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The
Mesa Verde Association is a joint
membership program of the Mesa Verde
Museum Association and the Mesa Verde
Foundation. Your MVA membership supports
both of these 501(c)(3) nonprofit
organizations.
The Mesa Verde Museum Association
(tax ID 84-1404606) provides educational
and interpretive material to visitors
of Mesa Verde National Park through
an active publishing program and the
operation of retail bookstores online,
in the park, and in Cortez, CO. Our
services enhance the visitor experience
and promote stewardship of Mesa Verde's
world-renowned archeological resources
and natural landscapes. Proceeds from
all Association operations are donated
to the park's interpretive, research,
and education programs.
The Mesa Verde Foundation (tax ID
84-046967) funds capital improvements,
projects, and educational endeavors
for Mesa Verde National Park. Our
projects include construction of a
new Visitor and Research Center near
the park's entrance and remodeling
the existing Far View Visitor Center
into a Tribal Cultures Center to enhance
understanding of the connection between
the Ancestral Puebloans and contemporary
Native American tribes.
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Welcome to "Verde Views," the e-newsletter
for Mesa Verde Association members and friends.
This periodic publication will keep you
informed about Association news and events,
park happenings, new products and special
sales.
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Free
Four Corners Lecture Series Comes to Mesa
Verde
The first of several free in-park programs
designed to broaden your understanding
of this area’s rich heritage will
take place this Thursday, May 17, when
archeologist Tim Hovezak discusses site
preservation practices at Mesa Verde
National Park. This presentation will
investigate the history of ruins stabilization
at Mesa Verde and how a century of active
preservation has changed the face of
the ruins that we see today. Tim will
explore some remarkable achievements
and misconceptions of the past and how
these have shaped the emergence of a
new preservation ethic. An open discussion
of preservation practices and ethics
will follow.
We hope you’ll join us for this
and other upcoming thought-provoking
lectures!
When: May 17, 7:00 p.m., Far
View Lodge Library at Mesa Verde National
Park
Who: Tim Hovezak
What: 100 Years of Site Preservation
at Mesa Verde National Park
When: May 19, 3:30 p.m., Cortez
Cultural Center
Who: Dale Davidson, moderator
What: Building the Crossroads
panel discussion
When: June 3, 1:00 p.m., Anasazi
Heritage Center
Who: Donna Glowacki
What: Mesa Verde, Religion, and
Change
This lecture series is sponsored by
the Mesa Verde Museum Association and
Mesa Verde National Park, as well as
by Fort Lewis College's Office of the
President and Department of Anthropology,
Anasazi Heritage Center, Bureau of Land
Management, Cortez Cultural Center,
Crow Canyon Archaeological Center, and
the Hisatsinom Chapter of the Colorado
Archaeological Society. Additional support
is provided by ARAMARK/Mesa Verde Company
and KSJD Dryland Community Radio.
Click here
to see the full schedule, and make
plans now to attend these free programs!
Meet
Artist-In-Residence Jeff Lockwood
Mesa Verde National Park is pleased
to welcome writer Jeff Lockwood as its
first Artist-in-Residence for 2012.
Dr. Lockwood’s journey to art began
in science. He earned an undergraduate
degree in biology and, enchanted by
radically ‘other’ forms of
life, a doctorate in entomology. He
was hired as an insect ecologist at
the University of Wyoming, but after
20 years he metamorphosed into a professor
of natural sciences and humanities with
an appointment split between the MFA
program in creative writing and the
department of philosophy.
Jeff’s nature/spiritual essays
have been published by Skinner House:
Grasshopper Dreaming (2002),
Prairie Soul (2004), and A
Guest of the World (2006). He
has written for Orion, Conservation
Magazine, New York Times, and
London Times. His popular science/history
books, Locust: The devastating
rise and mysterious disappearance
of the insect that shaped the American
frontier (Basic, 2004) and Six-Legged
Soldiers: Using insects as weapons
of war (Oxford, 2008) have been
highly acclaimed. Jeff’s writing
has been recognized with a Pushcart
Prize, a John Burroughs award, and
inclusion in the Best American
Science and Nature Writing. Currently,
he is working on The Infested Mind
(Oxford, 2013)—an entomological
tour of the human psyche.
During his stay at Mesa Verde, he
will be giving a free public presentation
of his work on Thursday, May 17 from
7:00 to 8:00 p.m. upstairs on the
outdoor terrace at Far View Lodge.
Immediately after his readings, he
will offer a free 1-hour writing workshop
during which participants (who do
not need any writing experience) will
playfully explore various short-forms.
The public is invited to attend the
presentation, the workshop or both
events.
Indian
Arts and Culture Festival Returns
The Mesa Verde Country® Indian Arts
and Culture Festival returns to Mesa
Verde on Memorial Day weekend! Now in
its 12th year, this 10-day festival
consists of activities at Mesa Verde
National Park, the Anasazi Heritage
Center, the Cortez Cultural Center,
Towaoc, and the Ute Mountain Tribal
Park. A highlight of the festival is
the spectacular Juried Indian Art Market,
which will be held in Mesa Verde’s
Far View Terrace parking lot on Saturday,
May 26, from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., and
on Sunday, May 27, from 10 a.m. to 4
p.m. Pueblo Indian dances will be performed
at the Chapin Mesa Amphitheater on both
days at 10 a.m., 1 p.m., and 3 p.m.
On Saturday there will be an informative
Navajo rug seminar at 10:30 a.m. and
then a huge rug auction from noon to
3:00 p.m., all at the Far View Terrace.
Make plans now to come to Mesa Verde
for these wonderful activities! Learn
more about the entire festival at
www.mesaverdecountry.com.
Volunteer
This Year in Mesa Verde
"The best place to recruit volunteers
is among those who love this park like
you do!"
Does this sound like good advice? We
think it does!
Opportunities to volunteer your skills
here at Mesa Verde National Park are
as diverse as the park itself, and as
focused as your own present day interests.
We encourage and expect our volunteers
to have fun, and to fully enjoy what
they do while they're here on site.
If you think that the mental reward
should equal the quality of the performance
for any given task, check into donating
some of your time and effort to Mesa
Verde - your national park needs you!
Contact Rich Godin today for a volunteer
application or more information.
Rich Godin
Volunteer Program Assistant
PO Box 8
Mesa Verde NP, CO 81330
E-mail: rich_godin@nps.gov
Phone: 970-529-5008
Fax: 970-529-5075
~ All Morefield Campground services
and the Morefield Village opened on
May 10. Welcome back, campers!
~ Long House tours (ticket required)
and Wetherill Mesa access will begin
on Friday, May 25, conditions permitting.
Snacks and educational materials will
be available for purchase daily at
the Wetherill Mesa Information Kiosk.
~ Morefield Ranger Station will open
for the season on Friday, May 25.
Purchase cliff dwelling tour tickets,
books, and other educational materials
there nightly from 5:00 to 8:30 p.m.
~ Twilight tours of Cliff Palace
with characters from Mesa Verde’s
past will be offered nightly starting
Friday, May 25. Purchase the $10 tickets
at the MVMA Bookstore in the Far View
Visitor Center. Tour is limited to
20 people to ensure a memorable experience!
~ Cliff Palace Water Stand will open
for the season on Saturday, May 26.
Purchase bottled water, Cliff Palace
and Balcony House trail guides, snacks
and other convenience items daily
from 11:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.
Nevada
Barr’s Mesa Verde Connection
Photo of Nevada Barr courtesy
of www.nevadabarr.com
Some of you may be murder mystery
fans who love to sit down and start
another thriller. If so, you may
be familiar with Nevada Barr, author
of the Anna Pigeon mysteries. Nevada
has become quite the successful
writer in the past 20 years, making
the New York Times bestseller list
with many of her novels. What many
of you may not know is that Nevada
spent two summers working as a seasonal
park ranger in Mesa Verde!
Around 1990, as we were in the
seasonal hiring process, we were
told that one new person would definitely
have a room to herself because she
was a budding author. Imagine the
controversy about a seasonal ranger
getting special treatment, when
housing is always an issue in the
park!
As the summer began, we started
hearing this very sexy voice on
the park radio. Who knew then that
Nevada Barr had spent 18 years working
on stage, in commercials, industrial
training films, and doing voice-overs
for radio! It became a common occurrence
for all work to stop and employees
to listen when Nevada's voice suavely
echoed over the repeater. You had
to work here at the time to appreciate
the quality of that voice.
A couple years later in 1993, her
first Anna Pigeon novel, Track
of the Cat, was published. The
story revolved around Guadalupe
Mountains National Park in Texas.
It won both the Agatha and Anthony
awards for best first mystery. A
former seasonal ranger was famous!
Then in 1995, her third Anna Pigeon
novel, Ill Wind, came out.
This time park employees paid more
attention because Ill Wind
was fictional account of a murder
that took place in Mesa Verde. In
fact, if you had been a park employee
at that time, you really wanted
to read the book because rumor had
it that you might recognize certain
characters in her story. They were
composite characters, but all of
us speculated about who the park
employees were.
Now, years later, Nevada's 17th
in the Anna Pigeon Mystery series,
The Rope, was released on
January 17, 2012. This story takes
place in Glen Canyon National Recreational
Area. So that's the story of a prominent
author who once worked in Mesa Verde!
By: Linda Martin, retired Supervisory
Park Ranger, MVNP
Immerse
Yourself in Mystery: Ill Wind
by Nevada Barr
As the author describes it, the
premise for Ill Wind is:
“Separated from friends and
family and haunted by personal demons,
Anna Pigeon finds solace in the
quiet ruins of the Anasazi civilization
of Colorado's Mesa Verde. But the
rugged beauty of the park and the
mystery of the Anasazi are cruelly
overshadowed by danger and death...”
Got goosebumps yet?
The third in the Anna Pigeon series,
this book is sure to entertain Mesa
Verde enthusiasts! You’ll recognize
many of the sites and landscapes
Ms. Barr writes about. Click here
to purchase your copy for just $7.99.
Proceeds from your purchases support
Mesa Verde National Park.
As always, Mesa Verde Association
members receive a 20% discount on
this item and on all regularly-priced
merchandise. Your special coupon
code to receive your member discount
online has been sent to you separately.
Not a member yet? It’s easy
to join! Just click here
or call us at 1-800-305-6053 or
970-529-4445 for assistance.
Misplaced your discount code? Just
give us a call at 1-800-305-6053
or email us at info@mesaverde.org.
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