Post by Deleted on Jun 5, 2009 21:39:32 GMT -5
Shot these photos tonight at a Friday Night Live celebration in Caldwell. The performers are Basque dancers. Southern Idaho has the largest Basque community outside Spain and many of the young people spend several years during their teens in a folk dancing group--it's how they keep their culture alive in the younger generations (although hardly anyone speaks Basque any more--its a very difficult language), In fact, the anthropologists still aren't sure were the Basques originated. There is one relatively new and controversial theory that the Basques are the descendants of Neanderthal Man.
My National Guard unit back in the 1960s had a lot of Basques in it and I can tell you that if I had to go to war those are the guys I would want in my foxhole. They are fun loving but REALLY tough.
Wayne
My National Guard unit back in the 1960s had a lot of Basques in it and I can tell you that if I had to go to war those are the guys I would want in my foxhole. They are fun loving but REALLY tough.
Wayne