StoryCorps Historias: Lucille Mascareñas & Victor Mascareñas

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Series: StoryCorps
Length: 02:28

Lucille Mascareñas (mahs - cah- RAIN - yahs) tells her son, Victor, about what happened when she moved from the city to work on her husband's family farm. Read the full description.

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Mascarenas_small Lucille Mascareñas was a city girl with no knowledge at all of life in the country. When she moved to her husband's family farm she struggled to fit in, especially with her grandmother in-law Candelaria. After a rough start, Candelaria eventually showed her the ropes and became her true friend and teacher.

Lucille shared this story with her son, Victor when they sat down with StoryCorps in Taos, New Mexico.

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Piece Description

Lucille Mascareñas was a city girl with no knowledge at all of life in the country. When she moved to her husband's family farm she struggled to fit in, especially with her grandmother in-law Candelaria. After a rough start, Candelaria eventually showed her the ropes and became her true friend and teacher.

Lucille shared this story with her son, Victor when they sat down with StoryCorps in Taos, New Mexico.

Broadcast History

NPR's Morning Edition 12/4/09

Transcript

LM: Your dad was raised with his grandparents. His grandmother called him “mi alma”, which was like her soul (1), her sustenance, everything that she was she poured into this little child. And she only spoke Spanish, and I understood Spanish but I didn't speak it. I remember one of the first experiences I had alone with her, your dad told me that "you're going to help her out in the garden today," and I thought "well how fabulous." So I started hoeing away. Well I was uprooting plants and pretty soon all I heard was "Camota!" and I kind of got the connotation of that and it wasn't real happy. (2) And I stopped in my tracks and she took the hoe away from me and when your dad got home she was telling him "esta camota " or something or other, "y Americana, Americana" she would say, and she would hit the cupboard. "She's been acting like that all day," I told him, "and she's just very mean...
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