Scott Nadler, the walking tour docent who has developed our newest offering, with a group of tour participants. Courtesy photo

FOH News:

SANTA FE — Friends of History, in association with the New Mexico History Museum, has announced the launch of the Santa Fe’s Jewish Roots Walking Tour. The two-hour experience spans two Jewish Diasporas in the New World, highlights individuals and families who contributed to Santa Fe being a unique economic and cultural center, and features historic landmarks along the mostly outdoor route. 

Tour participants learn about the legendary First Lady of New Mexico who was marched in chains from the Palace of the Governors to face the Spanish Inquisition; listen to amazing true stories while walking into and past mansions and major buildings built by European and American Jewish merchants; and more along a scenic one and a quarter mile route.     

Santa Fe’s Jewish Roots is the fourth and newest group tour offered by the nonprofit Friends of History. Other tours are the popular Assassins, Spies, and the Manhattan Project tour, the entertaining Cowboys, Outlaws, and the Wild West tour, and the regularly scheduled Historic Downtown Santa Fe tour.

Unique among tour operators in Santa Fe, Friends of History is a nonprofit organization of volunteers who are expert storytellers and New Mexico History Museum-trained docents. Proceeds from tour tickets benefit the New Mexico History Museum.

Friends of History Walking Tours descriptions, schedules and prices are available at: https://friendsofhistorynm.org/walking-tours/