NAJVS/2007 Albuquerque/djk pics

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Mark and I went up to Santa Fe the first night.

One part of old Route 66 went this way at one time.

The following morning, Brian, Mark and myself went dormant volcano climbing.

The 3 volcanoes are on the grounds of Petroglyph National Monument.

Albuquerque off in the distance.

A bird perched at the top of JA Volcano.

We hike down from the first peak, and its on to the next one.

A view of the JA Volcano with Mark making his way back down.

Brian and I ascend the second peak Black Volcano.

This is Brian at the top of Vulcan the third peak, not nearly as exciting as his climb last year on Mt. Rainier, but a great deal warmer I’m sure!

After leaving the volcanoes, we went in search of Petroglyphs, at Riconada Canyon.

Here are just a few of the ones we saw...

Next we went off to Sandia Peak, where we went from sunny 82º F at 6000 feet, up to 10,400 feet and 34º F!

Mark, Brian and the rest as we ready to make our ascension on the longest aerial tramway in the US at just over 2½ miles.

Our guide for our trip up and over the mountain.

When we got to the restaurant at the top, we found Jean-Michel and AJ dining with some friends there.

There is a ski hill on the back side of this peak.

It was cold and windy, but the views were spectacular.

We walked around for a bit up there, but it was colder than we expected, so we cut our visit short.

We are on the trip back down to lower elevations and warmer weather!

Here was the wind speed, direction and the temperature. I had warmed up a little at the top since we made our trip up two hours earlier.

We are now over near the Albuquerque Museum of Art & History, where our conference will be held over the next two days.

In the old town part of Albuquerque, they were plenty of places to eat, shop and be entertained.

This is San Felipe de Neri Church, founded in 1706.

Back our hotel we are gathering for our dinner. Here Norm and Walter are conversing, while Dave and his wife Jane talk with Mary.

Julia and Jean-Michel have arrived on the scene.

Terry and Jean-Michel chat with others in the background.

Here we are at St. Clair’s...

Will the participants sign in please.

Terry and Julia.

Ron and Tom speak.

David and Jane continue their conversation with Mary.

Rick welcomes everyone.

Tom (an Albuquerque resident) introduces himself.

As does Ron and the rest...

David and his wife Jane.

Barbara (Rick’s wife) along with Rick introduce themselves.

Andy (another Albuquerque resident).

Kieran came all the way from Ireland!

Rick has some door prizes.

And everyone searches their chairs to see if they’ve won.

...and Tom cast Tom’s play-let “Nemo’s Giant Pearl”.

Another volunteer (Julia) is selected.

Afterward Jean-Michel, thanks to Philippe Burgaud, has a few surprises for us.

Wax cylinders containing not Jules Verne’s voice (sorry Garmt) but recording of music from the play version of Captain Grant and Michael Strogoff.

The following morning, Rick...

...and Barbara kick off the festivities.

Jean-Michel welcomes everyone.

Jean-Michel tells us that “Verne Was (W)right All Along”, where he compares some of Verne and the Wright brothers early works in aviation.

Julia tells us about “Writing a Map” with a focus on the tales that take place in the area around Cape Horn.

Terry follows up with a question.

Art tells us about “Jules Verne’s Dream Machines”.

A sign at the museum letting everyone know where we are.

George, from UC Riverside, tells about “Verne and Rosny - Contrasting Models of Science Fiction”.

Andy tells us about “Mobilis in Mobile - History of the U.S.S. Nautilus”. Here is a link to his Microsoft PowerPoint presentation.

Some of the crowd in attendance.

There were even a few outsiders with us.

Including this museum guard who took an interest in the proceedings.

Terry tells us about “Verne’s Errant Readers - Nemo, Clawbonny, Michel Dufrénoy”.

Pieces of the USS Nautilus (including part of the wooden deck).

Lunch at Little Anitas.

Kieran and Tom on the left. Terry, Art, Rick, Barbara and Norm on the right.

Mary, Mark, Andy, Eleanor and Ted.

Jane, David, Brian and Walter.

Back to the conference, where Rick tells about Jules Verne and the “The Wrong-Headed League”.

Our keynote speaker for the conference, Jayne C. Aubele of the New Mexico Museum of Natural History tells us about “Verne and Volcanoes”.

Tom McCormick tells us about “The Great Pearl of Captain Nemo: Succession and Legacy inL’Ile mystérieuse”.

After the days presentation are over, the volunteers for the play get together for a rehearsal of “Nemo’s Giant Pearl”.

We arrive for dinner at The Melting Pot.

Jane and David.

The sign shows the way.

Barbara is working out with the waitress her refreshment order.

Art and Tom in back, Norm and Brian here in the foreground.

Andy and Dr. Alan Hale, between them is a mutual friend.

Barbara, Rick, Mark and Peter.

AJ, Art, and Tom.

Terry, Julia and Jean-Michel.

AJ, in costume as Ayrton for the play.

Rick introduces the play as narrator.

Andy (Cyrus) and Norm (Pencroff) get ready.

The cast assembles on stage...

...and follows Rick’s narration.

Tom as Captain Nemo.

Terry as Gideon Spillet talks with Nemo.

Pencroff, Cyrus Smith with Spilett and Nemo.

Rick continues his narration, while Julia (Harbert), Ayrton and Pencroff look in Nemo’s direction.

Nemo and Harbert.

The sign in the lobby of the museum.

We sign in for the second day’s activities.

Rick speaks with Benjamin and Valerie. Benjamin is a grandson of Stanford Luce and he lives in Albuquerque.

Our sign outside the mini-auditorium.

Rick kicks off the second day...

...and introduces Walter.

Walter updates us on “The Continuing Rehabilitation of Jules Verne”.

An early photo of Verne.

Jean-Michel is “Introducing The Kip Brothers”, which is the latest of the untranslated novels to be published.

The more solemn moment of our program begins as Rick kicks off “A Memorial Moment for Prof. Stanford L. Luce, Vernian pioneer.”

Valerie and Benjamin are on hand for this moment and are introduced to the crowd. As previously mentioned, Benjamin is one of Stan’s grandsons.

Walter shares his thoughts on Stan.

Peter does as well, but he didn’t meet Stan in a Verne context, he met him years earlier at a conference on one of Stan other interests as an acknowledged specialist on the works of Louis-Ferdinand Céline.

Jean-Michel adds more.

Art Evans, who worked with Stan the most on three translations for Wesleyan University Press sums up.

A photo Jean-Michel had taken of Stan at one of our previous meetings.

While Peter was originally going to speak on the “Tribulations of a Chinese Gentleman” he instead changed to the topic of bachelors and Storitz, a new translation of which he is working on for Wesleyan University Press.

Kieran came from Ireland...

...and he looks at various translations of ...80 Days and tells us different styles in translation.

Lunch is at High Noon.

Back to the conference, where we are running a little late.

Kieran finishes up with some comments on Butcher’s ...80 Days translation.

Jean-Michel tells us about pirate publishing and come commentary made on it in a early US humor magazine.

Verne is one of the author’s featured in a cartoon featured in this magazine.

Andy introduces our next speaker...

Alan Hale, Ph.D. co-founder of the comment Hale-Bopp in July of 1995.

Alan tells us a little bit about what he did in the past, regarding discovering the comet. He focuses more on what he’s doing now with the “Earthrise Institute” whose mission simply stated is to use astronomy, space, and other related endeavors as a tool for breaking down international and intercultural barriers and for bringing humanity together. One example he cited was a visit to Iran to see a total eclipse that was best viewed from that country. Visit their website.

For that work, the board members present decided to make Alan Hale an honorary member of our society.

President Margot called our business meeting to order and with so much going on, this is the only photo I got of the proceedings.

Across from the Art and History museum, was a museum focused on Nuclear Science and History. Despite the threatening look of the clouds, it didn’t rain.

Norm, Mark, Peter and Jean-Michel.

Our final dinner together was at Café Plazuela at the Hotel Albuquerque.

Andy and Terry set-up for the slide show we’ll see after dinner.

Rick introduces the evening’s entertainment.

”Paris in the 21^st -- Century, or What I Did Last Spring Break: Dr. Terry Harpold, Jean-Michel Margot, and 11 undergrads visit Verne and Haussmann’s Paris”.

Terry tells us about the concept and contents of this capstone course he offered over the spring break to students at UF Gainesville.

Jean-Michel with some of the undergrads.

Inside the old Paris opera house.

At L’Defense.

Finally on Sunday morning, our last event a docent lead tour of this museum.

Our two docents on the left, and curator of the museum Marilee Schmit Nason, Ph.D.

A camera (or likeness thereof) use by Nadar to take pictures fromLe Géant.

Jean-Michel talks about Nadar and Verne.

Mary and Walter check out one of the exhibits.

The around the world flight capsule Jules Verne.

The inside architecture of combination hot-air and helium balloons.

Some of the pins offered by the pilots of specially shaped balloons.

A close-up look at the basket and envelope of a hot-air balloon in a hands on part of the museum.

Jevon lifts a couple of the 30 lb sand bags.

Verne is featured in Histoire de l’aéronautique from 1912.

A French edition of Cinq Semaines en Ballon.

A copy of an early English edition of Five Weeks in a Balloon.

The caption for this book features the plot synopsis for the story as found on my website!

Some of the items that will be seen when the museum opens up a display on Around the World in 80 Days in July 2007.

A closer view of the capsule Jules Verne used in the early around the world attempts.

The 3 day event is over and we all go our separate ways.

Well some of us did anyway; I joined Jean-Michel and AJ for a trip to “Sky City” on the Acoma Reservation west of Albuquerque.

The first photo of me on this trip taken with my camera, thanks AJ!

The village is located at the top of a mesa in the midst of a vast open valley.

We were on about a one hour walking tour. This was Jean-Michel’s second visit to this site; he was last here 20 years ago. Other than a modern visitor center, little else has changed.

This was a mission that was established when the Spanish made their presence felt in this region in the 17th century.

These are the clan symbols.

Pueblo construction uses a mixture of mud and straw to make the bricks.

AJ keeps up with the tour.

The one tree in the village.

Off in the distance we can see neighboring mesas. This area does get filled with water every few years according to the guide.

Our tour guide finishes up and for some a trip back down the mesa in a bus is in order. For others, like me, we are going to take the hard way down.

Down this rock stairway.

It was steep in some spots.

Two others followed me down the stairs.

And obliged me by taking my picture.

Now that I am down the stairs, the walk back to the visitor center, where Jean-Michel and AJ are waiting.

On our way out of the valley.

Off in the distance, you can see the village on top of the mesa. I couldn’t take this photo on the way in, since you need a permit to take photos while on the reservation.

One of the last natural wonders we saw on this trip was the La Ventana Natural Arch.

Our drive back towards Albuquerque begins, with a slight detour for dinner. Thanks Jean-Michel and AJ for allowing me to tag along!

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