García Aragón, Rogelita (Albuquerque, NM)
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Publication Date
3-19-1984
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Atrisco Oral History Project (MSS 565), Center for Southwest Research and Special Collections, University Libraries, University of New Mexico.
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She says she has lived in the Merced de Atrisco since she was eight years old. People used to warm the houses with wood. As there was no tap water, her family used to consume water from a well. Atrisco was very agricultural, people used to grow chile, sandia, melones, tomates, zanahorias. Her father used to own goats and sheep. Celebrations of the patrons and saints in Atrisco. She says that people should not drink alcohol to celebrate because they end up in accidents and injuries. San Isidro, patron of the farmers. Singing a religious song she used to sing in Las Pastorelas. People used to fix pastelitos and cookies to share during las Pastorelas. People used to be farmers and there were no medical doctors in the area. She was raised by Natividad García, her aunt and a well known curandera [healer] in the community. The herbs they used for healing various diseases. Sings an alabado. Funeral practices in Atrisco in the past. Foods she used to prepare: natilla, cheese with the sheep milk. There were not refrigerators but they used special wooden boxes insulated with straw to preserve their food. Other family stories. Means of transportation in the past: los buggies and horses. El día de los Inocentes: rezos, el rosario y velorios [prayer vigils]. Cuentos de inocentes, and family stories related to La Merced. Los Camposantos de Atrisco, la Plaza de Atrisco. She went to school only four years. Las matanzas [slaughtering of sheep] and the feasts they used to have with close relatives and friends. The harsh winters in the past and her religious practices. Cuentos and memories of the bailes she attended when she was young. Los casorios [weddings] in Atrisco.