Encore: Pajarito Plateau to the Manhattan Project

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From the Pajarito Plateau to the Manhattan Project 

The Pajarito plateau is a volcanic plateau in central New Mexico. It’s a part of the Jemez Mountains bounded to the west of the Valles Caldera, one of America’s super volcanoes. How this obscure mesa in northern New Mexico becomes the birthplace of the atomic bomb.

 

Join Ana Pacheco, the former Santa Fe City Historian (2015–2017), for her monthly presentations as she delves into four centuries of Santa Fe history. Through her thirty-one years as a writer and historian Pacheco has created books, articles, blogs, videos, and five-star walking tours of her beloved hometown. In the last three decades she has pieced together the puzzle that makes Santa Fe the most historically significant city in the U. S.

 

Historian Ana Pacheco

Ana Pacheco’s family settled in Santa Fe in 1692, she is the former historian for the city. Pacheco is the author of eight books on New Mexico history and the founding publisher and editor of La Herencia, a quarterly magazine on New Mexico history 1994 through 2009. Pacheco has received numerous awards during her publishing career from organizations like PEN New Mexico and the National Association of Press Women and culture of New Mexico. 

Learn more about Ana Pacheco and History in Santa Fe at https://historyinsantafe.com/

 

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