Villarreal, José; Sullivan Villarreal, Sylvia (husband/spouse). Discovery Green Park, 2009-12-05T11:30:00

File — Interview-ID: MBY006023

Interview Description

José Villarreal (62) talks with his wife Sylvia Sullivan Villarreal (59) about his childhood in Orange Grove, TX, migrating around Texas with his family as a child and meeting his wife Sylvia when he was in graduate school.

Facilitator Subject Log

1:38 migrant farmers; the most his father made every year was $2000 for a family of nine kids

5:51 memories of his father being nervous to stop at gas stations; stopping at the roadside to eat

16:00 description of their house: four room house, no indoor plumbing; all his siblings stayed married

23:08 Latino Texas; Chicano experience; Sylvia's first sense of José's mom; special extension cord for vacuum cleaner that she used to clean the church

35:10 story of when José was sick with measles; working in early childhood development; pictures of success