StoryCorps - Julia MacLovia Martinez and Paloma Villalobos

KUNM | By Gus Tafoya

Published April 7, 2023 at 7:03 AM MDT

Julia MacLovia Martinez and Paloma Villalobos

For most of the month of March, the team from StoryCorps was in Taos.

This is an excerpt from a conversation recorded during that visit. Retired school teacher Julia "MacLovia" Martinez sat down with her good friend and granddaughter Paloma Villalobos.

Julia recounted the amazing twists of fate that brought her and her husband together. It started with her Church mission work in South America…

StoryCorps is a national initiative to record and collect stories of everyday people. These excerpts were selected and produced by Gus Tafoya.

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Gus Tafoya

Gus Tafoya is a filmmaker, artist, writer and performer born and raised in Albuquerque New Mexico. They graduated from the University of New Mexico with a Bachelor of Arts in Film Production and plan to pursue dramatic writing in both film and theatre. Gus assists in development, programming operations, graphic design and more around the station. In the future, Gus hopes to continue producing new dramatic works that forward the understanding and situation of the contemporary New Mexican.

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