Publication Date
2019
Collection
Capstones
Contributor
District Five Representative
Advisor
Lindsey Wieck, Gerald Poyo, Jenny Hay (City of San Antonio Office of Historic Preservation)
Description
The House on Marcos Street, a house that’s been in my family for over forty years, is one of many homes in a neighborhood filled with generations of stories and memories that influence the community today. Many memories have been created in this small home -- from the realization of my ancestors’ dreams to the hardships of reality. The families within this neighborhood have seen joy and suffering just like my own family. This neighborhood is constantly changing, affecting the people who call this community home. Today this community changes through the increase of gentrification, the decrease of livable homes. and the negative connotations others in San Antonio have towards the West Side. Through this exhibit, I tell a story about a common Hispanic family whose life has been shaped in this space. I connect it to the changes currently occurring in this neighborhood, because as the neighborhood is changing, the people who live within it have a right to know about these transformations. For this reason, history and the present are interwoven in this exhibit.
Document Type
Article
Medium
manuscript
Format
Size or Duration
21 pages
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 International License.
Publisher
Digital Commons at St. Mary's University
City
San Antonio, Texas
