Carisalez, Connie M.; Carisalez Morlan, Claudia (sister/sister). Discovery Green Park, 2009-11-24T16:30:00
Interview Description
Connie Carisalez reminisces with her sister Claudie Carisalez Morland about their great grandparents and their grandparents.
3:25 Claudia remembers her great grandparents' funerals; they died a week apart from each other
10:13 memories of their great grandmother's tortillas; grandma Carisalez had a temper; divorced; the Christmas she passed away
18:00 description of grandmother Lopez; she always spoke Spanish; parents were punished for speaking Spanish and didn't teach Connie or Claudia Spanish
24:46 the house of Convent St.; story of their mother sitting on an ant pile
35:32 Claudia taking her son Ben to visit her grandfather; Ben will grow up close to his grandparents
Dates
- Creation: 2009-11-24T16:30:00
Language of Materials
Interview in English
Topical
- Achievements and Awards
- Childcare
- Christmas
- Coming Of Age
- Community Characters
- Community History
- Death
- Divorce
- Earliest Memories
- Ethnic Foods
- Extended Family
- Favorite Foods
- Funerals
- Genealogy
- Grandparents
- Histories
- Houston, TX
- Jokes
- Last Words
- Marriage
- Parents
- Pasadena, TX
- Siblings
- Tortilla
- Traumatic Memories
- Victoria, TX
- anecdotes (humorous but true stories)
- college
- family characters
- family heroes
- family in-jokes
- family members in history
- family naming and nicknames
- family traditions
- grandmother couldn't read
- illiterate
- illness
- influential people
- memories of former times
- memories of growing up
- nopales
- not being able to read
- personal experiences
- religious beliefs and practices
- ritual foods
- social beliefs and practices
Repository Details
Part of the Benson Latin American Collection, The University of Texas at Austin Repository
2300 Red River Street
Austin Texas 78712 United States
(512) 495-4578
bensonspecialcollections@austin.utexas.edu