Thu, Sep 17, 2020
About the Medicine Ball Caravan created by Warner Bros. with the aim of reproducing a bit of the Woodstock success. The photo is from August 5, 1970, depicting a field in Placitas, New Mexico, where B.B. King and his band was headlining a free outdoor concert under the name of the "Medicine Ball Caravan".
Thu, Jul 7, 2022
William Steele Dean was a long time resident of Albuquerque. In addition to being the organist at the KiMo theater in the 1920s, he was an avid movie and Western fiction fan. A sufferer of tuberculosis, he spend much of his time taking photographs of celebrities stopping at the Albuquerque Depot. Besides this he also was corresponding with artists and writers. Steele left much of his lifelong collection to The Public Library upon his death.
Thu, Jul 6, 2023
About the legend of a self-proclaimed healer named Francis Schlatter in the 1890s . He was born in the village of Ebersheim, Bas-Rhin, near Sélestat, in Alsace, France, on April 29, 1856. In 1884 he emigrated to the United States, where he worked at his trade in various cities, arriving in Denver, Colorado, in 1892. Eventually he came to believe that God, "the Father" with whom he regularly communicated, had called him to heal the sick. He wandered the nation, often on foot, preaching a unique blend of New Thought, Christianity, and spiritualism. As the scope and success of his healings increased, so did the attention of the press. In 1895 he held a series of healing services in New Mexico, and then he headed to Denver. From the front yard of a local supporter he prayed for the healing of thousands of petitioners each day. Soon the local neighborhood in which he was staying was overrun with sick people waiting for prayer, and vendors hawking all kinds of wares to the masses. This went on for a couple of months until one night Schlatter suddenly disappeared. Soon newspapers reported that he had been found dead in Mexico.