Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2013/03/03
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Amazing story! Cheers, Nathan Nathan Wajsman Alicante, Spain http://www.frozenlight.eu http://www.greatpix.eu PICTURE OF THE WEEK: http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws Blog: http://nathansmusings.wordpress.com/ YNWA On Mar 2, 2013, at 3:51 PM, Tina Manley wrote: > Photo Every So Often: > > This is Do?a Cleta. She was a tiny, little woman only about 4 feet tall > with severe Kyphosis, or hunchback. Her family fled to Honduras from > Guatemala during the civil war of the 1980's. They settled in Estanzuela > on the border with Guatemala. She was the last person to speak the Chorti > Maya language. She said she tried to teach the young people but they were > not interested. Do?a Cleta died in 2004 at 83. > > http://www.pbase.com/tinamanley/image/149014745 > > She was still grinding her own corn for tortillas and making her own pots > of clay up until the day she died. > > C&C greatly appreciated. > > Tina > -- > Tina Manley, ASMP > www.tinamanley.com > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information