NM Route 66 Speaker Series

About this event

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.

* March 28, Hazel Lathrop, Tijeras Canyon - Five Miles of Road and Hundreds of Stories. * April 25, Jacqueline Murray Loring, The KiMo Theatre: Fact and Folklore * May 23, Roger Zimmerman, Rerouting Route 66 through New Mexico. * June 27, Joseph Sabatini, North Fourth Street – Albuquerque's Original Route 66. * July 25, Richard Ruddy, An Iconic View: Route 66 in Downtown Albuquerque. * August 22, Aimee Tang, Chinese Merchants of Albuquerque’s Route 66. * September 26, Gordene MacKenzie, Agriculture, Architecture, Artists, Bootleggers, and Businesses Along the Mother Road in Los Ranchos * October 24, Donatella Davanzo, Route 66 Connected: Our Contemporary Heritage. * November 28, David Montoya, Land and Acequias Along Los Ranchos' Route 66.

Presented by the Albuquerque Historical Society, East Mountain Historical Society, Historic Albuquerque, Inc., and Los Ranchos Historical Society.

From East Mountain Historical Society