Los Alamos Historical Society Lecture: Legends And Lore Of The Pajarito Plateau By Local Author Mike Katko
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Los Alamos Historical Society: Heather McClenahan To Present Talk On The Women of Bathtub Row Tuesday May 9
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December 16, 2020
The town of Los Alamos lies upon the slopes of a living supervolcano called the Valles Caldera, at a crisp High-Desert elevation of 7,300 feet above sea level. The modern town is barely a century old, but the nearby cliff villages were built more than a thousand years earlier by the Tewa, who carved homes into the caldera’s cliffs Bandelier Tuff, the chalky volcanic stuff is called, in honor of the archaeologist Adolph Bandelier’s work here in the late 1800s.
You can walk among these skull-eyed cliff dwellings preserved since 1916 within Bandelier National Monument and appreciate the then-novel approach of Bandelier, who combined “historical research, folklore, mythology, native traditions, ethnography, ethnohistory, and archaeology” in an early effort to remove European-American assumptions about New World culture, as so much more can be discovered with an open mind.
Preparing Historic Oppenheimer House For Public Viewing - 8:03 am
Owners Helene and Jerry Suydam willed the Oppenheimer House at the end of Bathtub Row to the Los Alamos Historical Society, which is preparing it for public view. Photo by John McHale/ladailypost.com
View of the living room in the Oppenheimer House on Bathtub Row. Photo by John McHale/ladailypost.com
By KIRSTEN LASKEY
kirsten@ladailypost.com
The house at the end of Bathtub Row in downtown Los Alamos is a time capsule; nearly 100 years of local history packed into its stone walls.
The home’s most famous inhabitant was J. Robert Oppenheimer, often known as the “father of the atomic bomb” and his family. They lived in the home for just two years – 1943 to 1945 – but their presence is visible throughout the house with black and white photographs documenting Oppenheimer entertaining guests in the exact spot where the photographs sit.