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The Mysterious Lights of La Cueva de Las Brujas [the cave of the witches] by Louisa Franco Madrid is presented for our Halloween enjoyment as the third in the series of remembrances of stories from Terlingua appropriate for Halloween. 

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We continue the Halloween theme with another recuerdo of lechuzas from Antonio Franco about a conversation he had with Cruzita, a well known curandera from Ojinaga MX, who surprised Antonio with her answers to his questions about lechuzas in Cruzita, Curandera y Lechuza.
The photo at the left is the lechuza in a game for the Apple products called Lechuza Horror Point and Click Game.  So Lechuzas are still with us today.

lechuza revealed
Louisa Franco Madrid recalls her mother Natividad Garcia Franco telling her the story behind the photograph at the left.  Louisa herself is the baby in the photo so she has no memory of this.  But she tells us the story she finds funny but some of us may find scary the story of La Lechuza Revealed.   Happy Halloween!

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_ María Isabel Pando shares with us her memories of her father's life in her account of "The Life of Leonardo Pando."   Leonardo is mentioned in More Tales from the Big Bend by Elton Miles in the "Corrido [ballad] of the 101 Ranch" pages 58 to 62.
Note: An account of the Brown Dude Ranch which we hope to publish soon.  The picture at the left is a picture of Leonardo with his horse Happy performing tricks.

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Juan-Paz Peña brings us a compelling account of is mother
"Celestina Rodríguez Peña: Memories of an Early Border Teacher"

Note: Juan-Paz is working on a work of his family stories where he will document stories of his family.  We may get a chance to publish some of those stories here.

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_The Saga of Martín Peña by Juan-Paz Peña

Juan-Paz Peña writes what he calls an outline of the story of the Peña family starting with Martín Peña in Lyon France and ending up in West Texas.  It makes interesting reading.

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Mary Holguín remembers Julian and Isabel Garcia
in her "Stories of My Ancestors"


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Easter Cascarones: read a memory from the age of five

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Click on this link to read:
Lydia Mendoza in Study Butte - by Louis Madrid

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Click on this link to read: Visiting Los Abuelitos - Recuerdo de Louisa Madrid

Comment on these memories or post your own memories. 
Length does not matter.
  Write a sentence or a whole story. 
Literary skill does not matter.  We're not fancy; tell us in your own words.
Content does not matter.  It doesn't have to be a story.  You could tell us about a custom that may not be generally known or has fallen out of practice today such as ways children showed respect to elders.  Or you can tell us how your family used to do things that we either no longer do or are done so differently today like making lye soap, butchering a goat, or making tesguino.  Do you have a family recipe?  
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Manuel (kneeling), Antonio, Secundino

You don't have to be "polished" or formal.  We want you to contribute so don't be intimidated by not knowing "the right way" to do this.  Any way you do it is right.  But if you are more ambitious, go to these links to learn how to do oral history  from these sites that introduce the best practices in oral history research:
  • General Principles for Oral History and Best Practices for Oral Historyhttp://www.oralhistory.org/?page_id=359&preview=true
  • Archivo de la Memoria (Memory File)
Amezcua M, Hueso Montoro C. Cómo elaborar un relato biográfico. Arch Memoria, 2004; 1. Disponible en: http://www.index-f.com/memoria/metodologia.php

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