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Honduran Immigrants in the USA

D'Barro: Tegucigalpa's Arts Hotspot

Cine, batana, guífiti y calaguala

Shamanism in Honduras (A. Ghidinelli)

History of the Honduran Black Movement

Film Review: Anita la cazadora de insectos

Wasaruña/We Awaken (radio documentary)

Conspiracy of Silence (radio documentary)

Eagles 30th Anniversary Reunion. (2008) The Eagles. Class of 1978, American School of Tegucigalpa, Honduras. Culled from almost 1,000 images, this slideshow tells the story of love and affection still alive and strong after 30 short years, in defiance of the corrosive effects of time and distance. In the glamour photo of the season, Walter Krochmal with Marc Goldstein (R.I.P.) and Jenny Stillo.

Music by Paquito D'Rivera and Caribe Obo.

Eaglettes and «Pichones». (2008) A glimpse at the wives, husbands, family and significant others of some of my high school classmates. What we pass on from generation to generation, who we choose as our mate, who ends up where and how that compares to what we might have expected dominates my thoughts, as I also see what a great group of people I shared my youth with as reflected in their offspring.

San Antonio de Oriente - El Zamorano. (2008) The world-famous Panamerican Agricultural School, where my father moved us two weeks after my birth. Views of nearby San Antonio de Oriente, birthplace of Honduran primitivist painter Antonio Velázquez. The return to El Zamorano shows the first house, where we lived, and the home of high school classmate and friend Dr. Abel Gernat, a poultry farming specialist.

Music by Guillermo Anderson

Yuscarán, El Paraíso, Honduras. (2008). A stunning colonial jewel in the central eastern mountains of Honduras with UNESCO World Heritage Site status to preserve its balconies and cobblestone streets. Site of the factory that produces "guaro," Honduras's national liquor. I visited frequently in the 1970s as an interpreter for the Baptist missionaries who founded the first evangelical church there.

Music by María Isolina

Home of Leontina Lupiac. (2008) Affectionately named “Karinópolis,” in honor of her beloved daughter Karina, the exquisite architectural and ornamental detail in this retreat in the mountains outside the capital city of Tegucigalpa provides this Honduran painter inspiration for her acclaimed works in oil. She designed every detail down to the fixtures, and her home and garden radiates serenity from every corner.

Art Exhibit by Elsa Krochmal. (2008) Images from ink-on-paper landscapes whimsically peopled with birds, bugs, trees, plants, and occasional human figures concealed inside bucolic "puzzles." My mother is a retired arts and English teacher with a long, distinguished career in Honduras's public school system and as a tireless contributor reformer.

(Theme song “Brighter Days” by Lourdess Darveniza at www.friendshipdollsinternational.com)

SOON TO COME: San Francisco de Ojuera. Images from my maternal ancestral village in the Department of Santa Bárbara, always mentioned in our family with an air of reverence and mystique. Called the Junco Capital because it is the birthplace of a now almost-extinct Panama-style hat weaving technique. Mayor Raúl Pineda also calls it "a little Mesopotamia," surrounded as it is on all sides by rivers. The visionary mayor has installed a time capsule in the town square to be opened in 2054 and is an indefatigable environmentalist.