CORREO:THE ELECTRONIC NEWSLETTER OF THE CALIFORNIA MISSION STUDIES ASSOCIATION October 2004 Vol. 2, No. 5 Edited by Robert M. Senkewicz (Please submit any items for inclusion to rsenkewicz@scu.edu) |
CONTENTS: CONFERENCE AT MISSION SAN FERNANDO KEN AND CAROL PAULEY BOOK ON MISSION SAN FERNANDO DEATH OF ROBERT RYAL MILLER CORO HISPANO DE SAN FRANCISCO BIBLIOTECA FRANCISCANA RECENT PUBLICATIONS WEBSITES TO EXPLORE ************************************* CONFERENCE AT MISSION SAN FERNANDO The 22nd Annual CMSA conference will be held at Mission San Fernando on February 18-20, 2005. The opening night reception, a brief business meeting, and the keynote address will be held at the Mission itself. Our keynoter will be Dr. Iris Engstrand of the University of San Diego, whose important work has long been familiar to our members. The next day‚s activities, including the presentation of papers and the banquet, will be held at the Airtel Plaza Hotel and Conference Center, 7277 Valjean Ave., Van Nuys, CA 91406. The excursion Sunday will be a special tour of the exhibit "El Notre: the Spanish and Mexican North," at the Museum of the American West, Autry National Center. The tour will include a presentation by the exhibit curator, Dr. Louise Pubols. Registration materials will be sent out to the CMSA membership by the end of October. For now, however, you might want to reserve your room at the Hotel. Call 818-997-7676, and mention that you will be part of the CMSA conference to receive the special conference rate of $89.00. ************************************** KEN AND CAROL PAULEY BOOK ON MISSION SAN FERNANDO Many CMSA members are aware that Ken and Carol Pauley have long been at work on a volume on the history of Mission San Fernando. Ken and Carol report that the book, entitled San Fernando, Rey de España: An Illustrated History is being published by The Arthur H. Clark Company, Spokane, WA, and will be available for ordering by year‚s end. The Clark Company will offer a traditional discount on pre-publication orders. A flyer will be sent to CMSA members in December. San Fernando, Rey de España: An Illustrated History will be available for pickup or shipment on the first night of the upcoming Mission San Fernando conference. Ken and Carol will be available for a book signing during the conference‚s opening reception at the Mission, and they will also be present on the next day in the book vendors‚ area during the conference. *********************************** DEATH OF ROBERT RYAL MILLER CMSA member Robert (Bob) Ryal Miller died on August 5 at La Jolla. Members will remember his attendance at a number of CMSA gatherings. Both Bob and his wife Penny were enthusiastic participants at the 2002 La Paz conference. Bob was the author or editor of thirteen books, including his 1998 Juan Alvarado: Governor of California, 1836-1852, which was reviewed in our newsletter by CMSA‚s R. David Weber, and is posted at http://www.ca-missions.org/weber.html. A fuller biography of Bob will appear in the next issue of the Boletín. ******************************************* CORO HISPANO DE SAN FRANCISCO The Coro Hispano de San Francisco, directed by CMSA member Juan Pedro Gaffney, has a series of upcoming concerts in the Bay Area in October and January. The October event, "Música de Corte y Campo," will consist of Spanish Renaissance choral and keyboard music,. The January event, "Día de los Reyes," will feature Nativity and Epiphany music of the Early, High and Late Classic (1740-1820) periods newly transcribed for modern performance from the Puebla and Mexico City Cathedral archives. See their web site for more details: http://www.corohispano.org/ ****************************************** BIBLIOTECA FRANCISCANA The Franciscan Province of Santo Evangelio de México and the Universidad de las Américas in Puebla have combined to organize the Biblioteca Franciscana in San Pedro Cholula. The library contains the archives of six different Franciscan convents: Santa Úrsula Coapa and San Juan Bautista Coyoacán in Mexico City, San Andrés Calpan, San Francisco, and San Gabriel Cholula in Puebla, and San José de Gracia de Orizaba in Veracruz. The Director is Fr. Francisco Morales, O.F.M. More information is available at http://biblio.udlap.mx/ ********************************************* RECENT PUBLICATIONS David Igler, "Diseased Goods: Global Exchanges in the Eastern Pacific Basin, 1770-1850" American Historical Review, vol. 109, no. 3 (June 2004): 693-719. ************** Websites To Explore: www.haywardareahistory.org/alta.html Alta California How the East Bay area of present-day Hayward, Castro Valley, and San Lorenzo figured in the histories of the 1776 Anza expedition, Mission San Jose, and the establishment of ranchos. Well-chosen photos of period artifacts, drawings, and paintings illustrate the website, which was produced for the Hayward Area Historical Society. www.enature.com/fieldguide/showSpeciesGS.asp?sort=1&curGroupID=99&display=1&area=99&searchText=cliff+swallow&curPageNum=1&recnum=BD0250 Cliff Swallow From the online National Wildlife Federation Field Guides, here is a description and photo of the swallow of San Juan Capistrano legend; click on “spring migration” for a map of the migration route from Argentina northward. Some of these plucky little birds stop off in southern California and others push on to Alaska and northern Canada. www.syvpirates.org/~east/mission/summary.doc Mission Santa Inés Aqueduct Mapping Dynamic GIS, History and Technology 2003/04 Santa Ynez Valley Union High School Report of the hands-on archaeological project carried out by Santa Ynez Valley Union High School student to map Mission Santa Ines’ water system. The students’ documentary research and field work are presented along with their resulting hypotheses. www.sandiegohistory.org/journal/78winter/occupation.htm The Occupation of the Port of San Diego de Alcalá by Iris Wilson Engstrand Narrative of events from the departure of the two-pronged sea-land expedition to Alta California 1769 to the establishment of Spain’s foothold at San Diego. www.sandiegohistory.org/journal/78winter/plans.htm Plans for the Occupation of Upper California A New Look at the “Dark Age” from 1602 to 1769 by Donald C. Cutter Despite many beliefs to the contrary, Spanish interest in the colonization of Alta California did not die after the Vizcaino expedition not to be reborn until the Portola-Serra expedition of 1769. http://www.notfrisco.com/almanac/kroeber01/sfernandohtml San Fernando Rey de España: A Mission Record of the California Indians (1811) Alfred L. Kroeber’s translaltion of a missionary description of the pre-con tact foods, religious beliefs, medicines, and other cultural practices of San Fernando Mission neophytes . www.bigrocket.com/diss Spanish Missions and Native Religion: Contact, Conflict, and Convergence Doctoral dissertation in Archaeology, UCLA, 1999. Through mortuary study of two Chumash cemetery sites (pre-contact Medea Creek and historic Malibu), doctoral candidate Terisa Green concluded that Chumash religion survived the mission experience through selective adaptation; some basic beliefs and practices continued while others changed in significant ways. ONLINE BIBLIOGRAPHIES: www.library.csustan.edu/bsantos/Californiabiblio1.htm A Bibliography of Early California. and Neighboring Territory Through 1846: An Era of Exploration, Missions, Presidios, Ranchos, and Indians. Compiled by Robert LeRoy Santos., Reference Librarian and University Archivist, California State University, Stanislaus. University Library, The present online bibliography contains works published 1990-2001 and is a supplement to an earlier 1992 bibliography by Mr. Santos. www.mip.berkeley.edu/cilc/bibs/toc.html Bibliographies of Northern and Central California Indians Assembled 1988–1995 by the defunct California Indian Library Collections Project, this is a massive listing of finding guides, books and articles and other materials pertaining to tribes of northern and central counties. Unfortunately, funding ran out before the project could include coastal tribes south of San Francisco Bay, southern California, or of the southern portions of the San Joaquin Valley, southern Sierra Nevada, or eastern desert. http://216.239.57.104/search?q=cache:OlGExXm6GB4J:www.lib.calpoly.edu/departments/pdf/Chumash%2520Indians.pdf+A+Brief+History+of+Mission+San+Luis+Obispo+De+Tolosa+&hl=en&start=22&ie=UTF-8 Bibliography On Chumash Indians A listing of resources compiled in October 2002 for the Learning Resources and Curriculum Department of Cal Poly San Luis Obispo. Summaries of books, pictures, videocassettes, and websites relevant to the Chumash. Grade level suitability is indicated for elementary students and teachers for many of the books and some of the websites. www.dartmouth.edu/~hispanic/altabib.htm Hispanic Music In Alta California Bibliography compiled by the International Hispanic Music Study Group, Darmouth College professor William Summers, coordinator. As Dr. Summers says, “Bibliographies are an important means of disseminating research." |