Music, Culture Scale Border Wall
By George B. Sánchez-Tello Photos by Marco Loera The musicians stand in a circle bisected by a steel wall. Divided, they play together: strumming acoustic instruments, singing call and response verses, and dancing in a communal celebration called fandango. Staged at Friendship Park, outside San...
José González & Latino Outdoors: Tapping into a Passion for Nature
Everyone is jammed into a yellow school bus, chattering with anticipation of a snowshoe outing at Snoqualmie Pass, some 40 minutes outside Seattle. Joe Camacho, an educator and one of the trip leaders, begins an orientation, holding up a pair of gaiters. The coverings are...
Parks Week No Game Changer
Sitting in front of the Yosemite Valley Visitor Center last week, the iconic National Park Service ranger Shelton Johnson and I saw something that stopped our conversation in mid-sentence: a brown-skinned couple. The man wore dreadlocks, but both had their backs turned to us. We couldn’t...
Hispanic Heritage Collaboration
Above: Joe Camacho (photo courtesy Latino Outdoors). Joe Camacho debunks the myth that Latinos don’t care about the outdoors. Vivana Reyes finds “green therapy” on Girl Scout hikes with her daughter, Vida. Ronald Quintero gets into mountaineering, starting on Mount Shasta. Those are just some...