CMSA Newsletter: Writings about California Missions

Fray Juan Bautista Sancho: Tracing the Origins of California's First Composer and the Early Mission Style (Part II)
by Craig H. Russell

The Transit of Venus in 1769: Launching Pad for European Exploration in the Pacific during the Late Eighteenth Century
        by Iris H. W. Engstrand,
SYMPOSIUM:
         Converting California: Indians and Franciscans in the Mission
PERSPECTIVAS MISIONALES
         Mission San Luis Obispo de Tolosa by Daniel Kreiger
TESOROS DE LOS ARCHIVOS:
        A Musical Day Of Times Past At The Spanish Colonial Missions Of Alta California, Featuring La Misa En Sol By Fr.         Juan Bautista Sancho.
        [CD, recorded live at the 21st Annual CMSA Conference at Mission San Luis Obispo de Tolosa, February 13, 2004; a copy was         enclosed in this issue for members.]
IN MEMORIAM: Robert (Bob) Ryal Miller; Fr. Virgilio Biasol, O.F.M.

CALIFORNIA VISTAS: Mission San Carlos Borromeo, 1949. Photo.

Preserving The Jewel Of The Missions: San Juan Capistrano's Great Stone Church, 1806-2004.
        by Robert G. Shafer And Christopher Loomis
Three Eras Of Construction At The San Juan Capistrano Mission Church: 1800, 1900, and 2000
        by Nels Roselund
Preserving The Great Stone Church: A Project To Conserve The Original Stone Flooring Of The Sanctuary
        by Debora De Moraes Rodrigues And Sherry N. DeFreece
TESOROS DE LOS ARCHIVOS:
A New Mission Indian Manuscrpt From The San Francisco Bay Area
        by Juliette Blevins And Victor Golla
TRIBUTE TO NORMAN NEUERBURG
    Doyce B. Nunis, Jr., Norman Neuerburg: Hail And Farewell and Msgr. Francis J. Weber, Norman Neuerburg (1926-1997).
PARA SU BIBLIOTECA
        Book Reviews
PERSPECTIVAS MISIONALES:
        I Was Born An Indian
        by Andrew A. Galvan,
IN MEMORIAM: Edna Kimbro
CALIFORNIA VISTAS: Mission San Luis Rey. Three Indian Women At The Re-Dedication Of Mission San Luis Rey On May 12, 1893. (Photo)

Volume 23, No. 1, 2006

Santa Bárbara’s Presidio in Imperial Perspective: Citadel and Theater Set

by David J. Weber

St. Peter the Aleut: Sacred Icon and the Iconography of Violence

by Raymond F. Bucko, S. J.

Comment on Raymond Bucko’s “St. Peter the Aleut: Sacred Icon and the Iconography of Violence”

by James A. Sandos

TESOROS DE LOS ARCHIVOS:

Mariano Guadalupe Vellejo’s Report on the Derivation and Definition of the Names of the Several Counties of California,
by Blaine Lamb,

TESOROS DE LOS ARCHIVOS:

Three Letters from the Pen of Fray Pedro Font

CORNERSTONES:

A Report from the California Missions Foundation, by Knox Mellon

PARA SU BIBLIOTECA

Book Reviews

PERSPECTIVAS MISIONALES:

The French Connection: French Vineyard Stock on the Roots of California’s Mission Vineyards
by Daniel Krieger,

CALIFORNIA VISTAS Photo of Mariano Guadalupe Valllejo watching children at play

Volume 23, No. 2, 2006 and Volume 24, No. 1, 2007 (Double Issue)

NOTE FROM THE EDITORS
Helen Hunt Jackson And The California Mission Indians: Selected Letters.
            by Valerie Sherer Mathes
Historical Presence And Purpose in Antonio María Osio’s La historia de Alta California and Mariano Guadalupe Valleo’s Recuerdos históricos y
   personales tocante a la Alta California.
             by Michelle Morton
TESOROS DE LOS ARCHIVOS: Paolo Emilio Botta’s Observations On The Inhabitants Of California.
            Translated By Anne Milano Appel
CORNERSTONES: Preserving the Native American Artistic Legacy In The California Missions.
          by Cristina W. Ross
PARA SU BIBLIOTECA
PERSPECTIVAS MISIONALES: Searching For Lucía: Chumash Maestra Of The Monjerío At Mission San Luis Obispo De Tolosa.
            by Betsy Bertrando
CALIFORNIA VISTAS Photo of Antonio Coronel and wife Mariana

Volume 24, No. 2, 2007

NOTE FROM THE EDITORS
Toypurina’s Revolt Religious Conflict at Mission San Gabriel In 1785
            by James A. Sandos
Tesoros De Los Archivos: Revolt at Mission San Gabriel, October 25, 1785 Judicial Proceedings and Related Documents.
            Translated From Spanish To English By Rose Marie Beebe And Robert M. Senkewic
Toypuria’s Descendants Three Generations of an Alta California Family.
            by John R. Johnson and William M. Williams
CORNERSTONES: Safeguarding the Heritage of the California Missions. ''
            by Rubén G. Mendoza
PERSPECTIVAS MISIONALES: The Stations of the Cross Revisited, Reconsidered, And Revised (Sort Of).
            by George Harwood Phillips
CALIFORNIA VISTAS Color reproductions of two paintings of Mission San Gabriel by or attributed to Ferdinand Deppe

Volume 25, No. 1 2008

The Circulation of Flemish Prints in Mexican Missions and the Creation of a New Visual Narrative, 1630-1800.
            by Cristina Cruz González
Mission San Antonio de Padua A Chronology of Building.
            by David N. Hoover and Robert L. Hoover
TESOROS DE LOS ARCHIVOS: Pablo Tac’s Manuscript “Concerning the Californians.”
            by Karl A. Kottman
PARA SU BIBLIOTECA
CALIFORNIA VISTAS    Photos of Doña Perfecta Encinal of Mission San Antonio de Padua

Volume 25, No. 2, 2008

Visual Representations of Religious Conversion in Spanish American Missions

by Robert H. Jackson

Preliminary Observations on Angels in Religious Art in New Spain

by Susan Anderson Kerr

TESOROS DE LOS ARCHIVOS: "A Visit to Baja California in 1956" The Diary of Fr. Maynard Geiger, O.F.M.
PARA SU BIBLIOTECA
CALIFORNIA VISTAS:

Photo of Baja California Norte ranchero Sr. Antonio Acuña with statue of St. Dominic (now disappeared)

originally in Mission San Fernando de Velicatá; explanatory note by Michael Mathes

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Carmen Boone de Aguilar	Independent Scholar	Mexico City
Edward Castillo	Professor of Native American Studies	Cal State University Sonoma
Iris Engstrand	Professor of History	University of San Diego
Glenn Farris	Senior State Archaeologist	California State Parks
Patrick Foley	Professor of History & Former Editor of Catholic Southwest	Texas
James Ivey	Archaeologist	National Park Service
John Johnson	Curator of Anthropology	Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History
Carol Kenyon	Director, South Coast Fine Arts Conservation Center	Santa Barbara
Rubén Mendoza	Director, Institute for Archaeological Science, Technology & Visualization	California State University, Monterey Bay
Randall Milliken	Anthropologist	UC Davis
Douglas Monroy	Professor of History	The Colorado College, Colorado Springs
Russell Skowronek	Associate Professor of Anthropology	Santa Clara University

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