Events
Raised on a South Carolina sea island, Ralph Steele’s life was tempered by experiences in the Vietnam War. Trained as a psychotherapist, Ralph Steele decided, midlife that ‘tending the fire’ of his life would be to take robes as a forest monk in Thailand and Myanmar—for a year or for a lifetime. He left his […]
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The Placitas Community Library is pleased to announce a tree care seminar on Saturday, February 29 from 2:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. in the Collin meeting room. The seminar will be conducted by Thomas Neiman, an International Society of Arboriculture (ISA) Certified Arborist. Tom will be discussing tree selection, how to plant, early care, and […]
Read More >>According to Kermit, “It’s not easy being green.” But while it’s hard to argue with the world’s most famous frog, his plaint offered a welcome challenge to artists whose work appears in “Verde: The Color of Life,” the March/ April exhibition at the Placitas Community Library (PCL). The exhibit features nearly twenty local ceramicists, photographers, […]
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“Born to the Navajo Nation, now a Marine—Private First Class Chester Nez—I’d never seen the ocean before enlisting,” recalled one of the original code talkers on a transport ship to Guadalcanal where the Japanese enemy waited in 1942. “I reminded myself that my Navajo people had always been warriors, protectors. In that there was honor. […]
Read More >>Did you know there is a Night Sky Protection Act in New Mexico?…that there are 37 Night Sky Parks in the United States?..that there are also Night Sky Preserves?…that Placitas sponsors Night Sky Parties? New Mexico residents are blessed with dark skies filled with amazing displays of planets, stars, even comets, often visible to the naked […]
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Join us Wednesday, February 12 for a Valentine’s Day Party at the Library. We’ll have stories about friendship and kindness, Valentine treats and making Valentine cards. Come and go as you please.
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Anna Rudolph is a Placitas songwriter with lots of street cred for the eight short years that she has been writing, playing and singing. With over two hundred original songs on her playlist, three CDs, several singles and ten nominations in various categories for a New Mexico Music Award (NMMA), Anna has immersed herself in […]
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Anna Rudolph is a Placitas songwriter with lots of street cred for the eight short years that she has been writing, playing and singing. With over two hundred original songs on her playlist, three CDs, several singles and ten nominations in various categories for a New Mexico Music Award (NMMA), Anna has immersed herself in […]
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Placitas Community Library’s Board of Directors meetings are held every third Thursday of the month at 6 p.m. in the Collin Meeting Room. The public is invited and welcomed to attend. Agendas are posted here.
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