Every year, the day before the family reunion, we share a tradition of making about 850 tacos to share with our extended family the following day. This is important to our generation who remembers countless times where we all had to pitch in to help…
Family Guel photo from 100 years ago As the Guel family continues to grow, migrate, and reconnect online, we are reminded of just how powerful the internet can be as a tool to bring us together over and over again, generation after generation. This website…
Special thanks to cousin Jose Luis Guel for putting together this teaser clip for his in-progress documentary about Luis Guel and his infamous 8’x8′ Aztec Calendar art work. This piece was hand carved to help illustrate his teachings during workshops throughout the state of California…
Guest author: Elvia Lares is the youngest daughter of Pablo and Carmen Guel. Calamity Rose Jung, her 12-year-old granddaughter, recently wrote the following biography. This is an amazing depiction of Elvia’s life story, told in the first person, and written as true and accurate as…
Born within a migrant family traveling across the Midwest of the United States in the ‘20s, Luis was born in Laramie, Wyoming in 1930. The family settled back in Mexico when Luis was 5 years old where he was raised in San Luis Potosi. By…
At the 33rd annual Guel family reunion, we asked the youngest generation & the elders to tell us a story about what makes our family, OUR FAMILY… this is what they told us…