Streets of Mexico By David Ellison The Saint Patrick’s Battalion (Los San Patricios) Were they turncoats or heroes? As with all martyrs, it depends on whom you ask. In the mid 1800s, after the Potato Famine (and British apathy/antipathy) had murdered as many as a million Irish, a million and a half desperate survivors […]
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The Mountain That Eats People The Nightmare Of The Potosi Silver Mines Dr. Lorin Swinehart In the “Inferno”, first book of Dante Aligiere’s Divine Comedy, the lowest level of hell is reserved for those guilty of treachery. While many times and places may vie for the title of hell on earth, those who are
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Pepper By Linda Steele A few months after my back surgery, I was finally allowed to walk on a flat surface with a companion every day. My daughter, Trudy, and I decided that we would walk in the parking lot at the high school just a few miles down the road. It was June
Tips For Coexisting With Covid By N (Abby) McKinnon neilmcki2@gmail.com As someone who has lived a long and toothsome life, I frequently receive letters seeking advice on proper behavior and etiquette during the time of COVID. I have selected a few of the most irrelevant for these pages. Dear Nabby: Is it OK to
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The Exhibition By Bernie Suttle The Korean War was the reason I got a College degree. Work towards a four-year university and avoid the Draft and Korea. Owen and I decided to go to Citrus rather than Pasadena City College, “Cuz that was a ‘Sosh’ place” and the two of us had decided to
Profiling Tepehua By Moonyeen King President of the Board for Tepehua moonie1935@yahoo.com In the first month of this year Tepehua lost another child, we heard about it because of media, they gave young Jose his moment of fame. The home he shared with his parents burnt and he was trapped and died from his burns
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Silent Sky by Lauren Gunderson Directed by Suki O’Brien This play is a semi-factual biography of Henrietta Leavitt whose measurements and discoveries revolutionized astronomy at the beginning of the twentieth century. The playwright Lauren Gunderson has also written about other female scientists in history, such as Ada Lovelace and Marie Curie. It’s an interesting topic,
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LAKESIDE LIVING Carol D. Bradley Email: cdbradleymex@gmail.comPhone: 33-2506-7525 March 2022 The Lake Chapala Society hosts Open Circle every Sunday at 10AM, a popular community gathering in Ajijic, to enjoy a diverse range of presentations. The presentations will be on the south lawn, close to the gazebo, the entrance will be by the side door on
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Mirage de el Dorado The Eternal Lust for Gold By Robert Bruce Drynan In 1594 a favorite of Queen Elizabeth I, Sir Walter Raleigh, an experienced soldier and adventurer, mounted an expedition to South America in pursuit of a legend of a city of gold, known as Manao. His expedition first landed on Trinidad
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The Woman By Juan Sacelli who knows what choices we’re called on to make that mark the faint line between fate and mistake that fly out of season and lead us to fall that seem to be reason, yet keep us in thrall – but the call of a woman is the sound of
