bryanmckenzie - 2-9-2011 at 07:56 PM
UPDATED 9 February 2011
Click this link to the GE BBS and simply download; then open with GE.
David K - 2-9-2011 at 08:23 PM
Hi Bryan (or is it Tommy?)... I went through about 5 links and I ended back on Google message board and never the kmz file... How about a direct link
to the map?
I see you are enjoying the mission stuff... which is great! The photos you took at La Purisma are of the padre's crypts that were next to the mission
church... Please see the photos on my mission web pages that show the crypts in the 1950's and the mission as it looked in 1906...
Also, there are ruins at all three mission sites for Santo Tomas... not much, but they are there... A link on my missions pages will take you to
Google Earth images at every site where there are ruins or a standing church... with GPS as well... They are all here on Nomad, as well...
The mission history is (or has been) confusing... I have worked at it for many years to get a definite list of actual, true missions... using
literature that dates back over 100 years to modern historians who have studied Spanish history in the New World and have published their findings.
Please (everyone interested) go through my 4 web sites (linked from within) on the missions (and several 'visitas') of Baja California:
Jesuit Missions: http://vivabaja.com/missions1
Franciscan & Dominican Missions: http://vivabaja.com/missions2
Mission Visitas (satellite visiting stations): http://vivabaja.com/missions3
GPS and Satellite Views of the mission sites: http://vivabaja.com/missions4
The former web link also takes you to the new first page: http://vivabaja.com/bajamissions
gnukid - 2-10-2011 at 08:38 AM
How about some mission stories, the food, those mission parties, the people, why did the jesuits fail, Indian songs, recipes? drop some knowledge
about the past mission influence on modern baja architecture and food. How much of indian bloodlines exist today? Are modern Baja "Mexicans" tied to
Baja's previous citizens? Which Indians lived in Baja and where? What was their culture like? Why were the Indians destroyed?
David K - 2-10-2011 at 09:03 AM
I recently contributed a story on the Loreto mission from Choral Pepper's last (unpublished) book... In the new issue of Dezert magazine (online)...
There may be lots of interest in there for you! www.dezertmagazine.com
If you search the Historical Interest forum far back, you will see many mission and old stories... But, this is a good idea and I will post more on
the subjects you mentioned... hopefully others will, too. See posts by bajalera as well!
gnukid - 2-10-2011 at 09:20 AM
Here are some sites with info about Baja Indians and their life, please contribute any other sources you find interesting.
http://www.kumeyaay.info/documentary/
http://www.aaanativearts.com/mission_indians.htm
http://www.houstonculture.org/mexico/baja.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mission_Indians