Natural and cultural history on the Mexican-American Border – and the extraordinary commitment of a woman and a university dean
Using an ancient technique called gabions, Valer Clark has spent the last forty years reclaiming the earth and creating a natural corridor along the Sonoma-Arizona border. Just a stone’s throw away is the Douglas-Bisbee Jewish Cemetery. The university’s Protestand dean, Abe Villareal, was instrumental in its restoration. Along with local Jewish donors.
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The Douglas Historical Society’s local history museum has a small exhibit on the “Jewish Pioneers in Douglas.” That is also how historian Cindy Hayostek titled her booklet in which she wrote down their stories. They were merchants, lawyers, businessmen, psychotherapists or artists. Hayostek estimates the number of Jews in the city at the time of the First World War at several hundred.
