| Man Discovers Ancient Civilization
of Linday Still Intact In Perù
- El Periódico
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Max
Lindez proudly displays his family's long standing
tradition of being Irish. |
PUEBLO
DE LINDAY, PERÙ—After a 33 year long identity
crisis the search for a place to call home came to a close
for Max Lindez. The small and obscure but now famous
Pueblo de Linday welcomed its newly honored guest on October
6th of 2004. This marks the first time that anyone bearing
the name Lindez has visited Pueblo de Linday which lies
63 kilometers east of Peru’s capital city of Lima.
The name
Linday comes from the Spanish word lindero meaning edge
but more specifically in this case to the terrace farmers
of the Andean mountains. Ironically enough Max’s
family has long been involved in terrace farming in the
Midwestern United States of Illinois and Wisconsin where
for a quarter century they were on the cutting edge of
ginkgo-biloba production. Read
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