Watch "A Brief History of Canyon Road" by Kyle Maier of Kamio Media on YouTube

Last week Kyle Maier of Kamio Media, a collaborator of Historic Santa Fe Foundation (HSFF) for several years, publicly released the first chapter of his documentary series The History of Canyon Road. Chapter one of the series titled A Brief History of Canyon Road is an introduction to the story of Canyon Road narrated by John Pen La Farge. HSFF is pleased to act as the fiscal sponsor for Kyle's project which received initial funding from the Eugene V. and Clare E. Thaw Charitable Trust. Learn more about the series here and follow along with Kyle's progress on Instagram at @canyonroadhistory.

Rehabilitating A National Historic Landmark: The Story of the National Park Service’s Old Santa Fe Trail Building

SALON EL ZAGUAN with Charles Vickrey and Flynn Larson, National Park Service

Rehabilitating A National Historic Landmark:
The Story of the National Park Service’s Old Santa Fe Trail Building

ABOUT THE SALON TALK
The Old Santa Fe Trail Building is a New Deal Era adobe building constructed by the Civilian Conservation Corps. Constructed of 280,000 adobe bricks, the National Park Service Regional Headquarters adapts local building tradition to the Spanish Pueblo Revival style which was popularized in the 1930s in northern New Mexico and adopted by building NPS architect Cecil Doty. The building is unique in its expression of organic forms with sculptural massing and locally inspired textures and pigment that blend into the landscape. The Spanish Colonial style is adopted throughout the interior in decorative elements with CCC-crafted wood furnishings, and light fixtures to connect local forms with daily NPS functions. Some changes throughout the twentieth century, however, negatively impacted the building causing several technical issues. In 2018, the National Historic Landmark underwent a rehabilitation project to solve these issues, addressing architectural elements throughout to allow the building to function as originally intended. The project required the team to adapt to the unique needs of an adobe building, reversing years of water damage to protect the original adobe bricks. In this presentation, we will share the Old Santa Fe Trail Building’s journey from construction to rehabilitation, exploring its history and revealing its transformation from 1936 to today.

Find more information on the renovations in the Santa Fe New Mexican articles:
Park Service at work on iconic Santa Fe building, Paul Weideman, Jan. 12, 2019
Depression-era adobe office building to undergo renovations, Tripp Stelnicki, April 15, 2017

ABOUT THE SPEAKERS
Flynn Larson is a Masters in historic preservation student at Goucher College and is based in Santa Fe, New Mexico. She is an SCA-Americorps intern with the National Park Service’s Intermountain Historic Preservation Services program working with historic structures throughout Regions 6, 7, and 8 of the National Park System. She is focused on the preservation of historic structures and landscapes throughout America’s national parks. She is also a member of the Historic Districts Review Board in Santa Fe.

Charles Vickrey started his career with the National Park Service (NPS) in February 1991 as a Drafter for the Design and Engineering Division for the Southwest Regional Office in Santa Fe, New Mexico. He served in temporary positions with the NPS in subsequent years, until receiving his degree in Architecture in 1997 from the University of New Mexico. In 1998, Charles restarted his NPS career serving as a Project Inspector on the construction of the Northwest New Mexico Visitor Center and Multi-agency Center in Grants, New Mexico for El Malpais National Monument. A year later, he joined the Intermountain Regional Office (formerly the Southwest Regional Office) of the NPS, based at the Old Santa Fe Trial Building. In early 2000, Charles served in a term position for the Regional Contracting Office in Santa Fe. In 2002 he moved from contracting to the Design and Engineering Division as an Architect. In 2018 Charles assumed the role as senior Architect for the Santa Fe Office.

Charles has spent much of his career working out of the Old Santa Fe Trail Building, with only brief absences to work in other parks such as Big Bend National Park, Grant-Kohrs Ranch National Historic Site, Hubble Trading Post National Historic Site and Alibates Flint Quarries National Monument. Charles has worked on small and large architectural projects from Arkansas to Montana for the National Park Service for over 30 years.

Victor Yamada - Confinement in the Land of Enchantment - Salon on Youtube

SALON EL ZAGUAN with Victor Yamada
CONFINEMENT IN LAND OF ENCHANTMENT (CLOE) Japanese Americans in New Mexico during
World War II

About the talk
The CLOE project’s aim is to reach a wide & diverse audience in New Mexico & US about the history of Japanese Americans internment in state; inspire thought & conversation about issues of citizenship, identity, civil liberty. This project is part of a multi-year program discussing the three phases including research of sites in Santa Fe, Lordsburg, Old Raton Ranch (Baca Camp), and Fort Stanton. The second phase includes markers at these sites, outreach publication, and a project website. The third phase includes a traveling exhibition, community forums, and presentations. Yamada will talk about the history of Japanese American internment in New Mexico and the team’s progress. For more information on the project, the team, and the website links, visit the pages below.

Links to Preparatory Resources
Website / Story Map Confinement in the Land of Enchantment: Japanese Americans in New Mexico during World War II (arcgis.com)
Roster of Prisoners Film Documentary, Journey of Discovery, Kori Kobayashi  https://www.las-cruces.org/2417/Big-Read-2021

Victor Yamada has a degree in engineering from University of Washington and business administration from Pepperdine University. He was strategic environmental policy manager for 40 years at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, consulting organizations, business firms, and utilities. Yamada has volunteered for the New Mexico Japanese American Citizens League, Japan America Society of New Mexico, and Asian American Association of New Mexico. He led many key project activities in the New Mexico Japanese American Citizens League including the preparation of Confinement in Land of Enchantment traveling exhibition and community forums for Santa Fe, Lordsburg, Fort Stanton, Clovis, and Old Raton Ranch (Baca Camp), prepared oral histories of local Japanese Americans as part of the Asian American Legacy Stories project, and directed Japanese to English translations project including Lordsburg / Santa Fe prisoner letters, and Santa Fe prisoner scrapbook.

Jeff Pappas on New Mexico's Segregated Past - Salon on YouTube

SALON EL ZAGUAN
Jeff Pappas, State Historic Preservation Officer

New Mexico’s Segregated Past
Documenting Jim Crow and the National Register of Historic Places

About the talk:
The National Register of Historic Places does and is far more than its honorific title suggests. Sure, it’s the nation’s repository for significant structures and buildings, sites and districts. In fact, as of today, there are over 90,000 resources listed in the register, a list that grows by the day. In New Mexico alone, we have approximately 2,100 individually listed properties with an additional 2,400 contributing resources. There’s an entire office suite at SHPO filled with all kinds of files. Maps, nominations, correspondence, you name it. The collective history curated at SHPO operates like a small archive. It anchors our work and helps determine the historic fabric of our state. But despite these efforts there is still so much about New Mexico we don’t know. For example, certain topics and subjects like the African American story have hardly been explored. Part of what we do at SHPO is to try and find these stories, record them and make them accessible. Five years ago, my office began to research a small slice of the African American story focused on segregated schools in the eastern part of the state. This lecture will take a look at our progress to date and talk how we’ve engaged the national register to tell the story of New Mexico’s segregated past. It will also discuss a new research project that’s intended to broaden the story by looking at other types of buildings and structures associated with the African American experience.

Jeff Pappas holds degrees from Brigham Young University, Baylor University, and a Ph.D. in American Indian and Environmental History from Arizona State University.   Before joining NMSHPO, Pappas worked for National Park Service at Yosemite splitting his year between California and Fort Collins, CO, where he taught in the history department at Colorado State University.  He was appointed State Historic Preservation Officer in 2012 and teaches part-time in the School of Architecture and Planning at the University of New Mexico.

Jeff Pappas, Ph.D., Director
Historic Preservation Division &State Historic Preservation Officer
New Mexico Department of Cultural Affairs
407 Galisteo Street, Suite 236
Santa Fe, NM  87501
jeff.pappas@state.nm.us
(505) 629-6510

Moving a historic building - a feature from San Jose, CA

We often partner with Tom Leech, the curator and director of the Palace Press at the New Mexico History Museum. He recently shared this video of some of the historic preservation efforts by his son in San Jose, California. We thought the video was engaging and very relevant for our audience. Take a look at this short video which dicusses the varied partnership to save this apartment building for posterity while allowing for development.

Leech/O'Malley Salon El Zaguán on YouTube

Historic Santa Fe Foundation and the New Mexico History Museum hosted a discussion with Cormac O'Malley and Tom Leech on March 24, 2021. This conversation was presented on the occasion of publication of the limited-edition handmade book 'I Call My Soul My Own: Ernie O'Malley and Dorothy Stewart in New Mexico' featuring the writings of Ernie O'Malley and the artwork of Dorothy Stewart.

Contact: Melanie McWhorter at melanie@historicsantafe.org or call 505.983.2567 for more information.

Recording now available on HSFF’s YouTube page

ORDER THE ARTIST BOOK THE GIFT SHOP ONLINE

ABOUT THE SALON PARTNERS
Cormac O’Malley is the son of Ernie O'Malley, Irish author of his autobiographical memoirs, On Another Man’s Wound, and The Singing Flame, military historian and militant nationalist from the 1916-1924. Cormac’s mother was Helen Hooker from Connecticut. Cormac was born in Ireland but came to the USA at age 14 to live with his mother after his father died in 1957.

Tom leech inside the Palace of the Governors Gates, 2021.

Over the last 30 years Cormac has helped preserve his father's literary and historical image by republishing his earlier works including the well-known books and newly discovered manuscripts. He has co-edited two volumes of his father’s letters from 1922-1957 and in recent years has published a multi volume series of his father’s military interviews with survivors of the War of Independence and the Civil War, entitled The Men Will Talk to Me: Ernie O’Malley Interviews. These now include Kerry, Galway, Mayo, West Cork, Clare and the Northern Divisions.  His 2015 book was Western Ways, a book of photographs by his parents on Mayo in the 1930s. In 2016, he edited Modern Ireland and Revolution, Ernie O’Malley in Context. In 2017, he published Nobody’s Business: Aran Diaries of Ernie O’Malley. In 2019, he helped put on a joint exhibit of his mother’s photographs in the National Library of Ireland and the Gallery of Photography Ireland and publish A Modern Eye: Helen Hooker O’Malley’s Ireland. In 2020, he produced a documentary film on his parents’ artistic journey in Ireland, A Call to Arts.

Cormac now lives in Stonington, Conn.

Tom Leech is the Director of the Press at the Palace of the Governors, and has more than 40 years’ experience in printing, paper-making, and related book-arts. A curator at the New Mexico History Museum since 2001, Tom has organized a number of successful exhibits, including The Saint John’s Bible; Jack Kerouac and the Writer’s Life; Gustave Baumann and Friends: Artist Cards from Holidays Past; Out of the Box: The Art of the Cigar; and Album Amicorum, which also traveled to Spain, Germany, Switzerland and Turkey.

In 2019 at El Zaguán, Tom exhibited fifty Palace Press poetry broadsides, and in 2020 he and Patricia Musick showed their marbled paper and calligraphy collaborations in the exhibit Something Wicked this Way Comes.  A number of Tom’s marbled and handmade papers are in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Palace Press titles include award-winning Jack Thorp’s Songs of the Cowboys and O’Keeffe Stories, and also Doctor Franklin and Spain, The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, and most recently, Gustave Baumann’s Indian Pottery Old and New.

Tom is a 2013 recipient of the Santa Fe Mayor’s Award for Excellence in the Arts, the 2014 Carl Hertzog Award for Excellence in Book Design, and the 2015 Edgar Lee Hewett Award from the New Mexico Association of Museums. He holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree in painting and sculpture from Aquinas College in Grand Rapids, Michigan. He was a member of the 1990 and ’92 Everest Environmental Expeditions, and in 1994 co-founded the Paper Road/Tibet Project that reintroduced the ancient art of papermaking to Lhasa and rural areas of Tibet.

More historic presses fill the shop, and while each one has seen years of service in the noble art of printing, they all stand ready if called on to get out the news.