ESTANCIA: EVOLUTION OF AN HISPANIC SETTLEMENT Speaker is Javier Sanchez Taos County Historical Society


LECTURE FOR APRIL 5th, 2025
2:00 PM in the Kit Carson Co-op Board Room - 118 Cruz Alta Road, Taos


NUEVO MEXICO DEL NORTE:
ST. FRANCIS CHURCH

by Guadalupe Tafoya

Guadalupe is a Taos High School graduate and a graduate of New Mexico Highlands University, receiving her master degree in 1976. She also holds certificates in art conservation, especially working with historic New Mexico religious art and history.
Guadalupe’s career includes:

  • Millicent Rogers Museum: Museum Curator, educator, and tour guide. Assisted in developing and presenting educational school programs to the Taos Municipal Schools, as well as researching and presenting exhibitions.
  • International Folk-Art Museum, Santa Fe: Worked in the conservation lab, specifically religious art (The retablos and bultos…Santos) Served as an educator for the outreach program, researching approximately 5,000 students annually while visiting New Mexico schools statewide presenting New Mexico art, history and culture, followed by the school groups coming to the museum for the final art presentation.
  • Palace of the Governors, Santa Fe: Guest curator working on the Columbian Quincentennary, whichincluded research trips to Spain and Mexico for the history presentation.
  • Smithsonian Institute:
    • Guest Curator Traveling exhibition (Foodways) to Questa, NM.
    • Consultant on New Mexico Spanish Colonial Furniture Exhibit.
    • Consultant on New Mexico art and history for the Columbian Quincentenary.
  • Consultant and conservator to different Northern New Mexican churches.

Other Activities:

  • Author of several articles and writer, participant in the Taos History Book written by Corina Santistevan and the Taos County Historical Society.
  • Lifetime member of the San Francisco de Asis Church, Ranchos de Taos, and current historian and archivist.


The Taos County Historical Society is a 501(C)(3) non-profit organization founded in 1952 and dedicated to the recording and preserving of the irreplaceable in Taos County.
Membership is open to anyone upon payment of dues.
For additional information on the programs, activities and history of Taos visit the Society's website at www.taoscountyhistoricalsociety.org

The Society encourages support through membership.
   

AYER Y HOY
2024 Winter
Issue #57

Browse the Ayer Y Hoy's Winter 2024 issue:

•"The Duran Chapel"
by Fr. Juan Romero

• Ceran St. Vrain
"A Gentleman of the Frontier"
by WB Francis T. Cheetham
(edited by Dave Cordova)

•Tradiciones y Historias
"Las Cabanuelas"
by Michael Miller

AYER Y HOY
2024 Summer
Issue #56

Browse the Ayer Y Hoy's Summer 2024 issue:

•"Carson Colcha"
A Graves Family Legacy
by Lisa Graves-Cordova

• Taos-The Sacred Valley" and
"Ranchos de Taos Mystery"
from the Book:
Living Legends of the Santa Fe Country
by Alice Bullock

•History of the Archives & Library-TCHS
by Paul C. Figueroa

•2024 TCHS HONOREES
"The Taos News"

AYER Y HOY
2023 Winter
Issue #55

Browse the Ayer Y Hoy's Winter 2023 issue:

•Don Diego de VargasExpeditions to Taos
by Helen G. Blumenschein

• Marc Simmons - 1937-2023
by Dave Cordova

• Twin Taoseños In The Civil War
by D.F. Arguello

• From "The Taos Massacres"
by John Durand

• Why History Is Important
by Dave Cordova
The Taos County Historical Society was formed in 1952 for the purpose of "... preserving the history of the Taos area...". It is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization managed by a volunteer Board of Directors. Monthly meetings, the first Saturday of the month are held at Kit Carson Electric Boardroom with a featured speaker are open to the public and supported through memberships. These are also open to anyone upon payment of annual dues. For more information visit the Society's website, ww.taoscountyhistoricalsociety.org

Taos County Historical Society
has successully launched
"TAOS: A Topical History"

320 pages, 26 chapters and contributors.

Mil Gracias, A THOUSAND THANKS, does not begin to cover the many, many individuals to whom we owe a debt of gratitude. This debt is not only the living but also to those men and women who long ago began to preserve the journals and documents we now depend upon for knowledge of the past: the chroniclers who accompanied the explorers and settlers and who, dusty, tired and hungry, sat in the light of a candle to record in their journals the events of the day and the Franciscan clerics who made detailed reports of their canonical visits to the mission churches of Nuevo México.

Corina A. Santistevan
Acknowledgements in "Taos: A Topical History"

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Taos County Historical Society
please send a check for $40 (book+shipping) payable to
Taos County Historical Society and mail to:

Taos County Historical Society
PO Box 2447
Taos, NM 87571



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