July 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:

JULY 1 – JULY 14, 11:30 am, “STORY TIME IN THE PARK” AT 18 DIFFERENT PARKS WHERE FREE LUNCHES ARE SERVED. Children hear a different story and go home with that book free and an activity sheet. Call the City at 311 to get list of parks. Also free lunches are served at over 100 locations in both City and Bernalillo County beginning Monday June 5.

JULY 1-JULY 29 FREE SUMMER READING PROGRAM, ALL TOGETHER NOW, AT ALL ABQ/BERN CO LIBRARIES – get your reading log and enjoy prizes and activities all summer.abqlibrary.org for more information 

JULY 16, 2 pm, ALBUQUERQUE HISTORICAL SOCIETY.  Gail Rubin speaks about Historic Fairview Cemetery. includes Free parking & Free admission to the ABQ Museum in Old Town. albuqhistsoc.org.

“ENCHANTORAMA: NEW MEXICO MAGAZINE TURNS 100” is the featured exhibit at the NM History Museum in Santa Fe.

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

MUSICAL ENTERTAINMENT FREE AT HISTORIC OLD TOWN GAZEBO: FRIDAY/SATURDAY 7-9 PM, SUNDAYS, 1-3PM. 

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, COSTUME MAKING, GARDENING, COOKING, VENTRILOQUISM & 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.


JULY 1, 10 am – 4 pm, free. Magdalena Frontier Festival. Includes speakers on local mining, minerals of NM, Smokey Bear visit, soap making, NM Game and Fish, reenactors, demonstrations and displays. See the historic Ilfeld warehouse, and Magdalena library housed in the former Santa Fe Railroad depot.

JULY 1, 3 pm, free. Preview the PBS film The Cowboy followed by panel discussion with Journal feature writer Ollie Reed, and rancher Randell Major. Magdalena HS Fine Arts room.

JULY 1, all day, free. MOUNTAINAIR JUBILEE. Car show, 10 am, parade; 11am Family fun-games, jumpers, water slide, music, dancing, Arts & crafts: 11:30 am swearing in of new citizens by the US naturalization Service at Chavez Memorial Park; dusk, fireworks at the Mountainair High school football field.

JULY 1, 10:30-12:30 pm, free. Maxwell Museum presents basketmaking workshop with Christopher Lewis (Zuni) basket & textile scholar. Member of the badger Clan.

JULY 1, 3-5 pm, free. Movie matinee, The Man from Laramie (filmed in AZ & NM at Taos and Tesuque Pueblos, Bonanza Creek Ranch). Special Collections Library, 423 Central NE. Be aware of parking restrictions around the library.

JULY 1-2, 10 am-4 pm, fee. Santa Fe Wine Festival at El Rancho de las Golondrinas.Website includes “History Herald” articles. Golondrinas.org.

JULY 1, 9 am-12 noon, free. International Mud Day “get messy and have fun”. Open Space Visitor Center. More info from Dionne Epps, depps@cabq.gov. 768-4950.

JULY 2, 10 am-4 pm, free admission to the Visual Arts Museum of the National Hispanic Cultural Center. (first Sunday free for NM residents). 1701 4th St. SW. nhccnm.org.

JULY 2 (first Sunday of month) Coronado Historic Site “Dawn to Dusk”, Bernalillo. Come enjoy the sunrise or sunset with longer hours. Contact interpretive ranger Jessica.tharp@dca.nm.gov.</span

JULY 2, 8 am, free. Bosque Wild Guided Hike from the Open Space visitor Center6500 Coors NW.

JULY 2, 9, 16, 23, 30 –  Sunday morning admission free from 9 am-1 pm at the Albuquerque Museum.

JULY 3, 6 pm, free. US Poet Laureate Joy Harjo reads from her book of poetry Remember and Weaving Sundown in a Scarlet Light. Bookworks, 4022 Rio Grande NW.

JULY 4 INDEPENDENCE DAY, MANY ACTIVITIES & FIREWORKS DISPLAYS ACROSS THE METRO AREA. Freedom Fourth at Balloon Fiesta Park, 3-10 pm, free but $10 parking
Jemez Springs,
parade at 10 am, arts and crafts, music at the Plaza Gazebo, fireworks
Rio Rancho,
6 pm parade and music at City Center, fireworks 9:15
Socorro,
Al Hurricane Jr, 7pm, lots of kids activities, Socorro Rodeo and Sports Complex
Santa Fe,
Santa Fe Place Mall, 4250 Cerrillos Rd, 4 pm: music, fireworks
Santa Fe, Pancakes on the Plaza, $12.JULY 5, all day. Free admission 1st Wednesday to ABQ Museum.

JULY 5, 12 noon, free, virtual. Shelby Tisdale presents No Place for a Lady the life of Marjorie F. Lambert: Museum of NM Curator of Archaeology 1936-1969.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.

JULY 6, 7:30 pm, free. Tickets available at 6:30 pm. Outdoors on the Plaza Mayor. NM Shakespeare Festival: A Midsummer Night’s Dream. National Hispanic Cultural Center, 1701 4th St. SW, nhccnm.org.

JULY 7, 5-7 pm, free and will reoccur every 1st Friday. NM History Museum History & Art WalkUse the museum main entrance at 113 Lincoln St. in Santa Fe. Go to FriendsofHistoryNM.org for more information.

JULY 6/7, 11 am, $2. Tour of Torreon Mundos de Mestizaje fresco by Frederico Vigil. National Hispanic Cultural Center. More info at nhccnm.org.

JULY 7, 10:30 AM, Free. VIRTUAL OR IN-PERSON. Albuquerque Genealogical Society has meeting of the DNA research group. Main Library 2nd floor.

JULY 7, 5-8 pm, free. ARTScrawl 1st Friday. Various galleries open, meet the artists. artscrawlabq.org.

JULY 7, 5-9 pm, free. ABQ Art Walk downtown Central Ave. and side streets. Get more info on Facebook and Instagram.

JULY 7, 8, 9,  11am, 2 pm, admission fee. Cultural Dance Program representing various pueblos. Indian Pueblo Cultural Center. Go to indianpueblo.org for more info.

JULY 8, 9 am-5 pm. $10. Ft. Stanton Live (near Capitan NM). speakers, tours, reenactments. Sponsored by the Friends of Ft. Stanton. https://www.fortstanton.org/events/fort-stanton-live

JULY 8, 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”.

JULY 8, 4 pm, $20. ANTHROPOLOGICAL GENETIC HISTORY, How Hungary & Poland finally crushed the Mongols (history from the late 1200s). 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.

JULY 8, 3-5 pm, free. Summer Movie Hidden Figures, three brilliant female African American mathematicians are the brains behind the launch of John Glenn into orbit. Special Collections Library, Edith and Central NE. Note parking restrictions around the library. 848-1376.

JULY 8, 10 am-4 pm, $2. Friends of the ABQ Public Library monthly book sale at the downtown Main branch.

JULY 8, 1-4 pm, free. Time travelers living history at Casa San Ysidro, Sponsored by Casa San Ysidro/CABQ. Old San Ysidro Church, 966 Old church Rd. Contact Aaron Gardner for more info. AGardner@cabq.gov or 898-3915.

Summer Break till September. 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.

2ND MONDAY, Albuquerque Press Women & Friends takes break July & August.  In person at Weck’s Restaurant, 7301 Paseo del Norte NE.  More info from lockettabq@comcast.net.  Sponsored by Albuquerque Press Women and Friends.

JULY 11, 6-8 pm, free but registration encouraged. Voces de Latinidad: Community Session with focus on different aspect of the questions “Who or What is Latinidad? National Hispanic Cultural Center.

JULY 11, 5:30-7:30 pm, in-person or virtual. WIPP Community Forum & Open House sponsored by the US Dept of Energy’s Carlsbad Field Office. Marriott Hotel, 2101 Louisiana NE.

Friends of Tijeras Pueblo take summer break.  Location is Sandia Ranger Station in Tijeras. Call 281-3304. FriendsofTijerasPueblo.org.

JULY 12, 10:30 am, free. virtual or in person at Main Library, 2nd floor. ABQ Genealogical Society, Philip Spivey presents info on “The Draper Manuscripts.” abqgen.org or the Facebook page of ABQ Genealogical Society.

JULY 14  FEAST DAY COCHITI PUEBLO

JULY 14, 15, 16. 11am, 2 pm, admission fee. Cultural Dance Program representing various pueblos. Indian Pueblo Cultural Center. Go to indianpueblo.org for more info.

JULY 13/14. 11 am, in person, $2. Tour of Torreon Mundos de Mestizaje fresco by Frederico Vigil. National Hispanic Cultural Center. More info at nhccnm.org.

JULY 14, 4-5 pm, free. Gallup Arts presents  The What/Why/How of Western American Art (look into the three categories of New Deal Western American Art)207 W. Hill St. in Gallup. Contact ExecutiveDirector@GallupArts.org for more info or 505-488-2136.

JULY 14, 6 pm opens, program begins at 6:30, $5 includes one drink ticket. Come meet award winning documentary film producer Larry Sheffield. He’ll discuss the three films he has worked on regarding events 1945-1950: Manhattan Project, Trinity Test Site and Testing V-2 rockets, an informal learning Program. Museum of Nuclear Science and Energy, 601 Eubank SE. More info by emailing  swhitman@nuclearmuseum.org.

JULY 15, 1 pm, $20. Anthropological Genetic History, The Athabascan (Navajo/Apache) connection to NM Families, (Mt-DNA Haplogroups A & C). 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.

JULY 15, 3-5 pm, free. Snail Mail Social, supplies provided. Special Collections Library, 423 Central NE.Be aware of parking restrictions around the Library.

JULY 15/16, 10 am – 4 pm, free. Native American Portal Artisans’ Sumer Youth Show. NM History Museum/Palace of the Governors.

JULY 15, 7 am – 4 pm, free. Uranium Legacy Remembrance & Action Day. Red Water Pond Community (Gallup area). For more info contact Edith Hood, 505-905-0694, Teny Keyanna, 505-979-0552, Linda Jim, 505-519-8733.

JULY 16, 2 pm, $5 donation. Opening of exhibit on Indian Detour driver Charlie Seering by his son. Belen Harvey House, 104 N. 1st St. Belen.

JULY 16, Remembrance of Trinity Site Atomic Bomb Test, July 16, 1945.

JULY 16, 4-6 pm, free. “A World without Nuclear Weapons” sponsored by the Archdiocese of Santa Fe and the Tularosa Basin Downwinders. Music, speakers, exhibits and time of reflection. Santa Maria de la Paz Community Hall, 11 College Ave., Santa Fe. Information at 505-831-8205. Preregistration encouraged.

JULY 16, 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.

JULY 16, 2 PM, free.  ABQ Historical Society. Gail Rubin speaks about Historic Fairview Cemetery. Free parking and free admission to the ABQ Museum. Sponsored by the Albuquerque Historical Society. albuqhistsoc.org.

JULY 16, 23, 30. Sunday morning admission free from 9 am-1 pm at the Albuquerque Museum. Go to cabq.gov/artsculture/albuquerque-Museum.

JULY 19, Western Troubadors perform at the Los Lunas Museum of Heritage & Art. Call 352-7720 for more info.

JULY 20, 5-8 pm, free. Third Thursday at the ABQ Museum. 7 pm, staged reading of Speak Truth to Power. The script is real interviews with 42 human rights activists and 6 different actors. Music performed by Mineral Hill (American, funk, honky-tonk).Make art projects, tour museum exhibits, food available. Albuquerque Museum in Old Town. cabq.gov or 311 for more info.

JULY 20/21, 11 am, in person, $2. Tour of Torreon Mundos de Mestizaje fresco by Frederico Vigil. National Hispanic Cultural Center. More info at nhccnm.org.

JULY 21, 4-5 pm, free. The Decorative Arts of New Mexico WPA. Octavia Fellin Public Library, 115 W. Hill in Gallup. Learn about the New Deal’s focus on reviving traditional “crafts” with a distinctly NM Visual aesthetic.

JULY 21, 4 pm, $20. ANTHROPOLOGICAL GENETIC HISTORY, How did the Mongols lose the Golden Horde (in the aftermath, the Mongol Empire was dead …and Russian was born). 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.

JULY 21, 22, 23, 11am, 2 pm, admission fee. Cultural Dance Program representing various pueblos. Indian Pueblo Cultural Center. Go to indianpueblo.org for more info.

JULY 22, 12 noon, free. Author & historian Richard Melzer speaks on “Famous & Unusual Graves in NM’s History. Moriarty Museum, 202 Broadway in Moriarty. Contact 832-0839 for more info.

JULY 22, 1:30 pm, free., Nuestra Herencia Genealogy Workshop for Seniors, sponsored by AARP. Registration encouraged. For more info call 724-4771.  National Hispanic Cultural Center.

JULY 22, 1 pm, $8 adults, $5 seniors. (Tickets only sold in advance). Oppenheimer after Trinity with rare footage. Guild Theater, 3405 Central NECo-sponsored by the Museum of Nuclear Science.

JULY 22, 11 am-12 noon, free. Tour of the 1926 building. Special Collections Library, Edith and Central NE. Note parking restrictions around the library. 848-1376.

JULY 22, 7-9:30pm, free. Western Music Association NM Chapter’s Day of the Cowboy. Three NM authors: Don Bullis, Melody Groves and Johnny Boggs speak about cowboys. Followed by singer Jim Jones. Best Western, 1015 Rio Grande NW.

JULY 22, 5-10 pm, free. Summerfest Nob Hill on Central from Girard to Washington. More info at 311.

JULY 26 FEAST DAY, SANTA ANA PUEBLO

JULY 27, $25. includes curriculum kit (700 + pages), expert facilitator guides, refreshments. Bosque Education Guide Workshop, Rio Grande Nature Center, 2901 Candelaria NW. Sponsored by the Natural History Museum.

JULY 27/28, 11 am, $2. Tour of Torreon Mundos de Mestizaje fresco by Frederico Vigil. National Hispanic Cultural Center. More info at nhccnm.org.

Summer break till September. free lectures Sponsored by Friends of Coronado Historic Site.

JULY 27, 7 pm, $34-$39. Fundraiser for the Friends of the Library. Colson Whitehead Pulitzer prize winning author with Hakim Bellamy, ABQ poet Laureate. KiMo Theater. Contact Bookworks.

JULY 27, 9:30 am, free, in person or Zoom. Colcha embroidery group. National Hispanic Cultural center. Contact elenaD.Baca@dca.nm.gov. 505-220-7928.

JULY 28, 10 am, free. Buffalo Soldier Day at Historic Fairview Cemetery. Speakers, installation of plaque for Buffalo Soldiers buried at Historic Fairview.

JULY 28, 29, 30, 11 am, 2 pm, admission fee. Cultural Dance Program representing various pueblos. Indian Pueblo Cultural Center. Go to indianpueblo.org for more info.

JULY 28, 10 am-12 noon, free but you must register in advance to reserve a spot. (Check that this event is taking place.) Candelaria Nature Preserve Guided Tour. Go to the end of Arbor Rd. NW. More info from Kyle Faig, 768-4208, or rfaig@cabq.gov.

JULY 29, 6-8:30 pm, free. Concert & family fun, Tijeras Bio Zone Open Space, 15600 Central SE. Bring chair & picnic dinner. 6:30-7 pm Conservation Carnivale performance. Music by J.D.Nash. Climbing wall, face painting. More info from 311.

JULY 29, All day. Village of Tijeras celebrates its 50th. Various booths and activities.

JULY 29,  Mountainair art exhibit Shades of Blue” opens at the Manzano Mountains Arts Center, 101 E. Broadway. MMACevents@gmail.com.

JULY 29, 3-5 pm, free. Summer Reading Movie, Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring. Special Collections Library, Edith and Central NE. Note parking restrictions around the library. 848-1376.

JULY 29, 9-11 am, free but you must register in advance. Family Friendly hike, “Nature Photography for all Ages”. Meet at Tingley Beach Railroad Depot, 1800 Tingley Dr. SW. Call 768-4955 or contact Ellie Althoff at ealthoff@cabq.gov. Rio Grande Bosque: Tingley Beach.

JULY 29, 1 pm, $20. ANTHROPOLOGICAL GENETIC HISTORY, The Meso-American Connection to NM Families Mt-DNA Haplogroups A & C. 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.

JULY 29, 1:30-3 pm, admission ($5/6)  to Casa San Ysidro covers program. Heritage Spinning and Weaving. All supplies provided. 898-3915, Casa San Ysidro in Corrales. Aaron Gardner, agardner@cabq.gov or 898-3915.

JULY 30, 10 am-2 pm, free Last Sunday Quest, especially for kids at Jemez Historic Site. Contact Marlon.madalena@dca.nm.gov.


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 NMGo 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.

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

*****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 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: