Pedro Rivera Audio Clip 1

Pedro Rivera Audio Clip 1

Latino Digital Mural Oral History Project

18 March, 2011

Earliest childhood memories. Hmmm. You know it is funny when I, when you think about um, its something I remind myself as a dad now, when you kind of close your eyes and you remember these snapshots of what you remember. It is always those memories where the collective family was together. I remember a Christmas celebration, the new year celebrations, I remember dancing and really spending just quality time as a family and so I think what I remember the most is the times that um regardless, we use to have te families throw parties together where it was just you know twenty – thirty family members would show up to the house and there would be nothing. I mean we used to now have to cook for twenty or thirty people or you would go shopping and buy drinks for everyone for that many folks. There were times where folks would just show up and they would turn into a party with music or a block party out in the neighborhood and there was no food, or we just cooked whatever was in the fridge and made the best time of it and those are the days that I kind of remember. It was unplanned celebrations of life