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Curator’s Corner: Yucca
by Amanda Mather, Curator of Collections We eat it, use it for fiber, use it for needles and awls, make sandals out of it, make soap out of it, we just love the many uses of Yucca! Yucca is the state plant of New Mexico — it grows throughout most...
YouthWorks Culinary Team Providing Meals from El Rancho de las Golondrinas Kitchen
Beginning March 26, the YouthWorks Culinary Team is joining with Santa Fe Public Schools to cook and distribute nutritious, reheatable meals to Santa Fe youth ages 1-18. The team, working out of the commercial kitchen at El Rancho de las Golondrinas Living History Museum, will be preparing take-and-go boxes for...
Colcha embroidery artist showcases work at China folk art market
By Olivia Harlow of the Santa Fe New Mexican Julia Gomez flips through photos of Churro sheep. The sheep, she said, are used to make wool that she gathers, cleans, dyes, weaves and uses for embroidery. Longtime Traditional Spanish Market artist Julia Gomez has become an...
Curator’s Corner: Spindle Whorls
by Amanda Mather, Curator of Collections Here is a little insight on an overlooked object, but one that helped keep us clothed for a very long time. Spindles are long sticks used to spin yarn, and the Spindle Whorl is the weighted piece at the end that helps maintain the...
Save the Date : Las Golondrinas Winter Lecture Series
Join us this winter at the New Mexico Museum of Art! January 28: Dr. Anna Nogar will speak on her book “Quill and Cross in the Borderlands: Sor Maria de Agreda and the Lady in Blue” February 25: Charlie Carrillo gives a talk on “Voice of the Hermandad: The History...
Curator’s Corner: Adobe—The Mud You Can Live In
by Amanda Mather, Curator of Collections Adobe — who doesn’t love the stuff? Talk about an easy-to-find resource — it’s literally everywhere. Adobe was the first construction material used by homo sapiens — to this day, 50% of the world’s people still live in some form of mud dwelling. When...
Curator’s Corner: The Ever-Humble Turkey
by Amanda Mather, Curator of Collections One of the few domesticated animals (dogs, llamas, guinea pigs, and Muscovy ducks being the others) in the New World, turkeys were ubiquitous in the Southwest. Although there is some debate among archaeologists as to whether turkeys were domesticated in Mesoamerica, most evidence suggests that...
Curator’s Corner: Pumpkins!
by Amanda Mather, Curator of Collections The humble pumpkin, or Cucurbita pepo has a fascinating history, and a really interesting present. Pumpkins are actually just one variety of winter squash, the pumpkin is simply the most recognizable. One of the oldest domestic crops, humans have been having their pumpkins and...
Las Golondrinas Board Member to Receive Community Award
Allan Affeldt, a member of the Board of Directors of El Rancho de las Golondrinas living history museum, will receive the first Community and Business Partnership Award from the Main Street de Las Vegas organization at a gala at La Castañeda in Las Vegas on September 21. More than 350...
Curator’s Corner: Annual Sunflowers
by Amanda Mather, Curator of Collections Even long after agriculture had taken a firm grip amongst Pueblo people here in northern New Mexico, wild plant resources continued to be eaten, used medicinally, and, of course, used to make all manner of stuff. We can still see New Mexicans enjoying wild...
Las Golondrinas Hosts National Secretaries of States
Left to right; Vic Macias, Mayor Alan Webber, Secretary of State Maggie Toulouse Oliver, Daniel Goodman, Jackie Camborde, Sean Paloheimo. Photo by Richard Gonzales. El Rancho de las Golondrinas, the Southwest’s premier living history museum, was chosen to host secretaries of states and their families from...
Curator’s Corner: What is That Thing?
A Threshing Sled by Amanda Mather So, you may wonder—what is this thing you’re looking at? Is it a cart of a thousand tiny cuts? A medieval torture device? The world’s meanest sled? Well, it’s pretty much the last one—it’s a threshing sled! Take this bad boy, throw some wheat...
Las Golondrinas Has Roaring Start for its 2019 Season
Volunteers Julia Gomez, Michelle Montaño and Annette Gutierrez Turk working on colcha embroidery. Photo by Richard Gonzales. El Rancho de las Golondrinas, the living history museum south of Santa Fe, enjoyed a roaring start to its 2019 season. Attendance for its Spring Festival last weekend was...
Las Golondrinas at Sandia National Laboratories’ “Intern Day”
Education and Volunteer Manager Laura Gonzales is greeted by Isotopes mascot Orbit. Photo by Sharla Prather. El Rancho de las Golondrinas, the Southwest’s Premier Living History Museum, recently joined with other organizations in Sandia National Laboratories’ “Intern Day” in Albuquerque. The high impact event was held...
Object of the Month
Buffalo Gourd by Amanda Mather Since we are about to (finally!) start into the hot long days of summer I thought I would talk about something that always makes me think of those fun spicy days! Buffalo Gourd, or Curbita foetidissima if you want to get fancy science talk about...