Historian Explores Theater Pioneers

The Doña Ana County Historical Society has scheduled its March speaker series.  Historian Tracie Amend will explore the impact Hershel Zohn and Mark Medoff had on the theater scene of southern New Mexico. The lecture begins at 7:00 p.m., Thursday, March 19 at the Woman’s Improvement Association building at 340 Reymond Street across from Pioneer Women’s Park.

Amend’s lecture, “Zohn and Medoff:  Setting the Scene in Southern New Mexico” seeks to trace the two men’s experiences as professors at NMSU and the ways they interacted with the Las Cruces dramatic community.  Amend has taught in four different departments at NMSU, and she is currently wrapping up an MA in Public History at NMSU.  She hopes to work in museum curation, education, and interpretation in the near future.