Dear Leaders, Residents and Friends of St. Ann's Bay,
- 2020, the year of perfect vision. So auspicious a year for vision will never come again.
- People are confined, worldwide, as has never happened before in our lives.
- It is possible that the month of April is the crisis month for determine which way the world goes from here on.
Dear Leaders, Residents and Friends of St. Ann's Bay,
- 2020, the year of perfect vision. So auspicious a year for vision will never come again.
- People are confined, worldwide, as has never happened before in our lives.
- It is possible that the month of April is the crisis month for determine which way the world goes from here on.
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The main way in which SAB can assert its Garveyite heritage could be to preserve it's vernacular wooden architecture that date from his time. It is significant that he visited several Central American countries where the Caribbean architectural heritage had been transplanted due to migration to work with the United Fruit Company and build the Panama Canal.
The image is from Guatemala, of all places.
I'm trying to make my own bricks by pasting brick-size bits of cardboard together to the thickness (left side) of a brick (right side). Only things needed are adhesive, paint (for finish) and scissors.
I see that there is a St. Ann push to clean up and fix up in the face of COVID-19. None of this applied to St. Ann's Bay's (SAB's) historical built environment. But as the first center of the modern Jamaica, SAB's historical built environment should be treasured above most.
It must not be destroyed; it is valuable heritage for the city, the nation and the world. It should be swept out (the loose boards set neatly aside), it should be sprayed, and then it should be BOARDED UP.
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