PHARR - In 1997 while living and learning in Albuquerque, NM, Hidalgo,TX native, Pedro Garcia, worked in the local community theater arena, when he was asked by a literacy center to create and perform a short children’s story, set on día de los muertos, and have it talk about the importance of reading and writing starting at an early age. Garcia asked the organizer, how about I write a play, a monologue since I’m an actor instead, and that’s how The Life and Times of Juanito Gonzalez had fruition. “At first I wrote a 20 minute monologue about an old man ...