WKRG

Here’s how Spanish Moss got its name

SHREVEPORT, La. (KTAL/KMSS) – Spanish moss is not Spanish, but it was almost French—and these are just a few of the secrets the moss, that’s not even really a moss, has been hiding in the swamps of ...
KHON2

Spain was the 1st European state to find Hawaiʻi, but then kept losing it

HONOLULU (KHON2) — There’s a little-known fact amongst those of us who live in Hawaiʻi. For nearly 200 years, the Spanish Empire found and lost Hawaiʻi several times. Since around 21% of Hawaiʻi ...
KEYT

Tribal elder chosen as the 2023 Old Spanish Days Grand Marshal

SANTA BARBARA, Calif. - 84-year old Ernestine Ygnacio-De Soto has been named the 2023 Old Spanish Days Grand Marshal in Santa Barbara. She is a Barbareno Chumash tribal elder with family history ...
The Columbian

New Mexican Spanish dialect survives mostly in prayers

Master santero Felix Lopez, an artist trained in New Mexico's centuries-old tradition of religious sculpture and painting, speaks April 16 in front of the 1810s "reredo" or altarpiece he cleaned and ...
KLFY News 10

Here’s how Spanish Moss got its name

SHREVEPORT, La. (KTAL/KMSS) – It’s almost impossible to think of the bayou state without having at least one vision of Spanish moss hanging from the outstretched, arthritic limbs of an aged live oak ...