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CONTENTS
GREAT STONE CHURCH PRESERVATION PROJECT AT SAN JUAN CAPISTRANO
SYMPOSIUM ON "CONVERTING CALIFORNIA" BY JAMES SANDOS
BOB HOOVER TO SPEAK AT AAFH SEMINAR NOVEMBER 6
ADAM COLLINGS WEBSITE
RECENT PUBLICATIONS
WEBSITE REPORT
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GREAT STONE CHURCH PRESERVATION PROJECT AT SAN JUAN CAPISTRANO
Mission San Juan Capistrano marked the completion of its 15-year Great
Stone Church preservation project with a free community celebration on
Wednesday, July 28. The Great Stone Church is a historic
structure which was completed in 1806, but collapsed in an earthquake
in 1812. Stabilizing its ruins has been the Mission‚s chief
preservation project for 15 years, costing millions of dollars and
thousands of man-hours to complete.
"This is a red letter day in the Mission‚s 228-year history," observed
Mechelle Lawrence, Executive Director. "The historic ruins of the
Great Stone Church have finally been stabilized and will be accessible
to the public. We will now be able to turn our attention to other
areas of the Mission desperately in need of preservation."
Since 1989, the Great Stone Church has been in supportive scaffolding,
to prevent collapse of the ruin in the event of an earthquake. A
preservation team, led by project manager John Loomis, created a
state-of-the-art internal support structure for the church, and capped
it with stainless steel to prevent further erosion by rain and the
other elements. All the scaffolding was removed by July 1 and the
support system will not be visible to the viewing public. The
structure will be safe for visitors to enter.
The next major event planned for the Great Stone Church will be a
Friday, September 17 Romance of the Mission gala fundraiser featuring
acclaimed tenor Michael Amante. Proceeds will be used for
preservation of artifacts and presentation of exhibits. Tickets
and information: (949) 234-1311.
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SYMPOSIUM ON "CONVERTING CALIFORNIA" BY JAMES SANDOS
CMSA, along with the Academy of American Franciscan History, the
California Historical Society, and The Bancroft Library, will sponsor a
symposium on CMSA member Jim SandosŒs recent book "Converting
California" (Yale University Press, 2004) in the reading room of The
Bancroft Library on September 25 at 10 AM. Jim will begin by offering a
brief overview of this important book. Then a panel, consisting of Ed
Castillo (California State University, Sonoma), Andy Galvan (Mission
Dolores, San Francisco), Joseph Chinnici, O.F.M. (Franciscan School of
Theology, Berkeley), Lisbeth Haas (University of California, Santa
Cruz) and Bill Summers (Dartmouth College) will respond. Jim will
reflect on their responses, and then the panel and the audience will
engage in a discussion. Jeffrey Burns, CMSA Board member and Director
of the AAFH, will moderate. All are welcome!
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BOB HOOVER TO SPEAK AT AAFH SEMINAR NOVEMBER 6
CMSA member Bob Hoover (Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo) will be the speaker
at the first 2004-2005 Academy of American Franciscan History Seminar
at the Franciscan School of Theology at Berkeley on Nov. 6. Mark your
calendars now; more details to follow.
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ADAM COLLINGS WEBSITE
Many CMSA members are aware of Adam Collings‚s recent work "California:
West of the West," which Adam unveiled at the San Luis Obispo
conference and which you may have seen at your neighborhood Barnes and
Noble or Borders. Adam has developed a website on which the book is
featured. Check it out at
http://www.adamcollingsenterprisesinc.com/cahome.htm.
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RECENT PUBLICATIONS:
Robert H. Jackson, "A Colonization Born of Frustration: Rosario Mission
and the Karankawas," Journal of South Texas 17:1 (Spring, 2004): 31-50.
David J. McLaughlin, Soldiers, Scoundrels, Poets, Priests: Stories of
the Men and Women Behind the Missions of California. Scottsdale,
Arizona: Pentacle Press, 2004. Paper. ISBN: 0-9604760-1-6. More
information available at http://www.missionscalifornia.com/.
Doyce B. Nunis, ed. The Founding Documents of Los Angeles: A Bilingual
Edition. Los Angeles: The Historical Society of Southern California and
the Zamorano Club of Los Angeles, 2004. Cloth. ISBN (Historical Society
of Southern California Edition: 091442131X; Zamorano Club of Los
Angeles edition: 097245340X)
Celeste Pagliarulo, S.N.D. de N., "Harry Downie and the Restoration of
Mission San Carlos Borromeo, 1931-1967," Southern California Quarterly
86:1 ((Spring 2004): 19-64.
Robert G. Schafer, Coroni and Nu: Native Americans of San Juan
Capistrano Mission in the Colonial Period, 1776-1848. Archive Press;
San Juan Capistrano, 2004. Contact Mission San Juan Capistrano for more
information.
Website Report
CMSA Website Editor Sasha Honig and webmistress Carol Benston have been
going through the Annotated and Unannotated Links pages to weed out
broken links, ferret out urls that have changed and replace them with
new ones, and reword annotations for those sites whose content has
changed since we first listed them. We’re almost done, but please
let us know (at cmsa_1@lightspeed.net) of bad links that we have
missed.
To make the Annotated Links more teacher-friendly, we have looked
over all the annotations to identify those sites that have lesson
plans, teacher materials, project ideas, etc.; look for the blue
highlighting. It is Back to School time with all the angst
that goes with it, so we hope this will make getting ready easier.
Teachers should also check out the Missions map offered on the
Publications page; it would look great on a bulletin board.
(--SH)
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