CORREO:THE ELECTRONIC NEWSLETTER OF THE CALIFORNIA MISSION STUDIES ASSOCIATION August 2004 Vol. 2, No. 4 Edited by Robert M. Senkewicz (Please submit any items for inclusion to rsenkewicz@scu.edu) |
| 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 *************************************************** 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. ********************************************* 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! ************************************** 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. **************************************************** 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. **************************************************** 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) This message scanned for viruses and SPAM by GWGuardian at SCU (MGW2). |