Tucson, Ariz. – Nelda Ruiz wrote “viejitos/viejitas selling produce” on a blue Post-it note with arrows pointing east and west and stuck it on a map of Tucson’s south side along Drexel Road near Park Avenue.
Earlier, on an orange Post-it Note, she labeled the Barrio Monument in Rodeo Wash Greenway Park, which she and her family just called “el parque” growing up, on the same map. The monument, created using mosaic tile, honors local workers, depicting a seamstress on one side and a mechanic, carrying a child, on the other side.
Ruiz was one of 35 participants who attended Thursday’s “Latinx Legacies of Comida and Climate,” put on by the Latinos in Heritage Conservation‘s Abuelas Project, which aims to collect and map stories, movements and places to preserve history…