Jemez Historic Site to host Funday at Gisewa

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The Jemez Historic Site has announced that they will be hosting a Funday at Gisewa event on Sunday, June 16. 

The event is scheduled for 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.

There will be activities like canvas painting and beadwork instructional classes with Darell Esquibel, an artist from San Felipe Pueblo. 

There will be hands-on opportunities to learn about the history of Gisewa and tour the historical site. 

Admission is $7 per adult, with children 16 years old and younger admitted for free. Members of the Museum of New Mexico Foundation, Friends of Coronado and Jemez, Native or Tribal affiliations, and disabled veterans are also admitted for free. 

The Jemez Historical Site, located in the village of Jemez Springs, includes stone remnants of a 700 year old village and the San José de los Jémez church, which is dated to 1621 or 1622. The village of Gisewa, built in the San Diego Canyon, was founded by the ancestral people of the present day Jemez Pueblo people.