tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-723236584224523908.post8502717822006357011..comments2023-11-06T09:24:36.157+00:00Comments on El Hierro. The Westernmost Isle.: 7. Don Zósimo Martin Harris Palmerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01982986845313426678noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-723236584224523908.post-51118817087536661442020-05-17T22:24:05.988+01:002020-05-17T22:24:05.988+01:00Perdón. He sido muy impulsivo...y sin leer hasta e...Perdón. He sido muy impulsivo...y sin leer hasta el final, ya he planteado una estúpida pregunta. Yo he conocido ese lugar, La Hoya del Gallego, de la mano de mi amigo Nicanor Quintero...y después de escuchar de sus labios la misma historia, recuerdo q me quedé muy sorprendido y exclamé : Que tipo más cabal.Guillermo Martínezhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18237640089681811194noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-723236584224523908.post-79108688245876508122020-05-17T22:14:28.990+01:002020-05-17T22:14:28.990+01:00"el gobierno envió a un joven ingeniero fores..."el gobierno envió a un joven ingeniero forestal de la isla de La Palma a El Hierro. La publicación fue solo temporal, pero se enamoró de una chica de aquí y pasó los siguientes cincuenta años replantando el bosque." Quién fue ese héroe?Guillermo Martínezhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18237640089681811194noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-723236584224523908.post-12517920617883890792016-11-10T19:38:43.315+00:002016-11-10T19:38:43.315+00:00Thank you for reading my blog. And especially for ...Thank you for reading my blog. And especially for taking the time to write a comment. Naturally I appreciate and respect your opinion.<br />However, as you point out, Don Zósimo was a product of and participant in a particular epoch and regime and, of course, he was a controversial figure especially so given his job and the fact he was not from the island. It's not for me, nor this blog the Martin Harris Palmerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01982986845313426678noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-723236584224523908.post-76188846105521511782016-11-07T21:45:58.834+00:002016-11-07T21:45:58.834+00:00First, thank you for your blog.
Second, it's c...First, thank you for your blog.<br />Second, it's curious the way to compose an elegy of any character, even of one like don Zosimo, of which you say he loved the pines almost as he loved his family.<br />In my family, here in El Pinar, many years ago,I heard rather talk aout him as an official who perhaps despised the trees almost as certainly despised the people of the hamlet, both the Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com