Update:
The Journal of the Southwest accepted my article "Modesto C. Rolland and the Development of Baja California." But as of now, it is not slated to come out until summer 2016. The publication of scholarly articles is most often a slow one.


The book is coming along nicely. I am now well into the third chapter, tentatively titled "Engineering in War Time." I may change it. I like the title, but the chapter is about Rolland's life during three of the most intense years of the Mexican Revolution, 1914-17, when he was working more as a propagandist, informant, and writer as much as doing actual engineering. He did help build a small telegraph and radiotelegraph network as a communications official in late 1914. He also worked as an advisor to Gen. Salvador Alvarado in Yucatan on agrarian, petroleum, and general development issues in 1916. But most often, he was in the United States writing on behalf of First Chief Venustiano Carranza.


Jorge M. Rolland C., Modesto's grandson, recently published a number of articles in popular magazines in Mexico about his grandfather. I will post something about them next time. He is also working with other engineers and scholars on the 90th anniversary of the Xalapeño stadium, as the name suggests, in Xalapa, Veracruz. Modesto Rolland designed the stadium, which was built in 1926.


Saludos from Jonesboro, AR,
Justin Castro