Church to present at Pioneers Museum

Minette Church, associate professor, Department of Anthropology, will present “Archaeologies of Parenting and Community on the Plains” at 2 p.m. Feb. 9 at the Colorado Springs Pioneers Museum, 215 S. Tejon Street.

Church’s presentation will combine pictures, personal memoirs and artifacts recovered from a family homestead near the Purgatoire River in southeastern Colorado. Church found items such as building foundations and broken toys on the site that was occupied from the 1880s to 1903 by a ranching family with 11 children. Personal memoirs from the children included accounts of an oldest son who was herding cattle at age 6 to those of a younger daughter who described a Victorian-era upbringing that included attending school.