“Underwater San Miguel” [] Joseph Toone

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  • Ever since I watched Robert Downey Jr. try to drown Annette Bening in a city flooded by a dam and forever-more underwater in the film, In Dreams, I’ve been fascinated by the notion of villages under water.  There’s just something inherently both creepy and fascinating about a village that was once on land and now under water.

    The notion is much like the legend of Atlantis or when my hometown got flooded by Hurricane Agnes and my then teen brother kept yanking up corpses sprung from graveyards.  Since then burial law has gotten way more advanced.

    Back in the 1960s the dam was built to control flooding in farther south cities like Celaya which, in turn, flooded out several villages just outside of San Miguel de Allende that lay along the Laja river.  One village was Agustín González that survives today for having moved up the hill, closer to the highway and farther from the water.   However, the residents couldn’t move the 18th century Neo-Gothic Elizabethan church associated with the former hacienda owned by brothers, Agustin and Juan Gonzales.  The church has remained underwater since.

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