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>Subject: Got CALICHE?
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>Got CALICHE? http://www.swanet.org/caliche.html
>
>TEXAS
>
>http://www.expressnews.com:80/pantheon/editorial/editorials/1212aellis_alley
>2ed0712nz.shtml An important pocket of San Antonio's history, Ellis Alley
>was the place from which the Black East Side," a community of well-kept
>homes and African-American entrepreneurs, evolved. Thanks to Neighborhoods
>Acting Together, VIA, the San Antonio Conservation Society, the Texas
>Historical Commission and the Historic Preservation and Economic
>Development offices, it will be spared.
>
>NEW MEXICO
>
>http://www.daily-times.com/areanews/areanews.html The Caņoncito Navajos
>were allies of the Americans and had not been at war with them, but they
>were some of the first Navajos brought to Fort Sumner. By some historical
>accounts, relations among the bands were unfriendly at Fort Sumner.
>Historians say the rift began after 1820 when the Caņoncito/Cebolleta
>Navajos became allies with the Spanish. Under an 1846 alliance, for
>instance, the Caņoncito Navajos supported the Mexicans against other Navajo
>bands.
>
>http://www.newschoice.com/Newspapers/MidStates/LasCruces/default.asp THREE
>SILVER CITY RESIDENTS RECALL AN ERA OF HARD TIMES 07/11/99 SILVER CITY,
>N.M. BY STACEY HEARN LAS CRUCES SUN-NEWS With new metal buildings popping
>up on every corner here, it's hard to distinguish this southern New Mexico
>city from other towns and remember its rich history. It is difficult to
>think back to a time when adobe homes were built by the homeowner's two
>hands and a plot of land sold for $300 because the owner felt a kinship to
>the buyer. Yet there are citizens in Silver City who have lived here since
>the early 1900s and whose families migrated here in the late 1800s. Their
>stories transport a person to the days when Silver City was little more
>than an unnamed miners' camp, and Spanish was the prevalent language. In
>June, three of these longtime residents spoke to Dr. Sheila Seshan's
>Immigration in the Southwest class at Western New Mexico University.
>http://www.gilanet.com/silverweb/
>
>
>ARIZONA
>
>http://www.azcentral.com/news/0713smithsonian.shtml The Smithsonian
>Institution has shelved an offer to lend artifacts to a Scottsdale museum,
>because officials are angry that the museum's name is being bandied about
>in a Scottsdale redevelopment election. The prestigious Smithsonian
>suspended talks with Scottsdale's Museum of Progress until after a Sept. 7
>vote. The letter, from Smithsonian Secretary I. Michael Heyman, says it had
>been implied that the Smithsonian is "endorsing one side or another in
>various political and land development issues."
>
>
>UTAH
>
>http://www.desnews.com/dn/view/1,1249,100010746,00.html? Mike Foley says
>he's found wagon paths where thousands came and continued on to Utah 150
>years ago. Using divining rods, he's also found row upon row of unmarked
>graves at the site of the first major camp along the Mormon trail from
>Nauvoo, Illinois to the West.
>
>
>NEVADA
>
>http://www.lasvegassun.com/sunbin/stories/nevada/1999/jul/12/509038173.html
>>From the Indians who lived along the Stillwater Marsh to the immigrants who
>cross the 40 Mile Desert, the natural history of Churchill County will be
>chronicled in a new interactive museum exhibit. The Churchill County Museum
>Association plans the exhibit this fall thanks to a recent $152,300 grant
>from the Reno-based E.L. Wiegand Foundation. It will focus on three facets
>- the marsh itself, the tribes that lived there and the immigrants who
>crossed the frontier 150 years ago.
>
>
>CALIFORNIA
>
>http://www.sfgate.com:80/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/examiner/archive/1999/07/
>12/NEWS9434.dtl Archaeologists are sorting through tens of thousands of
>artifacts recovered from the National Park Service's Crissy Field
>restoration project. The artifacts that best illustrate Presidio life - and
>that of the Native Americans who preceded the soldiers - will be displayed
>at a community environmental education center by the marshland, which opens
>to the public in mid-2000.
>
>http://news.excite.com:80/news/bw/990712/ca-hidden-valley-ranch Grivetti
>and his team created a time line of over 400 years that traces the eating
>habits and food creations of Native Americans, colonists, pioneers, 49ers,
>soldiers in the World Wars, and the generations of the late-20th century.
>By highlighting the 10 enduring foods of the American diet (beef, chicken,
>turkey, pork, wheat, corn, potatoes, beans, greens and apples), the show
>demonstrates how the great American Melting Pot has adapted to create a
>national culinary heritage.
>
>
>CYBERIA
>
>http://www.smh.com.au:80/news/9907/12/text/national8.html Neanderthals were
>human, say many palaeoanthropologists. This orthodoxy has now been
>challenged by an archaeologist from the University of New England,
>Armidale. Writing this month in the prestigious Journal of Human Evolution,
>Dr Rob Gargett argues that there is no good archaeological evidence that
>Neanderthals ever buried their dead. In his controversial paper, he
>re-examines the published data on supposed burials in five major cave sites
>in Israel, France and Syria, and concludes that natural causes for the
>preservation and position of the skeletons cannot be ruled out.
>
>http://www.oregonlive.com:80/news/99/07/st071114.html The
>Patterson-Hartmans survey examined the architectural character and
>historical background of individual La Grande buildings erected between
>1891 and 1955. The survey revealed La Grande's long-forgotten Chinatown, a
>place where mob violence, bigotry, gunplay and tong wars once were an
>unfortunate fact of life. Assembling a "social history" to accompany the
>architectural research was no small task. La Grande sometimes is termed "a
>town without a history" because most of its early newspapers and cemeteries
>have been obliterated.
>
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