JANUARY 8 , 1 pm, $20, Anthropological Genetic History: Spain’s & Russia’s Connection to the founding of Alta CA (EUROPEAN COLONIZATION OF THE NORTHWEST) 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 angelrcervante
JANUARY 8/9, 12 noon, in person, admission fee. Cultural Dance Program representing various pueblos. Indian Pueblo Cultural Center. Go to indianpueblo.org for more info.
JANUARY 8, 10:30 am, in person, free. Ever Changing, Ever Growing –The architectural history of Old Main Library, learn about the almost 100 year history of the building at Edith & Central NE. Presented by Teri Reynosa, Special Collections Branch Library, Edith & Central NE. 848-1376.
JANUARY 8, 3-5 pm. free. “Snail Mail Social”. Stationary provided, enjoy writing with others. Special Collections Library, 423 Central NE.
JANUARY 9, 2 pm, free. Sandoval County Historical Society presents Joseph Moreno discussing “New Mexico Spanish” and why it is unique. DeLavy House, off Highway 550 in Bernalillo. Turn in between the IHOP and the Santa Ana Star Casino. More info at sandovalhistory.org.
JANUARY 10, 12 noon, free, Zoom. Press Women presents political blogger Joe Monahan speaking about the upcoming Legislative session. Contact Linda Lockett at lockettabq@comcast.net to get the link to the program.
JANUARY 10, 2 pm, free. Observance of birthday of Erna Fergusson. Program by Joe Sabatini. Erna Fergusson Library, 3700 San Mateo NE at Palo Duro in Montgomery Park.
JANUARY 13/14, 11 am, person, $2. Tour of Torreon Mundos de Mestizaje fresco by Frederico Vigil. National Hispanic Cultural Center. Register at nhccnm.org.
JANUARY 11, 2-4, virtual and in person, $5 donation. Pueblo Book Club, Indian Pueblo Cultural Center. Book is Acoma, Pueblo in the Sky by Ward Allen Minge-forward by Acoma poet and author Simon Ortiz” More info at indianpueblo.org.
JANUARY 13/14, 11 am, in person, $2. Tour of Torreon Mundos de Mestizaje fresco by Frederico Vigil. National Hispanic Cultural Center. Register at nhccnm.org.
JANUARY 14, 6 pm, free as part of MLK birthday weekend. The American Promise, African American Performing Arts Center, 310 San Pedro NE. Also includes free dinner. Contact leonard.waites@state.nm.us or beverly.jordan@state.nm.us.
JANUARY 15, 10 am, free and all are encouraged to attend. Martin Luther King Jr. birthday March. Meet at the corner of Martin Luther King Blvd. at University Blvd. and march to Civic Plaza where there will be speakers.
JANUARY 15/16, 12 noon, in person, admission fee. Cultural Dance Program representing various pueblos. Indian Pueblo Cultural Center. Go to indianpueblo.org for more info.
JANUARY 15, 8:30 am-4:30 pm, $28. Bosque Education Guide workshop. Interdisciplinary curriculum Grades K-12 about the Middle Rio Grande valley ecosystem, Rio Grande Nature Center. More info at nmnaturalhistory.org.
JANUARY 15, 2-4 pm, free. “Croak and Dagger” panel of mystery writers, Our Favorite Ways to Kill (in fiction) Special Collections Library.
JANUARY 16 – Church Services around the state will commemorate the birthday of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
JANUARY 16, 2pm, Facebook Live. The Life of Erna Fergusson presented by historian Joe Sabatini. (Celebrating her Jan. 10th birthday) Librarian and Albuquerque history presenter Joe Sabatini will discuss the life and legacy of Ernestine Mary “Erna” Fergusson on the occasion of her 134th birthday. An Albuquerque local aristocrat, she was the daughter of Territorial and U.S. Congressman H.B. Fergusson and the granddaughter of Santa Fe Trail merchant Franz Huning. Erna was a teacher, reporter, author, Southwestern cultural ambassador, library advocate, a founder of the Albuquerque Historical Society and the first female dude wrangler. She is commemorated by a city branch library named in her honor. Albuquerque Historical Society website, albuqhistsoc.org.
JANUARY 16, 2 PM, free. Monika Ghattas speaks on “Los Arabes of New Mexico”. Corrales Historical Societ, Old Church in Corrales. More info at www.corraleshistory.org.
JANUARY 17, 8 am, $35. Dr. MLK Breakfast, Marriott Pyramid Hotel, 5151 San Francisco NE. Contact Galvin Graham at 505-293-1300 for tickets.
JANUARY 17 OBSERVATION OF MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. BIRTHDAY FEDERAL HOLIDAY, Martin Luther King Jr. (January 15, 1929-April 4, 1968). Visit the website of the National Park site. www.nps.gov/malu.
JANUARY 18, New Mexico Legislature begins a 30 day session through Feb. 17, 2022. Go to nmlegis.gov to get contact info for members of the House and Senate, daily agendas, webcast info.
JANUARY 20, 5-8pm, free in person. Third Thursday “Live After 5”, ABQ Museum. 6-8 pm Blue Rhapsody plays jazz, R & B, Soul, Blues. Learn how to embroider flower designs, based on the Glasgow Style. cabq.gov/museum.
JANUARY 22 , 1 pm, $20, Anthropological Genetic History: The American Conquest of California, John C. Fremont (Bear Flag Rebellion of 1846, eventual annexation of CA by the US) 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.
JANUARY 22, 10 am, free. Tour of Old Main Library. 423 Central SE. Call to RSVP.
JANUARY 22/23, 12 noon, in person, admission fee. Cultural Dance Program representing various pueblos. Indian Pueblo Cultural Center. Go to indianpueblo.org for more info.
JANUARY 20/21, 11 am, in person, $2. Tour of Torreon Mundos de Mestizaje fresco by Frederico Vigil. National Hispanic Cultural Center. Register at nhccnm.org.
JANUARY 23 San Ildefonso Pueblo Feast Day
JANUARY 28, 6 pm, $10 virtual. Deconstructing Dr. Strangelove, the Secret History of Nuclear War Films.Dr. Sean Maloney discusses his book relating to the 1.29.64 film of Dr. Strangelove ! More info at NuclearMuseum.org.
JANUARY 28, 5-7 pm, Cliff Fragua and Anthony Romero, opening exhibit of sculpture. Indian Pueblo Cultural Center. Go to indianpueblo.org for more info.
JANUARY 28, 10am-12 noon, free. Tour of Candelaria Nature Preserve. Go to end of Arbor Rd. NW. More info available at cabq.gov or call Open Space at 768-4200.
JANUARY 29/30, 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.or
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.co
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.or
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
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.nuclearm
EAST MOUNTAIN HISTORICAL SOCIETY announces the recorded program of Rt. 66 and Historic NM License Plates. Go to EastMountainHistory.org/record
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.HistoricFairviewCemeteryA
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/csw
VISIT THE EXHIBITS AT THE MAXWELL MUSEUM OF ANTHROPOLOGY maxwellmuseum.unm
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.co
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TRIBUTES TO AUTHOR RUDOLFO ANAYA AND LINKS TO HIS ARCHIVES AT THE UNM CENTER FOR SOUTHWEST RESEARCH 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/cu
lturalservices/albuquerque-mus eum 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.newmexicocult
ure.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.go
v 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/channe l/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/LCmuseu
ms/ Call 575-541-2154 for more information, Kayla Myers. las-cruces.org/1523/mu seum. 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.oasisne
t.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:
- The History of Los Poblanos
Kate Garner, November 21, 2021 - Stories of Early Albuquerque
Rosemary McNerney Winkler – October 17, 2021 - Overhaul: A Social History of the Albuquerque Locomotive Repair Shops
Richard and Shirley Cushing Flint – September 19, 2021 - Building Community & Culture: Jews in 20th Century Albuquerque
Harvey Buchalter, July 18, 2021 - Life of Mrs. Carnis Salisbury: Albuquerque Fair Housing and Civil Rights Pioneer
Brian Eagan – June 20, 2021 - Doing History in a City Looking Forward
Albuquerque Museum Director Andrew Connors – April 18, 2021 - 60th Anniversary of Little Beaver Town
Roland Penttila – March 21, 2021 - An Iconic View: A Photographic Study of First and Central, 1880 to 2020
Richard Ruddy – February 21, 2021 - Historic Fairview Cemetery: Final Resting Place for Notable People in Albuquerque History
Gail Rubin, CT – January 17, 2021 - The Spanish Flu Pandemic in New Mexico 1918-1920
Rick Hendricks, Ph.D, – November 15, 2020 - Architectural History of Albuquerque’s Old Main Library
Teri Reynoso – October 18, 2020 - The Photo Heritage of Eddie Ross Cobb and Daphne Cobb: Unbending Courage and Creativity
Sueki (Susan) Woodward – September 20, 2020 - They Won the Vote! : Suffrage and Suffragists in New Mexico
Sylvia Ramos Cruz, M.D. – August 23, 2020 - Albuquerque Sculptor Herb Goldman
Lisa Goldman – July 19, 2020 - Secret Albuquerque: A Guide to the Weird, Wonderful, and Obscure
Ashley M. Biggers – June 21, 2020 - Albuquerque in the Nuclear Age
Duane Hughes – February 16, 2020
- Early History of the Albuquerque Open Space Program
Rex Funk – January 19, 2020 - A History Lover’s Guide to Albuquerque
Roger Zimmerman – November 17, 2019 - Ridgecrest Area History: The Parkland Hills Addition
Willam Dodge – October 20, 2019 - History of Menaul School Dr. Christine Sierra – September 15, 2019