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is pleased to announce its June 3, 2017, program Famous and Unusual Gravesites in New Mexico by Dr. Richard Melzer, Professor of History at UNM-Valencia. and is part of the Taos Arts and Cultural Consortium 2017, Taos Stories and Legends. The talk will include the graves of Billy the Kid, perhaps one of the most well-known in New Mexico, Pat Garrett and Geronimo. Although located in Oklahoma, Geronimo is one of New Mexico's historic and famous individuals. Famous Taos gravesites include Kit Carson, Padre Martinez, Mabel Dodge Luhan and several famous artists. In the Pasatiempo (Santa Fe New Mexican) of September 30-October 6, 2016, Dr. Melzer said, "each grave has story far beyond the usual things we hear about these characters and their lives". Dr. Melzer doesn't focus upon particular cemeteries but includes samples from many across the state and he further states, "some sad, many unusual, and others extremely funny". Dr. Richard Melzer has been
Professor of History since 1979 at UNM Valencia, Dr. Melzer has
published and lectured on a wide variety of topics in 20th Century
New Mexico history including these books Breakdown: How the Secret
of the Atomic Bomb was Stolen During World War II (2000) and
Coming of Age in the Great Depression: The Civilian Conservation
Corps Experience in New Mexico, 1933-42 (2000) and Buried Treasures:
Famous and Unusual Gravesites in New Mexico (2007). Recent books
include Fred Harvey Houses of the Southwest (2008) and TB Sanatoriums
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The Taos County Historical Society is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization founded in 1952 and dedicated to the recording and preserving of the irreplaceable in Taos County. Membership is open to anyone upon the payment of dues. For additional information on the programs, activities and history of Taos visit the Society's website at www.taoscountyhistoricalsociety.org
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2017 Spring - Issue #42 |
Browse the Ayer Y Hoy's Spring 2017 issue:
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The Taos County Historical Society is a 501(C)(3) non-profit organization founded in 1952 and dedicated to the recording and preserving of the irreplaceable in Taos County. Membership is open to anyone upon the payment of dues. For additional information on the programs, activities and history of Taos visit the Society's website at www.taoscountyhistoricalsociety.org
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The Society encourages support through membership.
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Taos' Pioneering Historian: Helen G. Blumenschein & The Apodaca Trail |
| The Taos County Historical Society was formed in 1952 for the purpose of "... preserving the history of the Taos area...". It is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization managed by a volunteer Board of Directors. Monthly meetings, the first Saturday of the month are held at Kit Carson Electric Boardroom with a featured speaker are open to the public and supported through memberships. These are also open to anyone upon payment of annual dues. For more information visit the Society's website, ww.taoscountyhistoricalsociety.org |
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Mil Gracias, A THOUSAND THANKS, does not begin to cover the many, many individuals to whom we owe a debt of gratitude. This debt is not only the living but also to those men and women who long ago began to preserve the journals and documents we now depend upon for knowledge of the past: the chroniclers who accompanied the explorers and settlers and who, dusty, tired and hungry, sat in the light of a candle to record in their journals the events of the day and the Franciscan clerics who made detailed reports of their canonical visits to the mission churches of Nuevo México. Corina A. Santistevan Taos County Historical Society please send a check for $40 (book+shipping) payable to Taos County Historical Society and mail to: Taos County Historical Society PO Box 2447 Taos, NM 87571 |
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