Calaba is the western boundary of Bangued as Casamata is its eastern boundary. These are the two areas where we went for recreation. At Casamata we picnicked and exercised our legs, while in Calaba we did our swimming before the pool was built in Casamata. On weekends the Valera clan, consisting of Mg. Conchang, Mg. […]
1994 Memoir – 48. Bangued Memories – Casamata Hill
Casamata is a landmark in Bangued which is now VICTORIA PARK, named after the late wife of Don Quintin Paredes, the “father” of Abreq, a former Congressman who was Speaker of the House of Representatives and a President of the Senate. Casamata is a Spanish word meaning “house of death.” It used to be the […]
1994 Memoir – 47. Bangued Memories – Manang Conchang
Manang Conchang (Conception Valera) was like my older sister. She is Fina’s mother. At an early age of 5, I used to sleep with her, take a bath with her, sit side by side with her in their two-holed toilet, and ate with her almost daily. She was around ten years older than me. Her […]
1994 Memoir – 46. Bangued Memories – A New Hotel Restaurant
The first hotel and restaurant in Bangued was the Bayquen Hotel & Restaurant, located west of the plaza in a building which is now the Abra Valley College. This hotel and restaurant was frequented by out-of-town visitors whose terminal point of arrival was at the bus station near the plaza in front of the church. […]
1994 Memoir – 45. Bangued Memories – Gambling
As with marbles, so we also gambled with rubber bands (lastics), washers (tarkas) used by carpenters to nail G.I. roofing, or gogo (biay), the fruit of a vine used for rinsing the hair, round and shiny, in the shape of a round kidney, or bittaog, a fruit of trees growing in the plaza, round in […]
1994 Memoir – 44. Bangued Memories – Marbles
Our next craze was gambling with marbles. We had no marbles made of glass then. We gathered lime stone pieces from Casamata and polished them round, into marbles. We drew a circle on the ground, placed marbles inside, one or two or three each bettor, then would fling our remaining marble with our thumb until […]
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