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Tuesday, June 24, 2025

KOSTUMBRE : KÅNTAN DESPEDIDA

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  An old custom among our grandparents' generation which has pretty much died out now is the composing of songs specifically for certain...
Wednesday, June 18, 2025

TÅYA' ILU-ÑA!

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  Manet came running as fast as he could to his father's ranch house in Luayao, just past Barrigada heading towards the eastern cliffs o...
Tuesday, June 10, 2025

NOTABLE VICTIMS OF 1918 INFLUENZA

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  The 1918 Spanish Influenza pandemic hit Guam like a ton of bricks. It began in November and, by the end of that month, more people had die...
Wednesday, June 4, 2025

FAMILIAN ANONAS

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A branch of the Guerrero family on Guam is called the familian ANONAS . The  anonas  is a tropical fruit, related to the  åtes  and  lagua...
Tuesday, May 27, 2025

YOU NEVER KNEW WHO WAS SLEEPING

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  With the many risks involved for one's children nowadays, it's no wonder more and more parents are not allowing their teenage chil...
Wednesday, May 21, 2025

WHY THEY CRIED AT TIGUAK CEMETERY

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  Tiguak, usually spelled Tiguac, is Guam's one and only public cemetery. It's also perhaps Guam's most pitiful cemetery. Recent...
Thursday, May 15, 2025

STEALING PORK

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  In March of 1928, Antonio Concepción Pérez from Sumay killed a pig and hung it up to dry, after cleaning it, in his kitchen, which was a s...
Tuesday, May 6, 2025

WASHERWOMAN'S STORY

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  Lavandera by Fernando Amorsolo As told to me by a grand daughter.... "My grandmother was married shortly before the war, but her husb...
Wednesday, April 30, 2025

HINENGGEN MAN ÅMKO' : I ABABBANG

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  YANGGEN ÅTTILONG NA ABABBANG HUMÅLOM GI GIMA', GUAHA GI FAMILIA PARA U MÅTAI. If a black butterfly enters the home, there is someone i...
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Thursday, April 17, 2025

ALABADO SEA

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  The Chamorro hymn U MA GEF TUNA, which is usually sung at the end of all devotions, is based on a Spanish hymn titled ALABADO SEA. The hym...
Monday, April 14, 2025

HINENGGEN I MAN ÅMKO' : MEAT ON LENTEN FRIDAYS

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  Yanggen chumocho hao kåtne an Kuaresma na Bietnes, siempre ma hågga' i katne. If you eat meat on a Lenten Friday, the meat will surely...
Monday, April 7, 2025

ESTORIAN MARIA REAGAN

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  THE CHAPEL A Catholic chapel stands in Chalan Laulau in Saipan, and it's all due to the strong faith of a Carolinian woman with an unu...
Friday, April 4, 2025

THE TIDY TAOTAOMO'NA

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  Siempre hao nina'manman yanggen un li'e' este na lugåt annai guaha siha åcho' latte. (You will certainly be amazed if you ...
Wednesday, March 26, 2025

CAPITOL HILL CEMETERY

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  CAPITOL HILL "WIRELESS RIDGE" CEMETERY In some countries where, in the past, almost everybody was Catholic, there are Non-Cathol...
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