Nov 14 Thursday
What does it take to paint on a monumental scale? Join us at The Bleachers at Devasthali Hall on November 11 at 5:30 p.m. to learn from muralists and arts administrators as they share their experiences in creating murals and public artworks. Carlos Rosales-Silva, Norma Hartell, and Ceci Vasconcellos will discuss the steps involved—from proposals to completion—and elaborate on the cultural significance that murals bring to communities.
Nov 15 Friday
Donna Stevens and Jim McGrath, seasonal botanists with the Gila National Forest, will present a program about their 2024 fieldwork and current projects. Topics will include invasive plant status and removal strategies, invasive plant problems in the wilderness, inventory and monitoring of the Gila’s rare plant populations, and the history and current status of the Cherry Creek restoration project. The program will be live at Harlan Hall, Room 111, on the WNMU Campus or online via Zoom (a link is available on request from gilanative@gmail.com). All are welcome.
Nov 21 Thursday
Dr. Jerry Wallace, Director of the Public History program at NMSU, will present a lecture called “The Ideal Spot to Live is in the Valley” -- Rosedale Farms and the Making of an El Paso Midcentury Neighborhood" at the November 21 meeting of the Dona Ana County Historical Society. The event is free and open to the public. In 1922, Winchester Cooley converted his land into a modern subdivision calling it Rosedale Farms and by 1929 El Paso's newest neighborhood had over 200 one-to-three acre lots. Near the end of the 1920s, Cooley partnered with a local real estate agent M.L. Cadwallader and local developer Roy W. Carey, branding the new neighborhood as "The Ideal Spot to Live...." What Cooley, Cadwallader and Carey did was create a rural refuge for El Pasoans in a rapidly expanding cityscape. In the early 1930s, new branding and marketing schemes billed Rosedale Farms as an experiment of farm living in the city.
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