Semestre Dos: Blog #13

http://www.houstonculture.org/mexico/durango.html http://www.mongabay.com/history/mexico/mexico-postwar_economic_growth_the_great_depression.html Las Cruzes, Durango was an uncommunicative little town that my grandparents lived. It had no governor, no mayor or anything, instead they had a commander who was lead of police and took care of problems that might have been going on around with the community. There were no telephones, no light, and they did everything by hand. Everyone knew each other and helped one another with whatever they needed. They had no idea what was happening around the world becasue they had no newspapers and tv to inform themselves but other than that people who lived in small towns around Mexico like this were happy and often had big groups of families. The most fun and biggest thing that they had every year was a four day party during April where they would celebrate Jesus with the cross and have religious traditions that made small towns gather and celebrate altogether. What stands out to you about the historical or cultural context of your family story? What stands out to me is the way that they managed to live, and the many things my grandparents had to do to provide food for their family. The only jobs at the time were chopping off pine trees and selling them which everyone depended on because those were resources for them to make fire and cook food, or even heat up the small houses that were hand built by themselves. What stands out to you about the setting of the story?What about the historical or cultural setting seems most relevant to your story? The setting is very different then what I expected. When my grandma was telling me the stories she described her home very out in the open with many nature around her. And she even mentioned times where people would go to take a bath in the rivers where there were waterfalls, and this to me is crazy to imagine because the rivers and lakes were about walking distance from their houses. Another thing that stood out to me was how poor my grandparents started out and progressed later on when the moved into the big city, it was a big change.