At a recent meeting of the Madrugadores de Los Cabos group, held on Wednesday 26 March at El Mezquite, inside the Vidanta Hotel in San José del Cabo, Elizabeth Acosta Mendia and Marcos Robles Santa Ana shared a project that is a journey into the heart of Baja California Sur: the Anthology of the Memory of Our California through the lens of Francisco Arámburo. This publication, supported by the Ministry of Culture, is not just a book. Still, a tribute to the peninsula’s history, identity and daily life, told through chronicles and postcards, inviting us to see it with new eyes.
It is a compilation of facts and a testimony of the day-to-day life in Baja California Sur. It represents a window to the past and present of the Southern Californian identity, from the changes that have marked our peninsula to the dreams and utopias that have fallen by the wayside. Antología de Nuestra California reminds us that we are part of a constantly evolving history.
“With the chronicle texts of Don Francisco Aramburo, as well as his colour postcards, we want this publication to once again travel our geography, reach our homes and help us to share and preserve our Southern Californian identity,” said Elizabeth Acosta Mendia, reflecting on the importance of this publication.
In the middle of the meeting, Marcos Robles Santa Ana declaimed the poem Calafia, by Fernando Jordán, filling the space with the strength and spirit of the mythical queen of California. At the end, the audience broke into applause, moved by the intensity and meaning of his words.
Each page of this book is a journey, a postcard that connects us with our essence, with what we are and what we want to continue being. Because understanding history is the key to building our future.
If you love history, chronicles, and images that tell more than we can sometimes express in words, this anthology is for you. Let’s keep rediscovering our California together!
