Born in Iowa, United States, in 1896, Mildred Palmer, adventurer and businesswoman, travels with Pickwick Airlines on its inaugural flight to Guatemala in October 1929. The plane breaks down and the stock market crash leaves her stranded in this country. central american. In Guatemala City, known as the Little Paris of the Americas, he opens the El Patio restaurant, café and bar, a meeting place for political and professional personalities, German spies, Hollywood celebrities and the archaeologist Sylvanus Morley. In Guatemala, Mildred promotes tourism, collects textiles, invents micro-loans, and supports popular arts, all while restoring houses in La Antigua, a 16th-century colonial city, including the Casa de las Campanas and Casa Popenoe today. His unique style, the Palmer Style, inspires others to follow his example and in 1979 Antigua Guatemala was declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Mildred Palmer's contributions to her adopted country were forgotten or attributed to others until Ana Livingston Paddock reveals in this meticulously researched biography, with more than 250 photographs, the true story of this remarkable woman.
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