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Philippine Antique Photo 1930 Concepcion Cuenco

April 28, 2020 by admin Leave a Comment

This is a rare 1930 pic­ture of Con­cep­cion Cuen­co of Cebu.She was moth­er and daugh­ter of Sen­a­tor Mar­i­ano Jesus Cuen­co and Filom­e­na Alesna Cuen­co. In 1931, she became Cebu Petit Car­ni­val Queen. She mar­ried Engr. Mar­i­ano F. Manguer­ra and they had four sur­viv­ing chil­dren. Wid­owed when she was only 47, she raised her chil­dren and sent to grad­u­ate schools in Europe and the Unit­ed States. She was a suc­cess­ful busi­ness woman. She nev­er remar­ried even though she retained her good looks even as an old­er woman. She passed away in 2002.

Here is an arti­cle I wrote about her: Death of a Car­ni­val Queen: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/mothers-day-death-of-a-ca_b_9863160?guccounter=1

Tags: Cebu, Per­son­al­i­ties, pol­i­tics, soci­ety, Philip­pines, Cuenco

 

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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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