Legacy

Interview Description Pamela Carvajal Drapala (55) talks about her love and passion for Yuma, AZ, how it influences her art and writings. Pamela also talks about her husband, daughters, her father and her heritage. Facilitator Subject Log 0:30 Pam talks about growing up and living all her life in Yuma, AZ 2:38 Pam talks about her father and her heritage that is dates all the way back to when Columbus came to America 4:52 Pam describes her...

Interview Description Facilitator Jorge Rios (24) talks with Art Castricone (55) about his life in Yuma and his long-time commitment to the Yuma Fire Department. Facilitator Subject Log 01:22 Art recalls when he first came to Yuma with the Marine Corps. 08:17 After leaving the Marine Corps, Art married, had children, and started working for the fire department. 12:07 Art shares early memories from his time working in the fire...

Interview Description Nora y Rita hablan sobre sus vidas, su familia, y la niñez. Nora and Rita talk about their lives, their family, and childhood. Facilitator Subject Log 1:13 La boda fue el momento mas feliz para Nora. Getting married was Nora's happiest moment. 4:30 Rita vinó a los EEUU hace 15 años. Empezó trabajar en 2002 y puede recordar discriminación. Ella encanta trabajar con niños. Los niños son inocentes. Rita came...

Interview Description Siblings David De La Torre, 61, and Karen Ann De La Torre discuss their family genealogy and the nuances of their Latino identity. Facilitator Subject Log 1:35 Siblings discuss family genealogy on fathers side. Forefathers settled in California when state was still a Spanish territory. 12:00 Siblings discuss genealogy on mother's side. 14:35 KDLT shares memories of grandmother's house. 23:40 DDLT discusses...

Interview Description Yolanda A. Esquivel, 58, tells her daughter Paloma Esquivel, 30, about her family history and pverty, her political awakening and activism, and her hopes for the future. Facilitator Subject Log 0:55 YE talks about her family's loss of land in Southern Texas. Her Mexican family sold land to an Anglo man who bought it with Confederate currency, which was worthless at time of purchase. Another time, other family land was seized when her...

Interview Description Maria E. Flores (82) is interviewed by her daughter, Mary Ann Flores (58) about growing up in Kenedy, TX and her family history. Facilitator Subject Log 1:21 Maria describes a picture that Mary Ann is holidng: a Model T Ford, Maria's mother pregnant in the photo 7:43 Life in Edinburg; description of the first house Maria lived in in Edinburg; wood burning stove; food; mother remarried after her father died 21:01 How...

Interview Description Clyde Gill talks to his daughters Tiffany Piña and Joslyn Gill about his childhood, school life, community life and worthies, family history and lineage, his Mexican heritage and family traditions, and happiest and saddest memories. Facilitator Subject Log 3:40 CG talks about the pride and joy of becoming a parent. 7:35 CG shares anecdotes of his daughters growing up. Daughters' skits and singing. 10:40 CG talks about...

Interview Description José Gonzalez, de 64 años, comparte con su hijo Guillermo Gonzalez, de 37 años, algunos de sus recuerdos tristes y felices, discute la relación con su padre y expresa remordimiento por el maltrato que le brindó a sus hijos mayores. [José Gonzalez, 64, shares with his son Guillermo Gonzalez, 37, some of his sad and happy memories, discusses his relationship with his father, and expresses regret at the poor treatment he gave his older children when they were young.]...

Interview Description Barbara Gutierrez, 64, tells StoryCorps Mobile Facilitator Alejandro De La Cruz, 28, about the difficulties she experienced growing up as a Latina in the predominantly White west side of Los Angeles, about her parents, and about her work in education. Facilitator Subject Log 2:25 BG talks about her parents' background and her father's business, a jewelry factory. Father was a WWII veteran. 5:50 BG talks about her school...

Interview Description Facilitator Alejandro interviews Jesse about his family history, and the car accident that killed his parents, leaving his brother Pedro, to raise 10 kids. Facilitator Subject Log 13:53 Sometimes people ask Jesse how long he has been in Texas, thinking he came recently. He tells them 8 generations. 14:29 Jesse thinks back to himself at 19 and doesn't know if he would've been able to do what his brother Pedro did....