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The official chronicler of the city, Mateo Garcia, the Municipal Archives donates a portion of their personal collections original press (22/09/2015)

The writer, journalist and official chronicler of the City of Totana, Mateo Garcia, donated to the City Council yesterday, during an official ceremony held in the plenary hall, a part of their newspaper collections and documentary funds to they can be viewed at the Municipal Archives for neighbors, students and researchers.

The moving ceremony was attended by the mayor, Juan Jose Canovas, Councillor for Culture, Eulalia Moreno, another chronicler of the city, Professor Juan Canovas Mulero, one of the promoters of this initiative, Alfonso Cayuela, members of the Corporation municipal, family and friends.

In addition, council members also attended Mazarrón, Maria Angeles Sanchez and Patricio Roman;

where he has spent long periods of his life and location on which he has also written and researched and keeping great affection, the official chroniclers of Los Alcázares, Alhama de Murcia, Pliego and Puebla de Soto.

The donation, with all original copies, basically corresponds to information published by the own Mateo Garcia in the regional press from 1957 until he retired in the exercise of his journalistic and documentary activity and yearbooks of different regional newspapers.

This includes 44 volumes of the correspondent of Totana and its surroundings Matthew Garcia in the newspaper "line" between 1957 and 1983 and 7 volumes of "La Hoja del Lunes" of Alicante.

In addition, the collection includes 17 volumes of the sports daily "Marca" between 1941 and 1947, 5 volumes related to newspapers and periodicals of the nineteenth century as "Sphere" and "The Iberian Illustration", 12 volumes of the journal "Black and White ", 6 volumes of French sports publications" L'Equipe "and" Paris Match "between 1953 and 1962 and 33 volumes of the magazine" Interview ".

Similarly, it has delivered the Consistory of graphic material part of his personal file, such as slides fruit of his travels around the world.

The speakers highlighted the career and journalistic and literary work of Mateo Garcia, whose legacy is essential to know the history of local and regional journalism from the 40s to the 80s.

They also reviewed his literary career result of his fruitful research and documentary graphics collection and Totana, Alhama and basically Mazarrón and whose latest work "History of Football in Totana. Part I" just seen the light.

The Mayor read out the resolution of the Mayor why the donation was made effective by the chronicler to the archival funds from municipal and made several institutional honoree gifts.

Mateo Garcia Martinez is one of the official chroniclers of the city, with Professor Juan Canovas Mulero, and is also adopted son of the town.

Although born in the nearby town of Alhama de Murcia, very soon he settled in Totana, where he began investigating, studying and collecting historical documents related to the municipality;

and he developed much of his career teaching and journalism.

García Martínez was the maximum precursor of historiographical culture in Totana giving the opportunity to many people, both students and historians, as well as own administration, to access your personal file and to use it to contribute to the restoration and maintenance of the idiosyncrasies of the city.

It also gives its name since March this year to the public library of the Center Sociocultural "Jail."

See report:

http://www.totana.com/reportajes/2015/09/donacion-de-mateo-garcia-al-archivo-municipal/

Source: Ayuntamiento de Totana / Foto: Totana.com

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