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Angel Vigil, Vaquero - Teller of Tales
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Angel Vigil is chair of the Fine and Performing Arts Department and director
of drama at Colorado Academy in Denver, Colorado. He is an accomplished
performer, stage director and teacher. As an arts administrator, he
has developed numerous innovative educational arts programs for schools
and art centers. He has directed more than 100 productions for school,
community and professional theaters.
Angel is the author of The Corn Woman, Stories and Legends
of the Hispanic Southwest, winner of the New York Public Library
Book for the Teen Award for 1995. He is also the author of ¡Teatro!
Plays from the Hispanic Culture for Young People. He cowrote Cuentos,
a play based on the traditional stories of the Hispanic Southwest.
He is featured storyteller on Do Not Pass Me By: A Celebration of
Colorado Folklife, a folk arts collection produced by the Colorado
Council on the Arts. He also wrote Riding Tall in the Saddle,
The Cowboy Fact Book.
Here is an excerpt from the preface of Riding Tall in the Saddle:
"Of course, what I am describing is my typical American boy's
childhood of the 1950's and 1960's, a childhood filled with the
exciting stories of the American cowboy. I faithfully and eagerly
followed the adventures of my cowboy heroes through their television
shows and comic books. To an American boy of the 1950's, the cowboy
represented all that was exciting in life: heroism, bravery, victory,
and blazing guns. Their names ring out like a litany of boyhood
saints; the Lone Ranger, the Cisco Kid, Red Ryder, Roy Rogers, Zorro,
Gene Autry, Gunsmoke's Matt Dillon, Hopalong Cassidy, Wyatt Earp,
Wild Bill Hickok, and many other cowboy characters played by John
Wayne. Finally, I cannot leave out that western wonder dog hero,
working out of the legendary Fort Apache, Arizona Territory: Rin
Tin Tin."
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