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New Mexico Farm & Ranch Heritage Museum December 2011 Calendar

Celebrate the season at the Museum! Children will decorate a cowboy stocking, learn holiday songs, and bake stained-glass cookies. Every family has its own holiday traditions, and we will explore some merry history while enjoying the festively decorated museum. Participants will be invited (though are not required) to sing at the living history performance, Holiday March to Statehood, at 7 p.m. on Dec. 8. Please bring a sack lunch for the class. Cider and cookies will be provided as a snack. Pre-registration is required. Open to children ages 4 and older with a parent or adult guardian required for each single child or group of children registered. Cost: $5 per person.

Stories of Holidays Past: A March to Statehood

Dec. 8, 7 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.

The Museum\'s annual December living history event will offer visitors a retrospective view of New Mexico history during the holiday season. In celebration of our approaching Statehood Centennial, each vignette will depict a different era beginning with a 1776 Spanish Colonial Christmas. The audience will then be transported to the year Las Cruces was established, 1849, and there they\'ll witness a Hanukah story. After a stop at a holiday celebration during the Confederate occupation of Mesilla in 1861, visitors will view a Western Frontier Christmas in 1880, featuring Billy the Kid. The New Mexico College of Agriculture and Mechanical Arts (later NMSU) celebrated their first Christmas in 1889 and audience members will witness it. The presentation will culminate with a 1912 Christmas party and festive Statehood celebration. Children from the Museum\'s Deck the Halls Carols and Crafts class will sing songs during the event. Admission is a suggested donation of $2.

Exhibit opening: The World Around Us: The Artwork of Linda Hagen

Dec. 16

Las Cruces artist Linda Hagen\'s paintings will be on display in the Museum\'s Arts Corridor beginning on Dec. 16. The 33 paintings, mostly oil, reflect her love of horses and the outdoors. This exhibition demonstrates the connection between the land, the people, and the animals that are part of the landscape. Originally from Ohio, Hagen captures the tough and enduring agricultural lifestyle in her work, as well as the beauty of the American Southwest. The exhibit will be on display in the Arts Corridor through April 1, 2012.

Exhibit opening: It\'s all Symbolic: The State Symbols of New Mexico

December

This exhibit reviews the icons, images, and emblems that help make New Mexico stand out from all the others. While there are numerous unofficial symbols within New Mexico, these are the 40 symbols officially adopted by the Legislature - the State Symbols of New Mexico. The exhibit will be on display in the Museum\'s North Corridor for about seven or eight months.

For more information, or to register for a class, please call (575) 522-4100.

Classes and workshops are co-sponsored by the Friends of the New Mexico Farm & Ranch Heritage Museum. New Mexico Farm & Ranch Heritage Museum, 4100 Dripping Springs Road, Las Cruces, NM 88011. www.nmfarmandranchmuseum.org.

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