Check out this before and after photo of Modesto C. Rolland in 1909. He looks young and dapper. The Rolland family provided the photo, which they obtained recently from UNAM. My wife, Angela K. Castro, did the photo restoration work. It is great! She will be handling many of the photos for my project on Rolland. She is also available for hire if anyone would like some old or damaged photos restored. Her email is acastro521@hotmail.com.
I have begun work on the first chapter of the project: "Child of the Porfiriato, Child of the Periphery." It will examine the formative years of Modesto Rolland's life, from his birth in La Paz, in what is today Baja California Sur, in 1881, to the outbreak of the Mexican Revolution in 1910, the year after he officially became a civil engineer and joined the Anti-Reelectionist Club in support of Francisco I. Madero.
Saludos Cordiales desde Jonesboro, Arkansas,
--Justin Castro
