Books with title Mission San Buenaventura

Founded in 1782, San Buenaventura was the ninth of the California missions. The Chumash Indians, the nearby tribe, was told that once they were baptized they would become neophytes and would be unable to leave the mission without permission. The Chumash were divided about their feelings towards adopting the missions lifestyle, seeing both benefits and disadvantages in strict order. The content provided in this book, aligned to California state standards, will provide students with a greater insight into the story of San Buenaventura and California’s mission system. This book is filled with excellent primary source materials and visuals, including illustrations, paintings, and maps.

While the intrigue and romance of bells have, for centuries, captured the imagination of people from all walks of life, the bells found in the museum of the mission in Ventura are so unique and so mysterious as to almost defy reason. Since early in the 1900s they have quietly resided there, inspiring awe and wonder in those who viewed them. For these bells are like no others, they are beautifully, masterfully hand carved from wood. With no recorded history to inform us, no memories among the living to guide us, no apparent logical reason for their being, they seem to be waiting for some to uncover their secret.The pages of this story contain a wealth of detail, historical fact, interpretation and imaginative speculation in the attempt to answer these questions.