Universal Elements

With LEAP’s education team busy as new Mamas in 2018, we took a break from spring programming. We plan to resume in 2019, with the compelling theme, “Elements ~ building blocks of the Universe.” This year’s theme coincides with The United Nations’ “International Year of the Periodic Table of Elements” and the 150th anniversary of the discovery of the Periodic System. We are excited to explore new territory with our public school students!

Learn more or get involved at LEAPsite.org

 

End of an Era

After a decade of service to the youth, Sangre de Cristo Youth Ranch Director, Amy Mann, is retiring. In her tenure at the camp, Amy generously shared her extensive organizational skill-set, artistic flair, and fun-loving attitude with hundreds of campers. She was the spark behind many of our most memorable camp traditions, and has performed much of the less glamorous behind-the-scenes grunt-work to create a world-class month-long residential summer camp annually out of thin air.

Amy and pals back in ‘09

Amy will continue brining beauty and fun into the world in her career as a showbiz costume department ager dyer. She made it clear she wasn’t stepping away just to paint bloodstains on Hugh Jackman’s pectorals, but also to make way for the next gen camp staffers. In her farewell address, Amy expressed poignant satisfaction in seeing her “babies” (former summer campers) growing into their full potential by rising to the challenge of producing our one-of-a-kind camp program.

Lucky for us, Amy Mann has joined the Localogy Board of Directors. In that capacity, we will no doubt continue to benefit from Amy’s greatest gift to camp—a deep heartfelt love for the campers we serve. Thank you Amy!

Questa Stories

This project is a collection point and archive for local stories, oral histories, conversations, images and artifacts of, by and about the communities, peoples and places of North Central New Mexico. In 2018 we started conducting and recording interviews with locals. We also recorded stories and took images of artifacts and scans of photos shared by participants in a wonderful event, facilitated by Estevan Rael-Galvez on July 8, organized in partnership with the Questa History Trail. (We are processing the data from this event; look for upcoming postings on the website!) We have printed Fotohistorias - enlarged historical photos as “Pop-up” installations - and will place these around Questa; keep an eye out for them! In 2019, Questa Stories is honored to be partnering with “Manitos,” a larger, Mellon-funded project, serving several rural communities within Taos and Sandoval Counties, among which are Questa, Cerro, Costilla and Amalia.

Learn more or get involved at QuestaStories.org

Men threshing wheat. Courtesy National Archives, photo no. 521836 Photographer: Irving Rusinow, Questa, NM circa 1941