Conference Schedule

FRIDAY, APRIL 17, 2026

1:00 pm Tour of San Francisco Presidio
Meet at Presidio Officers’ Club
50 Moraga Ave, San Francisco CA 94129

3:00 pm CMF Annual Docents Gathering – Mission Dolores Parish Hall

4:30 pm Conference Registration and Hosted Social – Parish Hall

6:00 pm Welcome and Annual CMF Membership Meeting

6:15 pm CMF Annual Awards

• Knox Mellon Lifetime Achievement Award Julia Costello & Andrew Galvan
• Norman Neuerburg Award David Rickman
• Edna Kimbro Award Eric Blind
• Chairman’s Awards SLO Docents

6:45 pm David Wessel - Mission Dolores famed Indian Mural and Reredos

7:00 pm Keynote – Mission Church – Vincent Medina
roote mak-ruwwa makkin honneene * In Our Home We Remain

The East Bay Ohlone people have never left their home because of the tenacity and determination of their forebears, who are the heroes of their contemporary community. The Ohlone Indian Tribe, established in 1971 by elders from the Verona Band of Alameda County, has consistently shown resilience and steadfastness in maintaining their Indian identity. Vincent Medina, President of the Ohlone Indian Tribe, will tell narrative of the unbreakable continuity of his people, and discuss successful, ongoing efforts to strengthen their traditional culture into the present day.

About the Presenter: Vincent Medina is President of the Ohlone Indian Tribe, is an East Bay Ohlone man born and raised within his ancestral homeland, halkin (hall-keen), which encompasses the heart of the East Bay. Founder of the cultural institution mak-'amham and the internationally acclaimed Cafe Ohlone, and leader of the unprecedented 'ottoy (oh-toy) Initiative at the University of California, Berkeley, Vincent has consistently dedicated his life to the continuity of his beautiful and enduring East Bay Ohlone culture. Vincent is a speaker and the teacher of Chochenyo, the Indigenous language of the East Bay.

7:30 pm End of Day One

 

SATURDAY, APRIL 18 2026
Morning Session – Mission Parish Hall

8:30-8:50 am Damian Bacich
The Pacheco Family: From Sonora to the San Francisco Bay

8:50-9:10 am Lee Panich
Ohlone Life at the Asistencia de San Pedro y San Pablo, an Early Outpost of Mission San Francisco
Contributors: Jelmer Eerkens, Christopher Canzonieri, Christopher Zimmer

9:10-9:25 am Sandra Hirzel
Visiting Site of San Pedro y San Pablo and the Sanchez Adobe

9:25-9:45 am Madeleine Wester
Under the Crown: Imperial Authority and Indigenous Agency at Mission San Francisco, 1776

9:45-10:05 am David Rickman
Pictures at an Expedition: Reconstructing the Dress and Equipment of the Anza Party 1775 - 1776

10:05-10:20 BREAK

10:20-10:40 am Peter Meyerhof
Mapping the Northern End of the Camino Real

10:40-11:00 am Marie Duggan
New Spain's Sympathy for New England, 1779-1783

11:00 am-12:00 pm ANZA250 – A Special Presentation

11:00 -11:20 am Eric Plunkett
The Anza-Rivera Relationship Reexamined

11:20 am-12:00 pm Wayne Donaldson, Gilbert Correa, and David Bolton
The Juan Bautista De Anza Trail and El Camino de California

12:00-1:00 LUNCH – No Host

Afternoon Session – Mission Parish Hall

1:00-2:00 pm Special Presentation: Jeremy Beer
Francisco Garcés, the Missionary-Explorer

2:00-2:20 pm Lauren Baines and Ciara Ennis
Exhibition Strategies for Rethinking Colonial Histories

2:20-2:40 BREAK

2:40-3:00 pm Helena Hazelton
Understanding the Art of the California Missions through Conservation and Collaboration

3:00-3:20 pm Richard Carrico
El Presidio de San Diego; Excavating Southern California’s Lost City

3:20-3:40 pm William Whobrey
The Convento Library at Mission San Carlos Borromeo

3:40-4:00 pm

4:00-5:30 pm Social and Networking

SUNDAY, APRIL 19, 2026

10:00 am Tour of the historic site of the Mission Dolores Outpost or Racho of San Pedro y San Pablo, and the Sanchéz Adobe in Pacifica.

11:00 am Tour of the historic site of the Mission Dolores Outpost or Racho of San Pedro y San Pablo, and the Sanchéz Adobe in Pacifica.

Two identical tours will be offered by Sandra Hirzel of the original site of San Pedro y San Pablo which was a rancho or outpost of Mission Dolores, providing many products for the mission. Later the site became home to the Sanchez Adobe during the post-mission Rancho Period.

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