TCHS LECTURE FOR OCTOBER 5, 2024
2:00 PM - Kit Carson Electric Co-op

"SOUTHWESTERN INDIAN DETOURS"

By Maggie Duval

Maggie Duval brings a unique perspective to her talk as a granddaughter of R.H. Clarkson, former assistant to Ford Harvey and founder/manager of the Detours, and great-granddaughter of A.G. Wells, vice president of the Passenger Division of the Santa Fe Railway. Her familial ties to the history she explores in her film project and talk provide a fascinating and personal lens through which to view the Southwestern Indian Detours.
Maggie has spent 36 years as a technology, web, marketing, and creative business development consultant, with 29 of those years spent as a freelance micro-entrepreneur. Her extensive experience in these fields, including the founding of her own 'boutique' web studio in 1995, has given her a deep understanding of the arts, tourism, wellness, and hospitality industries. Additionally, she has created, curated, and produced events, workshops, and immersive, engaging, and iconoclastic conferences – bringing together business, tech, and 'cultural creatives' in exciting and innovative ways to dialogue and work together.

 

She is a seasoned speaker who has presented her insights on education and the "Maker"/DIY (do-it-yourself)/gig economy from Austin to London. Her expertise covers many topics, including student-centered learning, emerging professions, and the impact of Maker culture on emerging professions and the changing landscape of business.
Maggie's love for her beloved state of New Mexico is evident in her passion for travel and her role as a tour guide for her friends. She is an avid reader and book collector, with a particular interest in antique tomes on metaphysics, and the American West and Southwest. Her diverse teaching experience, from comic book creation to digital technology, further demonstrates her love for learning and sharing knowledge.
Finally, back home in New Mexico, she lives in Ranchos de Taos and is both a creative collaborator with and a mom to her 27-year-old artist daughter, Hunter Clarkson, a border collie named Jake T. Puppersnout, and several ridiculous cats. She works part-time as a member-owner of a web development cooperative and part-time as a project manager for the Film and Digital Media Arts (FDMA) program at UNM-Taos.

The Taos County Historical Society is a 501(C)(3) non-profit organization founded in 1952 and dedicated to the recording and preserving of the irreplaceable in Taos County.
Membership is open to anyone upon payment of dues.
For additional information on the programs, activities and history of Taos visit the Society's website at www.taoscountyhistoricalsociety.org

Mil Gracias, A THOUSAND THANKS, does not begin to cover the many, many individuals to whom we owe a debt of gratitude. This debt is not only the living but also to those men and women who long ago began to preserve the journals and documents we now depend upon for knowledge of the past: the chroniclers who accompanied the explorers and settlers and who, dusty, tired and hungry, sat in the light of a candle to record in their journals the events of the day and the Franciscan clerics who made detailed reports of their canonical visits to the mission churches of Nuevo México.

Corina A. Santistevan
Acknowledgements in "Taos: A Topical History"