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NEWSLETTER NOVEMBER 2021
OUR MISSION
The Mesa Prieta Petroglyph Project is exclusively organized for charitable and educational purposes, including the promotion of heritage stewardship and the preservation of archaeological features and the environment and cultural landscape of the Mesa Prieta region of the northern Rio Grande Valley through documentation, education and outreach.
The 2022 Mesa Prieta Petroglyph Project Calendar is now available in our online shop.  It makes a great gift for friends, for family, or just for yourself!
 
Be part of the legacy - please donate to protect the Mesa!
A NOTE FROM THE BOARD PRESIDENT & FOUNDER
   
    However Wide the Sky: Places of Power premiered on KNME (New Mexico PBS) last week.  If you missed it you can view it via the PBS website.  This new film features eight sites around the Southwest that need more and better protection from threats like mining and development.  Bears Ears and Chaco Canyon are among them, so Mesa Prieta is in very good company. 
    This documentary was created by Silver Bullet Productions (SBP), a non-profit organization in Santa Fe, NM, that makes films about Native American subjects.  Other films by SBP include A Thousand Voices and Canes of Power.

Alec Kercsó, MPPP Board President
Katherine Wells, Founder and MPPP Board Vice-President
MONTHLY CHAT WITH THE ARCHAEOLOGIST
Join us on November 12 at 2 PM for a Chat hosted by Dr. Chester Liwosz
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Our November episode of Chat with the Archaeologist will be a Season 2 roundup, revisiting and wrapping up some of the most popular stories this series has covered so far, and how these stories and studies have developed since. Project Archaeologist Chester Liwosz will share some of his latest research on the Wells Petroglyph Preserve, and as always he'll cover some of the most recent trending archaeological news.
 
Join us at 2 pm MDT on the 2nd Friday of each month for a live stream on our YouTube channel.
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The Mesa Prieta Petroglyph Project and the Chat with the Archaeologist series are supported by grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the New Mexico Humanities Council, and our many private donors. Thank you!
MEET OUR BOARD MEMBERS
This is the third in a series of articles spotlighting some of MPPP’s illustrious board members.  We’ll feature them from time to time.
by Katherine Wells
 
Norman Doggett is a retired Los Alamos National Laboratory scientist who worked on the Human Genome Project, programs for the Centers for Disease Control, and other vital national programs during his 32-year career there. The Mesa Prieta Petroglyph Project is so lucky to have such a brainy and talented person on our Board. He has been our Board Secretary for several years.
 
One of Norman’s big interests in life is photography. He has used this skill a lot to benefit MPPP.  His petroglyph photography is outstanding! For the past few years he has produced a beautiful calendar of images from the Mesa that we sell to support our work. (The 2022 calendar is on sale on our website now). Norman has also been generous with his time photographing Project events like fundraisers, education programs, and volunteer picnics.
 
Beyond MPPP, Norman has also served his community by volunteering for organizations like the Guilds for the Santa Fe Opera and the Española Humane Society.
 
Now that he’s retired, Norman would like to become a MPPP petroglyph recording program volunteer. He is so impressed with the quality and variety of the images on the Mesa that he wants to spend more time out there enjoying it.  He would like to see parts of the Mesa preserved as a National Monument.
 

This series has ended for the year and will start up again in the spring of 2022.
 
Mesa Prieta Petroglyph Project and Los Luceros Historic Site have partnered to bring you Mesa Talks on the last Wednesday of the month from 6:00-8:00pm (May through October). Since both Los Luceros Historic Site and Mesa Prieta Petroglyph Project are closed to the public due to the COVID-19 pandemic, these talks will be broadcast live (you can view past lectures here).  The Mesa Talks series offers the microphone to exciting and visionary speakers who enrich our understanding of the history, culture, arts, and more of Northern New Mexico.
A FEW WAYS TO SHOW THE PROJECT SOME LOVE

Follow us on Facebook and Youtube.  Like and comment on our posts.  We would love to hear from you!
Do you follow us on Instagram?  If you have ever been inspired by the Mesa and the petroglyphs, we would love to see your work!
Find us @mppetroglyphs and tag us using #mesaprietapetroglyphs
Check out our merchandise (we have great books!)
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GRATITUDE FOR OUR GRANTORS

We give special gratitude to the granting agencies that help us meet our programming goals. We feel so fortunate to receive these funds. Our youth education programs, tours and outreach, and preservation efforts thrive due to the charitable help of these organizations:

Anonymous
Lee and Candie Borduin Recording Grant
Generation Next
Heartsprung Fund WA
J3 Fund at Taos Community Foundation
National Endowment for the Humanities
New Mexico Humanities Council
Northern Rio Grande National Heritage Area
Rio Arriba County Lodgers Tax
Santa Fe Community Foundation
Santa Fe Tobacco Foundation
Sulica Fund
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Our mailing address is:
PO Box 407
Velarde, New Mexico, 87582
USA
505 852 1351
www.mesaprietapetroglyphs.org

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Unless otherwise noted, all photographs are provided by Mesa Prieta Petroglyph Project Volunteers