The Center of Southwest Studies continues its Summer Lecture Series, "A Year in the Life of the West", with a talk from Judith Reynolds at 2:30 pm titled “1891: The Baron of Mesa Verde, Myth and Reality” in the Lyceum Room #120. Reynolds’ presentation will focus on Gustaf Nordenskiöld, the young Swedish scientist who wrote the first scholarly study of the cliff dwellings at Mesa Verde in the late nineteenth century. Reynolds’ co-authored a biography Nordenskiold of Mesa Verde with her late husband David, after ten years of research. She is a columnist, art critic, and political cartoonist with the Durango Herald. This is her third year helping to organize the Center’s summer lecture series.