Ed Chamberlin
2026
Memorial Lecture Series
Lectures are held at the Martha Liebert Public Library,
126 Calle Malinche, Bernalillo, NM
Refreshments are served afterwards. Masks are optional.
All lectures are free to the Public.
The Railroading
of
Geronimo
Fred Friedman
Historian
Sunday - August 23rd - 2:00pm
Railroads had a significant impact on the Apache warrior Geronimo and those captured with him in 1886. This presentation traces his railroad transport as a U.S. Army prisoner of war, from Arizona, to internment forts in Texas, Alabama, Florida and Oklahoma along with what contributed to the deaths of over half of those Native Americans. This talk also describes the rail cars used to transport the Apache fighters, the routes of the trains, and related impacts of that banishment from their Arizona homeland.
Fred Friedman is a well-known historian of New Mexico rail heritage. As the former head of the New Mexico Railroad Bureau and a former board member of the Historical Society of New Mexico, Fred has a unique perspective on how railroads shaped the state’s identity.
Paquime Update
Tim Maxwell
Anthropologist
Sunday - Sept 27th - 2:00pm
Lying between the Pueblo regions of the United States Southwest and the cultures of Mesoamerica, the Casas Grandes region has enigmatic origins and cultural elements from both regions. With evidence for a trade network and connections much wider than those of Chaco Canyon, the major site of Paquime was occupied for only about 200 years. Reasons for depopulation of the region are still debated.
With a B.A, M.A. and Ph.D. in anthropology from the University of New Mexico, Tim Maxwell has forged a long and wide-ranging career from being the Director of the Office of Archaeological Studies at the Museum of New Mexico for 14 years to Field archaeologist for the Laboratory of Anthropology to the author of numerous publications to training Mexican students archaeological techniques to leading countless tours south of the border. His interests span excavating archaic sites to being awarded a Fulbright Scholar in Northern Mexico to lobbying for funds to build the Center for New Mexico Archaeology which opened in 2012.
