CORREO
THE ELECTRONIC NEWSLETTER OF THE CALIFORNIA MISSION STUDIES ASSOCIATION
CONTENTS:
DEATH OF FR. VIRGILIO BIASIOL, O.F.M.
CMSA WEB SITE CITED
MISSION DOLORES BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION
SYMPOSIUM ON "CONVERTING CALIFORNIA"
MISSION DOLORES MURAL WEB SITE
MUSEUM EXHIBITS AT MONTEREY AND SANTA CRUZ
ARCHEOLOGY FOR INTERPRETERS
RECENT PUBLICATIONS
CMSA WEBSITE: NEW LINKS
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DEATH OF FR. VIRGILIO BIASIOL, O.F.M.
Fr. Virgilio, who had been Director of the Santa Barbara Mission
Archive-Library for more than two decades, died at the Franciscan
residence at the Old Mission on May 4, 2004 at the age of 86. He was
surrounded by members of his order. The funeral liturgy was celebrated
on May 8. Fr. Virgilio was well known and loved by the many CMSA
members who have done research at the Archive-Library. Others remember
him from his attendance at our La Paz conference in 2002. May he
rest
in peace.
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CMSA WEB SITE CITED
The ever-vigilant Carmen Boone de Aguilar writes that the CMSA website
has been cited in a recent book published in Mexico. The volume,
entitled "Arroyozarco: Puerta de tierra adentro," is by Javier Lara
Bayón and was published by the Instituto Mexiquense de Cultura
in
Toluca in 2003. Bayón cites Mike Mathes‚s article, "The Earliest
Libraries in the Californias: Jesuit Missions of Baja California" at
http://www.ca-missions.org/mathes.html. Carmen represented CMSA on a
panel at the "Presentación del libro" for this book held at the
18th
century Casa del Risco at San Ángel, México, D. F. on
January 23, 2004.
(Arroyozarco was a hacienda donated by the Marques de Villapuente,
José
de la Puente, to the Jesuits. Its proceeds became part of the Pious
Fund, which funded the Baja California Jesuit missions.)
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MISSION DOLORES BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION
Andy Galvan writes:
Come and celebrate the 228th birthday of San Francisco at Mission
Dolores
(16th and Dolores Streets in San Francisco) on Saturday, June 26, 2004,
at 10:00
am.
Our commemoration will begin with the ringing of the Mission bells
dating
from the late 18th century, and continue with Mass in Honor of Our
Patron, St.
Francis of Assisi. The California Mission music for the liturgy
will be
provided by the famed Coro Hispano de San Francisco.
This year‚s "La Favorita," Miss Brianna Kathleen Daly, will be escorted
by
the United States Marines.
Guests of Honor are the Mission Dolores Parish Council and its‚
President.
Tributes in the Mission Cemetery include the placing of wreaths
honoring
Blessed Junípero Serra, Blessed Kateri Takewitha, Luis Antonio
Arguello,
California‚s first Mexican Governor, and Francisco de Haro, San
Francisco‚s first
non-Indian alcalde. Current Mission Dolores Ohlone Indian
Alcalde, Felipe "Phil"
Galvan, will preside over the concluding prayer, The Prayer in The Four
Directions.
Refreshments to follow in the school auditorium accompanied by Mariachi
Music.
Free parking is available in the Mission Dolores School parking lot,
entrance
from Church Street between 16th and Chula Lane.
For more information please telephone Mission Dolores at
415-621-8203. For
historical and museum information, please contact Curator Andrew Galvan
at
415-621-8203, extension 21, or e-mail at chochenyo@aol.com.
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SYMPOSIUM ON "CONVERTING CALIFORNIA"
CMSA, in conjunction with the Academy of American Franciscan History
and the California Historical Society, will sponsor a symposium on CMSA
member Jim Sandos‚s recent work "Converting California: Indians and
Franciscans in the Missions," published in May by Yale University
Press. The symposium will be on Saturday September 25, from 10:00 A.M.
to 12:15 P.M. in the reading room of the Bancroft Library. More details
will follow in future editions of the CORREO.
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MISSION DOLORES MURAL WEB SITE
Eric Blind and Ben Wood, who worked on the digitalization of the
1791
Indian wall decoration at Mission Dolores, which had been hidden behind
the Great Altar of the Mission since 1796, have created a web site
about the project. The site is at www.missiondoloresmural.com
<http://www.missiondoloresmural.com> . Thanks to Julia Costello
for bringing this site to our attention!
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MUSEUM EXHIBITS AT MONTEREY AND SANTA CRUZ
Two companion exhibits are occurring this summer at museums at both
ends of Monterey Bay. At the Monterey Maritime Museum at the Customs
House Plaza (http://www.montereyhistory.org), the exhibit "A Tale
of
Two Adobes: Keepsakes of 200 Years" will run from July 17 through
October 31. It will feature documents, photographs, period costumes,
artifacts, family keepsakes, and artwork related to two of Monterey's
oldest residences, Casa Boronda and Casa Buelna. At roughly the same
time, the Santa Cruz Museum of
Art and History (http://www.santacruzmah.org/) will host an exhibit
"Arc of the Adobes: Santa Cruz and Monterey." which will feature
vintage photographs. This exhibit will run from July 10 through
September 30.
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ARCHEOLOGY FOR INTERPRETERS
Barbara Little (barbara_little@nps.gov) of the National Park Service
writes:
Many of you may be familiar with "Archeology for Interpreters"
online. We
launched it a few years ago, having written it for National Park Service
interpreters to give them a better understanding of
archeology. Some
sections need revising and updating and I am particularly concerned
that we
don't cover archeologies of historic ethnic groups very well.
This is
where I need your help to identify projects and links to web sites that
we
may be able to use to enhance these sections. (one caveat: we
don't link
to dot coms, but only to non-commercial web sites).
This URL takes you to "What are issues of Sensitivity"
http://www.cr.nps.gov/aad/AFORI/issu_intr.htm
In this chapter, you'll see subsections on Native American and African
American archeology, but these are slim and I want to add a section on
Asian Americans. Please send me your suggestions for links,
further
readings, or other resources that you think would be helpful.
The course "Archeology for Interpreters" may be found at
http://www.cr.nps.gov/aad/AFORI/index.htm
Please respond directly to Barbara at the above e-mail address.
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RECENT PUBLICATIONS
María Luisa Rodríguez-Sala, colaboración, Pedro
López González,
Exploraciones en Baja y Alta California, 1769-1775 : escenarios y
personajes. México, D.F. : Universidad Nacional Autónoma
de México,
Instituto de Investigaciones Sociales ; Zapopan, Jalisco: Amate
Editorial. 2002. Paper. ISBN 968-5531-04-8.
María Luisa Rodríguez-Sala, Los Gobernadores de las
Californias,
1767-1804: Contribuciones a la Expansión Territorial y del
Conocimiento. México, D.F.: Instituto de Investigaciones
Sociales,
UNAM; Mexicali: Universidad Autónoma de Baja California;
Zapopan,
Jalisco: El Colegio de Jalisco; Tijuana, Baja California: Instituto
Cultural de Baja California; Instituto de Cultura Sudcaliforniano.
2003. Paper. ISBN: 970-3202-77-2.
James A. Sandos, Converting California: Indians and Franciscans in the
Missions. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2004.
ISBN:
0-300-10100-7. 272 p. $35.00
Richard Stevens Street, Beasts of the Field: A Narrative History of
California Farmworkers, 1769-1913. Stanford: Stanford University Press,
2004. Cloth: ISBN 0-8047-3879-3. 904 p. $75.00. Paper: ISBN
0-8047-3880-7. 904 p. $29.95.
CMSA WEBSITE: NEW LINKS
The Archival Center
http://www.archivalcenter.org/
The Archival Center of the Diocese of Los Angeles is housed at Mission
San Fernando under the care of Msgr. Francis J. Weber. This website is
a guide to the Center and how to use it.
Archives of SPANBORD@ASU.EDU
http://lists.asu.edu/archives/spanbord.html
Spanish Borderlands message board (SPANBORD) archive, February 1995 to
present, arranged by month and year, top[ics listed alphabetically
within each month
Contributions to Luiseño Ethnohistory Based on Mission Register
Research (pdf)
http://www.pcas.org/Vol35N4/354Johnson.pdf
Article by John R. Johnson and Dinah Crawford in the fall 1999 issue of
the
Pacific Coast Archaeological Society Quarterly. Maps, charts,
bibliography.
In 24 page pdf form. The baptismal, death, and marriage records have
been
lost for Mission San Luis Rey, but the authors have used computer
technology
and two early 19th century census registers from the mission to
recreate the
information. They point out the implications of their work for the
study of
community history and of Luiseño family lineages.
San Gabriel Mission Matrimonial Investigation Records
http://www.ca-missions.org/links.html#orig
In Hispanic California, couples wishing to marry in the Roman
Catholic Church were required to undergo notarized interviews, stating
that they were free to marry. Digitalized documents for 165 of these
investigations (called diligencias matrimoniales are available on this
website. Most are from Mission San Gabriel for the period 1788-1861.
The collection is indexed by the names of both grooms and brides;
included among them are the names of four Native American women. These
documents were part of the William F. McPherson Collection and were
given to Special Collections, Honnold/Mudd Library in 1964.
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