Elizabeth Gutierrez Garrett

by MyProject ByFranziska | Feb 10, 2023

Elizabeth Garrett was the third of eight children born to Pat Garret, well known as the sheriff who brought outlaw Billy the Kid to justice, and Apolinaria Gutierrez Garrett. Born October 9, 1885, in the Garrett home in Eagle Creek outside Alto (near Ruidoso), she...

Cora Durand

by MyProject ByFranziska | Feb 10, 2023

Three Picuris women, Maria Ramita Simbola Martinez, Cora Durand, and Virginia Duran, helped to preserve the micaceous pottery tradition that remains important in Picuris and other nearby pueblos today. Picuris is a Tiwa speaking Pueblo located fifty-seven miles north...

Anita Scott Coleman

by MyProject ByFranziska | Feb 10, 2023

Novelist Anita Scott Coleman was an important western voice in the Harlem Renaissance, an early-twentieth-century movement of flourishing social, artistic, and political innovation among African Americans. The movement, known at the time as the “New Negro...

Agueda S. Martinez

by MyProject ByFranziska | Feb 10, 2023

Born in 1898 in Chamita, New Mexico, Agueda Martinez learned to weave at the age of 12 and continued to improve her weaving talent until it became a source of both income and inspiration for her. She has been called the “matriarch” of Hispanic weaving in New Mexico....

Agnes Morley Cleaveland

by MyProject ByFranziska | Feb 10, 2023

Ada McPherson Morley came to New Mexico as a young newlywed and settled in Cimarron, New Mexico. Her husband was an engineer and, like her, a crusader. They openly opposed the infamous Santa Fe Ring, a Santa Fe based group of corrupt politicians who were not above...