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Sharing Stories, Sharing History
Panelists in the discussion about witnessing historic bomba of the early 20th century shared their stories and experiences, some passed down from their own ancestors with the participants of the 5th Bomba Research Conference.
Honoring the Elders
5th Bomba Research Conference organizer Melanie Maldonado highlights the importance of sharing the stories of the elders in the community, as they are the ones with the closest experience to historical forms and practices of bomba and other folkloric…
Sharing a Song
Doña Ana Rodríguez, a member of the "Panel de Testigos Oculares & Descendientes de la Bomba Antigua" shares a song with the participants of the 5th Bomba Research Conference.
Sharing Culture, Sharing History
Doña Ana Rodríguez, a member of the "Panel of Eyewitnesses and Descendants of Historic Bomba" shares a song with the participants of the 5th Bomba Research Conference.
Doña Marta - Panelist
Doña Marta Amaro Navarro, a member of the "Panel de Testigos Oculares & Descendientes de la Bomba Antigua" at the 5th Bomba Research Conference.
5th Bomba Research Conference - Panelist
Don Edwin Brenes, panelist from the "Panel de Testigos Oculares & Descendientes de la Bomba Antigua".
Panel de Testigos Oculares & Descendientes de la Bomba Antigua
Panel of eyewitnesses and descendants of historic bomba.
5th Bomba Research Conference - Panel of Elders
5th Bomba Research Conference organizers and panelists from the "Panel de Testigos Oculares & Descendientes de la Bomba Antigua".
Sharing History
PROPA founder and 5th Bomba Research Conference organizer Melanie Maldonado with Doña Ana Rodríguez and Doña Carmen Cora, panelists who shared eyewitness accounts and stories from historic bomba of the mid-early 20th Century.
Panelists
Doña Carmen Cora and Don Edwin Brenes, panelists from the "Panel de testigos oculares y descendientes de la bomba antigua" (Panel of eyewitnesses and descendants of historic bomba from the early 20th century).
PROPA Banner
Banner for PROPA, the Puerto Rican Organization for the Performing Arts
5th Bomba Research Conference
Raíces Cultural Center director Francisco G. Gómez with Doña Ana Rodríguez, a panelist from the "Panel de testigos oculares y descendientes de la bomba antigua" (Panel of eyewitnesses and descendants of historic bomba from the early 20th century).
At the 5th BRC
Conference attendee and supporter Kelly Archbold with Doña Ana Rodríguez, one of the panelists from the "Panel de testigos oculares y descendientes de la bomba antigua" (Panel of eyewitnesses and descendants of historic bomba from the early 20th…
Historic Site Tour
Attendees of the 5th BRC visited the ruins of La Henriqueta, thanks to the generous donation of a bus by the municipality of Arroyo. According to PROPA director Melanie Maldonado, "PROPA’s BRC first utilized these southern ruins in 2013 to create an…
Excursion - 5th Bomba Research Conference
Attendees of the 5th BRC on the trolley provided by the Centro Cultural de Arroyo to tour the historic site of the Lind family plantation, "La Henriqueta".
La Henriqueta
This land is where the former enslaver Eduardo Lind lived. It was once a sugar plantation called "La Henriqueta". This property was visited by the attendees of the 5th Bomba Research Conference as "an opportunity for site-specific learning where…
Ruins
Ruins of the house of the enslaver at "La Henriqueta" in Arroyo, Puerto Rico. The ruins were still visible during the 5th Bomba Research Conference in 2013, but post-Hurricane María, the land is completely overgrown and the ruins have been reclaimed…
Historic Site - La Henriqueta, Arroyo, Puerto Rico
Participants of the 5th Bomba Research Conference on a historic site tour at the grounds of La Henriqueta.
La Henriqueta
The land where the former Lind family sugarcane plantation stood in Arroyo, Puerto Rico is now property of the electric company and there is no on-site indication of its historic significance. If not for events and programs like the 5th Bomba…
Historic Site - Ruins
Ruins of the house at La Henriqueta, the site of the former Lind family sugarcane plantation in Arroyo, Puerto Rico.
5th Bomba Research Conference Participants
Bomba Research Conference organizer Melanie Maldonado with a group of participants at the 5th BRC.
Calle Ismael Rivera
Calle Ismael Rivera, also called Calle Calma, where the legenday singer and composer Ismael Rivera grew up.
Raíces Cultural Exchange: 5th Bomba Research Conference
Raíces Cultural Center co-founder and Director Francisco G. Gómez taking notes at the 5th Bomba Research Conference neighborhood tour of Calle Calma.
5th Bomba Research Conference - Day 1, Santurce
Participants of the 5th Bomba Research Conference on Day 1 during the neighborhood walking tour of Calle Calma in Santurce, Puerto Rico.
Future Mural
Jorge Emmanuelli Náter shows the site of a future mural on Calle Calma in Santurce, Puerto Rico, where a mural dediacated to Ismael Rivera, had been vandalized earlier in the year.