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Cooking with Golondrinas: Red Chile Apple Pie
Since we're focusing our History Herald this week on apples, and my apple trees are starting to yield some great fruit, here's a recipe that has become a fixture at our house for holidays and special occasions — the red chile adds a great little (or big) kick, depending on...
Get Your Las Golondrinas Mask!
We have a variety of masks for you to show your Las Golondrinas pride! These masks are $10 each and only available for a limited time. CLICK HERE and shoot Amanda Mather, Curator of Collections and Museum Shop Manager, an email with the number of masks you want. Please indicate...
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...
Cooking 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...
EL 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...
Curator’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...
Volunteer 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...
Rainbows 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...
Creative 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...
The 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...
Las 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...
Curator’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...
Las Golondrinas Heroes Make Masks, Clean Up Los Pinos
Liz Trujillo To say that our volunteers are itching to get out of quarantine and back to the museum is an understatement. The Las Golondrinas staff has been coming up with some creative ways that they can do some good and keep busy. Longtime volunteer Liz...
Pinto Beans
Pinto beans, common as they may be, have some really incredible traits which have kept them popular, and in our company, for a long time. Learn more about this deliciously nutritious food!
Turquoise
The mines of Cerrillos, New Mexico produce a particularly beautiful blue/green variety of turquoise, so stunning in fact that they have been mined for roughly the last 3,000 years! Chemically, it is a phosphate of aluminum carrying small quantities of copper and iron and a green mineral, variscite. These give...