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Your Memories

2/23/2010

6 Comments

 
Click on the word "Comments" (above right) to enter what you remember somebody telling you about what life was like in Old Terlingua.  What customs do you know about that are no longer practiced that you learned about Old Terlingua from people who lived there?  What songs did they listen to?  What was a dance like? Were dances indoors? Did they dance square dances?  What dance steps were popular? Tell us what you don't want to be forgotten about old Terlingua or its residents. 

Length does not matter.  Write a sentence or a whole story. 

Literary skill does not matter.  You don't need to try to be fancy.  Simply tell us in your own words what you remember.

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. These can be daily things, or special things, like dia de los muertos or posadas at Christmas time or cascarones at Easter time.  Tell us about things that we either no longer do or are done so differently today like making lye soap, butchering a goat, or making tesgüino.  Do you have a family recipe? 

6 Comments
Joe Rudder
5/2/2010 03:31:56 pm

remember Tio Tull Newton...i was a small boy and may have spelling wrong...still remember his stories...and the Burro Kid?

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Antonio Franco
5/7/2010 09:52:16 pm

Joe, thank you for posting your memory on Familias de Terlingua. We checked our usual sources (they do mostly genealogy research) and didn’t find any more information on “Tio Tull Newton.” We did find a “T.M. Newton” mentioned on page 93 of Big Bend Country Land of the Unexpected in reference to the shooting of Jack and Winslow Coffman. Do you know if this might be the Tull Newton you remember?

We were very intriqued by your memory of the Burro Kid. We have heard of the Burro Lady, but the Burro Kid is a new one. If there is any more you can tell us about the Burro Kid, I know many of our readers would enjoy reading what you remember. I for one am now very curious about Tull Newton and the Burro Kid. Do you remember where you saw/heard him or any thing else about Newton or the Burro Kid?

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Ayda Pena-Perez
2/19/2011 04:35:56 am

Memories-Recuerdos..As we near the Quaresma(Lent) season, memories of the aroma of capirotada and Ama(Martina Franco Pena)in the kitchen come to mind.The kitchen was the old clapboard part of the old adobe house that once belonged to Ama Wicha(Mauricia Lugo Pena).This house was given to my mother after she married and started her family.Located at 201 Spring street in Fort Stockton,the house was in the Chicano barrio where streets were unpaved and muddy when it rained.The kitchen had no indoor plumbing and my brother Emeliano had the responsibility of hauling water inside the house from the "pipa" outside.We had a "lavamanos"which was a porcelein metal bowl that was used for washing hands and faces which really got dirty from the caliche dirt outside.During Quaresma,around February and early March,the Texas winds blew hard,pelting grains of sand and dirt against a walker who dared go outside,among the swirling tumbleweeds.The clapboard kitchen was no exception to a good shelter as it was full of holes and leaky roof. Eva, Josie and I would huddle together to stay warm as we watch Ama banging the metal pots and preparing the capirotada on the four burner and gas oven stove.This was a special treat of toasted bread,cheese,brown sugar(or piloncio)milk and raisons.Her short hair blowing with the drafty wind,her face would show an earnest focus on her cooking.She would toast the bread in the oven and crumbled it in a bowl with the other ingredients.She would put the bread and cheese mixture in a square pyrex pan and bake it in the oven.What a treat for us who didn't eat many sweet except for a Sunday coconut topping cake and jello and an occasional store packaged cinnonmon rolls that we could purchase from las tiendas de Don Juan Gonzales,Fidel's or Tia Cruz(Cruz Pena Urias).I have tried to make capriotada and have tasted those made by my Guadalajara friends,but not the same.Maybe the missing ingredient is the sand grains that would draft inside and onto the mix ,while being prepared in that dusty,hazy kitchen.ayda

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Trent Jones link
4/4/2014 06:01:01 pm

Check out picture and article for Tio Tull Newton ... scroll down the page about center way

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Antonio Franco
10/27/2019 03:38:26 pm

Thank you, Trent, for sending us the link to your website with a photo of Tío Tull Newton and the story about his brothers robbing banks in the 1920s. We urge our readers to go to your site at http://www.terlinguateacher.net/Terlingua_Images.html and scroll down to the story about Tio Tull Newton and his brothers.

We realize that you replied on 4/4/2014 five years ago. We are going to reorganize this site in the coming year so comments form our readers don't get "lost."

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Kenneth Davis
11/20/2016 04:55:34 pm

I knew burro kid when I was about 14 he traded a 22 Remington nylon rifle to me for a stubborn ass donkey I knew till newton also they both lived at 38 mine

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