by Monica Young | Nov 1, 2024 | Events
Mark your calendars for the 42nd Annual Missions and Presidios Conference hosted by the California Missions Foundation (CMF) at Mission San José in Fremont, California on February 14 -15, 2025. The 2025 conference will feature Mission San José and the 250th...
by Monica Young | Oct 30, 2024 | General, Programs
On Saturday, January 11, 2025, author and genealogist Henrietta Martinez Christmas will speak on Spanish Colonial Women in New Mexico: Clothing and Household Goods. Christmas will discuss what inventories of women’s clothing and household goods can tell us about the...
by Monica Young | Aug 14, 2024 | General, News, Programs
The Arizona State Museum (ASM) is pleased to announce its upcoming ASM Master Class: Biographies of Culture and Power in Colonial Mexico. This five-part series will be taught by Dr. Michael M. Brescia, Curator of Ethnohistory and Professor of History, on Wednesdays,...
by Monica Young | Jun 4, 2024 | General, News
Scheduled to open sometime in 2025, the CDM’s “Santa Elena Exhibit: The Story of America’s Lost Century” will present the narrative of daily life and interactions of Santa Elena, featuring artifacts that include fragments of gold embroidered cloth worn by nobility,...
by Monica Young | Jan 29, 2024 | Events, General, News
The Botanical Blacksmiths Exhibit is open from now until April 12, 2024 at the Tubac Presidio. There will also be a free talk and demonstration on February 24 at 2:00 pm, featuring what life was like for a colonial blacksmith at the Presidio as well as a brief look at...
by Monica Young | Jan 29, 2024 | General, News
Who were the people who lived in the Presidio San Agustin del Tucson between 1776 and 1856? Archaeologist and historian Homer Thiel has completed a new edition of the Pioneer Families of the Presidio San Agustín del Tucson book, adding an additional 150 pages. The new...
by Monica Young | Nov 9, 2023 | General, News
SMRC is proud to congratulate Dr Michael Brescia who was recently presented the 2023 Al Mérito Award, given by the Arizona Historical Society (AHS) to those “who have made outstanding contributions and serve as role models for preserving Arizona’s rich...
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 | Aug 23, 2022 | General, News
Mission San Gabriel continues to make great progress with repairs to the Church two years after the fire in July, 2020. The recent restrictions made getting repair equipment and new materials more difficult and timely. The Mission hopes...
