Congratulations go to Gianna (Gigi) Martin who recently graduated from PHS. She began her school career in the building that now houses the Museum so it’s only fitting she was our inaugural Student Docent.
She helped us design the program and recruited her successor for which we also owe her a big round of thanks. Gigi is off to the University of Hawaii and we hope the scholarship she was awarded by the Museum Board will come in handy.
On a personal note, we are looking forward to hearing of your adventures, Gigi, knowing you will represent Patagonia well. As Dr. Seuss said:
“So be sure when you step, Step with care and great tact.
And remember that life’s A Great Balancing Act.
And will you succeed? Yes! You will, indeed! (98 and ¾ percent guaranteed)
Kid, you’ll move mountains.”
The Patagonia Museum and Borderlands Restoration Network are collaborating to install apple trees and native vines at the Lochiel Schoolhouse.
On Monday, June 17, and Tuesday, June 18, the Borderlands Earth Care Youth will dig water-harvesting basins and plant 4 apple trees in the rear yard and native vines near the cistern of the Lochiel Schoolhouse. This activity is funded by the Patagonia Regional Community Fund and will include an elder sharing activity on Monday evening at the schoolhouse.
Visitors are welcome to join us on either day. Please, bring water, lunch and gloves.
Please join Murphy Musick on Monday, May 27, at 8:00 AM by the Patagonia Town Cemetery Flagpole. Murphy will walk the grounds and replace the small flags by the veteran’s headstones that are in poor shape. Please help him honor our veterans with new flags.
Best wishes to all for a safe Memorial Day holiday.
We will meet in the Patagonia Public Library at 10:00 am on Saturday, May 11. Following a brief business meeting, award winning author, cowboy and horse lover Alan Day will discuss his latest book, “Cowboy Up! Life Lessons from the Lazy B”.
Mr. Day and his sister Sandra Day O’Connor co-authored the New York Times bestselling memoir “Lazy B”, which chronicles the story of the Day family and growing up on a harsh yet beautiful southwestern ranch.
Alan Day’s upbringing branded him a cowboy from the day he was born. To this day, he claims that he has soil running through his veins. He was part of the third generation to grow up on the 200,000-acre Lazy B cattle ranch straddling the high deserts of southern Arizona and New Mexico. The ranching and cowboy lifestyle appealed to him so greatly that after graduating from the University of Arizona, he returned to manage Lazy B for the next 40 years. During his career, he received numerous awards for his dedicated stewardship of the land. In 1989, Alan purchased a cattle ranch in Nebraska and soon after, a ranch in South Dakota. The latter became the first government-sponsored sanctuary for unadoptable wild horses. He developed and successfully used a herd modification-training program for his 2000 head of cattle and 1500 wild mustangs. Now retired from ranching, Alan divides his time between Tucson and Pinetop, AZ.
And there is no doubt the SCFPA benefit concert on April 25th was a resounding success, as evidenced by the fact that it was standing room only in the Benderly-Kendall Opera House. 
The Museum owes a huge round of thanks to those of you from the community who came to the event to support us. We also send kudos to the members of the Santa Cruz Singers, Evan Korey, their accompanist and Christina Wilhelm, director extraordinaire. Thank you for the hours you spent preparing for the concert. The standing ovation was well deserved.
If you haven’t attended an event at the Opera House in Patagonia, make a note to do so. It is an incredible venue and we promise you will not be disappointed by any performance you hear there.
We’re in the early stages of planning our next tandem event in 2020 with a concert under the stars on the Museum grounds at the top of the list. Doesn’t that sound like fun?
Until then, the Museum thanks the Santa Cruz Foundation for the Performing Arts for a truly magical event.
We are deeply honored that the Santa Cruz Foundation for the Performing Arts has chosen to hold a concert on Thursday April 25th, the proceeds of which will benefit the Museum.
Under the direction of Christina Wilhelm, the Santa Cruz Singers, Patagonia’s outstanding community chorus, shows its versatility in a program that features the works of Franz Schubert and Aaron Copeland.
In addition to the classically beautiful Magnificat by Schubert, you will hear traditional American songs including the Boatman’s Dance, I Bought Me a Cat, Simple Gifts , Pretty Little Horses, At the River – transformed into beguiling contemporary harmonies by Aaron Copeland.
Concert admission will be $5 at the door. We hope to see you all there.
