Posts by Victor Macias
Savers FUNDrive is Coming!
SAVE Your Spring Cleaning Items! This August, we will be collecting for a SAVERS FUNdraiser — the more pounds we donate on September 2, the more funds we raise! We will collect clothing, small household items and other items (see graphic below for acceptable items). DONATION DROPOFFS WILL BE ACCEPTED AT LAS GOLONDRINAS ON THE…
Read MoreCooking with Golondrinas
by Jackie Camborde, Director of Development I am going to be totally honest here — I am an ambivalent cook. I’m good at it, but more often than not it seems like too much work. However, thanks to the bounty of fresh produce available this summer, I am feeling more inspired than usual! Here are…
Read MoreEL Rancho de las Golondrinas is BEST OF SANTA FE!
Las Golondrinas is proud to announce that we are the recipients of two awards in the Santa Fe Reporter’s BEST OF SANTA FE 2020 competition. The awards recieved are: THIRD PLACE: Best Lecture Series and THIRD PLACE Best Non-Profit Many, many thanks to all of you who voted and helped make this possible. We are…
Read MoreCurator’s Corner: Cranberries
by Amanda Mather, Curator of Collections As part of our ongoing series about all the good stuff that came from the west I present to you: The Cranberry. What would our turkey be without our beloved cranberry? Especially all the leftover turkey sandwiches that follow Thanksgiving (Not to mention a well-made Cosmopolitan…). Cranberries are native…
Read MoreVolunteer Vista: Martha and Jim Meehan in their own words
We, Marsha and Jim Meehan, have been volunteering at Las Golondrinas since 2018. Retired IT professionals from Wethersfield Connecticut, we first became interested in history through our involvement with the local Historical Society where Marsha was a member of the Collections and Exhibits Committees, and an event volunteer. Jim served on the Governing Board, edited…
Read MoreRainbows Over New Mexico
by Laura Gonzales, Education & Volunteer Manager “A storm on the Llano is beautiful…A feeling of gladness comes over one as the heavens open to bathe Mother Earth. Only those ever watching and waiting for the rain can feel the rapture it brings.” —Fabiola Cabeza de Baca, We Fed Them Cactus Every New Mexican knows…
Read MoreCreative Ways You Can Support Las Golondrinas!
Here are some ways you can support Las Golondrinas that are a little unorthodox — see if one might appeal to you! SAVE Your Spring Cleaning Items! In August, we will be collecting for a SAVERS FUNDraiser — the more pounds we donate on September 2, the more funds we raise! We will collect gently-used…
Read MoreThe Three Wise Women of Santa Fe
by Laura Gonzales, Education & Volunteer Manager Hello from your History Herald! You may be familiar with the Paloheimo name, Leonora and Y.A., the founders of our museum, but did you know that Leonora comes from a line of pretty remarkable women? Eva Scott Fényes, her daughter Leonora Scott Muse Curtin, and granddaughter Leonora Curtin…
Read MoreLas Golondrinas at the Movies — Part 2
by Jackie Camborde, Director of Development Spending more time with Netflix these days? We just purchased an outdoor projector to have some warm evening movie nights outside — my kids are counting the days until it arrives! One of our first movie nights will definitely include a Las Golondrinas title — here’s a few that…
Read MoreCurator’s Corner: The Pineapple
by Amanda Mather, Curator of Collections We continue on with our series about all good things that originated in the Western Hemisphere I present to you: the pineapple! The pineapple was indigenous to South America but spread wherever it could grow, which is a pretty limited tropical region, by the time of contact. The Azteca…
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