Niña Evangelina’s Life Story

Now that you’ve met Niña Evangelina and her daughter Niña Fermina, I’d like to publish a one-of-a-kind document.  This is Niña Evangelina’s life story, as told to her granddaughter Angela, who recorded it and typed it when she was 14 or 15.  I attempted to translate it.  It came out a little rough.  I tried to keep the spontaneous oral quality but also smoothen it so it reads better.  In some places I erred to one side or the other.  There’s one sentence in particular that made no sense to me in Spanish, so I translated it directly for you to puzzle over in English. 

http://gabrielrogers.wordpress.com/nina-evangelinas-life-story/

The way she chose to tell her story fascinates me.  You could title this account “The Eight Falls of Niña Evangelina” or “Niña Evangelina’s life As Seen Through Its Accidents and Misfortunes.”  The chronology is held down by the order things happened in and the ages of her children, but nothing else.  Not contemporary historical events or her age or the year.  It’s hard to tell exactly when many of the events happened.

Much more fascinates me about this story, but I’ll keep this post short and let you read it for yourself.  Comment if you have thoughts on it.