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In keeping with his interest in education
and public service, Sol Ideas founder Greg P. Smestad, Ph.D.
has developed a trail guide for the Juan Bautista National
Historic Trail. This project was carried out in conjunction
with the National Park Service and Los Californianos.
Dr. Smestad received Federal Challenge Cost Share Program
(CCSP) funds from the National Park Service to develop the
innovative trail guide. The work was undertaken in collaboration
with American Indians, musicians, historians and many other
people. The project features an audio compact disk (CD) that
contains sounds and songs relevant to the story of the trail.
What was produced from the work is in the public domain and
freely available to anyone. For more information, see the
demonstration
Anza Trail Guide. To order a printed (B&W) version of
the Trail Guide, contact Los
Californianos. The ordering information is: Greg Bernal-Mendoza
Smestad, "Antepasados, Volume XI: A Guide to the Juan Bautista
de Anza National Historic Trail," Los Californianos, San Diego,
California, 2005; 128 pages and audio CD; ISBN 0-9651592-7-2.
Go to Music
and Sounds Along the Anza Trail at the Anza Junior Ranger
website to listen to a few audio clips from the project. (That
page will open in a new window.)
The project included and acknowledged the contributions of
the Native American and Hispanic communities that shaped the
early development of California and Arizona. The Trail Guide
combined maps, text and an audio CD so that it is useful for
those who want to enjoy the trail while learning about it.
The intent of the Trail Guide and CD is to provide portable
interpretation of the trail that can be used in a variety
of ways to raise awareness of how this trail affected the
early Spanish colonization of the west. The Anza trail was
voted by Congress as one of the 16 U.S. millennium trails,
and is the only one on the west coast.
Greg is an eighth
generation "Californio" descendant of several members
of the 1775-76 Anza expedition (i.e. Apolinario Bernal, Luis
Maria Peralta, Juan Salvio Pacheco, Ygnacio Soto and Barbara
Espinosa, Maria Josepha Soto, and José Antonio Sanchez). His
maternal line also contains several Native American ancestors.
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files you will need the Adobe Acrobat reader, which can be downloaded
free from the Adobe
web site.
© 2007, Sol Ideas Technology Development
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