Recently, Jess Tabasa, ACE Board member and past president of FANHS (Filipino American National Historical Society of Monterey Bay Area & Tri-County) set up an exhibit in the Watsonville Public Library. The focus was on ACE and Salinas Chinatown (with its three ethnic groups: Chinese, Japanese and Filipino), the Watsonville Filipino Community. Thanks, Jess for continuing to preserve the historical legacy of the Asian Pacific Islander communities in this area! See the slide show below…
Separate from Tabasa’s exhibit, the Watsonville Library has also has a permanent exhibit dedicated to Filipino farmworkers in the area:
And there’s also a beautiful painting, “Generations,” by Heidi Gottfried Alonzo, that focuses on four ethnic communities that have long resided in the tri-county area (Chinese, Japanese, Filipino, and Mexican). The painting was donated to the library by George Ow:
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