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Enrique Lamadrid Interviewing Shane Milberger - Notes, July 19, 1995

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 26
Scope and Contents At Cordo Family Farm, Blende, CO. Milberger born 1969, family history, farming on mesa East of Pueblo, CO, chile, jalapenos, calabacitas, onions, some cattle. Has four Mexican workers, Heraclio Aguilar, Pancho Aguilar and two others, all from Zamora region, Michoacan, Mexico, good people, good workers, value of their work, he gives examples. Shane is teaching them English, he is learning Spanish, provided well for them. Local Hispanics not want to work. Discussion of crops, habas, calabacitas,...
Dates: July 19, 1995

Enrique Lamadrid Interviewing Ben H. Milhorn - Notes, July 20, 1995

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 27
Scope and Contents Milhorn born 1935 in Arkansas, lived in California and Arizona, a landscaper, now selling his brand of salsa at Memorial Park Farmers' Market, learned recipe from his Dad, who learned to make it from a Mexican woman, no reference to chile or Mexico acknowledged. He calls it Rocky Mountain Mild Salsa, with Pike's Peak photo as image and a religious bird symbol, fundamentalist Christian. He started business with nothing, help from a friend, good opportunity, living the American dream. See Box 2,...
Dates: July 20, 1995

Enrique Lamadrid Interviewing Heraclio Aguilar Ayungua - Notes, July 24, 1995

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 28
Scope and Contents In Spanish. Aguilar born 1973, Patamban, Michoacan, Mexico, immigrant laborer, friends and brother told him about work in Pueblo, came in 1991, works for Shane Milberger, Blende, CO, Shane is present at this interview. He likes Shane, who provides him a poor shack to live in, gas and no rent. He likes the vegetable work better than picking Florida oranges and grapefruit. Discussion his family, some of them migrants, parents are potters in Patamba, his previous work in Florida, was mistreated,...
Dates: July 24, 1995

Rudy Guglielmo Interviewing Renee Cordo - Notes, July 21, 1995

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 29
Scope and Contents She is wife of Naich Cordo, at Memorial Park Farmers' Market. Of the Cordo Family Farm, discussion of family history, Memorial Park, selling, gender roles, haba - fava beans, family roles, risk of taking on the farm, customer service, future. See Box 2, CD 11.
Dates: July 21, 1995

Tomas Peña Interviewing Naich Cordo, Sr. - Notes, July 19 (17), 1995

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 30
Scope and Contents Naich Cordo, grandfather, first generation Italian American, from Sicily, born in Pueblo, at Cordo Family Farm, Blende, CO, farm life, daily life, irrgation, water, labor use changes, crops have changed over the years, history of the farm. See Box 2, CD 12.
Dates: July 19 (17), 1995

Tomas Peña Interviewing Naich Cordo (grandson) - Notes, July 17, 1995

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 31
Scope and Contents Naich Cordo, grandson, Cordo Family Farm, Blende, CO, farming life, past compared to present, changes, cooperation between farmers, schedules, decision making, weather variables, planting, irrigation techniques, acequias, allotment, Board of Water Works, Mesa Water Works, water rights, harvest, the various farmers' markets compared, prices, buyers, crops - sweet corn, fava - haba beans, chile, tomatoes, calabacitas, onions, use of cheaper cardboard banana boxes, Mexican migrant workers,...
Dates: July 17, 1995

Tomas Peña Interviewing Renee Cordo and Pam Jones - Notes, July 17, 1995

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 32
Scope and Contents At Memorial Park Farmers' Market, Colorado Springs, Renee Cordo, at booth, sales pitch to buyers, talking about calabacitas, zucchini and fava - haba bean recipes, Pam Jones talking about recipes for calabacitas; Japanes fava beans. See Box 2, CD 14.
Dates: July 17, 1995

Tomas Peña with Various Speakers - Notes, July 22, 1995

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 33
Scope and Contents At Bancroft Market, Old Colorado City, Colorado Springs, Renee Cordo, at Cordo stand, sharing recipes for calabacitas and fava - haba beans and the customers sharing theirs with her and others there. See Box 2, CD 15
Dates: July 22, 1995

Xochitl Shuru Interviewing Maria de la Luz Aguilar Ayungua and Francisco Pacho Aguilar Ayungua - Notes, July 24, 1995

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 34
Scope and Contents At Shane Milberger farm, Blende, CO. Side A - Maria, sister to Pancho and Heraclio, from Patamban, Michoacan, she visiting them from Mexico, is a secretary in a junior high school in Michoacan, hopes her brothers could make enough to return and start their own businesses in Michoacan, as they both wish, too. Side B - Francisco, Pancho, and brother Heraclio work on Milberger farm, Naich Cordo borrows them for jobs on his farm. They plan to go to Florida for winter season. Also notes on phone...
Dates: July 24, 1995

Enrique Lamadrid - Notes, July 1995

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 35
Scope and Contents Included are more observations at the markets on sales and cooking of calabacitas, haba beans, and a Japanese recipe for the beans. More comments on Ben H. Milhorn and his salsa, salsa being de-Mexicanized, no mention of chile or Mexico, comparisons to other area market salsa brands and catsup. Also comments on languague barriers and loss of sales, English at the Market, working man's Spanish on the farm. Includes another visit with Bob and Shane Milberger and the Aguilar family, their Mexican...
Dates: July 1995

Rudy Guglielmo - Notes, July 1995

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 36
Scope and Contents Included are interviews with Betty Mull, market manager, at Acacia Park Market, Memorial Park Market, and Security Market, Security, Co., between a Walmart and a KMart, comparisons. Her comments on garden produce, some out of state produce, other foods, and hand made crafts, quality, some not selling well, prices, vendors and types of buyers, many women. Rudy's experience of working at Bancroft Park Market with Renee Cordo, her aspirations, displays, marketing techniques. His notes on...
Dates: July 1995

Tomas Peña - Notes, July 1995

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 37
Scope and Contents Comparison of the various farmers' markets the team visited. Notes on poor living conditions of the Aguilar family, immigrant farm laborers for Shane Milberger, sleeping on banana boxes, shed in a corral, smell, flies, no air conditioning.
Dates: July 1995

Xochitl Shuru - Notes, July 1995

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 38
Scope and Contents Includes comparisons of the various farmers' markets visited, different venders, buyers, bean price war, outside produce, weather, information on descrimination against Hispanic venders, further notes on the Aguilars, the Mexican laborers, living conditions, comments, including women, reluctance to talk to interviewers, fear of bosses. Further comments on Hispanics and Mexicans from Colorado as poor workers, dependent up Welfare, government. More on Naich Cordo, crops, using plastic over soil...
Dates: July 1995

Newspaper Articles, ca. Summer 1995

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 39
Scope and Contents Newspaper clippings, ca. Summer 1995, about the area Farmers' Markets, products, vendors, operations, and Betty Mull.
Dates: ca. Summer 1995

Burrell Seed Catalog, ca. Summer 1995

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 40
Scope and Contents Seed company, Rocky Ford, CO, supplier to some farms in study area. Vegetables and seeds.
Dates: ca. Summer 1995

Project Guide, July 1995

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 41
Scope and Contents Introduction to the Farmers' Market project, Calabacita team's guidelines, goals, questions used, plan for presentation, memorable quotes from the project, lyrics for Betabeleros song, Mexican sugar beet workers, 1924, written by Sabino Marquez.
Dates: July 1995

Slides and Slide Logs, July 1995

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 42
Scope and Contents Selected color slides (40) from Calabacita team's field work, with descriptions, taken on site at market sites, interviews, etc. Copy of photo of team.
Dates: July 1995

Corridos Sin Fronteras gallery booklet from the Smithsonian Exhibit in Washington, DC, 2002

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 43
Scope and Contents Songbook, Ballads Without Borders, Smithsonian Institution, 72 pages, song lyrics in Spanish and English. This booklet gives the Spanish and English text for the corridos that were featured in the Smithsonian exhibit. CD not provided for the Smithsonian exhibit. Matching recordings for some of the Smithsonian show corridos are included on CDs 18-20 which Lamadrid made for his classes and on CD21 from the corrido show at the National Hispanic Cultural Center. This exhibit was organized by the...
Dates: 2002

"Nuevo Mexico, Hasta Cuando" Booklet, 2004

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 44
Scope and Contents An Anthology of New Mexico Ballads, Smithsonian Institution, 24 pages, selected New Mexico ballads with background notes, song lyrics in Spanish and English. This booklet contains the songs texts for the 14 corridos on CD 21, plus notes on songs and composers, and a bibliography. Booklet produced by the Smithsonian in conjunction with the Albuquerque Museum and the UNM Chicano Studies Program. Edited and recorded by Enrique Lamadrid and Jack Loeffler. Research assistant David F. Garcia....
Dates: 2004

Historia Musical, 1833-1889

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 44
Scope and Contents Historia Musica is an unpublished, hand-written cuaderno or notebook, in Spanish, kept by Inocencio Martinez, of Taos. He listed the names of songs and when and where they were performed over his lifetime. The nephew of Padre Martinez and the son of Santiago Martinez, Inocencio was a well-known musician in Northern New Mexico, who played the violin. Ray John de Aragon, scholar and author from Las Vegas, New Mexico, holds the original cuaderno and gave permission to CSWR for a copy. Enrique...
Dates: 1833-1889