Beyond My Adobe Schoolhouse
200 pages, 5 1/2 x 8 1/2
2 halftones
Paperback
Release Date:01 Sep 2024
ISBN:9780826367006
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Beyond My Adobe Schoolhouse

My Life in Education

University of New Mexico Press

Nasario García dedicated his life to educating others in a variety of settings, including universities and prisons. A native of rural New Mexico and a beloved writer and folklorist, in Beyond My Adobe Schoolhouse García reflects on his experiences of being educated and of being an educator. He takes readers from his childhood in a one-room schoolhouse through graduate school and to universities and other settings in Pennsylvania, Illinois, Colorado, and New Mexico, all places in which he spent time teaching in various capacities. Beyond My Adobe Schoolhouse is a love song to education and a reminder to everyone that it is possible to find a life, love, and purpose beyond the circumstances into which they were born.

Beyond My Adobe Schoolhouse is one of the most heartfelt, fascinating, and charming memoirs I have read in a long time. It tells the full arc of García’s educational life, from a humble, one-room adobe schoolhouse in a tiny village on the Río Puerco to a distinguished career as a professor, poet, writer, and translator.…It is the New Mexico equivalent of The Education of Henry Adams. I highly recommend Beyond My Adobe Schoolhouse.”—Douglas Preston, author of The Lost City of the Monkey God: A True Story Beyond My Adobe Schoolhouse is one of the most heartfelt, fascinating, and charming memoirs I have read in a long time. It tells the full arc of García’s educational life, from a humble, one-room adobe schoolhouse in a tiny village on the Río Puerco to a distinguished career as a pro
“This memoir will touch the hearts of all those who love New Mexico.…Beyond My Adobe Schoolhouse will become a classic memoir of a beloved author that explores the intricacies of education and culture in modern New Mexico.”—V. B. Price, author of The Orphaned Land: New Mexico’s Environment Since the Manhattan Project “This memoir will touch the hearts of all those who love New Mexico. . . . Beyond My Adobe Schoolhouse will become a classic memoir of a beloved author that explores the intricacies of education and culture in modern New Mexico.”—V. B. Price, author of The Orphaned Land: New Mexico’s Env

Nasario García has published over thirty books of folklore, poetry, fiction, and children’s stories, including No More Bingo, Comadre! Stories (UNM Press).

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Chapter 1. The Beginning: Long Ago

Chapter 2. The Santa Barbara/Martíneztown Nightmare

Chapter 3. A Hop, Skip, and a Jump

Chapter 4. Turning Over a New Leaf

Chapter 5. Time, Perseverance, and Encouragement

Chapter 6. A New Dawn Arrives

Chapter 7. Granada: Faraway but at Home

Chapter 8. Pittsburgh: An Unforeseen Place

Chapter 9. A Dream Becomes a Reality

Chapter 10. Amid Del Monte Cornfields

Chapter 11. Pleasant Memories Linger

Chapter 12. The Journey Is Ended

Chapter 13. Then and Now

Appendix A. Foreign Countries Visited

Appendix B. Memorable Career Moments

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