The Ilocos Times

The books that came from Gilbert Grosvenor 's collection. Gilbert Grosvenor was the founder of the famous National Geographics Magazine.  His home (now a museum) is on Grosvenor Lane, just a few blocks from the author’s house. By Philip Dudt The time is almost 50 years ago in a place about as far from the Philippines as one can go. We (Philippine Group 39) are being trained in Burlington, Vermont in a boy’s prep school by the Center for International Living to become Peace Corps Volunteers. We were really a “mixed-bag” assortment of trainees as new and older college graduates in science or math from across the U. S. with different types of life experiences. Some folks were hippy types and others were more serious like me. My background was the least typical, a two-year leave of absence from my job as a civilian engineer in the U. S. Navy.  The plan was to train us volunteers in just three months to work with Philippine math or science teachers to introduce newer science/mat...

By Bernardo B. Ver II Contributor Laoag City —Ilocos Norte artists joined together to share their arts thru wall-painting of the SIRIB Walk located at the university belt along Ablan Avenue here. Angelie Maranan Banaag, a rising artist in the country, said that they are doing this to add more excitement for the students who pass through the catwalk and to encourage the younger generation to be more creative and artistic in their way. Angelie believes that art is a form of expression that was stored in our minds. It is a top-down type of communication and the approach to the receiver depends on how he will depict it or analyze it. Now, their group is planning to have more artworks to be displayed in the entire city. Note, not for vandalism but to put colors to the gray and dirty-white sides of the place. Angelie added that these artworks must be respected and the people that pass more often to the place must take good care of it. The wall paintings are...

  By Leilanie G. Adriano Staff reporter LAOAG CITY—The Tingguians of Nueva Era in Ilocos Norte took the center stage on February 2, 2019, beating 21 other contingents from different parts of the province in a grand showdown of talents, culture, tradition and pride during the Tan-ok Festival held at the Ferdinand E. Marcos Sports Stadium. The winning tribe featured their own Tadek Festival, a decades-old annual celebration showcasing the town's rich culture and traditions, and emerged the grand champion in the eighth staging of Tan-ok Festival that is considered the mother of all festivals in the province. The group comprising young participants delivered a six-minute well-coordinated dance, video and audio presentation wherein they stomped their feet and swayed their hips to the beat of gongs and festival music unique to the Tingguians. The spectacular world-class performance left the audience in awe. The group's storyline portrayed the courage ...