Event Details

Join us for a special evening at the Winter Letters & Farolito Tour, a live interactive event at Bosque Redondo Memorial at Fort Sumner Historic Site that connects visitors to the site’s history through landscape and storytelling. The tour will lead visitors along a half mile walk around the site, decorated with more than 1,000 farolitos. Staff will share archival military correspondence and oral histories from the Diné (Navajo) and Ndé (Mescalero Apache) to tell stories about the people who once lived at the site. Tours will consist of one of two options: A one-hour ranger-guided tour from 6 – 7 p.m. or a self-guided audio tour where visitors choose their own time and pace.

Along with the tour, visitors can explore the Memorial exhibition, decorate sugar cookies, and enjoy food while it lasts, including pork posolé, biscochitos, sugar cookies, hot chocolate, and coffee, and listen to light bluegrass/folk music performed by local band, The Lunas. There will be a Kids’ Corner table sponsored in partnership with Fort Sumner Public Library featuring Bosque Redondo Memorial coloring books, a take home farolito kit, a sheep craft ornament, kids’ books related to Diné and Ndé, a coyote story reading, and a reading of the Goat in the Rug at a designated time.

Tickets are $7 for adults, and free for children 16 and younger and Tribal Members. Purchase tickets online at my.nmculture.org/33599/41938.