The Silver City Public Library has successfully rescheduled our book talk with David Remley for Tuesday, December 22, 4:00pm. Attached is an image of the book cover. Please add this event to your community calendars if possible.
Summary:
David Remley will talk about his recent book, the revised Adios Nuevo Mexico: the Santa Fe Journal of John Watts in 1859. On research for a book in Bloomington, Indiana, David came across this teen age boy's diary, kept in Santa Fe just before the Civil War. Watts' father, Judge John S. Watts, of the Territorial Supreme Court, was a political friend of President Lincoln, and a charter member of the Santa Fe Ring. "Perhaps of greatest interest," wrote historian David J. Weber, "is the diary's intimate view of daily life in Santa Fe."