Celebrate Historic Preservation Month By Making Adobes in Santa Fe
Cornerstones will host an adobe brickmaking event at San Miguel Chapel on Saturday, May 28th. Adobe Downtown will be an opportunity to participate in brickmaking and enjoy historic Santa Fe.
May is Historic Preservation Month, and the bricks we make together will be used to restore historic community buildings in Chimayo and Mora! We will have staff and volunteers ready to teach and supervise all who attend the event. All ages are welcome. We will supply all materials. Brickmaking will start at 9 am and run through 2 pm.
Returning to the grounds of San Miguel is always special for Cornerstones. Alongside hundreds of volunteers, we made bricks, plastered walls, and shored up portions of the country's oldest church between 2010 and 2014. We continue preserving San Miguel and will have more projects there, including a solar installation on the roof this summer.
Mark your calendars and invite a friend to Adobe Downtown. We're excited to see so many of Cornerstones' friends and supporters there!
McCune Charitable Foundation Highlights Cornerstones
We are honored that the McCune Charitable Foundation spotlighted Cornerstones as a Featured Grantee this year. The McCune Foundation is dedicated to enriching the health, education, environment, cultural, and spiritual life of New Mexicans. The Foundation memorializes its benefactors through proactive grantmaking that seeks to foster positive social change. With the Foundation's support, we carry on our support for communities, our work around renewable energy, and our efforts to keep New Mexico culturally vibrant.
The 304th Opening of the Rael Acequia
For the 304th consecutive year, the Rael Ranch acequia was reopened this past Monday. The acequia flows to a field of fruit trees and provides water for wildlife throughout the property. As households, farms, and communities across New Mexico begin to plant, trim, prune, and plow, Cornerstones and our volunteers joined in the work that comes with spring's full arrival.
After five weeks of rebuilding parts of the acequia and the annual limpia, we joined the neighbors to celebrate our collective hard work and the continual life of the acequia. A couple of volunteers played traditional New Mexican music; one of our staff members served posole. We are grateful to take part in work so close to New Mexico's history and heritage.