The Artesia Historical Museum & Art Center has an oral history collection that is made up of a series of recorded interviews with early area pioneers.
The interviews were mostly done in the 1970s & 1980s, and recorded on cassettes and reel-to-reel tapes.
Phase 1 of this project allowed the museum to transfer all of the tapes’ contents onto CDs and was made possible by a grant from the New Mexico Historical Records Advisory Board. Phase 2 of this project will be an ongoing one–the Museum staff will access these recordings and index their contents.
This information will be made available to researchers and the general public via the museum’s website, thus giving everyone access to first-person accounts of life in southeast New Mexico at the time New Mexico became a state.
The Museum is located at 505 West Richardson Avenue, Artesia, NM 88210 and is open Tuesday through Friday from 9a.m. to noon, 1p.m. to 5p.m. and on Saturdays from 1p.m. to 5p.m.
For more information please contact:
Nancy Dunn
Museum Manager
(575) 748-2390
artesiamuseum@artesianm.gov
www.artesiamuseum.org
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