HM 23 — "EL RANCHO DE LAS GOLONDRINAS DAY"

HOUSE MEMORIAL 23 55TH LEGISLATURE- STATE OF NEWMEXICO - SECOND SESSION, 2022 INTRODUCED BY Christine Chandler 6 8 10 A MEMORIAL CONGRATULATING EL RANCHO DE LAS GOLONDRINAS ON ITS FIFTIETH ANNIVERSARY AND PROCLAIMING JANUARY 25, 2022 "EL RANCHO DE LAS GOLONDRINAS DAY" IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.

156 WHEREAS, el rancho de Las Golondrinas, New Mexico's premier living history museum, is celebrating its fiftieth e t 17 anniversary on January 25, 2022;

and w l n d 18 WHEREAS, the mission of el rancho de Las Golondrinas is to = = 19 a l preserve the legacy of the land and Hispano traditions;

and i a e r 20 WHEREAS, the museum was established in 1972 by landowners a t m m 21 Leonora Curtin and Y.A.

Paloheimo, who had the vision to donate d r e 22 the land and establish an open-air museum and whose family c e s k 23 remains involved in its operations today;

and e a n b 24 WHEREAS, el rancho de Las Golondrinas, located south of u [ Santa Fe in the La Cienega valley, welcomes more than fifty .222004.1 thousand visitors each year from all fifty states and around the world;

and HM 23 WHEREAS, el rancho de Las Golondrinas is dedicated to Page 1 the history, heritage and culture of eighteenth- and nineteenth-nineteenth-century century New Mexico and features original historic buildings, a vital acequia system and an irreplaceable cultural landscape;

and WHEREAS, el rancho de Las Golondrinas strives to protect, e t 17 preserve and showcase the cultures, traditional lifeways and w l n d 18 historic agriculture of New Mexico;

and = = 19 a l WHEREAS, el rancho de Las Golondrinas welcomes and serves i a e r 20 more than twenty thousand New Mexico schoolchildren through its a t m m 21 programs each year, instilling pride in the childrens' history d r e 22 and heritage and an understanding of their place in the c e s k 23 American story;

and e a n b 24 WHEREAS, the museum brings education and understanding of u [ New Mexico's history to participants through numerous festival .222004.1 - 2 - weekends, award-winning lectures, live broadcasts, programming and field trips;

and WHEREAS, el rancho de Las Golondrinas is a year-round working ranch that donates more than seven thousand five HM 23 Page 2 hundred pounds of fresh produce grown in its fields to Santa Fe's food depot to feed the hungry each year;

and e t 17 WHEREAS, el rancho de Las Golondrinas is holding fifty w l n d 18 events in 2022 in observance of its fiftieth anniversary;

= = 19 a l NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE HOUSE OF i a e r 20 REPRESENTATIVES OF THE STATE OF NEW MEXICO that el rancho de a t m m 21 Las Golondrinas be congratulated on its fiftieth anniversary d r e 22 and that January 25, 2022 be proclaimed "El Rancho de Las c e s k 23 Golondrinas Day" in the house of representatives;

and e a n b 24 BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that a copy of this memorial be u [ transmitted to the museum director of el rancho de Las .222004.1 - 3 - Golondrinas.

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