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Getting to Know Our Village, Then and Now–II/II

Posted in Fiestas Pinos Genil, Maureen's World, Pinos Genil, Printmaking Courses Spain, tagged Maureen Booth, Pinos Genil People, printmaking courses Spain on July 8, 2016| Leave a Comment »

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You’ve seen Pinos Genil in the old days in the previous post. Here’s what Pinos and its people look like today, summer and winter.

Here are a few links to Somos Pineros posts on contemporary Pinos:

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Getting to Know Our Village, Then and Now–I/II

Posted in Fiestas Pinos Genil, Maureen Booth, Maureens printmaking workshops, Pinos Genil, tagged Maureen Booth, Pinos Genil Granada on July 6, 2016| Leave a Comment »

People ask, “Why did you come here? Why did you stay?”

The answer is straightforward enough. We liked Spain, at least the version of the country and its people we encountered in our village, Pinos Genil. And Spain seemed to like us. We arrived here in the fall of 1969. (“Ha llovido,” say the Spanish. “It has rained since then.”)

Mike started making photographs from the beginning, especially of the events in the pueblo: the fiestas, romerías, harvests, etc. He recently digitalized his old negatives and started publishing them on a photo-blog, SomosPineros.com. In case you’re interested in seeing what our village and our neighbors looked like a few decades ago I’m going to upload a few pictures here and give you some links to posts on Somos Pineros.

Later, in a second post, I’ll show you some recent pictures from this year and last, so you can see how things have changed around here. Here we go.