![]() ![]() She was the historian of the family and from her I was able to trace roots.ĭriven by a long and lingering understanding that Lolo Nesto’s family belonged to the landless, I believed that there was a strong motive for him to seek for fortune in Mindanao and that he had to leave his own family in Culasi, Antique to look for greener pastures. ![]() Mostly sacadas (sugarcane farmhands) from Antique and Bacolod, the trekkers walked from Dulawan to Buluan in three days, crossed Buluan Lake by wooden boats to the shores of Lutayan to settle finally in Marbel,” my late Aunt Nora, their eldest daughter, would narrate to us, nieces and nephews. ![]() “Hordes of Visayans from Panay and Negros Occidental sailed to Mindanao on board S/S Tablas in the late 1930s, disembarking at Parang, Cotabato, followed by a three-day exodus southward, camping on the sides of the road at night to rest and sleep. ![]() Invited to explore the promises of the South were Antiqueño educators, one of whom was Lolo Ernesto Arriola Ledesma or Lolo Nesto, her husband and an Industrial Arts-Carpentry teacher, He would belong to the first wave of educators who were tasked to build and run a school in Marbel, then an established settlement area in Koronadal Valley next to Buayan (now General Santos City) and Tupi. Back in the 1930s, Mindanao was opened for settlement for the landless by the Commonwealth Government under President Manuel Luis Quezon. My grandmother, Fortunata, Lola Forting to us, was a teacher at Culasi Elementary School in Antique when the National Land Settlement Administration under the management of General Paulino Santos opened the gates of Mindanao, then touted as the Land of Promise, to settlers from Luzon and Visayas. as a song Dandansoy in 1965, in a book “Philippine Progressive Music Series Book III! This pain had been kept a secret in Fortunata Magsipoc Ledesma’s heart for almost 26 years…until her longing was published nationwide…. More so if the husband would cross the seas to look for greener pasture in a faraway island of Mindanao in 1939. Music: Fortunata (Dioso) Magsipoc – Ledesma of Culasiīidding goodbye to a husband in times when one needed him most is painful. Hope this will add up to all of what you guys remind of… na miss ko na gid magpuli da sa atun sa pinas… ari pa isa ka subo nga kanta…īangud sang kitchen boy matamad mag kuti….Ģ8. ![]()
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