TRAVELS (and more) WITH CECILIA BRAINARD: Vintage Pictures of Jolo, Sulu in Southern Muslim Philippines

Friday, June 19, 2015

Vintage Pictures of Jolo, Sulu in Southern Muslim Philippines

I've been looking at vintage pictures of Sulu and Mindanao to help me with my current novel-in-progress. It's part-research and part-imagining where some of my characters could have lived.

The top picture was the Sultan's Palace in Maimbung, Jolo, Sulu, and following is another view of the Palace.

Sultan's Palace in Maimbung, Jolo, Sulu

Palace of Sultan Haru Ar-Rashid, 1886-1894, Jolo, Sulu

Gate and Entrance, Jolo, Sulu

Jolo 1910

Sulu Mosque

Photos courtesy of Wiki

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Tags: writing, creative writing, literature, pictures, Southern Philippines
This is all for now,
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.