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Santa Rita – Public Memory in New Mexico's Central Mining District

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Johnny

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You see when they moved to the church, all the statues from the church and the benches and everything were distributed to different churches around Grant County. But the statue of Santa Rita it couldn’t go anyplace because it was a patron saint of Santa Rita. So they somebody had in a house. So one of the residents from Santa Rita, actually a couple of residents from Santa Rita decided to make a shrine there for the for the saint with the statue because they figured there was a right place.

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Olga

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“My name is Olga Viola Chavez. My maiden name was Salce S-A-L-C-E. I was born in Santa Rita, raised in Santa Rita, on September the fifth, 1941 And I lived in Santa Rita till I was 20 years old. And I got married and moved to Arizona for five years. I came back to Grant County in 1966.”

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