CORREO:THE ELECTRONIC NEWSLETTER OF THE CALIFORNIA MISSION STUDIES ASSOCIATION April 2004 Vol. 2, No. 2 Edited by Robert M. Senkewicz (Please submit any items for inclusion to rsenkewicz@scu.edu) (Editor’s note: Sorry that it has been so long between editions of the Correo. I have been recovering from hip replacement surgery for the past two months. I am gradually getting back to normal...) |
| CONTENTS: MEMBERSHIP RENEWAL NORMAN NEUERBERG AWARD NEW WORLD BAROQUE ORCHESTRA AMERICAN ACADEMY OF FRANCISCAN HISTORY SEMINAR SAN ANTONIO ARCHAEOLOGICAL FIELD SCHOOL NATIONAL PARK SERVICE‚S 2004 ARCHEOLOGICAL PROSPECTION WORKSHOP CASTAS PAINTING EXHIBIT AT THE LOS ANGELES COUNTY MUSEUM OF ART FIRST DRAFT OF MISSION DOLORES WEBSITE RECENT PUBLICATIONS CMSA WEBSITE: NEW PHOTO GALLERY, NEW LINKS ******************************************************* MEMBERSHIP RENEWAL A reminder letter was sent to all members who had not renewed for 2004 at the end of February. If you have not renewed, please do so immediately. Otherwise you will no longer receive the Correo or the Boletín. NORMAN NEUERBERG AWARD At the 2004 conference in San Luis Obispo, the Norman Neuerberg Award for "outstanding contributions towards the study and preservation of California's missions, presidios, and ranchos" was presented to Bob Hoover. Bob joins John R. Johnson (2000), Jarrell C. Jackman (2001), Harry W. Crosby (2002) and Edna E. Kimbro (2003) as recipients of this award. For more information on the presentation, see http://www.ca-missions.org/hoovertrib.html NEW WORLD BAROQUE ORCHESTRA Those who attended the 2004 conference and who were present for the wonderful Friday evening musical presentation can find out more about the New World Baroque Orchestra at http://www.newworldbaroque.org/. The Orchestra was joined by the Mission San Luis Obispo de Tolosa Choir. ACADEMY OF AMERICAN FRANCISCAN HISTORY SEMINAR The last seminar of the spring will be held on Saturday April 24. The presentation, entitled "Fray Francisco Palóu, OFM and the Construction of California" will be done by Rose Marie Beebe and Robert Senkewicz of Santa Clara University. The Academy website (http://www.aafh.org/Seminar.html) offers the following description: "Francisco Palóu was the most prolific and systematic Franciscan writer in 18th-century California. His Life of Serra, published in Mexico City in 1787, offered the most public picture of affairs in California, which was the last large scale mission field the Franciscans developed in northern New Spain. This study examines the ways in which Palóu creatively employed the history and traditions available to him actively to construct complementary images of California and of Serra." The event is at 10 AM at the Franciscan School of Theology, 1712 Euclid Ave., Berkeley. (Editorial note: This will be a much expanded version of a presentation given at the San Luis Obispo conference.) SAN ANTONIO ARCHAEOLOGICAL FIELD SCHOOL The deadline is approaching for enrollment in the program at San Antonio Mission this summer. Anyone interested should contact Bob Hoover at <ULRICH1614@aol.com>. Bob will also need a POSTAL address to send the packet of information. NATIONAL PARK SERVICE‚S 2004 ARCHEOLOGICAL PROSPECTION WORKSHOP The National Park Service‚s 2004 workshop on archeological prospection techniques entitled Current Archeological Prospection Advances for Non-Destructive Investigations in the 21st Century will be held May 17-21, 2004, at the Spiro Mounds Archaeological State Park in Spiro, Oklahoma. Lodging will be in Fort Smith, Arkansas at the Holiday Inn. This will be the fourteenth year of the workshop dedicated to the use of geophysical, aerial photography, and other remote sensing methods as they apply to the identification, evaluation, conservation, and protection of archaeological resources across this Nation. The workshop this year will focus on data processing and interpretation in addition to the more basic topics involving the theory of operation, methodology, and on-hands use of the equipment in the field. There is a tuition charge of $475.00. Application forms are available on the Midwest Archeological Center‚s web page at<http://www.cr.nps.gov/mwac/>. For further information, please contact Steven L. DeVore, Archeologist, National Park Service, Midwest Archeological Center, Federal Building, Room 474, 100 Centennial Mall North, Lincoln, Nebraska 68508-3873: tel: (402) 437-5392, ext. 141; fax: (402) 437-5098; email: <steve_de_vore@nps.gov>. The closing date for applications in April 23. CASTAS PAINTING EXHIBIT AT THE LOS ANGELES COUNTY MUSEUM OF ART The exhibit 'Inventing Race: Casta Painting in 18th Century Mexico' is at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 5905 Wilshire Blvd., L.A. through August 8. Hours are Mon.-Tue., Thu., noon-8 p.m.; Fri., noon-9 p.m.; and Sat.-Sun., 11 a.m.-8 p.m. Admission ranges from $5-$9. Contact: (323) 857-6000. FIRST DRAFT OF MISSION DOLORES WEBSITE Curator and CMSA member Andy Galvan invites comments on the first draft of the Mission Dolores web site, which is being put together with the assistance of students from San Francisco State. The site is at http://userwww.sfsu.edu/~shallx/. Andy may be reached at Chochenyo@aol.com. By the way, articles on Andy as the first Native American curator at a California mission have appeared in many newspapers in the Bay Area and elsewhere. Putting the words "Galvan" and "curator" into Google will bring up a good sample of them. RECENT PUBLICATIONS: William J. Barger, "Furs, Hides, and Little Larceny: Smuggling and its Role in Early California‚s Economy" Southern California Quarterly 85, no. 4 (Winter 2003): 381-412. Lydia T. Black, Russians in Alaska, 1732-1867 Fairbanks: University of Alaska Press, 2004. Cloth 1-889963-04-6. $65.00. Paper 1-889963-05-4. $29.95. Robert H. Jackson, "Missoes nas fronteiras da America Espanhola: analise comparativa," Estudos Ibero-Americanos PUCRS 24:2 (dezembro 2003), 51-78. CMSA WEBSITE: NEW PHOTO GALLERY, NEW LINKS The CMSA website home page menu has a new feature: the PHOTO GALLERY. Images in the gallery will be changed from time to time, but because of the currency of the subject, we decided to begin with pictures of damage done Mission San Miguel by the December 2003 earthquake. Thanks to Carol Benston and David Bolton for photos and Karen Fontanetta for information. NEW LINKS: American Journeys-- www.americanjourney.org This site contains more than 18,000 pages of eyewitness accounts of North American exploration by Viking, English, French, Spanish, Russian, and American explorers. Relevant to California are documents from travels by Ulloa, Cabrillo, Drake, Vizcaíno, Kino, Rezanov, Choris (with graphics), and Duhaut-Cilly. Explorers of the Southwest are also well-represented. In addition to the document search feature there is an image search page, an advanced search page, and a large section for teachers. In the latter, help is offered in choosing a topic for student research and in forming a lesson plan, incorporating geography in a lesson, guiding students in interpreting the material, and dealing with sensitive material. A Virtual Tour of the California Missions-- www.missiontour.org Although it is under construction, this site will eventually include 21 missions and some asistencias. It has many features lacking in other multi-mission sites: in addition to historical text for each mission, the author (CMSA member Tom Simondi) includes an aerial photo, a road map, and a link to a topographical map of the region; some GPS readings are given as well. A navigation bar appears at the bottom to guide the viewer to more material, including high quality photos and in some cases, a diagram of the mission layout. Those who have the proper software, can enjoy an audio feature, a recording of the bells of San Luis Obispo, rung by bellringer Mathew Herrera in February 2004 for attendees of the California Mission Studies Conference. A Native Californian Bear song appears elsewhere in the San Luis Obispo section. Earth Architecture-- www.eartharchitecture.org This website centers on architecture constructed of raw earth, e.g. adobe brick and rammed earth, in the world today. A relevant section for Californians is "Earthquake Tests on Earth Structures" (with an instructive Quicktime showing the effects of a simulated earthquake on a small adobe structure). Also of interest is the section which points out the significance of the rammed earth Juana Briones house in Palo Alto. While the site is aimed at an appreciation of contemporary earth architecture, it serves as a reminder of the importance of this form of construction in California's past and of the challenges for preservation of our surviving structures. Mission San Antonio de Padua - Archaeo-Physics Survey -- http://www.archaeophysics.com/padua/ Images and data derived from electrical resistance, ground penetrating radar (GPR), and magnetic field gradient surveys of adobe remains of married neophyte housing at Mission San Antonio de Padua. Reconstructing Maiolica Patterns from Spanish Colonial Sites in Southern California-- www.colonialmaiolica.com/id4.html This site was created by CMSA members Jack Williams and Anita Cohen-Williams and is a comparative study of maiolica sherds from Presidio San Diego and Central Mexican prototypes. The 88 page pdf version features illustrative drawings and photographs, footnotes, tables, and cited references. A slide version is also available. |