New Mexico Tours for US/ICOMOS 2007

Annual Summer Board Meeting and Pre-Meeting Tours, New Mexico

The US/ICOMOS Board of Trustees held its annual summer meeting in Santa Fe, New Mexico.  Board member Kak Slick arranged for pre-meeting tours of Chaco Cultural National Historic Park (World Heritage Site), including the Pierre Ruins and Aztec Ruins National Monument >> scroll down for photos.

Reception and Brunch (click here for photos)

On Saturday evening, Mrs. Roger Park (Bessie) Hanahan of Charleston, South Carolina and Santa Fe, New Mexico hosted a reception in honor of the US/ICOMOS Board of Trustees (click here for scenes from the last year's reception).  The reception was co-hosted by Katherine (Kak) Slick, State Historic Preservation Officer of New Mexico and US/ICOMOS Trustee, Ed Crocker, US/ICOMOS Fellow, and James Hare, Executive Director of Cornerstones Community Partnerships in Santa Fe, and Jonathan Poston, US/ICOMOS Trustee.  The event was held the evening of July 15, 2007 at the Santa Fe home of Ms. Hanahan.  On Sunday, July 16, Ed and Ann Crocker hosted a brunch for the US/ICOMOS Board of Trustees.

US/ICOMOS is grateful to the following individuals/organizations for their support during the New Mexico activities:

Pueblo Bonita, part of Chaco Culture National Historic Park, New Mexico - a World Heritage Site

Barbara West, Superintendent, National Park Service – Chaco Culture National Historic Park
Dennis Carruth, Superintendent, National Park Service – Aztec Ruins National Monument
Steve Fosberg, State Archaeologist, New Mexico Bureau of Land Management
Jim Copeland, Archaeologist, U.S. Bureau of Land Management – Farmington
Peggy Gaudi, Achaeologist, U.S. Bureau of Land Management – Farmington
Ellen Bradbury-Reed, Executive Director, Recursos de Santa Fe

US/ICOMOS International Interns with Cornerstones Community Partnerships
 Cornerstones Community Partnerships is a long-standing partner of US/ICOMOS
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Click here for more information on the US/ICOMOS International Exchange Program
Zivile Sulskaite (Lithuania) and Carmen Gonzalez (Paraguay), US/ICOMOS International Interns with Cornerstones Community Partnerships at La Glorieta in Albuquerque, New Mexico Interior courtyard of La Glorieta (now part of the Manzano Day School), the documentation project for the US/ICOMOS International Interns Carmen Gonzalez (left) and Zivile Sulskaite inspect the vigas in an interior room at La Glorieta

Pre-Meeting Tour of Chaco Cultural National Historic Park, Pierre Ruins,
and Aztec Ruins National Monument, New Mexico
US/ICOMOS Interns Zivile Sulskaite (Lithuania) and Carmen Gonzalez (Paraguay) at Fajada Butte, Chaco Culture National Historic Park US/ICOMOS Board of Trustees dinner lecture at Chaco Culture National Historic Park Fajada Butte, Chaco Culture National Historic Park
US/ICOMOS Board of Trustees on a sunset tour of Pueblo Bonita, Chaco Culture National Historic Park Pueblo Bonita at sunset, Chaco Culture National Historic Park
Climbing a butte to unexcavated pueblo ruins at Pierre Ruins, Bureau of Land Management, part of the Chaco Culture World Heritage Site US/ICOMOS Board of Trustees touring Aztec Ruins National Monument, part of the Chaco Culture World Heritage Site Aztec Ruins National Monument, part of the Chaco Culture World Heritage Site