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Crooked Island - Off the beaten track
Crooked Island is one of the group of three - Crooked Island, Acklins and Long Cay which are jewels in the southern Bahamas. Crooked Island and Acklins are enclosed in a shallow lagoon known the Bight of Acklins. The Lucayan Arawaks called Crooked Island Samoete which was visited by Columbus on 21 October, 1492. He was told that it contained gold but although he remarked on its beauty, he did not find any gold. The Loyalists: Crooked Island and Acklins were not permanently settled until the coming of the Loyalists in the late 1780s. Very soon after their arrival they set up over forty cotton plantations employing over a thousand slaves. Daniel McKinnen, a British traveller, in 1802-1803, wrote that the Loyalists had settled and established forty plantations with between 2000 to 3000 acres of cotton fields and 1000 slaves.
The Nassau Guardian - www.thenassauguardian.com
If you were to ask a child what Bahamian culture is, you'll most likely hear 'Junkanoo' as an answer. Many of our children do not know or simply don't understand just what our culture is or its origin. They are taught the basic of our culture but have no idea just how it came about, what has influenced it, or just how deeply it affects us as a people.I have also discovered, from speaking to children that they have not been exposed to other cultures, even though The Bahamas has become a multicultural society through migration and immigration. Our country can boast that it is comprised of over forty nationalities and just over twenty religions, including a hundred different denominations, but even with this cultural mix, many of our children know little about them.
And so today, I would like to congratulate The King's College School on its successful first annual Cultural Awareness week.
Catching some Rays
GREEN TURTLE CAY, THE BAHAMASBrendal Stevens expertly eases his boat out of his dock at White Sound Harbour, then flashes a mischievous smile."On this boat," he announces with a flourish, "a good time is mandatory."
We're heading out to Manjack Cay, less than an hour away, for some snorkelling, followed by a beach picnic of fresh seafood that Stevens will prepare over a campfire.
Expert cook, scuba-diving instructor, beachware fashionista in skimpy Speedo swimwear today's colour is a startling yellow there's no one quite like Brendal Stevens. It would be hard not to have fun with him around, especially when he invites you to get upclose and personal with his good friend Georgette, a large stingray
Recent winner of the The Bahamas Cacique Award for Sustainable Tourism, Stevens has been leading such trips for more than 20 years and is a local legend.
Reviewed by: Greg Jorgensen
My favorite Bond line ever was in 1964s Goldfinger, when Bond was interrupted during a massage by a contact. He stopped his masseuse, smacked her on the ass and said Give us a minute, darling. Man talk. The words cheesily sexist dont even begin to do it justice, but it was also a testament to just why Connery made the role his own. Even with misogynist, dated lines like this, he could still make you believe he was a cold-blooded assassin. The new Bond movie takes this and runs with it, pulling back on the charming rogue routine and cranking up the brutal killer angle to eleven. But is that enough to resurrect the wilting franchise? While it misses a few marks, the answer is pretty solid yes Bond is back and in top form for the 21st century.The film takes us back a bit, with a nicely done black-and-white sequence that shows us a rookie Bond (Daniel Craig) before he was a Double-0.
DeSoto News Briefs Post Office toy pickup
Mail carriers for the U.S. Post Office will pick up on Dec. 2 toys donated by residents for the Sheriff's Auxiliary annual toy drive. For more information, call the Arcadia post office at 863-491-8372, or stop by the downtown station at 109 N. Polk Ave.
Masonic Lodge hosts Thanksgiving
The Arcadia Masonic Lodge will host an old-fashioned Thanksgiving dinner from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. on Thursday for $7. For reservations, call Joe Smedley at 863-444-1234.
Bread of Life needs Thanksgiving help
The Bread of Life Mission needs help this Thanksgiving. All donations are tax deductible; the Bread of Life Mission is a non-profit organization.
The mission needs a variety of food items to produce a good Thanksgiving for those in need. Gas cards are also welcome, because they enable volunteers to deliver food to shut-ins.
Emerald Bay Exuma
If the now deceased Bahamian musical icon, Exuma, The Obeah Man, were penning a song about reincarnation today, he might not refer to his own mystical rebirth, but that of the evolving island from which he took part of his stage name.The song might be about how Great Exuma is transforming from a sleepy island, whose sons and daughters once emigrated en masse to find a better life, into a boomtown, whose gleaming economic prospectus is drawing people from New Providence, Grand Bahama, the Family Islands and beyond.
As an integral part of the Christie administration's plans to jump-start fickle economies across the Family Islands, the "anchor project" at Emerald Bay, is in many respects, a flashpoint in the economic future of the sparsely populated, closely knit community.