Tag: Border towns
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¡Viva! Brownsville’s Charro Days Fiesta takes friendship and unity across the border and back
By Tracy L. Barnett Photos by Larry Ditto For Texas Journey magazine On a sunny February afternoon in Brownsville, Beatrice “Chickie” Samano stood on a covered stage and surveyed the crowd as she had done countless times over the decades. Serious in her serape-striped director’s vest, she held a microphone and awaited her cue. Then,…