Virtual Ghost Ranch - Bookmark our Blog and Mark Your Calendars

I REALLY MISS GHOST RANCH IRMGR - You've said it on social media. We Miss You Too! So We Are Bringing Ghost Ranch to You Mark Your Calendars Wednesday, August 26 6:30 p.m. (MT) - Free Preregistration is required to ensure a safe Zoom experience. Follow the link below to the website page and registration form.

Lesley Poling-Kempes Lecture/Slideshow The People and History of Ghost Ranch To keep us all connected we are working to bring you a variety of virtual fireside chats and webinars. Visit our blog pages, category Virtual Summer for all of the content, zoom links and invitations to live Facebook and YouTube broadcasts. Join us for Lesley's presentation highlighting the people and history of Ghost Ranch. Please share with others that you feel might be interested.

Lesley Poling-Kempes first came to Ghost Ranch as a child in the 1960s. After graduation from UNM in 1976, she married Ghost Ranch ceramics instructor Jim Kempes. They have made their home near Abiquiu ever since. Lesley’s books include three about the history of Ghost Ranch and Abiquiu: “Valley of Shining Stone,” “Ghost Ranch,” and most recently “Ladies of the Canyons.” Her slideshow/lecture will highlight the people and history of Ghost Ranch and her several decades of research and work to bring the ranch story into focus. There will be time for online questions.

Lesley Poling-Kempes is the award winning author of seven fiction and nonfiction books about the American Southwest. In 2020, her work received the Harris Award “for outstanding contribution to the understanding of the people, culture, and history of the American West.” Her books include “Bone Horses” winner of the WILLA Literary Award for Contemporary Fiction and the Tony Hillerman Award; “The Harvey Girls: Women Who Opened the West,” Zia Award winner, and “Canyon of Remembering” Western Writers of America Spur Award finalist for Best First Novel. “Ladies of the Canyons: A League of Extraordinary Women & Their Adventures in the American Southwest” won the 2016 Reading the West Book Award, the WILLA Literary Award, the Southwest Book Award, the Silver Medal for US History from the Independent Publishers Association, and the Border Book Award.

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