{"id":3052,"date":"2022-07-28T00:00:04","date_gmt":"2022-07-28T00:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/questastories.org\/?p=3052"},"modified":"2026-02-23T13:36:01","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T20:36:01","slug":"louisa-aragon-moly-mine-childhood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/questastories.org\/index.php\/2022\/07\/28\/louisa-aragon-moly-mine-childhood\/","title":{"rendered":"Louisa Aragon &#8211; Moly Mine Childhood"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In this segment of in the <a href=\"https:\/\/questastories.org\/index.php\/tag\/voicesdeaqui\/\"><em>Voices de Aqu\u00ed <\/em>series<\/a>, Louisa Aragon shares memories of her childhood experiences living with her family in &#8220;company housing&#8221; near the Moly Mine between Questa and Red River, near Columbine Canyon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"https:\/\/questastories.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/7-10-22_louisaaragon_voicesdeaqui.mp3\"><\/audio><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Thank you Louisa Aragon, for sharing these memories of your childhood and family; it is a gift to those listening now and in the future. Your memories add to our understanding and appreciation of the history and heritage of Questa.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This story was recorded at the Questa Youth Center during a meeting of the Questa Quilters Guild on Novermber 13, 2019; recording and editing by <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clairecote.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Claire Cot\u00e9<\/a>. Learn more about Questa Quilters Guild <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/northernnewmexicoartists.com\/the-questa-quilters-guild\/\" target=\"_blank\">HERE<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This summer, we\u2019re listening together to the voices of our neighbors; every week we share a different short story from our community with <em>Voices de Aqu\u00ed<\/em>. Join us for the short broadcasts at Questa Farmers Market on Sundays or here, on our website.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Huge thanks to our collaborators at Questa Farmers Market, Gaea McGahee and all the musicians at the market for allowing us to plug into their sound system to broadcast the <em>Voices de Aqu\u00ed<\/em> weekly segments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We are also grateful to our funders! Voices de Aqu\u00ed is made possible by support from the <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/lanlfoundation.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">LANL Foundation<\/a> Community Outreach Grant, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.taoscf.org\/\">Chevron Grants for Good <\/a>and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.taoscf.org\/\">Taos Community Foundation IMPACT Grant<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this segment of in the Voices de Aqu\u00ed series, Louisa Aragon shares memories of her childhood living with her family near the Moly Mine between Questa and Red River.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3053,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_angie_page":false,"page_builder":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[60],"tags":[189,99,111,194,125,138,139,213,159,214,162,176],"class_list":["post-3052","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-questa","tag-audio","tag-communityvoices","tag-family","tag-family-history","tag-history","tag-louisa-aragon","tag-manitoscommunitymemoryproject","tag-moly-mine","tag-questa","tag-questa-quilters-guild","tag-questastories","tag-voicesdeaqui"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/questastories.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3052","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/questastories.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/questastories.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/questastories.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/questastories.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3052"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/questastories.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3052\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7022,"href":"https:\/\/questastories.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3052\/revisions\/7022"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/questastories.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3053"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/questastories.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/questastories.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/questastories.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}