Women on the Mother Road A screening and discussion

The Women On The Mother Road in New Mexico: Route 66

Join project director Katrina Parks for this special screening and discussion program reexamining Route 66 from the perspective of New Mexican women. Themes of growing up, traveling, challenging gender stereotypes, confronting prejudice and pushing boundaries in a man’s world drive the project’s content.

Parks will be joined by the National Park Service’s Route 66 Corridor Preservation Program manager Kaisa Bartuli, librarian and archivist Rose Diaz (the Indian Pueblo Cultural Center) and author Sharon Niederman. The panel has brought together archival photos and the filmed interviews for this presentation.

The event is made possible by the support of the New Mexico Humanities Council, a non-profit partner of the National Endowment for the Humanities. Please visit www.nmhum.org.

“As you might expect, women often worked in family businesses along Route 66, but they also struck out on their own as artists, anthropologists, architects, waitresses, entrepreneurs,

executives and real estate magnets.” – Katrina Parks