Contact: Theresa A. Strottman
Miller Library
Technical Services Manager
ph: 505 538 6355
fx: 505
538 6063
Miller
Library Presents Manhattan Project Programs
Photo
Exhibit - Documentary - Lecture & Book Signing
All phases of the nuclear industry including mining, research, processing, weapons testing, and radioactive waste storage have occurred in New Mexico. To mark the 60th anniversary of the Manhattan Project, Miller Library will sponsor three programs from 4:00 to 6:00 p.m. on the first three Sundays in November, the 6th, 13th, and 20th. These programs will provide an opportunity for students, faculty, and members of the public to discover how military efforts to develop an atomic bomb during World War II established and stimulated the nuclear industry in New Mexico. All three events will take place in Miller Library at Western New Mexico University.
The first event, Los Alamos Revisited: A Worker’s History will open on November 6th. Created by Peter Malmgren of Chimayo, New Mexico, this photo exhibit was designed to complement his cross-cultural oral history project consisting of 140 interviews of Los Alamos National Laboratory workers. The exhibit contains 40 framed photographs captioned with quotes from his extensive collection of interviews. Malmgren will give a brief lecture and then respond to questions and comments from the audience. The photo exhibit will be on display in Miller Library through December 9th.
The second event, a screening of the documentary Remembering Lost Alamos: World War II, will take place November 13th. The film featuring interviews with Manhattan Project veterans was produced by Theresa Strottman who also conducted most of the interviews and wrote the script. She will answer questions following the documentary. Strottman has published a number of articles on the Manahattan Project and contributed a chapter to Los Alamos: The Ranch School Years. Currently she is the Technical Services Manager at Western New Mexico University’s Miller Library.
The third event, a lecture by Jon Hunner, author of the recently published Inventing Los Alamos: The Growth of an Atomic Community will take place on November 20th. Hunner’s lecture will be followed by a discussion and book signing. Besides publishing numerous articles about New Mexico and the Southwest, Hunner is an Associate Professor and Director of the Public History Program at New Mexico State University. In reviewing Hunner’s book, Ferenc Szasz, author of The Day the Sun Rose Twice, has written, “Hunner brilliantly situates Los Alamos at the center of America’s early atomic culture in this major contribution to our understanding of the Atomic West.”
These programs are made possible by the generous donations of Bob Wilson, Lisa Houston, Namie Erandt, Sandra Griffin, Claude Smith, Jolane Culhane, Patrick Conlin of Prudential Realty, Jim Taylor of Taylor Truck and Auto, Bob Rowland and Bruce Helmig of Isaac’s, Diana Edwards of Clarity Communications, and David Mulvenna of Isokaeder Gallery,.