4th Annual New Mexico Women Authors’ Book Festival – HISTORY/BIOGRAPHY New Mexico History Museum Auditorium

10:30-11:00 AM: Carolyn Sayler, Santa Fe, will discuss "Dorris Fleeson: Incomparably the First Political Journalist of Her Time" as well as the Fleeson family

11:00 -11:30 AM: Loretta Hall, Albuquerque, will discuss "The Mercury Program's Women Astronauts (Not)"

11:30 – noon: Victoria Rogers, Santa Fe, will be presenting "A Contemporary Look at Old Architecture"

noon – 12:30 PM: Marcia Keegan, Santa Fe, will be showing a photographic presentation entitled"Photographing Four Generations of Pueblo People"

12:30 – 1:00 PM: Judith McLaughlin, Santa Fe, will discuss "The Religious Folk Art of New Mexico"

1:00 – 1:30 PM: Roberta Price, Albuquerque, will discuss the legacy of the rural counterculture in northern New Mexico and southern Colorado"

1:30 – 2:00 PM: Pat Shapiro, Santa Fe, will be discussing "The Journey Home to Your True Self"

2:00 – 2:30 PM: Sandra K. Toro, Albuquerque, will discuss "Jews in the Sixteenth Century: From Expulsion to Shylock," an overview of the Inquisition, which led four centuries later, to the holocaust

2:30 – 3:00 PM: Jaima Chevalier, Santa Fe, will discuss "She Came from Beyond Exploring Our Lady of Peace in New Mexico Iconography"

3:00 – 3:30 PM: Shelby Tisdale. Director and Joyce Begay-Foss, Museum Educator, of of Museum of Indian Art & Culture, will present two viewpoints on Diné weaving

3:30 – 4:00 PM: Giovanna Paponetti, Ranchos de Taos, will discuss "Who is Kateri Tekakwitha?"

4:00 – 4:30 PM: Valerie Nye & Kathy Barco, Santa Fe and Albuquerque, will discuss "True Stories of Censorships Battles in American Libraries"