Daily Archives: December 15, 2011

Hope for Delray

By Joel Thurtell Four years ago, I retired from my job as a reporter with the Detroit Free Press. One of the last stories I wrote for the Free Press was about a seemingly hopeless community in Southwest Detroit known … Continue reading

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Tarascans under Spanish rule: How one town stayed Indian while its neighbor became mestizo

  By Joel Thurtell Twelve kilometers east-southeast of Pátzcuaro, Michoacán, four wooded volcanic peaks roughly bound the east end of a moderately fertile, flat, well-watered valley. On a long slope descending to this plain sits Cuanajo, a large[1] Tarascan town. … Continue reading

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