PORTRAIT OF A NATIONAL ARTIST Manong Frankie illustration by Oteph Antipolo
Four years ago, he was well into his 90s, but he was strong and particularly stronger while we were in Rosales, his world for 13 years, during which he explored as much as he could on foot, going as far away as possible from Barrio Cabugawan, where prior to his birth his family moved from Ilocos. Manong Frankie also pointed out the creek in which he spent a lot of afternoons swimming, where he would leave watermelons submerged for hours to cool them. Rosales is also home to the Agno River, one of the largest river systems in the Philippines, which runs through Benguet and Pangasinan, and I imagined Manong Frankie strolling along its banks, riding along on the current, ideas flowing deep and wild and mighty in his head like the river.
Before he took me to the spot where his childhood home was, we stopped briefly at Rosales Elementary School, where he attended grade school.
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