Join us for the Maverick Book Club on Miraflores: San Antonio’s Mexican Garden of Memory featuring Anne Elise Urrutia in conversation with John Phillip Santos. Aureliano Urrutia, a prominent physician in Mexico City, built Miraflores garden after immigrating to Texas during the Mexican Revolution. A man of science, he valued nature, art, literature, history, and community. The garden’s plants, architecture, sculpture, and artisanship formed a cultural landscape reflecting Urrutia’s love for and memory of his homeland. Though recent decades have rendered much of the garden decayed and barely recognizable, Miraflores: San Antonio’s Mexican Garden of Memory tells the story of this disappearing garden.
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