PROGRAMS 2013

NOTE:  Ranch tours are conducted from May-September annually by the Lincoln County Historical Society with reservations to each event strongly recommended.  Participants limited to 40 individuals.  $10. donation per participant is requested at event.  Wear sturdy shoes as some walking over rough terrain may be necessary.  Bring personal needs items, especially water, snacks, sunscreen, and hat.  4x4 wheel drive vehicles to share are desired, if available.   Signed release requested.  Register at explorenm@yahoo.com.  Contact: 575-648-5586.

May 4, 2013,    10 a.m., Board Meeting, Carrizozo Heritage Museum, 103 12^th Street, Carrizozo, NM.  Visitors Welcome.

May 4, 2013 -  1 p.m., Refreshments, Meet and Greet Event and Book Signing for Dr. William W. Dunmire, Associate in Biology, University of New Mexico, http://wwwbdunmire.com.  Presentation by Professor Dunmire on his new book, New Mexico's Spanish Livestock Heritage: Four Centuries of Animals, Land and People (University of New Mexico Press, April 2013).    Visitors and Guests at the Museum events are welcome; no donation required.

May 18, 2013:  Ranch Tour:  9 a.m.,   Meet at Carrizozo Heritage Museum, 103 12th St., Carrizozo, NM.   Bring bag lunch, water, sunscreen, hat, etc.  Ranch Tour participants will car-pool for a ranch tour of historic Bar-W Ranch, north of Carrizozo with Sterling Spencer, descendant of first statehood NM Governor, Wm. C. McDonald (see http://www.newmexicohistory.org/filedetails_docs.php?fileID=460).  Also see Carrizozo Street Fair Events, Labor Day weekend, 2012 online, “Round Up Time” at the ranch for information about the ranch.... http://carrizozostreetfair.org/cowboy-days/ . Group will return to Carrizozo Heritage Museum by 1 p.m.

June 22, 2013:  I Bar X Ranch Tour, near Carrizozo, NM.  Meet at Carrizozo Heritage Museum, 103 12^th St., Carrizozo, Carrizozo, NM at 9 a.m.   Bring bag lunch, water, sunscreen, hat, etc.  $10. donation requested, at event,  limited to first 40 applicants.  Register online at explorenm@yahoo.com, 575-648-5586.

           July 13-14,  2013:  FORT STANTON LIVE! - Fort Stanton Live! event brings costumed re-enactors from the Civil War and Indian Wars era to the Fort for demonstrations, presentations, a candlelight tour, concert and a military ball which will have visitors dancing into the night!  Additionally, the event brings authors, historians, photographers, artists, and a variety of historical vendors to site to share their crafts and other handiwork.  Special tours of the WW II internment camp are also available: http://fortstanton.org/fort-stanton-live/  LCHS members will be present to meet visitors and to present available publications and maps. Come by and meet us.

ALSO SEE:  Book #2...Fort Stanton, New Mexico:  The Military Years  1856-1896
by Lee Myers     $10.00
Book AVAILABLE ON THIS SITE - go to “PUBLICATIONS” LINK

         JULY 2013:  RANCH TOUR - TBA

         August 3, 2013:  Dr. Kathleen P. Chamberlain Book Signing and Presentation,  2 p.m., San Juan Mission, Calle la Placita (Hwy.380), Lincoln, NM.  Chamberlain’s book, In the Shadow of Billy the Kid: Susan McSween and the Lincoln County War, University of New Mexico Press,  has received acclaim for her presentation of the five decades when she witnessed  this turbulent period of Lincoln County’s past.   Open to the public.

         FIRST WEEKEND IN AUGUST:  OLD LINCOLN DAYS: Old Lincoln Days has been celebrated the first full week-end in August since 1939, with the exception of two years during World War II. Visitors will enjoy re-enactors, music, performances of the Last Escape of Billy the Kid, performed on Friday and Saturday evenings and Sunday afternoon following the parade on Sunday morning. 
LCHS OPEN HOUSE and BOOK SIGNING - 10 a.m.,
Old Courthouse Building, Lincoln, NM

Lincoln State Historic Site is unique in that it manages most of the historical buildings in the community of Lincoln. This most widely visited State Historic Site in New Mexico and is part of a community frozen in time—the 1870's and 1880's:  http://www.nmstatemonuments.org/lincoln

         AUGUST 2013:  Program/ RANCH TOUR: TBA

         SEPTEMBER 2013:  PROGRAM TBA

         October 5, 2013   Time/Location TBA- Annual Membership Meeting/Election of Officers/Covered Dish Luncheon. 
          PROGRAM:  Book Signing and Presentation, Roberta Key Haldane, Gold-Mining Boomtown: People of White Oaks, Lincoln County, New Mexico Territory.   Haldane, a historian and writer is a native of Lincoln County.  The book profiles more than 40 families and individuals who first settled in White Oaks when it was a frontier town.   This book won the History-New Mexico category of the 2012 New Mexico-Arizona Book Award and is being nominated as Book of the Year for the Historical Society of New Mexico.

Winter Meetings, 1st Saturday of each month at 10:00 a.m. - The Watson House, 713 Calle la Placita,  Hwy. 380, Lincoln NM.  Visitors/Members Welcome to Attend.

 

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Lincoln County is in the process of making available to the public an extensive archive of Lincoln County newspapers going back to the 1800s.  Contact for further information: Karen Mills, Archivist, Carrizozo Court House, 575-648-2306, ext. 137 or 1-800-687-2705