Sitting on the lawn at Weber Point Plaza, Helen O’Reily was taken back to her first Barrio Fiestas.
Getting her fix of rich adobo and sticky-sweet turon from Filipino food vendors hasn’t changed. Neither have the calls of greeting from friends she hasn’t seen in a while.
But at Saturday’s Barrio Fiesta, O’Reily sees the celebration as something bigger, its new waterfront venue giving hundreds room to splay out on the lawn and take in the traditions familiar to her Filipino upbringing.
“It brings me back,” said O’Reily, especially to the days she’d bring her kids, back when they were just about hip height. Now, her daughter has brought her own child “to learn their culture, too.”…