March 2015 Calendar for NM Farm & Ranch Heritage Museum

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Published: 25 February 2015 25 February 2015


Beginners Blacksmith Workshop
Wednesdays (March 4, 11, 18)
Thursdays (March 5, 12, 19)
Learn the basic techniques of traditional iron and steel smithing in the Museum's blacksmith shop. This nine-hour course, taught over three consecutive weeks by one of the Museum's experienced blacksmiths, will provide you with the essential skills required to forge tools. Class attendees will fashion and take home five useful items (valued at over $125). Class size is limited to three at a time. The cost is $150 plus a $15 materials fee. A $50 non-refundable reservation fee is required to hold a space in a class. For more information, please call (575) 522-4100.

Cowboy Dinner & Dance
March 7, 5:30 p.m. to midnight
The first Cowboy Dinner & Dance is a fund-raiser for Museum programs. A barbecue beef dinner is from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. and is followed by music from The Desperados from 7:30 p.m. to midnight. The event also features a cash bar. Tickets are $30 per person and are available at the Museum. For more information, call (575) 522-4100.

16th Annual Cowboy Days
March 7-8, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
The Museum's largest event of the year features cowboy demonstrations, music, chuck wagon cooking, cowboy mounted shooting, time travel, gunfight-re-enactments, stagecoach and pony rides, many children's activities, plant sale and more. New this year will be rides on a mechanical bull, cow bingo, and the Cowboy Dinner & Dance, which is on the evening of March 7. Admission to Cowboy Days is $5 per person for everyone 5 and older (no passes or discounts.

Culture Series: My Land is the Southwest
March 12, 7 p.m.
Beth Laura O'Leary and Brittany Porter are the speakers for this special presentation: "My Land is the Southwest:" The National Register of Historic Places and the Nomination of the Peter and Henriette Wyeth Hurd House and Studios in San Patricio, N.M. Admission is a suggested donation of $2.
For more information, please call (575) 522-4100.

All classes, workshops and events co-sponsored by the
Friends of the New Mexico Farm & Ranch Heritage Museum

www.nmfarmandranchmuseum.org

4100 Dripping Springs Road
Las Cruces, NM 88011

The New Mexico Farm & Ranch Heritage Museum is a division of the
New Mexico Department of Cultural Affairs

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