by MyProject ByFranziska | Feb 11, 2023
In 1852 Jean Baptist Lamy, the first Bishop of the newly created Archdiocese of Santa Fe, traveled through Kentucky where he convinced six nuns to join him in New Mexico. Led by Sister Magdalen Hayden, the sisters from the order of The Friends of Mary at the Foot of...
by MyProject ByFranziska | Feb 11, 2023
Monica and Carlota Fuentes were sisters who married the Gallegos brothers, Francisco and Emeterio, on the same day, November 27, 1872. The two brothers recruited and led a group of settlers to a place then called Rincon, Colorado, that later became known as Gallegos,...
by MyProject ByFranziska | Feb 11, 2023
Mary Elizabeth Jane was truly a child of her times, someone uniquely suited in her talent and temperament to the burgeoning Arts and Crafts movement in the late 19th century. Her unique knowledge of native crafts and an innovative eye for merchandising and marketing...
by MyProject ByFranziska | Feb 11, 2023
Mary Cabot Wheelwright was born into the privileged society of Boston, Massachusetts. The only child of Andrew Cunningham Wheelwright and Sarah Perkins Cabot Wheelwright, she led a sheltered existence within the confines of permissible behavior for young ladies....
by MyProject ByFranziska | Feb 11, 2023
Three Picuris women, Maria Ramita Simbola Martinez, Cora Durand, and Virginia Duran, helped to preserve the micaceous pottery tradition that remains important in Picuris and other nearby pueblos today. Picuris is a Tiwa speaking Pueblo located fifty-seven miles north...
by MyProject ByFranziska | Feb 11, 2023
Maria Montoya Martinez, Povika, “Pond Lily,” was a self-taught potter, who, with her husband, Julian Martinez, revived black pottery. In the late nineteenth century, pottery usage and production had been in decline as commercially produced goods became more common in...
