Santa Fe Convention and Visitors Bureau

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The Manhattan Project in Los Alamos: An Eyewitness Perspective
Wed, Jun 19 2013, 12:00 - 1:30 PM
Experts on the Santa Fe Trail, women of the West, Clyde Tingley, “St. Kate’s” and the Manhattan Project will deliver lectures in the first half of the 2013 Brainpower & Brownbags Lecture Series. The annual series, organized by Tomas Jaehn of the museum’s Fray Angélico Chávez History Library, is free and open to the public (and, yes, you can bring a lunch). Each lecture begins at noon in the Meem Community Room; enter through the museum’s Washington Avenue doors. Seating is limited.

Wednesday, June 19: Toni Gibson and Sharon Snyder on “The Manhattan Project in Los Alamos: An Eyewitness Perspective.” Gibson, of Grosse Pointe, Mich., is the author of Los Alamos: 1944-1947 (Arcadia, 2005), and, with Snyder, co-author of Los Alamos and the Pajarito Plateau (Arcadia, 2011). Snyder, of Rio Rancho, also wrote At Home on the Slopes of Mountains: The Story of Peggy Pond Church (Los Alamos Historical Society, 2011).

From Trail Riders to Bomb Builders with a Few Stops In-Between

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The Alzheimer's Poetry Project Meets Cowboys Real and Imagined
Fri, Jun 21 2013, 10:00 - 11:00 AM


In the hallowed tradition of campfire tales and cowboy poetry, the Alzheimer’s Poetry Project holds a special session at the New Mexico History Museum onFriday, June 21, 10–11 am. People living with dementia, their family members and the general public are invited to participate in performing and creating poetry inspired by the new exhibitCowboys Real and Imagined. Poet Gary Glazner, founder and executive director of the Alzheimer's Poetry Project, will lead the session.

The Alzheimer’s Poetry Project performs and creates poetry with people living with Alzheimer’s disease and related dementia with a goal of nurturing their creativity and sparking memories. In 2012, it received the MetLife Foundation Creativity and Aging in America Leadership Award in the category of Community Engagement. The National Endowment for the Arts listed it as a “best practice” for their Arts and Aging initiative. Last year, the APP produced an exhibit that shows people living with dementia participating in the dynamic creation of dance, music, poetry, storytelling, and their original artwork.Dementia Arts on Capitol Hill took place with the support of U.S. Sen. Tom Udall. In addition, APP has offered programming in Chinese, German, Hmong, Hebrew, Korean, Spanish, and Yiddish. In 2010, the U.S. Embassy in Berlin funded a pilot project for the APP in Germany, which inspired the U.S. Embassy In Warsaw to fund a pilot project there in 2012. To date the APP has held programming in 20 states and served over 15,000 people living with dementia.

The Alzheimer’s Poetry Project is funded in part by the City of Santa Fe Arts Commission, New Mexico Arts, a division of the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Poetry Foundation. For more information, go to its website,http://www.alzpoetry.com/.

Photo above:“The boys of the LS near Tascosa lingering at the chuck wagon after the day's work is done, listening to range boss telling stories of Billy the Kid, LS Ranch, Texas,” 1907 Erwin E. Smith, photographer. Amon Carter Museum of American Art LC-S59-110.

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Cowboy Movie Night
Fri, Jul 19 2013, 6:00 - 8:00 PM
Friday, April 26, 6pm—Cowboy movie night: “Tom Mix and Ranch Life in the Great Southwest,” with journalist and film critic Jon Bowman. Besides the 1910 Ranch Life, see a showing of the 1915 short, Local Color, filmed in New Mexico. Free.

Friday, May 17, 6pm—Cowboy movie night: “An Introduction to The Hi-Lo County,” with Max Evans. Jim Harris, director of the Lea County Museum, talks with Evans about his storied career, including the making of movies from his works, with a showing The Hi Lo Country (1998). Free.

Friday, July 19, 6pm—Cowboy movie night: “Edward Abbey and Lonely Are the Brave,” with oral historian Jack Loeffler. Loeffler discusses his friendship with author Edward Abbey and the transformation of Abbey’s novel The Brave Cowboy into a 1962 icon of Western movies, filmed in and around Albuquerque. Free.

Sunday, August 4, 2pm—“Pride in the Saddle in New Mexico: The Story of Gay Rodeo,” by Out West producer Gregory Hinton and photographer Blake Little. Hinton and Little talk about the history of gay rodeo in New Mexico and Little’s rare collection of gay rodeo photographs taken from 1988-1992, when he was a champion bull rider in the International Gay Rodeo Association. Free with admission (Sundays free to NM residents).

Friday, August 9, 6pm—“Jack Thorp’s Songs of the Cowboys,” by music historians Mark Lee Gardner and Rex Rideout. Gardner and Rideout perform and discuss the cowboy ballads collected by New Mexico cowboy, rancher, surveyor, and state cattle inspector N. Howard “Jack” Thorp, who published the very first book of cowboy songs at Estancia, NM, in 1908. The Palace Press this year debuts a fine-press reprint of the book with illustrations by Ron Kil. Gardner and Rideout use vintage instruments and historic playing styles to present a close approximation of how this music sounded. Free.

Saturday and Sunday, August 10 and 11, 10am to 4pm—“Wild West Weekend.” Two days of family fun celebrating the heritage of cowboys (and gals!) with singing cowboys, saddle makers, trick ropers, boot makers, poets, Dutch oven cooking demonstrations, and more. Mark Lee Gardner and Rex Rideout will lead a one-hour workshop for families on traditional cowboy songs and discuss the New Mexico cowboy lifestyle and culture as represented in music. Free with admission (Sundays free to NM residents; children 16 and under free daily).

Friday, September 20, 6pm—Cowboy movie night: “On the Trail of The Cowboys,” with journalist and film critic Robert Nott. Filmed at various locations in New Mexico and elsewhere, The Cowboys (1972) is considered one of John Wayne’s greatest movies. Based on the William Dale Jennings’ novel, the movie follows a cattle drive from Montana to South Dakota with real “boys,” after the grown-up cowboys flee the range in search of gold. Free.

Friday, November 15, 6pm—Cowboy movie night: “Oh, to be a Cowboy,” with best-selling author David Morrell. Based on Frank Harris’s My Reminiscences as a Cowboy, the 1958 movie Cowboy stars Glenn Ford and Jack Lemmon. A Chicago hotel clerk dreams of life as a cowboy and gets his shot in a cattle-driving outfit. Not surprisingly, the tenderfoot finds out life on the range is neither what he expected nor what he's been looking for. Considered the father of modern action novels, Morrell’s works include First Blood and the Rambo series, along with essays like "John Wayne: The Westerns." Free.

Friday, January 17, 6pm—Cowboy movie night: “Revisiting City Slickers,” with author Johnny Boggs. Six-time Spur Award-winning author Boggs introduces this 1991 comedy in which a mid-life crisis plagues a man and his friends, who find renewal and purpose on a cattle-driving vacation, filmed at various locations in New Mexico. Starring Billy Crystal and Jack Palance. Free. Aug 4, 2:00 PM , Aug 9, 6:00 PM , Aug 10, 10:00 AM , Aug 11, 10:00 AM , Sep 20, 6:00 PM , Nov 15, 6:00 PM Jan 17, 6:00 PM

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