Pokemon Dawn's Pajamas

the shade of the baobabs

For the Library Museum of Castilla y León

" In Africa, when an old man dies, a library burns, a whole library disappears, without the flames finished with the paper. "

Ahmadou Hampaté

Bá (Mali, 1900 - 1991)

Anywhere in the world the supposed death of an elderly man to a personal story, a story full turn thousands of small stories that have shaped a lifetime, a memory full of hyperlinks lived in first person, first-hand information unsweetened, good ...

Lost stories and keep them among us is one of the tasks that the Ethnographic Museum Castilla devotes much of his efforts. Thus, in 2007 launched a project called MTP (Memory, Land and Heritage), coordinated entirely from the Museum.

Intangible Heritage of Castilla y León, peculiarities of speech, romances, songs, life history, crafts, agricultural calendars and a host of issues and matters of interviewers and informants who spoke during the sessions, make the content of these recordings.

On 22 March 2007 recorded the first interview Fornillos enrolling. In it, Manuel Merino Gago, of 80, for a little over an hour recounts his youth working as a farmer, blacksmith and rebar in the Salto del Castro.

Joseph and Antonia, Órbigo Veguellina (Leon) told us about the Cabrera Baja before
migration to Europe that depopulated the region. 30 years were in Holland ...

To this has been followed by others over 327 interviews, collected in the provinces of Zamora, León, Burgos, Avila, Segovia, Valladolid and Soria.

Over 400 hours recorded in audio sound archive is preserved in the Museum as an undiscovered treasure. Personnel shortages are still made much of the deuvedés to transcribe and make them available to researchers.

The June 15, 2010 Concha Ms. Calderon, 83, known as the singing of the people most Villagallegos (León), played for posterity chants of San Roque, poetry for the Angel Guard wedding songs and romances a blind still remember when I was little. To date this has been the last recorded interview.

The crisis has been everything to MTP, but then again, who explains to the Grim Reaper what is the crisis? At the end of the day, she never had problems at work ...

I am a graduate of the great university of the word taught in the shade of the baobabs.

Ahmadou Hampaté

Bá (Mali, 1900 - 1991)