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  CAROLINIAN CANOES Sometime in 1909, Chinese fishermen discovered a canoe, with three unknown sailors from a different land, off Zhoushan I...

  MEGOFÑA and MAGOFÑA are one and the same name. People in the old days were not that concerned about "proper" spelling or being...

  SEEING A WATER HOSE WOULD NEVER BE THE SAME AGAIN Experiences of a young Chamorro girl during the Japanese Occupation. Ma aresta si tatå-h...

  TALISAI NUTS I was early for a Mass in Tanapag in Saipan so I decided to park by the beach as the sun began its descent. Out of my rear vi...

  The man who told me this is long gone, so I can't go back to him and verify the story. But when he told me this anecdote twenty or mor...

  Perhaps it was 1992 or 1993 when I was stationed in Saipan. I walked into the sanctuary at Kristo Rai Church in Garapan to start the 6AM M...

  This receipt for church funeral services was issued to prove that a member of the deceased's family shouldered that cost. It was neede...

  CECILIA CAMACHO CABRERA 1922 to 1923 Angaur is one of the Palau islands, situated at the very southern part of the island chain. When the ...

  Three, young Chamorro women lost either a leg or a hand, thanks to World War II. Two were sisters, entering their teens. Isabel Mendiola I...

  BISHOP OLANO AND SISTER MARY MARK Bishop Miguel Ångel Olano was the Bishop of Guam from 1934 until 1945. He first arrived on Guam from his...

  It was the first day of school in 1935 and the American teacher came into the classroom and said, "Now, students! As soon as class be...

  BALTAZAR "BJ" BORDALLO AND FAMILY In the Hågat civilian refugee camp in 1944 A simplistic view of life paints everything black a...