<center><table border=0 align=center><tr><td><caption><font size=-1 face="Arial Narrow" color=#000000>Visitors can also learn about the New Mexican environment and its resources through information booths and hands-on activities involving minerals, animals, and plants. </font></caption><img src=http://sonewmex.com/images/ecrihc_home001026.jpg border=1 align=center vspace=5 hspace=5 alt="Visitors can also learn about the New Mexican environment and its resources through information booths and hands-on activities involving minerals, animals, and plants."></td></tr></table></center>Socorro- El Camino Real International Heritage Center – This center of history in the center of the state will feature a new art exhibit and a Spring Fiesta on Saturday, June 7 from 11 am to 4 pm.
Visitors can also learn about the New Mexican environment and its resources through information booths and hands-on activities involving minerals, animals, and plants. The event will feature a slide-show presentation by Bill Dunmire, author of Gardens of New Spain, courtesy of New Mexico Humanities Council.
Dunmire's slide-illustrated talk relates the story of how Old World cultivated plants and foods made their way from pre-Colombian Spain to the colonial frontier of New Mexico and the greater Southwest. It focuses on the positive contributions of the Spanish colonizers and missionaries and tells of how Puebloans and other native peoples in New Mexico integrated some of the crops and foods into their own cultures.
On the same day, an opening reception is scheduled for the show Reflections of the Rio Abajo. This collection of 24 photographs by Charlie Sanchez Jr. features a reflective meditation upon the obscure, abandoned, and forgotten places and buildings of New Mexico’s Rio Abajo. Each photograph is accompanied by the poetry of Irene Sanchez. Opening reception will include a gallery talk by the photographer at 11 am and poetry reading at noon.
For more information, call the El Camino Real International Heritage Center, call: (575) 854-3600, or visit: www.caminorealheritage.org (http://www.caminorealheritage.org/)
<center><table border=0 align=center><tr><td><caption><font size=-1 face="Arial Narrow" color=#000000>Visitors can also learn about the New Mexican environment and its resources through information booths and hands-on activities involving minerals, animals, and plants. </font></caption><img src=http://sonewmex.com/images/ecrihc_home001026.jpg border=1 align=center vspace=5 hspace=5 alt="Visitors can also learn about the New Mexican environment and its resources through information booths and hands-on activities involving minerals, animals, and plants."></td></tr></table></center>Socorro- El Camino Real International Heritage Center – This center of history in the center of the state will feature a new art exhibit and a Spring Fiesta on Saturday, June 7 from 11 am to 4 pm.
Visitors can also learn about the New Mexican environment and its resources through information booths and hands-on activities involving minerals, animals, and plants. The event will feature a slide-show presentation by Bill Dunmire, author of Gardens of New Spain, courtesy of New Mexico Humanities Council.
Dunmire's slide-illustrated talk relates the story of how Old World cultivated plants and foods made their way from pre-Colombian Spain to the colonial frontier of New Mexico and the greater Southwest. It focuses on the positive contributions of the Spanish colonizers and missionaries and tells of how Puebloans and other native peoples in New Mexico integrated some of the crops and foods into their own cultures.
On the same day, an opening reception is scheduled for the show Reflections of the Rio Abajo. This collection of 24 photographs by Charlie Sanchez Jr. features a reflective meditation upon the obscure, abandoned, and forgotten places and buildings of New Mexico’s Rio Abajo. Each photograph is accompanied by the poetry of Irene Sanchez. Opening reception will include a gallery talk by the photographer at 11 am and poetry reading at noon.
For more information, call the El Camino Real International Heritage Center, call: (575) 854-3600, or visit: www.caminorealheritage.org (http://www.caminorealheritage.org/)