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THE ELECTRONIC NEWSLETTER OF THE CALIFORNIA MISSION STUDIES ASSOCIATION
CONTENTS:
CMSA ELECTION RESULTS
PICO ADOBE TO BE OPEN ON THE SUNDAY MORNING OF THE CONFERENCE
ACADEMY OF AMERICAN FRANCISCAN HISTORY SEMINAR FEBRUARY 5
SYMPOSIUM ON KENT LIGHTFOOT’S "INDIANS, MISSIONARIES, AND MERCHANTS"
SIERRA GORDA TOUR
RECENT PUBLICATIONS
NEWLY ADDED WEBSITE LINKS: THE SANTA BARBARA TSUNAMI OF 1812
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CMSA ELECTION RESULTS
The CMSA mail election has concluded. One hundred eighty-seven members
voted. Since this number exceeds the normal attendance at the annual
conference, the experiment of attempting to find a method which would
encourage greater participation seems to have been successful.
The new President is Bill Fairbank; the Vice-President is Sasha Honig;
the Treasurer is Janet Bartel; and the Secretary is David Belardes. New
Board members are David Belardes, Carrie Fogg, Jake Ivey, Dan Krieger,
Bob Senkewicz, and Ed Vernon.The new officers and board members will
take office at the annual conference.
Thanks to all the members who took the time to vote!
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PICO ADOBE TO BE OPEN ON THE SUNDAY MORNING OF THE CONFERENCE
The San Fernando Valley Historical Society has generously agreed to
open the Andrés Pico Adobe, across the street from Mission San
Fernando, on Sunday morning February 20, from 10 AM to noon. This will
allow those attending the conference to visit before heading to the
Autry museum. Thanks very much to the SFVHS for going out of its way to
open this wonderful venue for us!
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ACADEMY OF AMERICAN FRANCISCAN HISTORY SEMINARˆFEBRUARY 5
Dr. Stephen Henry Totanes of the Ateneo de Manila University,
Philippines, and
currently Visiting Fulbright Senior Scholar at Santa Clara
University, will conduct a seminar at the American Academy of
Franciscan History on Saturday, February 5, 2005 at 10:00 AM. The topic
is "From Missions to Mainstream: Franciscan Missionary Efforts in
Nueva Caceres,
Philippines, 1578-1768." The Academy is at 1712 Euclid Ave. In
Berkeley. For more information, call 510-548-1755.
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SYMPOSIUM ON KENT LIGHTFOOT‚S "INDIANS, MISSIONARIES, AND MERCHANTS"
CMSA, along with The Bancroft Library, Heyday Books, the Academy of
American Franciscan History, and the California Historical Society, is
sponsoring a symposium on CMSA member Kent Lightfoot‚s new book,
"Indians, Missionaries, and Merchants: The Legacy of Colonial
Encounters on the California Frontiers" ((University of California
Press, 2005) on March 12, 2005 at 10 AM in the reading room of The
Bancroft Library. Participants will include Julia Costello of Foothill
Resources; " Malcolm Margolin author and publisher of Heyday Books,
Berkeley; Otis Parrish of the Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of
Anthropology and a member of the Kashaya Band of Pomo Indians;
John Johnson, Curator of Anthropology at the Santa Barbara Museum of
Natural History, and Keith Warner, O.F.M., Lecturer in Environmental
Studies at Santa Clara University. All are welcome!
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SIERRA GORDA TOUR
Rubén Mendoza of CSU Monterey Bay writes that he and a group of
his colleagues have come together to organize a Serra missions tour
around the theme of the Missions of the Sierra Gorda, Querétaro,
Mexico. The tour will include the UNESCO World Heritage
sites of Santiago de Jalpan, Tancoyol, Tilaco, Landa, Conca, as well as
the massive pre-Hispanic archaeological zones of Ranas and
Toluquilla. If you are interested in participating in the
announced tour, please contact Tom Greeley at Carmel Monterey Travel at
(831) 649-4292 or (800) 334-4433 . The total cost, including round trip
air fare from San Francisco, accommodations throughout, and two meals
daily, is $3895.00 per person. For those interested in reserving a
place on the tour of the Missions of the Sierra Gorda, a $400 deposit
will be due by February 11th, 2005.
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RECENT PUBLICATIONS
Steven W. Hackel, "The Competing Legacies of Junípero Serra:
Pioneer, Saint, Villain." Common Place, vol. 5, no. 2. At
http://www.common-place.org.
David Igler, "Malaspina Off and On the American Northwest Coast: The
Nature of the Things He Carried." Common Place, vol. 5, no. 2. At
http://www.common-place.org.
NEWLY ADDED WEBSITE LINKS: THE SANTA BARBARA TSUNAMI OF 1812
Tsunamis have been much on our minds lately. The most famous in
early California history occurred along the Santa Barbara coast in
1812. While accounts can be colorful, reliable documentary
evidence is surprisingly scanty.
The Santa Barbara, California, Earthquakes and Tsunami(s) of December
1812
http://www.drgeorgepc.com/Tsunami1812SantaBarbara.html
One or two tsunamis were generated by earthquakes in the Santa Barbara
region in December, 1812. How large they actually may have been
or how much damage was done is unclear, however.
Tsunami Hazards in the Santa Barbara Channel 1993-2003
www.walrus.wr.usgs.gov/posters/images/SBchannelPageSize.pdf
A US Geological Survey map of an historic underwater landslide area off
Goleta.
"California Earthquakes--Reminiscences of an Old Trader on our Coast"
www.crustal.ucsb.edu/ics/sb_eqs/1812/tsunami.html
Quotation from an 1864 report of a big wave off Refugio Bay in 1812.
The account is dramatic but the site’s author emphatically points out
it lacks first hand corroboration.
December 21, 1812 Southern California Tsunami - Santa Barbara Narrative
http://wcatwc.arh.noaa.gov/web_tsus/18121221/narrative1.htm
An 1856 account of the tsunami’s effect on Santa Barbara; although
flooding reached a half-mile inland, damage to the pueblo was not great.
www.larryo.net/LATsunami.html
Study: Tsunami Could Hit L.A. (Discovery Online, 1999)