BenCab. Baguio Influential Artist # 1.
BenCab is a famous National Artist that retired in Baguio. During his elementary days, he made a few centavos doing his classmates’ drawing assignments. In high school, he drew portraits of James Dean and Elvis Presley and sold them to schoolmates for 10 pesos. Decades down the way at the peak of his career, his most expensive paintings sold for about a million dollars each. "Paint it and it will come."
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Pink Sisters Convent. Silence and refuge.. with an urban legend.
Ok, this lockdown is making us more religious. What can we do after all this is over? Go to church. Give thanks. Prayer moment. Alone time. Reflect. But wait, there is a tragic love story here.
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Forest House. Log cabin in a forest.
Imagine you're from Manila that went straight to Baguio after the lockdown. First time in the city. Hungry. Tired. Stressed out. Where to go to get that Baguio experience? Fast.
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One man against the Americans.
During the American colonial period, there was one person who went against the might of the colonizers. The battle was in their own home front, the US Supreme Court. He won. This is his story.