- I take solace in little things

- If big things are to be done, someone more capable has to do them. 

- Trying to help people wake up 

- I have done similar work in the past. Just quietly persevering, and little things start to happen. But it didn't come to a decisive triumph. It takes other people, and they weren't there. They'll either help or they won't in the case of .

- Enormous patience is required in all this effort

- I'm at peace with how things are unfolding under the challenging circumstances

- But I'm serious that there must be a clear reason to continue, or I quit come November.

LITTLE GLIMMERS OF LIGHT

- Dennis Higgins seems to think that Chris Blackwell and preservation architect Ann Hodges "think about SAB the way we do". 

- Michaerl Witter comes and goes, seems to have a SAB connection, and has made a proposal to help withthe market

- Jr. Arscott seems to be softening toward us. I think he knows we care and are are sincere

- Dennis connected me via email to a friend in the US who seems to visit SAB sometimes

- Donnette Ingrid Zacca actually drove to SAB and photographed the fire damage, showing the stonework and the thin strip of plaster remaining, and memorial stones for the 1870's rebuilding of the Methodist church

 -Then she asked me where she can go to photograph in one day

- Connecting Donnette Seville, a UNESCOI site. She might have some atypical photos of the site soon

- She was interested in the technology of scanning (which Dale Kopp posted and I was downplaying somewhat to her annoyance), a potential big step if we/she can get the art/architecture intelligencia to look into it; it can glean detailed information for rebuilding after disasters.

- Charlene Collins has been trying to keep Donnette focused on our issues--Chatlene lives in JA, is fairly well connected and has a good spirit. It took time to coax her to this position, and is a huge step, IMO.

 

HUGH LYONS

- 6 Bravo former owner

- very committed to SAB

- now in Miami but itching to return- good person, not computer literate but a fountain of help when we can phone or visit.

- referred me to another son who plans to return to SAB soon and start an ecotourism business on his 200 acres.

- made me see that we need to promote a program of ecotourism for SAB. Makes money and can protect the land

- Hugth is strong (and I've been lagging in understanding) that SAB must become a heritage town--like Falmouth.

- He explains that Columbus' ships are buried by the shore, that SAB British colonial town is older than NYC, being in excess of 300 years old. 

DARKER ISSUES (This is the area where we could do with on-the-ground contact)

- Connection with the Jamaica National Heritage Trust not there

- Trust involved with three SAB issues: 1) Seville Heritage Park; 2) Marcus Garvey birth house; 3) Marcus Garvey Youth Center (MGYC)

- We could ask them to move the 6 Bravo building to the MGYC. (No one knows how come it's still there.)

- That requires the ministry that runs the trust to persuade them

- Ann Hodges is some sort of adviser to the Trust, so she must be contacted and asked for her input and action

- I'm not getting a response from Hodges online, so it takes help from on high and elsewhere (which I believe will be forthcoming)

- We need to approach the Bob Marley Foundation to help with SAB, but that again requires help from people there and higher up.