Word: taxco
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Died. William Philip Spratling, 66, reviver of Mexico's Taxco silver crafts, a New York-born architect-artist who came across the impoverished, pre-Columbian silver-mining town 70 miles southwest of Mexico City in 1933, stayed on to learn the metalcraft from the few Indian artisans remaining, soon opened his own shop, and spent the rest of his life building the village into a major tourist attraction and its silver-smithies into a business employing 2,950 people; of injuries when his car crashed into an embankment; near Taxco...
This summer, in such diverse settings as a Universalist church on Cape Cod, a 16th century hacienda near Taxco, Mexico, and a leafy glade on the shores of California's Lake Arrowhead, hundreds of amateur U.S. musicians are taking part in a series of workshops. Their subject: advanced noodling. Their instrument: the recorder, a kind of glorified penny whistle with a pedigree...
...Taxco, Mexico...
...belly laughs. A new book called More Human Than Divine, published in both Spanish and English by the National University of Mexico, tells in print about the laughing people of Remojadas for the first time. Its author: William Philip Spratling. 59, the New York-born architect who settled in Taxco in 1929, opened a silversmith shop, in time became a sort of legend as the man who revived in Taxco the proud craftsmanship of the past...