Local Author Releases Her Memoir About Bents Fort NHS

Description: Alejandra: First Lady of the New Bents Old Fort, by Alejandra Aldred-Adams, Launch Party at Woodruff Memorial Library in La Junta, noon to 2 p.m. Wednesday, May 19.


Published: 05/06/2021
Byline: Hart
by Ed Stafford
 
     "Alejandra:  First Lady of the New Bent's Old Fort," the new memoir by Alejandra Aldred-Adams, will celebrate its release to the public at a "launch party" at Woodruff Memorial Library in La Junta, noon to 2 p.m. Wednesday, May 19.
 
     For almost 30 years, Alejandra Aldred-Adams worked for Bent's Fort as a Park Ranger and interpreter.  She portrayed a Mexican woman laborer at the old fort during the mid-1800s.  In this role she milked cows, churned butter, fleshed buffalo hides, and made jerky and adobe bricks, just a few of the many jobs that were encountered by Mexican laborers at Bent's Fort.  Visitors to the fort rebuilt by the Park Service in 1976 learned the history of the laborers through watching, listening to, and participating in the life that Alejandra enacted in the reconstructed fort.  This is a collection of her memories of life at the fort.  She was truly the First Lady of the New Bent's Old Fort.
 
     Published by the prestigious Rhyolite Press of Colorado Springs, the book is handsomely printed in soft cover and sells for $15.95.
 
     Aldred-Adams will attend the library event to sign and sell books and visit with her many friends.
 
     Editors of "Alejandra:  First Lady of the New Bent's Old Fort" are Ed and Clara Lee Stafford of La Junta.


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