Wed, November 02, 2016
[caption id="attachment_4727" align="alignright" width="300"] Ketchikan's Pacific American Fisheries crew in 1929. Photo courtesy Melissa Stouffer.[/caption] By: Anjuli Grantham Melissa Stouffer recently shared two photographs with the Alaska Historical Society, depicting her grandfather’s time in Alaska. Roman Andres was born in Abulug, Cagayan, Philippines ca 1908. He traveled around the Pacific for several years, likely working as a migrant laborer. During this time, he joined thousands of other Filipino manongs in Alaska. Manong, or uncle, is the term that describes this...
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