Organ concerts continue at the Euskal Echea The first Wednesday of each month, Euskal Echea Institute offers the community an interesting cycle of live organ free admission. The appointment is at 19 hours in the college chapel, located on Calle Sarandi 735, Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires.
concert
The grid continues as follows:
May - Four: Fernando Ciancio (trumpet) with Enrique Rimoldi (organ)
June - Two: Maria de Lourdes Repetto (Uruguayan artist) Deanna Cristina
with Three - August : Lagun Onak Choir (directed by Miguel Pesce), José Maria Guitierrez (Txistu) and Gabriela Navarro
Landaverría (organ) Seven - September : Ana Paula Segurola (Uruguay-Argentina)
For more information, please contact the Institute Euskal Echea:
tel. 4308 5401/04 An example of work, cooperation and respect in the tough Patagonia in late 1800.
Mariano Huici Altamirano, a native of Alava, arrived in the country around the year 1860 with one of his cousins, John Etchevers. At that time, the English military service lasted between 7 and 9 years, and emigrated to avoid it and look forward to new lands. After crossing the border and obtain passports in France, traveled to Buenos Aires. On arrival the expected work on a salting in Quilmes, which had been managed by a French Basque priest, there was fishing and salted sheep and product was sent to Brazil, the United States, Cuba and the Caribbean, was said to feed the black slaves.
The two cousins \u200b\u200bate and slept in the salting and saved almost the entire salary. Your savings are the French Basque priest gave the order to keep them. Two years later, the priest told them they had enough to go it alone and advised them to rent a field in Olavarria, where he had settled a few French and English Basques. They did (the field was a man named Danish Tornquist, believed it was related to the family that founded the bank after the same name), bought players and began raising sheep, which did very well.
In Olavarria, my grandfather became a close friend of French Basque shepherd named Landaburu, being then sponsor five of her seven children.
After issuing Roca, ran the news that the South was given land and if populated and operated for ten years, I gave you the title. Also said it was good place to raise sheep. Huici Mariano went to visit the area and returned with the decision to move there, but the cousin did not like the idea, so liquidation.
Al grandfather Huici the Government awarded sixteen square miles south of the present Province of Santa Cruz, in a place from which my grandmother could not remember any names because there was nothing resembling a town. It was between the Andes and the Atlantic and close to the Chilean border running roughly from east to west. When they wanted to go to people traveling to Punta Arenas in Chile, about three days by car and another round back (they had tarps for the night on the way). Go to Rio Gallegos took them more or less the same time, but it was a town of nothing, while Punta Arenas was already a serious city with shops, theaters, banks, etc., Besides being a busy port.
The field was very extensive and the Basques did not know riding a horse (only used cars and sulkys), so that Huici had to be seven posts, apart from the hull of the field. The people driving the sheep walking with sheepdogs and whistles. By the time of the harvest, there came Indians of southern Chile were very good riders and were busy moving the hacienda. Many of these Indians came with their families and brought tents in which they settled until they return to Chile. They domaban horses to the children of the Basques and taught to ride, to tame them, bind, to make tools and hunt with a bolas. The Indians did not want money, they were paid in flour, sugar, chickpeas, beans, fabric, needles, knives and axes, and so on. Neither wanted to firearms or ammunition: you need only hunt and way. My grandmother said they were very clean and bathed three times per day, which at first surprised the Basques, used to swim every death of bishop, although eventually most of them adopted the usual extravagant India. Grandmother Filomena said that the Indians were the private property of things: clothes, comb, animals, etc., but would not understand that private ownership of land: they said that animals (including humans) and plants were land, and that the land could not be of men.
said that the Indians, to tame a horse, never rides, dressage and said that the style of Christians ruined ruined the horse or man. They tame down, which took them seven to ten days. When I first rode the horse was not moving. They said that yelling and hitting the horse to tame it only served to make it cowardly and spiteful. They were stroking to get the tickling and treated him kindly, and said that it took the animal and attached to one rather than obeying out of fear. Another way to tame that used by the Indians, when there was trouble, put the horse was a nod to steak (it is a lonjita leather: the Indians did not use iron in the snack) and a charge and put it in a pond or stream until the water came to the cross, they said that in this situation the horse is stuck and can not bucking. Then I rode through the water until the animal stopped threaten to resist and remained quiet with the top rider. Then they pulled the reins very gently to bring him a little out of the water, if macaque, again took him deep, and so on until the animal left to dry without a struggle more. Then I drew the way, quiet, until the animal responded to all directions of the bridle of your heels and inclination of the rider. There start using it, giving rein to just up to the gallop, and the use was going to finish. So, having run out of riding in one hour or less and had to be moved, if only to pass.
Filomena always maintained that the Indians did not get dirty or wasted anything, that did not hunt an animal if they were not going to eat, and people felt much more clean, honest, kind and intelligent Christians. Never got to speak their language, but knew the meaning of many words, so that one showed him the map and she easily translated the Indian name of the villages.
Huici traveled two or three times a year to Buenos Aires (Navy vessels) for walking and for business, and always ran Olavarria, where were his cousin and many friends of his. So it was godfather to many children of his friend Landaburu and more. One year he found that his friend had died. A year or two is encouraged and proposed marriage to the widow, Mariana PIERRESTEGUI, a native of Biarritz, who accepted. He returned to Santa Cruz with his wife and seven stepchildren, and South had two sons, Mariano and the youngest, Filomena, who was born in 1890 there where the devil lost his poncho.
In the field of Huici in Santa Cruz had a population of about eighty people. On Sunday people came to the hull of the posts (minus one or two who stayed to look after the place) and spent the day together. They ate, played cards, entertained themselves with Basque skills: ball, cut logs and stone game (which I practice is called
arrizotzaile
). This game is now regulated and plays to see who throws a stone up and more times in a given time. At that time played in pairs, one the throw, the opponent got up and pulled the back, the first up, and so continued until one of the two would give up. Filomena said he never it gave up and lost the fading and rolled on the ground. But the most important game was the shooting, because Huici wanted to practice and gave a sterling prize for winning. They used 44 caliber Winchester brand rifles and Marlin, were typical of lever you see in cowboy movies, which were then common in the field. Targeted using 20-liter cans of kerosene.
Filomena said her father would not allow anyone to leave the field without wearing one of those rifles and ammunition for two reasons: one, because there were pumas and, while not attacking people (rather than escaping it), killed sheep, and if you crossed one had not to waste the opportunity to stick a lead. The other, because there were cattle rustlers and in the area as there were no police, both as residents rustlers, if crossed, throwing without question, to be armed so it was important to preserve the skin.
The most important room of the house was the kitchen, very large and where the dinner came to be seventy. My grandmother said that on one wall had a support made of strips of wood, where they put some seventy rifles, because everyone went out, had to take theirs. Each rifle came in a box with a revolver Colt or Smith & Brand Wesson the same gauge (44) and one or two boxes of bullets. In the field no one used gun, and when my grandfather sold the country sent about seventy guns a brand new home in Buenos Aires for them to sell.
When dinner was finished talking, they played cards and end my grandmother read aloud a chapter of a novel, which was translated from French into Euskera as I read, because they did not understand English Basques French and Euskera was the common language. Obviously, the simultaneous translation was slower than reading directly, but nobody complained, was like watching TV series today night and people (adults and children) went to sleep thinking about what would happen in the novel to the next night.
The only animal product that was eating lamb, 365 days a year, except when the kids (or the Indians, who were not more than two months in the field) were returning from hunting with some hare, ostrich or guanaco, rhea said Filomena ate only prod. Sometimes they brought ostrich eggs (Filomena said that yielded a dozen chicken) and Mariana had pancakes or cake on a massive scale. They usually ate chicken eggs (breakfast is fried bacon, fried eggs or scrambled bread and coffee) for which they had a chicken in the shearing shed. Cheese was made, was bought: for milk and cream were one or two cows in the depths of winter, they spent a month or two in the shed, where the once removed a day to walk around and , when there, take some sun.
As neighbors, about five or six leagues a few Scots living Huici hated because they were told to kill the Indian to occupy more land.
occasionally visited them a commission from the Army, who was patrolling or making maps and lodged in the hull. Filomena said carbines that there was no safe target more than one block. Once rustlers had raged and the military gave them (I paid for all) three Mauser rifles, which had much better accuracy and longer range.
Filomena was a fan of Mauser, of the Carbines 44 said that while lead was big and you stick your stick where you left lying in one shot, were of little use if it was within walking distance and, separately, were made to the powder before, less powerful than today, and for use with modern gunpowder cartridges had to carry less than half. She knew a lot of weapons, was an excellent shooter and until he died he always had his gun clean and loaded into the portfolio, or night, on the bedside table, even when I lived in the neighborhood of Almagro.
