National Trails Day, Questa History Walk
Saturday, June 2nd, 2018, 10:30am
Not all trails are in the woods! Join local historian Flavio Cisneros for a walk of the Questa History & Community Trail. A 5000-year timeline highlights rare geologic features, Hispano and multi-cultural settlements, Native life and conflicts, frontier religious devotion, orchards and arts. Discover a microcosm of northern New Mexico history on a .6m loop.
This inaugural walk is a chance for residents and visitors to offer feedback and questions about each topic highlighted, and each trail surface proposed. This, prior to the final, permanent structures being built in 2019.
Meet at the plazuela at Questa’s traffic light, corner of hwy. 522 & 38. FREE
Brought to you in part by: New Mexico Humanities Council, Northern Rio Grande National Heritage Area, and the National Park Service
Gathering Memory: Object, Photo and Story Workshop
Sunday, July 8th, 2018, 2pm
Former New Mexico State Historian, Dr. Estevan Rael-Gálvez will give a presentation on history and memory and lead the community though a memoir workshop. Participants are asked to arrive with: an object that holds a special memory about a person, event or place, a photograph that could be used to tell a story, and the name of one ancestor whose life holds special meaning.
VFW Hall, 1.6m north of the traffic light in Questa, on Highway 522. FREE
Brought to you in part by: New Mexico Humanities Council, Northern Rio Grande National Heritage Area, and the National Park Service