Details of Festival this weekend in Carrizozo

2017 CARRIZOZO FESTIVAL AND ARTISTS’ TOUR  HIGHLIGHTS

Saturday and Sunday, August 12^th and 13^th

Parade The Festival begins at 10 am with an old-fashioned parade with lots of entries, including Matthew Midgett and Thunder (Belle’s had some foot issues, so Thunder’s replacing her this year) in full parade regalia (which Thunder had no clue weighed so much!).  Also in the parade will be the Folklorico Dancers (who will also be dancing in the afternoon).

 

 

Beer Garden Sierra Blanca Brewery founded in Carrizozo will host a Beer Garden beside the Lutz Building at the shed with their famous brew, including prepackaged boxes of their brew for sale to take home.  In addition to beverages, food will also be available, and biker friendly.

Live Music   There will be live music in various places all afternoon and early evening – The Yucca Stage will have La Ultima, Paul Pino and the Tone Daddies and the Folklorico Dancers after the Parade. There will be a Street Dance on 12^th Street from 7 to 9 in the evening, and   Nathan Chavez will play music in the Park.  So you can sing along and dance all day and half the night!

Folk Dancers   The well known Folklorico Dancers not only have fun but will encourage you to get up and dance, too!  They’ll be in the parade starting at 10 am as well as doing some dancing on 12^th Street after the parade. 

Food, Food, Food -- what can we say?  There will be several food vendors in McDonald Park and by the Beer Garden beside the Lutz Building.  If you’re still hungry, you must have missed something….

Artists, Craftsmen and More -- Below is a list of the folks whose works will be available to admire, discuss, enjoy and purchase.  The names are in alphabetical order by the artist’s first name, most of whom are from Carrizozo.  The list of all artists is also in the Festival brochure by the location where their work is being shown and includes their full names.   Brochures are available at several locations around town as well as at the Caboose/Visitors Center.

Bonnie Soley                         James Mack                 Marcus Abel

Chuck Riley                            Joan Malkerson           Pia

Coe Kitten                              Jose Diaz                     Randall Roberts

Deborah Geary                      Judy Pekelsma            Rick Geary

Douglas Stanton                   Leroy Lopez                 Suzanne Donazetti

Hope de la Torre                   Lisa Maue                    Tamara Haas

Ivy Heymann        

Historic Homes Tour in the Carrizozo Trolley   Catch a trailer-trolley ride on Saturday for a narrated Carrizozo Historic Homes Tour at the Wells Fargo parking lot on 12^th Street at 4^th Avenue.  Tours will begin at 11 am, 12:30 pm, and 2 pm.  Many of the homes were built at the turn of the 20^th century of adobe bricks formed on site. Craftsman, Salt-box and Mediterranean are among the architectural styles to be seen.  Several have been restored to their former boom-town glory.  It’s well worth a ride around Carrizozo’s historic district!

Artists’ Studio Tour   A self-guided tour of artists’ studios as shown on the festival brochure (available at the Caboose/Visitors Center, the Information Booth and many 12^th Street businesses) showcases the diversity of talents of Carrizozo’s resident artists.  Copper weaving, pottery, mixed media, hand-made jewelry as well as landscape, abstract and character paintings are among the many art offerings not to be missed!

Don’t forget to make a stop at Carrizozo’s Historic Museum!  Our legacy of railroad life and ranches is displayed for an enlightening walk-through of a by-gone era.  The Museum will be open from 10 to 4 on Saturday to show some of the really interesting rooms they have filled.

There are a lot of sites to see, as you can tell from the map in the program flyer, and one other place of interest is the set of small town buildings at the east end of E Avenue created by local craftsman Leroy Lopez.  It’s about a mile after you turn off Highway 54 past the Emporium and go across the railroad tracks, but it’s well worth the visit, especially if you like refurbished old cars and trucks.   

                  

Information for Private well owners

Celebrating National Thrift Shop Day on Thursday, Aug 17th

When you make a purchase at the Not 2 Shabby Shop between now and August 17th - your name goes in the drawing for a cash prize! You need not be present to win, but why not just plan on coming by to check out  the sale on August 17? Open 10 -5:30 Thursdays, 10 - 4 Fridays, and 10 - 4 Saturdays.

Don't miss Dale Evans riding into Capitan tonight!

Dale Evans, known as “Queen of the West” in the 1940s, ‘50s and ‘60s, will be portrayed in a Chautauqua presented by Kay Sebring-Roberts Kuhlmann at Capitan Public Library’s First Friday Program,  August 4,  at 7 p.m. 

This Chautauqua is brought to you courtesy of the New Mexico Humanities Council and the Friends of the Capitan Public Library.

The Chautauqua title, “The Way You Ride the Trail,” comes from Dale Evan’s most famous song, “Happy Trails to You,” composed as a theme song for her husband Roy Rogers, known as “King of the Cowboys.”  Dale appeared with Roy in 28 Western movies, as well as in the popular weekly television show, “The Roy Rogers Show,” during the 1950s and early ‘60s. 

Both Dale and Roy got their start in show business as radio performers before they ever met each other.  Together they recorded music albums, made live guest appearances around the country and raised seven children together.  The couple later hosted a musical variety television show. 

According to playwright/actress Kuhlmann, “at The Way You Ride the Trail Chautauqua, the audience will learn about Dale’s early life on her way to fame.  “She was a trailblazer for women in a number of ways.  

This performance will offer reminiscences of a special era in movies and early television, especially for audience members who are Baby Boomers and upward.  They will also find out some surprising insights into Dale’s life.”

A resident of Ruidoso, Kay Sebring-Roberts Kuhlmann is the author of over 50 history-based plays.  Of these, many are one-woman shows or Chautauquas.

Also a trailblazer in her own right, Kuhlmann is continually adding to her cast of woman portrayals.

Solo stage characters portrayed by Kuhlmann range from four first ladies: Bess Truman, Mamie Eisenhower, Jacki Kennedy and Hillary Clinton; to entertainers: Patsy Cline and Dale Evans; to pioneers: Santa Fe Trail Diarist Marian Sloan Russell; to traitors: Mildred Gillars aka Axis Sally; and first-in-their fields such as dentist Lucy Hobbs Taylor and U.S. Treasurer Georgia Neese Gray. 

After the Chautauqua, refreshments will be served.

See you there!

Kay meeting Roy Roger's son 

New Mexico Humanities Council Chautauquas across the state

Mark your calendar for Next week's First Friday

Summer Reading Program winning readers

Debbie Myers presenting the Top readers left to right:

Navaeh Lueras, Fiona Roberts, Alice Allen 

The summer program's theme was Building a Better World.  Capitan Public Library's program was extremely successful due to Debbie Myers, children program coordinator.  Thanks to the many parents that attended faithfully and assisted with projects.

WoW - Wonders on Wheels. WOW-we had fun and learned a lot.

Walking like a dinosaur

Hands-on display for the kiddos

BIG foot

Geology -  example of a NM strata

By using a tape measure, we learned the size of different dinosaurs

Fun time

Which twin won? Wait, looks like one decided aiming at bro was more fun.

Becoming dinosaurs

catching up on Summer Reading photos - July 17th

 Chris the Curious Scientist - everyone loved him.

Monday, July 24 - Wonder on Wheels at the Capitan Public Library. Everyone invited to come check it out 10 am to 1 pm

The exciting interactive, hands-on exhibits provide a rich, experiential curriculum delivered by trained educators who engage students in diverse subject matters ranging from New Mexico history to folk, native and fine arts, natural history, space science, and more. The WoW program is in partnership with, and will make stops at New Mexico’s public and tribal libraries and offer full family programming at each stop. This unparalleled out-of-the-classroom experience will provide a critical museum-based educational experience to students who live too far away from, or don’t otherwise have access to DCA museums and historic sites.

NO WAY!

At our last First Friday program, this topic came up while enjoying refreshments.  We were all saying "No way! Impossible"  Well...yes way - here's documentation backing up the claim from August 2017 Birds and Blooms magazine.  Still say - NO WAY!  Isn't life full of mysteries? Like the Asombro Institute for Science Education that did a yucca moth program for CPL Summer Reading Program.  Asombro mean "wonder" in Spanish.  Go out and find some asombro today. I dare you.  (P.S. sometimes you can discover something asombro at your library!)

New Prices in the Bookstore Room

Hardbacks..................$2.00
Large Paperback........$1.00
Small Paperback.............50 cents
Children's Books.............25 cents
Audiobooks.................$1.00
VHS................................25 cents
DVDs..........................$1.00
Magazines...................FREE

First Saturday of every month, only $5 for a bag of books

Volunteer!

Local July events - mark your calendar

Come to the library to visit another galaxy- July 7th at 7pm

New Mexico Humanities Council Chautauquas happening around our state. Road Trip! Support the NMHC.

JULY 4th @ the Library

Capitan Public Library will hold its annual bake, book and hot dog sale on Tuesday, July 4.  Bake sale starts at 8:00 a.m.  Starting about 9:00, we will be serving hot dogs and smoked sausage with your choice of toppings, nachos, sodas and bottled water. You can't get a better deal and you can eat your lunch in our cool back yard.  Books will be sold for $5 a bag and if you bring in the card handed out at the parade, you'll get the books free.  This year we will have a specialty table with small electronic items.  Join us as we pay homage to our founding fathers for providing the freedom to enjoy this day of celebration. 

Tiffanie Owen, Current Showcased Artist at the Capitan Public Library

     A native New Mexican, Tiffanie Owen has deep family roots in southern

 New Mexico.  Her interest in art began at  an early age with instruction and

 encouragement from her mother and grandmother.  Later, Owen studied at

 The Art Center in 1994, where she earned degrees in Advertising Art and 

 Computer Graphic Design.  

     In 2008, Owen took over directorship of the Hurd-La Rinconada Gallery 

& Guest Ranch in San Patricio, New Mexico.  This allowed her to meld art into

 her daily life, but the work was still not her own.

     A search for her own artistic voice led Owen to Master Artist, Lou Maestas, 

who instructed her in the technique of oil rub-out.  The origins of this  technique 

are unknown, but what is known about oil rub-out is that it was once a training 

requirement of the Old Masters.  Before learning color theory, students were

trained  to use a limited palette which forces the painter to study values without 

the distraction  of color.  Using only two pigments, darker values are placed first, 

then the lighter values are revealed as the artist “rubs out” the highlights, usually

with a rag or other unconventional tool.  

Owen further explains this art.  “I am attracted to this technique because of 

my life-long love of photography…particularly historic sepia photos.  Quite 

by accident, I have discovered that I can create texture…the look of 

splintered wood, crumbling adobe, the tanned leather of a tipi, or the 

camouflaged plumage of a barn owl.  I think texture adds an extra 

dimension to my paintings the same way that it adds feeling and sensation

 to life.

     “I love to paint historic places…especially those that no longer exist. It is sad 

when old buildings die…they have charm and personality just like people.  

I hate to see history lost to progress,but when I paint the old buildings, it’s like

painting a portrait of a beloved family member who is no longer here…gone, 

but not forgotten.”

Owen is currently the Instructional Coordinator at Lincoln & Fort Stanton 

Historic Sites.  She looks forward to painting some of the historic locations 

in Lincoln County.  With three successful one-woman art exhibitions in the

past and a current member of the Cloudcroft Art Society, she continues to

participate in several CAS art shows.  She also owns a mobile “paint-n-sip”

business called Saucy Paint which allows beginning painters to

 “uncork their inner artist.” 

Tiffanie Owen's art will be on display July through August.