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In honor of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and Dr. C.T. Vivian, we, the faculty and students in the Anthropology program at Western Illinois University, affirm our commitment to diversity and social justice; to ending racist violence and discrimination; to destroying the ideologies of white supremacy and white nationalism; and to transforming our institutions by eliminating systemic racism and implicit bias. WIU

🦈EL BOWL🦈
📍La Perla @ El Bowl,la Perla

🔸 K I O S K O 🔸
Swipe to see some of the most delicious snacks in PR 😍
➡️ Alcapurria • Fritter made from fried plantain or yucca and usually filled with crab or another meat
➡️ Bacalaito • Fried cod fish @ Los Dos Pinos (Yeya Y Fela)

⛰ TRES • PICACHOS ⛰
The Three Peaks is one of Puerto Rico’s highest peaks at 3,953 feet. Near the base, is Casa Canales. • Casa Canales is a museum dedicated to an important part of Puerto Rican history: resistance • El Grito de Jayuya, a pro-independence uprising, took place October 30, 1950. The uprising was led by Blanca Canales, whose parents’ former home served as a meeting place/storage location, where they planned to take Jayuya back (part of a series of uprisings).

✴️La Cruceta del Vigía✴️
“The Watchman Cross” looks down over all of Ponce, from Cerro del Vigía, near El Castillo Serrallés
✴️The purpose of the cross was to protect the island from invasion. The watchman would raise the flag of the incoming ship to notify ponceños of the arrival.
✴️The original cross was wooden and built in 1801 • The current new cross was built in 1984

• MERCEDITA •
Hacienda Mercedita was a sugarcane plantation founded in 1861 by Juan Serrallés Colón. He named the hacienda Mercedita after his wife, Mercedes Perez. • Sugarcane was one of Puerto Rico’s top exports, which led to the formation of la Porto Rican American Sugar Refinery which produced the brand Snow White for 50+ years. • The sugarcane from Hacienda Mercedita was also used for the production of Don Q rum in 1932. • The sugarcane industry began to decline in the 1940s/50s. The government attempted to restore the sugarcane industry in 1973, as the Land Authority acquired many of the island’s mills. Over the next two decades, the sugarcane industry decline continued. Mercedita officially closed in 1995, however, Don Q is still produced at the Serrallés Distillery, a short distance from the old sugarcane refinery. @ Central Mercedita

☀️ si hay sol, hay playa ☀️ @ La Guancha Recreational and Cultural Complex

Sometimes it’s just the little things, like the way the sun hits the palms 😍
@ Loíza, Puerto Rico

• • • los muchachos • • •
📍 calle fortaleza 201 • this building is known as ferretería los muchachos (the boys hardware store), founded June 3, 1885.

👀 J A Y U Y A 👀