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The documentary project Memories Crossed is a joint work of the Bank of the Pinatarense Wisdom, of the Department of Citizen Participation, and the association AIKE Mar Menor, a tribute to the elderly as historical reference of our most recent past.
The municipal tent of San Pedro del Pinatar hosted on Sunday, December 18, the screening of the fourth edition of the documentary Memories Crossed, a work carried out by the Department of Citizen Participation, through the project of the Bank of the Wisdom Pinatarense, in collaboration with the AIKE Mar Menor cultural association.
This project was created to honor the elderly of the municipality for the celebration in 2012 of the European Year of Intergenerationality, and with the aim of treasuring the oral sources of the recent history of San Pedro del Pinatar.
The fourth edition of Memories Crossed gathers the experiences and experiences of Natividad Paz Soler García, Nati Paz, who ran a crowded hairdressing salon in the Plaza de la Constitución with her parents.
A life story full of anecdotes, among which highlights his particular trip on motorcycle boyfriends to Barcelona or the difficulties to get pants in the San Pedro del Pinatar of the 50s.
Another of the protagonists in Angel Gómez Sánchez, known as Don Ángel, elementary school teacher since 1972 in the town and who tells how the students were at that time, what the arrival of democracy meant to the classrooms and how the world of education in the last decade.
For her part, Fernanda Hernández Gómez, tells how Lo Pagán was in the 50s and 60s, her first jobs as a dressmaker, or the beginnings of the family restaurants Los Corales and Venezuela.
A history of hard work to establish itself as one of the best-known national restaurant.
The last of the protagonists is José María López Sánchez, known as Pepe el Ruso, a life story that starts with the hard work of fishing since he was eight and how he changed his life thanks to military service, becoming a sailor in Cannes , where he was captain of yacht of personalities like Peter Ustinov or the Belgian royal family.
From the hand of these four protagonists, the attendees were able to get to know the everyday, the unofficial history, the anecdotes and relations between neighbors of the municipality, thus discovering the local history in an entertaining way, recovering the memory of the people to transmit it to future generations.
The event, which was attended by around 350 people, counted on the young tenor Jesús Hernández, who delighted the audience with his performance.
To conclude, the mayoress, Visitación Martínez and the councilor of Participación Ciudadana, Fuensanta García, thanked the participants for their contribution to this project by giving them a personalized copy of the documentary.
Source: Ayuntamiento de San Pedro del Pinatar
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