History

Learn A Living Tradition – Make Traditional New Mexican Straw Appliqué Art At Los Luceros Historic Site

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Los Luceros Historic Site News:

Create one of Northern New Mexico’s most enchanting arts, straw appliqué, with Northern Río Grande National Heritage Area (NRGNHA) at Los Luceros Historic Site this month.

What: Learn how to make straw appliqué art using wheat straw to decorate wooden decorative items. The workshop begins with participants carefully selecting wheat straw and preparing it by splitting, flattening, and burnishing it to enhance its natural golden sheen.

Participants will arrange the prepared straw into intricate designs such as flowers, vines, stars, sacred symbols, and Read More

New Mexico Supreme Court Celebrates 114th Anniversary

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COURT News:

SANTA FE — The public is invited to attend a ceremony on Thursday, Jan. 8, to commemorate the 114th anniversary of the establishment of New Mexico’s highest court.

Justice Michael E. Vigil will speak about the history of the Court and its building during an event starting at 1 p.m. in the Supreme Court courtroom. Click here for a live stream of the event.

Jan. 10 is Supreme Court of New Mexico Day — the anniversary of when the first state Supreme Court justices took their oaths of office in 1912. New Mexico became the 47th state four days earlier, and the Territorial Supreme Read More

Artists Capture ‘Soul Of Route 66’ In Mural Design Exhibit At Governor’s Gallery

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NMDCA News: 

The New Mexico History Museum presents “Mother Road: Route 66 in New Mexico,” an exhibition at the Governor’s Gallery inside the New Mexico State Capitol.

In July 2025, the History Museum hosted an open call for artists to design and paint a mural in the museum’s lobby commemorating the centennial founding of Route 66. Five artists from nearly two hundred submissions were invited to create concept artwork for the mural. In the exhibition, “Mother Road: Route 66 in New Mexico,” large-scale mural mock-up designs created by the five finalists will be on display at the Governor’s Gallery. Read More

Los Alamos Historical Society To Host ‘If These Walls Could Talk’ Two-Part Lecture Series On Jan. 13 And Feb. 10

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LAHS News:

The Los Alamos Historical Society announces its upcoming free lectures 7-9 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 13, and
Tuesday, Feb. 10, in the Pajarito Room of historic Fuller Lodge. These lectures will feature
stories based around the buildings of Los Alamos History.

The lecture on Jan. 13 is titled, “If These Walls Could Talk Part 1: Buildings of the Los Alamos Historic District”. In this lecture volunteers for the Los Alamos History Museum as well as staff from the Historical Society and Archives and Collections will share the history of the buildings in the Historic District as well as the people Read More

Posts From The Road: 2025 Year In Review Part 2

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Sheep Creek Bay: Sheep Creek is one of many contributors to Flaming Gorge Reservoir. Seen is Sheep Creek Bay, framed nicely by the red cliffs and hills, which is a part of the large and long reservoir. This is near Wyoming and it is easy to visualize how the reservoir is opening up and becoming wider as it exits the deep canyons to the southern part of Flaming Gorge Reservoir. Photo by Gary Warren/ladailypost.com

Viewpoint: A group of hikers stop at a viewpoint near the Canyon Rim Campground to view the river and canyon below. The viewpoint is near the Red Canyon Visitor Center. The river is hundreds Read More

Fr. Glenn: Overlap

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By Fr. Glenn Jones:

Well … it’s been quite the “interesting” start to the new year, hasn’t it?

New York City has its first Muslim socialist mayor; that will definitely be “interesting” in the financial capital of the world. I, like many, find it hard to believe that, with the tragic history of socialism throughout the world, people are still swayed by its siren song. “Equity” sounds good, but that necessarily presumes equity in effort, ability, etc., which does not happen in practice. If I work harder to produce/earn more, it’s taken from me to give to someone who does not. So why work hard, or at all? Read More

Virtual Artist Talk With Susan Hudson & Kent Monkman At Millicent Rogers Museum Friday Jan. 9

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Millicent Rogers Museum News:

The community is invited to a virtual artist talk presented by the Millicent Rogers Museum in conjunction with the exhibition Quilted Survivance:

Details:

 

  • Virtual Artist Talk: Quilted Survivance
    Susan Hudson and the Navajo Quilt Project
  • Moderated by: Annie Drysdale and Claire Pelaez Motsinger
    Artist Panelists: Susan Hudson and Kent Monkman
  • Friday, January 9, 2026
    5 p.m. MST
    Live on Zoom (link below)

This event is an engaging conversation with two internationally recognized Indigenous artists as they explore the concept of survivance through their Read More

County Historic Preservation Advisory Board To Meet Jan. 7

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COUNTY News:

The Los Alamos County Historic Preservation Advisory Board is scheduled to meet at 5:30 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 7 in Room 110 at the Municipal Building, 1000 Central Ave.

This meeting is open to the public, however, for convenience, the following Zoom meeting link and/or telephone call-in numbers may be used for public viewing and participation:

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https://us06web.zoom.us/j/84905750399

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Meeting ID: 849 0575 0399

  1. ADMINISTRATIVE ACTIONS
  2. Call to Order/Introductions

This section of the agenda Read More

Not Too Late To Register For Washington Spring Break Trip

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By ROBERTA COCKING
Coordinator
Spring Break Trip

Attention Los Alamos Middle School and homeschool 8th grade parents. It’s not too late to sign up for this year’s spring break trip to Washington, D.C. This is the 41st year for this once-in-a-lifetime annual trip for your student to travel with their peers to our nation’s capital!

Sign up quickly to lock in your reservation and trip price. Price for the trip could possibly increase after Jan. 9! Flexible payment plans are available with Worldstrides for this trip .

The trip is a private trip and not a school-sponsored trip and has been offered to Read More

Daily Postcard: ‘Strange Trio’ Illuminated At Overlook Park

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Daily Postcard: ‘Strange Trio’ sculpture illuminated by ground lighting Thursday night at the corner of Meadow Lane and Overlook Road in White Rock. Photo by Carol A. Clark/ladailypost.com

Strange Trio History
Staff Report 

The public was invited to attend a re-dedication ceremony and ribbon-cutting event for “Strange Trio” on Dec. 2, 2015. The colossal steel sculpture was relocated Oct. 13, 2015 to the entrance of Overlook Park at the intersection of Meadow Lane and Overlook Road in White Rock.

Speakers at that event a decade ago included then County Council Chair Kristin Henderson, Art Read More