In June, 2008 the Robert S. Peabody Museum program Pecos Pathways
successfully completed its eleventh year! Tom Kane of the English
Department and Peabody staff members Bonnie Sousa and Lindsay Randall
guided the trip. This year’s Phillips Academy participants were Alayna
Garbarino ’10, Nick Serna ’09, Jane Thomas ’10 and Jim Ricker ’09 as
well as Juniata Toledo, Anthony Magdalena, Tracy Toya and Byron Fragua
from the Pueblo of Jemez and Michael Villarreal and Charles Roybal from
the town of Pecos, NM. Students spent two weeks touring around New
Mexico and Southern Colorado before coming to New England for the final
week.
During the first week the group lived with host families at Jemez
Pueblo. Our hosts made sure we had many opportunities to learn about
their community and took us to visit special sites not open to the
public.
En route from Jemez Pueblo to Santa Fe and Pecos National Historical
Park where the second week is spent, we traveled to see the ancestral
puebloan ruins at Mesa Verde, CO and Chaco Canyon, NM. During the Santa
Fe week, students received behind the scene tours at the Park and had
the opportunity to participate in community service projects such as
rebuilding the adobe walls of the ruined Spanish mission.
The last week of the trip was spent in New England. The group went on
many fun outings such as rowing in Boston Harbor, walking the Freedom
Trail in Boston, and hiking in the New Hampshire White Mountains. The
trip concluded with a trip to Mashantucket Pequot Reservation in
Connecticut where students participated in an archaeological research
being conducted by the Mashantucket Tribal Archaeology Program.