St Mark’s Lutheran hosts Reformation 500 events and more
Around Town notes St Mark’s Lutheran Church marks 500 years of the Protestant Reformation with a 1 p.m. film in its fellowship hall. Events include Pecos Valley Iris Society meeting at 2 p.m. with Pam Jenkins discussing grape trial gardens under Texas A&M and Texas Agri-Life.
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St. Mark’s Lutheran Church
N. Main St
Martin Luther
Wittenberg
St. Mark’s
Luther the Man
Pecos Valley Iris Society
Peachtree Village
Country Club Road
Pam Jenkins
Midland
Texas
Jenkins
Texas A&m
Texas Agri-Life
Pegi Smith
Mayberry family featured in Meet the Producers exhibit
Artesia area farmers Bob and Sandra Mayberry share a multi generation farming story in Las Cruces at the New Mexico Farm & Ranch Heritage Museum. The Mayberrys grow cotton wheat oats cucumbers chile cantaloupe bell peppers onions and alfalfa supported by modern tech including genetic engineering pesticides crop consultants and GPS. The museum notes their dairy market sales include alfalfa and silage.
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AS Cruces
Artesia
New Mexico
Bob
Sandra
New Mexico State University
Mayberrys
New
Nat King Cole and Jazz's Civil Rights Era Pioneer
This essay highlights Nat King Cole as a key African-American figure in shaping jazz and contributing to civil rights through music. It outlines his early life in Montgomery and Chicago, piano study, exposure to Armstrong and Hines, and early breaks including Shuffle Along and the Century Club, leading to his later stardom.
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Nathaniel Adams Coles
Nat “King” Cole
Montgomery
Alabama
Cole
Chicago
First Baptist Church
Nat
Trumpeter Louis
Eubie Blake
Noble Sissle
Long Beach
Century Club
Santa Monica Boulevard
Hollywood
Oscar Moore
Wesley Prince
Almost-forgotten Buffalo Soldier Sgt Brent Woods honored
The article recounts Sgt Brent Woods a Buffalo Soldier honored for Medal of Honor actions in 1881 at Gavilon Canyon New Mexico and his later burial and recognition in Kentucky. It notes Woods born enslaved in 1855 Kentucky freed aged eight joined the 9th Cavalry, led troops after a captain’s death, and earned wide posthumous recognition culminating in a 1984 military funeral ceremony.
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New Mexico
Brent Woods
Somerset
Kentucky
Mill Springs National Cemetery
Nancy
Woods
Pulaski County
U.S. Calvary
Company B
9Th Calvary
Nana
Gavilon
Ed Arm
Gavilon Canyon
Buffalo Soldiers
Fort Stanton
First Baptist Church
Pearl Baker
Loraine Smith
U.S
Harold Rogers
Department of Veterans Affairs
U.S. Army
John Otho Marsh Jr
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Iris Society
ENMUR
Eastern New Mexico University-Roswell
Enmu-Roswell
Charlie’s Angels Dance
RHS
Roswell
Charlie's Angels
Kim Castro
First United Methodist
Artesia Family
New Ag
Mexico
New Mexico Farm & Ranch Heritage Museum
Dripping Springs Road
Las Cruces
New Mexico Farm & Ranch
Usig EY
Nat ‘King’ Cole
Sgt
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