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.
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.
The Last Ride of the
Pony Express: A Memoir
Will Grant
Author
Sunday - October 25th - 2:00pm
Will Grant’s presentation is a slideshow and lecture that details his 2,000-mile horseback journey across the West in 2019 to trace the route of the Pony Express. The presentation includes information on the challenges of his five-month ride, the changes of landscapes and ecology that occur between the Missouri River and California, and the historical sites encountered along the way. The presentation also sheds light on the intricacies of the famed mail service and the reasons that it lasted a mere nineteen months between April 1860 and October 1861.
Will Grant worked as a cowboy and horse trainer in Colorado, Wyoming and Texas before pivoting to journalism in 2008. His writing has appeared in Outside magazine, Bloomberg Businessweek and The Wall Street Journal and countless regional magazines. He has combined horses and storytelling in articles chronicling a 600-mile Mongolian horse race, a search for gold in Arizona and competing in kok boru, the world’s most dangerous horseback game, in Kyrgyzstan.
