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  The Chamorro penchant for giving people nicknames, and it sticking to his or her children and descendants, continues to this day. In olden...

  LORENZO ("LARRY") TAITINGFONG SIGUENZA with wife the former Rita Sablan Borja and children Rita and Otto (courtesy of RoseMarie ...

  A family I was visiting told me a story that reminded me of something similar, dealing with the Niño (Infant Jesus) going around the villa...

  Club Bamboo (also called the Bamboo Inn) was a restaurant bar on Marine (Corps) Drive in Hagåtña after the war up to the 1950s. It was own...

  This is a Chamorro hymn to the Holy Family ( Sagråda Familia ), who are Jesus, Mary and Joseph. This particular tune for it is sung in Ina...

  Many of you know that Chamorro does not like ending words with the letters R or L. Final R or L become a T when said in Chamorro. ...

The first American Governor of Guam, a Navy captain named Richard P. Leary, thought that Guam had too many holidays. That was because Guam h...

  Numerous Chamorro women were marrying American military men just as soon as the island came under the United States flag. Not all of those...

  BEHIND THE CHURCH Besides the marshy area behind the Humåtak Mayor's Office by the river, associated with a murder scene from the 1980...

  If you ever go into the jungle and see a spirit, here's a guide what to say, provided to us by Pedro, who was taught by his grandmothe...

SHOESTRING SET Socially elite Chamorro ladies with Americans in the 1910s An American lady, the sister of the island's Governor ...

  Monsignor Zoilo LG Camacho was known for a few things. Building round churches, for one. Like San Vicente in Barrigada and Santa Barbara i...

  Most Chamorro Catholics will start praying a rosary as a family, with friends and others joining, the day someone in the family passes awa...

  SALAKLULA' (or INARAJAN POOL) YT : Cris Paul Adventures It's one of Guam's more famous seaside scenes. Locals love it just as ...