“Just Marilyn…” Featuring Artist Marilyn Drake Celebrating the 300Th
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Summer Edition 2016 A branch of the Los Lunas Public Library Page 1 “Just Marilyn…” featuring artist Marilyn Drake Location: Los Lunas Museum “Just Marilyn…” featuring award winning artist Marilyn Drake will be on exhibit of Heritage & Arts June 4 - June 30, 2016. 251 Main St. SE Los Lunas, NM Among the many reasons Marilyn 505-352-7720 moved from New York City to New Mexi- co was the dramatic landscapes — the vistas, the light, the unusual geologic Museum Hours formations and native plants. That fasci- nation awakened her desire to be a fine Tuesday artist, after years spent operating a 10:00am to 5:00pm graphic design business. Wednesday 10:00am to 5:00pm In 2014 Marilyn Drake was named a “Local Treasure,” by the Albuquerque Art Thursday Business Association. 10:00am to 5:00pm Friday In the Fall of 2015 her piece, “Spring Thaw” (pictured), won Best of Show and two Judg- 10:00am to 5:00pm es Choice awards in the Museum of Heritage & Arts’ Third Annual Juried Art Show Saturday “Seasons”. As the winner, the museum awarded her an opportunity to exhibit her art- work. 10:00am to 5:00pm The museum will be hosting an opening reception for Marilyn’s art exhibit, “Just Marilyn…”, on Saturday, June 4th at 2:00pm. Check us Out!!! Visit the Exhibits Celebrating the 300th Anniversary of the San Clemente Land Grant Attend a Public Program Research Local & State An enormous tract of land, encompassing nearly 100,000 acres between the Rio Grande History and the Rio Puerco and including the site of present-day Los Lunas, figures prominently Find Your Family History in the history of Spanish Colonial land grants. Prior to the violent uprising among the Contribute Your History restive native populace against Spanish colonists in August 1680, Mateo de Sandoval y Tell a Friend Manzanares petitioned the Viceroyalty in Mexico City for ownership of this extensive tract of land in the Rio Abajo of Colonial New Mexico, which was granted. As part of his legacy, de Sandoval y Manzanares later named his daughter, Ana de Sandoval y For information on Manzanares (c. 1650-1734), as the inheritor of his land holdings. exhibits & collections For the dozen years New Mexico’s northern boundary remained stalled at El Paso del please contact: Norte, Ana de Sandoval y Manzanares, a widow with two sons and a daughter, and three orphaned children who lost relatives during the Pueblo Revolt, lived in poverty at Troy Ainsworth, PhD Corpus Christi de la Ysleta del Sur, one of the refugee settlements in the El Paso Museum Specialist district. In 1692, she and her family returned to New Mexico as members of the resettle- (505) 352-7720 ment led by Don Diego de Vargas, and she settled in Santa Fe and later in Bernalillo. In [email protected] 1706, her sons were among the founders of the Villa de San Felipe de Albuquerque, where she resided for the remainder of her life. However, for reasons unclear and unknown, Ana de Sandoval y Manzanares did not immediately attempt to reclaim her father’s land upon her return to the northern frontier, and only in 1712 did she petition Governor Juan Ignacio Flores Mogollón for the restoration of her father’s land claim. Page 2 Summer Edition 2016 Museum of Heritage & Arts Mogollón’s successor as governor, Félix Martínez recognized her Presentations petition on July 23, 1716, perhaps in part impressed by her plea “so that July 9th @ 2pm and spores to understand how plants her children’s grandchildren and and ecosystems respond over eons heirs and successors may use the The Leopolds in the Light of to such things as climate change. land and enjoy the same” and that the Lunas and Oteros: Her work at the Florissant Fossil she had endured years of hardship Latina/o Legacies in Beds in Colorado made the case for as a widow exiled after the Pueblo the necessity of their preservation, Revolt. American Environmentalism an achievement which contributed to Estella’s receipt of the prestigious Shortly after the restoration of her International Cosmos Prize in 2010. land claim, Ana de Sandoval y She was elected as a member of the Manzanares named her son Felici- National Academy of Sciences in ano as her heir to the land, which he 1974. maintained for eighteen years. Sub- sequently, the San Clemente Land Estella serves on the board of the Grant, as it was known, was gradual- Aldo Leopold Foundation as lifetime ly reduced through land sales and director and lives in Seattle, Wash- exchanging of ownership. ington. Three hundred years after Ana de Sandoval y Manzanares assumed ownership of the San Clemente Land Aldo Leopold and wife Estella Grant, we commemorate her life and at Tres Piedras, NM 1912 accomplishments. She was a subject USFS Region 5, flickr of the Spanish Crown who enjoyed The Los Lunas Museum of Heritage the civil liberties afforded His Majes- & Arts, The Rio Puerco Rangeland ty’s citizens, including the right to Trust and Adelante Consulting, Inc. own property in her own name. are pleased to announce that Estella Despite whatever obstacles she may Leopold and Priscilla Solis Ybarra have encountered with her land will speak at the opening of the Ter- claim, Ana de Sandoval y Manza- centennial Exhibit Commemorating Priscilla Solis Ybarra is Assistant nares persisted to successfully gain the San Clemente Land Grant on Professor in the Department of Eng- title to the land on the far northern Saturday, July 9, 2016 at 2:00pm at lish at the University of North Texas, frontier earlier granted to her father. the Museum. specializing in Chicana/o Literature and Theory as well as Environmental Her legacy reveals a testament to Literature and Ecocriticism. Her the spirit of Spain’s colonists on the book Writing the Goodlife: Mexican far flung edge of empire, especially American Literature and the Environ- in light of the lengthy process to ment was published in March 2016 survey and retain ownership of the by the University of Arizona Press. It grant for her heirs. is the first study to engage a long- range environmental literary history In the Territorial era, the San of Chicana/o writing. Dr. Ybarra's Clemente Land Grant was reviewed most recent invited public appear- by the Surveyor General’s Office and ance took place at Point Reyes Sta- the U.S. Congress, with support from tion, California in March 2015. There Solomon Luna in 1896 to conform she joined leading environmental the grant, which was finally issued Estella Leopold is a University of writers for the event "Mapping a New on November 15, 1909. Washington professor emeritus of Geography of Hope: Women and the This summer the Los Lunas Museum botany, forest resources and quater- Land." Other recent invited lectures of Heritage and Arts celebrates the nary research, and has been teach- and academic events include visits three-hundredth anniversary of the ing and conducting research for to Utah, Nevada, Swe- more than 60 years. den, Romania, Japan, and Scot- San Clemente Land Grant and the stories and people associated with The author of over 100 scientific land. Dr. Ybarra has also presented this significant aspect of our commu- publications in the fields of paleobot- talks at various national and interna- nity’s history. any, forest history, restoration ecolo- tional conferences, including the by Troy Ainsworth, PhD gy and environmental quality, Estella Modern Language Association, Museum of Heritage & Arts pioneered the use of fossilized pollen American Studies Association, Asso- Summer Edition 2016 Museum of Heritage & Arts Page 3 Presentations ciation for the Study of Literature the Southwest by the Tucson-Pima August 27th @ 2pm and Environment, National Associa- County Library. His most recent tion of Chicana and Chicano Stud- book Outdoors in the Southwest: An 600 Generations of ies, Western Literature Association, Adventure Anthology won the 2014 Changing Land Use in the Congreso Internacional de Literatura Arizona/New Mexico Book Award in San Clemente Land Grant Chicana, and the Amsterdam School the category of nature/environment for Cultural Analysis. She has and Best Book on Arizona. Outdoors taught courses for the Departments in the Southwest also won the Colo- of English at Texas Tech University, rado Book Award for best anthology. Rice University, the University of He writes columns about the west California, Los Angeles, and for for the Durango Herald, Utah Adven- American Studies at Yale Universi- ture Journal, New Mexico WILD! and ty. She currently teaches courses High Country News. on Chicana/o Literature and environ- mental literary studies at the Univer- Gulliford has had led tours across sity of North Texas. She also serves the West by canoe, raft, horseback, on the board of directors for Orion van, cruise ship, private train, and Magazine. private jet for the Smithsonian Insti- tution, National Geographic Society, July 29th @ 6pm the National Trust for Historic Preservation, Rocky Mountain Public The Wooly West: An Broadcasting Service (PBS), Great Dr. Stuart is an internationally recog- Environmental history Old Broads for Wilderness, History nized anthropologist whose most of Sheep in the Colorado and the San Juan Moun- cited books are Prehistoric New Southern Rockies tains Association. Mexico, Anasazi America, The Dr. Gulliford has received the Na- Guaymas Chronicles, and the re- tional Individual Volunteer Award cently released Ancient People of from the U.S. Forest Service for the Pajarito Plateau. He earned his wilderness education, and a certifi- PhD in anthropology from the Uni- cate of recognition from the Secre- versity of New Mexico and he served tary of Agriculture for “outstanding many years at UNM as associate contributions to America’s natural provost for academic affairs.