Readings
September 30, 2007 by giarts-ts-admin
Like Juan Estevan Arellano, Stanley Crawford is a writer and a farmer. He also has taken on the strenuous responsibility of serving as a mayordomo for an acequia (an irrigation ditch system) in northern New Mexico. Readers of Crawford's Mayordomo: Chronicle of an Acequia in Northern New Mexico learn how social ties and shared civic values are sustained alongside a series of ditches and floodgates that draw water from a river for distribution to agricultural fields. We include a brief excerpt.
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The question that needs to be asked is how should we, as young people, learn from the past, so that we can benefit ourselves, our brothers and sisters. Today, I look back at what I've accomplished in the course of my sixty years of life and wonder if could I have done better to improve my life or is this what I was destined for.
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