Historic Women Honored -- Rhonda Faught - September 4
What you missed if you weren't at the September 4 meeting. Rhonda Faught, former Secretary of the NM Transportation Department described the new State Historic Highway Markers honoring women importatnt to the history of New Mexico.
Where before there were none, now there are 64 Official Scenic Historic Markers commemorating the contributions of women to New Mexico history. The Historic Women Marker Initiative captured the public’s imagination with every county in the state and most pueblos and tribes submitting nominations for women who left their mark on New Mexico communities.
The types of women honored shows the breadth of historical contributions women have made throughout the state. They range from the famous, such as Georgia O’Keefe—her marker is near her Abiquiú home; singer Louise Massie Mabie, the “Original Rhinestone Cowgirl” who lived in Hondo Valley; to community heroes like Sally Rooke, a telephone operator who died at her post saving countless lives when in 1908 a wall of water rushed through Folsom.
see details: http://www.nmhistoricpreservation.org/outreach/historic-women-marker-initiative.html