The Hemingses Of Monticello By Annette Gordon-ReedBook Review by Alice Hathaway The sub-title of THE HEMINGSES OF MONTICELLO is “An American Family.” The first known member of that family was a young African woman who was impregnated while being transported to slavery in America in the 1730’s, She named the daughter she bore Elizabeth […]
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Profiling Tepehua By Moonyeen KingPresident of the Board for Tepehuamoonie1935@yahoo.com Neil Armstrong stepped onto the moon and said “That’s one small step for man, but a giant leap for mankind!”, Queen Elizabeth said in her 2019 Christmas speech “It is the small steps that make change, not the giant leap!”. The Tepehua Team has
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Local Clinic Sponsors Cataract Surgery For Chapala Citizens By Delia Perez What is a cataract? A cataract in the eye is a condition produced when the natural lens in the interior of the eye that permits one to focus on objects near and far becomes opaque and loses its transparency. This condition occurs naturally
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Front Row Center By Michael Warren Twentieth Century BluesBy Susan MillerDirected by Kevin Cook Susan Miller is a prolific playwright best known for her moving one-woman show My Left Breast. This play is about the trials and some of the pleasures of aging, a subject to which many of us can relate. The play
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Welcome to Mexico! By Victoria Schmidt Changes Sitting at the Libramiento intersection to Walmart waiting for the light to change, I took a deep sigh. I closed my eyes and remembered what it was like there when I first came to Mexico. I remember driving over the crest of the hill on the Libramiento
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Novels Mexicanas By Juan Gregorio H. Early in the 19th century, a gentlewoman from New England visited Mexico City. In her diary she wrote: “The rich, aristocratic ladies do nothing useful or enlightening. All day long they laze about in dishabille. They never open a book. In fact, most of them cannot read.” Judging
Lakeside Adventure Queen By Queen Michel Today, started out as any normal Wednesday, I headed to Wednesday market early, so as not to be late for my Meta Mind discussion group at 11:15 am. Everything was going well. I had gotten everything intended at the market and the bus had just pulled up back
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Sustainability By Patricia Hemingway Rosa, my Mexican neighbor, sells plants on the sidewalk outside her home. Right away I notice the schefflera, the umbrella plant, in a small, cracked plastic pot. With pride Rosa tells me she found it as a tiny seedling—she illustrates with her fingers barely an inch apart—and that she has
Forever Young Ajijic, high above the lake,a day’s no more than what you make.A hotel on a cobble street,a lady there, I chanced to meet.Her villa perched upon a hill.An autumn day can fan a chill.An afternoon, a brief repast,a time to rest, respite at last.A cup of tea, a room to hire,discourse beside
The Hero Of Molino Del Rey By Herbert W. Piekow By September 8, 1847 the invading American Army had fought their way from Veracruz to the outskirts of Mexico City. Two miles from the gates of the Mexican capitol rose Chapultepec Castle and separating the castle from the countryside a dense forest at whose
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