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:
HUNDREDS OF ACTIVITIES FOR ALL AGES AT THE BRANCHES OF THE ABC LIBRARY SYSTEM, Go to abqlibrary.org to review listing by location, days and times!
DOWNTOWN WALKING TOURS, 10 AM, DOWNTOWN CENTRAL (1ST – 8TH ST.) Meet at the corner of 1st and Central SW by Tucano’s Restaurant. 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 returns to in-person free programs at the ABQ Museum. FREE PROGRAM, June 19, 2 pm, Rita Powdrell speaks on The Journey of African American Homesteaders in Albuquerque: Vision, Belief, and Sovereign Ownership. Powdrell explains the 1863 Homestead Act and takes us back to the early 1900s in ABQ and the beginnings of the East End Addition near Wyoming and Lomas NE. 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.
JUNE 1, 9 am-5pm. Free admission on 1st Wednesday, ABQ Museum.
JUNE 2, 5-7 pm, $5 donations encouraged, Testament of Empowerment, Shaun Beyale, Dine. Indian Pueblo Cultural Center south entrance.
JUNE 2/3, 11 am and every Thursday/Fri. in JUNE in person, $2. Tour of Torreon Mundos de Mestizaje fresco by Frederico Vigil. National Hispanic Cultural Center. More info at nhccnm.org.
JUNE 3, 2:30 pm (but gather at 1:30), ABQ International Sunport. Welcome back WW II veterans who went on Honor Flight to Wash. DC monuments. More info at honorFlightnorthernNM.org.
JUNE 3, 10 am-5 pm, all day free admission – 1st Friday, Balloon Museum
JUNE 3, 5-8 pm, free, In-person, Albuquerque Artwalk – downtown Albuquerque. At Gold & 7th St. – There will be food, artists and live music. Meet the artists in person. Street music and vendors. Most artists will be along Central. Download map and descriptions at abqartwalk.com.
JUNE 3, 5-8 pm, free. ABQ Art Crawl. Tour various art galleries, more info at artscrawlAbq.org.
JUNE 3, 4 & 5, Festival Sefardi (The history of crypto Jews in NM) – poetry, art show, community pot luck, music. Suggested donation each day $18 but no one turned away. Congregation Hahalat Shalom, 3608 Rio Grande Blvd. NW. More info at hahalatshalom.org.festival-
JUNE 4, 8:30 – 11 am. Help Clean-up Historic Fairview Cemetery, 700 Yale SE. Come hoe tumbleweeds and goat heads and spread mulch. 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
JUNE 4, 2 pm, free to members but $5 donations encouraged from others. Miguel Santistevan discusses Traditional Agriculture practices in Taos. Kit Carson Electrical Coop Boardroom. 118 Cruz Alta Rd. More info at TaosCountyHistoricalSociety.
JUNE 4, 10 am – 12 noon. Free. Kick off of Summer Reading Program FOR Children at local branch libraries. Various activities. go to ABQLibrary.org for more information.
JUNE 4, 3 – 5 pm, free. Showing of Convoy – “movie matinee” at Special Collections Library, Edith & Central NE. Be aware of parking restrictions on streets near Library.
JUNE 4, 3 – 7 pm, free. Paradise Hills Celebration, Food, kids activities, arts and crafts, vendors, zip line. Presentation of Paradise area outstanding citizens and recognition of state champion teams from northwest high schools. Paradise Hills Park, 5801 Paradise NW.
JUNE 4, Free fishing day in New Mexico to celebrate national Boating and Fishing Week. Get more info at Wildlife.state.nm.us. Event at Liam Knight Pond in Corrales from7:30 am – 1:30 pm. various free fishing activities, archery. Prizes for heaviest, smallest fish. Bring your own equipment and bait.
JUNE 4/5, 10 am – 5 pm, tickets. Indigenous Cultural Arts Festival: film, dance, music. Indian Pueblo Cultural Center, 2401 12th St. NW. More info at IndianPueblo.org.
JUNE 4, 6:45 – 7:45 pm, free. Somos La Maquena – Performance about the bosque eco system, Open Space Visitor Center, 6500 Coors NW. More info at cabq.gov/openspace.
JUNE 4, all day, free but donations appreciated. New Mexico Western Experience. Best Western Hotel, 1015 Rio Grande NW. 10:30am panel of writers, Writing the West: Telling Cowboy Tales; 1:30-2:30 pm, Jim Wilson speaks on the Legends of Billy the Kid., 7-9pm performances of western music, food and drink may be purchased.
JUNE 4/5, 10 am – 4 pm, admission. Spring Fiber Fest at Las Golondrinas. More info at Golondrinas.org or call 505-471-226
JUNE 4/5, 12 noon, in person, admission fee. Cultural Dance Program representing various pueblos. Indian Pueblo Cultural Center. Go to indianpueblo.org for more info.
JUNE 4/5, 9 am – 5 pm, tickets. Rio Grande Valley Celtic Festival. children’s area, Scottish athletics, Celtic dance demonstrations, bagpipes, breweries, food vendors. May pay at gate or on eventbrite. Balloon Fiesta Park, 9401 Balloon Fiesta Parkway NE.
JUNE 5, 9 am – 4 pm, $15. Corrales Garden Tour of six unique gardens. Get ticket info at corrales-Gardentour.com.
JUNE 5, 12, 19, 26 – Sunday morning admission free from 9 am-1 pm at the Albuquerque Museum and the City’s International Balloon Museum.
JUNE 5, free admission to the Visual Arts Museum, National Hispanic Cultural Center
JUNE 5, 12, 19, 26, 10 am – 2 pm, Railyards Market – 777 1st St. SW. railyardsmarket.org. Over 150 vendors.
JUNE 5, 1-3 pm, free. Recognition of many ABQ artists as “Local Treasures” ABQ Museum. Members of the art community who have contributed to ABQ.
JUNE 7, in person primary election day in New Mexico.
JUNE 9/10, 11 am, person, $2. Tour of Torreon Mundos de Mestizaje fresco by Frederico Vigil. National Hispanic Cultural Center. Register at nhccnm.org
JUNE 11, 10 am – 4 pm, free. Friends of the Public Library monthly book sale at downtown library.
JUNE 10, 6 pm reception, 7 pm, book reading by Dr. Carmen Tafolla, former Poet Laureate of San Antonio and Texas National Hispanic Cultural Center.
.JUNE 11, 9 am – 5 pm, free. Magdalena, NM — Frontier Festival,exhibitors, speakers about local mining and minerals. Demonstrations, petting zoo., food available for purchase.
JUNE 11, 10:30 am, in person, free. Ever Changing, Ever Growing – Tony Della Flora. presents “Voices of Old ABQ: Resilience and Connection along the Camino Real, the Barelas Neighborhood. Special Collections Branch Library, Edith & Central NE. 848-1376. Be aware of parking regulations on surrounding streets.
JUNE 11, 10 am – 2 pm, free. Book Sale — Friends of the Los Lunas Public Library, 460 Main St. Los Lunas. 839-3850.
JUNE 11, admission fee. Movies under the Wings, The Goonies, Nuclear Science Museum, National Museum of Nuclear Science and History. Food and Beverage will be available. 601 Eubank SE.
JUNE 11, 1 pm, $20. ANTHROPOLOGICAL GENETIC HISTORY, Atlantis and Tartessos (ledgendary lost cities), a possible Celtic connection to NM Families Haplo group R1b1, presented by Angel Cervantes. Presented by the New Mexico DNA project and Iberian Peninsula DNA Institute. Payment must be by postal mail. Contact angelrcervantes@gmail.
JUNE 11, 11 am – 3 pm, free. Dia de Familia: Pinturas, Palabras y Paletas. Bilingual Childs Book Reading, story walk, arts and crafts. National Hispanic Cultural Center. nhccnm.org.
JUNE 11, 10 am, free. Placitas Community Library presents Wildfires: Are you Prepared? Sandoval County Fire Dept.., 453 Highway 165, 867-3355. PlacitasLibrary.com.
JUNE 11, 1 pm, free. Robert Martinez describes and plays History of Hispanic Music in New Mexico. Casa San Ysidro in Corrales. Contact Aaron Gardner to get info at 898-3915 or agardner@cabq.gov.
JUNE 11/12, 12 noon, in person, admission fee. Cultural Dance Program representing various pueblos. Indian Pueblo Cultural Center. Go to indianpueblo.org for more info.
JUNE 11, 5-10 pm. Summerfest, free. North Domingo Baca Park. Kids activities, music, food, arts and crafts, cantina. More info at cabq.gov or call 311.
JUNE 11-18, different fees. Festival Flamenco. Hispanic Cultural Center. Details and ticket prices at nhccnm.org/events.
JUNE 12, Sandoval County Historical Society, Montie Avery presents Forgotten New Mexico Tales. DeLavy House in Bernalillo. Turn off Hy. 550 just west of Coronado Historic Site. sandovalhistory.org.
JUNE 13, Sandia Pueblo Feast Day
JUNE 13, 12 noon, free, Zoom. Press Women presents An overview of NM Wildfires from journalists reporting the fires: Source New Mexico editor-in-chief Marisa de Marco and reporter Patrick Lohman. Contact Linda Lockett at lockettabq@comcast.net to get the link to the program.
JUNE 13, 9 am – 3 pm, free. Come learn about preservation and restoration of historic headstones from nationally known expert Jonathan Appell who is on a tour of 48 states. Come prepared to clean stones and get dirty ! More info at HistoricFairviewCemeteryAbq.
JUNE 14, 9:30 am, free, in-person. Colcha Community Stich Along. National Hispanic Cultural Center. nhccnm.org.
JUNE 14 , free but $5 donation suggested. Pueblo Book Club in person or Zoom. In Search of Chaco, New approaches to an archaeological enigma by David Grant Noble. Indian Pueblo Cultural Center. indianpueblo.org.
JUNE 14, FLAG DAY, commemorating the adoption of the US flag on June 14, 1777 by resolution of the Second Continental Congress.
JUNE 15, 11 am, free. Donna Pedace presents Dona Tules. Sponsored by the UNM Valencia Campus at the Workforce Training Center off I-25 and Main St., 1020 Huning Ranch Loop.
JUNE 16, 5-8 pm, free, in person. Third Thursday “Live After 5”, music, make your own craft, emphasis on the current exhibit “Face the Rising Sun”. ABQ Museum. cabq.gov/museum.
JUNE 16/17, 11 am, in person, $2. Tour of Torreon Mundos de Mestizaje fresco by Frederico Vigil. National Hispanic Cultural Center. Register at nhccnm.org.
JUNE 17, 7-7:45 pm, free. Flamenco NM Lecture Series presents Eva Encinias at the National Hispanic Cultural Center. More info at www.ffabq.org.
JUNE 18, $5. doors open at 7pm, band Ryan Painter and the Resistors at 8pm. West Fest Dance, Mountainair, NM 101 E. Broadway. Food Vendors
JUNE 18, 1-2 pm, Ralph Estes presents The West: Singing Its Story at the Moriarty Civic Center. Sponsored by NM Humanities Council. Contact the Moriarty Museum at 505-832-0839, mormuseum@yahoo.com or the Moriarty Library 832-2513.
JUNE 18, 3-5 pm, free. Snail Mail Social, Special Collections Library, Edith and Central NE.
JUNE 19, OBSERVANCE OF FATHER’S DAY
JUNE 19, JUNETEENTH Federal holiday commemorating the emancipation of slaves in the US.
JUNE 19 – Sunday morning admission free from 9 am-1 pm at the Albuquerque Museum and the City’s International Balloon Museum.
JUNE 19, 2 pm, free admission to ABQ Museum. In person event. Rita Powdrell speaks on The Journey of African American Homesteaders in Albuquerque: Vision, Belief, and Sovereign Ownership. Powdrell explains the 1863 Homestead Act and takes us back to the early 1900s in ABQ and the beginnings of the East End Addition near Wyoming and Lomas NE. Sponsored by the ABQ Historical Society. ABQ Museum small auditorium.
JUNE 19, 10 am – 2 pm, Railyards Market – 777 1st St. SW. railyardsmarket.org. Over 150 vendors.
JUNE 20, WORLD REFUGEE DAY, designated by the United Nations to honor refugees around the world.
JUNE 23/24, 11 am, person, $2. Tour of Torreon Mundos de Mestizaje fresco by Frederico Vigil. National Hispanic Cultural Center. Register at nhccnm.org
JUNE 24, Ohkay Owingeh Feast Day.
JUNE 25, 9 am – 3 pm, free. Pollinator Celebration including walks, talks, lectures, kids activities. Learn about bees, wasps, flies and other pollinators. Sponsored by the City’s Open Space Division. Contact 768-4950 or Dionne Epps for more information. depps@cabq.gov, 768-4960.
JUNE 25, 1 pm, $20. ANTHROPOLOGICAL GENETIC HISTORY, The Celt-Iberian Connection to NM Families Haplo group R1b1, also includes film- presented by Angel Cervantes. Presented by the New Mexico DNA project and Iberian Peninsula DNA Institute. Payment must be by postal mail. Contact angelrcervantes@gmail.
JUNE 25, 10 am – 2 pm. State of the City 2022, Railyards, 722 3rd St. SW. LEARN about the accomplishments of the City of ABQ in the last year. Limited parking, free Park and Ride from Gold and 2nd St. Call 311 for more info.
JUNE 25, 1:30 – 3 pm, Class free with admission. Class on Heritage Spinning and weaving, Dyeing. Casa San Ysidro. More info by calling Aaron Gardner at 898-3915 or agardner@cabq.gov.
JUNE 25/26, 12 noon, in person, admission fee. Cultural Dance Program representing various pueblos. Indian Pueblo Cultural Center. Go to indianpueblo.org for more info.
JUNE 25, 11 am – 12 NOON, free. Tour of Special Collections Library (constructed in 1925) RSVP at 505-848-1376. 423 Central NE. Please note parking restrictions on streets around library.
JUNE 26, 2 pm, free. Authors & historians Richard and Shirley Flint present: Coronado’s Expedition. Council chambers of Bernalillo Town Hall, 829 Camino del Pueblo. Presented by the Friends of Coronado Historic Site.
JUNE 26, 10 am – 2 pm, Railyards Market – 777 1st St. SW. railyardsmarket.org. Over 150 vendors.
JUNE 26 – Sunday morning admission free from 9 am-1 pm at the Albuquerque Museum and the City’s International Balloon Museum.
JUNE 30, 6 pm, free but RSVP to 516Arts.org. Legendary local writer Margaret Randall and Josie Lopez, PhD discuss Randall’s new book, Artists in my Life. 516 Arts, 516 Central SW.
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, Celebrating 50 years. 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.
HISTORIC SANTA FE FOUNDATION (historicSantaFe.or
The Wheels Museum, 1100 2nd St. SW is open. Times are Monday-Thursday, 9 am-12 noon. Call first to confirm, 243-6269 or info@wheelsmuseum.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.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. 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
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. - 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. - 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:
- Victory from the Shadows
Elaine Carson, March 20, 2022 - The Ten Dons, Plus One
Kathy Seidel, February 20, 2022 - Erna Fergusson, First Lady of New Mexico Letters
Joe Sabatini, January 16, 2022 - 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