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More about the Chautauqua on Sat, Sept. 10, at the Hubbard Museum at 11:30am. Plus you can see the latest exhibit while there.

Chautauqua: 'The Way You Ride the Trail, Dale Evans Rogers'

Michelle L. Huey, Ruidoso News 12:20 p.m. MDT September 7, 2016

Kay Sebring-Roberts Kuhlmann with Roy Rogers, Jr. , Dale Evans Rogers' stepson in Roswell. (Photo: Courtesy)

     Ruidoso resident Kay Sebring-Roberts Kuhlmann, a veteran Chautauqua performer of 25 years, brings Queen of the West Dale Evans Rogers to life in a Chautauqua presentation at 11:30 a.m. Saturday at The Hubbard Museum of the American West at  26301 US Highway 70, Ruidoso Downs.
     "I find her to be a rather remarkable person," Kuhlmann said about Rogers. "She is a pioneer in so many ways. She is our first famous inspirational writer, the first celebrity who wrote about her tragedies and they were pioneers in adopting inter-racial children and children with disabilities."
     Rogers was a best-selling author, writer, film star and singer-songwriter and the third wife of singing cowboy Roy Rogers. The two married in 1947 and went on to star in their successful television series The Roy Rogers Show. Besides acting in television, Evans starred in more than 30 films and wrote around 200 songs. Her most well-known was "Happy Trails."
     In the Chatauqua, Kuhlmann divides Rogers' life into two parts. She explores Rogers' time as an actress and also as a more mature author who unabashedly shares her deep faith.
Kuhlmann is a drama teacher at New Mexico Military Institute in Roswell, a playwright and has portrayed many historical women including First Ladies Bess Truman and Mamie Eisenhower. She founded the Women’s Chautauqua Institute at Cottey College for Women. Her characters have been featured at the National Archives, six Presidential Libraries and at museums and arts centers across the county.

      Each of  Kuhlmann's presentations is a labor of love and includes two to three years of research before she steps into a role.

     After choosing a subject, Kuhlmann begins research by culling through every bit of first hand information she can find, along with talking to anyone that has intimate knowledge of her subject. From there,  Kuhlmann begins to take notes about and embody her subject.
     "When I'm ready to write I've absorbed so much that it's like it's that person choosing what to tell about themselves," Kuhlmann said.
     On an interesting side note, Kuhlmann remarks because of copyright laws, she can't use Rogers' own words or songs. One example of how she cleverly skirts around that subtle, but important issue is showing how Rogers created her most famous song "Happy Trails" for Roy.
     "This is another reason why I don't write things down, I don't want to use her words," Kuhlmann said. "I want to use my absorption of what she said and then put it in my words because, again, she owns those words. I'm very careful about that."
     Admission is $10 and includes admission to the museum and featured exhibits "The Fabulous 101 Ranch: The Rise and Fall of an Empire," "Cultural Red" and "The Horseman's Tools." The Chautauqua is sponsored in part by the New Mexico Humanities Council.

Excellent Chautauqua at the Hubbard Museum on Saturday, Sept.10

The Way You Ride the Trail

A CHAUTAUQUA–STYLE PRESENTATION

BY KAY SEBRING-ROBERTS KUHLMANN

MEET “DALE EVANS”  

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 11:30 a.m.

HUBBARD MUSEUM OF THE AMERICAN WEST

$10 Special Second Saturday price

Includes admission to the museum and its two special exhibits.

Some funding for this program provided by New Mexico Humanities Council

Tues, Sept 6, 6 pm at ENMU-Ruidoso

2015 Consumer Confidence Report for Sun Valley Water & Sanitation District

Below is the Sun Valley Water & Sanitation District CCR for your viewing.  If you need a copy sent to you, please contact the Sun Valley Water office at 575.258.5240 or sunvalleywater@valornet.com

For more information on the CCR, please contact:
Contact:  Joe Buchanan
Address: PO Box 2432 Ruidoso, NM  88355
Phone: 575.937.3636

Info on Wild Horses at following places:

If you want to know the continuing tale of the Wild Horses - go to Facebook Group: Bring Ruidoso's Horses Back
OR my other blog: wildhorsesofalto.blogspot.com

I can't keep posting in multiple blogs and facebook pages.  
Thanks

Kelly Brooks (RUidoso News) photo of Rally Sunday Aug 28.

Alto wild horses coming home

Dianne Stallings, Ruidoso News 7:18 p.m. MDT August 29, 2016

http://www.ruidosonews.com/story/news/local/2016/08/29/alto-wild-horses-coming-home/89568592/

Hundreds of people burst into applause and cheers Monday after learning that the Alto wild horse herd will be coming home next week.

(file photo)

And they will not have to be purchased, although they have been microchipped and must for the time being be kept confined. Herd advocates who had organized a rally, placed hundred of calls to state officials and raised more than $21,000 on the Gofundme website announced the news at the beginning of a town hall meeting where they had expected to go over details about bidding on the horses for their return.
But that wasn't necessary, they said, because officials with the New Mexico Livestock Board had agreed to return the horses to the community on the condition that they be contained until a legal process runs its course to turn them back into the wild. The horses had been penned by a private property owner and were picked up by the livestock board on Friday.
Check out the full story online Tuesday and in print in the Wednesday Ruidoso New

Trust Fund for Wild horses set up at City Bank in Ruidoso to pay for lawyers and feed/care.  See Janna.