Here is the current complete schedule for the Fred Harvey weekend with updates.
FIVE IMPORTANT UPDATES FOR FRED HARVEY WEEKEND:
1) The auditorium for the talks is getting close to capacity. The lectures are free but to guarantee yourself a seat please email RSVP at fredharveybook@gmail.com
2) The Saturday night dinner at La Fonda is almost sold out. Please purchase your tickets soon to guarantee you will have access to this delicious event: $150, lensic.org/events/fred-harvey-foodie-dinner/
3) There are a few available seats for the Saturday brunch at The Legal Tender Saloon at the Lamy History Museum: $40 per person, reservations 505-466-1650 or legaltenderlamy@gmail.com.
4) Sunday dinner is sold out at the Castaneda Hotel, however there is still seating at the Monday morning breakfast: reservations for breakfast at Kin, $25, can be made at katey@kinlvnm.com.
5) Kathy Hendrickson of Southwest Detours is taking reservations for a tour of Montezuma's Castle on Sunday October 27th. The cost is $20 per person and all proceeds are donated to the United World College. You can reserve your spot with the link below for the October 27th tour at 11:00 or 11:30am. Reserve your space with this link: bit.ly/2n6cbAZ
Fred Harvey History Weekend 2019!!!
Join us October 25-28 for the tenth year of Fred Harvey History events at the New Mexico History Museum and La Fonda on the Plaza in Santa Fe—and, for the first time, at the newly restored Harvey Castaneda Hotel in Las Vegas, NM!
Fred Harvey History Weekend begins with two days of lectures at the New Mexico History Museum, from 12:30-5, October 25 and 26.
The lectures are free but to guarantee yourself a seat (and us a head count) please email us to RSVP at fredharveybook@gmail.com
as soon as possible with the names and email addresses of everyone in your party. This email will also put you on the list for updates on the weekend, and for future Fred Harvey History events.
Scheduled talks
Friday October 25 at NMHM:
12:30 PM: Greeting from interim director Billy G. Garrett
12:40-1:15: “State of the Fred Harvey Union: FH basics for newbies, and an update on what’s new in the Fredisphere” with Stephen Fried
1:20 “Mary Colter at 150” a lively panel discussion with Mary Colter biographer Arnold Berke, Colter restoration designer Barbara Felix and Billy G. Garret (former history architect at Grand Canyon National Park) to commemorate the 150th birthday of Fred Harvey design guru
2:20 “The Magic Train,” debut of a new piece of music by award-winning composer (and Fred Harvey great-grandson) Julian Harvey, followed by a Q&A with Harvey about the role of music at Fred Harvey, and his recollections of growing up around the company
3:05: break
3:20: “Commercialization or Cultural Preservation? An intriguing new view of Southwest ethnography & the relationship between American Indians, Fred Harvey & the Santa Fe Railway” by Dr. Caroline Fernald, executive director, Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology (former director Millicent Rogers Museum)
4:15: “Original Farm to Table: The Arizona Fred Harvey Farms (including the last, endangered one)” by Kay Lauster, president, Chino Valley Historical Society
5:15 end of day one programs
optional reception at Santa Fe Antiques
Dinner on your own
Saturday
1:00 PM: “The Legacy of Maria Martinez & Fred Harvey,” a special lecture and pottery demonstration by Maria Martinez’s artistic descendants: great-granddaughter Barbara Gonzalez and great-great grandson Cavan Gonzalez from San Ildefonso Pueblo
2:30: break
2:50 “Tina Mion, Living with Ghosts,” painter Tina Mion—co-owner of two restored Harvey hotels, La Posada in Winslow and Castaneda in Las Vegas--on living in (and saving) Harvey hotels and making inspired art in them
4:00 “Harvey Houses Reborn: Saving Fred’s Restaurant Spaces, Reinventing His Food” panel discussion with Cedd Moses, Los Angeles hospitality entrepreneur who recently reopened Mary Colter’s restaurant space in LA Union Station; Sean Sinclair, beloved Santa Fe chef who just took over the restaurant and bar at Castaneda Hotel in Las Vegas; Matt McTigue, executive chef at El Tovar on Grand Canyon South Rim; Murphy O’Brien, who recently took over Legal Tender in Lamy and Matt DiGregory, Range Café at the Plaza.
5:00 questions and wrap-up, preparation for Fred Harvey Foodie Dinner
6:00 Fred Harvey Foodie Dinner
Saturday evening join us for the Fred Harvey Foodie Dinner, a truly historic Harvey-inspired meal to benefit the New Mexico History Museum’s exhibitions and public programming, and the Museum of New Mexico Foundation. Drinks and then dinner will be served in the grand ballroom at La Fonda on the Plaza. Top local chefs will reinterpret classic dishes that civilized the wild west, along with between course foodie history commentary from bestselling author Stephen Fried, Harvey family members and surprise guests.
Featured chefs will include:
Chef Jason Stewart, Inn and Spa at Loretto
Chef Jonathan Perno and Heather Guay, Los Poblanos Historic Inn & Organic Farm
Chef Peter O’Brien, Rosewood Inn of the Anasazi
Chef Erin Wade and Chef Avery Pearson of Vinaigrette
Chef Lane Warner, La Fonda on the Plaza
Chef and MC John Vollertsen (Chef Johnny Vee)
Recently featured on CBS Sunday Morning, the Fred Harvey Foodie Dinner is now in its third year, and it sells out very quickly.
Dinner is $150 per person, and each diner will receive a specially boxed set of Mimbreno china ramekins designed by Mary Colter and reproduced by HF Coors, along with a print of “The Last Harvey Girls,” the beloved painting by Tina Mion.
Please use this link to RSVP for the Fred Harvey Foodie Dinner as soon as possible to assure that you and yours can join us for this event, which funds the weekend’s Harvey programming in Santa Fe.
lensic.org/events/fred-harvey-foodie-dinner/
Optional events, 10/25-26:
Friday 5:30-7:30 PM, reception at Santa Fe Antiques, 1006 Marquez Place, no RSVP necessary
Saturday morning, 10:30 AM, Harvey brunch at the newly restored Legal Tender Saloon at the old Santa Fe railway station in Lamy: $40 per person, reservations 505-466-1650 or legaltenderlamy@gmail.com.
On Sunday, October 27, the Fred Harvey History Weekend moves to Las Vegas, New Mexico's original Fred Harvey city since 1879. There we will celebrate the official grand re-opening of the Castaneda Hotel, first of the Fred Harvey mission style trackside hotels in the Southwest, which has been closed as a hotel since 1948.
The re-opening festivities begin at 1:30 PM at the hotel, with a talk about the rescue and restoration of the building by owners Allan Affeldt and Tina Mion, followed by a tour.
At 3:00 PM, there will be an opening of a new art show by Tina Mion, “Midnight Muse,” at the Mayeur Projects Gallery. It includes paintings inspired by living and working in Fred Harvey hotels. Both of these events are free and open to the public
At 6:30 PM, there will be a grand re-opening dinner at the Castaneda’s new restaurant, Kin. Dinner is $75.After dinner there will be live music and drinking in the courtyard. Monday morning, there will be a breakfast at Kin until 10 am, for $25. All reservations for Kin can be made at katey@kinlvnm.com.
Optional events 10/27-28: for guided tours of the Montezuma Hotel/UWC, on the site of the original Harvey-run hot springs health resort outside of Las Vegas, as well as Castaneda and other Las Vegas sites, Southwest Detours, (505) 459-6987
Lodging suggestions: please make reservations in Santa Fe that allow you to be at the New Mexico History Museum by noon on Friday October 25 and stay over in town Friday and Saturday nights. For reservations at La Fonda on the Plaza, please call (505) 982-5511. For Sunday, please plan to stay over in Las Vegas, NM. The Castaneda is already booked for the entire weekend, but there is plenty of availability at its nearby sister hotel, the Plaza Hotel. Call 505-425-3591 for reservations. ... See MoreSee Less
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Here's the speaker schedule for Fred Harvey 2019 weekend. Friday October 25th and Saturday October 26th in the auditorium of the New Mexico History Museum:
Friday October 25
12:30 pm: Greeting from interim director Billy G. Garrett
12:45-1:15: “State of the Fred Harvey Union: FH basics for newbies, and an update on what’s new in the Fredisphere” with Stephen Fried
1:30 “Mary Colter at 150” a lively panel discussion with Mary Colter biographer Arnold Berke, Colter restoration designer Barbara Felix and Billy G. Garret (former history architect at Grand Canyon National Park) to commemorate the 150th birthday of the Fred Harvey design guru
2:30 “The Magic Train,” debut of a new piece of music by award-winning composer (and Fred Harvey great-grandson) Julian Harvey, followed by a Q&A with Harvey about the role of music at Fred Harvey, and his recollections of growing up around the company
3:15: break
3:30 “Reconsidering Diversity at the Grand Canyon (and at Fred Harvey),” based on a recent Howard University/NPS study “The Grand Canyon: Discovery of Lost & Undertold Stories of Non-Native American Ethnic Minorities” by Christopher N. Cross, co-author and PhD candidate in Translational Genomics
4:15: “Commercialization or Cultural Preservation? An intriguing new view of Southwest ethnography & the relationship between American Indians, Fred Harvey & the Santa Fe Railway” by Dr. Caroline Fernald, executive director, Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology (former director Millicent Rogers Museum)
5:30 end of day one programs
optional reception at Santa Fe Antiques
Dinner on your own
Saturday
1:00 PM: “The Legacy of Maria Martinez & Fred Harvey,” a special lecture and pottery demonstration by Maria Martinez’s artistic descendants: great-granddaughter Barbara Gonzalez and great-great grandson Cavan Gonzalez from San Ildefonso Pueblo
2:30: break
2:50 “Tina Mion, Living with Ghosts,” painter Tina Mion—co-owner of two restored Harvey hotels, La Posada in Winslow and Castaneda in Las Vegas--on living in (and saving) Harvey hotels and making inspired art in them
4:00 “Harvey Houses Reborn: Saving Fred’s Restaurant Spaces, Reinventing His Food” panel discussion with Cedd Moses, Los Angeles hospitality entrepreneur who recently reopened Mary Colter’s restaurant space in LA Union Station; Sean Sinclair, beloved Santa Fe chef who just took over the restaurant and bar at Castaneda Hotel in Las Vegas; Matt McTigue, executive chef at El Tovar on Grand Canyon South Rim; Murphy O’Brien, who recently took over Legal Tender in Lamy and Matt DiGregory, Range Café at the Plaza.
5:00 questions and wrap-up, preparation for Fred Harvey Foodie Dinner
6:00 Fred Harvey Foodie Dinner ... See MoreSee Less
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