Saturday, January 6, 2018

In the interim before finding someone on the ground to work with in SAB, a couple of us had considered writing a piece for magazine or newspaper publication. But I'm way too scattered and off-kilter to sit down and try to do it by myself. I can elaborate on outline suggestions that others provide, however, and try to slap the results together for a publication.

Among things we see a lack of are the following:

- A clear sense of who governs SAB and other old towns, as opposed to a St. Ann parish wide municipal corporation or parish council.

- A business directory

- A chamber of commerce for SAB (or some semblance of one).

- Comprehensive photography of SAB streets, providing something tantamount to a Google-Street mapping of the town.

- A historic preservation organization. The St. Ann Heritage Foundation seems to be one individual whose major emphasis is Seville, two miles away.

- A sense of what the New Garvey Center at 3 Marcus Garvey Drive in SAB is about.

- A sense on what progress is being made on the restoration of Marcus Garvey's birth home.

- A relationship of any sort with the Marcus Garvey Technical High School. A great deal of restoration and community building could be done by the students as part of their learning process. The town could be restored by and for them.

- ETC.

I imagine that assembling a large sample of the photographs so far discovered and generated would add interest to an article, which could also explain the impasse so far regarding the above itemized issues.

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