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National Geographic Destination Map Four Corners Region: Trail of the Ancients
A Four Corners travel guide to places most respected and recommended by locals! This map strikes the perfect balance between map and guidebook and is ideal for a wide range of travelers.
The front of the map displays a region spanning from Dixie National Forest in southeastern Utah; to Great Sand Dunes National Park and Preserve in southwestern Colorado; to Cibola National Forest in northwestern New Mexico; to Coconino National Forest in northeastern Arizona. At the center of the map is the Four Corners Monument. The map also includes a detailed road network and areas of interest.
The reverse side provides invaluable content for travelers with individual maps and descriptions highlighting archaeological sites, festivals, museums and events; outdoor recreation opportunities; water and geologic features; and arts, music and cultural points of interest. The map also features important travel tips and beautiful photographs showcasing some of many ways travelers can experience this enchanted landscape.
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the existing Far View Visitor Center
into a Tribal Cultures Center to enhance
understanding of the connection between
the Ancestral Puebloans and contemporary
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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
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Booksigning with Children’s Author Betty Bauer
Children’s author Betty Bauer will read from and autograph her newly-published book Tamika and Friends on Saturday and Sunday, May 24 and 25, 2014, at Mesa Verde National Park’s Visitor and Research Center.
Tamika and Friends is a story of three Ancestral Puebloan children whose families migrated from Mesa Verde in the late 1200s, each in a different direction. The historical fiction can serve as an upper elementary school study guide about Pueblo life in the American Southwest. It contains a glossary, a map, illustrations, photographs, graphics, and excerpts from the author’s journal while researching at Mesa Verde National Park. For this book, Bauer teamed with Robert E. Matthews, the same Colorado artist who illustrated her 2006 picture/counting book Bison and Burro. Both titles will be available for purchase at the holiday weekend book signings.
Bauer will autograph books both days from 10:00 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. and from 1:00 to 4:00 p.m., and will give short readings at 11:00 a.m., 1:00 p.m., and 3:00 p.m. All activities will be held in the Visitor and Research Center bookstore located just off Highway 160 at the Mesa Verde National Park exit. Visitor and Research Center entrance and parking is free.
Betty Bauer, a former primary school teacher and a Mesa Verde National Park 2010 Artist in Residence, writes children’s stories about raising sheep as well as her travels through national parks and on the Lewis and Clark Trail. She especially enjoys interacting with young people and sharing her writing and journaling ideas. Bauer annually tutors on the Navajo Reservation in Arizona and Utah. She comments that it is hard to pick a favorite grade level as K through 12 students have all shown a love of books, writing, and hearing about new experiences. While in Mesa Verde National Park at the end of May, the author will meet several local school tours to share her latest book and the process of producing it. Drawing from the students’ thoughts on the Mesa Verde story, she will equip the school groups with several techniques for writing up their trip and for tapping their own creativity.
Mesa Verde’s Literary Ties Subject of Free Lecture
Writer-in-Residence Robert Galin will give a free lecture discussing the connections between Mesa Verde National Park and the Southwest’s literary history at a free lecture on Thursday, May 29 at 7:30 p.m. at the Far View Lodge Library in the park.
The Mancos, Colorado-based writer, journalist, and educator will speak about how various writers have used both the sights and spirit of Mesa Verde in their literary works. Among the authors Galin will discuss are Willa Cather, Tony Hillerman, Louis L'Amour, and Nevada Barr. He will highlight some of the specific locations in and around the park with photos.
Galin holds degrees in journalism, liberal studies with a major in journalism, and a master’s degree in writing. He has worked in newspapers and other media, and now teaches English and communications at the University of New Mexico at Gallup. He remains a resident of Southwestern Colorado.
He also was a seasonal park ranger (protection) at Mesa Verde for four years and was a ranger-coordinator, interpreter and volunteer at the Golden Gate National Recreation Area in the San Francisco Bay Area, especially on Alcatraz. He also was a ranger and interpreter at state parks in Southwestern Colorado and in his native California.
"Mesa Verde has very strong connections to the literature of the Southwest," Galin says. "It’s important to celebrate those connections as well as the land itself. Readers can lose themselves in the colorful mesas and mountains by reading and rereading these books and stories."
Writers’ ties to the Mesa Verde area remain strong. The family of Western writer L'Amour still owns a ranch near Mancos, east of Mesa Verde, and Barr was a ranger at the park, Galin notes. Hillerman adopted the Southwest as both his home and his muse, and Galin says he hopes that by bringing light to these links, that the public’s appreciation for the park and the Southwest will grow.
Mesa Verde National Park’s Artist-in-Residence (AIR) program provides professional artists the opportunity to become part of a long established tradition of artists and writers creating works in our national parks. The AIR program is managed for the park by the nonprofit Mesa Verde Museum Association. Learn more at www.nps.gov/meve/supportyourpark/artists_in_residence.htm
Free 2014 Four Corners Lecture Series Programs
The Four Corners Lecture Series returns to Mesa Verde National Park in June. We hope you’ll join us for these free programs occurring in a variety of locations across the Four Corners.
When: June 3, 7:00 p.m., First United Methodist Church, Cortez (hosted by Hisatsinom Chapter/CAS)
Who: Randy McGuire
What: Cerros de Trincheras and Ware in the Formative Period Trincheras Tradition
When: Wednesdays, June 4 through August 27, 8:00 p.m., Cortez Cultural Center
Who: Sam Sandoval
What: Navajo Code Talkers
When: June 5, 7:00 p.m., Crow Canyon Archaeological Center
Who: Judith Lavender
What: Heart of Collecting: 50 Years of Collecting Southwestern Native American Art
When: June 6, 7:00 p.m., Far View Lodge Library, Mesa Verde National Park
Who: Harry Walters
What: The Navajo Long Walk and the Treaty of 1868
When: June 8, 1:00 p.m., Anasazi Heritage Center
Who: Ken Logan
What: Mountain Lion Populations in Western Colorado
When: June 18, 1:30 p.m., Room #120, Center of Southwest Studies, Fort Lewis College
Who: Jay Harrison
What: Jews, Christians, and Moors in the Southwest Borderlands: Persistence of Religion and Culture
When: June 19, 7:00 p.m., Far View Lodge Library, Mesa Verde National Park
Who: Jim Enote
What: Hawikku: At the Crossroads of Change
When: June 28, 2:00 p.m., Edge of the Cedars State Park Museum, Blanding, UT
Who: Jonathan Till
What: Results of the Hovenweep Pottery Analysis Project, Year 2
This lecture series is generously sponsored by Mesa Verde Foundation, Mesa Verde Museum Association, and Mesa Verde National Park, as well as the Anasazi Heritage Center, ARAMARK Parks and Destinations, Bureau of Land Management, Cortez Cultural Center, Crow Canyon Archaeological Center, Edge of the Cedars State Park Museum, Fort Lewis College Office of the President, Department of Anthropology, and Center of Southwest Studies, Hisatsinom Chapter of the Colorado Archaeological Society, and KSJD Dryland Community Radio. The full lecture series schedule can be found here.
Registration Opens for Fall Photography Multi-Day Workshop
Every year thousands of visitors snap photos of the spectacular, world-famous Ancestral Puebloan cliff dwellings at Mesa Verde National Park. To help you capture the best light and perspective of these remarkable structures in either digital or film cameras, the nonprofit Mesa Verde Museum Association is offering a special fall three-day photography workshop led by well-known photographer and Northern Arizona University Professor Emeritus Dr. Gene Balzer.
This year the workshop is scheduled for October 10-12, 2014, and is limited to 13 participants to ensure plenty of personalized coaching. It begins Friday morning and ends on Sunday afternoon. Tuition includes three days of instruction, three nights in-park motel lodging at the Far View Lodge, and all meals including two dinners at the famed Metate Room Restaurant. For further information or to register, navigate to www.mesaverde.org/photography-workshop or call 800-305-6053. Mesa Verde Association members are eligible for a 20% discount!
Workshop participants will come away with images of several of Mesa Verde’s stunning cliff dwellings. Participants will visit sites around the park at times designed to capture ideal lighting conditions, and will work on compositional skills for compelling images. The group will visit some archeological sites at hours when they’re closed to the general public, and will also visit Mug House, a beautiful cliff dwelling that is not normally open for visitors. Pacing will be leisurely so everyone gains as much as possible from their experience. Come to Mesa Verde this October for the experience of a lifetime!
Free Curation Tours at Anasazi Heritage Center
The curation staff at the Bureau of Land Management’s Anasazi Heritage Center (AHC) is hosting weekly “behind-the-scenes” tours of its curation and collections management facility on Thursdays through October 30, 2014. Tours are open to the public and are free with the cost of admission to the AHC. Federal recreation pass holders and people under 18 enjoy free museum admission.
Tours will take place every Thursday at 2:00 p.m. Space is limited. Participants should reserve a place by calling 970-882-5600 during business hours. Tours are limited to adults and upper-age children. The tour provides a chance to understand why artifacts are preserved, and how duration supports ongoing research. Each tour lasts about one hour.
The AHC is one of three federal repositories for archaeological materials managed by the BLM. The AHC is open from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. seven days a week through October. It is located at 27501 Colorado State Hwy 184 in Dolores, 17 miles from Mesa Verde National Park’s entrance. For more information, contact the museum at 970-882-5600 or visit www.co.blm.gov/ahc
House of Rain by Craig Childs
The greatest "unsolved mystery" of the American Southwest is the fate of the Ancestral Puebloans, the native peoples who in the eleventh century converged on Chaco Canyon and built a flourishing cultural center that attracted pilgrims from far and wide, a vital crossroads of the prehistoric world. Their accomplishments - in agriculture, in art, in commerce, in architecture, and in engineering - were astounding, rivaling those of the Mayans in distant Central America. By the thirteenth century, however, the Ancenstral Pueblo people were gone from Chaco. Vanished. What was it that brought about the rapid collapse of their civilization? For many years conflicting theories have abounded. Craig Childs draws on the latest scholarly research, as well as on a lifetime of adventure and exploration in the most forbidding landscapes of the American Southwest, to shed new light on this compelling mystery.
Priced at $16.00, or just $13.60 for Mesa Verde Association members; click here to purchase your copy today. As always, proceeds from your purchases support Mesa Verde National Park.
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