VALENCIA COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY AWARDS
The Valencia County Historical Society’s Lifetime Achievement Award will now be known as the Jim Sloan Lifetime Achievement Award.
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PRESERVING OUR HISTORY: Valencia County Historical Society honors those who protect our heritage
For 53 years, local historians have collaborated and celebrated our vast history and heritage as the Valencia County Historical Society.
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Cattle and Horses and Dogs, Oh My! Veterinary Care in Valencia County (Part II)
The first half of our veterinary history finished with a discussion of the “old-timers” who...
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Valencia County Historical Society Honors Citizens
History runs deep here in Valencia County, and every year the Valencia County Historical Society...
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La Historia del Rio Abajo The Kuhn Hotel: An Endangered Historic Property
Drivers traveling west into Belen on the Reinken Avenue. overpass seldom notice an old building to...
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Wearing Masks: Lessons from the Spanish Flu Epidemic Of 1918 (Part II)
The last edition of La Historia documented that many Americans reacted to the Spanish flu epidemic...
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Learning Great Leadership: John Chavez at the New Mexico Military Institute, 1981-1986
John Chavez remembers the day when he was reading a copy of “Boy’s Life,” the Boy Scouts’ monthly...
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Melzer, Taylor recognized for book aimed at children about local heroes
From mothers protecting their families to soldiers protecting their brothers in arms, what makes...
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Fiorello’s: How an Italian boy from war-torn Europe created an authentic Italian restaurant in Belen (Part 2)
Part 1 of this two-part series appeared on March 19, 2020. It described how Fiorello and Arlene...
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Fiorello’s: How an Italian boy from war-torn Europe created an authentic Italian restaurant in Belen (Part I)
Arlene Casale had never been to New Mexico when she landed at the Albuquerque Sunport and drove to...
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Valencia County Historical Society recognizes locals for their work, preservation, teaching and volunteerism
BELEN—History has been a guiding force in Valencia County, and a local organization dedicated to...
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When a barefoot village boy from Abó Viejo attended a Catholic Seminary in Santa Fe: Francisco Sisneros’ years at the Immaculate Heart of Mary Seminary, 1962-1966
Francisco Sisneros came from a large family of seven children in the little village of Abó Viejo....
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