Well. What a day! We started 1:30PM and left Rosh Hotel at 8PM. Despite the threat of flooding and the suspension of classes and government offices, so many turned up! We thank the Masters of Management Program of UP Manila and the Hunters-ROTC Historical Society for helping co-organize the event. Maraming salamat po!
Everyone was hungry for history and what a lovely setting it was to launch the 50th anniversary edition of The Philippines: A Past Revisited written and published in 1975 by Renato Constantino and Letizia Roxas Constantino. The special edition now comes with a new introduction that weaves the climate crisis with Philippine history and the global carbon past, and the epic love story of the authors.
We met new friends, we laughed with old friends. A boatload of questions were asked–and addressed, and the conversations will certainly carry on as the next launch events roll out. On August 29 at the Museo El Deposito co-organized with the National Historical Commission of the Philippines, at the Polytechnic University of the Philippines with the PUP Department of History on September 5, and soon in Bacolod, Iloilo, Tacloban, and Cebu.
It was elating to experience such strong interest in the past from students, teachers, professionals, mothers, and writers. Here are some of the photos from yesterday. Enjoy and thank you again to everyone who braved the winds and the rain!
