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Show Edge of Cedars receives humanities award Deborah Stevenson, Park Transcending Boundaries: Manager at Edge of the Cedars The Potters of Mata Ortiz, an State Park Museum, will be inspiring collection of pottery honored this fall at the 2001 from northern Chihuahua, Governors Awards in the Mexico, and "The Native Humanities in Salt Lake City. American Art Awards Stevenson will receive one of Exhibit, which features the the 2001 Friends of the finest in contemporary Humanities Awards in American Indian Art. The for her Four Corners Indian Art recognition Festival is an annual museum of humanities development activities that celebrate event in celebration of Native cultural diversity in the Four Corners Region. The award will be presented on Saturday, October .20, at the Jewish Community Center. The Utah Humanities Council is an organization that promotes books and reading, history and heritage, and public discussion American music, dance, literature, foods, plus arts and crafts, traditional and modern. Deborah Stevenson served the museum as Curator of Education for seven years before being recently promoted to Park Manager. She sees the museum as "a place of refuge, reflection, and profound beauty, where values matter and diversity is appreciated. Educational lecture for equinox Edge of the Cedars State Park Museum is pleased to present an Rock, Colorado point to a burst of astronomical knowledge 1050 AD among the educational around of issues important to our program on September 21, communities. 2001 at 7:00 p.m: With its strong emphasis on ' "ASTRONOMY OF THE promoting traditional values ANCESTRAL PUEBLOS through the arts, Edge of the with Dr. Kim Malville of the Cedars Museum takes pride in University of Colorado, its role as a community Boulder. This illustrated talk In will discuss the fascinating cultural facility. with area evidence that the Ancestral trading partnership Ancestral Puebloans. Building activity during that time period suggests that Chaco Canyon changed from a local residential community to a regional center in which festivals attracted hundreds of pilgrims and traders. An astronomically based calendar would have been posts, the museum has Puebloans practiced developed and implemented a observational astronomy. needed to organize these variety of very successful Their knowledge of subjects festivals. The need for such a exhibits that celebrate cultural diversity. Temporary exhibits have ranged from traditional THE SAN JUAN RECORD Wednesday, September 19, 2001 - Page 9 such as the complex cycles of calendar may have inspired the moon was probably lost careful observations of the after the 13th century and heavens. Even after the of the Chacoan of Puebloan astronomical Navqjo baskets, culture, contemporary populations knowledge Ute basketry and beadwork, most modem people. to practice continued as well as the pioneer crafts of The sun dagger on Fqjada observational astronomy at quilting, leatherwork, wood Butte and the extraordinarily places such as Mesa Verde, carving, tatting, bobbin lace precise alignments of Yellow Jacket, the Lance Site, and paper cutting. Current structures in Chaco Canyon, and Hovenweep. include New. Mexico and Chimney exhibits arts of Zuni Pueblo to may have exceeded the collapse A a Coby Scott Christensen & Cindy Witney Wedding announced Cindy Witney, daughter of than welcome. Ron and UTawna Witney of Cindy graduated- from Springville, Utah, and Coby Springville High School and Scott Christensen, son of Scott Von Curtis Academy of Hair and Patty Christensen of Design. She is currently emMonticello, Utah, were mar- ployed with the Chrysalis proried on Friday, September 14, gram as a house manager for 2001, in the Salt Lake Temple mentally challenged adults. of the Church of Jesus Christ Coby graduated from Monticello High School and is Saints. of Latter-da- y They will be honored at an attending Utah Valley State Open House on Friday, Sep- College in the Electrician Aptember 21 from 6 to 8 p.m. at prenticeship program. He the Christensen Residence, works for GSL Electric in Salt 333. W. Silverstone Lane, in Lake City. He served an LDS mission in Billings, Montana. Monticello. In the event of inclement Cody and Cindy will make first home in Springville. will their House the weather, Open be held at the .Monticello Coby is the grandson of North LDS Chapel. 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