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The Coronado Road Shows will cap the outreach and public information campaign for In Search of the Coronado Trail.
The four locations for the road shows were selected to allow locals who may have Coronado-era artifacts to bring items for identification by archaeologists and historians. In addition to viewing artifacts, scholars will make presentations about the Coronado expedition.
The Coronado Road Show locations are:
October 1, 2004 Willcox, Arizona Willcox Community Center
October 2, 2004 Lordsburg, New Mexico Lordsburg Civic Center
October 15, 2004 Springerville, Arizona American Legion Post 30
October 16, 2004 Reserve, New Mexico Lost Frontier Museum
The times for The Coronado Road Shows are the same for all locations:
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm Meet the scholars and bring artifacts to be identified
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm Public lecture and viewing of artifacts
Coronado Road Show Scholars
John Madsen is Associate Curator of Archaeology at the Arizona State Museum in Tucson, Arizona. Since 1990, he has studied, published, and lectured on the Spanish explorations of the Southwestern United States.
Shirley Flint is an independent historian and illustrator, and is a recognized expert on Coronado. She co-directs, with Richard, Documents of the Coronado Expedition Project, based our of New Mexico Highlands University.
Richard Flint received his Ph. D. in Colonial Latin American and Western U.S. History from the University of New Mexico in 1999. With Shirley, he has edited The Coronado Expedition to Tierra Nueva: The 1540-1542 Route Across the Southwest and The Coronado Expedition: From the Distance of 460 Years.
William K. Hartmann is known internationally as a scientist, writer and painter. He is the author of numerous fictional and academic writings, including Cities of Gold, a novel set in 1989 Tucson and a parallel story set 450 years earlier about the first European incursions across the same landscape.
The outreach and public information campaign consists of three parts. The first part is a 10-minute video produced by Tucson's PBS station KUAT-TV and hosted by Don Collier, which will be distributed to local residents in southeastern Arizona and southwestern New Mexico. A second aspect is the introduction of the "Coronado Hotline," a toll-free number, which individuals can use to report possible Coronado finds (1-800-557-8353). Thirdly, the campaign will culminate with four "Antiques Road Show"-type events in Reserve and Lordsburg, New Mexico, and in Willcox and Springerville, Arizona. At these events people will be encouraged to bring their possible Coronado-era artifacts for scientific appraisal by archaeologists and historians, who will also give free presentations on the expedition.
Major support for The Coronado Project is generously provided by:
- Southwestern Foundation for Education and Historical Preservation
- New Mexico Endowment for the Humanities
- KUAT-TV, Tucson, Arizona
Additional thanks to:
Arizona State Museum, Arizona Historical Society, Piney Hollow Bead & Jewelry Store, and Proline Graphics
Don Collier, Gayle Hartmann, Don Burgess, Linda Pierce, William H. Doelle, Dan Duncan, Fran Sherlock, Hector Gonzalez, Martin Rubio, Tom Kleespie, Twanya Kaber, Stacy Green, Laurel Turner, Barbara Gerres, Debra Smith, and Kathy Klump
For more information please contact:
Dr. Chip Colwell-Chanthaphonh
Center for Desert Archaeology
300 E. University Blvd., Suite 230
Tucson, AZ 85705
Email: coronado@cdarc.org
Toll-free number: 1-800-557-8353
Business number: 520-882-6946
Business fax: 520-882-6948
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