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Article: "Know who you are": regional identity in the teachings of Eva Castellanoz.(OREGON VOICES)(Biography)
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- Oregon Historical Quarterly
- Article date:
- September 22, 2007
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ON A STEAMY JULY NIGHT IN 2005, I sit with Eva Castellanoz in back of her house in Nyssa, on the Oregon-Idaho state line. In white jeans and an embroidered floral top, she looks far younger than her sixty-six years. Black curls spliced with gray cascade to her shoulders; her smooth skin seems unmarked by years of labor in the onion fields that surround us. Eva gestures toward a huge locust tree in the yard. "This tree that does not talk taught me the biggest lesson of my life. It was sick and dying; it had no leaves.... An old Mexican man told my husband to drill a hole in its trunk, soak a stake with a special recipe, and drive it through that hole." After Eva's husband ...
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Article: WENBERG STATE PARK PLAYS HOST LATINO FOLK ARTS FIESTA
US Fed News Service, Including US State News;
July 30, 2007 ;
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... ... farmworker family during the 1950s and '60s." Nationally renowned azahares (Mexican wax-and-paper flower) artist Eva Castellanoz, of Nyssa, Ore., will demonstrate and give event visitors the opportunity to try their hand at this unique art ...
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