With a foreign occupier in control of Spain, and the royal family in exile in France, people in the Spanish territories in the Americas found themselves at a crossroads.
Beyond Clichés
Recently I began recording a series of interviews for a new podcast I will be launching as part of California Frontier. For one of the first interviews, I had the pleasure of visiting Greg Bernal Smestad. Greg has made it his mission to preserve and maintain the heritage his ancestors, who came to California […]