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Bernalillo: Yesterday's Sunshine, Today's Shadows is a compendium of oral stories from fifteen Hispanic old-timers from Bernalillo, New Mexico, that takes the reader back fifty-plus years to their beloved town with a colorful and long-standing history. They speak both proudly and sadly of their language and culture. Language, in spite of everything, cannot exist without culture or vice versa. Two primary goals were considered in putting this book...
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74 pages, 2 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
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English
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Includes story with Lovato's alter ego, Elvis Romero, who with his cousin Pepa, engage to scheme to rescue Zozobra from his inevitable demise. Includes historical and cultural information about the yearly fiesta.
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xiv, 218 pages : illustrations, map ; 21 cm
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"A complex yet affirming memoir about growing up in northern New Mexico, in a family doubly removed from the community; as Hispanic Protestants, they were a minority among the region's politically dominant Anglo Protestants and a minority within the overwhelmingly Catholic Hispanic populace. Includes photographs by Miguel Gandert"--Provided by publisher.
14) Española
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127 pages : chiefly illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm.
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English
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"This is my favorite kind of history," writes Dick Haeberlin in "Southwestern American Literature," "the story of a person I did not know about before, one not famous but important anyway." And important she was, as this new Sunstone Press edition of "Nina Otero-Warren of Santa Fe" reconfirms. In many ways her life paralleled that of Santa Fe and New Mexico in the early years of the twentieth century. Born in 1881, Nina saw New Mexico change from...
20) Abuelos
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
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English
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Young Ray and Amelia move to a new village and experience the fright and fun of "los abuelos" for the first time.The tradition of "los abuelos" comes from northern New Mexico. In the cold months of midwinter, village men disappear to disguise themselves as scary old men and then descend on the children, teasing them and asking if they've been good.
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