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Day 1

Day 1

I will be forever grateful to the couple from St Louis who invited me to tag along and observe on my first visit to Taxco. They led me down through a dozen wholesale shops and introduced me to the shopkeepers they knew (many of whom I still work with!) and I looked at a lot of jewelry in each and every store.  It wasn't until I got to this shop, El Jumil, that I pulled up a cart and started the next chapter of my life!
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Being Part of a Taxco Family

Being Part of a Taxco Family

Donato picks his daughter up from school each afternoon and brings her back to the store to work on her homework while he and his wife tend their shop. Knowing I was in town, they saved a couple of questions from her English lesson for me to help with.
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Finding a Grateful Heart in Taxco

Finding a Grateful Heart in Taxco

My first few trips buying silver in Taxco were intimidating and exhausting - I spent each day converting English to Spanish, centimeters to inches and, finally, pesos to dollars. Each shop owner had a different system and I had to watch closely to try to figure out their expectations.
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Dia de Los Muertos

Dia de Los Muertos

Many people assume that the Day of the Dead is the Mexican version of Halloween but while it’s celebrated at the end of October with skeletons, skulls, and candy, it isn’t anything close to the American tradition.  It is more like Thanksgiving.  A time of food and fun with the family, remembering and celebrating the lives of their loved ones.
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