NM Route 66 Speaker Series - Special Collections Library
A lot happened on the Mother Road before, during and after the life of Route 66. Come hear a different speaker each month, telling of life along our nation’s most fascinating highway.
February 28, Sondra Diepen, Route 66 New Mexico: A Visual Tour.
March 28, Richard Ruddy, An Iconic View: Route 66 in Downtown Albuquerque.
April 25, Gordene MacKenzie, Agriculture, Architecture, Artists, Bootleggers, and Businesses Along the Mother Road in Los Ranchos.
May 23, Donatella Davanzo, Route 66 Connected: Our Contemporary Heritage.
June 27, Lynne Franchini Peckinpaugh, The Italian's Pathway to Prosperity on Albuquerque's Route 66.
July 25, Jennifer Bohnhoff, The Civil War on Route 66.
August 22, Abraham Santillanes, Why turn left at Albuquerque? Albuquerque, Route 66 and the many roads that came before.
September 26, Hazel Lathrop, Tijeras Canyon - Five Miles of Road and Hundreds of Stories.
October 24, Jacqueline Murray Loring, The KiMo Theatre: Fact and Folklore.
November 28, Roger Zimmerman, Rerouting Route 66 through New Mexico.
Presented by the Albuquerque Historical Society, East Mountain Historical Society, Historic Albuquerque, Inc., and Los Ranchos Historical Society.
Event Links
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