Thats facing all of the Museum Managers and people that are responsible for generating, producing, and collecting objects that would likely go into a museum sitting such as this is how much do we need to keep . How many things do we need to have to tell the american story and its the great conundrum of our protection. There are those who believe that maybe the time has come to start reducing the amounts of things we collect and be more judicious in how we collect them and what we collect. Is it inappropriate to use representative samples, say at an archaeological site, where things are left at the Vietnam Veterans memorial. Do we need to keep everything . And there are those in the professional field that think we need to keep everything and theres others who think sampling is the more judicious and longterm strategy. Because there is a point of diminishing return. It costs money. There is an inherent cost to storing all of these objects. In many cases the costs can be prohibitive and
Reactior reactiregio reacti reactionles. So so from the palace of the governors the governors directed the exploration of new mexico, the settlement of new mexico, the establishment of the spanish land tenure system here in the southwest, they received directives from the voice roy in mcmcand sent reports from this far northern colony back to mexico and back to spain. One of my favorite characters, as i said, is governor Bernardo Lopez demendisabal and his wife dona Teresa Aguilera iroce. Its rare to know as much about a colonial woman as we know about dona teresa. Thats because very few colonial women wrote their own stories but dona teresa did and she wrote that as a result of being arrested by the spanish inquisition. Dona teresa and the governor arrived in new mexico in the summer of 1659. By the summer of 1662, the governor and his wife had criticized local authority. They were in conflict with the sheriff, they were in conflict with the priest late in august of 1662 the governor
Dad used to say as they move it around. Theyre building with very simple machines, ramps, pulleys, ramps. All the way back to the late 16th century 1580s or so they were talking about a way to defend all their Caribbean Holdings because piracy was a big problem. The treasure fleets were being preyed on and the king of spain sent over one of his best engineers, one of his best generals to figure out a way to defend against the piracy. They came up with an idea. Fortifying ten of spains ports. The plan was, puerto rico, havana, all these were going to be fortified. Number ten at the very bottom of the list, st. Augustine. Ignacio daas is the original plan, how theyll use the land in the area. Literally were a onefifth scale model of what was considered a frontier fortification of spain, meaning defending the frontier from the two nations. 16th, 17th, early 18th century, theyll have fortifications all around a city they are laying siege to. Youll see 15 or 16 of these in some places that
He was determined to make it a palace. Other people writing about it across the centuries, this modest adoe by buadp adobe buil. There was nothing about the palace of the governors that made it appear to be what we consider a Great National historic landmark. Calling it a palace was more pretense than reality for much of its history. The spanish occupied new mexico from 1598 until 1821 when mexico declared its independence from spain. In that period of 1598 to 1609, the new mexico seat of government was in the northern part of the state. In 1609, the governors moved here to santa fe and established this as the first government house. In this building they ruled the territory that was new mexico and at that time new mexico was everything that wasnt florida. So it is a massive area. So from the palace of the governors, the governors directed the exploration of new mexico, the settlement of new mexico, the establishment of the spanish land tenure system here in the southwest. They receive