Slow week - but interesting coconut festival at Inarajan Village

You know you are getting older when you go to a museum or re-enactment that shows how things were used or done in the "old days."  Most, if not all, of the demonstrations we have seen in Guam were the un-noteworthy things of everyday life when I lived in Samoa.  Now, at least here, they are anachronisms and people are beginning to struggle to preserve some of the old skills.  I am getting old and yearning for the way they were while knowing they will never be again.

Coconut Festival - Inarajan Village.  Local guide showing some of the uses of the coconut tree - here were baskets and headgear.

Sister McClellan at hibiscus bark rope-making demonstration.

Guide showing different weaving from pandanus leaves - this is a lunch back apparently used through the 1950s.

Making trinkets from the coconut tree leaves.

Fish - trinket!

We loved the prints from local batik artist, Judy Flores, who grew up in this village.

Local baker using old Spanish-style brick oven.  He cooked us some pizza for lunch.  This shows him making cinnamon rolls.

Pizza right out of the oven!

Sister Melsihner Hadley from Pohnpei in the Family History Support Office.  She is a bank examiner for the Federated States of Micronesia and was here for training - as a part of her government job.  We were able to spend a few hours with her reviewing her family files on FamilySearch.  Her husband, Frank, is in the stake presidency in Pohnpei.