El
Salvador
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Introduction
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Myrrh's
first visit to El Salvador, during the civil war of the 1980s, was
the genesis of her Resilient Spirit
paintings. In happier times she has returned, and did these sketches.
She is active with a Quaker group in educational projects there, and
loves the people she meets. She has visited El Salvador four times.
It isn't just the friendliness: Salvadorans' community spirit and
dedication to get things done is an inspiration. |
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National
Cathedral, San Salvador
Unlike most Latin American cathedrals, this one does
not look like it came from Spain. The facade, completed after the
Peace Accords in 1992, was designed by the country's premier artist,
Fernando Llort, and uses tiles in the Salvadoran art style he helped
people to develop in the 1940s. Myrrh drew her image of it in the
same art style. |
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Left:
The cows belonging to the cheese co-op rest in the moonlight.
A rooster crows, though it is not dawn yet. He wakes others, who join
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Right:
1999 in El Barío: Everyone meets to assign volunteer work for
constructing a new school. A Spanish NGO has donated the materials.
For more than twenty years, this community has had substantial help
for its school from the Quaker group, Palo Alto Friends Meeting—El
Salvador projects, http://www.pafmelsalvadorprojects.org
The school now goes through grade 12. Bright graduates receive college
aid. |
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Right:
Close to El Barío is the lovely colonial town of Suchitoto.
Similar to Antiqua, Guatemala, it is small and less well-known. |
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Here
are two of El Salvador's almost 30 volcanoes (in a country the size
of Massachusetts)! Above: Volcano San Salvador, in the middle of the
capital city.
Right: Volcano San Miguel, by the second largest city. San Miguel's
cathedral is in the foreground. |
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Myrrh enjoyed the Salvadoran style tortillas, thick and cakelike,
cooked over an open fire. The Quaker group she helps is offering workshops
on how to make simple stoves that don't use much wood, because deforestation
is a problem.
Here, the mother grinds the cooked corn meal, and the daughter pats
out the many tortillas that men home from the fields will eat. Tortillas
filled, by some magic, with sausage, beans or cheese are called "pupusas." |
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In
many places, the town musicians arrive to celebrate many town functions
as well as performing in church. It is part of the glue that holds
their communities together.
This is Sebastián Chicas, head of the band, Los Torogoces de
Jocoaitique, which is well-known in El Salvador. |
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