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The Vinos de Kino Fiesta on March 13 (and other upcoming Padre Kino events)

by on Mar. 11, 2011, under Arts, Life, Politics

The pictures above are worth a thousand words (from me). I recently enjoyed an art show at this renovated Bates Mansion, which is a fabulous place downtown. It’s at the old Mountain Oyster Club locale, on the SW corner of Stone Avenue and Franklin. Enjoy this fiesta!

Last night I attended the preview opening of a special exhibit “Our Padre on Horseback” honoring the 300th anniversary of the death of Padre Eusebio Francisco Kino, S.J. (1645 to 1711), at the Diocese of Tucson Archives at 300 S. Tucson Blvd. The exhibit itself depicts 16 of the 24 missions that Padre Kino founded, with photos, maps, drawings and several lovely Ted DeGrazia reprints. Last night Bishop Gerald Kicanas and Father Chris Corbally spoke of the work of Padre Kino and the Kino Heritage Society. Father Corbally aptly said that Kino “used all his knowledge and survival skills to bring people to God”. Padre Kino is remembered as a “Missionary & Explorer, Friend of Native Peoples, Founder of 24 missions, Scientist & Map maker, Candidate for Sainthood, and Arizona’s First Cattleman.”

This exhibit will run through May 30, 2011, hours of operation M, T, TH, F from 9 to 4 p.m., phone 520-886-5201. (The archives bldg. is at the south end of this property shared with St. Ambrose Parish & School.)

Additional upcoming weekend events to mark the 300th anniversary of Padre Kino’s death, which was on March 15, 1711:

Concerts in honor of Padre Kino by Southern Arizona Symphony Orchestra– Sat. March 12, 7:30 p.m. at St. Augustine Cathedral, and Sunday March 13, 3 p.m. Catalina Foothills H.S. Auditorium (4300 E. Sunrise Dr.), $20 admission for each.

Memorial Mass on Sunday March 13, 12 noon, St. Augustine Cathedral, Diocese of Tucson Celebrates Padre Kino’s Life, 192 S. Stone Avenue.

Tucson Festival of Books, Sunday March 13, 4 p.m. University of Arizona Student Union, Catalina Room, “The Trail of Arizona’s First Cowboy & Missionary Explorer” by a panel of authors(Ben Clevenger, Deni Seymour, Jacqueline Soule). Free event.

For more details & events, log onto Kino Heritage Society website, www.padrekino.com. And for my earlier blog on Padre Kino & the Kino Heritage Society click here.

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  • Carolyn Classen

    KUAT interview tonight of two Friends of Tucson’s Birthplace,  Diana Hadley and Gloria Alvillar:
    http://ondemand.azpm.org/videoshorts/watch/2011/3/11/1830-300-years-of-history/

  • Fraser007

    Did anyone think to invite the Tohono O’Odham? They were sitting around minding their own business and all of a sudden they are making bricks for San Xavier. Don’t bother the Apaches we know what they think about Spanish intrusion into the area.

    • Carolyn Classen

      I hope so.  The main contact for the Mission Gardens website is Bill Dupont, at cshamailbox@cox.net and I suggest you ask him.

  • Fraser007

    It was more historical than thinking that they really would have. We have tended to forget the very people that these facilities were actually built for (or about). Those 5’7″ Apache warriors with spears, shields, a bow and arrows and perhaps with a Spanish musket sure caused a lot of adobe wall building projects here in southern Arizona (New Spain).

  • Carolyn Classen

    Atttended the Tucson Festival of Books event about Padre Kino and heard from Dr. Deni Seymour, research archeologist about her upcoming book “When the Earth and Sky are Sewn Together” mostly about the Sobaipuri-O’odham people, and the 3 abode structures she’s excavated to learn about the use of these buildings as temporary chapels  for Padre Kino and his successors.  Then author Ben Clevenger talked about the research behind his book “Far Side of the Sea”, a historical fiction of Padre Kino, and lastly “Darwinian gardener” Jacqueline Soule talked about  her book “Father Kino’s Herbs: Growing & Using them Today”.   The panel was moderated by attorney Mark O’Hare of the Kino Heritage Society.

    • Fraser007

      Where are the Sobaipuri’s now?? Ask the Apaches!

  • Carolyn Classen

    Photo gallery of the “Our Padre on Horseback” reception/exhibit, compliments of Antonio Arroyo, Library Director of the Desert Vista campus of PCC:
    http://dv.pima.edu/~tarroyo/aache/padre_kino_on_horseback_exhibit_03_11_2011.htm

    • Fraser007

      Carolyn:

      I would not bother you with this but as i cannot post comments on the Three Sonorans blogsite I will attempt to do it here as this is a similiar type topic. The Three Sonorans just posted about the different groups and what they would do. He had a photo of Geronimo and “What would Geronimo Would Do” . He mentioned about his brothers and others and that they are all brothers in the struggle with white people. What a (comment deleted).
      He talks about the Yaquis…they are from Mexico and were not living here until the early 20th Century. He calls the Tohono O’odham… Papagos. I wonder if he knows about the name change. Maybe you can tell him. The Opata were cleaned out by our friends the Apaches. The Apaches migrated into Arizona from the north about the time of the fall of the Hohokam. Same for the Navajos. As for the Aztecs they migrated into the Valley of Mexico and created their warlike empire. Nice folks unless you lived next to them. How many did they slaughter on the temple stairs?? First chance their neighbors got when the Spanish arrived they assisted the Spanish to kill the Aztecs. The Spanish were vastly outnumbered by their allies who wanted nothing more than to kill their oppressors. A few hundred Spanish and tens of thousands of local allies destroyed the Aztecs.
      The Three Sonorans is a (comment deleted as name calling). He know little about history.

      • Carolyn Classen

        Fraser 007, I realize that you are censored from the 3 Sonorans’ blogsite, but name calling is not allowed online here at my blogsite, and I would appreciate it if you would just state your opinions and facts.

        • Fraser007

          Sorry if I crossed the line. I just think that he uses race to divide people. The history of the Southwest is violent enough.
          My problem was that I actually read one of his blogs! As you know I always try to show facts and data. The posting in question was an example of that. (except for the two words about race).

  • Fraser007

    Carolyn:
    Tell the Kino supporters to watch out. There is a movement afoot to replace the Jack Greenway statue in the US Capitol with Barry Goldwater. Guess nobody remembers Greenway. So they want to replace him with Sen Goldwater. I like Goldwater but to cast aside our older heros with “new’ ones is not right. Is Kino next?? Greenway was a true hero. Our memories are too damn short.
    There is even a fund being set up for raising money for this that the website said the Arizona Historical Society was going to administrate.
    Save Jack Greenway.

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