Posts by Victor Macias
Travel+Leisure/Ford campaign films at Golondrinas
Back in November, El Rancho de las Golondrinas was contacted regarding a story for a Travel + Leisure/2018 Ford Expedition photoshoot. Crews descended upon the Ranch and the story was filmed. Aside from being part of this national Travel + Leisure/Ford campaign, El Rancho de las Golondrinas got top billing and the leading photos on…
Read MoreMeet Julia R. Gomez
“I have been volunteering at the Ranch since 2000,” states Julia R. Gomez. “I have learned much about my own history here at Las Golondrinas. My art of colcha embroidery blossomed once I started volunteering here. I was invited to be a part of the “Spinners and Weavers” by Beatrice Sandoval Maestas who was the director of the group at that time.…
Read MoreMeet Bob and Liz Swartwout!
The Swartwouts moved to Santa Fe from near Saratoga Springs, New York, forty years ago when Bob was recruited to serve as the first Executive Director of the New Mexico Public Service Commission. Bob grew up in the very small hamlet of East Branch, New York, in the Catskill Mountains. Liz grew up in the…
Read MoreBig Kill
Yet another Western feature film has recently been on location at El Rancho de las Golondrinas. Big Kill, starring Lou Diamond Phillips and Danny Trejo, filmed at the Ranch during the month of November and continued filming in and around Santa Fe through December. The Western follows “a tenderfoot from Philadelphia, two misfit gamblers on the…
Read MoreMeet Annette Gutierrez Turk
“I volunteer with the Weaving Group,” says Annette Gutierrez Turk. “I came to El Rancho de las Golondrinas in 2009 as a visitor and was enticed into volunteering by then-coordinator, Beatrice Maestas Sandoval. Under her tutelage, I learned to spin with the malacate and spinning wheel, learned how to dye wool with native plant materials…
Read More2017 International Folk Culture and Tourism Products Expo
Julia R. Gomez, right, and Annette Gutierrez Turk, left, are members of Sandia Mountains Chapter – EGA. As fiber artists, they were pleased to accept an invitation to represent the United States in a cultural exchange at the 2017 Cultural Expo in Guiyang, Guizhou Province, China on November 10–12, 2017. This fair invited 287 enterprises…
Read More2017 History Scholars Lecture Series
Please join us for local historian, author, and Office of the State Historian — History Scholars’ Program grant recipient, Dr. Linda Tigges TODAY, December 1, at noon, in the Yucca Room, State Records Center and Archives. Dr. Tigges will discuss material culture in New Mexico from 1692 through the 1740s. She has researched and compiled…
Read MoreLas Golondrinas Names Goodman Museum Director
The board of directors of the award-winning living history museum, El Rancho de las Golondrinas, has named Daniel Goodman its fourth director. Board Chair Dr. Stephen Machen said, “Dan Goodman is a natural leader who has the knowledge, experience, drive and talents to help us achieve our strategic goals.” When told of his appointment, Goodman…
Read MoreSpanish Colonial Days!
We will celebrate Spanish Colonial Days on October 5th, 10th and 12th. Literally thousands of school children will be visiting the Ranch on these three days. If you are a volunteer at El Rancho de las Golondrinas and would like to help out for one or more of these days, please contact Laura Gonzales Meredith…
Read MoreOur October Schedule
How quickly the time flies by! The leaves are turning golden, there is a chill in the air and our season is coming to an end, all too soon! Please remember that during the month of October, we will have docent-guided tours only, which must be booked in advance and will be closed to the…
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