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  • El Chile más jocotepense

    El Chile más jocotepense

    J. Carlo Cuevas– En los últimos tres años, las calles de Jocotepec han sido el lienzo para muchos artistas consolidados y emergentes. El espacio público se convierte a la vez, en el caballete y la musa del talento del pintor. Uno de los artistas que ha sobresalido con creces, es Ricardo, el Chile de Joco.

    Las obras de Ricardo López Macías se firman como el Chile de Joco. El apodo, fue herencia de su hermano a quien apodaban el chile. En su paso por la preparatoria, el sobrenombre cambió de “chilito” a “chile”.  En una reunión acompañado de otros artistas de la Ribera, Ricardo decidió que su nombre artístico con el que se presentaría ante los demás, sería el Chile de Joco.

    El Chile de Joco guarda los detalles. En su obra se esconden guiños al Jocotepec que fue, el que los adultos añoran y al que un extranjero busca para hacer una foto.  El seudónimo no es el objeto de su obra. Sus motivos son la mexicanidad, aquella que construyen los muralistas en la primera mitad del siglo pasado. Los retratos de Frida Kahlo, gallos, artesanías, serenatas y las calles mismas de Jocotepec son lo que el Chile ha dejado entre los muros de su pueblo.  El Chile considera que lo que él pinta, son vivencias: “Lo que yo pinto son vivencias. Pinto ideas que surgen cuando trabajo y tengo ocupada mi mente, es cuando las ideas llegan y las plasmo”.

    El Chile define a su arte como ecléctico. Sin enfrascarse en una corriente particular y decidido a dejar un arte reflexivo, es que ha logrado una veintena de murales para el pueblo de Jocotepec, sin considerar la ya extensa producción de caballete que el autor tiene. La obra del Chile, está influenciada por el entorno natural que lo rodea. En febrero de 2020, presentó la exposición “ANIMALARIO” en el Centro Cultural La Bendita; una exposición inspirada en los animales que el artista encuentra en la parcela y el monte.

    Si te interesa conocer más sobre el artista, te dejamos sus redes sociales aquí abajo:

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    J. Carlo Cuevas

    @JCarloCuevas

    j.carlocuevas@gmail.com

  • ¿Conoces los 8 Cristos que hay en Jocotepec?

    ¿Conoces los 8 Cristos que hay en Jocotepec?

    Miguel Cerna.- Al hablar de Cristos en Jocotepec nos remite automáticamente al Señor del Monte y al Señor del Huaje, y como no, si tiene más de 300 años con nosotros; pero ¿Sabías que hay otros seis crucifijos distribuidos a lo largo de la cabecera?

    Aunque pasan desapercibidos para la mayoría de los ciudadanos, quizá por la predominancia del culto hacía el denominado Patrono del pueblo, en la Parroquia de Jocotepec residen cuatro Cristos más.

    Estos son los 8 Cristos que se pueden visitar en la cabecera.
    Estos son los 8 Cristos que se pueden visitar en la cabecera.

    • El Cristo de Las Visitas

    Se trata de crucifijo de apenas 30 centímetros de alto que fue elaborado con la misma madera con las que se esculpió al Señor del Monte y al de Huaje. Una peculiaridad de este es que por un costado tiene una apertura entre las costillas y se puede ver una pieza que figura un corazón el cual cuando se mueve late.

    Los Cristos para Viacrucis

    Es un juego de tres Cristos que eran utilizados durante la Semana Santa para la representación de la Pasión de Cristo, se trata de tres esculturas de madera de tamaño natural con extremidades articuladas, que datan del siglo XVIII.

    • El Señor de la Humildad

    Es una escultura que representa a Cristo en los momentos previos a su crucifixión y muerte. Se encuentra en el extremo izquierdo del templo, donde antiguamente era el bautisterio.

    • El Divino preso

    Es la advocación de Jesucristo orando en el huerto cuando los Soldados Romanos lo apresan. Esta imagen está colocada en el costado izquierdo de la nave principal, justo a la entrada.

    • El Santo Entierro

    Este tipo de escultura tenía la función de estar en la cruz durante casi todo el año, para ser bajada durante el viernes santo y colocada en el sepulcro. Actualmente se encuentra a un lado del Señor de la Humildad.

    • Cristo de la Ascensión

    Saliendo de la parroquia, pero a menos de una cuadra se encuentra esta imagen en una vivienda de la Calle Ramón Corona, se dice que este Cristo era parte de los bienes del templo, el cual fue escondido entre las paredes de una de las casas cercanas a la iglesia durante la época de la Cristiada para que no fuera destruido.

    • San Salvador

    Esta imagen está colocada en una vivienda ubicada por la calle Nicolás Bravo, al oriente de la cabecera. Originalmente perteneció a una hacienda, la escultura que data del siglo XVIII cuenta con rasgos filipinos que era algo común en esa época ya que muchos de los navíos que se dirigían de Europa para América arribaban por Filipinas.

    Agradecemos la información brindada por la historiadora Diana Machuca para la publicación de este artículo.

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    CORONAVIRUS

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  • New Housing Complex in TownPress Nearly Complete

    New Housing Complex in TownPress Nearly Complete

    The process often starts with a planning stage in which plans are prepared by an architect and approved by the client and any regulatory authority. Then the site is cleared, foundations are laid and trenches for connection to services such as sewerage, water, and electricity are established. If the house is wooden-framed, a framework is constructed to support the boards, siding and roof. If the house is of brick construction, then courses of bricks are laid to construct the walls. Floors, beams and internal walls are constructed as the building develops, with plumbing and wiring for water and electricity being installed as appropriate. Once the main structure is complete, internal fitting with lights and other fitments is done, and the house may be decorated and furnished with furniture, cupboards, carpets, curtains and other fittings.

    Some have criticized the house-building industry. Mass house-builders can be risk averse, preferring cost-efficient building methods rather than adopting new technologies for improved building performance. Traditional vernacular building methods that suit local conditions and climates can be dispensed with in favour of a generic ‘cookie cutter’ housing type.

  • This Year’s Summer Rock Festival Draws More Than 1000 Fans

    This Year’s Summer Rock Festival Draws More Than 1000 Fans

    A rock festival, considered synonymous with pop festival, is considered to be a large-scale rock music concert, featuring multiple acts performing an often diverse range of popular music including rock, pop, folk, electronic, and related genres. As originally conceived in the mid to late 1960s, rock festivals were held outdoors, often in open rural areas or open-air sports arenas, fairgrounds and parks, typically lasted two or more days, featured long rosters of musical performers, and attracted very large crowds – sometimes numbering several hundred thousand people.

  • 10 Things You Didn’t Know About our Town

    10 Things You Didn’t Know About our Town

    One of the New Hampshire Grants, Middlebury was chartered by Colonial Governor Benning Wentworth on November 2, 1761. The name “Middlebury” came from its location between the towns of Salisbury and New Haven. It was awarded to John Evarts and 62 others. The French and Indian Wars ended in 1763, and the first settlers arrived in 1766. John Chipman was the first to clear his land, Lot Seven. During the Revolutionary War, much of the town was burned in Carleton’s Raid on November 6, 1778. After the war concluded in 1783, settlers returned to rebuild homes, clear forests and establish farms. Principal crops were grains and hay.

    Landowners vied for the lucrative honor of having the village center grow on their properties. A survey dispute with Salisbury led to the forfeiture of Gamaliel Painter’s farm to that town, and his transition from farming to developing Middlebury Village near his and Abisha Washburn’s mill, together with other mills that surrounded the Otter Creek falls. Industries would include a cotton factory, sawmill, gristmill, pail factory, paper mill, woolen factory, iron foundry, and marble quarry. The Rutland & Burlington Railroad first arrived on September 1, 1849. Around 1830, Middlebury was the second largest town in Vermont.

    Middlebury College, one of the United States’ elite liberal arts colleges, was founded here in 1800. It is a member of the NESCAC. In the summer, the town plays host to the annual Middlebury College Language Schools, as well as the college’s Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, the oldest surviving conference of its kind in the nation.

  • Report From Financial Meeting

    Report From Financial Meeting

    A town meeting is a form of direct democratic rule, used primarily in portions of the United States – principally in New England – since the 17th century, in which most or all the members of a community come together to legislate policy and budgets for local government.

    The term has more recently been expanded to cover public meetings that draw people in a geographic area to discuss issues but not vote on any legislative or administrative action. Notably, the term is commonly used by politicians in the United States to describe forums at which voters can ask questions.

  • Town Cinema to Screen Indie Movies

    Town Cinema to Screen Indie Movies

    An independent film is a film production resulting in a feature film that is produced mostly or completely outside of the major film studio system. In addition to being produced and distributed by independent entertainment companies, independent films are also produced and/or distributed by subsidiaries of major film studios.

    Independent films are sometimes distinguishable by their content and style and the way in which the filmmakers’ personal artistic vision is realized. Usually, but not always, independent films are made with considerably lower film budgets than major studio films.

    Generally, the marketing of independent films is characterized by limited release, but can also have major marketing campaigns and a wide release. Independent films are often screened at local, national, or international film festivals before distribution (theatrical and/or retail release). An independent film production can rival a mainstream film production if it has the necessary funding and distribution.

  • Holiday Reading: 10 Best Summer Books

    Holiday Reading: 10 Best Summer Books

    Writing is a system of linguistic symbols permitting one to transmit and conserve information. Writing appears to have developed between the 7th millennium BC and the 4th millennium BC, first in the form of early mnemonic symbols which became a system of ideograms or pictographs through simplification. The oldest known forms of writing were thus primarily logographic in nature. Later syllabic and alphabetic or segmental writing emerged.

    The book is also linked to the desire of humans to create lasting records. Stones may be the most ancient form of writing with wood being the first medium to take the guise of a book. The words biblos and liber first meant “fibre inside of a tree”. In Chinese, the character that means book is an image of a tablet of bamboo. Wooden tablets (Rongorongo) were also made on Easter Island.

    Silk, in China, was also a base for writing. Writing was done with brushes. Many other materials were used as bases: bone, bronze, pottery, shell, etc. In India, for example, dried palm tree leaves were used; in Mesoamerica another type of plant, Amate. Any material which will hold and transmit text is a candidate for use in bookmaking.

  • Travel Tip: Top 20 Most Visited National Parks

    Travel Tip: Top 20 Most Visited National Parks

    A national park is a park in use for conservation purposes. Often it is a reserve of natural, semi-natural, or developed land that a sovereign state declares or owns. Although individual nations designate their own national parks differently, there is a common idea: the conservation of wild nature for posterity and as a symbol of national pride. An international organization, the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), and its World Commission on Protected Areas, has defined “National Park” as its Category II type of protected areas.

    While this type of national park had been proposed previously, the United States established the first “public park or pleasuring-ground for the benefit and enjoyment of the people”, Yellowstone National Park, in 1872. Although Yellowstone was not officially termed a “national park” in its establishing law, it was always termed such in practice and is widely held to be the first and oldest national park in the world. Some would say that the first official national park to be designated as such at its creation was Mackinac Island, legislated in 1875. Australia’s Royal National Park, established in 1879, was the world’s third official national park. In 1895 ownership of Mackinac Island was transferred to the State of Michigan as a state park and national park status was consequently lost. As a result Australia’s Royal National Park is by some considerations the second oldest national park now in existence.