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ANNOUNCEMENT: Somos Primos publication schedule to change in 2014 January 2000, Somos Primos went online as a monthly publication January. December of this year, we will have completed 14 years of sharing heritage and history on the internet.
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The goal was to help American Hispanics understand who we are and how our ancestors have contributed to the world. When Somos Primos first went online, nothing of the global Spanish heritage that I was trying to share, was online. My purpose was to show, to emphasize, to teach, that all those with a Spanish surname are connected, in some way, and if we search further we would also find our historic connections to other nations and other ethnic groups. In the last ten year, the internet has exploded with genealogical information. Most genealogical or historical group, now have a website. DNA research keeps exploring and discovering evidence of man's capacity and inclination to intermingle. In the last 3-4 years, social networking sites have opened doors in ways few could have imaged, benefiting family researchers tremendously.
Libraries and archival collections are now online. The massive LDS Church's indexing project continues to digitize documents, and index millions of records from all around the world, enhancing the ability to unscramble history.
Daily, I get information of a new society, cultural group, Latino publication, or blog. It is exciting.
Recognizing that times have changed, Somos Primos is making a change. I am not sure of the format. It may be that special issues of Somos Primos will be published, based on a theme, with an emphasis on facilitating and helping readers publish family stories and reports of family reunions, and history-based celebrations. If a special issue is published, a link on the home page will provide access. The usual email notification will continue for the special issues.
Previous issues will continue to be available online, and all other published materials. Materials for this year’s remaining monthly issues should be submitted as soon as possible. After this year, we will consider using future submitted materials at a later date for special issues.
We will update the various subsections of Somos Primos, and possibly add new subsections, when new materials become available. Thank you for all your support and help. Please do feel invited to continue sending information.
This is a change, not closure. God bless, Mimi. BOSTON — Carlos Arredondo ran across Boylston Street, jumped the security fence and landed on a sidewalk smeared in blood. In front of him, two women lay motionless. Another woman walked around in black-powder smoke, looking down at the fallen bodies. “Oh, my God,” he said she repeated, dazed.
“Oh, my God.” Makeup of bombs has become known, but motive for deadly marathon explosion still unclear. Arredondo had been a spectator, carrying a camera and a small American flag. He dropped the flag. He took four pictures — focusing on a young man crumpled on the sidewalk.
The man had a blank expression, and a leg that was only bone below the knee. Then Arredondo put the camera away. He asked the injured man his name. “Stay still,” he remembered saying, in accented English. “The ambulance is here.” In the moments after, there were bystanders who defied human instinct — and official orders to evacuate — and ran toward the smoke, instead of away.
There was a Kansas doctor who ran back to help after completing 26.2 miles. A District native who ran down from a post-race party to apply tourniquets. A couple who tried to stop a stranger’s bleeding with a wad of coffee-shop napkins. And, most astoundingly, there was Arredondo — a man once so broken by grief that his.
First, his son died in Iraq. Then, when Marines came to tell him so, Arredondo set himself on fire inside the Marines’ van. Then, years later, as he was healing, But Monday — for some reason — when the bombs went off, the broken man came running. “I did my duty,” Arredondo said the next morning. In the aftermath of Monday’s explosions, much of the early lifesaving was performed by amateurs: Boston cops, marathon volunteers, plain old bystanders.
They tied tourniquets and carried away the injured in wheelchairs or in arms. On Tuesday, local hospitals said this work — along with the efforts of professional medics on the scene — probably saved lives. “Tourniquets are a difference-maker. Tourniquets can save a life,” said Joseph Blansfield, a nurse practitioner and program manager at the trauma unit, which saw a large influx of patients from the scene.
“They proved their value yesterday.” The man in the wheelchair Arredondo became the face of this bystander heroism after showed him pushing an injured man down the street in a wheelchair. At the time of the first explosion, he was on the opposite side of Boylston Street, close to the finish line. He had come to support of military service members, as a memorial to fallen soldiers. One was marching for, who was in Najaf, Iraq. Carlos Arredondo and his wife, Melida, were waiting for that runner.
They never saw him. “That was a bomb,” Arredondo said he thought as soon as it happened. Soon, he arrived at the side of the man without a leg. So did another bystander, who seemed to know what he was doing. The other bystander asked for tourniquets.
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Arredondo said he tore pieces off a sweater he had found on the ground. While the other man tied them on, Arredondo talked to the victim and tried to block the man’s view of his own legs. A native of Costa Rica, Arredondo had some training in this situation — he had been a firefighter and helped to rescue gored bullfighters in the ring. “You’re okay,” he remembered saying to the injured man on Monday. Somebody else appeared with an empty wheelchair. An angel, Arredondo thought later. Arredondo put the injured man in the seat.
The man had ash in his hair. They wheeled him away, bypassing the medical tent.
The man was too badly hurt for that. Ambulance!” Arredondo said he yelled. As they went, one tourniquet slipped off.
The blood flowed again. Arredondo grabbed the tourniquet and wrenched it tight. Finally, they found an ambulance. “What’s his name?” the medic asked Arredondo.
Arredondo had forgotten, he said. He asked the man again. Somehow, the wounded man was still calm enough to start spelling it out, to be sure they got it right. The ambulance doors closed. The man was gone. So what was his name? “I can’t remember,” Arredondo said Tuesday.
He didn’t know what became of him. The man was later identified as Jeff Bauman Jr. In an Associated Press report. Bauman, 27, lost both legs, the report said. On Tuesday, Melida was taking his phone calls in a rowhouse in the Roslindale section of Boston.
The messages filled up a page: Katie Couric. A Boston police detective.
Police later took away Arredondo’s clothes as evidence and looked at his pictures from the scene. Melida had been frozen with fear when the bombs went off Monday. After the chaos subsided, the couple found each other at the Boston Public Library and went home. Melida couldn’t get warm until 2 a.m. The weather was mild for a Boston spring, but the problem wasn’t the weather. She tried to explain why her husband acted so differently from her — and from his own past habits. “Having lived through the death of Alex, when his reactions were very different.” she started to say.
There was a picture of Alex Arredondo in a corner of the room, wearing a Marine dress uniform in a casket. Carlos Arredondo gained national attention for his breakdown after Alex’s death.
The Marines who had come to notify Arredondo pulled him out of their van and helped put out the fire. But Arredondo was left with painful burns on his legs. How did he explain his actions this time? “You have to get out of that shock” that comes with tragedy, he said. You have to act. “In this case, my instinct was to be a humanitarian.” Others who helped In the chaos around him, others had been doing the same thing. In an alley near the finish line, a pizza chef turned his apron into a tourniquet for a woman whose leg had been shattered.
Elsewhere, 44, was three floors up at a post-race party for his brother. Then he heard the explosion, and he knew from Army service what it was. Mendelsohn had worked at the in Washington. He knew what a cop would do in this situation. “I thought to myself, ‘Well, what would those guys say if I ran away?’ ” Mendelsohn said.
He ran downstairs and helped at least four people: A woman with a mangled calf. A mother with shrapnel wounds who was looking for her son. A man and a woman, both badly injured, holding each other in shock. After 12 minutes or so, it was all over.
There was nobody left to help. “I got back to my office,” Mendelsohn said. “I threw up.” Nearby, Chris Rupe — a general surgeon from Salina, Kan.
— had finished the marathon 30 seconds before the blast. He ran away for a while, to be sure there would be no more explosions. Then he came back, talking his way past police.
“I told them I was a doctor and I’d like to help.” He helped triage the wounded in a medical tent, still wearing his running gear. Farther away, a few blocks from the finish line, Kurt Mias and his girlfriend, Jessica Newman, came out of a coffee shop and saw people fleeing toward them. One woman approached, crying, with her lower legs covered in dime-size shrapnel wounds. “What the expletive is happening?
Who the hell did this?” Mias, 28, remembered her saying, over and over. Newman, 32, ran into a nearby coffee shop and shoved someone away from the napkin dispenser. They needed a towel, but these would have to do. They pressed the brown napkins against one of the stranger’s legs.
When the woman seemed to be in good hands, they left — passing other wounded people being attended to on the street. An elderly man lying prone.
A teenage boy, with a chunk of something embedded in his leg. Before they left, they helped marathon volunteers disassemble a huge area where water and Gatorade had been set up for the finishers. They needed to clear the road so ambulances could pass. “Pretty soon, there were almost too many people” trying to help, Newman said. They were hurling whole cases of water bottles out of the way, but there were so many bystanders trying to help that there was no space free to throw them. “You didn’t want to throw it on someone.” Finally, they left. On Tuesday, retelling the story in a word-jumbled rush, Newman recalled that just an hour before the blasts, she had told Mias, “This is the perfect day.” “I’m never saying that again,” she said.
Julie Tate and Alice R. Crites in Washington contributed to this report. Sent by Carlos Munoz. ANNA MARIA CHAVEZ, received the MALDEF Excellence in Community Service Award on April 24th GALA in Washington, D.C. Anna Maria Chavez is the Chief Executive Officer of the (2011–present) and the first to head the organization, Chavez is of heritage, she grew up in small town of and joined the Girl Scouts as a child; her family later moved to.
She attended on a full scholarship and majored in history. After graduation she clerked for an Arizona attorney and then attended the. She then worked for the federal government in Washington before returning to Arizona as in-house counsel and assistant director for the Division of Aging and Community Services at the Arizona Department of Economic Security and later deputy chief of staff for Urban Relations and Community Development under Governor. In 2009 she became head of and in August 2011 elected head of the Girl Scouts of the USA (taking over effective November 2011). NEW YORK — A judge on Friday tossed out a lawsuit that sought to stop the display of a cross-shaped steel beam found among the ’s rubble, saying the artifact could help tell the story of the 9/11 terrorist attacks.
District Judge rejected the arguments of American Atheists, which had sued the National September 11 Memorial & Museum’s operators in 2011 on constitutional grounds, contending that the prominent display of the cross constitutes an endorsement of Christianity, diminishing the contributions of non-Christian rescuers. Wrote that the cross and its accompanying panels of text “helps demonstrate how those at ground zero coped with the devastation they witnessed during the rescue and recovery effort.” She called its purpose “historical and secular” and noted that it will be housed at the museum in the “Finding Meaning at Ground Zero” section with placards explaining its meaning and the reason for its inclusion. It also will be surrounded by secular artifacts. “No reasonable observer would view the artifact as endorsing Christianity,” the judge said. She added that the museum’s creators “have not advanced religion impermissibly, and the cross does not create excessive entanglement between the state and religion.” She said the plaintiffs also failed to allege any form of intentional discrimination or cite any adverse or unequal treatment on the basis of their religious beliefs. The 17-foot-tall steel beam was found by rescue workers two days after the terror attacks. It is scheduled to be displayed among 1,000 artifacts, photos, oral histories and videos in an underground museum that will also house the staircase workers used to escape the towers as well as portraits of the nearly 3,000 victims and oral histories of Sept.
The museum, still under construction and scheduled to open next year, is part of a memorial plaza that includes waterfalls that fill the fallen towers’ footprints. A lawyer for the atheists group did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Joe Daniels, the museum’s president, said he was grateful that the court “agrees that the display of the Cross is not a constitutional violation but is in fact a crucial part of the 9/11 Memorial Museum’s mission of preserving the true history of 9/11.” Attorney Mark Alcott, who represented the museum, said the ruling will protect the museum’s depiction of the aftermath of the attacks. “It was not intended to and will not promote any religion or discriminate against any religion,” he said. Sent by Odell Harwell. Press Release April 2, 2013 Park Service Reverses Decision and Allows Bible Distribution Thibodaux, LA – Liberty Counsel has once again protected the right of free speech, and the National Park Service is again allowing distribution of Bibles on federal property.
Since 2011, Shirley Elliott has sold produce and homemade jellies at Thibodaux Farmer’s Market near Jean Lafitte National Historic Park in Louisiana. Additionally, Ms. Elliott has provided free Bibles on her table for anyone to take at will. On December 1, 2012, a park ranger told Ms. Elliott to take the Bibles off her table because “they were on federal property.” Market Regulations allow vendors to sell locally grown produce and other foods and handcrafts that are traditionally produced on a farm. In addition, the regulations stipulate “non-profit organizations with missions related to.
Education, youth, and/or nutrition are invited to participate in the Market” on an equal basis as vendors. “A decision to allow free distribution of the things mentioned above, while disallowing and requiring the removal of Bibles and other religious literature. Would be improper and discriminatory,” the Superintendent of Jean Lafitte National History Park. Two days later, saying, “We regret the misunderstanding regarding the distribution of religious materials. The NPS National Park Service respects the right of vendors to make free religious materials available. Please assure Ms. Elliott that she is welcome to offer free Bibles at her produce and homemade jellies table.” “We are thankful that the Park Service reversed its decision and protected Ms.
Elliott’s First Amendment right to distribute literature,” said Mat Staver, Founder and Chairman of Liberty Counsel. “Thankfully, Ms. Elliott did not allow herself to be bullied by those who want to remove Christianity from the public square.
It is the right of every American to advocate a religious viewpoint. Offering books or literature to willing recipients is protected by the First Amendment. Mere disagreement with the content of the speech is not sufficient to deny those constitutional rights,” Staver said.
Liberty Counsel is an international nonprofit, litigation, education, and policy organization dedicated to advancing religious freedom, the sanctity of life, and the family since 1989, by providing pro bono assistance and representation on these and related topics. Sent by Odell Harwell. 2013-04-05 17:12:21 They toiled in the packing sheds and citrus groves of Orange County. They served their nation during World War II, from the Philippines to Europe, and served again in Korea. They were pioneers of the Mexican American civil rights movement. And they played baseball. The photos and stories of dozens of Mexican American baseball players, from the early 1900s in San Juan Capistrano to the early 1960s in communities ranging from Placentia to Huntington Beach, have been told in a new book that will be available Monday.
'Mexican American Baseball in Orange County' is the third in a series of books about Mexican Americans and America's pastime – books that cover not just the sport, but how the sport helped shape the early barrios of California and other states, and the people who live in them. The Orange County book was written by Richard A.
Santillan, professor emeritus at Cal Poly Pomona, and three Orange County residents: Susan C. Luevano, a librarian at Cal State Long Beach; Luis F. Fernandez, who works in the history room of the Santa Ana Public Library; and Angelina F. Veyna, a history professor at Santa Ana College. The book is distinct from two earlier books in the series, and because it includes a number of non-sports photos – among nearly 200 – to help tell the story of the Mexican American community in Orange County, including such areas as school segregation, the citrus industry and even the small businesses that Latino entrepreneurs ran – entrepreneurs who backed not just sports teams, but organizations engaged in the struggle for civil rights. 'The Orange County book was the closest we've come to establishing the real sense of what we mean when we involve the community and invite the community to write its own history,' said Santillan, who has worked on all three projects.
'We don't write the stories, we don't write the captions. The families do. The friends do.They talk how baseball was an instrument that was used to knock down barriers of discrimination. Baseball wasn't simply a game.' The authors note that the book, with photos reflecting seven decades of Mexican American history, also reflects the historical backdrop against which the sport was played, including the Depression, the repatriation of American citizens to Mexico, and the fight against school segregation.
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'Mexican American baseball history intertwined with the social, cultural and political struggle of Mexican Americans in Orange County,' said Fernandez, of Garden Grove. 'Aside from being managers, umpires, coaches and players, they were leaders of their own communities on and off the baseball field. With the swing of the bat, with the steal of a base, and with the grip of the glove, they made advances in civil rights to ensure that their sons and daughters could simply play.'
Many families remember that Sundays were a day for church, and for baseball. Baseball, he said, gave Mexican American communities the means 'to socialize and to organize politically.' One photo in the book shows an El Modena team with brothers Silvino and Ignacio Ramirez.
Their father, Lorenzo Ramirez, was an umpire. Lorenzo and wife Josefina were among five Orange County families who sued to desegregate Mexican schools in Orange County in the landmark Mendez et al versus Westminster School District et al court case of 1947. 'The diamond field where they played in El Modena divided the Lincoln Mexican school from the white Roosevelt School,' Fernandez said.
Pioneering Mexican American entrepreneurs, Veyna said, were active on a number of fronts – providing financial support for the sports teams, and backing for civil rights organizations such the League of United Latin American Citizens as well as for mutual aid societies of Mexican immigrants such as Sociedad Progresista Mexicana. They included such men as her father, Placido Veyna, who ran Pete's Market in Anaheim, and Cruz Barrios, who ran a market in Santa Ana.
'Besides socializing, besides having a good time, these are the persons who fought for the civil rights of our community,' said Veyna, an Anaheim resident whose family settled there in 1916. A number of the photos include the late Gualberto J.
He came to Placentia in 1939 to teach Spanish and physical education at the segregated La Jolla Junior High, and became an early leader of the Mexican American civil rights movement in Southern California during the 1940s. He was a gifted coach, from young boys who played baseball to young women – like the La Jolla Kats - who played softball. The Orange County book has nearly 30 photos of Mexican American women's teams. 'We were keenly interested to see how gender and sports participation might change the traditional role of Mexican American women,' said Luevano, a Fullerton resident who is related by marriage to some of the players pictured in the book. 'Our biggest scholarly contribution was documenting some of the women players and teams that nobody knew about before this book came out.
These players broke gender barriers just by normalizing the fact that women could play sports. They demonstrated that women could compete both on and off the baseball diamond.' One of the most remarkable photos came from Placentia, depicting the Placentia Merchants at a 1938 game at White Sox Field in Los Angeles, which one old player remembered as being around Compton Avenue and 38th Street. It showed the players, but also young women from Placentia who traveled with them, and wore traditional Mexican dress. 'These were the queens, or Las Reinas,' said Luevano. 'What they were supposed to do was to walk around the diamond in their outfits before the game. And then during the game they were kind of like cheerleaders for the team.'
Women helped raise funds so that teams could obtain uniforms, equipment and cover travel expenses. 'It kind of shows the traditional and passive role that women played during this period when you had this very physical and very male dominated world of sports,' she said. But young women were also forming their own teams, with coaches like Valadez mentoring them. 'They all had this kind of DIY attitude,' she said. 'Going out and finding an empty field, taking it over, cleaning it up, and they just started playing ball. They'd practice three or four nights a week until it got dark.' Contact the writer: 714-796-6999 or Photos.
Documenting the history of baseball, features an extraordinary collection of baseball ephemera, memorabilia, historical artifacts and documents. Our online baseball museum navigates through our extensive collection of rarities, marrying the exciting history of the game with a century and a half of timeless artifacts. With interactive exhibits and informative articles on “America’s Game,” as Walt Whitman famously dubbed it, The National Pastime Museum educates and entertains.
The game of baseball is many things to many people, but most importantly, it provides a window into the cultural legacy of America. It is that legacy that we hope to share with our viewers. Timeline Exhibitions: The website allows visitors to navigate baseball’s history through an interactive timeline while exploring related artifacts along the way. It follows baseball’s story from the origins of the game up through the apex of its cultural significance in the mid-20th century. An additional timeline will feature the telling and poignant history of the African American baseball experience in an exhibit that we have titled A Separate Game.
It will feature the story of the “separate game” of black baseball from the game’s very early years through 1947, the time in which Jackie Robinson broke the color barrier. Collection Highlights: Viewers will also be able to browse and enjoy collection highlights through special exhibits that will launch throughout the year. Our first extensive special exhibit features our world-class collection of baseball bats game used by some of the greatest hitters of all time, from Babe Ruth and “Shoeless” Joe Jackson through Lou Gehrig and the legendary Josh Gibson. Our special bat exhibit will also feature an informative video featuring the nation’s leading bat authenticator and expert John Taube. Articles: The site will feature a series of monthly columns from nine of the most distinguished baseball historians in the nation. We will also feature regular ongoing articles telling “the story behind the story” of the rarest and most important artifacts found within the collection. Additionally, a rotating group of guest historians will be featured in our Historian’s Corner series.
These articles offer an invaluable opportunity to learn about baseball's storied lore from some of the most knowledgeable experts in the field. Our Mission: Baseball, in its purest form, is simple.
The game is fun. It can easily be played by children or adults, with a bat or a stick and a ball.
It can be played in an open space or an expansive stadium. But wherever played and however expressed, baseball’s traditions touch us all.
Unlike any other sport, the game links us to our past. The National Pastime Museum provides a different and visually creative way to explore our great game on the World Wide Web through rare and wonderful artifacts, images and relics. It is our hope that the public will not only derive delight, but will learn a bit about our great game and ultimately about we as a people. Media Contact: or either 703 558 3699 or (cell) 510.499.5010 UPCOMING AT THE RELIQUARY. The Baseball Reliquary is a nonprofit, educational organization dedicated to fostering an appreciation of American art and culture through the context of baseball history and to exploring the national pastime 's unparalleled creative possibilities. The Baseball Reliquary gladly accepts the donation of artworks and objects of historic content, provided their authenticity is well documented. The Baseball Reliquary is supported in part by a grant from the Los Angeles County Arts Commission.
Due to some unforeseen repair and maintenance issues related to the gallery space, the opening of “The Neighborhoods of Baseball” art exhibition at Plaza de la Raza’s Boathouse Gallery (described in the February edition of “Revelations”), originally scheduled for April 2013, has been postponed and no new date has been set. The day-long symposium for “The Neighborhoods of Baseball” will go on as previously scheduled, at Plaza de la Raza’s Margo Albert Theatre on Saturday, June 22. This event, made possible with support from Cal Humanities, will incorporate panel discussions with scholars and former players in an intensive cross-cultural examination of the impact of baseball on Southern California’s Mexican American, Japanese American, and African American communities; how their experiences differed and paralleled each other in the development of their communities and identities; and how they engaged and interacted with each other through the lens of baseball. Regalado, Professor of History at California State University, Stanislaus, will deliver the symposium’s keynote address. Further details will be forthcoming. One major exhibit, now in the works for the summer, will be “Another Trip in Baseball’s Time Machine: Photography at the Field of Dreams,” which will highlight the dynamic relationship between photography and baseball through an engaging selection of images dating from the game’s formative years to modern times. For this display, which will run for two months (July and August 2013) at the Pasadena Central Library, Pasadena, California, the Reliquary has invited photo archivists and private collectors, as well as historians, librarians, writers, and artists, to contribute their “favorite” baseball photographs, accompanied by a caption/description why the images hold such personal interest and meaning.
We already have commitments from Frank Ceresi, Paul Dickson, Chris Epting, Steve Fjeldsted, Bruce Markusen, John Schulian, Andy Strasberg, and Tim Wiles to participate, and we will be announcing more contributors over the next month. One of the highlights of the exhibition will be the inclusion of 25 historic black-and-white photographs from renowned collector, photo archivist, and baseball historian Mark Rucker, proprietor of The Rucker Archive.
This promises to be one of the most significant Baseball Reliquary exhibitions in the organization’s history; keep an eye out for regular updates between now and the exhibition’s July opening. That should pretty much cover things for this edition of “Revelations.” See you next time! Best wishes, Terry Cannon Executive Director The Baseball Reliquary e-mail: phone: (626) 791-7647 GET INVOLVED: WHAT: Richard A. Santillan, a professor emeritus of ethnic and women's studies at Cal Pol Ponoma, is documenting Mexican American baseball from the late 1800s to 1960, an era when the sport played an important role in promoting Mexican American civil rights. He is seeking photos depicting players and teams, including men and women, from Orange County and throughout California and the United States.
HOW IT WORKS: Selected photos, which are scanned, may be published in a book series, and are also archived with other memorabilia at the Latino Baseball History Project at Cal State San Bernardino. Contributors keep the original photos. A group of Texans commemoring the 200th anniversary of that republic with a program at the Spanish Governor's Palace downtown. Every Texas student learns about the Republic of Texas, the one fought for at the Alamo and San Jacinto. It declared its independence from Mexico on March 2, 1836 and lasted 10 years. But fewer Texans know about the other Republic of Texas, the first and shorter-lived, which briefly broke from Spain in 1811, formally declared its independence in San Antonio on April 6, 1813 and lasted until the bloody Battle of Medina that August. Re-enactors march toward their Spanish enemy for a work by filmmaker, Bill Millet.
Photo: Mark D. Wilson / Southside Reporter Battle of Medina.
In the 1920s and 1930s, Kelly had worked as an Americanization teacher in the citrus camps of Orange County, tasked with schooling Mexican immigrants in the art of good citizenship. During the day, she taught women how to sew and cook American meals like casseroles and pies; at night, the Michigan native recited basic English phrases before audiences of men so that they could use them at work. She bounced across the colonias (worker colonies) of North County, from to, to But Kelly eventually spent most of her time with the Mexicans of the Bastanchury Ranch, 6,000 rolling acres of what now constitutes the exclusive neighborhoods of northwest Fullerton—Sunny Hills, Valencia Mesa and others—and parts of Brea and La Habra, an area that to this day, with its winding roads, visible horse stables, dramatic valleys and stretches of untouched California landscape, feels rustic, beautiful and foreboding.
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In 1968, with the (COPH) at Cal State Fullerton interviewed Kelly about her days at the Ranch—and that's when Kelly brought up the cactus. By then 70 years old, the maestra fondly recalled the Bastanchury Mexicans, who had created a society of their own far removed from the rest of Orange County. They were so grateful for Kelly's tutorship that women frequently invited her to their ramshackle homes for dinner and a bit of south-of-the-border hospitality. Kelly singled out the cooking of one woman because, as she told her interviewer, 'One of the things that she served so frequently that I was fond of was what she called 'nopalitos,' which are the little tiny shoots of the cactus.'