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Audio Recording Interview with Margarito Garcio and Trinidad Garcia about life in Mosquero Canyon, Mosquero, New Mexico, part 3

Interview with Margarito Garcio and Trinidad Garcia about life in Mosquero Canyon, Mosquero, New Mexico, part 3

About this Item

Title

  • Interview with Margarito Garcio and Trinidad Garcia about life in Mosquero Canyon, Mosquero, New Mexico, part 3

Names

  • Fleischhauer, Carl (Recordist)
  • Kalb, Laurie Beth (Research team member)
  • Garcia, Trinidad (Interviewee)
  • Garcia, Margarito (Interviewee)

Created / Published

  • Mosquero, New Mexico, August 30, 1985

Headings

  • -  Folklore--New Mexico
  • -  Field recordings
  • -  Interviews
  • -  Sound recording
  • -  United States -- New Mexico -- Mosquero

Genre

  • Field recordings
  • Interviews
  • Sound recording

Notes

  • -  Index data: Part 3 of a 3-part interview with Margarito and Trinidad Garcia, at their home near the courthouse in Mosquero NM: about life on the homesteads in Mosquero Canyon (first established circa 1890-1918), about the land in the canyon, Margarito Garcia bought the land from relatives and others for about $9 per acre, it is now worth $100 per acre, very valuable now, Margarito Garcia want to have a place for his kids to go deer hunting; the Garcias haven't gone to the canyon for a while, there used to be parties and picnics there, community members would cook in a pit, Margarito Garcia used to dig a hole in the ground, get a wood fire going, the food would go in the pit and the ashes would go on top, meat would be cooked in the pit, sometimes meat is wrapped in gunny sacks, and the meat is seasoned before it is wrapped, for example, oregano, pepper, barbecue, onion salt, garlic salt, sage; interruption for telephone call; about a big rancher who brought beer, ice, tourists would stop to see what was going on and eat with them, there was a dance, electric guitar, drum, people danced while the band played from on a flatbed truck, barbecue sauce was served with the meat, one man has the recipe, also pork and beans, hominy, bread (from the store), chips, peaches and cottage cheese, pickles and onions, a big dinner, people came from the town, from Roy, tourists, from Logan, from all around, people drank and slept, 1975 was the year of the party; how big parties are for weddings, the Garcias haven't had a barbecue pit for ten years, as interview ends, fieldworker Carl Fleischhauer photographs the Garcias.

Medium

  • audiotape reel, 7 in.

Call Number/Physical Location

  • MBRS Shelflist: RXA 7250
  • Field project identifier: NM-85-LK-R9
  • Call number: AFC 1991/032: SR09

Source Collection

  • New Mexico Folklife Project collection (AFC 1991/032)

Repository

  • American Folklife Center

Digital Id

Online Format

  • audio

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Credit line: New Mexico Folklife Project collection (AFC 1991/032), American Folklife Center, Library of Congress

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Chicago citation style:

Fleischhauer, Carl, Laurie Beth Kalb, Trinidad Garcia, and Margarito Garcia. Interview with Margarito Garcio and Trinidad Garcia about life in Mosquero Canyon, Mosquero, New Mexico, part 3. Mosquero, New Mexico, 1985. Audio. https://www.loc.gov/item/afc1991032_sr09/.

APA citation style:

Fleischhauer, C., Kalb, L. B., Garcia, T. & Garcia, M. (1985) Interview with Margarito Garcio and Trinidad Garcia about life in Mosquero Canyon, Mosquero, New Mexico, part 3. Mosquero, New Mexico. [Audio] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/afc1991032_sr09/.

MLA citation style:

Fleischhauer, Carl, et al. Interview with Margarito Garcio and Trinidad Garcia about life in Mosquero Canyon, Mosquero, New Mexico, part 3. Mosquero, New Mexico, 1985. Audio. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/afc1991032_sr09/>.