San Isidro Day Celebration at the Chimayó Museum

The Chimayó Cultural Preservation Association, in conjunction with the New Mexico Acequia Association, the Northern Rio Grande National Heritage Area and Barrios Unidos, is sponsoring a San Isidro celebration at the museum on May 18. The celebration will begin at the Chimayó Museum with a blessing of the Acequia de los Ortegas by the hermanos of the local morada. Local youth will help to divert water from the acequia and then will follow it in a procession by the museum and into the Plaza del Cerro, where they will plant seeds in a small plot. Each child will be given Chimayó chile seedlings to take home.