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Ralph Graves takes a look at one of the longest-lasting icons in Mexican history: the Plumed Serpent. As a “human,” he was a kindly priest/ruler. As a “deity,” he was a god of the wind, part bird, part serpent.
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12 LAKESIDE HISTORY Sally and Mike Myers know what not many other ex-pats know—that the young priest who established the Jaltepec Centro de Educativo (near San Juan Cosala) was later canonized in 2002 as a Saint.
16 ANCIENT HISTORY Nancy Wolf writes about what corn meant to the early inhabitants of Mexico, and that with it they were able to abandon their nomadic lifestyle and ÀRXULVK DV D VWDEOH DQG JUHDW FLYLOL]Dtion.
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Anyone Train Dog
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Uncommon Sense
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Welcome to Mexico
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28 LOCAL COLOR Teri Saya writes about the sounds of Mexico, and she is especially fond of the knife sharpener’s whistle. The old man who works in her neighborhood is blind—which makes Teri’s true account all the more intriguing.
60 ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE For most of his life, the writer—Art Jackson, an early member of the Ajijic Writers’ Group—was into a Macrobiotic Diet. It apparently worked for him, as he was well into his 90’s and working on his autobiography, My First 100 Years, when he passed away.
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LAKESIDE LIVING
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42 Lakeside Living 50 Child of the Month 54 Bridge by the Lake 55 Front Row Center
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