Fire razed the ancestral house of the De Peraltas, a prominent family of Dingras, Ilocos Norte, on Sept. 11, 2021. Valuable letters, documents, manuscripts, and photos that served as testament to the life and times of Enriqueta “Quitang” Guerrero de Peralta went up in smoke—and seemingly shrouded the rightful legacy of the woman dubbed the...
Author: Ruby Villavicencio Paurom
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Being Filipino as the most natural thing to do
Isabel Padua Grant’s home in Nottingham, like many other English homes, has a traditional English garden. But the living room of that home, at the time when her British-Filipino children were growing up, had marks of the tropics, like native baskets, tribal figures, wood carvings. It was definitely not a traditional English home. From her...