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Manuel Campillo Laorden, a retiree who served 90 years Murcia on 20 February, has spent the last twenty years of his life to the development of a massive work, The rural task.
Dictionary of peasant life, which has just been published in Murcia by the publisher and bookseller Diego Marín, in digital format.
The work can be viewed online at the website: www.elquehacerrural.es
Among other words, the Dictionary of rural life includes a total of 2,409 rural trades and occupations, and each Manuel Campillo Laorden has devoted one or more quintilllas, so that the Dictionary is also a great poem for men and women who have dedicated their life to one of the most ancient, enduring and profound of human life in nature: the rural task.
Brief presentation of the Dictionary
In this dictionary, I wanted to pick up words used increasingly-marginalized and forgotten that peasant world, and with them I also wanted to gather experiences, their own and many others who were born in my land and other lands Murcia Spanish or overseas but inhabited by Hispanics.
All rural trades and occupations listed in this dictionary (which includes a total of 2409), I spent a few verses in the form of one or more stanzas.
With this I wanted to honor the men and women through the generations, in different parts of Spain and the world, have lived in the rural world and have left us vast and increasingly forgotten experience.
Although I am confident that this work may be of some help to the younger, it seems even more necessary oral transmission of parents and grandparents, especially the latter, "so that their children and grandchildren can see first hand those experiences unforgettable constituted, and are still in many parts of Spain and the world, one of the oldest forms, lasting and profound of human life in nature: the rural task.
Manuel Campillo Laorden
Brief biography of author
Manuel Campillo Laorden born in Santomera (Murcia), 20 February 1921.
His parents were Jose Manuel and Antonia.
Six years later, his brother Antonio was born.
When I was twelve, his father died.
His mother taught him to read, write and count, until she could go to school.
He studied high school at their own Magisterium and then studied philosophy.
At nineteen he began to work as a teacher.
In 1947, before the flood that devastated part of Santomera married Mary Meseguer Fernández, with whom he had four daughters and three sons.
Santomera village headman was without the means or income.
He never wanted a political career or personal gain.
Its two main efforts as mayor were to Santomera had its own municipal government and staffed by a high school.
First got a section delegate, which began operating in 1964, then an independent institute, in which he served as professor of philosophy and as secretary.
He also chaired the agricultural cooperative "Our Lady of the Rosary, founded by his brother Antonio.
His wife Mary died in 1977.
Four years later, married Conchita Sanchez Guardamino, which had met in the Basque Country, after passing the baccalaureate exams and be aimed at Zumarraga.
He retired from the institute Santomera in 1991 and the cooperative in 1993.
Since then, he has been writing poems (some of them collected in the book The handlebar), memories of his life in Santomera and, above all, a comprehensive dictionary of life entitled The task rural peasant, whose first edition has been prepared in 2011, coinciding with the celebration of his ninety years.
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