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Don't miss #FRED15--the 15th annual Fred Harvey History Weekend in New Mexico!!Join us at the New Mexico History Museum (or online) for two days of engaging HARVEY HISTORY TALKS, Friday & Saturday afternoons, October 25th & 26th.
And then enjoy our historically delicious FRED HARVEY FOODIE DINNER & AUCTION at the fabulous La Fonda hotel ballroom on Saturday night, October 26th.
All net proceeds from the weekend benefit the New Mexico History Museum, specifically projects concerning Fred Harvey, the Santa Fe Railway, Native art, and the 19th and 20th century cultural, culinary, architectural and economic history of the Southwest.
Individual Foodie Dinner & Auction tickets are $150 each. We also offer sponsorship packages, that include multiple reserved tickets to dinner and lectures, allowing you to bring your friends and additionally support the Museum and SW History.
In-person lecture tickets are $50, which includes a guaranteed seat for both days; online tickets are $25. Both include exclusive access afterwards to recordings of the talks.
Use the link below for all tickets and reservations.
This year's Foodie Dinner chefs include Dakota Weiss (of Capitol Cole Neighborhood Eatery, previously Coyote Cafe), Lane Warner, (Executive Chef at La Fonda); Rafael Zamora Esquer (Chef de Cuisine, La Plazuela at La Fonda; previously Vintage 423 & Vernon's Speakeasy); Murphy Obrien (Cafe Fina) & Gabe Calhoun (Legal Tender, previously The Club at Las Campanas & Rio Chama); Chef Jerry Dakan & culinary students from Santa Fe Community College (NM); and culinary host, MC/Chef John “Johnny Vee” Vollertsen of Las Cosas Kitchen (now also restaurant writer at The Santa Fe New Mexican.)
We'll have four passed appetizers during the cocktail hour and a three-course meal with Fred Harvey breadbasket! Historically delicious menu will be posted soon!! Each diner will receive a special gift of a boxed piece of Mimbreno China, designed by Mary Colter for the Fred Harvey Company and The Atchison Topeka and Santa Fe Railway.
This year's talks are scheduled to include:
"The Harvey Revival and 15 Years of FredHeadery," lecture by author Stephen Fried marking the 15th year of Fred Harvey History programming in Santa Fe, the 50th anniversary of the revival of interest in all things Harvey, and the 150th anniversary of the beginning of Fred’s railroad restaurant and hotel empire. Will include previously unknown material from the late J. Stewart Harvey, Jr. and Byron Harvey III, and conversation with Harvey Weekend founders Fran Levine, Jenny Kimball and others.
"The Harvey Family Has a Few Things They Want You to Know" Panel including the Harvey family members who most lived through the glory days of the company and its culture: siblings Daggett Harvey, Jr. & Jean Harvey Vanderbilt, Helen Harvey Mills & Julian Harvey, and others. They will tell stories, show family photos, take questions and maybe settle a few scores.
"El Navajo and Gallup, the Tribal, Railroad and Harvey Culture Crossroads" architectural historian Matt Kluge on the fascinating and sometimes frictional relationships in the ATSF town closest to a major reservation, where the Harvey Native art business began and, in 1923, where controversial murals in the new wing of the hotel became the nation’s first flashpoint over cultural appropriation.
“The Appropriation Challenge: From the Fred Harvey Indian Room and El Navajo to the Contemporary Clash” Lucy Fowler Williams, University of Pennsylvania Museum curator, offers a new view of the debate over commercial relations with Native artists from the Harvey heyday through today.
"Our Aunt Mary Colter" Reminiscences and never-before-seen collectibles from the legendary Fred Harvey designer’s “second family” in Minnesota, the Larkins: Q&A with sisters Lindsay McAuliffe and Lucy Noonan, in whose home Colter spent her summers, and whose family came to Santa Fe after Colter’s death to take care of her home and estate. First look at the pieces Colter gave the family during her life and left them in her will. Followed by a dialogue with architect Barbara Felix and Allan Affeldt, and some new Colter research dug up by Matt Kluge and Stephen Fried.
“The Bully Saga of Teddy and Fred: From the Rough Riders Reunion to Grand Canyon National Park, How the President Teddy Roosevelt, the Harvey Company and the Railroad Helped Open the American West” debut talk at the Harvey weekend by California high school teacher Justin Riner on the important role that Harvey and the ATSF had in Roosevelt’s career and the early American Century
“How the Santa Fe Reading Rooms and the Harvey Book Business Taught the West to Read” Suzanne Stauffer, professor emerita LSU on the ATSF Reading Rooms, the FH book business, and their impact on American literature and women’s education (based on her 2023 paper “Correct Provisions can be Made for Their Wants: The Reading Rooms of the Santa Fe Railroad”)
Other events during the weekend include an earlybird lunch and museum tour on 10/24 at the Belen Harvey House Whistlestop Cafe, a 10/26 Legal Tender breakfast in Lamy), and two meals in Las Vegas: 10/27 dinner at Castaneda Hotel and 10/28 farewell breakfast at Prairie Hill Cafe at the Plaza Hotel. But our main ticketed events are the two days of TALKS, and the FOODIE DINNER. They generally sell out very quickly.
Fred Harvey Weekend’s corporate sponsor is La Fonda on the Plaza. Our major private donors are Susan and Thomas Kevin Golden. Mimbreno dinner gifts courtesy of HF Coors. Foodie Dinner wines donated by Southern Glazer's Wine and Spirits. Special auction items created by Bronzesmith Fine Art Gallery and Foundry. Historical donations and inspiration from La Posada & Hotel Castaneda. Thanks to all of them, and to the Harvey Family, past and present, for their legacy of innovative business, customer service, cultural diversity and culinary and design ambition.
Questions about Fred Harvey Weekend?
Email us at: [email protected]
May Fred be with you!
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
New Mexico History Museum, 119 Lincoln Ave, Santa Fe, NM 87501-2005, United States,Santa Fe, New Mexico
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