Program Two: Thriving in a New Land
Length: 24 min 03 sec
Description
Travelling the back roads of Bainbridge Island, Washington, one see many traces of the Filipino pioneers who settled and farmed here in the early part of the last century. But is that all there is? History? Gatherings at the Bainbridge Island Filipino-American Hall join that history with present-day fun and the transmission of the culture to a new generation. Since 1989, Rudy Rimando has been president of the Filipino-American Community. The arrival of the American forces in the Philippines changed Rimando’s life and gave him direction for the future. In a parallel development, by the mid 1900s a sizeable Filipino-American community existed on Bainbridge Island. Teddy Balagot, the daughter of a Filipino farmer and a Native American mother, begins her story with the emigration of her father from the Philippines.
Narrator
Carolyn Goad