https://wiith-archive.ucsc.edu/files/original/fc9a2d810104395684e4e9349ef5b25a.pdf bc434a5cc8c8ccfdafc23305ee8c0ff4 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Cawaling Family Collection Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Loren Cawaling Description An account of the resource Florencio “Encio” T. Cawaling was born on February 25, 1909 in the Aklan province of the Philippines. His parents, Lorencio and Lapaz Cawaling, had four other children after him. On March 16,1929, Florencio immigrated to the United States with Eliseo Taytayon, a close family friend also from Aklan. They traveled together on the S.S. President McKinley and arrived in Seattle, Washington on April 6, 1929. After their arrival, Florence and Eliseo moved to Alhambra, CA where he worked as a migrant farm laborer for twenty years. He traveled alongside other Filipino laborers to work on agricultural fields located along California’s central coast and into the central valley. Alongside his farming duties, Florence also worked as an occasional mechanic and fixed farming equipment such as tractors. In 1955, Florencio traveled back to the Philippines with the intention of finding a bride. He met Aladina “Dining” Torres Garcia through his family’s connections with the Taytayon family. Eliseo was married to Rosalinda Taytayon, the niece of Aladina. Aladina was the youngest daughter of Ermito Torres and Encarnacion Garcia Torres who lived in the municipality of Kalibo in the Aklan province of the Philippines. At the age of 24, Aladina married Florencio who was 45 at the time. On March 15, 1956, Florencio returned to the United States and five months later Aladina joined him. They settled in Watsonville on Calabasas Road where they had four children: Florencio Jr. (Loren), George, Halario (Larry), and Isidro. Florencio continued to work in the fields including Shikuma Brothers Ranch, Kenzo Yoshida Farms, and Green Giant where he worked until his retirement in 1977. Aladina worked at the Green Giant cannery. The Cawaling family engaged in many community activities including cockfighting or picnics and participated in cultural associations such as the Filipino Visayan Association and Aklan Civic League. The Cawaling Family Collection was contributed to Watsonville is in the Heart in 2022 by Florencio and Aladina Cawaling's son, Loren Cawaling. The collection contains twenty-four items total. It includes two oral history interviews with Loren in which he discusses his father's and other manongs' labor and leisure activities as well as his experience growing up in a tight-knit Filipino American kinship network. The collection also includes twenty-two photographs depicting the Florencio and Aladina Cawaling as well as other manong who were part of their extended family network. Oral History A resource containing historical information obtained in interviews with persons having firsthand knowledge. Interviewer The person(s) performing the interview Dr. Steven McKay Interviewee The person(s) being interviewed Loren Cawaling Location The location of the interview Watsonville Original Format The type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data .wav Duration Length of time involved (seconds, minutes, hours, days, class periods, etc.) 1:33:05 Time Summary A summary of an interview given for different time stamps throughout the interview [2:52] Biographical information for Loren Cawaling and his parents’ Florencio Toraneva Cawaling and Aladina Torres Garcia [4:44] Florencio’s migration to the US in 1929 with close friend, Eliseo Taytayon [5:03] Discussion of Eliseo Taytayon’s relation to the Cawaling family [6:34] Florencio’s agricultural work [7:46] Cawaling siblings—George, Larry, and Isedro [8:20] Florencio’s agricultural work in Watsonville [8:39] Loren’s memories of learning to drive a tractor at a labor camp on San Andreas Road and in the agricultural fields [9:14] Manong’s leisure activities including cockfighting [10:01] Discussion of manong uncles as members of the Cawaling family [11:39] Cawaling family’s move from Calabasas Road to Doering Lane [12:22] Florencio returned to Philippines where he met Aladina [14:21] Memories of visiting manong at labor camps [17:58] Cockfights and raising chickens for food [18:16] Fishing and Palm Beach [19:19] Family activities including visiting manong, meetings of the Aklanon Association and Filipino Visayan Association, and picnics at Sunset Beach [23:20] Family parties and food [27:38] Discussion of the photograph titled “Florencio Cawaling and Three Manong Posed In Front of Cars” from the Cawaling Family Collection [29:12] Discussion of the photograph titled “Group Photo In Front of the Cawaling Family Car” from the Cawaling Family Collection and Loren’s passion for working on cars [33:11] Discussion of the manong who left their cars on the Cawaling property on Calabasas Road and Doering Lane [34:43] Loren’s first car was inherited from a manong uncle named Simeon Tanala [38:23] Discussion of the photograph titled “Aladina Cawaling Standing Around Flowers” from the Cawaling Family Collection [39:54] Challenges faced by Aladina as a mother of four boys and her love of gardening [41:40] Aladina’s work at Green Giant cannery during the 1960s [43:27] The Cawaling family’s home garden and produce shared with neighbors [44:50] Aladina’s, Florencio’s, and Eliseo Taytayon’s cooking [46:40] Discussion of the photograph titled “Group Photo in front of Estelita Tabios' Car” from the Cawaling Family Collection [48:09] Discussion of the photograph titled “Aladina Cawaling Gardening” from the Cawaling Family Collection [48:34] Discussion of the photograph titled “Group Photo in front of Estelita Tabios' Car” from the Cawaling Family Collection [50:50] Discussion of Estelita Tabios’ car [51:50] Florencio’s return to the Philippines after Aladina’s death and his second marriage [56:18] Memories of the Cawaling family homes on Calabasas Road [58:17] Discussion of a manong called “Lolo Albert” [1:00:11] Discussion of the photograph titled “Large Group Standing In Front of Farm House” from the Cawaling Family Collection [1:00:49] Memories of visiting Lolo Albert and other manong at the labor camps [1:03:26] Memories of various manong uncles and how they were seen as family members [1:09:21] Stories of Salvador Maagma known as “Manong Badung” [1:15:52] Florencio’s and Loren’s labor at Green Giant Cannery [1:17:46] Manong as members of the Cawaling family [1:19:42] Catholicism and St. Patrick’s Church [1:22:01] Description of a typical Sunday after church [1:23:44] Challenges of growing-up in a working class family [1:25:17] Friends and family who lived in the neighborhood on Doering Lane [1:27:24] Challenges the family faced after Aladina’s stroke URL <span style="font-weight: 400;">Link to audio recording on escholarship: <a href="https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3p2881wk#supplemental" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Loren Cawaling interviewed by Dr. Steven McKay</a></span> Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Loren Cawaling interviewed by Dr. Steven McKay Part 1 of 2 Description An account of the resource In part one of the interviews, originally recorded in person, Loren Cawaling speaks with Dr. Steve McKay, a member of the Watsonville is in the Heart team. Throughout the interview, Loren and Steve discuss various photographs from the Cawaling Family Collection. In these conversations, Loren shares memories of various members of his family’s extended kinship network, including many manong. Loren emphasizes the close, familial relationships he and his family had with many manong. In the interview, Loren also discusses his father and mother, Florencio and Aladina Cawaling’s migration from the Philippines as well as their agricultural and cannery labor. He also speaks about his father’s and other Filipino men’s hobbies including purchasing cars, fishing, cockfighting, cooking, and gardening as well as his family’s leisure activities such as going to local beaches, visiting the labor camps, and attending family and social organization gatherings. At the end of the interview, the recording abruptly ends. It begins again in the second interview “Loren Cawaling interviewed by Dr. Steve McKay Part 2 of 2.” Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Loren Cawaling and Dr. Steven McKay Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource January 13, 2022 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Watsonville is in the Heart (WIITH) is a community-driven public history initiative to preserve and uplift stories of Filipino migration and labor in the city of Watsonville and greater Pajaro Valley. All oral history interviews are donated to WIITH by the narrators. Copyright is held by WIITH. Oral history interview recordings and transcripts are available for unrestricted use and reproduction by educators and researchers. Please note that the recordings on this website are provided via escholarship. For access to oral history audio files, please contact the project director at wiith@ucsc.edu. If you are an oral history narrator and would like to remove your interview from the archive website, please contact the project director. Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource Oral History Agriculture Akalanon Association Calabasas Road Canneries Cars Doering Lane Fil Visayan Association Fishing Gardening Palm Beach St. Patrick’s Church Sunset Beach