Free program on Fred Harvey and the Harvey Girls this weekend
Dewey Johnson presents at Roswell Public Library Saturday at 2 p.m. a session on Fred Harvey and the Harvey House system, its hotels and eateries, and the Harvey Girls as early American women workers who aided Western settlement. The talk notes Harvey’s national dining chain and rail era mobility.
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Dewey Johnson
Roswell Public Library
Harvey
Harvey House
America
United States
Harvey Girls
Pennsylvania
Appetite For America and the Fred Harvey Enterprise
Stephen Fried’s Appetite For America traces Fred Harvey’s railroad hospitality empire and its social impact. It details his role in raising civility and dining standards in the American Southwest and notes Ford Harvey’s work with Indian arts and national parks to extend the legacy.
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Stephen Fried
America
New York
Ford Harvey
Harvey Girls and Southwest history books and sales
The excerpt reviews Lesley Poling-Kempe s Harvey Girls book and The Great Southwest of the Fred Harvey Company essays noting how Harvey Women shaped the West and how Santa Fe Railway connected tourists with Native crafts. It also describes Batty for Bats story hours, Teen Read Week, and Books Again used-book shop sales and hours.
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The
Fred Harvey Company
Santa Fe Railway
Fredy
American Southwest
America
Europe
Southwest
Friends of the Library
L Street Brownies Brave New Year Ocean Dip
A fearless group known as the L Street Browns plunge into the salty harbor each New Year Day at the foot of L Street. Their suntan quest persists despite weather, and locals admire their tradition as their yearly pictures appear in the paper. Dr Komaroff of Harvard Medical School is referenced for medical insights on AskDoctorK.com.
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L Street
Komaroff
Harvard Medical School
AskDoctorK.com
Frontline report cites abuse at Willacy Detention Center
Maria Hinojosa reports on Willacy Detention Center in Raymondville Texas detailing abuses over four years. Case reviews include a Canadian mother molested by a guard, wrongful detentions, exposure to spoiled food, weight loss, overmedication injuries, and hundreds of complaints with few resolved.
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Gatlons
Willacy
Raymondville
Texas
U.S
Dora Schriro
Department of Homeland Security
Willacy Detention Center
ENMU-Roswell Foundation awards fall 2011 scholarships
ENMU Roswell Foundation grants total 17500 in fall 2011 scholarships across health and aviation programs. Recipients include Jon Sark Grace Morin de Valk Misty Pugh Brad Props Suzette Medrano Faith Sosa Andrea Mares Jose Cordero and many others plus six nursing scholars via NM Higher Education Department. Information lines provide contact numbers 624-7400 and 624-7304.
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Enmu-Roswell Foundation
Jon Sark
Grace Morin de Valk
Misty Pugh
Brad Props
Suzette Medrano
Faith Sosa
William H. McCutchen
Thomas M. Coates
Division of Health
Enmu Roswell Foundation
Gina Vela
Farris-Stern
Neyma Ostos
Maria de Los Angeles Gonzalez
Financial Aid Office
Craig Collins
ENMU instructor publishes Civil War diary volume
ENMU Roswell history instructor Dr. Robert Bender released a new book from University of Arkansas Press titled Worthy of the Cause for Which They Fight The Civil War Diary of Brigadier General Daniel Harris Reynolds 1861 1865. The work follows a Confederate officer from Arkansas through the entire war in the Trans Misssissippi and western theater.
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Robert Bender
Enmu Roswell
Daniel Harris Reynolds
University of Arkansas Press
Arkansas
Trans-Mississippi Department
Daniel E. Sutherland
T. Michael Parrish
The
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New Mexico Dental Foundation
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