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{SPEAKER name="Speaker 1"}
Down in south Texas, that's where I'm from

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{SPEAKER name="Speaker 1"}
The fishermen it don't look that bad 'cause there's a lot of ranchers just getting started.

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{SPEAKER name="Speaker 2"}
As far as my craft is concerned, uh, I'm currently a school teacher, teaching shop -- welding and machine shop.

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{SPEAKER name="Speaker 2"}
And part of my course, which is not really, my craft is not really in the course, but I teach it and I want it to live on. I want it to continue.

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{SPEAKER name="Speaker 2"}
So I am training young people in this craft. I give them an orientation. I give them a feel for it.

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{SPEAKER name="Speaker 2"}
And some of them have taken it on. So I'm trying to keep it alive, yes.

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{SPEAKER name="Speaker 3"}
Is it boys and girls?

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{SPEAKER name="Speaker 2"}
Yes, boys and girl--girls.

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{SPEAKER name="Speaker 3"}
Okay, any other questions? ¿Otras--otros preguntas? ¿Algunas preguntas? Does anybody want to ask?

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{SPEAKER name="Speaker 3"}
We're--we're actually concluding an abbreviated session on ranching technology. We've had a--a closure back here part of the site due to a sewage problem that the Parks department is working on.

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{SPEAKER name="Speaker 3"}
So we're kind of condensing it. I would invite all of you to please step over to this--to the area that Balto occupies. It's on the other side of this low rider installation, the yellow building.

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{SPEAKER name="Speaker 3"}
Balto vas a trabajar en el otro lado de ese edificio amarillo.

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{SPEAKER name="Speaker 3"}
And Armando and Joe, are.

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{SPEAKER name="Speaker 3"}
¿Ya no se pueden entrar en su?

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{SPEAKER name="Speaker 2"}
Not here.

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{SPEAKER name="Speaker 3"}
Okay, you can't come to see their work right now because of the problem but maybe we'll be able to--to um, you know, remember and come a little later.

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{SPEAKER name="Speaker 3"}
Quisas, sí, también, maybe over here we can do something.

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{SPEAKER name="Speaker 3"}
The other thing I want to point out to you is that there is a program booklet with essays on the festival and on the regions of the border.

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{SPEAKER name="Speaker 3"}
This is on sale in the information kiosks and I've seen them actually some walking vendors selling them. They're 3 dollars, they have a lot of essays on the border including the schedule.

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{SPEAKER name="Speaker 3"}
And in -- I wanna also let you see that we have a sheet here. If you want more information on the Smithsonian's Folklife and Cultural Studies division to see what we do.

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{SPEAKER name="Speaker 3"}
Si ustedes quieren más informes sobre el Smithsonian en ese programa, pues hay nada más que llenar el formulario y mandarlos gratis no hay que hay que poner en un timbre pero ya

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{SPEAKER name="Speaker 3"}
You can, this is a self-addressed postcard that you can cut out. It's in the booklet. And it will, you can get more information on Smithsonian Programs.

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{SPEAKER name="Speaker 3"}
Thank you so much for coming and thank you to our Panel and our Soundcrew for making this possible.

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{SPEAKER name="Speaker 3"}
Thank you.

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{SPEAKER name="Speaker 4"}
I'd like to welcome you here to our, let's see, I guess we're the second presentation of the day here.