La Union Heritage Watch

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The Manila Bulletin
December 17, 2011 issue

Our Lady of Namacpacan in Luna, La Union


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Hugo note: Magandang basahin ito. Basahin nyo rin:

(Daytoy man ti basaen ken pagpampanunotantayo maipapan iti sasaaden/kasasaad ti bukodtayo a sao/pagsasao. Anian ta nakasasaem a kinapudno dagitoy a paliiw ken padas ti maysa a ganggannaet a naisar-ong iti pagiliantayo ket nadatnganna ken napadasanna ti maysa a naidumduma a culture shock nga inawaganna iti diversity shock. Nagsaem a panunoten a kastoyen ti adda nga aramid ken panunot ti dadduma no di man kaaduanen nga Ilokano [kitaen ti Part 4]. No adda la koma ngata met pannakaibabawi iti kina-Ilokano wenno panangibabawi iti garit wenno puli, iti Filipinas a kas iti pannakaibabawi no kua ti citizenship, nalabit nagadu nga Ilokano ti mangibabawin iti kina-Ilokanoda ket agpa-convertda a kas “naan-anay” a Tagalog ta kasta la unayen ti panangibainda wenno panangtagibassitda iti kina-Ilokanoda maigapu laeng iti pagsasao wenno nakaiyanakan a lengguahe ti pulida. Manipud daytoy iti maysa a column iti pagiwarnak a Sun.Star ni Firth McEachern, ken kas naiyatats nga articulo iti newsgroup a DILA wenno Defenders of Indigenous Languages of the Archipelago.)

Diversity Shock (Part 1)
By Firth McEachern
Published in the Sun.Star Baguio newspaper

WHEN I first arrived in the Philippines and journeyed north to my new home, La Union, the first thing I noticed was how many people inhabited this country. The road north from Manila exhibited a near continuous line of sari-sari stores, food stalls, local government halls, churches, and many other buildings, all overlooking a road teeming with children, animals, trucks, buses, farmers, and people sitting wayside to observe the activity. In Canada, journeys between cities are much more desolate, and the transition between wilderness and settlement is abrupt. Here, the activity and people lent a sensation of being perpetually on the outskirts of Manila, and just as I thought to be leaving civilization, another town plaza would appear. Given that my country has a third the population of the Philippines in 30 times the area, the difference in density is expected. But there was something even more shocking that I was not prepared for. In just 6 hours, my new office friends had noted passing four realms of languages. As we crossed into Pampanga from Bulacan, my escort and soon-to-be officemate mentioned, “Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo is from here. They speak Kapampangan.”

“Kampan…Kampandunkin?” I repeated woefully inaccurately, the word having gone by too fast. “Do they actually use it or do you mean historically?”

“No, they actually use it,” he said.

How cool! My eyes drifted to the window, amazed by the fact that the endless line of seemingly identical sari-sari stores and general humanity did in fact harbor great variety. It soon became a game in which, whenever we crossed into a new province, I would ask, “What language do they speak here?” To which my officemates would reply something new. In Pampanga, it was Kapampangan; in Tarlac, mostly Tagalog; in Pangasinan, the Pangasinan language, and finally in La Union, Ilokano. My initial judgement of everything being the same was based—rather naively—on appearance. The Philippines has in fact much greater diversity than the cosmetic differences I was looking for, a fact I have gradually come to appreciate more and more. In Canada, one can travel 1000 km and not even detect a difference in accent. While the scenery is many-hued, people are for the most part talking the same way, eating the same things, and interacting with each other in similarly predictable ways. Of course there are immigrant communities, class differences, and some regional variations, but the country’s young age ensures these differences are small, and further dulled by the overriding imprint of American culture from the south.

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Originally Posted at San Fernando City and La Union Province Thread

Originally Posted by mund88

1978, December 7. Town of Agoo, La Union - 4th Centenary

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Photo by: Airwind

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Photos by: Airwind

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Previous 3 posts: Bagulin folks and La Union officials transfer the remains of a Bagulin native to Bagulin.


Photo source: La Union Information and Tourism Facebook

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From San Fernando City and La Union Province Thread

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LUNA
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From San Fernando City and La Union Province Thread

Originally Posted by park hyun wun

OLD HOUSE at LUNA


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From San Fernando City an La Union Province Thread

Burgos, La Union Soft Broom Making

Originally Posted by park hyun wun

BURGOS SOFT BROOM MAKING







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Bamboo Organ is with same design as the Bamboo Organ in Las Pinas

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Farmer Pastor Flores of Barangay Norte in San Fernando, La Union shows how to make ‘patupat’ – one of the favorite snacks of the Ilocanos. (Photo by ERWIN G. BELEO)



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Naguilian Basi



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Sunday, 22 January 2012 18:18 J. Sedfrey S. Santiago

EVEN on a cold December weekday afternoon, San Juan town in the northern half of La Union province teems with young people, eager to learn how to surf. Never mind the chilly air and chilly waters I presume. Some of the surfing wannabes look as young as five years old. Their parents laze on the beach proudly watching. But did you know that there are other things that La Union can offer to travelers?

Loom-weaving called “inabel” in Ilocano is the cottage industry that made Bangar, La Union, famous nationwide. The town is known for its exquisite hand-woven blankets, pillow cases, placemats, hand towels, bathrobes, handbags and textiles crafted by both men and women, who weave individually, by pairs or even in threes, depending on the size of what is being created. Names can be incorporated in the design at no extra cost, and no minimum orders are required.

Until the 1970s, almost every home had at least a loom where blankets-—in pinillan, wasig and brocade designs—were made for the family, as gifts for visiting friends and relatives from out of town, or sold to traveling merchants.

The cottage industry almost died 20 years ago when the high cost of thread shot up and only half a dozen hardy entrepreneurs resolutely kept loom-weaving alive in the town. The Department of Trade and Industry’s “One Town, One Product” program launched in 2004 gave the industry a shot in the arm. Today, scores of local entrepreneurs have revived loom-weaving in Bangar and are once again proudly creating a variety of loom-woven products.

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