FoxNews highlights feat of a Kalibonhon in Hollywood

KALIBO, Aklan-Maria Damian, a Kalibonhon was once again highlighted after she was recently featured in a Fox News report in Los Angeles, California.

This developed after Damian was appointed as the Chief Operating Officer (COO) of the historic Route 66 Museum. Fox News has reported the appointment of Damian, who hails from Barangay Estancia, Kalibo Aklan.  

A Route 66 museum is a museum devoted primarily to the history of the U.S. Route 66, a U.S. Highway which served the states of California, Arizona, New Mexico, Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, Missouri, and Illinois, in the United States from 1926 until it was bypassed by the Interstate highway system and ultimately decommissioned in June 1985.In many towns and US states on the former highway, the initial efforts to establish museums to preserve the road’s history were led by individual state-level Route 66 associations or local groups.

As each museum is an independent entity, their content varies widely; some cover one state or region, while others cover the entire eight-state route, and many extend to related topics varying from the pre-highway transportation history of a state to the Dust Bowl exodus of the Great Depression, the mobilization of soldiers and equipment for World War II or nostalgia for the post-war highway and classic cars of that era.

In the California museum, Damian has expressed commitment to strengthening the Filipino-American community through culture and heritage.

Damian was a successful entrepreneur as she founded Legacy Entertainment and Legacy Dialysis.