by Monica Young | Sep 21, 2023 | Events, Tours
Join Alex La Pierre for the “The Moorish Southwest: African & Arabic Influences in the Borderlands” tour on Saturday, October 14, 2023, sponsored by Tubac Presidio State Historic Park, Tubac, in partnership with Borderlandia, Tumacacori, Arizona. Guests will be...
by Monica Young | Sep 21, 2023 | Events
On Saturday, October 7, 2023, head on over to the Tubac Presidio State Historic Park for a “Beef, Wheat & Chiltepín: Sonora’s Culinary Heritage” presentation by Alex La Pierre. Find out how the confluence of geography, environments, cultures, economics, and...
by Monica Young | Sep 21, 2023 | General, Programs
On Tuesday, October 3, 2023, join Archaeology Café’s “Tame or Wild? Emergent Ranching Cultures of Spanish Colonial Pimería Alta” free online lecture with Nicole Mathwich, PhD, presented by Archaeology Southwest. This free Zoom lecture will be held from...
by Monica Young | Jul 5, 2023 | General, News, Programs
The lifeblood of downtown Tucson’s Presidio Museum and the soon-to-be-opened Fort Lowell Museum are volunteers and docents who provide most of the museums’ programming and tours. Persons who are excited about Tucson’s history and want to learn more and share with...
by Monica Young | Jul 5, 2023 | General, Programs
On Thursday, August 17, 2023, Old Pueblo Archaeology Center’s “Third Thursday Food for Thought” will feature “The 1541 O’odham Annihilation of Vazquez de Coronado’s Southern Arizona Townsite and Other New Coronado-Era...
by Monica Young | Jul 5, 2023 | Tours
Presidio San Agustín del Tucson Museum will be sponsoring the “Santa Cruz River History Tour” on July, 21, August 18, and September 15, 2023, which starts and ends at Mission Garden, 946 W. Mission Lane, Tucson. Each tour will be from 8:00 to 10:00 a.m. The $30 tour...
by Monica Young | Jun 21, 2023 | Events, General, News
The “All-Aboard-the-Bus” Student Field Trip Program is finally seeing fourth-grade classrooms return to the Missions! This year the California Missions Foundation (CMF) awarded 23 schools field trip grants so that 1,797 students from Los Angeles, Monterey,...
by Monica Young | Jun 21, 2023 | News
The California Missions Foundation (CMF) would like to thank the local parish community at Mission Santa Inés for stepping up to raise $350,000 for the Mission Retrofit Project. The Archdiocesan Call to Renew Campaign will secure funds and half of those funds are...
by Monica Young | Jun 20, 2023 | Events
Join the California Missions Foundation this fall for a tour around historic Sonoma, which will include tours of the Petaluma Adobe, Vallejo House, Mission San Francisco Solano, the Plaza and Barracks and end with a lecture, tour and tasting at the historic...
by Monica Young | Jun 20, 2023 | General
The 41st Annual California Missions and Presidios Conference is now back to in-person. Mark your calendar for April 12-13, 2024, when the California Missions Foundation (CMF) will be hosting this annual conference at Mission La Purisima in Lompoc, CA. For more...
