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C. Ramiro Ramírez Pinedo is in the Botanical Division with the job title of Lead Gardener. Ramírez Pinedo was eighty years old at the time of the interviews and has worked at The Huntington for 50 years. He is the brother of Cruz Pinedo, another participant in this project. Ramírez Pinedo details his life in Mexico, discussing such matters as his father's work, including his pay as a farm worker and a stint working in Washington state, his mother's and father's family backgrounds, and his father's experience in Mexico's Cristero War. Ramírez Pinedo discusses how he left home at a young age in search of work because of his family's poverty. He recounts how he came to work at The Huntington and discusses his work with the camellias and in the Cactus Gardens, eventually training with Ben Oki to learn bonsai pruning, which is now his specialty. The Huntington Library's oral history project documents the work and lives of non-managerial staff employed in Facilities and the Botanical Division of The Huntington. The interviewees were selected because of their length of tenure at The Huntington, generally at least ten years. These extensive tenures at The Huntington provide an overview of the work of Facilities and the Botanical Division during the last quarter of the 20th century and the first two decades of the 21st century. Interviews are either in Spanish or English, depending on the interviewee's preference. The Huntington Library
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