Ibarra Parle, Bertha; (unknown). Discovery Green Park, 2009-12-15T11:30:00
Interview Description
Bertha Ibarra Parle (62) read a prepared story about her family traditions growing up on the Mexican/American border.
1:13 growing up in Ciudad Juárez; living between two different worlds, two different cultures
6:35 El día de cócono; pumpkin pie; frijolitos, posole y guacamole; Posadas; ponche
14:34 the story of how her parents met; father couldn't go to war; meeting her mother at a dance
20:25 love for poetry and Latin; becoming a reader in Junior high; going to Santa Barbara for the summer; Catholic high school
30:41 advice for her children; What is Bertha most proud of?
Dates
- Creation: 2009-12-15T11:30:00
Topical
- Birth
- Birth of children
- Catholic
- Catholic school
- Catholicism
- Changes In Education
- Children
- Christmas
- Christmas Carols
- Ciudad Juarez
- Coming Of Age
- Community History
- Días del Santo
- Earliest Memories
- Easter
- Easter Sunday
- El Paso, TX
- El día de cócono
- Engagements
- Extended Family
- First Meetings
- Fourth of July
- Gone With the Wind
- Grandparents
- Holy Thursday
- Independence Day
- Job Satisfaction
- July 4th
- Marriage
- Mexican Independence Day
- Mexican Revolution
- Mexican/ American border
- Nochebuena
- Parents
- Posadas
- Posole
- Reading
- Schools
- Siblings
- Singing
- Students
- Tamales
- Teachers
- Teaching
- Thanksgiving
- The Optimist Club
- Tortillas
- Town Life
- Traumatic Memories
- Turkey
- University of Kansas
- University of Texas, El Paso
- Workday Life
- anecdotes (humorous but true stories)
- building a telescope
- childhood games
- church liturgy
- college
- family favorite songs and poems
- family holiday traditions
- family naming and nicknames
- family traditions
- family trips and excursions
- graduate school
- guacamole
- historical events/people
- influential people
- learning English
- love of reading
- memories of former times
- memories of growing up
- personal experiences
- pregnancy and pre-natal care
- pumpkin pie
- religious beliefs and practices
- ritual foods
- school day memories
- spouse
- teacher
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