DECEMBER 29, 2021 www.wintertexantimes.com 4 WINTER TEXAN TIMES Little Shop Of HORRORS James “Nikki” Rowe Choir & Theatre Department Present For More Information Please Contact Rowe Choir 956-657-5152 JAN. 21-25 • JAN. 27-30 Music By Alan Menken • Book By Howard Ashman TIMES: WEEKDAYS 7PM • WEEKENDS 2PM DATES & TICKETS: $14 Tickets On Sale Now! RoweTheatre.com NikkiRoweTheatre / Rowe Choir @NikkiRoweTheatre / @RoweChoir @RoweTheatre / @RoweChoir RoweTheatre Valley ranch life presented in Lecture Series The Mission Historical Museum presents MHM Lecture Series: Late 19th Century South Texas Ranch Families with Robert Ramirez. Robert Ramirez presents a captivating lecture on Saturday, January 8 at 11 a.m. at the Mission Historical Museum. Admission is free to the public. Coffee and light refreshments will be served. If you have ever wondered how people in the Valley lived in the late 1800’s, or what activities filled a day in the life of a local ranching family, your curiosity will be satisfied by reading “Ranch Life in Hidalgo County After 1850,” a book filled with details provided by the ranchers themselves. The late Emilia Schunior Ramírez, educator, school administrator and college professor, wrote “Ranch Life” as a chapter for a book on the history of the first century of Hidalgo County (founded 1852). Based on interviews with her parents (both born on ranch land) and other relatives, she paints a detailed portrait of life on south Texas ranches. She writes of the hard work, back breaking chores and responsibilities, chief among them providing water for people and livestock. She also writes with much affection of the camaraderie, feasts, and celebrations on the ranch. For reasons not known, the book on Hidalgo County’s first century was never published, and for nearly twenty years neither was Schunior Ramírez’ manuscript. A professor of Spanish at Pan American College (now UTRGV), Schunior Ramírez died in 1960. Her son Alfonso Ramírez published the first edition in 1971 and for more than 40 years, her “modest booklet” was a valuable resource for others who took up the subject of South Texas ranching history. Now her grandson, speaker Robert Ramírez has published a second edition, which includes an appendix featuring newspaper accounts, photographs from that era and biographies of family members. Robert Ramírez was born in 1949 in Edinburg. He received his bachelors in English from Pan American University. His senior year, he wrote an essay called “The Woolen Sarape” and in 1973, his professor, the late Dr. Edward Simmen, included it in a book entitled The Mexican American: From Caricature to Self-Portrait. Publishers continue to include this essay in college freshman composition textbooks. Ramírez has also produced a slide show based on the book. Which will be presented at the Mission Historical Museum along with book-signing a copy for those who purchase a copy of “Ranch Life” at the presentation. The Mission Historical Museum is located at 900 Doherty Avenue, Mission. The museum is open Wednesday – Friday, 1 p.m. – 4 p.m. and every second Saturday of the month from 10 a.m. – 1 p.m. For more information on this program or any upcoming events contact the museum office at (956) 580-8646, visit www.missionmuseum.org, or follow on Facebook.
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