I found some sites with pictures of my mother, Concepcion Cuenco Manguerra:
1) Carnival Queens site, including Concepcion Cuenco - scroll down:
http://manilacarnivals.blogspot.com/2010/05/115cebu-carnival-queens-1914-1931-part.html
2) Southeast Asia Digital Library (Northern Illinois University Libraries - Southeast Asia Digital Library (http://sea.lib.niu.edu)- Jose Ma. Cuenco and Family, the girl seated on the far right is Concepcion Cuenco; the woman seated, second from left is Filomena Alesna Cuenco (my grandmother; Concepcion's mother)
3) PALH's Mariano Cuenco Website
http://www.palhbooks.com/cuenco.htm
The little girl on the left, holding a doll and leaning against an older woman is Concepcion Cuenco, my mother. The woman standing behind her (left) is Filomena Alesna (my grandmother); the older woman seated left is Juana Lopez (my great-great grandmother), and the woman seated right is Remedios Diosomito Lopez Cuenco (my great-grandmother).
tags: Cebu, Philippines, Mariano Cuento, Jose Ma. Cuenco, Concepcion Cuenco, Cecilia Brainard
Wednesday, November 28, 2012
ROOTS - Pictures of my Mother and More
Cecilia Manguerra Brainard's official website is ceciliabrainarddotcom. She is the award-winning author and editor of 22 books, including When the Rainbow Goddess Wept, The Newspaper Widow, Magdalena, Selected Stories, Vigan and Other Stories, and more. She edited Growing Up Filipino 1, 2, & 3, Fiction by Filipinos in America, Contemporary Fiction by Filipinos in America, and other books..
Her work has been translated into Finnish and Turkish; and many of her stories and articles have been widely anthologized.
Cecilia has received many awards, including a California Arts Council Fellowship in Fiction, a Brody Arts Fund Award, a Special Recognition Award for her work dealing with Asian American youths, as well as a Certificate of Recognition from the California State Senate, 21st District, and the Outstanding Individual Award from her birth city, Cebu, Philippines.
She has lectured and performed at UCLA, USC, University of Connecticut, University of the Philippines, PEN, Shakespeare & Company in Paris, and many others. She has served in the Board of literary arts groups such as PEN, PAWWA (Pacific Asian American Writers West), among others.
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