A Cultural Legend of Pinatubo
Publisher: The Zambales Association, Inc. Google search “ Dawasan Blogger ” for easy access. When we were 9 or 10 years old, my cousins and I visited and stayed for the weekend at our grandmother's house in La Paz, San Marcelino. Her name was Juliana. Relatives say she lived to be a sweet 106 years old. (People her age, born during the Spanish colonial period, have no record of their birthdays.) She told us that our grandfather, Flaviano, drowned when he tried to cross the Santo Tomas River after a torrential downpour. The incident happened when he was riding his horse home from his farm near the Pinatubo Mountains. We were kids, and we had never heard of Mt. Pinatubo before, so, for curiosity's sake, we asked her about the Pinatubo she had just mentioned. And she smiled like the wicked witch. We constantly tried to find reasons to delay going to bed, so she started whipping her favorite drink to share with us. We loved that drink because we slept right after she told stories. ...