TRIPLE GOLD

TRIPLE GOLD

At long last, I finally saw a Tarpaulin streamer announcing the celebration of the 150th Anniversary of Alfonso on Dec 11-13, 2009. Yes it is our Triple Gold Anniversary. Alfonso was established as a separate municipality from it’s mother Indang on May 16, 1859. There are 150 reasons to celebrate and ‘it is better late than never’, as the saying goes.

In other towns especial dates like this is given lavish attention with lavish celebration.Townmates abroad are requested to come home for the celebrations that usually are done monthly for the whole year. The date also falls on the feast day of St. John Nepomucene, our Patron Saint. Earlier I got so disappointed when both the Municipal Government and the Church seemed to forget the monumental occasion.

I, in my little and simple way tried to celebrate it by launching a tiny book about Allfonso on May 24, 2009. It was a very small book with a little bit of history, a little bit of legend and much about Alfonso that deserves to celebrate its Triple Gold. It has many defects as it was mainly based on oral history gathered and compiled for 50 years. It was indeed so thin that one can finish reading it in one sitting. But it was the only book about Alfonso officially accepted so far by the Cavite Historical Commision for publication to the point of sponsoring it together with De La Salle Dasmariñas, Cavite Studies Center and the Municipal Government of Alfonso.

Through my little book I am expressing my full hearted greetings to my "paradisic" hometown on its Triple Gold Anniversary this year.