CBS Sunday Morning did a wonderful segment on the revival of interest in The Harvey Girls and Fred Harvey on 2/24/19.

You can watch it here. And you can read the article CBS posted about it here.

Timed for the Oscars, the segment was filmed at the November 2018 #FredHarveyHistoryWeekend in Santa Fe and Las Vegas, New Mexico.

This annual event began with the publication of my Fred Harvey biography Appetite for America in the spring of 2010. It has grown from a one-hour lecture at the New Mexico History Museum followed by a Harvey-themed dinner at La Fonda on the Plaza to an entire weekend of lectures by a wide variety of experts and Harvey family members, and three different Harvey-themed meals in Santa Fe, Las Vegas, and most recently, Lamy, NM (all original Fred Harvey/Santa Fe RR locations.) Its growth has been driven by rising interest in all things Fred Harvey, Harvey Girls, Santa Fe railroad and Harvey design guru Mary Colter–as well as the restoration of La Fonda to many of Colter’s original interior designs (by board chairman Jenny Kimball and architect Barbara Felix), the curation and installation of the first permanent Harvey History exhibit at the New Mexico History Museum (first envisioned by founding director Fran Levine and executed by then-curator Meredith Davidson Schweitzer) and then the  purchase and ongoing restoration of the first major Harvey SW resort, the Castaneda Hotel in Las Vegas, by history travel entrepreneurs Allan Affeldt and Tina Mion (who, starting in the 1990s, saved the Harvey hotel in Winslow, AZ, La Posada.)

The Castaneda had not functioned as a Harvey property since the late 1940s; its grand re-opening is scheduled for 2019.

Here are some shots of us and the CBS team, correspondent Michelle Miller and producer Mary Lou Teel during the Fred Harvey Foodie Dinner at La Fonda and other events they filmed during the weekend.

For information on the 2019 Fred Harvey History Weekend, October 25-27, go to http://www.stephenfried.com/blog/?p=2103 or sign up for the mailing list at fredharveybook@gmail.com.

May Fred be with you.

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