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By Sallie Morgan Special to the Rappahannock News
The Rappahannock Association for the Arts and the Community (RAAC) welcomes Flint Hill resident Geoff Gowen as the featured speaker for the Second Friday at the Library Series. The presentation will be held Friday, April 11, at 8 p.m. Gowen, who was bom in the Philippines and spent almost three years there in a Japanese internment camp with his family during World War II, has just released a memoir written by his father about life as an Episcopal missionary in Asia before and during the war.
Vincent Gowen came into the remote mountains of northern Luzon in 1927 after 14 years in China, when the area could be reached only after days on horseback over precipitous mountain trails. Some of the more remote villages still practiced headhunting against their traditional enemies in nearby villages. During 400 years of Spanish rule in the Philippines, the inhabitants of the region, the Igorots, had fiercely resisted Spanish forays into their mountains to “civilize" them. Their culture, though it served them rea
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