Cardenas, printer, publisher and poet
POSTED BY: CARDENAS.AE@GMAIL.COM JANUARY 6, 2020 I’m glad to be back in a brand new year. Please accept my wishes for a Happy 2020 to one and all. I pray that you are off to great start this New Year and that you make the best of what is still to come. I will start this year’s blogging by taking a leave of personal privilege. Servando Cardenas Today, January 6, is my father’s 110th Heavenly birthday. Servando Cardenas was born on January 6, 1910, in Linares, Nuevo Leon, Mexico, to Servando Cardenas and Rafaela Gonzales. You may think that he has nothing to do with Duval County history but, aside from contributing yours truly and seven other offspring to the development of Duval County, he was an accomplished poet and writer in his own right. He was a newspaperman, a printer, a veteran of the U.S. Army, and, most of all, a devoted husband and father. Allow me to pay tribute to this great man. Indulge a proud son in some well-placed hyperbole. As that often-repeated phrase goes, “