By William Wroth “Rio Grande” is the name given to Hispanic blanket weaving in nineteenth-century New Mexico. It is a craft tradition which has deep roots in Mexico and in the Southwest. Prior to the Spanish Conquest, weaving had long been practiced by Native Americans in New Mexico and…
8 21 1858 Professor Charles E. Hodgin, Superintendent of the City Schools of Albuquerque since their organization in 1891, was born in Indiana, August 21, 1858, of English and Welsh descent. His ancestors were early settlers of the South. His parents were residents of North Carolina, were farmers by…
4 1880 By Richard Flint and Shirley Cushing Lansing Bloom's poor health (he had lost a lung due to tuberculosis) brought him to New Mexico. He began life in Auburn, New York, in April 1880. His father was the Richard Hutchinson Bloom. Little is known about his early life,…
1912 By Matthew Martínez My grandmother Esther Martínez often introduces herself by saying that she was born in 1912, the same year New Mexico became a state and the Titanic sank. The metaphor of the birth of a new period in history as well as the sinking of the…
Bazz Owen Smaulding, a teacher, athlete, and coach, was the son of a pioneer African-American family in New Mexico. Although born in Fort Griffin, Texas, by 1905 his family was living on a homestead ranch near Clayton, New Mexico. Smaulding graduated from Albuquerque Grammar School in 1915 and attended…
Partial Bibliography of the Writings of Fabián García Compiled by Rick Hendricks Press Bulletins of the State College Experiment Station 351 Plant Pollinizers in Orchards 363 Tomato Culture 378 A Good List of Varieties of Fruits for New Mexico 379 Cold Frames and Early Cabbage 384 Size of Apple…
By Rick Hendricks Fabián García was born in Chihuahua on 20 January 1871 to Ricardo García and Refugio Romero de García. Orphaned of both parents soon after his birth, García moved to the Mimbres Valley in southwestern New Mexico with his paternal grandmother, Jacoba García, when he was…
1881 By Priscilla Solis Ybarra, Ph.D. Adelina (Nina) Otero Warren—suffragist, educator, politician, entrepreneur, and writer– was born in 1881 in La Constancia, New Mexico, near Los Lunas. She was the second child of Manuel B. Otero and Eloisa Luna Otero. Both her parents had deep roots in New Mexico,…
9 11 1923 By Rick Hendricks Roy Minoru Nakayama was born on 11 September 1923 to John K. and Tome Nakayama, both of whom had been born in Japan. At the time of his birth, Roy was the fifth of seven children. He would eventually have one more sibling,…
"The true beauty and significance of this collection lies not in the talent of the artists, but in the subject matter they choose to capture. DeHuff's students chose to paint symbols, figures, stories, dances, ceremonies, and designs of their heritage. These paintings capture both the cultures of the artists,…
