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Show Students review experiences of study-tour of Old Mexico Rell G. Francis, junior high school art instructor last year, and his wife Janet, brought back a bit of Old Mexico from their six-weeks study-t o ui .torn which they returned las. week. During their stay, they took numerous pictures of the people peo-ple and the country, which provide a most interesting study of the character and conditions of the people in the southland. To give the people of Springville an opportunity to share with them some of the experiences which they enjoyed, en-joyed, the couple will exhibit their pictures, curios, crafts, and the recordings of the "sounds of San Miguel," (Mexican music, church bells, donkey brays, etc. Sunday afternoon from 2 until 5 p.m. at the Art Gallery west room, to which everyone is invited. Mr. Francis has made a work of art of the pictures to be on exhibit, enlarging them to 16 by 20 inches and mounting mount-ing them for display. nmroute to the Institute Al-lende, Al-lende, San Miguel, where the couple took a study course, thev toured Taon, N.M. (art 'center) Carlsbad Caverns, Mesa, Ariz., and the Glen Canyon Can-yon Dam at Page, Ariz., but the sights at San Miguel de Allende captured their interests. inter-ests. Asked to give some of theii impressions and experiences of this most interesting land, Rell and Janet gave the following report: "San Miguel de Allende, located lo-cated approximately 200 miles north of Mexica City, is a small colonial village, 400 years old, set in the dry and mountainous uplands of the State of Guanajuato. The town (Continued on Page 3, Col. 4.) Students review experiences of study tour in Old Mexico Mr. and Mrs. Kirliarcl Men-love Men-love (Nancy Packard) of Logan, Lo-gan, visited qver the weekend with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Alton Packard and her grandmother, grand-mother, Mrs. Hattie Williams. ! es as Mexico City and Lake Patzcuarro." Mr. and Mrs. Francis came home with much respect for the people of the country which offers so much to the tourist. They belieye that many Americans could learn much from their liesurely way of living. liv-ing. They both took classes at the school and Mrs. Francis took part in a dramatic presentation, pre-sentation, "Sabrina Fair." Mr. and Mrs. Brent Haymond and young son are leaving the latter part of the month for Chicago, 111., where Brent will enroll in the Sorthwestern University, Uni-versity, School of Business Administration. Ad-ministration. H e graduated from the BYU in June. horse to school in Levi's, his class lectures were well organized or-ganized and stimulating. "One of the first lessons in photography was, 'petty larceny' lar-ceny' or 'how to steal pictures of the natives,' without their knowing it. We found that the Mexicans were very self-conscious when their pictures were taken and looked rather unnatural. If we paid them, we would only get a stiff, unnatural un-natural expression. Consequently Consequent-ly we were taught to focus our cameras, know the light reading before hand and then shoot our pictures from the hip without looking into the viewfinder. "I would usually get into a busy area at the market and stand in one place as though waiting for someone. As I nervously turned my camera in my hands, I snapped pictures pic-tures in all directions, without being noticed. I suppose the best interest picture would have been of a caggy photographer photo-grapher slyly approaching a subject without getting tomatoes toma-toes or fruit thrown at him. "While most of the photographs photo-graphs were taken at San Miguel, Mi-guel, we had the opportunity to get additional shots while visiting other interesting plac- ( Continued from Page 1) is an oasis, nourished by springs from the hillside. However, the natives depend on the summer rains to mature their vegetable crops. Unfortunately Unfor-tunately the rains did not ar-rive ar-rive until late June. I believe it was the day we'were at the bullfight. As the show was about to begin it started to sprinkle. The Mexicans and most of the Americans immediately immed-iately sought shelter, but we confidently kept our seats on the Sol (sunny) side of the ring, thinking that we could keep dry , huddling next to a broken down wall. "When the cloud burst finally fin-ally forced us to join the others,- we found that we had furnished the entertainment and that everyone was betting on how long we could stand the rain. The bullfights were postponed. "Because of the drought and the frosts which usually come in September, it is doubtful that the corn crop will mature this year. The community will therefore be hard hit as they do not allow any industry to mar the 18th century buildings. The people depend solely on the land for livlihood. Consequently Conse-quently there is much poverty but despite the hardships, there are many fiestas that include dancing, music and fireworks. "The fine art school Insti-turo Insti-turo Allende, has brought many Americans to San Miguel. Classes in painting, photography, photo-graphy, sculpture, crafts, weaving, weav-ing, drama, writing and Spanish Span-ish language, are taught in English by excellent American teachers, many of whom have made San Miguel their permanent perm-anent home. Behind the broken-down walls, they have built beautiful gardens and homes where they live liesurely. The low cost of living permits them to have maids and gardeners. The director of the school has over 250 varieties of orchids growing on his estate, which he bought for only $90 in 1940. "My photography teacher, an ambitious photo-journalist, who had been a newspaperman and war correspondent, planned plan-ned to make San Miguel his permanent home, 'because he hated the nerve-racking pace of the big eastern cities,' and found the inexpensive casual life at San Miguel more suitable. suit-able. This gave us the idea that Springville could become just such a place for artists and offer this type of living if we could get an art school here. Although he rode his |