About the Author

Denis Defibaugh is professor of photography in the Rochester Institute of Technology's School of Photographic Arts and Sciences. His work Family Ties Do Not Die, The Day of the Dead in Oaxaca, Mexico has produced three solo exhibitions in Texas and numerous shows in San Francisco, Miami, Rochester, Buffalo, and Montana. His documentary and travel photographs earned a Fulbright Travel/Study Grant to Mexico in 1993. WARD S. ALBRO is professor emeritus at Texas A&M University - Kingsville and founder of Tierra del Sol: Mexico Programs and Services, which organizes historical-cultural tours of Mexico. He lives in Castroville, Texas, and teaches at the University of Texas at San Antonio and the Texas A&M University - Kingsville System Center in San Antonio.