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    • Blessing of Animals at Mission San Luis
      October 2nd, 2010 [Time TBA] Blessing of Animals at Mission San Luis Pet owners, animal lovers, and furry, feathered, or other friends are invited to the sixth annual Blessing of Animals. The event will feature individual pet blessings, activities for children, and animal organization exhibits. Photos of blessings will be available for purchase.

    • Colonial Crafts at Mission San Luis
      February 6: Ojo de Dios (God’s Eye) March 6: Pressed Plant Bookmarks April 3: Paper Molas May 1: Majolica Plates June 5: Arrowhead Necklaces Come to Mission San Luis and go home with a unique craft item that you make yourself. Free with purchase of admission to the site.

    • Florida Archaeology Month at Mission San Luis
      Mission San Luis is offering exhibits and special archaeology tours in March to celebrate Florida Archaeology Month! Lab Tours: Tuesdays and Wednesdays at 10 am and 2 pm; Sundays at 10 am. Site Tours: Thursdays in March beginning at noon. Exhibits: Spanish colonial art and artifacts from the collection of Calynne and Lou Hill. Site artifacts from Mission San Luis. Tuesdays through Sundays, 10 am.to 4 pm. All archaeology tours will begin in the Visitor Center Lobby. Entrance to the exhibits and Archaeology Month tours are included with standard admission.

    • Giving Thanks at Mission San Luis
      Friday and Saturday, November 26 & 27, 2010 10 am to 4 pm Giving Thanks: Exploring 17th Century Food Traditions at Mission San Luis Mission San Luis invites the public to Giving Thanks, a celebration of 17th–century Spanish and Apalachee Indian traditional foods. Visitors can observe costumed interpreters smoking meat and fish on the barbacoa, and demonstrating the use of native and European plants from their gardens and fields. The Mission’s unique culinary history comes to life with preparations for the feast. There will be hands-on food tasks for children.

    • Historical Happenings Lecture Series at Mission San Luis
      Saturday, March 6, 2010. It is a great time to start your very own spring vegetable garden! Leon County Master Gardeners Ed Schroeder, John Maiers and Helena Sadvary will discuss the basic components of vegetable gardening. Topics will include organic gardening, sunlight, location, watering, soil needs, mulching, composting, what to plant and when, seedlings, and seeds. Join us and turn your thumb green! April 3: Morgan McCormick, Scientific Organization or Justification of Colonization? DeBry’s Use of White’s Watercolors. In 1590, Theodore de Bry published Thomas Harriot’s A briefe and true report of the new found land of Virginia. This version includes thirty engraved illustrations based on John White’s watercolor sketches, chosen to enhance Harriot’s letterpress text. Presenter Morgan McCormick, a PhD student in Art History at FSU, will discuss de Bry’s additions to White’s original images and how these images illustrate the newly discovered peoples as well as the land, flora, fauna, and other natural resources. McCormick asserts that these images would have enticed investors to endow money for the development of colonies in the area and served as a visual justification for colonization. May 1: Dr. Sam Turner and Derek Hankerson, The Early Slave Trade in the New World and the Participation of Minorities in the Manning of Ships. An examination of Spanish documents held in the Contaduría section of the Archivo General de Indians in Seville, Spain has shed a good deal of light on the earliest practice of Spanish slaving, both Indian and African, in the New World. These documents also yield information on free black merchants and the employment of Indians and Africans in the manning of ships. Presenters Dr. Sam Turner and Derek Hankerson will discuss various aspects of slaving including the inter-island and the trans-Atlantic trade in slaves as well as those minorities who were free men and operating within the developing New World Spanish Colonial Culture.

    • Mission San Luis de Apalachee
      A visit to Mission San Luis transports you back in time. Your destination is a community where Apalachee Indians and newcomers from Spain live in close proximity drawn together by religion as well as military and economic purpose.