Speakers/Chautauqua Catalog

Name Ms. VanAnn Moore
Email vanannsings@gmail.com
Phone 505/864-2038
Address 439 Aquina Ct.
Belen, NM  87002
US
Biographical Info VanAnn Moore is a Chautauqua performer and researcher who has brought a dozen historical characters alive for NMHC for over 14 years. She has performed internationally. *Please read the booking guidelines before applying for funds. Speaker must be contacted by host to arrange presentation date*
Program Title AMAZING WOMEN OF THE WILD WEST: Territorial New Mexico
Character Name Doña Tules Barcelo, Susan Shelby Magoffin, and Lydia Spencer Lane
Program Description
One of the most dramatic eras of New Mexico's rich history is the Territorial period when the United States first raised the American flag on August 18, 1846 over the plaza of Las Vegas for the first time. This program examines the territorial women through living history portrayals of Doña Tules (Gertrudes Barcelo), Susan Shelby Magoffin, and Lydia Spencer Lane. These women represented what it took to survive and thrive during very colorful and extremely challenging times in New Mexico's Territorial Era. It brings history into an understandable and personal reality. Doña Tules opened Santa Fe and New Mexico to America; through Susan Magoffin's detailed journal we understand the beginning of New Mexico as a Territory; and through Lydia Spencer Lane we experience frontier military life and the beginning of the American Civil War out West.
Series New Mexico History and Cultures
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Program Title Concha Ortiz Y Pino
Character Name Concha Ortiz Y Pino
Program Description
Concha Ortiz y Pino de Kleven was the Matriarch of a 300 year old New Mexico Legacy. She was born only two years before statehood. In 1936 at the age of 26 Concha was the youngest American woman elected to State office serving in the New Mexico House of Representations. By 1941 at the age of 30 she became the Democratic majority whip, the first woman to hold such a position in state government. She championed woman's rights, bi-lingual education, and equal funding for urban and rural schools. President Kennedy appointed her to the National Humanities Council as an appointee of President Ford. She served on 60 community boards while managing her family's 100,00 acre ranch in Galisteo New Mexico. Thus, Concha Ortiz y Pino was a remarkable “Larger than Life” woman who had more than just a political career.
Series New Mexico History and Cultures
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Program Title Jessie Benton Fremont
Character Name Jessie Benton Fremont
Program Description
For Jessie Benton Fremont, the idea of “Manifest Destiny” was her passion. The phrase originated from her father Senator Thomas Hart Benton. But it was her husband, John Charles Fremont the famous explorer known as the great “Pathfinder,” who made it a reality. The vivacious, strong-willed and beautiful Jessie became a prolific writer starting with putting John Fremont's Western Expeditions into print. Jessie was also born for politics. Her husband John became a Governor of Arizona, the first Senator of California, and the first Republican to run for President of the United States in 1856. Together they brandished an anti-slavery platform. Throughout her life she was in contact with influential abolitionists, women's rights Advocates and influential politicians. She spent most of her life traveling with her husband and writing about her experiences around the world.
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