Lopez, Agustín, (Las Vegas, NM), part 1

Authors

1140 2. 002.1

Document Type

Audio

Publication Date

6-27-1988

Comments

Discussion topics: (Born on Aug. 24, 1897) Family history, life when he was a child, going to school. Description of the town: street cars and train. He used to wear  teguas (moccasins). More modern teguas, zapatos were not affordable, only rich people wore those when he was a child. His teachers were from Los Alamos. He returned from WWI  in 1919. He went to WWI as a volunteer in France. Impressions of Europe during WWI. He continues talking about his military service in the U.S. Blas Lopez and other family members. Description of the setting of the town at that time. When he was a young adult, he worked  for Jewish families, managing their sheep business, stories of his experiences working with sheep and livestock. The flood of 1904 in Gallinas. Vicente Silva, how the structures were built in town, la planta de Marmol, "el negro Bell" ran the marble mill. Conversation continues about Miguel Trujillo, Secundino Romero, Pablo Vigil, and his grandparents. 

Recommended Citation

Anselmo Arellano collection (MSS 1140), Center for Southwest Research and Special Collections, University Libraries, University of New Mexico