It’s an exciting start to the new year as a list of distinguished scholars, historians and researchers has been assembled for the 40th Anniversary California Missions Studies Conference set to be held virtually during President’s Day weekend, this year February 17 and 18.

Schedule

Friday, February 17, 2023

OPENING SESSION – Moderator: Michael H. Imwalle

2:00 p.m. Russell Skowronek and Margaret Graham, Salud! Drink and Foodways of Alta California

2:30 p.m. Anthony Ray, The Higueras

3:00 p.m. Paul Chace, Los Angeles, California's Capitol: Cultures, Conflicts, Chaos and Capitulations – The Last Moments of the Missions

3:30 p.m. Martha Ann Francisca Vallejo McGettigan, Sonoma - Sonoma So Fair! A Special Look at the Sonoma Wines and Winemaking of Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo

4:00 p.m. Mission Preservation Panel - Restoring a California Mission: Mission San Gabriel with Melvyn Green, Kaitlin Drisko, Robert Glen Knight, Rosa Lowinger, Jill Short and Terri Huerta

5:00 p.m. Virtual Tour of Mission San Francisco Solano / CMF Annual Meeting / 2023 Awards / Conversation with 2022 Lifetime Achievement Award Recipients, Dr. Daniel Krieger and Dr. Robert Hoover

6:00 p.m. Keynote Address by Dr. Marie Duggan, Near Civil War in the Interior: 1815 as Turning Point in Status of Mission Indians

 

Saturday, February 18, 2023

SESSION I: A Morning Focus on Historic Sonoma – Moderator: Russell Skowronek

8:30 a.m. Glenn Farris, Archaeology in the Corral of the Sonoma Barracks and the Casa Grande of Mariano Vallejo

9:00 a.m. Robert Jackson, The Mapping of Northern Alta California

9:30 a.m. Damian Bacich, Gabriel Moraga and the North Bay

10:00 a.m. Break

 

SESSION II: Moderator: Robert Jackson

10:15 a.m. Jarrell Jackman, Santa Barbara’s Royal Presidio: The Rise, Fall and Rebirth of Spain’s Last Adobe Fortress

10:30 a.m. Peter Meyerhof, Attempts to Build a Mission north of Sonoma after 1834

11:00 a.m. David Rickman and Alex La Pierre, Accoutred in a Panoply of Leather: Reconstructing the Cuera

11:30 a.m. Sandy Brown, The California Mission Trail: America's New Camino de Santiago?

12:00 p.m. Break

12:15 p.m. SPECIAL LUNCH HOUR PRESENTATION: Rose Marie Beebe and Robert Senkewicz, The Yankees, Señor General, Are Not Like Us: Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo and his History of Alta California

 

SESSION III: Food and Wine Along the Mission Trail – Moderator: Glenn Farris

1:00 p.m. Vincent Medina, Café Ohlone: Indigenous Cuisine

1:30 p.m. Michael Imwalle, Historic Vines

2:00 p.m. April Farnham, Mariano G. Vallejo's Vineyards and Their Legacy

 

SESSION IV: Moderator: Damian Bacich

2:30 p.m. John Johnson, The Chumash Community at Saticoy in Post-Mission Times

3:00 p.m. Ruben Mendoza, Missions, Presidios and Pueblos - 1850-1990: The Hathaway Collection of Early CA Photography

3:30 p.m. David Rex Galindo, Southern California Indigenous Peoples and Authorship in Fray Jerónimo Boscana’s Writings

4:00 p.m. Debbie Jewell, Mission San Antonio Water System

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