FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE


Saturday March 5, 2011
	“Southern Arizona’s Spanish Colonial Legacy: The Historic San Xavier and
Tumacácori Missions and the Tubac Presidio” guided tour with Bernard L.
Fontana, Bob Vint, David Yubeta, and Shaw Kinsley
	9 a.m.-5:30 p.m.. $150 ($125 for Southwestern Mission Research Center
members)
	In a special one-day tour to three of the most outstanding historic
Spanish Colonial period sites in Arizona, ethnohistorian Dr. Bernard
L.“Bunny” Fontana and historic architect Bob Vint will show and interpret
the recently restored and renovated San Xavier Mission (the so-called
“White Dove of the Desert”), which is featured in Dr. Fontana’s and
photographer Edward McCain’s new book “A Gift of Angels: The Art of
Mission San Xavier del Bac,” then Vint and retired National Park Service
historian David Yubeta will take the tour group into the beautiful upper
Santa Cruz Valley to visit San José de Tumacácori Mission and to the
historic Tubac Presidio. Coach transportation and box lunch will be
provided.
	Reservations and payment are due no later than February 26. For more
information or to register contact Susan Smith in Tucson at 520-299-4021
or [log in to unmask] – or visit http://southwestmissions.org.