NM Route 66 Speaker Series - South Valley Library

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.

February 28, Hazel Lathrop, Tijeras Canyon - Five Miles of Road and Hundreds of Stories. March 28, Jacqueline Murray Loring, The KiMo Theatre: Fact and Folklore. April 25, Roger Zimmerman, Rerouting Route 66 through New Mexico. May 23, Joseph Sabatini, North Fourth Street – Albuquerque's Original Route 66. June 27, Abraham Santillanes, Why turn left at Albuquerque? Albuquerque, Route 66 and the many roads that came before. July 25, Aimee Tang, Chinese Merchants of Albuquerque’s Route 66. August 22, Roland Penttila, Little Beaver Town. September 26, Donatella Davanzo, Route 66 Connected: Our Contemporary Heritage. October 24, Lynne Franchini Peckinpaugh, The Italian's Pathway to Prosperity on Albuquerque's Route 66. November 28, Jennifer Bohnhoff, The Civil War on 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