Dia de los Muertos is celebrated all over Mexico, in public places as well as private homes. Restaurants and businesses often mount ofrendas (altars with photos of the deceased, flowers, and sweet breads to welcome the spirits of the dead who return for one night each year. Cuernavaca Morelos offered a lavish celebration in the…
A short drive from Cuernavaca, Morelos, into the mountains of the neighboring State of Mexico brings you to Truchas Los Alcatraces, a rustic trout farm/restaurant. The trout are brought in from elsewhere and held in tanks with moving water from a mountain stream. The restaurant with rustic wood furniture boasts a splendid view of the…
Eulogy by son, James J. Horn, * Our Lady of Czestochowa Church, North Tonawanda NY, November 26, 2022 Good morning. Thank you all for attending this memorial to the life of Frances Malinowski Horn. She was born in Detroit, MI, January 8, 1918. That year the Spanish flu infected 500 million people around the world,…
The Cortés Palace in Cuernavaca, Morelos, Mexico was damaged severely in a devastating earthquake on September 19, 2017. The 7.1 Richter-scale quake damaged thousands of buildings in the State of Morelos including scores of convents and other historical sites. Reconstruction of historic buildings is the job of the Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia (INAH)…
We are so fortunate in Cuernavaca to have such an incredible variety of outdoor dining venues. A few of the restaurants listed below have only a limited number of ourdoor tables, so be sure to phone ahead to reserve your place. Please forgive the lack of accents due to a computer glitch. Comments are welcome.…
This post is an updated version of an article published in LIVE & INVEST OVERSEAS, Feb. 13, 2013. Click on the photos to enlarge them and read the captions. N.B. As of November 1, 2021 all of the state of Morelos is on Green Light status thanks to declining cases of Covid and lower rates…
The following is a talk I gave to the Cuernavaca expat community for a joint celebration of Canada Day and Independence Day, July 4, 2019. My friends, it is altogether fitting that we should celebrate American independence jointly with Canada Day. The two countries share the longest unmilitarized border in the world. The volume of…
The State University of New York (SUNY) Brockport has a long history of engagement in Study Abroad in Cuernavaca, Morelos, Mexico, a celebrated center for teaching Spanish as a second language. In the 1960s, the university offered limited opportunities for student experiences overseas. During his tenure from 1965 to 1981, President Albert W. Brown presided…
After hours of work and over 200 changes, I have published the 2019 edition of my guidebook, CUERNAVACA, A GUIDE FOR STUDENTS & TOURISTS. It has 24,218 words plus maps and photos. Sorry a print edition with so many color photos would be so expensive I would have to print 1000 copies to be able…
All photos are by the author. They cannot be appreciated fully on a cell phone so please open the post on a laptop or other large device. Click on the photos to enlarge them and read the captions. Use your forward arrow to scroll through groups of photos. CUERNAVACA HAS A SPECTACULAR NEW MUSEUM. The…
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