Join HSFF as tour guide Alysia Abbott leads us through the lost cemeteries and gravesites of downtown Santa Fe.

ABOUT THE GUIDE

Dr. Alysia L. Abbott is an archaeologist who has been researching the known and lost cemeteries and graveyards of Santa Fe for a decade. She has been documenting the monuments and researching the history of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows Cemetery in Santa Fe intensively since 2014. Most recently, Dr. Abbott directed the recovery excavations of graves from the Old Masons and Odd Fellows Cemetery, exposed by the La Secoya de El Castillo development in 2021.

A summary of Dr. Abbott’s research on Santa Fe Cemeteries, “A Hidden History of the Dead” was published in El Palacio in the fall of 2021.

Dr. Abbott holds degrees in Archaeology and Anthropology from the University of Texas and the University of New Mexico. She and her husband archaeologist David Eck live in Santa Fe.