Nov 7, 2010
Join New York actor Chaz Mena for a Chautauqua performance as Pedro Menendez de Aviles, Spanish Florida’s first governor, at 2 pm Sunday, Nov. 7, in the History Museum Auditorium. Part of the Threads of Memory Lecture Series, this event is free with museum admission (Sundays free to NM residents).
Mena is a New York-based actor who tours the country with two pieces underwritten by the Florida Humanities Council: Charla, A Chat with José Martí and Menéndez: Claiming La Florida. Mena, who played Judge Marc Montaldo on the NBC drama Law & Order, has become an amateur historian on the first governor of Spanish Florida, in part by reading his 16th-century letters to Spain's King Philip II.
