This Thursday, Friday & Saturday

Saturday, Aug 4 is $5 for a BAG of Books day. 
Library is open on Saturday 10 am to 2 pm

First Friday is Aug 3 at 7pm, see information below

Thursday, Aug 2 is an Alto Artist Studio Tour PREVIEW party at the Spencer Theater 5pm to 7pm. Great music (of course - it's music performed by Debbie Myers, Fred Kinnan and Jim Helms), awesome ART, a Silent Auction, see special guest Michael Hurd and Free food! See you there!

Voices From the Past: Adventures

 in New Mexico’s Archives

Capitan Public Library welcomes
 Chautauqua Speaker

Robert J. Torrez

Friday, August 3, 2018 - 7:00 p.m.

This presentation is based on the title of the recently published

 Voices From the Past,  The Comanche Raid of 1776 and other Tales of

New Mexico History,  the second volume of short stories  taken from

 the author’s long-running monthly column, “Voices From the Past,
 which has been  published in Round the Roundhouse since 1992. 

The first volume  of these articles was published by the 

University of New Mexico Press in 2004 under the title,

 UFOs Over Galisteo and Other Stories of New Mexico’s History. 

Robert J. Tórrez, an award-winning author of six books,

 was born and raised in northern New Mexico community of Los Ojos.

 After attending Tierra Amarilla High School, he received his undergraduate

 and graduate education at New Mexico Highlands University in Las Vegas

 and the University of New Mexico. Torres served as the New Mexico State

 Historian from 1987 until his retirement in 2000. 

He continues to research New Mexico’s archives, teach short-term adult
 education courses,  lecture and write on various aspects of New Mexico history.

This program is made available through New Mexico  Humanities Council

Refreshments will follow the presentation.