October 2023 NM History & Culture Opportunities

THE ALBUQUERQUE HISTORICAL SOCIETY
www.albuqhistsoc.org

& THE HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF NM
www.hsnm.org

Encourage your participation in the following history & cultural events:

OCTOBER 15, 2 pm, ALBUQUERQUE HISTORICAL SOCIETY. Elaine Briseno speaks about her ongoing ABQ Journal column “ What’s in a Name”. The column features the background history on many well known Albuquerque street names, parks and neighborhoods. Includes Free parking & Free admission to the ABQ Museum in Old Town. albuqhistsoc.org.

OCTOBER 21, 11am-3 pm, free. “History Harvest”. In anticipation of the Special Collection Library’s 100th anniversary in 2025, staff are collecting stories and memories of those who visited here or worked here prior to 1971 while it was still Old Main. You may also submit written info. Special Collections Library, 423 Central NE. Be aware of parking restrictions around the library. abqlibrary.org/specialcollections

OCTOBER 6-15, OLD TOWN PLAZA GAZEBO, noon – 4 pm, FREE. VARIOUS PERFORMING GROUPS AS PART OF BALLOON FIESTA.

OCTOBER 6-15, INDIAN PUEBLO CULTURAL CENTER, admission fees. For Balloon Fiesta, many programs of dancers and speakers are added. Check IndianPueblo.org for the schedule.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY NEW MEXICO. New Mexico became the 47th state on January 6, 1912. Visit – NewMexicoHistory.org to view thousands of entries: photos, videos, podcasts, Timelines for the five periods of NM History & More ! The New Mexico State Historian Rob Martinez can be reached at 505-476-7911.

MAGIC SHOWS, MUSIC, CONCERTS, CAREER EXPLORATION, COMPUTER TRAINING, COOKING, & MORE –ACTIVITIES FOR ALL AGES AT THE BRANCHES OF THE ABC LIBRARY SYSTEM, Go to abqlibrary.org to review listing by location, days and times! Be sure to look for all kinds of family & children’s activities related to autumn, Balloon Fiesta and the October 14 solar eclipse.

Randall Davey Audubon Center and sanctuary, 1800 Upper Canyon Rd. in Santa Fe. Tour the gardens and historic Randall Davey house. Fridays @ 2 pm are docent led house tours, $5. Saturdays @8:30 am are guided bird walk. More info at RandallDavey.audubon.org. Monday – Saturday, 8am-4pm.

NATIONAL HISPANIC HERITAGE MONTH – THROUGH OCTOBER 15


OCTOBER 2, 11:45 am, free. Albuquerque Press Women & Friends. Gilbert Gallegos, APD spokesperson will speak in-person at Weck’s Restaurant, 7301 Paseo del Norte NE.  (You may purchase food/beverage.) More info from lockettabq@comcast.net.  Sponsored by Albuquerque Press Women and Friends

OCTOBER 3, 10:30 am, free. ABQ Gen. Soc. Military Research Group. 2nd floor Main Library. Topic is POW Records.

OCTOBER 3, 6:30 pm, free. Joan Price speaks on “Sierra Blanca: A Flower World in the Jornada Mogollon Cultural Landscape”, Manzano Mountains Arts Center, 101 E. Broadway in Mountainair. Sponsored by the Torrance County Archaeological Society.

OCTOBER 4, 12 noon, free, virtual. David Beyreis speaks on Blood in the Borderland: The Rise and Fall of Charles Bent 1829-1847 sponsored by the NM History Museum Friends of History. Go to the website FriendsofHistoryNM.org/lecture-series/ to watch this and the past lectures on their You Tube channel.

OCTOBER 4, 4-6 pm, free but you must register at NewMexicopbs.org/what-we-do/community. View The American Buffalo (a Ken Burns documentary) and guest speaker is Jason Asenap (Comanche / Muscogee) filmmaker, journalist, award winning film critic). UNM Zimmerman Library Waters Room.

OCTOBER 4, all day. Free admission 1st Wednesday to ABQ Museum.

OCTOBER 4 NAMBE PUEBLO FEAST DAY

OCTOBER 5, 3-4 pm, free. Tomas Lozano singing the Poems of Jose Emilio Pacheco-in English and Spanish. Special Collections Library, 423 Central NE at Edith. Be aware of parking restrictions around Library.

OCTOBER 5/6, 11 am, $2. Tour of Torreon Mundos de Mestizaje fresco by Frederico Vigil. National Hispanic Cultural Center. More info at nhccnm.org.

OCTOBER 6, 10:30 am, free. DNA Research Group sponsored by the ABQ Genealogical Society. Main Branch library.Free two hour parking across the street at 5th & Copper NW.

OCTOBER 6, 5-7:30 pm, free. Reception for the Pano Art of the Rudy Padilla Collection at the National Hispanic Cultural Center. This features more than 100 pieces of pano (handkerchief) art by incarcerated artists.

OCTOBER 6, 5-8 pm, free. Art Crawl – galleries open around ABQ. Opportunity to visit in person with the artist. artscrawlabq.org.

OCTOBER 6, 5-9 pm, free. ABQ Art Walk downtown Central Ave. and side streets. Get more info on Facebook and Instagram.

OCTOBER 6-8, various ticket prices. GREEK FESTIVAL St. George Church, 308 High SE. More info at abqgreekfest.com.

OCTOBER 6, 5:30 pm, fees. Nuclear after Dark shows film Modern Marvels of the Manhattan Project. Outside at the Nuclear Museum, 601 Eubank SE. Food trucks. nuclearmuseum.org.

OCTOBER 6, 6-7:30 pm, free. Muertos y Marigold (offrendas comunitarias) Reception and refreshments. Gutierrez Hubbell House, 6029 Isleta SW.

OCTOBER 6/7, different ticket prices. ABQ Folk Festival: 5 music stages, workshops, storytelling, petting zoo, Arts and crafts vendors. National Hispanic Cultural Center, 1701 4th St. SW. nhccnm.org.

OCTOBER 7, 2 pm, free. How the Land has shaped the People. Eric Valencia speaks about the Rio Grande del Norte Monument. Kit Carson Electric Boardroom, 118 Cruz Alta Rd., Taos County Historical Society.

OCTOBER 7, 1-4 pm, free. Workshop: Learn how to make silkscreen prints as part of the Muertas y Marigold exhibit. Gutierrez Hubbell House, 6029 Isleta SW.

OCTOBER 7, 4-6 pm. Come say goodbye to Roy Sumner as he retires after 40 years in the art world, owner of downtown’s premier art gallery, 517 Central NW.

OCTOBER 7-15, daily 10 am-5 pm, free. Old Church Fine Arts Show (to coincide with the Balloon Fiesta). 966 Old Church Rd. Corrales.

OCTOBER 7, 1 pm, virtual, $20. ANTHROPOLOGICAL GENETIC HISTORY, Hernan Cortes: Conqueror of Mexico. Watch a documentary about his history and that of his conquest of Mexico. Presented by Angel Cervantes. By the New Mexico DNA project and Iberian Peninsula DNA Institute. Payment must be by postal mail. Contact angelrcervantes@gmail.com for postal address and to register.

OCTOBER 7, 8-11 am. Historic Fairview Cemetery, 700 Yale SE. Invites all to come clean up, 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.

OCTOBER 7, 3-5 pm ,free. Monthly Matinee, Strange Lady in Town (rated PG) featuring Greer Garson. This film is set in frontier Santa Fe in 1880. Special Collections Library, 423 Central NE at Edith. Be aware of parking restrictions around the Library.

OCTOBER 7-15, ALBUQUERQUE INTERNATIONAL BALLOON FIESTA, all info at balloonFiesta.com. There are also numerous musical programs in Old Town as part of this.

OCTOBER 7/8, entry fees. Santa Fe Harvest Festival, El Rancho de los Golondrinas. golondrinas.org.

OCTOBER 7/8, 9am-4pm, admission fees. American Indian Arts Festival. Indian Pueblo Cultural Center.

OCTOBER 8, 2 pm, free. Son of an Indian Trader: Growing up on the Navajo Reservation, speaker Roger Zimmerman. Sponsored by the Sandoval County Historical Society & Museum, 161 Homestead Lane, located between the Santa Ana Star Casino and Coronado Historic Site, just north of 550, turn at the dirt road by the IHOP. SandovalHistory.org.

OCTOBER 9, INDIGENOUS PEOPLE’S DAY, FEDERAL HOLIDAY AND NO SCHOOL APS

OCTOBER 9, INDIGENOUS PEOPLE’S DAY program, 10am-4 pm, admission fee. Variety of speakers, activities at the Indian Pueblo Cultural Center. IndianPueblo.org.

OCTOBER 10, 10 am-5 pm, free. UNM Art Museum Birthday Bash put on by Student Advisory Council acknowledging the first ever reception held in the 1960s at the Art Museum. 10 am view galleries; 12 noon meet Arif Khan Museum director in the lobby for refreshments; 1:30-3:30 tours with Museum staff.

OCTOBER 10, 7-9 pm, free but you must request tickets through New Mexico PBS. Presented by KNME PBS Premiere of Native Americans Season 2, followed by a panel discussion with the film makers. Kimo Theater, 5th & Central NW downtown.https://www.newmexicopbs.org/what-we-do/community/

OCTOBER 10, 6:30 pm, free. Paul Secord speaks on Strands across Time: Historic Southwestern Textiles. Sponsored by Friends of Tijeras Pueblo. Sandia Ranger Station in Tijeras. Call 281-3304. FriendsofTijerasPueblo.org.

OCTOBER 11, 10:30 AM, Free. VIRTUAL OR IN-PERSON. Albuquerque Genealogical Society monthly meeting. Information on  “You can write your family history”. Main Library 2nd floor.

OCTOBER 12, 6:30 pm, free. Martha Liebert Bernalillo Library. Tomas Lozano singing the Poems of Jose Emilio Pacheco-in English and Spanish. 

OCTOBER 12/13. 11 am, in person, $2. Tour of Torreon Mundos de Mestizaje fresco by Frederico Vigil. National Hispanic Cultural Center. More info at nhccnm.org.

OCTOBER 13, 4 pm, virtual, $20. Anthropological Genetic History, The Conquests of Alexander the Great through DNA. Presented by the New Mexico DNA project and Iberian Peninsula DNA Institute. Payment must be by postal mail. Contact angelrcervantes@gmail.com for postal address and to register.

OCTOBER 14, 2-3 pm, free. Sandia Mountain Dulcimers perform. San Pedro Library, 5600 Trumbull at San Pedro SE.

OCTOBER 14, 8am-12 noon, free. East Mountain Celebration, Los Vecinos Community Center, 478 NM highway 333 in Tijeras. Food, music, displays and more.

OCTOBER 14, 1:30 pm, free. Author Nick Pappas discusses the Dawson, NM mining disasters of 1913 and 1923 which took the lives of almost 400 miners — from his book Crosses of Iron The Tragic Story of Dawson, NM and Its Twin Mining Disasters. Barnes & Noble Books/Coronado Shopping Center.

OCTOBER 14, 10 am-4 pm, $2. Friends of the ABQ Public Library monthly book sale at the downtown Main branch.

OCTOBER 14, SOLAR ECLIPSE BEGINNING AT 9:35 AM. Numerous sites are sponsoring eclipse watch events including: Salinas Pueblo Missions National Monument at Monte Alto Park in Mountainair;  UNM Dept. of Physics & Astronomy on Johnson Field at UNM; Gutierrez Hubbell House, 6029 Isleta SW.

OCTOBER  14,  10:30-12 noon, free. Thomas Begay and the Navajo Code Talkers, a presentation by author Alyssa Landy and Thomas Begay, one of the few living Code Talkers. Special Collections Library, 423 Central NE. Watch for parking restrictions around the library.

OCTOBER 14, 1 pm, free. Casa San Ysidro presents Dr. Ron Lah speaking on Apache Warfare. Lah is an anthropologist and living history re-enactor. Contact Aaron gardner, agardner@cabq.gov, 505-898-3915,

OCTOBER 15, 8-9:30 am, free but $2 parking. Foothills Wild Guided Hike. Meet at the Cottonwood Springs parking lot of the Elena Gallegos open space, 7100 Tramway NE. Info at 768-4951 or depps@cabq.gov.

OCTOBER 15, 2 PM, free.  ABQ Historical Society. Journalist Elaine Briseno speaks on her history column “What’s in a Name”. Free parking and free admission to the ABQ Museum. Sponsored by the Albuquerque Historical Society. albuqhistsoc.org.

OCTOBER 15, 22, 29. Sunday morning admission free from 9 am-1 pm at the Albuquerque Museum. Go to cabq.gov/artsculture/albuquerque-Museum.

OCTOBER 14, 11am, 2 pm, admission fee. Cultural Dance Program representing various pueblos. Indian Pueblo Cultural Center. Go to indianpueblo.org for more info.

OCTOBER 16-21, University of New Mexico Homecoming, Events across campus. Go to unmalumni.com for more information. 277-5808.

OCTOBER 19, 6:30-8pm, free. Burden Basket Ceremonialism and Indigenous Basketry Change in the Southwest AD 900- Present. Speakers are Edward Jolie and Mowana Lomaomvaya. Maxwell Museum Hibben Center room 105. UNM campus.maxwellmuseum.unm.edu

OCTOBER 19, 5-8 pm, free. Third Thursday at the ABQ Museum.  Music performed by  “3 on a Match Kabarett” (the European style between WW I & WW II.) Visit the O’Keeffe & Moore exhibit. Make art projects, tour museum exhibits, food/drinks available. Albuquerque Museum in Old Town. cabq.gov or 311 for more info.

OCTOBER 19/20, National Hispanic Cultural Center, tour of Torreon.

OCTOBER 21, 11am-3 pm, free. “History Harvest”. In anticipation of the Special Collection Library’s 100th anniversary in 2025, staff are collecting stories and memories of those who visited here or worked here prior to 1971 while it was still Old Main. You may also submit written info. Special Collections Library, 423 Central NE. Be aware of parking restrictions around the library.

OCTOBER 21, 8am-5 pm, free but donations appreciated. (Session 1, 8am-lunch; Session 2, 12:30 -5:30 pm) ABQ Chinese American Film Festival includes documentaries, short and feature films, panel discussion. Free Panda Express lunch for first 100 registrants. To register and for more information Go to cabq.gov/artsculture/south-broadway-cultural-center. Contact Georgia Michael, gmichael@cabq.gov, 768-3556.

OCTOBER 21,  10 am – 3:30 pm, $25. Tour of La Luz subdivision on north Coors Blvd. and the Antoine Predock Center. (La Luz was a groundbreaking subdivision concept of the 1970s ( http://albuquerquemodernism.unm.edu/wp/la-luz/ ) Sponsored by the New Mexico Architectural Foundation. More info on their website, NewMexicoArchitecturalFoundation.org.

OCTOBER 21, 1 pm and 3 pm, $50 which benefits restoration. “Murder & Mayhem” tour of Historic Fairview Cemetery. Go to historic HistoricFairviewCemeteryABQ.org and select “map & tour”.

OCTOBER 21, 2-4 pm, free but donation appreciated. The Great … Wheels Museum Train Robbery. Film showing and reenactment of a train robbery. Limited Seating, contact 243-6269 to RSVP. Wheels Museum, 1100 2nd St. SW.

OCTOBER 21, 10 am-4 pm, free. Fiesta of Cultures includes food, music, raffle, art vendors. Coronado Historic Site in Bernalillo. https://nmhistoricsites.org/coronado

OCTOBER 21, 10 am – 2 pm, free. Fall Farm Festival, food for sale, farm animals, vendors, music and more. Gutierrez Hubbell House, 6029 Isleta SW.

OCTOBER  21, 1 pm, virtual, $20. ANTHROPOLOGICAL GENETIC HISTORY, The Aztec massacre of 1520 through DNA. Archaeologists make a grisly find: 400 skeletons in a mass grave undisturbed for 500 years. Presented by the New Mexico DNA project and Iberian Peninsula DNA Institute. Payment must be by postal mail. Contact angelrcervantes@gmail.com for postal address and to register.

OCTOBER 21-22, varying fees. Annual conference of the NM Jewish Historical Society. “History, Genealogy, Genetics: Unraveling the Past and Present”. Jewish Community Center, 5520 Wyoming NE. More info at www.nmjhs.org/upcoming-events.

OCTOBER 22, 5pm, tickets. Gala honoring Rita & Joe Powdrell -sponsored by the NM Holocaust & Intolerance Museum. More information at nmHolocaustMuseum.org.

OCTOBER 22, 2 pm, free. Corrales Historical Society presents former NM State historian Robert Torrez “The US Bloodless occupation of New Mexico and Revolt of 1847” at the historic San Ysidro Church in Corrales. Go to CorralesHistory.org.

OCTOBER 21, 11 am, 2 pm, admission fee. Cultural Dance Program representing various pueblos. Indian Pueblo Cultural Center. Go to indianpueblo.org for more info.

OCTOBER 24, 9:30 am, free, in person or Zoom. Colcha embroidery group. National Hispanic Cultural center. Contact elenaD.Baca@dca.nm.gov. 505-220-7928.

OCTOBER 26, free. 5:15-6 pm refreshments, 6 pm program. Lobo Living Room. George Pearl Hall /UNM, room 101. Megadrought in the Southwest……Scarier than Halloween! More info at UnmAlumni.com or call 277-5808.

OCTOBER 26, 6 pm, free. Judith Phillips reads and signs her book “The Gardens of Los Poblanos” at Bookworks, 4022 Rio Grande NW. Los Poblanos is a treasured historic living landscape.

OCTOBER 26, 4 pm, virtual, $20. ANTHROPOLOGICAL GENETIC HISTORY, How to do Genealogy Correctly-a-Workshop on Family History. “the correct way to use Y-DNA and Mt-DNA in family research. Presented by the New Mexico DNA project and Iberian Peninsula DNA Institute. Payment must be by postal mail. Contact angelrcervantes@gmail.com for postal address and to register.

OCTOBER 27, 5:30 pm doors open, program begins at 6pm, $10 includes one drink ticket. Program is “Wielding the Sun Dagger, Air Force Research Lab contributions to science and technology”, Science on Tap — an informal learning Program. Museum of Nuclear Science and Energy, 601 Eubank SE. More info by emailing  swhitman@nuclearmuseum.org.

OCTOBER 28, 1-4 pm, free. Workshop: learn how to make offrendas. Part of the Muertos y Marigold exhibit. Gutierrez Hubbell House, 6029 Isleta SW.

OCTOBER 29, 10 am-12 noon, free but you must register in advance to reserve a spot. Candelaria Nature Preserve Guided Tour. Go to the end of Arbor Rd. NW. More info from Kyle Faig, 768-4208, or rfaig@cabq.gov.

OCTOBER 29, 11 am – 4 pm come and go, $10, Victorian Picnic and scavenger hunt at Historic Fairview Cemetery, 700 Yale SE. Ticket covers shirt and scavenger hunt. Bring your own food & chairs.

OCTOBER 29, 10am-4pm, $5 to bring in one item. Antiques “Local Roadshow” at Belen Harvey House, 104 N. 1st St. Sponsored by the Valencia County Historical Society. 505-861-0581

OCTOBER 29, 2pm, free. Brujeria: A History of Witchcraft & Sorcery in New Mexico presented by NM State Historian Robert Martinez. Friends of Coronado & Jemez Monuments. Bernalillo’s Martha Liebert Library, just behind the Bernalillo Town Hall at 829 Camino del Pueblo in Bernalillo.

OCTOBER 31 HALLOWEEN – various events linked to Dia de los Muertos around ABQ.


The historic court case involving Isleta pueblo member Miguel Trujillo and voting rights for Native Americans. To request traveling exhibit contact tasneem.bsaies@dca.nm.gov. There is a six part podcast available at podcast.nmculture.org.

DOZENS OF ACTIVITIES & PODCASTS DESCRIBED ON THE WEBSITE OF THE NEW MEXICO HUMANITIES COUNCIL, NMhumanities.org.

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

HISTORIC SANTA FE FOUNDATION (historicSantaFe.org) offers many 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 Sunday-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.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. Go to the museum’s Facebook page 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.

*****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.
  • 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.
  • 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. The videos are linked to from the appropriate AHS Program pages. Presentations captured on videos to date include: