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  Whaling was dangerous business. Those whales can be huge. They have great power. And they do not enjoy being hunted. They can retaliate an...

  There was a time when the sound of the name HALÅGUAK sent shivers down the spine of some war survivors. Often spelled JALAGUAC in the old ...

  THE GREEN HOUSE IN BARRIGADA The battle between the Americans and the Japanese over Guam in 1944 involved many different clashes. There wa...

  This is a Chamorro hymn to Our Lady of Mount Carmel which teaches us how the early Christians associated the Blessed Mother with a cloud c...

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

  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...

  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...

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...

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

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

  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...

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