Join Adam Johnson as he speaks on “Preservation in the Early 20th Century: Edgar Lee Hewett and the Monumental Ruins of the Southwest,” at noon on Wednesday, Dec. 21, part of the Brainpower & Brownbags Lecture Series. Lectures are held in the John Gaw Meem Room. Enter through the museum's Washington Avenue entrance. Free.
An Illinois native, Hewett's interest in archaeology was piqued by the writings of Adolph Bandelier and his own ramblings around the Southwest.In 1898, he became president of the New Mexico Normal School (now New Mexico Highlands University) and began exploring the ruins of Pecos Pueblo, Puyé and Frijoles Canyon.
in 1908, his School of American Archaeology (now the School of American Research), moved into the Palace of the Governors, which one year later became the first Museum of New Mexico. Hewett took the lead for overseeing the Santa Fe Fiesta and began the Santa Fe Indian Market. In 1911, he began a five-year tenure as director of exhibits for the Panama-Pacific Exposition in San Diego. One of the expo's buildings became San Diego's Museum of Man, which you can still visit today.
Johnson is a University of Michigan graduate student in anthropology who has studied the work of Hewett. More Info
