TCHS News:

The Taos County Historical Society will host its annual Christmas Luncheon at noon Sunday, Dec. 7 in the Los Vaqueros Dining Room of the Sagebrush Inn, 1508 Paseo Del Pueblo Sur, in Taos.

Menu selections offer a choice of three entrees at $25 per person, and includes a salad, dessert, tea and gratuity. Reservations and payment is due by Nov. 27 to TCHS, PO Box 2447, Taos NM 87571. For more information, call Ernestina Cordova, president, at 575.770.0681.

Thomas A. Romero, executive director of the Northern Rio Grande National Heritage Area will be the speaker and his presentation is “Sustaining Culture and Tradition: An Implementation Strategy.”

Romero’s career spans nearly five decades of management in public sector positions as well as consulting practice for state, municipal, trial and federal agencies. Romero’s volunteer services with non-profit organizations include El Museo Cultural de Santa Fe, Creative Santa Fe, the Rio Tesuque Land Alliance and the Santa Fe Community College GROW Foundation. In 1990, Romero was recognized as one of the Outstanding Colorado Hispanic Leaders and in 2005 he was honored by the New Mexican as one of Ten Who Make A Difference.

To conserve and protect the culture and traditions that define New Mexico and its unique contribution to the culture and heritage of the United States, Congress designated 10,000 square miles of northern New Mexico as the Northern Rio Grande National Heritage Area.

The mission of the NRGNHA is to help sustain the communities, languages, culture, traditions, heritage and environment in three counties, eight pueblos and the Jicarilla Apache Nation in northern New Mexico.

The Taos County Historical Society is dedicated to preserving the irreplaceable and is a 501c3 non-profit organization sustained by memberships.