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Prime Time Luncheon and Program

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  • Janet Kurtz
  • Oct 12, 2019

Event: Prime Time Luncheon and Program Remembering the Ancestors: Día de los Muertos in Mexico presented by Jan Kurtz Jan, former instructor of Spanish and Latin American Studies, will share her travels to Cuernavaca, Tepotzlan

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Conga Line

Celebrating Hispanic Month

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  • Janet Kurtz
  • Oct 11, 2019

It is noon, 12:00 p.m. almost sharp, on the first Thursday of the month, Cultural Thursday time at Central Lakes College, Brainerd, Minnesota. Today, the speaker has been chosen to commemorate a designated time frame

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Set up and decorating

Sugar Skull Weather

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  • Janet Kurtz
  • Oct 09, 2019

A chilly breeze rattles the yellowing maple leaves. The sumac turns blaze red, outlining the browning cornstalks drying in the fields. Orange pumpkins polka dot the gardens. The half-moon sheds long shadows through the forest.

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Maru, leader of the Spanish Language Institute of Cuernavaca, poses with a tour/student, Barbara, from Minnesota at the Rosario Monarch Butterfly Sanctuary

Monarchs in Mexico

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  • Janet Kurtz
  • Oct 03, 2019

Last fall, an email arrived from SLI, Spanish Language Institute in Cuernavaca, announcing its annual trip to Morelia, Michoacán to visit the Rosario Monarch Sanctuary.  Last year, I had pondered too long and the trip

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