[The-wheels-museum] Spring Events at WHEELS

Thu Mar 6 15:12:27 MST 2025

WHEELS Museum Events
March and April 2025
All events are at WHEELS Museum 1100 Second Street SW
Phone: 505 243-6269

Model Car Club Swap Meet
Saturday, March 8, 2025 at 9AM to 2 PM
Admission is Free, Proceeds benefit WHEELS Museum
              Fifteen tables swap and buying meet.  Hard to find models and meet other collectors.

Speaker Event
Randy Dunson, author and historian
Rail Fans and History: The Santa Fe Railroad Belen Cutoff 
and the Development of Eastern New Mexico
Saturday, March 15, 2025 at 10AM
Admission is Free, but donations are gladly accepted.
From the author: This account is based on the men and women who actually did the day-to-day railroading - the train and engine crews, the mechanical forces, the water service men, the telegraphers and dispatchers, the clerks and depot staff. It is about the trackmen who fought heat and blizzards to keep the trains operating, and the thousands of others who came before me. It is about the homesteaders, the small towns that sprang up and eventually died off, and the importance of the Cut-off in the development of eastern New Mexico. It is written from the view of a railroader

Photo Event
Martin Matlack
Railroad Photography Presentation
Saturday, March 15, 2025 at Noon
Admission is Free, but donations are gladly accepted.
Martin Matlack is a New Mexico native with a life-long passion for photography and railroads. Trained as a photojournalist, he delights in capturing people in their normal everyday element – today’s term is “Street Photography”. “I have had a camera in my hands for over 57 years; I still shoot with film in medium-format (6 x 6 and 6 x 7 cm)”.
His images have received three world-level awards. Martin’s images have been used by Amtrak, New Mexico Rail Runner Express, and various other publications. His work can be seen in Bernalillo, NM at Home at the Range Gallery, He shows in Santa Fe, NM, with the Santa Fe Artist’s Market. His website is www.matlackimages.com <http://www.matlackimages.com/>  

Speaker Event
Liz Mangual Story Teller
Saturday, March 22, 2025 at Noon
Admission is Free, but donations are gladly accepted.
Liz Mangual and Bob Kanegis are a dynamic storytelling duo who bring stories to life and life to stories, through their complementary styles and shared passion. Together for over three decades, they've captivated audiences across the nation and beyond. They foster family and community connections through their innovative initiatives like F.E.A.S.T (Families Eating and Storytelling Together) and The Endangered Stories Act and their Three Fold Legacy workshops for adults.  Adapting stories from world folklore traditions, they reach into their story bag and pull out stories that span the sublime to the ridiculous.  They remind us that “If you don’t know the trees you may get lost in the forest, but if you don’t know the stories you might get lost in life.” Liz and Bob are both past Presidents of the state-wide guild, The Storytellers of New Mexico. You Tube link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pmV_wBpP7dc  

Speaker Event
Donatella Davanzo
“Route 66 Connected”
Saturday, March 29, 2025 at 10 AM
Admission is Free, but donations are gladly accepted.

Dr. Donatella Davanzo, Italian American cultural anthropologist, is a scholarly photo 
ethnographer and instructor of visual anthropology.

“Route 66 Connected” by Dr. Donatella Davanzo is a multimedia exposition that proposes an innovative evaluation of the historic American highway on the eve of its centennial. By examining existing original resources in operation along the contemporary road in New Mexico, the presentation will enrich the public interest in the “Mother Road” history through a detailed photographic documentation and personal interviews. A variety of narratives concerning the heritage of Route 66 will uncover how the road still conveys its significance and its multicultural nature as a legacy that preserves the distinctive cultural richness of New Mexico as well.
https://www.visitalbuquerque.org/event/%e2%80%9croute-66-connected%e2%80%9d-by-donatella-davanzo-speaker-event/59025/  

Music Event
Jose Ponce
Saturday, March 29, 2025 at Noon
Admission is $10.00
Jose has hundreds of stories from a lifetime in music and film. With tons of songs in his repertoire, he can play anything; country, jazz, blues, folk and more. Jose's shows are entertaining and crowd pleasing. Jose continues to write and sell his music to national and international artists, film and TV. Through the New Mexico Music Awards, he works to promote New Mexico musicians as artists globally and to film and television.

Speaker Event – Book Review
Jon Ghahate
Book Review of 'The Railroad and the Pueblo Indians:  The Impact of the Atchinson, Topeka,  and the Santa Fe and the Pueblo of
  the Rio Grande”
Saturday, April 5, 2025 at 10 AM 
Admission is Free but donations are gladly accepted.
Jon will speak based on the book The Railroad and the Pueblo Indians: The impact of the Atchison Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad by Richard. H Frost.
Jon Ghahate (Guu Wahd Dzee [Keres]/Keshshi [Zuni]) was the former Museum Cultural 
Educator at the Indian Pueblo Cultural Center and has developed presentations 
on the histories, the cultures, and the narratives of NM Pueblo communities and
the ancestral Indigenous communities that resided throughout the US Southwest,
such as Chaco Historical Cultural Park, Mesa Verde National Park, Bandelier National
Park, Gila Cliff Dwellings, and many other historical and cultural sites.

Music Event
Doug Figgs
Saturday, April 5, 2025 at Noon
Admission is $10
Doug Figgs is a Western music singer/songwriter from Lemitar, New Mexico. His musical influences include Country, Western, and Southern Rock. He performs solo, as a duo, or as a trio as “The Cowboy Way”. In 2023 Doug Figgs was named IWMA Entertainer of the Year. The Cowboy Way trio was named 2023 Group of the Year. His album, Yellow Horse was named 2022 IWMA Album of the Year and The Cowboy Way was named IWMA Group of the Year for the 5th time. In 2021 Doug was honored with IWMA Male Performer of the Year award and The Cowboy Way received the IWMA Group of the Year award. The song El Caballo del Fuego, written by Doug Figgs, Floyd Beard, and Mariam, was awarded the prestigious Wrangler Award from the National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum. Check out https://www.dougfiggs.com/

Storyteller Event
Diane Rossbach
“The Circus in New Mexico”
Saturday, April 12, 2025 at 10 AM 
Admission is Free but donations are gladly accepted.
From the Speaker:, Working trains quickly capture visitors’ attention, but I also discovered a wonderful, small, glass-enclosed cabinet on the western wall filled with colorful Circus related curios like miniature carriages, animals, and zanies.  Now, I’m a Circus nut, so right then and there I knew I needed to dedicate some Saturday WHEELS Museum time to The Circus in New Mexico.  Did you know that when the first Circus came to Santa Fe, by train on a spur line of course, that to exercise the Circus elephants they walked them around Santa Fe Plaza?  What a shock the altitude must have been!
As an oral, tale-spinning spoken word artist, Dianne Rossbach has told tales throughout the Southwest and Hawaii.  She enjoys sharing generational histories, origin stories, and traditional folktales. Her stories are integrated with her abiding interest in family, nature, and the power of a good tale well told.  Her tales are sprinkled with creativity, humor, and cultural history as she invites listeners to discover ways that the past can bring meaning to the present.  You can reach her at rossbachd at msn.com <mailto:rossbachd at msn.com>.
Speaker Event
Addison Fulton
“The Social Animal”
Saturday, April 12, 2025 at NOON 
More information to follow

Author Event
Michael Perlin
“Albuquerque’s Butchers, Bakers and Candlestick Makers” about early businesses in Albuquerque
Saturday, April 19, 2025 at NOON 
Admission is Free but donations are gladly accepted.

Michael Henry Perlin is an author and illustrator of five published books about the history and architecture of Albuquerque. Albuquerque's economic growth and cultural diversity was shaped by the arrival of many newcomers. His fourth book, Albuquerque's Butchers, Bakers & Candlestick Makers contains some accounts of unknown or forgotten pioneers of the city's retail history. The illustrations feature well known landmarks but few people  know of or remember the pioneering tradesmen responsible for creating those businesses. Butchers, bakers and "candlestick makers" literally and figuratively formed the very backbone of this community.

Speaker Event
Ronn Perea
“The Ernie Pyle Story”
Saturday, April 26, 2025 at 11 AM
Admission is Free but donations are gladly accepted.

Ronn, a favorite speaker and storyteller at WHEELS, will present a pictorial story about Ernie Pyle. Pyle lived in and loved Albuquerque. At the time of his death in 1945, Pyle was among the best-known American war correspondents. His syndicated column was published in 400 daily and 300 weekly newspapers nationwide. President Harry Truman said of Pyle, "No man in this war has so well told the story of the American fighting man as American fighting men wanted it told. He deserves the gratitude of all his countrymen”.

Music Event
Gary Costley
Ukele Perfomance
Saturday, April 26, 2025 at NOON 
Admission is $10
Gary Costley plays a mix of humorous religious and pop culture tunes on the ukulele. He also plays “rapulele” songs and medleys. His influences include Weird Al Yankovic, Ray Stevens and Roger Miller. https://www.gigsalad.com/gary_costley_albuquerque

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