People must be warned that the pollution of the waters and the degradation of the woods may anger the Lady of the Lake again
People must be warned that the pollution of the waters and the degradation of the woods may anger the Lady of the Lake again

The first time I knew of a place called Tagaytay was in 1935 when as a kid I heard my father together with his American colleagues on Corregidor island (where we lived) talked about a place. They had just come from a village we called then barrio, a rustic village atop a hill with deep ravine, a ridge, and then there is a lake, a volcano tip in the middle of that lake. No, they did not come from a camping out trip; they had stopped for the nights at a hotel called Taal Vista Lodge, which I found out later was established as early as the coming of the Americans in 1900. The barrio people called their place Tagaytay, which I then mimicked as TagaTaytay but the Canos pronounced as Ta Guy. They also pointed to high up in the hill and talked about a stone peak (now called the Marcos peak) which they planned to climb for the next trip.

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