Mexico trip part 2

["Erlinda Castanon-Long" <longsjourney@...>]

Arturo, thank you for sharing your photo's and the family memories of 
the history of your family and the area they lived in.  I've only been 
to Mexico once in 2003 but the words and  photo's brought back 
beautiful and sometime sad memories.  The photo of your father at his 
ancestral home brought back the memory of me standing in front of my 
gr-grandparents, Vicente Castanon and Maria Gertrudis Caldera, adobe 
home in El Durazno, Jerez Zacatecas.  My family is also lucky to have 
a recording and transcription of my grandfathers sister talking about 
1916 and what brought about their leaving Mexico, she says her 
parents, Vicente and Maria Gertrudis, would never would have left if 
not for the revolution and the starvation it caused.  My grandmother 
Juana Sanchez (Castanon) was the only one who would go visit family in 
Mexico and once her mother died in 1953 she never went back again. My 
father visited in 1936 and then me in 2003. 

Thank you again for sharing,
Linda in Everett