Carillo, Antonio C; Culver, Sara (interviewee/interviewer). Yuma County Main Library, 2010-01-25T15:30:00

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Interview Description

Antonio Carillo tells facilitator Sara Culver about coming to the US from Zacatecas Mexico. He worked alongside his parents picking lemons while learning English and then earning a bachelor's degree. Antonio now teaches literature.

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00:40 Antonio remembers coming to the US from Mexico with his parents on their visa on November 9, 1982. They immediately went to work picking lemons. Antonio was thrilled at first but then the honeymoon period went off and he decided to go to school.

13:00 Antonio worked during the day and learned English at night, then later while getting his bachelor's degree went to school during the week and worked in the lemon groves on the weekend. He remembers the day of graduation, while he put on his cap and gown and could see the mark the lemon bag had made over his shoulders.

21:10 Antonio remembers the things his grandmother told him about traveling to "El Norte "to pick grapes, fighting with Pancho Villa and being in a film.

29:42 Villages around where Antonio grew up in Zacatecas and having to travel between them to go to school.

35:10 Antonio's challenge is to get his children to understand. He would like to do his own "Historias "recordings with his parents. He talks about his hopes for his children to be fully bilingual and educated.