New Mexico One - Text
Subject is an Hispanic woman from Canutillo, Texas. The sample was submitted by Margarita Cordero, Associate Editor for New Mexico
Edited by Paul Meier. Running time 00:04:38
TRANSCRIPTION
I was born in Canutillo, Texas. I was born the year-- (uh) June the 12th in 1927. I’m 79 years old.
[Interviewer] Have-- have you ever lived away from Canutillo? I mean, have you moved to another city or state?
Chicago, for six years. I went there for six years.
[Interviewer] And then you moved back to the Southwest?
New Mexico, and I stay here in New Mexico.
[Interviewer] And then you worked in New Mexico?
No, I work in Texas. (Um) Wrangler’s-- como se llama?
[Interviewer] (Uh) Wrangler Jeans?
Wrangler Jeans, for 39 years.
[Interviewer] And that was in El Paso, Texas?
In El Paso. Texas. I used to go and come and go.
[Interviewer] And that’s right over… on the border of…?
Juarez.
[Interviewer] Juarez.
Mexico.
[Interviewer] Yeah. Texas.
I just went to seventh grade. I didn’t graduate grammar. I didn’t-- I didn’t graduate (ehh)…
[Interviewer] And that was in Canutillo, Texas?
Mm-hmm.
[Interviewer] And then did you start working soon after, after the--
No. No, I work in a-- (uh) como se llama? Canneria?
[Interviewer] Cannery.
Cannery. Impacando, what you say? The tomate.
[Interviewer] Uh-huh. Tomatoes. And (um) how many children do you have?
Two. I have two children, a boy and a girl.
[Interviewer] And how old are they?
(Uh) My son is 50 years old, and my daughter is 49.
UNSCRIPTED SPEECH TRANSCRIBED BY JACQUELINE BAKER, ASSOCIATE EDITOR FOR TRANSCRIPTIONS, October 31, 2007