Basketball team that had great success. And we have a lot of graduates here. So nick, i will start with you. You came in the United States years ago and you wrote about immigration among the jews of Eastern Europe and basically stating that they had a lot of oppression that they were facing at that time. So what are your memories of your grandfather . And what inspired you at this point to tell the story . The memories of my grandfather is that my mother and i when i was a little boy lived with my grandparents in thomist park. He took me out to the ranch every sunday. My mother dropped at the Uptown Theater every saturday morning and this is the point. I was a smart asked kid. And until i started researching this book, i knew more about sam houston in the Texas Revolution i knew about the revolution that he escaped in the revolution of the Industrial Revolution that is taking place in san antonio. Why did i write the book . Essentially two people got me going. One of them is just a gre
Him the pioneer of four clinics. It is part of his visionary nature before people were talking about organic food he became of vegetarian and composting is out of conviction and data of tactics but i think we are done. Just one more question. What is the chavez legacy . Not in the field but a generation of activists that have learned from him to take the knowledge to go elsewhere in those that were empowered by the union was a tremendous experience. And also for latinos around the country and that is important to. Thank you very much. [applause] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] thank you for coming today we call this is a recession in the stories that shaped san antonio both authors are signing books immediately after the of session but that the second floor on the of laughter and the proceeds benefit the San Antonio Public Library foundation in. I am a columnist and i am honored to be here today with two authors who have books about san antonio and very different st
San antonio was the pecan capital of the world and the pecan shelling capital of the world. The guys who owned the Big Companies had machines. They turned them off because they could get these mexicanamericans for nothing to shell the pecans in their homes. One of the things that really sort of illustrated who was where in that community at the time, a rabbi of Temple Bethel know, the rabbi before that, he was a cantankerous, radical supporter of the underdogs, and he stood up to the Mexican American economy workers. And not only did he talk to his congregation but he wrote a letter to the editor and talked about these rich ladies out in the suburbs and the fact that a member of his congregation was the largest pecan shell in the united states. With that one story, ignacio, you can sort of see all these different strands of people, hispanic, jewish, and so forth, in the play. And my family and their children, for that time they were pioneers in relations. My aunt frances, an extraordin
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