New Pictures and an Article About Millicent and the Museum

Millicent as a young girl from Millicent Rogers Museum

Millicent's burial place at Sierra Vista Cemetery, Taos, NM

Friends just sent us this link to an article about Taos and Taos women in New York Social Diary!  
Thanks to Roger and Ken who pointed it out to us.

The article has great photos of the Museum and these 2 that we hadn't seen before. Her youngest son Paul is buried next to Millicent looking into the Taos Mountains. The only thing we would disagree with is that Millicent's son Arturo Peralta-Ramos told us unequivocally that Millicent was not buried in a designer gown, but rather wrapped in one of the Indian blankets from her collection. We are delighted that our book is featured in a photo.

On October 19th come to the book fair hosted by Friends of D. H. Lawrence, 10 a.m.-4 p.m at the Mable Dodge Luhan House on Morada Lane. Millicent Rogers: A Life in Full will have a table. (Contact Nita at  575-758-9351 or 779-7446) if you'd like a table for your book/s)

We Won!!

Lesley, Nita holding Art's photo, and Judith

Judith Nasse, Lesley Cox our designer, Judith Van Gieson our Publisher, and Nita Murphy

 Last Friday, June 14th, Millicent Rogers: a Life in Full won the President's Choice award for Best Design and Production at the New Mexico Book Association's awards dinner. It took place at the old Peco's Trail Cafe in Santa Fe. We wish Art could be there as he would have loved the award and would have had a great story to tell.

Cloud Nine!!

We had a great deal of fun at the Bookworks book signing last Sunday. We were even featured on their billboard!

 

Our book, MILLICENT ROGERS: A LIFE IN FULL, has been named a FINALIST in the Southwest Book Design Award competition in the President's Choice category by the New Mexico Book Association! We are thrilled. We'll know the results on June 14th!

Our book, MILLICENT ROGERS: A LIFE IN FULL, has been named a FINALIST in the Southwest Book Design Award competition in the President's Choice category by the New Mexico Book Association! We are thrilled. We'll know the results on June 14th! 

 

 

 

  
  We have had so many compliments on the design and format of the book and the unique information about Millicent's life. Thank you!!
   Do come join us this coming Sunday at Bookworks in Albuquerque to see the books for yourself. Better yet buy a copy for your and your favorite bookworms.

Sunday, May 19th, 2013 at 3 p.m.

 4022 Rio Grande NW, Albuquerque, NM 87107

 (505) 344-8139

http://www.bkwrks.com/

We Are Delighted!!!

Nita Murphy, Arturo Peralta-Ramos (Millicent's Son) and Judith Nasse

Here we are having fun at the signing at the Millicent Rogers Museum on Groundhog's day!! Arturo told wonderful stories about his exquisite mother. 

Coming up are conversations and signings at Collected Works (April 4th) in Santa Fe and again at Bookworks (May 19th). See our new events page for details.

February 2nd ~ Reading at Millicent Rogers Museum

Come join us on Groundhog's Day, Saturday, February 2nd at 1:00 p.m. at the Millicent Rogers Museum for readings, signings, refreshments, and fun. Arturo Peralta-Ramos, Millicent's son will also be there to share more stories about his remarkable mother.
 

The Millicent Rogers Museum is located at 1504 Millicent Rogers Road, 4 miles north of Taos Plaza and 1/2 mile south of Highway 64.

Musuem Contact Information

P: 575-758-2462
F: 575-758-5751

E-mail: mrm@millicentrogers.org

You Tube Videos from our reading at Moby Dickens:
 You Tube readings Part 1 at Moby Dickens

You Tube readings Part 2 at Moby Dickens

Book Launch ~ December 22nd

The long-awaited  book Millicent Rogers: A Life in Full, by Art Bachrach, Nita Murphy, and Judith Nasse with lengthy reminisces by Arturo Peralta-Ramos II, Millicent’s only surviving son will be launched at Moby Dickens Bookshop on Saturday, December 22^nd, 2 – 3:30 p.m.

Millicent Rogers was a mother, lover, active in WWII espionage, designer of clothes, jewelry, and homes, friend of many Taoseños and the Pueblo, and a most remarkable woman of Taos. Her life was short owing to a debilitating heart disease, yet she lived each day to its fullest.  The book is enriched with never before seen family photographs and quotes from family and friends that have been kept hidden until now as they were honoring Millicent’s desire for privacy. She was followed uncompromisingly by the paparazzi of her day, and as a result many untrue or distorted stories were printed about her and her sons. This book offers a glimpse into the private Millicent, her thoughts, her daily battle with pain, and her wide interest in literature, art, people from all walks of life, and her unique loves, especially for her sons.

Dickens is located in the John Dunn shops at 124 Bent Street. For further information call 575-758-3050 or go to www.mobydickens.com

Please join us at this special book signing and launch party. You can buy books then. The first 1,000 hardcover copies will not be re-printed and will become collector's items. After that the book will be in paperback only. To pre-order books go to www.mobydickens.com or call them at 575-758-3050.

REVIEWS:

Millicent Rogers was heir to an outrageous fortune, and she led an outrageous life that was larger than life, even though lived in the shadow of death. This book offers a wonderful account of Millicent’s complex and glamorous existence. Her world travels, adventures in high society, philanthropy and wartime intrigues, astonishing sojourn in New Mexico, and numerous marriages and affairs with a titillating who’s-who of prominent international rogues reads like Don Quixote meets Gone with the Wind.  The personal stories about their unique mother recounted by Millicent’s sons enrich the narrative immensely. Thank you, Nita Murphy, Art Bachrach, and Judith Nasse for capturing the essence of the quirky, beautiful, and haunting Lady.

- John Nichols, author of The Milagro Beanfield War and his latest book On Top of Spoon Mountain

Like many before and after her, Millicent Rogers fell in love with Taos, New Mexico.  Quite simply, the place brought out the best in her.  After reading A Life in Full, the succinct account of Millicent Roger’s remarkable life, I understand that Millicent’s best was quite simply marvelous.    

 –Sharon Oard Warner, author of Deep in the Heart, Director of the UNM Taos Summer Writer’s Conference, and faculty in the English Language Department, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque.