Hillsboro History Talk August 3rd

Joe Britton will present a talk sponsored by the Hillsboro Historical Society on Saturday, August 3rd at 4pm in the HCC auditorium.  “El Refugio”, Victor Sasson’s Hillsboro retreat was built in 1941.  Mr. Sasson was known as,”Playboy of the Eastern World” and was at the time, the world’s richest bachelor.  The house is known today as Maree Westland’s Enchanted Villa B&B and home.

The Hillsboro Historical Society owns and manages the Black Range Museum and the old Sierra County Courthouse and Jail Site in Hillsboro, New Mexico. 

We publish a quarterly Journal for our members: Guajolotes, Zopilotes y Paisanos.  Excerpted articles can be found on the Journal page of the website. We are an all-volunteer run 501(c)3 non-profit organization established in 2008.

Membership, donors and our store at the Black Range Museum support our work. The Board meets on the first Saturday of each month at 8:30 a.m. For more information about attending a Board meeting, contact us at hillsboronmhistorical@gmail.com

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John Johanek spent 40 years in publishing including four years as art director for Popular Mechanics in New York. He then founded his own design consulting firm with clients worldwide. His firm earned the highest awards in magazine design excellence. He’s written numerous articles on the fine points of magazine design in leading industry magazines and presented hundreds of design seminars and workshops for major trade conferences, publishing organizations and private publishers stateside and internationally. He and his wife Durrae have authored two books on Montana (his home state): Montana Behind the Scenes and Montana Folks. For the past several years John has pursued his passion for art and now he and Durrae operate Zia Gallery in Truth or Consequences to showcase their work. He is a member of the board of directors of the Sierra County Public-Interest Journalism Project.

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