The Saint Sebastian Festival in Pompéu, Memories

Publicado por Sebastião Verly
Data da publicação: 20/01/2021

Back when I was a young child and adolescent, sometime around 1948 to 1960, the best fun you could get in my old hometown, especially for the poor, were at the religious festivals. The religious festivals were festivals for the poor, where no distinctions were made regarding social class. After the Three Kings Festival went by, reaching its peak on the 6th of January, we anxiously awaited the glorious Festival of Saint Sebasti...

Folia de Reis in my memory

Publicado por Sebastião Verly
Data da publicação: 06/01/2021

In our small town of Pompéu, when I was a child, around 1950, from the 24th of December, Christmas Eve, to the 6th of January, or King’s day, there was always a group of folias, revelers, singers and instrumentalists who roamed from one location to another on long walks, chanting or sometimes disenchanting verses relative to the Three Wise Kings’visit to Baby Jesus. It reflects a profane-religious aspect of Brazil and is ...

Bar do Portuga na Lagoinha

Publicado por Sebastião Verly
Data da publicação: 17/12/2020

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Memories of a Galinhada

Publicado por Sebastião Verly
Data da publicação: 21/10/2020

Joaquim Lacerda was the son of a political leader of the former National Democratic Union political party, UDN, who with his moralist speech was able to indulge in federal authority for 8 months during the brief tenure of Jânio Quadros in 1960. I will tell of a case involving him which occurred in the mid 60’s. He was a very humorous, jovial and boisterous man. He was married to Cotinha, who later became a hotel executive. ...