Dennis Garcia

This remembrance first aired on HPPR in 2019.Hello, I’m Dennis Garcia. I was born in 1951 in Garden City, Kansas. Even in a small town like Garden City, we get so busy we don’t see things that impact our daily lives. For me, it was the railroad. I’m one of 10 kids raised in a small wood framed house. Our home stood alongside the Santa Fe Railroad’s main line that went through town. We lived so close that by the time I was 10, I could throw a rock from my backyard and easily reach the tracks.

Hello, I’m Dennis Garcia, and I wrote the book, Las Madres. It is a saga of the Padilla-Rodriguez family history in Mexico, the U.S., and southwest Kansas, from 1865 to the present. Last Fall, High Plains Public Radio previewed the story of Las Madres through the eyes of the main characters, Candelaria, born in Mexico in 1865, her daughter, Rafaela, born in El Paso, Texas in 1906, and Rafaela’s daughter, Irene, born in Dodge City, Kansas in 1920.

Hello, my name is Dennis Garcia. I am an author and have written a new book Las Madres, Spanish for The Mothers. It is a saga of family, hardship and resilience, country and history.

Hello, my name is Dennis Garcia. I am an author and have written a new book, Las Madres, Spanish for The Mothers. It is a saga of family, hardship and resilience, country, and history. It is an empowering narrative of love and hope.

Hello, my name is Dennis Garcia. I am the author of a new book, Las Madres, Spanish for The Mothers. It is a saga of family, hardship and resilience, country and history. It is an empowering narrative of love and hope.

Hello, my name is Dennis Garcia. I am an author, and on behalf of High Plains Public Radio Readers Book Club. I am pleased to preview my new book with you. It is entitled, Las Madres, Spanish for, the mothers. It is a saga of family, hardship and resilience, country and history. It is an empowering narrative of love and hope.