November 11: Veteran's Day
Artist: Norman Rockwell 

NOVEMBER 2016

Editor: Mimi Lozano ©2000-2016



 Major hostilities of World War I formally ended 11th hour of the 11th day of 
the 11th month of 1918 when the Armistice with Germany went into effect. 
Let us give thanks to our military and all those in uniform, who keep us safe.

Submitters or Attributed to:: 

 ". . . nadie lucha por algo que no ama, nadie ama algo que no respeta, nadie respeta algo que no conoce, por lo que se hace necesario basar la Defensa en el conocimiento de nuestra Historia en nuestra Cultura, en nuestra Memoria  . . . "
Pedro Menéndez de Avilés, 1565-1566, Adelantado, Gobernador y Capitan General de la Florida y Gobernador de Cuba

"A healthy republican government must rest upon individuals, not upon classes or sanctions." 
Theodore Roosevelt

[Note: Below is a Somos Primos, February 2011 article on topic.]

ORANGE, CA – People don’t fear ghosts or monsters nearly as much as they fear their fellow man, Chapman University’s third annual Survey of American Fears released Wednesday finds.

Conspiracy theories, Islamophobia and a deep fear of government corruption are among the key findings in this year’s look at what fills Americans with dread – this is the first time the survey was taken in the heat of a presidential election.

A random sample of 1,511 Americans who speak English and are over the age of 18 answered the survey in May. It took about 20 to 25 minutes to complete.

The team of Chapman sociology and political science professors, with assistance from student researchers, conducts the study to better understand our fears and see what we can learn from them, Professor Christopher Bader, the team leader, said:

Respondents are more fearful of corrupt government officials (60.6 percent) than they are a terrorist attack on the nation (41 percent) – the fear of corruption topped the list for the second year, becoming even more distinct with the election drawing near.

To explore the political climate, the team took two topics from the headlines, focusing several questions on conspiracy theories and Islamophobia.

Almost half of respondents said they would be uncomfortable with a mosque being built in their neighborhood, with roughly one-third believing that Muslims are more likely to be terrorists and that the Muslim immigration should be banned.

“A third of the population is basically saying we need institutionalized discrimination based on religion. That’s a scary thing for America,” Ed Day, chair of the Department of Sociology, said.

As disturbing as those numbers might be, Hussam Ayloush, executive director of the greater Los Angeles chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations in Anaheim, said they were not surprising.

“There is a vicious cycle that exists here,” he said. “One that begins with people’s lack of knowledge or understanding of Islam, which gets exploited by irresponsible candidates or public officials trying to build their political careers by using fear mongering.”

Ayloush said moving beyond these fears needs to be a collective social effort to educate each other and dispel misconceptions wherever they arise.

Paranoia was a key factor when it came to the study’s findings on conspiracy theories. Nearly 55 percent of respondents said they believe the government is concealing information about the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks. Bader said “9/11 conspiracy” is a large umbrella that catches all kinds of theories, but the number was shocking nonetheless, he said.

More than half of the respondents still think secrets are being kept about President John F. Kennedy's assassination, about 40 % thought the government was   hiding information about aliens, with a third believing the government had a hand in covering up the origin of the AIDS virus.

The brig Galveztown

A promotional poster shows an artist’s interpretation of the 1779 brig Galveztown, a replica of which is being built with oak wood from Galveston. 

Malaga shipyard uses Live Oak 
killed by Hurricane Ike 
to build 1779 replica
by Rosie Carbo rosic@aol.com  

published Sunday, Sept.18 in the Galveston Daily News
Posted in Lifestyle on Saturday, September 17, 2016

Project director Alfonso Sanchez Guitard, owner of Astilleros Nereo shipyard in Malaga, Spain, stands near the skeletal hull of the brig Galveztown, which was built with wood from Galveston live oak trees killed by salt-water flooding during Hurricane Ike in 2008. Sanchez Guitard hopes to sail the brig, a replica of a 1779 vessel of the same name, to Galveston when it's seaworthy.  Photo by Rosie Carbo/Special to The Daily News 

Work progresses

The brig’s hull frames were finally completed this spring and planking of the hull had just begun. The Galveztown will measure 56 feet on deck with a beam expected to reach 15 feet.

“My father, Juan Antonio Sanchez Guitard, founded Astilleros Nereo in 1964,” Sanchez Guitard said. “It was his idea to build this replica to honor Bernardo de Galvez and to enhance friendship between the United States and Spain.”

Jennifer Reynolds/The Daily News file photo

Latest data from the Pew Research Center found that people with incomes of less than $50,000 accounted for 62.3% of all individual returns filed ... but they paid just 5.7% of total taxes. Their average tax rate was 4.3%.

Preliminary data are based on a sample of individual Income tax returns filed between January and late September 2014, which are then weighted to represent a full year of taxpayer reporting.  Source: Internal Revenue Service.

Arts and Industries Building, site of the proposed Latino Gallery at the Smithsonian Institution. 
PHOTO Eric Long

[Including the Board members, in case you know someone and want to contact them. Mimi]

SMITHSONIAN NATIONAL LATINO BOARD
The Honorable Roel Campos (Chair)
Hughes Hubbard & Reed LLP, Washington, D.C.
Aida Levitan, Ph.D. (Vice-Chair), ArtesMiami, Inc., Miami, Florida
Raquel “Rocky” Egusquiza (Secretary), NBCUniversal Telemundo Enterprises, Miami, Florida
Joedis “Joe” Ávila, Ford Motor Company Fund, Dallas, Texas
The Honorable Xavier Becerra, U.S. House of Representatives, Los Angeles, California
Faustino “Tino” Bernadett, M.D., Pacific Healthcare IPA , The Molina Foundation, Long Beach, California
Thomas “Tom” Chávez, Ph.D., Albuquerque, New Mexico
Philip “Phil” Fuentes, PMAMCD, Chicago, Illinois
Ann Serrano López, Moving Target Productions, Woodland Hills, California
Álvaro “Al” de Molina, Charlotte, North Carolina
Manuel “Manny” Machado, Machado Holdings, LLC, Miami, Florida
Millie Magid, Magid Realty, Albertson, New York
Henry R. Muñoz, III (Chairman Emeritus), Muñoz & Company, San Antonio, Texas
Christine “Chris” Ortega, Southwest Airlines, Dallas, Texas
Carlos Palomares, SMC Resources, Miami, Florida
Marcos Ronquillo, Fishman Jackson Ronquillo PLLC, Dallas, Texas
Yolanda “Dusty” Stemer, Chesterton, Indiana

Mexican “Repatriation” of the 1930s: 45 Years of Advocacy

by M. Guadalupe Espinoza

Don Eleuterio Escobar

Seed planted in 1915 
for Liga Pro-Defensa Escolar / School Improvement League

by J. Gilbrto Quezada
jgilbertoquezada@yahoo.com

Hello Mimi, This essay on the fascinating life of Don Eleuterio Escobar is the last installment of my trilogy on the topic of Civil Rights.  You have graciously published the first two parts in the October issue of Somos Primos; namely, the "Recollections of the 48th Anniversary of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights Hearing," at Our Lady of the Lake College in San Antonio, Texas,  and  "Civil Rights--How Far We Have Come!," the inside poignant story of my good friend and neighbor Louis Cousins.

On a nice, warm, and sunny afternoon during the second summer session at St. Mary's University in 1969, I was a graduate student and was walking from the History Department towards my dorm (Charles Francis Hall) when I was stopped by a friend and fellow classmate. He asked me pointblank if I needed some extra cash. I looked at him with a puzzled look on my face and slowly responded in the affirmative. Working half-a-day in the History Department under the Work-Study Program was barely enough to meet my personal and academic financial needs. But, at least I had a job! Knowing that I had previously worked with Miss Carmen Perry in the Laredo Archives housed on the third floor of the Academic Library (now the Louis J. Blume Library), he knew my experience in cataloguing archival documents.

"Would you be interested in helping an old man with his collection?" I asked what was the old man's name and my friend responded: "Don Eleuterio Escobar." I had never heard this name before. And, then I asked what sort of papers did the old man needed help with. "Oh, he has a huge collection of letters, photographs, and other documents. He was well known in San Antonio during the 1930s and 1940s." Now, this piqued my curiosity because I just had a meeting with Dr. Hubert J. Miller, my graduate advisor, and he wanted me to start thinking about a possible topic for my M.A. thesis. The idea of exploring this viable opportunity caught my attention. I said, "Yes," and that I would be interested in looking into it. This comment made my friend very happy. Before he left, I asked him where did the old man lived and his reply was that he lived on the West Side of San Antonio.

A couple of days later, on a Saturday morning, my friend came by my room with a slip of paper that had Don Eleuterio Escobar's address: 1705 Delgado Street. I had borrowed my Dad's 1963 red Ford Galaxy, so I decided to pay him a visit that afternoon. My friend had told me to take Culebra Street and turn right on 24th Street, like if I was going to Our Lady of the Lake College, and then to turn left on Delgado Street. Finding the house was not a problem. What I encountered was a simple, modest frame house with a small lawn in the front and a four foot chain link fence all around the property. 

Mr. Escobar answered the door and graciously invited me in. He was tall, about five-ten, had a full set of gray hair in a crew cut style, and did not have a wrinkle on his face. I introduced myself and he already knew the purpose of my visit. I found out that he lived alone and that his wife had passed away a few months ago. Moreover, I found out that he was from Laredo and being that I was also from his hometown made for a mutual friendship. After we exchanged niceties, he ushered me into a bedroom that he had converted into an office. He explained to me all the photographs that were hanging on the walls and the names of each person. Then, he showed me his extensive collection of letters and documents, and a plethora of newspaper clippings, which he had in two metal file cabinets, in boxes, on top of book shelves, and on top of a small worn-out wooden desk. After a quick review of some of his correspondence, and from what I could deduce, this old man had a gold mine of historical archival material and definitely worthy of a Master's thesis. 

He looked at me and offered to pay for my services for cataloguing his collection. I thought about it and said, "No, I will not charge you a penny." He stared at me in surprise through his black rimmed glasses, not knowing what to say. "But, it's a lot of work and you have to drive all the way from the university." I offered him a proposition, "I will do all the work that will be required by coming three times a week in the late afternoons and only on one condition." Mr. Escobar kept staring at me while I had him in suspense. "What is that?" My response was if he would allow me to do my M.A. thesis on his life as a pioneer civil rights fighter. He gently smiled and we shook hands on a gentlemen's agreement. At my next meeting with Dr. Miller, I eagerly told him that I had a topic for my M.A. thesis. I discussed the work I was going to do for Mr. Escobar and without any hesitation, he approved my topic and said that he wanted to meet him. So, one afternoon, I took Dr. Miller and Dr. Félix D. Almaráz, Jr., also a professor of history at St. Mary's University, to meet him.

For about six months, except for the Christmas Break that I took the opportunity to visit my parents in Laredo, I went to Eleuterio Escobar's house, three times a week, and usually after I had had supper in the university cafeteria. He was always gracious and every time he offered me cold Kool Aid or a soda drink with cookies. From what I had read in the newspaper clippings and in his correspondence, he was quite an eloquent and vociferous orator. Even though by now, he had mellowed a lot, he would still relive those past memories by getting up from his recliner and looking at the framed photographs on the wall in front of him, he started declaiming in a stentorian and bombastic voice. His eyes became alive again with the fire inside him. I will never forget his words, "I believe all persons should be proud of their ancestors, but should first of all feel proud to be Americans."

His fight against the educational establishment in San Antonio started ion 1915, when as a young twenty year old salesperson, going door-to-door selling dry goods, Eleuterio Escobar noticed that many Mexican American children were not attending school because there was no room for them. In 1933, he conducted a survey among the San Antonio schools and to his astonishment, he found about 23, 948 school-age children who were not in school. He was utterly angry at this tremendous injustice. And to make matters worse, the schools that served these Mexican American children were in deplorable conditions. Moreover, he felt this was a disgrace to the city. He identified approximately sixty fire traps in buildings that were being used as classrooms. Many of the frame structures were abandoned sheds that had been used for shelling pecans and had inadequate fire exits. The outside single privy was not enough for all the students who had to stand in line for a very long time. There were dogs and cats on the playground that had been dead for days. He took photographs as evidence to support his arguments. He accused every San Antonio Independent School District (ISD) superintendent since 1933 of criminal negligence against defenseless Mexican American children.

To begin his battle, he organized a group of concerned citizens and civic leaders, and named it the Liga Pro-Defensa Escolar (The School Improvement League). Mr. Escobar also invited religious, social, and fraternal associations to join his cause. For example, he asked María L. de Hernández and her husband Pedro Hernández, founders of the Orden Caballeros de America (Order of the Knights of America) in 1927, to help him, which they wholeheartedly agreed. Other notable Mexican American leaders who were recruited included: Gus C. García, Henry B. González, M.C. González, Alonso S. Perales, Santiago Tafolla, and Dr. Carlos E. Castañeda, a historian at the University of Texas at Austin. By now, Eleuterio Escobar was a successful businessman, owning the Escobar Furniture Company and later the International Leather and Importing Company. Over the years, he contributed over $25,000 to the Liga Pro-Defensa Escolar. Over sixty civic and social organizations volunteered their time to support his cause. The members asked him to serve as president of the group, which he humbly accepted, stating in part, "No penalty or sacrifice will be too great to pay, if these innocent school children can be helped out of their plight."

The Liga Pro-Defensa Escolar had many meetings, developing strategies to approach the school board and the administrators, and the politicians at the city and state levels. In 1935, with the assistance of State Senator J. Franklin Spears, Mr. Escobar made a courageous plea before the Senate chamber in Austin. He made similar appearances before the San Antonio School Board of Trustees and had a meeting with L.A. Woods, the State Superintendent of Public Instruction. Through the use of English and Spanish newspapers and the radio, Mr. Escobar publicized the educational injustices being committed against the Mexican American children. In the mid-1940s, he also invited his good friend and famous singer from Mexico City--Agustín Lara, to perform at a benefit for the Liga Pro-Defensa Escolar.

As a result of his fight through the Liga Pro-Defensa Escolar, the following items were accomplished:
--The Fire Prevention Bureau gave the San Antonio ISD 40 days to eliminate those fire traps structures which were confirmed to be dangerous.
--The city refused a permit for a red light district to operate near Navarro Elementary School.
--The San Antonio ISD purchased land and three or four new elementary schools were in the planning stages.
--A new gym for Lanier Junior/Senior High School was built.
--Playground equipment and facilities were improved and new ones were constructed.
--Overall, educational improvements were noted at all the present schools for Mexican American children.

On January 5, 1959, a crowd of about 600 people came to honor Mr. Eleuterio Escobar at the dedication of a new junior high school. Benny F. Steinhauser, Superintendent of the Edgewood ISD, and P. Solis, the school principal, officiated at the ceremony naming the school, Escobar Junior High. Mr. Escobar and his wife Cecila Canales de Escobar were the guests of honor. Nowadays, the school district has changed the name of Escobar Junior High and instead named an elementary school, Coronado Escobar. Sadly, he has to share the honors with the Spanish explorer, Francisco Vásquez de Coronado, who, by the way, never set foot in San Antonio.

On Monday, May 11 1970, I received a telephone call at the dorm from a man who identified himself as Pablo Escobar. He told me that he was the oldest nephew of Don Eleuterio Escobar. He then proceeded to give me the sad news that Mr. Escobar had passed away yesterday, on Mother's Day, of a massive heart attack at the age of seventy-five. I was in shock because I had just seen him two days ago. On Friday afternoon, May 8, 1970, I had knocked at Eleuterio Escobar's front door and when he didn't come, I said my name in a loud voice. He was too weak to come and greet me like he usually did. From his bedroom, he shouted in Spanish that the door was open. I walked in and went to his bedroom. He was lying on the bed, looking very pale, and he asked me to sit by his side. He continued to tell me more stories of his fight against the injustices of Mexican American children. His weak voice would rise like a crescendo as he began to relive those past and memorable moments. 

Furthermore, Pablo Escobar told me that he was now in charge of his uncle's estate, which included the archival collection. He also stated that I could no longer continue to work on the archives because there were many nephews and nieces who were now involved in the legal proceedings of the estate.. I was almost eighty percent finished with the work. My only plea to Pablo was to please keep the valuable archival collection intact and not to divide them as they were planning to do. Needless to day, I was very disillusioned because all I needed to finish my Master's Degree was the thesis and I was determined to write something and not just take the easy way out and take six graduate hours and be through.

The attached photograph was in the Eleuterio Escobar Archival Collection and he gave me permission to make a copy. It was taken in 1934 at an outdoor rally sponsored by the Liga Pro-Defensa Escolar, at Sidney Lanier Junior/High School, located in the San Antonio Independent School District. Approximately over one thousand parents, supporters, and many civic leaders were in attendance. These were the parents whose children were attending schools that were in deplorable conditions. Prominent educators were also invited. At the microphone is the eminent historian and educator, Dr. Carlos E. Castañeda. Mr. Eleuterio Escobfar is in the background, right, wearing glasses. The photograph on the left is Mr. Escobar in his Army infantry uniform during World War I. And, the photograph on the right is a younger Eleuterio Escobar. Both of these photographs are from the Eleuterio Escobar Collection which I found on the Internet. 

I hope you have enjoyed reading this fascinating story, as much as I have reliving this experience. I did write a thesis and received my M.A. degree in history, but you will have to wait for the next installment to find out who was my topic.


Gilberto 

P.S. Some twenty years later, the extensive Eleuterio Escobar Archival Collection was finally donated to the Benson Latin American Collection at the University of Texas at Austin.

My father Domingo Pena was born on Dec 16, 1917 in Kingsville, Tx one of four sons born to 
Placido Pena and Rose Everett Pena.

According to records the family moved to Corpus Christi, Tx in 1935. My grandfather Placido Pena owned a meat market and indulges his grandchildren with cookies and candies kept in large glass containers in his market. My grandmother Rose Everett Pena a quiet woman worn long skirts, would make cinnamon tea with lots of sugar when we visited. Grandmother’s rose bushes were beautiful and bountiful most blending two colors. Her grandfather (Capt. Jack) made history in the 1800’s during the Mexican-American war. A dynamic young man from Mobile, Al whom I tend to believe were traits passed to my father.

At age twenty-eight my father started his career as a disc jockey (not what we think of today) for a Spanish-language radio station KCCT in the mid 1950’s. I’ve hear stories of Dad locking himself up in the radio studio blasting someone for wrongdoing. He ignored phone calls telling him to stop….he did not. Until someone came with a set of keys. Dad was blessed with a personality, charm, a sense of dignity and kindness for others at a very young age and continued til his demise.

At that time we also had a jewelry store in the front part of our house with a watch repair man who later married our housekeeper Juanita. Dad walked our housekeeper down the aisle and later she and her husband would have four daughters.

Late ‘50’s Sheriff Odem Dolan won several re-elections in Corpus Christi, Nueces County appointing Dad his Deputy Sheriff. I came across a small photo of Dad in his uniform wearing his hat. Sheriff Dolan lost his last re-election leaving dad to opened a restaurant in Corpus than in Alice, Tx.

Upon returning to Corpus Dad started “ Monday Night Dances” at the Exposition Hall downtown Corpus showcasing young musicians, entertainers, the best of the best. This was the beginning of his popularity to a new level. In 1964 he began a talk and variety show on KIII-TV. the “ Domingo Pena Show” until 1981. The highly rated show was visited by League of United Latin American, American G.I.Forum and many civic and charitable organizations, along with musical artists. Dad didn’t use a script nor rehearsed you never knew what to expect.

In 1968 the U.S.State Department approached Dad to entertain soldiers of Mexican/hispanics descendent stationed in Vietnam. They traveled with a twelve-person troupe of entertainers on a seventeen day tour of the Vietnam conflict. Dad’s troupe were the only ones offered this tour during the Vietnam conflict. Bringing him much acclaim. His popularity in 1968 (while away in Vietnam tour) still won his election to the board of the Lower Nueces River Water Supply District. After resigned this position he accepted appointment as a Nueces County Deputy constable.

My father was posthumously inducted into the Tejano R.O.O.T.S. Hall of Fame and Museum. In 2002 he was inducted into the Texas Conjunto Music Hall of Fame. My father would have like this honor very much. My father brought music, entertainment to the thousands in South Texas. He was responsible for heading charities for those who needed assistance. They always came to my father for his support. At times came knocking on our front door.

Capt. John ‘Jack’ Ross Everett 1822-1864. Was my father’s great grandfather. Earlier Everitts most often spelled the name with an ‘i’ and, in handwritten letters found, Capt. Jack also signed his names as Everitt. Both spellings are found in many books, documents and newspaper articles regarding Capt. Jack. Everett is the spelling adopted
by Capt. John ‘Jack’ Ross Everett’s descendants.

Capt. Jack’s father John Fagan Everett own and publisher newspapers, served as a Lieutenant and then Captain in the War of 1812, owned a merchandising business, was elected 
to the House of Representatives of the Alabama Territory in 1818. Served two terms as Mayor of Mobile, Alabama and Judge of the Orphans Court and Probate Court of Mobile, 
Al from 1837 until his death in 1842.

Capt. Jack (as he was called) traveled to Texas in his teens later served as a Texas Ranger. Texas Rangers Service Records 1830-1846 located in the Texas Ranger Hall of Fame and Museum in Waco, also in the Texas State Archives. His on record in history/war books of his contribution to the Mexican-American War, serving as a go
between from Mexico to Texas. Capt. Jack picked up the Spanish language quickly gaining the trust of the very Mexicans he was trying to steal land from. Reporting back to Zachary              Captain John 'Jack' Ross Everett 1862-1864                                                                                               
Taylor in Texas. Taylor would later become the 12th President of the United States. Taylor was a career officer in the U.S. Army rising to the ranks of Major General.         

Capt. Jack’s niece (daughter of sister Martha Crawford) named Frank after a good friend. Mother and daughter traveled to New York to visit their cousin Cornelius Vanderbilt. The famous wealthy Vanderbilt (1794-1877) his first wife died, he married Frank Armstrong Crawford in Canada. Vanderbilt’s mother was Phebe Hand, John Fagan Everett married three times his wife Sarah Britton Hand was Capt. Jack mother, she married Obadiah Hand (Sarah was twice widowed) the cousins married cousins this is the Everett’s bloodline to Vanderbilt. I’m a distant cousin to CNN’s Anderson Cooper whose mother is Gloria Vanderbilt.

Photo of Captain Jack and author, Rose Everett, Discover the Story of Texas at Bullock Museum, TX https://staging.thestoryoftexas.com/discover/texas-story-project/rose-everett  

7th annual Digital Media and Learning Conference 
at the University of California, Irvine, Oct. 7.
by Mimi Ko Cruz

Jose Antonio Vargas, left, speaks about immigrant rights with Henry Jenkins
Photo by Jorge Montoya/UCIDigital Dreamers

In 2016 alone, Indiana, Oklahoma, Tennessee, and Louisiana joined Georgia, Florida, Alaska, and Alabama in passing the Convention of States resolution to limit the power and jurisdiction of the federal government.

Our resolution has been passed by eighteen State Houses and eleven State Senates.

You do not have accept a defaced bill such as this.  Refuse it and the activity will stop.

Alonso S. Perales,
the
Eminent civil rights lawyer and fighter for Mexican Americans

El Mexico Americano y la Politica del Sur de Texas, 
Comentarios Por el Lic. Alonso S. Perales, Octubre de 1931.

Editor Mimi: Fascinating reading.

To read the entire booklet, please contact Gilberto Quezada. 
jgilbertoquezada@yahoo.com

HERITAGE PROJECTS

Horses & Heroes by Robin Collins
CAREM / El Camino Real de las Californias as World Heritage Site Update
Latinos in Heritage Conservation: Reunion 2016, November 18-19 Houston, Texas
America's Most Endangered Historic Places

Horses & Heroes by Robin Collins

No other animal has played so great a role in the history of warfare as the horse.  For thousands of years, nations have risen and fallen by the participation of the horse. In recognition of the long and illustrious relationship between the horse and the branches of the American military, we salute this enduring relationship.

Today, horses have a vitally important role in continuing to serve our veterans returning with physical and emotional wounds and to their families. Horses help our heroes heal through experiencing the joy, peacefulness, solace, compassion and unconditional love that the horses have to offer. This creates special relationships, companionships and bonds that is necessary in every facet of life.

Our program offers an opportunity for our heroes and their families to overcome their fears and build a confident lifestyle. Whether suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), physical wounds, the invisible wounds of war or the stress of frequent deployment, horses help reconnect families and build relationships.

  Our horses help our Veterans and their families deal with a broad range of mental and physical health issues:

•           Acute stress related issues

•           Addictive behaviors such as chemical dependency and eating disorders

•           Anger management, depression, adjustment issues

•           Trauma resolution, impulse control issues and suicide

Don Garate on Cristo, a Colonial Spanish Stallion from Rancho de Sueno

Rancho Del Sueño offers additional therapy and learning opportunities with our Hispanic horses for our Hispanic Heroes.   Our Colonial Spanish historical horses can be traced back to thousands of years of exploration, war and the colonization of the Americas (New World.     For more information, contact our office at (559) 868-8681 or email us at hdc.ranchodelsueno@gmail.com. Please use our PAY PAL and contribute to our dollar drive to help support the horses who are again sharing the partnership of love and duty to help heal our Veterans.  Every dollar goes to the support of our horses working with our heroes.

• advocacy for greater equity in historic preservation practices, policies, and funding in order to enrich the quality of life in our communities;
• inclusion of Latina/o historic places in federal designation programs, including the National Register of Historic Places, the National Historic Landmarks program, and the units of the National Park System;
• preservation of tangible and intangible Latino heritage;
• alternative methods of documentation in Latino communities; and
• best practices for engaging Latino constituents and stakeholders in institutionally-driven preservation projects.

Sylvia Gonzalez was kind enough to send this message focusing on what they selected as of importance to Latinos.

The National Trust also recently announced our platform for ReUrbanism, which outlines the key role preservation is
playing in the resurgence of cities. Our research suggests that older buildings are one of the most powerful tools we have for continued urban revitalization, so our 29th annual 11 Most list features several historic places located in America’s urban areas:

El Segundo Barrio and Chihuahuita Neighborhoods—El Paso, Texas: Centers of Latina/o community life for more than a century, these neighborhoods are now experiencing increased demolition.

Embarcadero District—San Francisco, California: One of the nation’s most beloved historic areas, the Embarcadero must adapt to the threats of seismic vulnerability and sea-level rise.

The Sunshine Mile—Tucson, Arizona: An architecturally rich commercial corridor populated by smaller-scale midcentury buildings, many of which could be lost if a new transportation plan moves ahead. (Read this 2014 Forum Blog post to learn more about the Sunshine Mile.)

Click here to read more.

Sent by Sylvia Gonzalez sgonzalez@savingplaces.org

Editor Mimi: I assisted Wanda Garcia twice in preparing an application for inclusion on the list of historically important sites.  With great disappointment, I received this information that the Hector P. Garcia Clinic in Corpus Christi Clinic was again not selected.  I concede that the three sites selected reflecting a historic Latino presence are important in light of the platform for ReUrbanism.  

However, what is missing in the history of the largest minority in the nation, is our historic, continuing efforts to be correctly included in the history and foundation of the nation.  

If you researched the history of Civil Rights in the United States, you would have to conclude that the African America community were the only force in bringing about justice.  The efforts of the Latinos community are not included, which is blatantly inaccurate history.  Click here: National sites of Civil Rights importance - Google Search

Dr. Hector P. Garcia and the entire Garcia family, of licensed physicians  were actively involved in all issues of Civil Rights, voting rights, education, labor, housing, etc..  Immediately following WW II, upon returning home, Dr. Garcia fought for civil rights of all minorities, such as returning veterans whose medical needs were not being met.  

The efforts of Latinos throughout the Southwest went back to the early 1900s: Click here: mexican support groups 1900s - Google Search    Educator Eleuterio Escobar. whose story is included under the United States section, viewed the injustice in 1915 of none or inferior education for Mexican heritage children in San Antonio started fighting at that time to correct the situation. 

It is not as if locations and events are not known, many have been slowly gathered, but they have not been given the public visibility deserved.

Presidents and dignitaries met with Dr. Garcia in the wooden structure in Corpus Christ to discuss national issues. 
He formed the GI Forum which continues to this day.  It would be a perfect Civil Rights site, standing solidly, visibly as historic evidence of Latinos involvement for justice.  

I am hopeful that the Latinos in Heritage Conservation leadership will consider an effort to identify and lobby for the Dr. Hector P. Garcia, M.D. Clinic to be selected in 2017 as a historic site deserving to be preserved.  

If you or anyone with whom you are associated are planning to attend the Latino in Heritage Conservation Reunion in Houston in November, I do hope that you will stand in support of the Hector P. Garcia, Clinic.

Thank you . . .    Mimi

America's Most Endangered Historic Places, National Trust for Historic Preservation
Click here: America's Most Endangered Historic Places | National Trust for Historic Preservation

Since 1988, the National Trust has used its list of America's 11 Most Endangered Historic Places to raise awareness about the threats facing some of the nation's greatest treasures. The list, which has identified more than 270 sites to date, has been so successful in galvanizing preservation efforts that only a handful of sites have been lost.

The 2016 list includes historic places in America’s urban areas at a time when cities across the nation are experiencing a resurgence. Millions of Americans are choosing to relocate to urban areas, with many opting to live in distinctive, character-rich older and historic neighborhoods. Preservation is playing a key role in this trend, and our research suggests that older buildings are one of the most powerful tools we have for the continued revitalization of our nation’s urban centers. While bringing attention to urban sites, the 2016 list also includes places that reflect the broader diversity of America’s historic places.

Dozens of sites have been saved through the tireless work of the National Trust, its partners, and local preservationists across the country. Many more sites are now considered "favorable" and are on the path to a positive solution. Still, others remain threatened, and the National Trust and its partners continue in their efforts to protect these important endangered places.

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HISTORICAL TIDBITS

Policemen inspect a 'lumber truck' that smelled of alcohol During prohibition (1926).

Fabulous Old Photographs sent by Joe Mendez ____     jlskcd2005@aol.com
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LOS ESCLAVOS OLVIDADOS DE AMÉRICA, LOS IRLANDESES
Cuando la mayoría de los esclavos en América del Norte y el Caribe eran blancos y católicos
Mensaje por Hispanoamericano el Dom Dic 14 2014, 01:24

HONORING HISPANIC LEADERSHIP

Sister Maria Socorro gives holy communion to Yolanda Calderon at the beside of her sister, Esperanza.
Photo:  Barbara Davidson / Los Angeles Times
  

Esperanza Calderon stared at Sister Maria Socorro with half-closed eyes. The nun hunched over her as she reclined in a living room chair, wrapped in a blanket and slowly but inexorably dying.

As the 70-year-old woman’s sister clasped her hand, Socorro held a book open across her palms. Together the three women prayed.

“Lord, I do not deserve to have you come under my roof,” the woman followed along in Spanish, her voice fragile. “But one word from you would be enough to heal me.”

A sister with the Servants of Mary, Socorro has spent many of her nights and dark, early mornings in the homes of the dying. Each night, a volunteer picks her up around 7 p.m. and drives her to her destination: a tiny stucco house just a few miles from the South Los Angeles convent.

The congregation was founded in Spain in 1851. As nurses, they worked during cholera epidemics and wars, and later in Mexico during revolutions. Now, more than 2,000 sisters work in 128 convents throughout Europe, Africa, Asia and the Americas.

The sisters prefer to minister in patients’ homes, but also work in hospices, orphanages and hospitals. And when needed, they take care of their own.

Many of their patients are immigrants, others born and bred in Los Angeles. Some pray to another God or to none at all. To the sisters, it doesn’t matter.

A tumor embedded itself in Calderon’s brain. Three years ago, doctors told her she had six months to live. She had a stroke about two years later. She can’t walk. Calderon’s sister does almost everything for her, until late in the evening when the nun arrives.

The woman’s first name, Esperanza, means “hope” in Spanish. Socorro means “help.”  “The bed is the cross,” said the 46-year-old nun, who is also a trained nursing assistant. “Christ is the patient.”

Before getting Calderon to bed, Socorro gives her Communion. She reaches into a bag and pulls out a white handkerchief embroidered with the image of a red cross, a chalice, wheat and grapes — signs of the Eucharist. She unwraps the cloth and opens the small golden box it encases, reaching for the host.

“Esperansita,” she calls Calderon, who lifts her mouth toward the wafer in the sister's hand, and intones: “The body of Christ.”

Almost 30 years ago, a teenage Maria Roman went to a retreat hoping to persuade her little sister Sofia not to become a nun.  Sofia wanted to explore her options for a religious vocation and Maria, then 18, wouldn’t have it.  “You know, you can never go out if you become a nun,” Maria warned her.

Sofia begged her older sister to go with her to the women’s retreat in their native city of Puebla, Mexico. It was the only way their father would let Sofia go. Socorro said she couldn’t bear watching her sister cry so she said yes.

More than 100 girls attended the retreat, but there wasn’t enough food for all of them. They slept crammed together as if in barracks. The morning showers were frigid.

On the last day of the trip, as they sat in a pew for Mass, the priest began telling the Biblical story of the boy Samuel, who heard someone calling his name one night. He got out of bed and ran to the priest, Eli, but Eli told Samuel that it was not he who had called the boy.

This happened several times, the girls at the retreat were told, until Eli told Samuel that it was God speaking to him. Finally, when he realized he was being called, the boy spoke with God.

Socorro said the story she and her sister heard that day affected her deeply.  “That passage was for me,” she said. “God was calling me.”  Within a year, Maria would become Sister Maria Socorro, joining the Servants of Mary.

On a Friday night, Socorro asks Esperanza Calderon whether she’s cold. She smooths two diaper pads covering the sheets and tucks the frail woman in.

I cry when they pass, or when I am comforting the family. It’s normal. It’s human. — Sister Maria Socorro
Afterward, she reaches into the leather overnight bag she brings to each home she visits. She pulls out a blood pressure monitor and wraps a cuff around Calderon’s skinny arm.

Minutes later, the nun and Calderon’s sister stand over her bed, heads bowed as they pray three Hail Marys. Yolanda Calderon kisses her sister on the forehead.

Socorro said the quiet before dawn breaks gives her time to pray and fortifies her to face death every night. Like other sisters in her order, she only stays with each patient for a month at a time. To stay longer could allow the women to become attached to their patients – and vice versa.

“You get to know them,” she says. “I cry when they pass, or when I am comforting the family. It’s normal. It’s human.”  Sometimes, she said, her patients ask her questions she can’t answer. Why me? Why am I suffering? “God has a better purpose for you,” she tells them.

Sister Veronica cares for Sister Iris, who has dementia, in the cloistered area of the Servants of Mary convent in Oxnard. She hopes that she can help them die with dignity. She has seen men and women too afraid to sleep, afraid that they won’t wake up. One man struggled to breathe at night, grunting in pain under an oxygen mask. He tugged at his clothing and yanked at the mask’s tubes.

Socorro hears the blankets rustle as she speaks. Calderon opens her eyes, which scan the living room in the dark, searching for the nun. People don’t like dying alone – and dying, by its nature, is a lonely labor.

Around midnight, the nun tells Calderon’s sister to get some sleep. Beneath the dull light of the cabinet behind her, she cracks open her Bible, asking God to watch over Esperanza Calderon’s soul. In the living room, she is surrounded by a crucifix, an image of Jesus and statues of the Virgin Mary.

After she finishes meditating, she begins to sew the handkerchiefs used to clean and cover the Communion chalice in church.

At 3 a.m., Calderon wakes up to use the bathroom. Socorro helps her to the commode beside the bed, then tucks her back in. As Calderon falls back to sleep, the sister opens her copy of a book written by Pope Francis.

The sun hasn’t peeked over the horizon when she reaches the front stoop at the convent just after 5 a.m. Socorro greets her sisters, then stops by the chapel to pray the rosary. She helps prepare breakfast and cleans up around the house, finally crawling into bed around noon.  At night, she’ll stand vigil again.

 

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Sent by Sister Mary Sevilla
Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet

Latino soldiers
 Cebu, Phillipines, WW II

  AMERICAN PATRIOTS

Photo: US soldier offering his hand to a woman leaving a cave
Unreal: Pentagon Demands Soldiers Repay Bonuses
WWII Spitfire Pilot   

WWII Spitfire Pilot 

The reason I'm writing to you today is because the American Veterans Center has invited me to travel to Washington, D.C. to speak to hundreds of young people at their annual conference. Most of those in attendance are in ROTC at college or are students at our nation's top military academies. These young folks, who I'm going to speak to will be the next generation of military leaders in our country. When they go into battle, I want them to remember what my fellow Raiders did 74 years ago, so our courage and spirit can be passed on.

I believe this is one of the most important events I can attend. It allows me to have some of the greatest impact on ensuring that our legacy continues long after I'm gone.

I hope you might consider supporting this great event the American Veterans Center is putting together. I also hope you might consider giving a gift of $26 in honor of the average age of the Raiders when we took off on our mission; or $46 in honor of the age of our leader and pilot of plane number one Jimmy Doolittle; or $74 in honor of our upcoming 74th Anniversary.

Your donation will help get me and other WWII veterans to this conference to ensure our legacy lives on.

Whatever you donate to the American Veterans Center, a portion of your donation will go toward the work of the Doolittle Raiders to educate the nation on the importance of the Doolittle Raiders mission and to help ensure our legacy will live on. With your donation you will be able to help support two great groups doing important work for our nation.

If you can give a gift of $74 or more, I'll send you one of our Doolittle Raider anniversary hats. I hope you can wear it with pride and every time you wear it I hope someone comes up to you and asks, "What's the Doolittle Raid?" You will be able to answer with pride and tell that person just what us Raiders did for our nation.

Four years ago the three remaining Raiders and I voted to entrust our legacy to the American Veterans Center. I truly believe the American Veterans Center is vital to keeping our story alive and I ask you to consider helping them continue our mission.

Best, 
 

EARLY LATINO AMERICAN PATRIOTS

On the left Michael Cristian, who portrays Bernardo de Galvez, Judge Robert Thonhoff on the right.

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Historical Marker Dedication

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Diez y Seis de Septiembre Parade

On Thursday, September 22nd, we participated in the dedication of a historical marker at Texas A&M University-San Antonio. We served as the Color Guard for the marker titled Spanish and Mexican Land Grants Granaderos y Damas on hand were Judge Robert Thonhoff and his wife Victoria, Susan Thonhoff Rodriguez, Jesse Villarreal, Sr., Robert Hancock (representing TCARA and who led us in the Pledge of Allegiance), Yolanda Kirkpatrick, and the Color Guard consisting of Jesse Guerra(Commander), Roger Valdez (U.S. Flag), Ricky Reyes (Burgundian Flag), Tim Thatcher (Regimental Flag) and Joe Perez (Drummer).  

On Saturday, September 17th, we marched in the 35th Annual 16 de Septiembre Parade. While the event celebrates Mexico’s independence from Spain, our entry honored the Spanish descendants of the Mexican soldiers who fought for independence. Our entry consisted of Commander Adam Dominguez, Flag Bearers Roland Salazar, Joe Zavala and Joe Perez, Drum Major Ricardo Rodriguez, Fifer Jessica Shelnutt, Snare Drummer Alex Zamora and Bass Drummer Urban Urbano. 

L A G R A N A D A |   www.granaderos.org   |  Oc t obe r 2 0 1 6  | Order of Granaderos y Damas de Gálvez  |San Antonio Chapter
Sent by newsletter editor,  Joe Perez 

Who was the  “Protector and Defender of U.S. independence"?

Sent by Juan Marinez marinezj@msu.edu 
Further communications on the subject of the early Spanish support to the American effort for independence.

José Antonio López  writes to Miguel J. Hernandez miguel.hdz10562@gmail.com 
Your article on the first Catholic Church in NYC is very good. By coincidence, through the generosity of Aaron López (a Converso who reclaimed his Sephardi Jewish faith) the Touro Synagogue was built in Newport, RI, in 1783. It’s the oldest synagogue in the U.S.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Touro_Synagogue  

Gracias José: I got some push-back on my masters paper "Spain, Realpolitik and the American War of Independence" because it argued that without Spain's participation France would have never entered into its alliance with the nascent American nation. Anyway I had irrefutable documentation 

Thanks to Professor Tomás Chávez of New Mexico and a very few other North American historians who have written on this subject. Also when I said in my Historic preservation class that the first planned communities in the US were Spanish a professor with a Ph.D. from Arizona looked shocked. I referred her to the Laws of the Indies which stated in excruciating detail how the Spanish colonist were to construct their Towns and villages in the new world. By the way Carlos III also gave the funds that established the first Catholic Church in NYC see my article on this http://newyorkhistoryblog.org/2013/02/27/spains-gift-to-catholic-new-york/   also in this November issue.

Judge Edward  F. Butler
presenter at the 
37th Annual  Texas State  Hispanic  Genealogical & Historical Conference
Corpus Christi, Texas, 
October 6 – 8, 2016
hosted and organized by 
The Spanish American Genealogical Association, 

Judge Edward  F. Butler, author of  "Galvez/Spain - Our Forgotten Ally In the American Revolutionary War: A Concise Summary of Spain's Assistance," 

Dictionary of International Biographees, and 2000 Notable Americans. He has been honored as an Admiral in the Texas Navy, Tennessee Colonel, Kentucky Colonel, and as an Arkansas Traveler. He had been the recipient of Keys to the Cities of Memphis, TN and Birmingham, AL.

Other groups in which he has actively participated include:
México Society, Sons of the American Revolution (Founder, Charter President)
Spain Society, Sons of the American Revolution (Founder, Charter Chancellor)
France Society, Sons of the American Revolution – Honorary President General (2010)
Children of the American Revolution – Honorary Vice President General (2009-2010)
SAR Conference on the American Revolution – Founding Board Member
Military Order of the Knights of the Temple of Jerusalem (Deputy Grand Prior; Grand Croix)
Raymond J. Davis Foundation of the Knights Templar – Board Member 2003-present
General Society of the Colonial Wars (Deputy Governor General 2012-2014)
Society of the Descendants of Washington’s Army at Valley Forge (Judge Advocate General)
Order of the First Families of Maryland, President, Texas Society (2013-2014); Chancellor General (2014- present).
George Washington Foundation – Fellow (2001-present)
General Society of the War of 1812 (Judge Advocate General)
Military Order of the Stars and Bars (Deputy Judge Advocate General)
General Society Sons of Revolution (President of the Texas Society; Vice President General)
Order of the Founder and Patriots of America (Governor of the Texas Society)
Magna Charta Dames and Barons (Vice Regent of the Texas Society; Regent of the San Antonio Colony)
Reserve Officers Association (Navy Vice President Tennessee and Texas)
Navy Reserve Association (President of Mississippi Valley Chapter)
Military Order of Foreign Wars (President of Memphis, TN Chapter)
Sons of Confederate Veterans (Texas Division Parliamentarian; Camp Commander)
Texas Chapter, Royal Society of St. George (Founding Secretary)
Judge Butler is also a member of the following groups:

Sons of the Republic of Texas (Honorary Member, Tyler, TX Chapter)
Order of the Granaderos y Damas de Gálvez (Honorary Member)
Los Bexarenos Genealogical and Historical Society.
Sovereign Colonial Society Americans of Royal Descent
Colonial Order of the Crown
Plantagenet Society
Order of Americans of Armorial Ancestry
Military Order of the World Wars
Society of Descendants of Knights of the Most Noble Order of the Garter
Military Order of the Crusades
Order of the Crown of Charlemagne in the United States of America
National Huguenot Society
Sons and Daughters of the Colonial and Antebellum Bench and Bar
Gavel Club
Boonesboro Society
Alamo Defenders Descendants Soc.
Order of the First Families of North Carolina
Travelers Century Club (Silver level member, for those who have traveled to 150 countries or more). The author has visited 180 countries accepted by TCC.
Visit the Judge’s Personal Website: judge-ed-butler.sarsat.org


 

Spanish SURNAMES

IX REUNIÓN INTERNACIONAL DE LOS ELIZONDO
APELLIDO PASTOR
APELLIDO BONIS

APELLIDO PASTOR

Capítulo 267 en las Genealogías de Antioquia y Caldas[1]

Investigación de Luis Álvaro Gallo M.
luis.a.gallo@gmail.com

Carlos Platero Fernández, en su libro “Los Apellidos en Canarias”, nos dice que el  apellido Pastor es un patronímico, vocablo que procede del latín, “pastor”, de “pastus”, pastizal, derivado a su vez de “pastum” participio pasado de “pasco”, apacentar, pacer.  Dícese de la persona que guarda, guía y apacienta el ganado.

Continua Carlos Platero: en el santoral cristiano figuran con este nombre  tres mártires y un obispo.  Con el tiempo este nombre se convirtió en apellido.

Como toponímico, el Pastor es una localidad del municipio de Casas de Benítez, provincia de Cuenca.  

En las Genealogías de Antioquia y Caldas, nos dice que este apellido llegó a la ciudad de Santa Fe de Antioquia, con don Pedro Félix Pastor, natural de Cañaveras, obispado de Cuenca, España, donde nació el 20 de noviembre de 1727, hijo de don  Agustín Pastor y  doña María Blanco y Crespo, nieto paterno de don Gregorio Pastor y de doña Isabel García Serrano, y por el lado materno de don Pedro Blanco Millán y de doña Ana Blanco y Crespo.  

Don Pedro Félix Pastor llegó a Antioquia, por 1760. Desempeñó varios cargos importantes entre ellos el de fundidor  de oro, desde 1763 hasta su muerte en 1802, habiéndolo sucedido su hijo don Luis María Pastor Tabares. Se  casó con doña Gregoria Tabares Pérez, hija de don Antonio Tabares Guerrero y de doña Lorenza Pérez Rodil, hija del contador don Patricio Felipe Pérez y de doña  María Gregoria Rodil.  Siendo padres de:  

I-.         Don Luis María Pastor Tabares, casado dos veces. En primeras nupcias con doña María Ignacia Zapata Ossa, hija de don Lorenzo Zapata  del Pino y de doña Lucía de Ossa, hija de don Nicolás de Ossa Pimienta y de doña Marina de la Serna Eizaguirre. De este primer matrimonio nacieron:

A-.       Don Francisco Pastor Zapata, casado con doña Francisca Barcenilla Toro, hija de don Juan José Barcenilla y de Rita Toro Guzmán, hija de don Luis Toro  Cataño y de doña María Ignacia de Guzmán.

B-.       Doña María Josefa Pastor Zapata, casada en Santa Fe de Antioquia con don Juan Nepomuceno Martínez Madarriaga, hijo de Juan de dios Martínez Ferreira y de María Joaquina de Madarriaga y García Olano. Padres de:

a-.        Joaquina Martínez Pastor, casada en Santa Fe de Antioquia con Leoncio Londoño Cossio[2].

En segundas nupcias casó con doña Ángela Barcenilla Toro, hija de don Juan Barcenilla y de doña Rita Toro Guzmán. Padres de:

C-.       Don Ildefonso Pastor Barnecilla, casado con Marcelina Del Corral Arrubla.

            D-.       Don Pedro Pastor Barnecilla,

E-.       Doña María Manuela Pastor Barnecilla, casada con el doctor José Antonio Gómez Londoño, primer presidente constitucional de la Provincia de Antioquia, padres de:

a-.        Juan Antonio Gómez Pastor[3],  nacido el 6 de mayo de 1798. Participó como militar en la Guerra de la Independencia.  Diplomático, parlamentario. A los 14 años está estudiando filosofía con doctor José Félix de Restrepo, en Medellín. También tomo clases en la Escuela de Ingenieros Militares donde dictaba el sabio Francisco José de Caldas.

            Al llegar José María Córdoba a Antioquia, después del 7 de agosto de 1819, se incorporó a sus tropas, haciendo la campaña del Magdalena. Secretario de la Legación en los Estados Unidos. Ministro ante el gobierno del Brasil, en ese momento presidido por el Emperador. Durante el gobierno del General Pedro Alcántara Herrán fue ascendido a General, en 1842. Desempeñó las gobernaciones de Santa Marta y de Antioquia. Miembro de la Asamblea del Departamento de Antioquia, Representante y Senador. Murió en el sitio de Botello, cerca  a Facatativá, víctima de un ataque de cólera que atacó al Colombian en 1850

b-.        Cástor Gómez Pastor.

II-.        Doña Bárbara Pastor Tabares, casada con don Lorenzo de Ossa Zapata, hijo de don Agustín de Ossa y de doña Manuela Zapata.

III-.       Doña Juana Ignacia Pastor Tabares, bautizada en Santa Fe de Antioquia, el 26 de julio de 1762.  Casada con don Juan Esteban Martínez Ferreiro, nacido en Santa Fe de Antioquia el 4 de agosto de 1762[4]  y murió allí mismo el 5 de agosto de 1850. Con su patrocinio y bajo su dirección se construyó el templo, que más adelante sería la actual catedral de Santa Fe de Antioquia, con planos elaborados por capuchino Domingo de Petrés, quien también hizo los de la Catedral de Santafé de Bogotá. Es de anotar que la Provincia de Antioquia, sólo tuvo el nombramiento del su primer obispo en 1804, que no se posesiono.  La construcción del templo se inició en 1796, bendecida y consagrada el 8 de diciembre de 1837. Fueron padres de:

1-.       Ángel José María Rudesindo Martínez Pastor, nacido en Santa Fe de Antioquia, el 1 de marzo de 1782. Casado con Concepción Pardo Otálora, hija de Andrés Pardo González, nacido en Logroño, España, y de Josefa Otálora Jaramillo, quienes se habían casado en Panamá, el 26 de enero de 1766.

2-.       Juan José Faustino Martínez Pastor, conocido siempre como Faustino Martínez, nació en Santa Fe de Antioquia, el 9 de marzo de 1783 y murió allí mismo el 19 de junio de 1857, a los 74 años de edad.  Casado con Eulogia Uruburu Pardo[5], hija de don Valerio  Ramón Uruburu Fernández, nacido en Villoslada, Calahorra, España, y de Lucía Pardo Otálora, hermana de Concepción Pardo Otálora, vista en el numeral 1.

3-.       Eugenio Martínez Pastor, nació en Santa fe de Antioquia, el 15 de noviembre de 1787 donde también murió el 18 de junio de 1866. Se casó en Rionegro, el 24 de enero de 1812, con Juana Rafaela Montoya Zapata, nacida el 24 de octubre de 1797, y fallecida en Santa Fe de Antioquia, en 1842, hija de José María Montoya Duque, 1757-1834, y de María Josefa Zapata Ossa, quien nació en Santa Fe de Antioquia, en 1752 y falleció en Rionegro el 28 de octubre de 1838

4-.       María de los Santos Martínez Pastor, nacida en Santa Fe de Antioquia, en noviembre de 1805 y fallecida allí mismo el 18 de julio de 1891. Casada, el 8 de septiembre de 1822 con Manuel Dimas del Corral Arrubla, nacido en Santa Fe de Antioquia, donde fue bautizado el 26 de mayo de 1801.  Murió el 12 de noviembre de 1870. Sus restos están en el Cementerio de Santa Fe de Antioquia.

5-.       Teresa Martínez Pastor.

6-.       Tomasa Bernarda Martínez Pastor.

7-.       Vicenta Martínez Pastor, casada en 1830 con su sobrino Manuel Cesáreo Martínez Pardo, hijo de Ángel José Martínez Pastor y de Concepción Pardo Otálora.

8-.       Sótera Martínez Pastor.

9-.       Severo Martínez Pastor, casado con Rita Pardo Salcedo, nacida en Santa Fe de Antioquia, hija de Andrés Pardo Otálora, nacido en 1779 y de Juana Salcedo Soria.

IV-.      Doña Manuela Pastor Tabares, casada con don José Antonio Gómez Londoño. Padres de:

1-.       José Simeón Gómez Pastor, casado con Cecilia Del Corral Arrubla, hija de don Toribio del Corral Arrubla y de María Inés Arrubla Martínez.

V-.       Doña María Gertrudis Pastor Tabares, casada con don José  Domingo Hortiz y Argota[6], hijo de don Francisco Hortiz y de doña Isabel de la Sierra, del Valle de Carranza. Estudió en el Real Colegio de San Bartolomé, hoy en día, Universidad Javeriana, donde se gradúo en Jurisprudencia, que ejerció en su ciudad natal. Asistió como diputado a la primera Asamblea Constituyente, celebrada en 1811.  Firma el Acta del 11 de agosto de 1813, en que declaran la independencia absoluta de la Provincia de Antioquia. Padres entre otros de:

1-.       Juan María Gómez Pastor,  nacido en Santa Fe de Antioquia, donde fue bautizado el 6 de mayo de 1798. Como dato curioso, fue el primer bautismo en la pila bautismal, que aún existe en la iglesia de Santa Bárbara, en esa ciudad.

VI-.      Doña Teresa Pastor Tabares, primera esposa de don José Pasos Llanos,  español, hijo Manuel Pasos y de Antonia Llanos, naturales del puerto de Santamaría. Se estableció inicialmente en Santa Fe de Antioquia, donde se casó.  José Pasos Llanos, viudo casó en segundas nupcias, en Medellín, el 12 de junio de 1772, con Mariana Jaramillo Londoño[7].

VII-.     Doña Francisca Pastor Tabares, murió soltera.

APELLIDO BONIS

Investigación de Luis Álvaro Gallo M.

luis.a.gallo@gmail.com

Carlos Platero Fernández, en su libro “Los Apellidos en Canarias”,  cita este apellido, describiendo su escudo. Y lo trae como una derivación del apellido Boni, diciendo que es un apellido de origen italo-suizo Gabriel Arango Mejía, en su libro “Genealogías de Antioquia y Caldas” nos dice que este apellido fue traído a Antioquia, por  don Manuel María Bonis Balzán, nacido en la isla de León, en Cádiz, España. Hijo de José Jerónimo Ignacio Bonis, tesorero del real erario de Cádiz, y de doña Clara de Balzán. Esta tratado en el capítulo 53.Se casó en Medellín el 10 de octubre  con María Teresa Pizano Puerta[1],  quien falleció muy recién casada. Sin dejar sucesión.  

Don Manuel María Bonis Balzán, se trasladó para la ciudad de Santa Fe de Antioquia,  donde contrajo segundas nupcias, con María Paula Pardo Martínez, hija de José Antonio Pardo Otálora, nacido en Panamá el 26 de diciembre de 1766, y su primera esposa María Josefa Martínez Ferreira, hija de María Josefa Martínez Ferreiro y de José Antonio Pardo Otálora[2]. Padres de:

I-.         Carlos Ignacio Bonis Pardo, nació el 1 de noviembre de 1818 y muere el 29 de abril de 1861. Personero de la Provincia de Antioquia, Asumió la Gobernación de ésta provincia, el2 de junio de 1854, al haber sido asesinado el Gobernador José Justo Pabón. Casado con Mercedes Pardo Vegal, hija de Pablo Pardo y de Mariana Vegal. Padres de:

1-.       Manuel María Bonis Pardo, abogado. Casado con Catalina Martínez Pardo, hija de Segundo Martínez  Pardo y Cecilia Pardo Armero. Padres de:

A-.       Elisa Bonis Martínez, fallecida en el 2006.  Casada con Rafael Martínez González, hijo de Constantino Martínez Robledo y de Estanislaa González Arrubla. Padres de:

a-.       Constantino Martínez Bonis,  murió el 22 de julio de 1999, en Medellín. Casado con Alicia Villegas Ángel, hija de Luis Eduardo Villegas Ángel y de Margarita Ángel Olarte.  Padres de:

*-.        Mercelena Martínez Villegas, casada y con familia.

*-.        Rafael Martínez Villegas, casado con María Cristina Bravo, con sucesión Martínez Bravo.

*-.        Luis Felipe Martínez Villegas, casado con María Eugenia García, con sucesión.

*-.        Clara Lucía Martínez Villegas,

*-.        Andrés Martínez Villegas,  con Débora Caridad, con sucesión.

*-.        María del Carmen Martínez Villegas, con Javier Isaza, con sucesión.

b-.       Berta Martínez Bonis, nació el 18 de diciembre de 1914. Murió en junio de 1969. Casada con José Gabriel Jaramillo Montoya, hijo de Julio Jaramillo Vélez, 1880-1936, y de dolores Montoya Pérez, 1880-194. Padres de:

*-.        Julio Jaramillo Martínez, Estudió en el Colegio San José, de los Hermanos de las Escuelas Cristinas en Medellín. Sacerdote. Dirige la fundación Berta Martínez de Jaramillo, que promueve programas.

*-.        Juan Luis Jaramillo Martínez, casado con Adriana Restrepo Calle, hija de David Restrepo De Greiff[3] y de María Elena Calle Jaramillo. Padres de Marcela y Juliana Jaramillo Restrepo.

*-.        Camilo Jaramillo Martínez, casado con Patricia Sepúlveda Lopera, hija de Arturo Sepúlveda Duque y de Fabiola  Lopera Gómez. Padres de: Juan Sebastián, María Adelaida y Elisa Jaramillo Sepúlveda.

                                    c-.        Rafael Martínez Bonis.

                                    d-         Helena Martínez Bonis.

B-.       Ester Bonis Pardo, casada el 9 de febrero de 1905, con Antonio José Uribe Williamson, nacido el 1 de febrero de 1875, hijo de Pascual Uribe Ruiz y de Ester Williamson Mejía, padres de:

            a-.        Alicia Uribe Bonis

            b-.        Blanca Uribe Bonis,

            c-.        Gilberto Uribe Bonis,

            d-.        Jaime Uribe Bonis,

            e-.        Ligia Uribe Bonis,

            f-.         Lucila Uribe Bonis,

            g-.        Margarita Uribe Bonis,

            h-.        Nelly Uribe Bonis,

            i-.         Pascual Uribe Bonis,

            j-.          Saturia Uribe Bonis,

2-.       Carlos Bonis Pardo,  nació el 4 de agosto de 1856. Casado en Bogotá con Mercedes Vezga.

3-.       Elena Bonis Pardo, soltera.

4-.       Carlota Bonis Pardo, soltera.

II-.        Carmelita Bonis Pardo, casada con Víctor Pardo Salcedo, hijo de Andrés Pardo y de Juana Salcedo.

Don Manuel María Bonis Balzán, emigró a Jamaica por realista, donde residió por 23 años, y volvió a contraer terceras nupcias con doña Magdalena Smith. Padres

De:

III-.       Jovita Bonis Smith casada con don Manuel Antonio Pardo Salcedo, padres de:

1-.       Víctor Pardo Bonis, propietario de un almacén de mercancías en general en Santa Fe de Antioquia, se decía que era  el mejor de la ciudad. Tenía fama de ser persona muy culta.  Casado, el 28 de abril de 1890, con María Josefa Martínez Barberi[4], padres de:

A-          Rebeca Pardo Martínez, casada con Manuel Dimas Del Corral         Martínez. Padres de:

a-.         Anita Del Corral Pardo.

                         b-.        Juan Pablo Del Corral Pardo.

                         c-.        Manuel Guillermo Del Corral Pardo.

B-.       Lucía Pardo Martínez casada con Juan Bautista Londoño Del Corral, hijo de Juan Bautista Londoño del Corral y de Inés Del Corral Martínez. Con sucesión Londoño Pardo. Padres de:

a-.       Maruja Londoño Pardo, casada con Jairo Ferrer Ramírez[5], sin descendencia.

b-.       Mario Londoño Pardo, casado con Luisa Domínguez, de Buga, Valle.

c-.        Octavio Londoño Pardo, casado con Mariela Londoño Sierra.

d-.       Horacio Londoño Pardo, falleció el 8 de julio de 2010. Casado con Nélida Álvarez Echavarría.

C-.       Víctor Pardo Martínez casado con Mercedes Londoño Del Corral

D-.       Antonio José Pardo Martínez, nació en Santa Fe de Antioquia, el 31 de diciembre de 1892 y murió en Medellín, el 20 de mayo de 1963. Abogado de la Universidad de Antioquia. Profesor en la Facultad de Derecho de la Universidad de Antioquia. Casado el 26 de octubre de 19926 con Elena Uribe Botero. Con sucesión Pardo-Uribe.

            2-.        Maximiliano Pardo Bonis

DNA

FAMILY HISTORY RESEARCH

Twile Integrates with FamilySearch

DONCASTER, UK and SALT LAKE CITY, UT (September 28, 2016)—Twile and FamilySearch International have announced the launch of a new feature that will let FamilySearch.org users generate a family history timeline and share their research with other family members online. The timeline is designed to make research and discoveries more engaging for the broader family—especially younger generations—and to encourage collaboration.

Connecting securely to FamilySearch.org, Twile imports a user’s tree and automatically adds events, such as births and marriages, to a personal, interactive timeline of their family history. Users can then browse the timeline, add photos, and share it privately with other family members.

By presenting a family tree as a timeline, Twile makes it easier for the non-genealogists in a family to explore their ancestry through events, stories, and pictures. It also encourages collaboration by letting them add missing details, their own life events, and recent photos.

UK-based Twile won two awards in the Innovator Showdown at RootsTech 2016, including the People’s Choice award. In response to customer requests, Twile immediately started development on its FamilySearch integration.

Paul Brooks, Twile CEO, said, “The FamilySearch import has been our most requested feature, especially following our success at RootsTech. We have a passionate community of FamilySearch users who have waited patiently while we built it, and we’re so happy that it’s now ready for them.”

Currently, the integration imports FamilySearch’s Family Tree data into Twile. Soon, Twile will be adding support for FamilySearch’s memories and photos plus an automatic synchronisation that will keep the Twile timeline up to date as FamilySearch records change.

“FamilySearch is always looking for fun, engaging experiences that help our patrons make new personal discoveries and family connections. Twile’s rich, custom timeline of key family history events does exactly that!” said Steve Rockwood, FamilySearch CEO.

To utilize the new feature, FamilySearch users will need to register for Twile at www.twile.com. The basic service is free and lets users add up to 10 events and photos per month, while a Twile Premium account allows subscribers to add unlimited events and photos for $49.99 per year.

Link to or easily share this release online at media.familysearch.org. 

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About FamilySearch

FamilySearch is the largest genealogy organization in the world and is a nonprofit, volunteer-driven organization sponsored by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Millions of people use FamilySearch records, resources, and services to learn more about their family history. To help in this great pursuit, FamilySearch and its predecessors have been actively gathering, preserving, and sharing genealogical records worldwide for over 100 years. Patrons may access FamilySearch services and resources for free at FamilySearch.org or through more than 4,921 family history centers in 129 countries, including the main Family History Library in Salt Lake City, Utah.

About Twile

Twile is a UK-based interactive timeline of your family’s past, present, and future. The timeline consists of photos and milestones—such as births, marriages and deaths—that tell the story of your family from your earliest known ancestor right through to today. Family historians can import their family tree from FamilySearch and then add more recent events from their own life before inviting their family members to explore and contribute.

While the Twile website is aimed primarily at family historians, it is also designed to encourage the rest of the family to add their own content, including the younger generations. Since its beginnings, Twile has been backed by Creative England, a number of UK angel investors and Findmypast, with whom they partnered in February 2016. Twile was the winner of two innovation awards at RootsTech 2016, including People’s Choice.

EDUCATION

Educators fight textbook that vilifies Mexican Americans
By Sabrina Holcomb
Posted September 30, 2016 Education News, NEA EdJustice Features, Texas

Pórtate Bien

Sylvia Castañeda is a Chicana from Boyle Heights. She is an elementary school teacher. Her interests include genealogy, family history, photography, social justice issues and dancing to cumbias & sones jarochos. She lives in the San Gabriel Valley with her husband, two children and three dogs.

Tell Your True Tale at Your Library County of Los Angeles Public Library
http://www.colapublib.org/tytt/portate-bien/ 

Rigorous programs prepare 
minority students for college
by Nina Agrawal 
Los Angeles Times, 
California section, August 7, 2016

Carlos Rivas, from left, tackles an equation with teacher's aide Alejando Fernando and David-Earl Russell at the USC's South Central Scholars program.

CULTURE

SACRED IMAGE CAST THROUGH SEVERAL LENSES
by Antonie Boessenkool
The Orange County Register, Oct 16, 2006

Conjunto & Orquesta
Music and Tejano Identity: "What Are We?

La historia de 'Adelita', la mujer más famosa de los corridos

Sent by Mercy Bautista Olvera scarlett_mbo@yahoo.com 

BOOKS & PRINT MEDIA

1. Promote that Latinos ARE Readers.  Too often Latinos are left out of the discussion of who reads. We cannot let that happen. In truth, Latinos in the USA will purchase more than $650 million in books in 2015. And Latinos are the largest segment of youth in many key markets in the USA. They ARE readers and buyers! 
2. Helping Authors Advance.  While many of the books entered in the Int'l Latino Book Awards are well written, some -especially those from small presses or that are self published-have one or more areas where they need help. The ISLA newsletter and webinars will address these areas with helpful information and tips. 
3. Lobby for more Recognition.  With our united front, we will seek more recognition within the education and publishing industries for Latino authors and their work and for books about the Latino experience.  
4. Be a part of the Empowering Speakers Bureau.  Requests for speakers are received weekly. Through this program we will develop a system for providing speaking opportunities to our members. 
5. Creating Sales.  With Latinos in the USA spending more than $650 million in books a year, we need to see an increasing percentage of those purchases going to books by and about Latinos. ISLA will implement marketing strategies to grow the market for these books.
6. Distribution.   Most importantly, we need to work together to increase distribution to libraries, bookstores, schools, and consumers. ISLA will spearhead work to make this happen.
7. United Voice.   There is strength in numbers. If we are to grow our industry segments-books by or about Latinos, books in Spanish, bilingual children's books, other books targeting Latinos--we MUST  work together.

• Dr. Ana Nogales
• Edward James Olmos
• Sandra Ramos O'Briant
• Victoria Rivera McKinley
• Amelia de Dios Romero
• Rudy Ruiz
• Frank Suárez
• Cecilia Velástegui
• Kirk Whisler

Click Here For More Information

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The 2016 NAHP Convention, 
Allen, Texas 
October 19-22 

Jose Marti Publishing Awards

The annual NAHP Convention is the largest get-together of publishers, editors, ad sales people, and others involved in Latino media.

Come join, learn, grow

It's important to note that Anaya's body of work celebrates the complex cultural heritage of New Mexico. Its Spanish, Mexican, and Native American roots are clearly present in Anaya's descriptions of the state's cherished customs, festivities and folk beliefs.

The international famous hot air balloon fiesta, for example, plays an important role in his Sonny Baca murder mystery "Rio Grande Fall," a matanza (the butchering and cooking of an animal) is arrestingly described in the novel "Alburquerque," and two of his children's books pay homage to the state's green chile and to the New Mexico Christmas mainstay — the farolitos, or paper lanterns that have become an iconic Christmas scene.

Image: US-POLITICS-OBAMA-ARTS-MEDAL
US President Barack Obama presents author Rudolfo Anaya with the 2015 National Humanities medal during a ceremony in the East Room of the White House in Washington, DC, on September 22, 2016. SAUL LOEB / AFP - Getty Images
Anaya's deep appreciation for his birth state, his love of its cultures and its people, make him one of the most important literary ambassadors for "the land of enchantment."

But his activism moves beyond the page. Two important initiatives he established along with his wife Patricia are a scholarship fund for underprivileged youth in New Mexico and La Casita, a guest house located on the beautiful mountains of Jemez Springs. He offers the space to writers, particularly those living in the Southwest, who need a writing residency but are unable to attend the artist colonies of faraway New York. (Full disclosure: when I was only a graduate student in Arizona back in 1996, Anaya offered me one of these residencies during a critical stage of my fiction thesis.)

For Latino writers, Rudolfo Anaya has been an important literary mentor in two ways. On the page, he's a writer whose prolific output exemplifies an admirable work ethic, and whose respect for his cultural heritage shapes the landscape of his plots and settings. Off the page, Anaya is an unapologetically Chicano and Nuevo Mexicano artist and a firm champion of the author's right to freedom of expression.

Not long before he traveled to DC to receive his National Humanities Medal, I had the opportunity to speak with Mr. Anaya over the phone. I had been enlisted by the National Endowment for the Humanities to write a profile of the honoree. After a brief interview, I was reminded of another of Anaya's well-known characteristics, his sense of humor.

Source: NEWS HISPANIC HERITAGE MONTH 2016 OCT 14 2016
Sent by Mercy Bautista Olvera 
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by Peter B. Gawenda

Cuando Éramos Invencibles  por Jesús A. Rojo Pinilla

“Isabel de Castilla fue la primera en abolir la esclavitud, no Lincoln”. 

El periodista e historiador Jesús Ángel Rojo combate en 'Los invencibles de América' la Leyenda Negra narrando la grandeza de la gesta de los conquistadores españoles en el Nuevo Continente. Indigenistas y populistas 
se la tienen jurada.

 

“España nunca se va a ir de América por la sencilla razón de que hemos dejado nuestros genes, nuestra cultura y nuestra religión”

“No puede ser que haya una ley que diga cómo tiene que ser la Historia. Eso sólo pasa en países como Corea del Norte o Cuba”

“Con la llegada de los españoles se acabó con una cosa tan aberrante como es el canibalismo y el sacrificio de seres humanos”

Los Invencibles de América.Book-trailer   >  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VDewYOfPNHE     

WHITE CARGO 
by Don Jordan and Michael Walsh

The Irish Slave Trade – The Forgotten “White” Slaves
The Slaves That Time Forgot
Article by John Martin

ORANGE COUNTY, CA

Featuring

Wednesday, November 2, 2016 7:30 PM
Segerstrom Center for the Arts

 
Grammy nominated singer-songwriter Perla Batalla consistently earns critical acclaim for her unique voice and culture-merging compositions. Formerly aLeonard Cohen back-up singer, the Los Angeles born vocalist launched her solo career with Cohen's encouragement.Since then she's recorded seven albums, been featured in films and television, and taken her unique sound on tour in some of the most prestigious venues around the world.


Quetzal is committed to respectfully continuing the legacy of over 70 years of Chicano Rock. Standing on the shoulders of giants like Lalo Guerrero, Ritchie Valens, Cannibal and The Headhunters, The Brat, Los Lobos, and many others, this collective of East Side musicians has created a path that has earned them the title of "one of Los Angeles' most important bands" (LA Times). Quetzal forges a sound that will simultaneously make you dance and contemplate change, a sound as rich and complex as their pluri-ethnic barrio experience. Their unique combination of community activism and creative compositions has allowed them to travel the world using music as a tool for creating a global network of musicians committed to building community.

Pacifíco Dance Company was founded in 1992 as a nonprofit  organization dedicated to the preservation and reconstruction of classical  and contemporary Mexican dance forms. Under the Artistic direction of Adriana Astorga Gainey, Pacifíco Dance Company has performed for audiences across the nation and internationally. Comprised of40 accomplished dancers and musicians, the company prides itself on educating culturally diverse communities as well as, providing Hispanic audiences with a forum for developing pride in their own heritage.These brilliant artists collaborate to present both traditional andinnovative works that combine the essence of traditional styles with modern dance idioms.

La Santa Cecilia started their career by serenading passersby on the embellished corners of Downtown Los Angeles' Olvera Street.  They are a 
musical phenomenon that has won a Grammy, toured from coast to coast, collaborated with Elvis Costello, appeared on Conan, and most recently shared the stage with Led Zeppelin's John Paul Jones. With captivating voice that sings about love, loss, and disappointment, the band has become the voice of a new bicultural generation in the United States, fully immersed in modern music, but still close to their Latin American influences and Mexican heritage.


Buy tickets here

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Orange County Hispanic Women of the Year 
Recognition Awards Banquet by Santa Ana LULAC
November 5, 2016 (6:00 pm to 9:00 pm)
The Ebell Club, 625 North French St., Santa Ana, CA 92701

November 12, 2016 

Linda Serna, Expert Genealogy Researcher

 How to dispel myths and solve mysteries in your genealogy research.

Come join us at the November 12, 2016 monthly meeting of the Society Of Hispanic Historical & Ancestral Research (SHHAR) featuring  Linda Serna, expert genealogy researcher and lecturer who will make a presentation on how to dispel myths and solve mysteries in your genealogy research.

Dispelling the Myths and Finding Your Family, including Using Step by Step Genealogy” debunks some common genealogical myths and suggests avenues to pursue instead.  It also addresses through analysis and examples how to determine the people you add to your tree are really your people.  Finally, case study examples will be given to illustrate solving genealogical mysteries step by step.  

Linda is a member of several professional organizations and is Vice President of Programs for the Orange County California Genealogical Society (OCCGS).  

The free presentation will take place at the Orange Family History Center, 674 S. Yorba St., Orange.

Volunteers will provide research assistance from 9 -10 a.m., and Serna will speak from 10:15 -11:30 a.m.

For information, contact Letty Rodella at lettyr@sbcglobal.net.

Orange County Hispanic Bar Association's Wallace (Wally) R. Davis 
Memorial Scholarship Fund

Santa Ana library adapts to serve immigrant families, youth, by Heather Folmar
The Orange County Register
Photo: Sam Gangwer, staff photographer
September 1, 2015 and updated April 19, 2016

The Santa Ana Public Library was founded in 1891 by white, middle-class migrants from the Midwest who wanted to replicate their hometown libraries. But like its city, the Santa Ana Public Library — where I have served as operations manager since 2009 — is changing.

Santa Ana has become a first stop for immigrants from Mexico and other parts of Latin America. It is also home to many Vietnamese immigrants who arrived in the 1970s and 1980s. The city is now about 80 percent Latino and 10 percent Southeast Asian. About 50 percent of our community is foreign-born. The downtown area, where the library is located is a yeasty mix of trendy restaurants and businesses serving immigrants. To reflect and enhance our community, we use demographic stats to identify overall needs, and we talk to individuals in the library about what they’d like to see.

Efforts to adapt to the changing interests of Santa Ana residents became more difficult after the Great Recession arrived in 2008. We didn’t have funds to buy new books or materials. We had to reduce hours at one branch. We had to contemplate reducing the number of story times and other programs for youth.

We didn’t want the community to feel short-changed, so we began to apply for grants. With a grant from the Laura Bush 21st Century Librarian Program, we could pay bilingual young people from the community to work in the library, support their education and teach them the skills they need to become librarians in a diverse community.

“Locally grown” library staff has the gift of making immigrant families feel comfortable and welcome and can help us to create collections and services that answer needs in the community. Our youth services librarian, who grew up in the city and has been with the library from high school through graduate school, has developed a K-12 bilingual tutoring program, a science institute, and an award-winning Dia de los Ninos, Dia de los Libros (Day of the Children, Day of the Books) program.

Other federal grants have allowed us to increase programming, particularly for young people. We now host programs to train at-risk youths in digital media skills, including digital music, graphic design and web design. We have an active, after-school tutoring program that focuses on kids with learning problems, and a Teen Historian program that trains teens to collect oral histories from their immigrant parents or grandparents, while helping them to understand their families’ struggles to settle in a new country and adapt to a new culture.

Last year, we started Memories of Migration to build on the Teen Historian program. The idea is to develop cultural heritage collections based on the shared stories of human migration in America. Techniques developed by the library will be tested in model programs in Connecticut, New York and New Mexico.

Every day, Santa Ana Public Library staff serves a variety of people with equally varying needs. Teens and tweens hang out with friends in the TeenSpace, men and women come in to get help with resumes and job hunting, and people of all ages visit our Tech Desk to get one-on-one help with technology or to take bilingual computer classes. Santa Ana teens (including an unusually high number of boys) come to gain skills, mentor younger children, and become advocates for their parents and grandparents through the city’s Youth Civic Engagement program.

I have enjoyed observing the changes that have come about in libraries, reveling both in the rise of technology and the persistence of the written word. Libraries remain places where everyone can find information, a calm place to hang out, a window into the past and a path to the future.

Heather Folmar has been a librarian with the Santa Ana Public Library for 25 years. She wrote this for Reimagining California, a partnership of the California Endowment and Zócalo Public Square.


The Santa Ana Library was one of only five libraries in the US to win the 2016 National Medal for Museum and Library Service.

Families remember 1943 Huntington Beach plane crash that killed four children
by Josh Rosen, The Orange County Register
June 28, 2016 


Ana Venegas, staff photographer

Maria Young, left, kisses her mother, Vera Silva Mendez. Silva Mendez lost two sisters in the 1943 crash of a P-38 fighter plane on the beach in Huntington Beach. The plaque was dedicated at the Huntington By the Sea Mobile Home Estates. Young lives at the mobile home park, which happens to be across the street from the crash site.

LOS ANGELES, CA

'I want to cry. I’m in book heaven.' How one reading advocate hopes to change 
the lives of juvenile hall detainees through a library 
by Zoila Gallegos, LOCAL L.A. Now



Literacy specialist Zoila Gallegos talks with two girls inside the new, 
4,000-volume library at Los Padrinos Juvenile Hall in Downey. (Patrick T. Fallon / For The Times)

Zoila is an alum of Mount St Mary's University. BA in 92  & MA in '96.

                  Amy Trulock, right, a full-time on-site librarian, watches as the girls browse the shelves 
                             inside the Los Padrinos Juvenile Hall library. (Patrick Fallon / For The Times)

She brought the idea to James Johnson, the Los Angeles County Probation Department’s superintendent at Los Padrinos, as well, and he quickly agreed. Johnson knew there was a library at Central Juvenile Hall already, although that one is aging and smaller.

Last month, Gallegos watched as officials from the Office of Education and the county probation and library departments unveiled a new library at Los Padrinos with 4,000 books and a full-time on-site librarian. About $1 million in Probation Department funds were set aside to rehab an empty classroom, buy the book collection, and pay the librarian and assistant for the next three years.

A couple of weeks later, the first two minors walked through the door.

“I want to cry. I’m in book heaven,” said Christie, 16, as she looked around at the shelves.

She made the rounds with librarian Amy Trulock, pulling one book after another off the shelves before settling on “Hallway Diaries,” a collection of three stories by Felicia Pride, Debbie Rigaud and Karen Valentin.

The other girl, Vanessa, 16, curled up in a beanbag chair and began flipping through “On the Edge,” a tale of love and rival gangs by Allison van Diepen. Vanessa said she had read other books by the author and liked them because the characters “go through the same things we do.”

Vanessa said she reads more books when she’s in custody. “I don’t get as into them [at home] as I do here, because it’s all I have to do.”

Gallegos said she tries to make the most of having a literally captive audience to reel in kids who would otherwise shun reading. She likes to introduce her students to books through authors with experiences like their own — people like Luis Rodriguez, the 2014 poet laureate of Los Angeles, and Jimmy Baca Santiago, who wrote the screenplay for the 1993 cult film “Blood In Blood Out.” Both men have come to speak at the juvenile hall at Gallegos’ invitation.

Rodriguez said in an interview that a library “would have made all the difference in the world” when he was a teenager locked up in juvenile hall.

         

Female detainees carry books from the library. “In my own way, I’m doing my own civil rights initiative,” said Gallegos, who advocated for the library to inspire the readers she teaches in the juvenile hall. 
(Patrick T. Fallon/ For The Times)

“I think there are opportunities, if you’re going to take young people away from their communities, from their families, to teach them something,” he said.

Some kids have taken an unlikely shine to more literary works. One detainee read 2 million words in six months, including most of the “Harry Potter” series.

“Here’s a kid with tattoos, gangster, and he’s reading ‘Harry Potter,’ ” Gallegos said. After showing the judge his certificates for all the books he had read, the youth’s sentence got knocked down from a year to six months.

Nick Ippolito, Knabe’s deputy on child welfare issues, said there should be libraries at all of the county probation camps and halls. But, he said, county leaders should focus on keeping kids from winding up in the lockups in the first place. Already, the numbers have decreased. The population of the three juvenile halls is down from a high of more than 1,700 in 2006 to less than half of that.

“Hopefully in the future as population numbers go down, we see less and less need for these facilities,” Ippolito said. “My hope is that we get to a point where we’re not just saying, ‘We have a library for you while you’re in jail.’ ”

abby.sewell@latimes.com   Twitter: @sewella 
http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-juvenile-hall-library-20160926-snap-story.html 

Sent by Mary Sevilla, CSJ


  

A Long Road 
to a New Start
A once homeless 
teen is set to attend
UC Davis
by 
Joy Resmovits

Los Angeles Times,
July 3, 2016

CALIFORNIA 

In the 1920’s, Luz Solís was living in San Diego with her husband and their two young children.

Luz was raised in Tijuana and had crossed the U.S. – Mexico border daily to attend grade school in San Ysidro.
Her husband, Lupe Tirado, was from Sinaloa; a man with limited education and a strong temperament who worked as a cement finisher. Luz was 16 years old when she married him in Tijuana and, as crossing the border was much easier then, they went to live in San Diego. They lived in a rented modest house downtown on Columbia Street near West Market Street.

She and her sister, Antonia, were born to Ygnacio Solís & María Cañez, a customs agent at the Tijuana checkpoint and his wife. After she married, Luz frequently visited her parents and sister in Tijuana. When her father died, Luz’s mother and sister moved to Santa Paula, California, north of Los Angeles, where relatives lived. Not long after that, Luz’s mother passed away. Antonia remained in Santa Paula under the care of relatives, the Gutiérrez family, until she married. Luz came up often.

One day, Luz returned from a trip to Santa Paula to find her home on Columbia Street empty. Her family had vanished. Her husband was gone. Their children – their son Leocadio and daughter Ascención – were nowhere to be found.

Frantic, Luz went door to door, inquiring with neighbors. She spent days searching. A neighbor informed her that Lupe had fled to his native Mazatlán, Sinaloa. She went there. Back then, it was a trip that took many days. But in Mazatlán she found nothing.

Luz returned to San Diego, destroyed. She continued searching. Yet, unable to afford the rent on her own, she had no other alternative but to find shelter with the Gutiérrez family in Santa Paula. When she gathered enough strength to make it on her own, she moved to Tijuana. For years, she frequently crossed the border into San Diego to search for her children Leocadio and Ascención without success.

By 1930, Luz was living in Tijuana, and remarried to Carlos Savín, a commercial fisherman who followed the fishing routes along Baja California. They divided their time between homes in La Paz and Tijuana, depending on the fishing season. Often, over the years, they crossed into San Diego to visit Luz’s family. When they did, Luz always returned to the house on Columbia Street where she last held her children.

In time, neighbors moved away and the neighborhood was one she no longer recognized. She carried her children’s disappearance like a cross, longing more than anything to find her children. But with every passing year, the longing formed a deep abyss of sorrow.

Luz and Carlos never had children of their own. But the children of Carlos’ brother came to live with them and Luz raised her nieces – Dora and Margarita – and they loved her as their mother.

Every month for as long as she lived, Luz wrote letters to her sister, Antonia, who was by then living in the Mexican state of Zacatecas. In those letters she wrote of the daily events in her life as well as the agony caused by the absence of her children.

In 1986, Luz’s letters became sparse; months went by without any news from her. One day, the letters ceased. Concerned about Luz, Antonia sent a letter to the corner house on Calle Revolución and Sonora, in La Paz, inquiring about her sister. She received no response. Antonia never again heard from her sister.

The memory of Leocadio and Ascención vanished with Luz.

Antonia was my grandmother. I heard the story of my Grand Aunt Luz when I was 9 years old.

It was 1978. I was at my Tía Lupe’s house on Atlas Street in El Sereno, in the living room, cross-sitting on the patterned burgundy carpet. Outside, leaves fell on the low stone wall that surrounded the front porch. Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass played in the background. My mother sat at the dining-room table while Tía Lupe sewed a flowered skirt for me, to be used during Folklorico Dance practice and they laughed as they told what they remembered of the letters their mother, Antonia, received from her sister Luz in Baja California.

Every time a letter arrived, they said, Antonia would sit them around the small coal-burning stove, which simultaneously heated the cast- iron clothes iron and cooked the beans in the earthenware pot as she read the news from the family that lived so far away. Every detail of the letters was animated by Antonia’s tone and pitch, except when the news was sad; then her voice became somber and sometimes she didn’t read aloud what was written.

As the memories of the letters unfolded, the boisterous laughs of my mother and her sister grew quiet and still, Herb Alpert became faint and they told the story of Luz and her children. I never forgot that story.

Years later, when I was in my twenties – seventy years after the disappearance of Leocadio and Ascención – I began to search for them.

My quest began with a leather-bound photo album, carefully arranged throughout the years by my Abuelita Antonia. This collection of photographs captured moments in time described in the letters. Every year, in the winter recess, when I visited my Abuelita in Zacatecas, I immersed myself in the stories the pictures conveyed. I linked the people in the photos to the names and the events in the letters. I connected myself to these memories left behind in the photographs. Two photos were absent from the collection and deserved a place alongside the others.

My father and sister humored my persistence in searching for documents that would serve as clues to the whereabouts of Luz’s missing children. But they could not understand why. My mother, in her heart, longed to locate them but didn’t think the pursuit would be fruitful. My cousins thought I was mad. Let the past be, they would say. Why disturb what was to be? Why does it matter, it happened so long ago? Who is Luz? Let the story that faded into the walls remain there, to protect those who lived and suffered.

I obtained Leocadio and Ascención’s birth certificates registered in San Diego, then, I located a 1920 Census record. It listed a Guadalupe Tirado as a head of household; it listed Lucy as his wife and Oscar as their one year old son. They were renting a house on Market Street in San Diego. However, I was perplexed by the recorded name for their son: Oscar. His age was accurate. Could this be Luz’s family?

I came across several border-crossing records for Luz Solís and Guadalupe Tirado and a U.S. World War I Draft Registration Card for Guadalupe. The border crossing records and the draft registration document identified Luz Solís as Guadalupe Tirado’s wife. I revisited the 1920 Census record to check the address and matched a border crossing recorded about the same year. The Tirado family in the 1920 Census had to be Luz’s family. But was Luz’s son named Leocadio? Was “Oscar” his first name and Leocadio his middle name? I grew more obsessed with the search.

In the 1930 Census, I found a Guadalupe Tirado, who was married to another woman named Felicitas. They lived on 13th Street in San Diego. Their two oldest children were the same age as Leocadio and Ascención would have been, but their names were Eugenio and Maria. In the 1940 Census, Guadalupe and Felicitas Tirado lived on Pickwick Street in San Diego. The two oldest children’s names were now Eugene & Mary.

I searched the name Eugene Tirado on the internet and was linked to the Korean War Casualties website. My heart immediately sank. I clicked on the link. “Eugene L. Tirado, born on 1918, killed in Action 26 Mar 1951, Sergeant First Class, Army” appeared on the computer screen. My eyes focused on his middle initial. This had to be Leocadio.

I sought his military records. The Report of Internment for Eugene L. Tirado identified his birthdate. It matched Leocadio’s: Dec 9, 1918. The typed record also had a bonus; in blue lead, the letters “e” and “o” were added by hand to the “L.” I thought of Luz and my eyes flooded with tears.

Through it all, for 20 years, I kept on, convinced I could find these children. I searched census indexes at the local Family Search Library, requested mail-ordered photocopies of birth records from the San Diego County Registrar and census records from the National Archives, visited the Los Angeles Public Library Genealogy Department, maneuvered through microfiche, microfilm, record books, and scoured the sources of data brought on by the dawning of the internet. It led, in the end, to the realization that one of her children was killed at war years before I was born.

In August 2010, I posted a snippet of Luz’s story on Ancestry.com and I also left a note on a message board of a person who had Eugene Leo Tirado on a family tree. Six months later, I received an email from a woman named Frances.

Frances was 68 and she was the daughter, she said, of Eugene Tirado.

She was living in Connecticut, where she raised her family and had resided for over 20 years. Frances said she was born in San Diego and had grown up there, too, until she left for college. After graduating, she married and cared for her two children. Her former husband’s job promotions moved her family to the East Coast, where she found work as an administrative clerk. Frances also had an interest in family history – particularly the family of her birth mother, who had died when Frances was so young and whom she therefore knew little about. She had been researching and developing her family tree for two years by then.

Frances had never heard of Luz Solis.

Her father Eugene and Aunt Mary had grown up in San Diego, she said. The homes their father rented before he purchased a lot on Pickwick Street were just blocks from the one where they last lived with their mother, Luz.

Eugene married a woman who gave birth to Frances and two siblings. The woman died giving birth to their third child, who also died. Frances was only 11 months old at the time of her mother and sister’s deaths. Eight months after, Eugene enlisted in the army; left his two children in the care of his parents, Lupe and Felicitas.

Felicitas was a gentle, pious soul and loved them as if they were her own. Lupe isolated himself in his room after work to escape the noise the grandchildren would create. In 1946, Eugene re-married in Alabama, where he was stationed, and a son was born the following year. He re-enlisted in the Army in 1950 and was a member of the 187th Airborne Infantry Regimental Combat Team when he was killed in action in Korea.

His sister Mary, meanwhile, married a career Air Force officer. They had two children. Lupe sent Frances to live under Mary’s guardianship about the time Eugene re-enlisted.

Soon Frances and I were e-mailing each other daily. She told me about her father, Eugene; he was the life of every party and always wore a smile. He loved Frances and her brother and was always good to them. We exchanged pictures. Eugene did have a beautiful smile just like my mom and her sisters. Mary was the spitting image of Luz.

Frances scarcely knew her Aunt Mary when she was sent to live with her. Mary doted on her two children, as any mother would, but resented having to look after a third child – a child not her own.

Frances had always been told that Luz, her grandmother, had abandoned the family for another man. Frances was shocked to learn this was not true, and upset that her grandfather had put Luz through such misery. But she said it explained a lot.

Throughout her life, Mary always felt cast aside, abandoned by her mother. Before she married, as the only daughter, Mary was given the charge of her four younger half-brothers along with household chores. Once married, she seldom visited her family, though they lived in the same city.

Mary passed away on January 18, 2010 in Escondido, having lived her entire life twisted by a lie her father told. She and her brother, Eugene, are buried at Fort Rosecrans National Cemetery in San Diego.

Lupe Tirado was a handsome and responsible man. He worked hard all of his life to provide food and shelter for his family; but he was violent. Everyone feared him. His grandchildren had to be careful not to touch anything when they visited his home. Lupe was short-tempered with his sons if they did not respond to his first call. He was proud of whisking Felicitas away on a horse, in Tijuana, to care for his two little children.

Lupe never mentioned Luz’s name, nor spoke of his past. I suppose we will never know why he abandoned Luz. Years later, Felicitas and Lupe divorced. Lupe married a third woman – a marriage that also ended in divorce.

Frances and I continue to communicate through e-mail, Facebook and an occasional call. She is my mother’s age – now 73; born the same month. My mother and Frances resemble each other at this age: straight, short dark hair with whisks of grey and smiles that light up a room.

The day I received the first e-mail from Frances, I phoned my mother. There was a moment of silence on her end.

My mother grew up without any cousins. She only speaks Spanish and Frances speaks English only. Frances’ daughter and I serve as their interpreters while on phone calls and translators of letters. Google Translate has also played a part, though the translations are imprecise and puzzle my mother.

I now have photographs of Leocadio and Ascención.

“Sylvia,” Frances said, “you have come into my life bringing Luz.”

About a month after our first email encounter, I had a dream that Luz was a fairy trapped in a glass jar. She was screaming asking for her release but she was inaudible. Frances and I worked in unison to release her and when we did, she flew away.


 
Sylvia Castañeda is a Chicana from Boyle Heights. She is an elementary school teacher. Her interests include genealogy, family history, photography, social justice issues and dancing to cumbias & sones jarochos. She lives in the San Gabriel Valley with her husband, two children and three dogs.

Bartolomé Ferrelo nuevo capitán llega hasta el actual Oregón

http://www.historiadelnuevomundo.com/index.php/2015/08/la-conquista-de-california/

NORTHWESTERN UNITED STATES 

Viewing this map, helped me understand the Russian interest and presence in Alaska and California.
Fuente: Banderas Lejanas (Ed. EDAF)

This is an extensive article, with lots of details on the inter-national attitudes and political interest in the west coast of the continent.  http://www.historiadelnuevomundo.com/index.php/2015/09/la-conquista-de-alaska/

 Since January 2003, Dr. Rey has been Professor and Head of the Department of Modern Languages at South Dakota State University. Prior to that he had spent over twenty years at the University of Alaska Anchorage, where he took an active interest in the 18th century Spanish explorations in the Pacific Northwest.

 Dr. Rey’s research interests are multiple, but his specialization is mystical weltanschauung, such as Miguel de Molinos’, father of quietism and a great influence on the Pietistic movement, particularly the Quakers.

 The articles presented here describe the Spanish explorations in Alaska and some cultural aspects that remain.

Cordova in Alaska 
A biography of Spanish captain Luis de Cordova y Cordova, and information on related Spanish expeditions in Alaska. A lecture given at the Cordova Museum in summer of 1990.

Page 1 - Who was Luis de Córdova y Córdova?  (Text below)*

Page 2 - The Spaniards arrive and name it Córdova

Page 3 - The naming of Valdez

Page 4 - Other places named Cordova

Spanish Place Names on the Face of Alaska 
The stories behind the Spanish names of 75 places on Prince of Wales Island.

Introduction

Part 1

Part 2

Place Names in Revillagigedo and Gravina Islands 
Exploring the Spanish and Irish heritage of Southeast Alaska through 46 place names.

Cinco de Mayo 
Alaskans of Mexican ancestry join in Mexico's celebration of victory over the French Army on May 5, 1862.

Books by Dr. Arsenio Rey-Tejerina:

• Alaska-Nutka: Colofon del Imperio Espanol (Artes Graficas Villena, 1994) - written in Spanish, with a profusion of notes in English.
• Tomas de Suria a l'expedicio Malaspina - Alaska 1791 (Generalitat Valenciana) - has a long intro in English and in Catalonian, with the body of the book in Spanish.