Stories of Paraná - Race Day

Stories of Paraná - Race Day

Race Day
Luiz Ribeiro Spinato

Half a century ago, the small Curitiba stood on street corners.
Virtually everyone knew and theme, then obviously it was
War II had "captured" our GIs FEB (Brazilian Expeditionary Force). Manoel Ribas - the Maneco Machete - ruled the State with authority and austerity. And in this country for so many holidays, there was one decipherable by the current regime and ambiguous: sent troops to fight alongside the allies, but had interior colors dictatorial.
This holiday was the "Race Day", celebrated on September 4.

Stories of Paraná - River Mello

Stories of Paraná - River Mello

River Mello
Luiz Neto Romaguera

Nearly a century separates us from the fratricidal days, in the words of Marshal Bormann in "Days fratricidal" experienced by our ancestors during the Federalist Revolution.
Some historians have written on the subject. There are books, not much read, reporting the facts experienced.
Among the stories told tale one.

Stories of Paraná - Eneida and Itaipu

Stories of Paraná - Eneida and Itaipu

Eneida and Itaipu
Hélio Teixeira

For more than a decade
- Between 1972 and 1984 - the banks of the Paraná River were nearly a yard for fine reporting on the progress of construction of Itaipu.
During the period, exercised the leadership of the branch of Curitiba "See" (who worked on the 'View' has become accustomed - and do not know why - be "of" and not "give" See) and had the opportunity to follow news and happiness almost like a pawn all phases of major project.

Stories of Paraná - D. Pedro II in Lapa

Stories of Paraná - D. Pedro II in Lapa

D. Pedro II in Lapa
Sergio A. Leoni

The day May 31, 1880, a Monday, would be historic for the Lapa, as described by Joseph Savoy Cortes in an article published in December 1925 in the Gazette of the People.
On that date, to 18.30, after much anticipation and action by the community, came D. Pedro II, Empress Dona Teresa Cristina and her large entourage that in addition to several ladies, and maids of honor, still consisted of many distinguished personalities.

Stories of Paraná - The bell of the chapel

Stories of Paraná - The bell of the chapel

The bell of the chapel
Flora Muñoz Rocha

I remember when, for a time, the Souza attended the wheel mate back home on Sundays, where talk of politics out a constant.
It was an election year and Souza, stung by the blue fly, decided to apply for deputy.
Benedict was clear - campaign first timer without constituency consisted of work but redoubled, heart wished him good luck.
Souza bought a jeep.
Planned maps, itineraries.
Planned verbiage, promises and left the roads outside, behind the redoubts unexplored, fulfilling the arduous task which is imposed to garner votes.

Stories of Paraná - A whistle very uncomfortable

Stories of Paraná - A whistle very uncomfortable

A whistle very uncomfortable
Maria de Fatima S. Moraes

The fact that I will describe happened to my grandfather Francisco, in Paulo Frontin.
Italian immigrant, in 1925 he moved to Curitiba Paulo Frontin, where he married Dona Italy widow who already had six children, taking with it three more.
Learned man, intelligent, good principles, soon won admiration, respect and confidence of the people of the city and surroundings.

Stories of Paraná - Tragedies Coloradas

Stories of Paraná - Tragedies Coloradas

Tragedies Coloradas
Ernani Buchmann

During the 18 years of its existence, the Colorado passed by almost all possible phases.
It was missing the stage victorious, completely victorious, because more or less victorious were many, including a 4x0 Flamengo, with Junior and all, for a national championship.
But first there was the phase of the runner-up - and they were many, until the fateful match against Coritiba in 1979. On that day, the end-of-left Santos Coritiba one Pernambuco who went through good times, was sent off after 10 minutes of the first half. What we saw from there was a massacre.

Stories of Paraná - The Monk and Mary Christmas

Stories of Paraná - The Monk and Mary Christmas

The Monk and Mary Christmas
Valêncio Xavier

Anyone who has read the story of Maria Monk John, there's more.
The people regarded the monk John Mary reincarnation of Jesus Christ.
He has always denied this.
A story goes that one day, the monk installs its Tendinha the riverside Tibagy.
Ali receives pilgrims, pray, give advice, prescription teas to cure diseases.
The mestizos expect his miracles.

Stories of Paraná - The Christmas Monk Lapa

Stories of Paraná - The Christmas Monk Lapa

The Christmas Monk Lapa
Valêncio Xavier

What is known of the first monk - there were others - is the book of records of the Foreign Chamber of Sorocaba, S. Paul in 1844, giving his name as John Maria Agostini, 43, a native of Piedmont, Italy.
Said to have come to Brazil to exercise their profession lonely hermit and live in a cave near the iron works of Ipanema. The rest is legend, and good.
Wanderer, goes on pilgrimage in the hinterlands of southern Brazil.
Preaches, prays and gives advice to mestizos.
Does cures prescribing of a tea plant that even today people call "broom of Saint John Mary". Nothing snake accepts only food. Does not go into villages, or in the houses, houses in the woods, sleeping under trees, almost always next to a fountain.
The mestizos considered sacred place of rest and a holy water font remedy for all ills.
Crosses stands in his way, where people will pray and light candles.

Stories of Paraná - That boy

Stories of Paraná - That boy

That boy
Nivaldo Kruger

One night I left these out there, the streets walking, seeing the decorations hanging from the buildings burst of lights, the streets and squares bright symbolic trees, in many homes, gardens and facades, decorations glittering twine, multicolored, giving evening a festive look.
The city is spruced up and chaps for Christmas Baby Jesus.
The night was already advanced when the boardwalk, between the entrances of Hotel and Club, facing, feet found the ground desmangolado and outstretched hand, alone, asking, that boy.
Fey, lights flashed.
I looked and saw him still in his deep eyes reflected those sparkles seeming so distant ... other worlds ...
He looked at me, his boyish smile was tired, aged and tired expression that boy.
The sounds spilled club and club suits mingled strains of "Silent Night", coming from somewhere remembering the birth of another boy ...

Stories of Paraná - White Mustache

Stories of Paraná - White Mustache

White mustache
Francisco Brito Lacerda

Windy.
It seemed that the world would end.
Peter was six.
He, his mother and father drove up a hill on the edge of the railroad, where stood the small cemetery.
Lush palm trees, facing the whitewashed wall, the wind blew.
In search of the iron gate, the three climbed the stone steps, the boy hand with her mother, who settled on the landing. "Stay very still, the mother will pray."
Exposed to swirl, he only looked back once.
He saw his mother kneeling alongside Cruz das Almas, trying to light a candle.
A train whistled and passed, the raging locomotive lay fa-gulhas by all noses.

Stories of Paraná - A Queen Paraná

Stories of Paraná - A Queen Paraná

A queen Paraná
Odmir PC Valsecchi

In January 1954, the very day 6, my family mu-give up the southern state to Londrina.
I was a 18 year old, full of curiosity.
That same night I was introduced to a young man of about 27 who was radioman Post and the Royal Air Transport.
- This is the Abelardo "Flat Head" - I said.
And it was indeed flat head, born in Pernambuco, a young newlywed.
Soon we had a great friendship, which continues today, although we are apart, as he and his family, years later returned to Pernambuco.
In Londrina, Abelardo Ferreira Lopes and owner Geminah Seixas, his wife, had a couple of kids.
As they were members of the Baptist Church, put biblical names in children. The eldest was called Ahasuerus.

Stories of Paraná - The ghost

Stories of Paraná - The ghost

The ghost *
Noeval Frames

His nickname is ghost.
Curitiba terrorized in the first months of that year, with successive vehicle theft, armed robbery, and spectacular trails, always driving at high speed.
Nobody knew exactly who it was. Only knew it was known as Little Ghost and was leader of a gang of minors.
Came to be detained by police officers from the Department of Vehicle Thefts, but tell your age and your real name, without identifying himself by his nickname, was released because the police did not know that it was the Little Ghost.
Turned the enemy n ° 1 of the Police, letter marked to be taken out of circulation.
Your bid bolder occurred on a Sunday night when, in the company of three other teenagers, heavily armed, raided a restaurant in Santa Felicidade, dominating the lookout, employees and numerous customers who dined there, stripping all of her jewelry and money , then fleeing in a stolen Opal.

Stories of Paraná - Revolt Assaí

Stories of Paraná - Revolt Assaí

The revolt Assaí
Luiz Garcia

Before the popularization of television, fun in the inner city had one name: Cinema.
Assam, in the north of Paraná, in 1961, was a fairly bustling city due to the cultivation and processing of cotton.
Had eight branches, many shops, bars even more. And two cinemas, Assam Cine and Cine White Gold.
The Cine Assaí was right in the center, opposite the Commercial Bank of Paraná, on Avenida Rio de Janeiro, the main city.
It was there that it occurred highly publicized at the time.
The Cinema had just undergone an overhaul that left no doubt very beautiful.
Patrons, however, it still pointed, rightly, two serious defects: had no emergency exit - which could cause a tragedy in any claim
- And, worse, the quality of the tapes was terrible.

Stories of Paraná - Paraná Clube, passion and joy

Stories of Paraná - Paraná Clube, passion and joy

Paraná Clube, passion and joy
Darci Piana

On December 19, 1993, the Paraná Clube completed four years, 1461 days after the meetings that approved the merger, the Paraná Clube is much more than a club or a football team. It is a force, respected throughout Brazil.
But none of the colored and pinheirenses who once dreamed of uniting their fans, their colors and their assets could imagine that the chemical element generated by the fusion was so solid. The process fused red, white and blue showed indestructible
irreversible perennial.
Nobody will ever destroy this myth constructed by the union.
It was not always so.

Stories of Paraná - Diplomacy Machado

Stories of Paraná - Diplomacy Machado

Diplomacy Machado
Tulio Vargas

The year was 1967. simple man, successful in the field, player works, Honorary Fagan, Mayor Floraí, PR, the neighboring city of New Hope, did not conform to the precarious power grid which supplies the booming city.
Attended this concern for months as state representative, a representative of the region in the State Legislature.
Controlled by the particular company, the distribution of electricity, shoddy, seized up the development of the municipality. Not only that, the owner of the dealership still politically dissentia the mayor.
This complicates relations between the parties and the impasse compromised solution for ligitantes sense.
Honorary Fagan dreamed of take Floraí services Copel, whose transmission lines, expanding the city's north and northeast of the state, represented comfort and prosperity for those populations lacking progress.

Stories of Paraná - Two of prison

Stories of Paraná - Two of prison

Two of prison
Rodrigo Pereira Gomes

The Central State Penitentiary in Piraquara, equivalent to a small, bustling city It has 14 galleries with 1600 "guests" requirements, plus a "motel" built for intimate gatherings and allowed an area of ​​maximum safety.
Who wants to know her well will have to go through exactly seven miles of corridors.
Or ...
Sunny Sunday, 10 am. A group of inmates interrupts the lively game of football to watch the roar of an engine that spreads in the sky.
Distant, even seconds ago, he's getting closer.
Suddenly, the small ultralight aircraft appears on the line the high walls of the prison, so low that almost rubs the sentry security.

Stories of Paraná - Nho Cipra

Stories of Paraná - Nho Cipra

Nho Cipra
Valdevino Lopes

The District Uvaia, about thirty miles from the town of Ponta Grossa, already had its glory days.
It was around the '20s, a time when it was still called Uvaia Shells and had an economy firmly grounded
in planting oranges, making smoking in strings (the best "yellowing" of the entire region) and livestock.
The seat shells not much different from the others scattered throughout our Paraná, three hundred acres of productive land, a small church in the center with countless homes around, built of mud and wattle-and-daub, covered with tiles gouges.
Among the villas, one stood out: it was the mansion Cypriano Gomes da Silveira, born citizen in the district and had a whole life dedicated to the population that lives there.
Friend of all the besiegers became godfather to more than half of the children born there.
The prestige of Cypriano further increased among countrymen when, thanks to important friendships with political capital and local progress, achieved high political and administra-tive shells of simple Autonomous District to District.

Stories of Paraná - Mass for George Smith

Stories of Paraná - Mass for George Smith

Mass for George Smith
Olympio Luiz Westphalen

Started the colonization of Londrina, with the arrival of the first caravan colonizing open clearing in the woods, raised the first ranches palm and built the Hotel Campestre, George Craig Smith, son of Brazilian English, was as office manager and advisor bookies land, while the Eng
Carlos Rottman, who was already official Land Company Northern Paraná, was named manager of the local operations.
In 1930 was built the highroad between Jatai Heritage and Londrina.
Due to the political situation of the country and the Revolution of 1930, sales of land were fraquíssimas, so that Arthur Thomas, Director-Ge-close and Director General of Lands Company, based in São Paulo, ordered the strictest economy and reduced activities to a minimum. The first group of land buyers arrived in December 1929, was composed of eight Japanese who arrived accompanied by remarkable pioneer and land agent for the Company, Hikoma Udihara.

Stories of Paraná - The Green Revolution in Water

Stories of Paraná - The Green Revolution in Water

The Green Revolution in Water
Gomes y Pablo Monzon

Soon will make a century that the federalist revolution lived the most important and dramatic in its outcome land of Paraná. The heroic resistance of Lapa, and the cruel murder of Baron Cerro Azul are almost the only references that are made today about this episode.
But it has much more story to tell, and even left something happened here at Agua Verde, Curitiba.
Had my wife's grandfather, the old Romedio Dorigo, scares and trouble you went through that time, when, newly arrived from his native Italy, came to live in the neighborhood, hardly able to speak Portuguese, and having no idea why What warred maragatos and woodpeckers.
While Lapa bravely resisted the siege imposed by the maragatos Gumercindo Saraiva, Curitiba, which had been abandoned by the cowardly defenders woodpeckers, was already in the hands of the rebels.