(This is an entry from the journal entitled Mexico Summer written by Elizabeth Lancaster Carsey 80-years-ago. Click here to read more)

Cinco de Mayo!  We wished we could have stayed for the big bull fight of the celebration.  Got home as the sky was getting light.  Slept a while but we all went to church and heard a good sermon.   Left for Roswell about 1:30 (Tex time) and arrived safely, sin novedad*, just about 5:00 (N.M. time) – Card from Bernard awaiting  me.  I am not sure we will have our jaunt at the end of school because Jaime probably won’t be able to get off for that and graduation, too – I’d rather like to repeat it but not come back the same night – Carsey is charming to talk to (about a good many things), nice to dance with, and a perfect companero, still, for a jaunt –

*novelty

Here’s what else was happening 80-years-ago today:

The first debut of the “Rhythm at Eight” radio programstarring 24-year- old Ethel Merman.

Snow is causing farmers to smile, the government wants to build new homes for folks in the Ozarks, and Omaha wins the 61st Kentucky Derby in 2:05.00 –  80-years later American Pharoah wins the same race with a time of 2:03.02 (Secretariat holds the record at 1:59.40 1973)

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