Boquillas Christmas – Santa Needs Your Help. 2017.

   Christmas in Boquillas – A Most Wonderful Holiday Tradition

Santa delivers toys to the children of Boquillas
Santa delivers toys to the children of Boquillas

For the last 13 years, long-time Terlingua resident Marcos Paredes has taken food and presents to the children of Boquillas on Christmas Day. Marcos and some of his friends and neighbors have bought presents for the children plus turkeys and hams for their families, and delivered them personally.

Christmas in Boquillas
Christmas in Boquillas

This is a wonderful tradition. For it to continue, we need to pitch in.

 




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Hollywood Terlingua – Music Documentary Part 1

It could have been just another late-afternoon pickin’ circle at George and Anita Goss’ house. Alton and Sue Watson, George Goss, Jim Keaveny, Roger Moon, Johnny Mississippi, and Dustin Diosdado sang and played. I played along on the Melodica.

There was beer, wine, tamales, chips and salsa, the makings of a campfire and a fine sunset to enjoy along with the music.

Songs and laughter echoed off the mountains, dogs were underfoot, and George and Anita’s daughter played and sang along.

Just another pickin’ circle except for the massive cameras, the film crew from L.A. and New York, and the microphones- lavs, an AT 2020, and a couple of shotgun mics. (scroll down for more…)

Sue and Alton Watson, George Goss, Jim Keaveny, and Roger Moon
Sue and Alton Watson, George Goss, Jim Keaveny, and Roger Moon
Tony Biancosino and Julie Bob Lombardo behind the cameras.
Tony Biancosino and Julie Bob Lombardo behind the cameras.

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