The 20th century had just dawned when Carmela Celaya was born in 1903. It would be a century that saw a change of life in Brownsville, and the world, from the horse and buggy to the ever-growing use of the automobile. And Celaya was witness to that change.
Life is very different.
Celaya lives in an affluent neighborhood near Palm Boulevard. Items in her tidy home have been acquired from different periods of her life. Wooden dinner table chairs date back to the time of the Mexican Revolution. Ornamental serving utensils are from when she was married in the 1920s. A metal hand-wash basin that used to belong to her mother is from the turn of the century, or older.