THREE GENERATIONSOF MUSIC

It was not an unfamiliar sight on area roads in the 1930s and during the war years in the 1940s: the car with the bass fiddle tied on the top.That would be the Perez Orchestra on their way to play at a dance or some other function. We recently had an opportunity to visit with two Perez sisters, Mary Carbajal of Boling and Ignacia Martinez of Clovis, New Mexico, who with their brother, Domingo, or “Mingo” as he was known, sang with the band during its latter years. more >>

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April 17, 2008

Trees could become part of no-man’s land

If one wants to see a little bit of what the country looked like in earlier times along the lower Rio Grande River there are 32 acres of old growth forest in the Sabal Palm Sanctuary near Brownsville. This small area, now threatened with becoming part of a no-man’s land between a proposed U.S. border fence and Mexico, has been described as the “best remaining and least disturbed”fragment of 40,000 acres of dense native palms that once stretched from the mouth of the Rio Grande for 80 miles up river on both sides. more >>