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Researching and photographing New Mexico’s ghost towns and settlements is the subject of the next Culture Series presentation at New Mexico Farm and Ranch Heritage Museum (NMFRHM), 4100 Dripping Springs Road, the museum said in a news release.
The Culture Series, “Abandoned History: Uncovering The Stories of New Mexico's Settlements and Ghost Towns,” will begin at 7 p.m. Thursday, April 13, in the museum theater.
Admission is free.
Presenters Bridget Harrington and Michael Moore are Albuquerque-based photographers and documentary historians working together as Enchanted Byways Photography, the museum said.
They will talk about their process for researching sites, including everything from using Google Earth to find the settlements to substantiating details using a variety of resources. Harrington and Moore will provide snapshots of four southern New Mexico communities and their stories.
Harrington is a graphic artist and marketing communications specialist; Moore is an engineer, small-engine pilot and son of a National Geographic photographer.
“They met on a web group for New Mexico photographers and quickly learned that they have a joint passion for not only photography and the state of New Mexico, but also for history and socio-cultural mysteries,” the news release said. “What started as a project to see the state grew into a quest to create compelling images of little-known places and share the buried stories behind them.”
“Using out-of-print books, rail maps, cemetery records and old newspapers that were published when these places were vital, they strive to make history real, relatable and relevant,” the museum said.
Moore has spent more than 2,600 hours on research to create a pinned Google Earth map, with layers of settlements, pueblitos and features like mines, old rail lines, scars from wagon paths and shipping points the two use for navigation.
For more information, visit Facebook under NM Byways and Instagram under @enchantedbywaysphoto.
The Culture Series is organized and presented by the Friends of NMFRHM, the museum said.
Call the museum at 575-522-4100. Visit www.nmfarmandranchmuseum.org.
