Before Day 'a Mawnin' Growing up in the Enchanted Island of Jamaica eBook Paul Virtue
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Paul Virtue was born in Kingston Jamaica in 1946, spending his early years on a cattle farm near Spanish Town, the old sixteenth-century Spanish capital and the setting for many of the short stories in this book. He crafts a series of humourous and sometimes serious vignettes of what life was like in the middle of the twentieth century growing up as a free-range child. He and his siblings had an unrivaled ability to get into mischief as they roamed the countryside near the family farm and at their grandparent’s house in Hanover, in Western Jamaica. The teenaged years saw more adventure, exploring the mountains, sea and sky of his glorious island, but not least the unsuccessful quest for girls.
The family farm, Browndale, was where the formative years unwound. It was on the western edge of the St. Catherine plains and was surrounded by a diverse rural society that was largely employed in farming, and in particular, the sugar cane economy. The society was a palette of many different racial groups from Africa, Asia, Europe and the Middle East that had been a virtual melting pot since the early plantation economy. The Jews had arrived as a part of the Spanish settlement of the 16th century; the French as refugees of the early 19th century slave revolution in St. Dominique (Haiti); the Dutch settlers arrived as part of the 1667 land-swap that gave the Dutch the country of Surinam in exchange for what is now Manhattan. European immigration waves starting in the 1840s, with each initially clinging to their culture for a generation or so before being swept up at the edges into the whirlpool of the melting pot, leaving smaller and smaller cores of pure blood migrant groups.
The stores in this book revolve around the interplay between these groups but are not an attempt at anthropological study; more so they are observation of a youngster who struggled to find his place, seeming to fit everywhere, yet nowhere.
Before Day 'a Mawnin' Growing up in the Enchanted Island of Jamaica eBook Paul Virtue
This book has brought back some of the best memories in my life growing up in Jamaica. We were not wealthy but had the richest and the fondest moments in our lives. We traveled, hiked, fished and hunted just about everywhere on this gorgeous and breathe taking jewel of an island and loved every minute of it. A great read for anyone who lived there during those times or friends of someone that grew up there. These were special times then.Product details
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Before Day 'a Mawnin' Growing up in the Enchanted Island of Jamaica eBook Paul Virtue Reviews
ypo will love the fummy stories about the virtue kids as they grew up on the family farm im Jamaica.
Paul Virtue told my story! It was good to see my Jamaica. He did not tell a political story of brutality and horror but that of simple living. Great job, Mr. Virtue
Having spent many years in Jamaica I found it wonderfully interesting to hear of life as it was years ago.A
I enjoyed reading this book. It told tales of a simpler time when people enjoyed life. This is a collection of well written and often humorous stories of growing up and coming of age in the time before the digital age overtook the world. Definitely recommended.
This book has brought back some of the best memories in my life growing up in Jamaica. We were not wealthy but had the richest and the fondest moments in our lives. We traveled, hiked, fished and hunted just about everywhere on this gorgeous and breathe taking jewel of an island and loved every minute of it. A great read for anyone who lived there during those times or friends of someone that grew up there. These were special times then.
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