Thanks very much for sharing these links, images and account, Frederick. They are very interesting and poignant, and hopeful too!
VM On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 2:09 PM, Frederick FN Noronha * फ्रेड्रिक नोरोन्या * فريدريك نورونيا <[email protected]> wrote: > Ten years ago, I spoke to Elsa Correia (then 74) and wrote about her > Almanac de Parade. She was already struggling and fighting age and > economics to keep this quaint century-old publication going, as my story > then makes clear: > > http://goasudharop.org/docs/ebook/24guarding.htm > > http://lists.goanet.org/pipermail/goanet-news-goanet.org/2011-January/003923.html > > The publication itself was not widely known in Goa, by all but a handful of > old faithful readers... but Mrs Correia did sustain what had been started > by her ancestors. > > But good things do happen. > > Recently, the Margao-based cardiologist-Goaologist Dr Francisco Colaco made > it a point to tell me that the Correia family had taken up their late > aunt's work (Elsa Correia had passed away recently) and had come up with > the 2013 version of the Almanac de Parade. With his help, I got in touch > with them, and spent some 50 enchanting minutes with the family at Margao > earlier this week. We spoke about printing and publishing of the past, the > family's tryst with the same, and Adv. Eric Correia (in his 40s) and family > shared with me some of the books their family-run printing press had come > out with in another era. > > You can tune in to this audio here: > http://archive.org/details/AlmanacDeParede110YearsOn > [Please excuse the informal tone, because this is on a subject I'm myself > quite excited about -- books related to Goa...] > > What's more, with Adv Eric's permission and help from Lawrence and son at > David & Co, I also got an e-copy of the latest 2013 version of the *Almanac > de Parade* which is now online, and which you can download and share. See: > http://www.scribd.com/doc/123781890/Almanac-de-Parade-Goa-2013 > Many thanks to all! > > Adv. Eric had apparently been browsing the Net, and he knew of Goanetter > Patrice Riemens (or is it Reimens?) even before I mentioned the name. So > can online awareness about something help to remind us about that > something, and sustain it in the real-world? I'd like to believe so.... > > Lastly, a few photos that remind us of the past, and the family-run > Tipografia Progresso > http://www.flickr.com/photos/fn-goa/8444768337/in/photostream > http://www.flickr.com/photos/fn-goa/8444740477/in/photostream > http://www.flickr.com/photos/fn-goa/8444957109/in/photostream > > Btw, Adv Eric's dad worked for Emissora de Goa, the Portuguese-run radio > station, and then with All India Radio and Doordarshan. He mentioned that > he worked on the transmitters itself, and a tip-off about "something likely > to happen there" ensured he was not on duty on that fateful day in December > 1961! FN > -- > FN Land +91-832-240-9490 Cell +91-982-212-2436 [email protected] > Goa,1556 titles: http://bit.ly/Goa1556Books2 > Links to my books: http://fredericknoronha1.wix.com/fngoaindia > -- #2, Second Floor, Navelkar Trade Centre, Panjim, Goa Cellphone 9326140754 Office (0832) 242 0785
