Author Preserves Northern N.M. Culture, Traditions

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Although born in Bernalillo, Nasario Garca grew up in the northeastern part of Albuquerque, in Rio Puerco, where he attended a one-room school, had neither television nor other ammenities, and lived in poverty, but he had a grandmother who told him stories and guided him, little by little, to become a man.

This New Mexican writer, who honors his traditions and the language of his ancestors in his books, says he owes a lot to his paternal grandmother, who daily nurtured him with stories and anecdotes told in Spanish, which he forever will keep in his memory.

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Author Preserves Northern N.M. Culture, Traditions

With more than 60 published works, including "Albuquerque: Three Hundred Years to Remember" and "Old Las Vegas", Garca says he never imagined becoming a writer. On the...

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