TRAVELS (and more) WITH CECILIA BRAINARD: Thinking of Mama, Concepcion Cuenco Manguerra, Cebu Carnival Queen 1931

Wednesday, January 15, 2014

Thinking of Mama, Concepcion Cuenco Manguerra, Cebu Carnival Queen 1931

My Mother, Concepcion Cuenco Manguerra, was Cebu's Carnival Queen in 1931. The top picture is part of Lucy Miller's coffee table book, Glimpses of Old Cebu.

I saw this picture only when I got a copy of Lucy's book. Many of Mama's old photos were destroyed during World War II. The few pictures I have came from other people who knew her.

Read also
These sites have information about Philippine Carnival Queens, updated by Cecilia Brainard in 2022.

Cebu Carnival Queens Philippines from 1914-1941 - https://cbrainard.blogspot.com/2022/01/cebu-carnival-queens-philippines-from.html

Cebu Carnival Queens and Other Queens, Philippines - Part 2 - https://cbrainard.blogspot.com/2022/01/cebu-carnival-and-other-queens.html

Concepcion Cuenco Manguerra (1912-2002)
Mariano Cuenco Website
tags: Filipina, Philippines, Philippine, old photos, beauty queen, Carnival Queen,
Manila Carnivals 1908-1939

Cecilia

Cecilia Manguerra Brainard

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.