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Old Family Photos — Concepcion Cuenco, Filomena Alesna Cuenco

October 16, 2022 by admin Leave a Comment

Cebuano Kabilin in Insta­gram has been send­ing me old news clip­ping about my moth­er Con­cep­cion Cuen­co, and her Cuen­co Family.
The first three arti­cles are about Con­cep­cion Cuen­co win­ning the title of Miss Progress and Car­ni­val Queen of Cebu 1931. Thanks to Cebuano Kabilin for these pre­cious news clippings.
The sub­se­quent arti­cles are about the death and funer­al rit­u­als of my mater­nal grand­moth­er Filom­e­na Alesna Cuen­co who got sick and died in Mani­la in June 8, 1939. The last post “Bodas de Pla­ta” is about my grandun­cle Arch­bish­op Jose Ma. Cuen­co say­ing the Mass or Prayers for my grandmother.
Tags: #Cebuhis­to­ry #Cebu­so­ci­ety #Cebu­cul­ture #Cebuanohis­to­ry

Filed Under: Nonfiction, Uncategorized Tagged With: Cebu culture, Cebu history, Cebu society, Cebuano history

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I am a daugh­ter of the Philip­pines and an adopt­ed daugh­ter of Amer­i­ca. I have also trav­eled to many places so I am also a daugh­ter of the Earth. My expe­ri­ences have found their way into my sto­ries, which try to depict char­ac­ters caught in impor­tant moments in their lives, sit­u­a­tions that force them to act, make deci­sions, change. I try to see the world from my own point of view, not the dom­i­nant West­ern one, thus my inter­est in his­to­ry, cul­ture, and set­ting. But my char­ac­ters car­ry my sto­ries; they are the most impor­tant in my sto­ry-telling. I have to dive deep into them to under­stand their human­i­ty – their good­ness as well as their bad­ness, their beau­ty as well as their ugli­ness. Just like us. Just like each of us. I need to know where they came from, where they are now, so I under­stand where they are going. Just like us.

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