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Old Photographs of Cecilia Brainard — Happy Days by the Sea

July 25, 2023 by admin Leave a Comment

HAPPY DAYS BY THE SEA As I mentioned, I just have a handful of photos from when I was a baby and child. This was during the time when people used real cameras, with real film, that had to be developed and printed.  The paper used were not necessarily archival and the pictures disintegrated; and most of the time, the rolled up negatives got lost or were destroyed. Here is one photo I found of … [Read more...] about Old Photographs of Cecilia Brainard — Happy Days by the Sea

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: antique photos, old photographs, vintage photos, World War II landing craft

Old Photographs — Baby Pictures of Cecilia Brainard

July 22, 2023 by admin Leave a Comment

I thought I would post pictures of me through the years, starting with my baby pictures -- 2 of them, that's all I have. One shows me on the bed; this photo is in very poor condition (it looks almost like some kind of art). The other shows my siblings and me the baby. L-R: Vicky holding me, Ana holding a doll, and Junior or Jess holding a Brownie camera. In the back, you can catch a glimpse … [Read more...] about Old Photographs — Baby Pictures of Cecilia Brainard

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: antique photos, old photographs, vintage photos

Antique Pictures Lourdes Cuenco of Cebu Philippines

December 26, 2019 by admin Leave a Comment

Perhaps because I've always been interested in family genealogy, relatives and friends have been forwarding old family pictures to me.  Many pictures were damaged or lost in the Philippines during World War Two, and therefore old family pictures are rare. I'm featuring pictures of my aunt, Lourdes Cuenco, oldest sister of my mother Concepcion Cuenco.  Lourdes remained unmarried as was her … [Read more...] about Antique Pictures Lourdes Cuenco of Cebu Philippines

Filed Under: Nonfiction, Uncategorized Tagged With: antique photos, Cebu, Cuenco family, Filipina, Philippines, politics, society

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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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