September 11, Bulosan Day in Binalonan
BINALONAN – September 11 has been declared as Carlos S. Bulosan Day here, and will be a working holiday commemorating the death anniversary of the town’s great son, writer and poet Carlos Bulosan.
The celebration will start in the morning with a fun run followed by a wreath-laying at the eight-foot marker, stretched like a pyramid, erected in barangay Sto. Niño right on the spot where Bulosan was born.
Municipal Ordinance Number 2006-01 passed on May 29, 2006 declared Sept. 11 of every year as Carlos S. Bulosan Day in the municipality of Binalonan.
Bulosan was born on Nov. 2, 1911 and died on Sept. 11, 1956 due to an advanced stage of broncho-pneumonia. He left his homeland for the United States where he went through difficult years of unemployment, illness and labor unrest in the farms of California and in the fish canneries of Alaska.
Bulosan published in 1942 a volume of poetry entitled “Letter from America” and in 1943, another book poems, “Voice of Bataan”, a tribute to the soldiers who died in that historic battle.
He was commissioned by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt in 1943 to write an essay titled “Freedom from Want” and “The Four Freedoms”.
He had also a collection of short essays serialized in New Yorker in 1944 titled “Laughter of My Father” in 1944.
His semi-biographical book describing his boyhood in the Philippines and his journey to America was titled “America is in the Heart” (1946).- EVA
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