Gen-X @ The Other Route 66: 100 Years
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# The Other Route 66: 100 Years of People, identity, and Place in Albuquerque
Itinerary:
1 pm to 2 pm -- Tour gallery
2 pm to 3 pm -- Lecture
3 pm to 5 pm -- Happy Hour at a nearby pub
Sunday, August 23, 2 pm
Conversation: Join Dr. Alicia Romero, Head Curator & Curator of History, as she talks to photojournalists and documentary photographers about photographing Route 66 in New Mexico. Panel participants include Roberto Rosales, visual journalist for Albuquerque Journal and adjunct faculty of photojournalism and photography at the University of New Mexico, and Nathaniel Tetsuro Paolinelli, documentary photographer whose work has appeared in New Mexico Magazine and who recently published Seventh and Central: Lowriders with University of New Mexico Press.
Sunday, September 27, 2 pm
Talk: "History of the Indian Detours," by Kathleen Dull, Librarian and Archivist, Fray Angélico Chávez History Library at New Mexico History Museum.
Sunday, October 25, 2 pm
Talk: "Headlights on the Mother Road: A History of the Fireballs," by George Tomsco, founder of The Fireballs.
Sunday, November 8, 2 pm
Talk: "Neon along Route 66," by John Meier, owner of the Classical Gas Museum, Embudo, New Mexico.
Thursday, November 19, 5 to 8:30 pm
Free event: Third Thursday, Route 66 Dance Party.
Sunday, December 13, 2 pm
Talk: "Route 66 Travelers and Tribes 100 years," by Shawn Price, Tradition Keeper and Director of the Dine'Tah Navajo Cultural Program.