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<body topmargin=0 leftmargin=0 marginheight=0 marginwidth=0> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0><tr> <td valign="top" colspan=2 height=135 BGCOLOR="#006699" TEXT="#080000" background="0c3085a3.jpg"> <div> <B>Jamaica~Noamie's Negril.Com</B></div> <div> <B> ~Noamie's - Jamaican Tea Room...An Innovative Walk into Traveling & Reality </B></div> <div> <A HREF="id48.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="My BookWest Cliffe"><U><B>Home</B></U></A></div> <div> <B>West Cliffe: </B><FONT SIZE="5" COLOR="#FF99FF" FACE="Pristina" ><B>The Place I Called Home; The Place I walked Alone</B></FONT></div> <div> <B><IMG SRC="2fe58010.gif" border=0 width="600" height="1" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> </td> </tr><tr> <td valign="top" width=210 BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#080000" background="0c4d2e83.jpg"> <div> <FONT SIZE="4" COLOR="#FFFF00" FACE="Arial" ><I><B>=</B></I></FONT><I><B>=</B></I><FONT SIZE="4" COLOR="#FF0000" FACE="Arial" ><I><B>=</B></I></FONT><I><B>=</B></I><FONT SIZE="4" COLOR="#00FF00" FACE="Arial" ><I><B>=</B></I></FONT><I><B>=</B></I><FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#EEEEEE" FACE="Arial" > </FONT></div> <bR> <div> <B>Bob</B> <B>Marley</B> Lyrics. <B>...</B> <B>Kaya </B></div> <div> <I>Wake up and turn me loose Wake up and turn me loose Wake up and turn me loose For the rain is falling </I><I><B>...</B></I><I> Read the true meaning of the word..</I> </div> <div> <FONT SIZE="4" COLOR="#FFFF00" FACE="Arial" ><I><B>=</B></I></FONT><I><B>=</B></I><FONT SIZE="4" COLOR="#FF0000" FACE="Arial" ><I><B>=</B></I></FONT><I><B>=</B></I><FONT SIZE="4" COLOR="#00FF00" FACE="Arial" ><I><B>=</B></I></FONT><I><B>=</B></I></div> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="25382350.png" border=0 width="130" height="53" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> <IMG SRC="2544f710.jpg" border=0 width="79" height="113" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> <B>Honey's Honey</B><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FF9900" FACE="Eurostile" ><B> </B></FONT></div> <div> <B>Retirement by Jurassic Park. 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Mr. Parkinson died of Parkinson disease at the age of 42 thereby acquiring the name that we </B><I><B>know today for that terrible disease. </B></I></div> <div> <FONT SIZE="4" COLOR="#FFFF00" FACE="Arial" ><I><B>=</B></I></FONT><I><B>=</B></I><FONT SIZE="4" COLOR="#FF0000" FACE="Arial" ><I><B>=</B></I></FONT><I><B>=</B></I><FONT SIZE="4" COLOR="#00FF00" FACE="Arial" ><I><B>=</B></I></FONT><I><B>=</B></I><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#EEEEEE" FACE="Arial" > </FONT></div> <div> <I><B>THE  MAVERICK: MAV</B></I></div> <div> <B>Jamaicans call it the time of social change,i dont think i will ever fully understand ja. politics, it being a blend of social, economic, neighborhood, class, or race issues. Into this i landed 17 years old, with a fist full of cash, a soul full of hurt,and a heart full of love. </B></div> <div> <B>Negril 69, I called it a Revolution...The Mav, </B><FONT SIZE="4" COLOR="#CC6699" FACE="Eurostile" ><B>Duke of Negril....</B></FONT><B>Read more</B></div> <div> <FONT SIZE="4" COLOR="#FF00FF" FACE="Arial" ><I><B>=</B></I></FONT><I><B>=</B></I><FONT SIZE="4" COLOR="#FF0000" FACE="Arial" ><I><B>=</B></I></FONT><FONT SIZE="4" COLOR="#FFFF00" FACE="Arial" ><I><B>=</B></I></FONT><FONT SIZE="4" COLOR="#00FF00" FACE="Arial" ><I><B>=</B></I></FONT><I><B>=</B></I><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#EEEEEE" FACE="Arial" > </FONT></div> <bR> <bR> <div> <B>Bongo Daley-The Delivery Man</B><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#CCFFCC" FACE="Eurostile" ><B> </B></FONT></div> <div> <FONT SIZE="4" COLOR="#FFFF00" FACE="Arial" ><I><B>=</B></I></FONT><I><B>=</B></I><FONT SIZE="4" COLOR="#FF0000" FACE="Arial" ><I><B>=</B></I></FONT><I><B>=</B></I><FONT SIZE="4" COLOR="#00FF00" FACE="Arial" ><I><B>=</B></I></FONT><I><B>=</B></I></div> <div> <B>Nun, a whe` Mr. B dey? </B></div> <div> <B>I beckoned towards, to back of the house from the shop area. 'Ahim me come to see; its important; but a caan wait. </B></div> <div> <B>As Mr. B approached i could hear the words. " Mass Cleve, a come me come to tell you sey that me pushing off.</B></div> <div> <B> It would be years later, that i would manage to stumble upon the code "pushing off" along with its deep meaning.. Thus the meaning of  Bob Marley song~</B><FONT SIZE="4" COLOR="#00CC33" FACE="Eurostile" ><I><B>Kaya</B></I></FONT></div> <div> <FONT SIZE="4" COLOR="#FF00FF" FACE="Arial" ><I><B>=</B></I></FONT><I><B>=</B></I><FONT SIZE="4" COLOR="#FF0000" FACE="Arial" ><I><B>=</B></I></FONT><FONT SIZE="4" COLOR="#FFFF00" FACE="Arial" ><I><B>=</B></I></FONT><FONT SIZE="4" COLOR="#00FF00" FACE="Arial" ><I><B>=</B></I></FONT><I><B>=</B></I></div> </td> <td valign="top" height=345 BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#080000"> <div> <I>Negril's Chronicle</I></div> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <IMG SRC="2504d840.png" border=0 width="589" height="132" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> <FONT SIZE="4" COLOR="#FFFF00" FACE="Arial" ><I><B>=</B></I></FONT><I><B>=</B></I><FONT SIZE="4" COLOR="#FF0000" FACE="Arial" ><I><B>=</B></I></FONT><I><B>=</B></I><FONT SIZE="4" COLOR="#00FF00" FACE="Arial" ><I><B>=</B></I></FONT><I><B>=</B></I></div> <div> <IMG SRC="2fe58010.gif" border=0 width="600" height="1" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> <IMG SRC="2fe58010.gif" border=0 width="600" height="1" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> <B>The Beginning of a new Era in a Regional Newspaper - The meaning of: Negril</B></div> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="2fe58010.gif" border=0 width="600" height="1" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"><IMG SRC="2fe58010.gif" border=0 width="600" height="1" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> <B>Noamie's - Jamaican Tea Room...An Innovative Walk into Traveling & Reality</B><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#6666CC" FACE="Arial" ><B> </B></FONT></div> <div> <B>-Negril's Chronicle_ </B><B>Negril's News</B><B>_ The First Western Newspaper- </B></div> <div> <FONT SIZE="4" COLOR="#FFFF00" FACE="Arial" ><I><B>=</B></I></FONT><I><B>=</B></I><FONT SIZE="4" COLOR="#FF0000" FACE="Arial" ><I><B>=</B></I></FONT><I><B>=</B></I><FONT SIZE="4" COLOR="#00FF00" FACE="Arial" ><I><B>=</B></I></FONT><I><B>=</B></I></div> <bR> <div> <B><U><IMG SRC="25148db0.jpg" border=0 width="328" height="219" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></U></B></div> <div> <FONT SIZE="4" COLOR="#FFFF00" FACE="Arial" ><I><B>=</B></I></FONT><I><B>=</B></I><FONT SIZE="4" COLOR="#FF0000" FACE="Arial" ><I><B>=</B></I></FONT><I><B>=</B></I><FONT SIZE="4" COLOR="#00FF00" FACE="Arial" ><I><B>=</B></I></FONT><I><B>=</B></I></div> <div> <IMG SRC="2fe58010.gif" border=0 width="600" height="1" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> <B>Negril ... Jamaica</B><FONT SIZE="4" COLOR="#6666CC" FACE="Eurostile" ><B> </B></FONT></div> <div> <B>The name Negril, derived from 'the Negrillo' got its name from a tree similar to a Black Poplar. For years, Negril were known only as a woodland fit for raising cattle, growing sugar-cane, pimento and wood, Negril would become the layover point for British Naval Ships, a place inhabited by drunken sailors. </B></div> <bR> <div> <B>There are those that came, and promised to return to the beautiful girls that had called out to them from the rocks. There were those who came, abandon ship, and never left: The Jackson's, the Woolcock's, to name a few. </B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Negril's culture of British Sailor would developed the fishing trade. </B></div> <div> <B>First the Spanish and then the English. Negril, was considered one of the best harbours in the world and be found on early Spanish maps. The harbour was isolated,being cut off from the rest of the island by the Great Morass which also offered some protection from attacks by land.</B></div> <div> <B>One writer records that in 1502, The Marouis de villa Lobes, Abbot of Jamaica said that Jamaica had very good and commodious ports, deep and spacious enough to hold 100 sail. Read more... </B></div> <div> <B>August 2004 -Latest Research: The Clayton's, the Hoggs, the Gordon's, Millers and more</B></div> <div> <B>Who we are? Some possible answers. I decided to do some 'other researchs.' Interestingly enough, i see, i was'nt alone in my search for answers to 'truth' and indept roots to our own true history. I stumbled onto this remarkable site. I could now understand even more as to why Dr. Paracme believes in me.</B></div> <div> <B> <TABLE BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="1" CELLSPACING="1" WIDTH="624" BORDERCOLORLIGHT="#C0C0C0" BORDERCOLORDARK="#808080" FRAME="VOID" RULES="NONE" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" > <tR> <tD VALIGN=CENTER HEIGHT= 249 WIDTH="620"><div> <B>"You will never find the truth about my mother's people," shrieked Elzina when we visited her in Huntsville shortly before her death last year. My wife and I had both recently found out we were Melungeon. Teresa wondered especially about her Rameys. So we paid a visit to this formidable maiden aunt, keeper of skeletons and reigning matriarch of the family, whom Teresa remembered from her youth as invariably tight-lipped, scowling, always garbed in black satin dresses and lace-up boots. Elzina LaVera Grimwood was a schoolteacher, the daughter and granddaughter of schoolteachers, and sixth in a series of Tennessee Elzinas that stretched back to the days of Daniel Boone. As we drove away empty-handed over the mountains, Teresa remarked that Elzina would not have used those words if the big sin was that the Ramey family had Indian blood or came from France. "Maybe it was that they were bootleggers," I suggested, “or Gypsies.” Speculate as we might, it was hard to guess what dreadful ancestral guilt lay concealed in Elzina's fearful heart. She carried the secret to her grave. </B></div> </tD> </tR> </TABLE></B></div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> <TABLE BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="2" CELLSPACING="2" WIDTH="668" BORDERCOLORLIGHT="#C0C0C0" BORDERCOLORDARK="#808080" FRAME="VOID" RULES="NONE" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" > <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP BGCOLOR=#6666CC HEIGHT= 236 ><NOBR><div> <IMG SRC="252cd9a0.jpg" border=0 width="205" height="154" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> "Natta Bongo, where are you going? </div> <div> I'm going in to warn Jah-jah children to leave out a Babylon.."</div> <div> The best meal one could eat in Jamaica, is a meal cooked over plain old fire wood. </div> <div> RESPECT: to the hard-working, Jamaican man that you see walking out there.</div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=CENTER BGCOLOR=#000000 HEIGHT= 2415 WIDTH="660"><div> <B>Westmoreland is the westernmost parish situated on the south side of the island. It has an area of 807 square kilometres (311 square miles). There are over 10,000 acres of morass land the largest part of which is called the Great Morass. This contains plant and animal material collected over centuries. This can be mined as peat, an excellent source of energy. The morass also serves as a natural sanctuary for Jamaican wildlife. The remaining area consists of several hills of moderate elevation and alluvial plains along the coast.</B></div> <div> <B>Westmoreland was founded in 1703, and was most likely so named because it is the western most parish on the island. The parish boasts rain-fed fertile soils and low relief, well suited for sugar cane. The topography consists mainly of hills and slopes of moderate elevation. The remaining quarter of the parish consists of low lying alluvial plains and some 10,000 – 12,000 acres of wetlands. </B></div> <bR> <div> <B>There are numerous rivers. The Cabaritta River drains the George's Plain and can accommodate boats weighing up to eight tons for twelve miles. It is 39.7 kilometres long. Other rivers are called Negril, New Savanna, Morgan's, Gut, Smithfield, Bowens, Bluefields, Robins, Roaring, Great and Dean.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>BRIEF HISTORY </B></div> <div> <B>The Spaniards built one of their first three settlements at what is now Bluefields in this parish. Columbus also stopped there on his second voyage when he landed in Jamaica. They called it Oristan after a town in Sardinia which they then ruled.</B></div> <div> <B>The parish was named Westmoreland in 1703 because it was the most westerly point in the island. In 1730 Savanna- la-Mar (the plain by the sea) replaced Banbury as the capital. The coast often provided refuge for pirates.</B></div> <div> <B>Henry Morgan the pirate who later became Lieutenant Governor of Jamaica set sail from Bluefields in December 1670 for his successful raid on Panama city. Here, in 1694, the militia repulsed a French landing party. The renowned English naturalist Phillip Henry Gosse lived in Bluefields for 18 months and sent specimens of rare plants and animals to England and dealers in Canada. He also wrote two books Birds of Jamaica and A Naturalist's Sojourn in Jamaica which are still valuable today.</B></div> <div> <B>A major event which began in Westmoreland and changed the course of Jamaica's history was the 1938 riots at the Frome sugar estate. The changes that came in the wake of this led to universal adult suffrage in 1944 as well as a new constitution which put Jamaica on the road to self government and eventually independence. The two national heroes Sir Alexander Bustamante and Norman Washington Manley emerged as political leaders during this time.</B></div> <div> <B>POPULATION: 139,000</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Savanna-la-Mar is the capital town of Westmoreland. It was developed as a port from which sugar was exported and dates back to around 1730. The Spanish name Savanna-la-mar means “Plain by the sea” refers to its immediate environment. The port was built at the end of a straight road that runs perpendicular to the coastline. The road was flanked by flat mangrove swamps, which limited the lateral expansion of the development. The resulting linear development was unlike the many other ribbon-like developments along the coast. </B></div> <div> <B>The town of Frome is located some 5 miles away from Savanna-la-Mar, and boasts one of the few remaining sugar factories in the country. Unfortunately exporting activities at the Savanna-la-Mar port ceased in 1985 and sugar is now exported from Ocho Rios. Next to sugar and rum in importance is the cattle industry, which produces dairy and beef. Farming of rice, bananas, coffee, ginger, pimento and honey were also popular in the parish in the mid 1960s.</B></div> <div> <B>There has been a decline of the traditional agrarian industries of sugar and cattle over the years. This decline has been largely due to a shift in the local and macro economy from natural resource based industries to the more human resource based one such as tourism and financial services. The parish also produces diverse agricultural products such as sugar cane, cocoa, coconut, coffee, citrus and pimento. The fishing industry in Westmoreland currently ranks second in the island. </B></div> <div> <B>CAPITAL: Savanna-la-Mar</B></div> <div> <B>MAJOR TOWNS: Bluefields, Bethel Town, Negril, Seaford Town, Grange Hill, Frome, Darliston</B></div> <div> <B>MAJOR INDUSTRIES/ SOURCES OF INCOME:</B></div> <div> <B>Agriculture: Major agricultural products include sugar, bananas, coffee, ginger, cocoa, pimento, honey. This sector is the largest employer. </B></div> <div> <B>Fishing: There are 19 fishing beaches with over 90 boats engaged in the industry. </B></div> <div> <B>Tourism: Since the 1950s this has been the single fastest growing sector. The major hotels are Sandals Negril, T Water Beach Hotel, Poinciana Beach Resort, Grand Lido, Hedonism, Negril Beach Club, Negril Cabins. Negril is one of the main tourist destinations. </B></div> <div> <B>Manufacturing: This is the third largest sector. Manufactured items include food and drink, tobacco, animal feeds, textile and textile products and printing.</B></div> <div> <B>Historical - Cultural: </B></div> <div> <B>Spanish history recalls that Negril was a haven for Pirates. One French pirate reportedly used the port as his base for attacking fifteen Spanish craft.The Buccaneer John Rackham, also called Calico Jack, was captured by the English naval officer Johnathan Barnet in Negril Harbour and was taken to Port Royal and hung at Gallows Point which became known as Rackham Cay. Negril Harbour subsequently became a meeting place for convoys heading back to England. In her famous diary. Lady Nugent recounts that in 1805, the convoy was scattered by a squall when one of the ships was boarded by a Spanish pirate. </B></div> <div> <B>The harbour was considered unsuitable for shipping produce because of the large swamp - the Great Morass, the Island's largest fresh water wetland. lt was perceived as having little value, as unsuccessful attempts had been made to drain le morass for agricultural use.</B></div> <div> <B>As early as 1774, Edward Long in his History of Jamaica refers to the Great Morass as "a place that may possibly be drained and cultivated." The absence of fresh water and roads delayed development and was these issues that Mr.Manley raised in 1958, when he sought approval from the House of Representatives for implementatlon of the Negril project.The development cost twice the original estimate as unforeseen difficulties, including hard rock excavations, proved to be more expensive than had been anticipated. The work included construction of two ridges and a road, provision of a water supply, river control drainage to divert flood waters and to prevent silt-laden water being discharged into the bay.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>The Great Morass: This stretches north ten miles from the South Negril River to Orange Bay and is two miles wide. It is virtually impenetrable and is said to be the remnant of a primeval forest. It is the second largest freshwater wetland in the island and forms a refuge for endangered waterfowl. At the edges where it links to flowing water systems the endemic fish the God-a-me is found. It can live out of water in moist shady spots.</B></div> <div> <B>The morass is critical to the Negril environment. Like a giant sponge it filters the water flowing down from the interior of the parish. The Negril Watershed Environmental Protection Area has been created to protect the morass and reefs. As the tourism sector there expands it places additional demands on the infrastructure and increases the danger to the environment.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Mannings High School: In 1710 Thomas Manning left 13 slaves, land, cattle and "produce of a pen" in Burnt Savannah to endow a "free school" in Westmoreland. The school was established in 1738. More modern buildings surround the original wooden structure. It is the second oldest secondary school in the island.</B></div> <div> <B>Bluefields House: This is noted for its association with Phillip Henry Gosse the English Naturalist who spent 18 months there (1844 - 1845). While there he collected and sent to the British Museum hundreds of specimens of local flora and fauna. In its garden today is a breadfruit tree believed to be one of the first brought to the island by Captain Bligh of Mutiny on the Bounty fame. </B></div> <bR> <div> <B>It is believed to be on the site of one of the three earliest Spanish settlements which was called Oristan. No remains of this settlement have been found</B></div> <div> <B>Savanna-la-mar Baptist Church: This church was founded on June 7, 1829 by the Rev. Thomas Burchell. At this time the anti- slavery movement was gaining momentum in the West Indies and England. Another famous emancipator William Knibb was also pastor at this church.</B></div> <bR> <div> http://www.melungeons.com/genealogy/blackindianslist.htm </div> <div> http://www.melungeons.com/articles/march2003a.htm</div> <bR> <bR> </tD> </tR> </TABLE></div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> The Jamaican National Costume</div> <div> <B>A full-flaired skirt made of Madras bandana (predominantly red plaid cotton) material worn usually with a white blouse edged with matching bandana. </B></div> <div> <IMG SRC="2ae57cb0.jpg" border=0 width="87" height="203" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">    <IMG SRC="2af85cc0.jpg" border=0 width="133" height="204" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> <B>Traditional Jamaican Coustume JAMAICAN INDIANS </B></div> <div> <B>Headwear varies from bandana wrapped in a special design to straw hat decorated with flowers. Above is Jamaica's folk ambassador Miss Lou Miss Lou in The National Costume on the cover of her book Jamaica Labrish. </B></div> <bR> <div> <B>JAMAICAN INDIANS </B></div> <div> <B>Indian contributions to Jamaican culture are legion. Indian jewellery designs have made their mark especially in the form of intricately wrought thin, gold bangles. The tradition goes back to the 1860s when plantation workers began to create these pieces and organized traveling salesmen to peddle them island-wide. It was the Indians who first managed to grow rice in Jamaica, establishing the island's first successful rice mill in the 1890s. They also dominated the island's vegetable production until well into the 1940s. </B></div> <div> <B>Old animosities forgotten, elements of traditional Indian dress can be found in Jonkonnu processions and many African-Jamaicans participate alongside their Indian-Jamaican brothers and sisters in the Indian inspired cultural celebrations of Hosay and Divali. Hosay is a muslim festival that re-enacts a war between Mohammed's sons, their death and burial. It lasts for 9 nights and on the tenth day the tazia (a paper and bamboo replica of a tomb) is taken to the streets in a large, colourful procession led by a Tasa drummer and followed by stick and horse dancers. </B></div> <bR> <div> <B>In the past, every plantation in each parish celebrated Hosay. Today it has been called an Indian carnival and is perhaps most well known in Clarendon where it is celebrated each August. Divali, a Hindu festival linked with the reaping of grain, the return of Prince Rama after 14 years in exile, and the victory of good over evil, is celebrated late October to early November on the darkest night of the year. Houses are cleaned and brightly lit and everyone is in high spirits. </B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Today there is an estimated number of close to 70,000 Indians living in Jamaica. They maintain their own cultural organizations, aspiring to keep links to their roots whilst still managing to assimilate into the national scene. This is perhaps well illustrated by the fact that traditional Indian foods such as curry goat, roti and callaloo have become part of the national cuisine. Caste is not a significant issue and arranged marriages are no longer common. Descendants of the immigrant workers have influenced the fields of farming, medicine, politics and even horse-racing. Names such as Chatani, Chulani, Tewani, Mahtani, Daswani, Vaswani and Chandiram have become synonymous with manufacturing, wholesale, retail and in-bond businesses providing employment for thousands of Jamaicans. </B></div> <bR> <bR> <div> <B> <TABLE BORDER="2" CELLPADDING="1" CELLSPACING="1" WIDTH="966" BORDERCOLORLIGHT="#C0C0C0" BORDERCOLORDARK="#808080" FRAME="BOX" RULES="ALL" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" > <tR> <tD VALIGN=CENTER BGCOLOR=#000000 HEIGHT= 20 WIDTH="271"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="20" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="271" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></tD> <tD VALIGN=CENTER BGCOLOR=#000000 WIDTH="463"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="20" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="463" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></tD> <tD VALIGN=CENTER ROWSPAN=2 BGCOLOR=#000000 WIDTH="212"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="20" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="212" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP BGCOLOR=#000000 HEIGHT= 284 ><NOBR><div> <B>Negril's Lighthouse completed in 1894</B><B> </B></div> <div> <B>Built by the Germans and English </B></div> <bR> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=CENTER BGCOLOR=#000000 WIDTH="463"><div> <B>Negril's Lighthouse: </B></div> <div> <B>Perched on the south-westernmost point of the island is the Negril Lighthouse which stands 100 feet above sea level with an automatic light flashing every two seconds through the night. The light house was completed (built) around 1884 by a team of Scottich/English Men, who had arrived on the Island, sent by the Queen. You can climb 103 stairs to the top for a birds eye view of the coast. En route you will see the brass lamps and pistons dating from 1894 when the light was lit with kerosene. Today, solar energy is used.</B></div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=CENTER COLSPAN=2 BGCOLOR=#000000 HEIGHT= 2090 WIDTH="737"><div> <B>Negril's News: Ken Kiesler, 1945-2003 </B></div> <div> <B>"The Great VavaVoom's Guide to the tropical Hippy Beaches of the World"</B></div> <div> <B>Posted by Dave Winer, 9/19/03 at 3:14:14 PM. </B></div> <bR> <div> <B><IMG SRC="2d53d450.png" border=0 width="61" height="69" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <div> <B>My uncle died yesterday.</B></div> <div> <B>He was a relatively young man, 58 years old, in relatively good health, or so we thought. </B></div> <div> <B>He was more like a brother than an uncle, he taught me so much, was a role model, both positive and negative. </B></div> <div> <B>Today, while waiting for the Verizon repair man, I watched On Golden Pond, an amazing movie for pulling the feelings out. </B></div> <div> <B>When Ken was born they broke the mold. A hippie and an engineer, a great thinker and reasoner, with blind spots you could drive a truck through. </B></div> <div> <B>When my aunt Dorothy died of cancer almost fifteen years ago it set Ken adrift, he never found his grounding again. </B></div> <div> <B>As he aged he became more loving, more of a friend, and more resigned to his own death, which he obsessed about. </B></div> <bR> <div> <B>When I was a kid he was a teen. We rode go-karts together at the beach in Rockaway and sent secret messages up to kites we flew over Jamaica Bay. If he could read this he'd tell me to get over it. But he had a sentimental side, sort of an Eastern European sentimentalism, although like me, he was born in the US. </B></div> <div> <B>He read voraciously. He did crossword puzzles. He swam every day. He smoked a lot. He fussed with cars. He built a windmill. It's rusting in a palmetto field west of Crescent Beach, FL.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>He was raised in a brutal household, he lived a lot of his life in apposition to his father who beat him every day when he was a kid. </B></div> <div> <B>He could solve a math problem like no one else. </B></div> <div> <B>Along with Scott Rosenberg he was one of two people I knew who solved Don's Amazing Puzzle without even thinking. </B></div> <div> <B>He was puzzled by the Dancing Hamsters.</B></div> <div> <B>He told stories, told them over and over again. I got to numbering them, in a playful way. I'd say "oh that's story #2764," as he'd start to tell it. He always said he'd write them, but as far as I know he never did.</B></div> <div> <B>One of my favorite DaveNets was a recital of a Ken Kiesler rap, about the relationship between security and money. I wrote about Ken and Jamaica often in DaveNet and on Scripting News.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>He was one of the first to have a Manila site along with Dan Gillmor, and Jamis MacNiven at Buck's. I introduced Ken to Jamis. He was impressed with Jamis's Russian cosmonaut suit, hanging from the ceiling at Buck's.</B></div> <div> <B>He practiced self-deprecating humor. He'd put both hands on the sides of his head and say in a mock-frail voice "I'm soooo confused." It was a joke, but he only said it when he was really confused. He probably said it about the Dancing Hamsters.</B></div> <div> <B>Once in Miami I turned on the radio and they were playing a Rolling Stones song from the 1960s. He didn't know who it was. He said he stopped listening to new stuff in the 50s. </B></div> <div> <B>He was a musician, but a dabbler. He formed a band called The Matanzas River Mud Stompers with people who hung around his 25-acre hippie commune in the palmetto field. The did an audition tape of a commercial for a local music store. I have it somewhere.</B></div> <div> <B>His uncle, Arno Schmidt, was a famous author in Germany with a cult-like following. He never met Arno. They will want to know that Vava died. They probably didn't even know he was alive. He was Lucy's son.</B></div> <div> <B>To my brother -- yes this is going to hurt. You've known the guy for many years. He bounced you on his knee.</B></div> <div> <B>He liked to call himself The Great VaVaVoom, said he was a professional wrestler, saying he used the line to pick up chicks on the beach (at your service ma'am), but we knew he never did and kidded him about it. We called him Uncle Vava. Even people who weren't his nephew did. Then a new twist as his hair went white. He looked like Santa Claus. Kids on the beach in Negril would call him Uncle Santa.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B><IMG SRC="2d7a2f20.jpg" border=0 width="162" height="242" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"> </B><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FF00FF" FACE="Arial" ><B><IMG SRC="2d684f40.png" border=0 width="388" height="244" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></FONT></div> <div> <B>I had two uncles. Both are dead. My other uncle was murdered.</B></div> <div> <B>A few years before my grandmother, Lucy Kiesler, died, Ken asked her if they could pre-arrange a signal that she would send after she died that would prove conclusively that there's life after death. Something we might call up at a seance. She refused. Ironically we never got around to agreeing on something between ourselves. Oh well. I'll have to wait till it's my turn. </B></div> <div> <B>Some of Ken's friends: Woody and Nancy Pine. Barry and Elizabeth at Gloria's in Negril. Thurman Wartloe. Sparky. Clayton Straight Arm.</B></div> <div> <B><IMG SRC="2d48f010.jpg" border=0 width="143" height="257" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <div> <B>Me And My Uncle, 1957 or so. </B></div> <bR> <bR> <div> <B>[Negril 1999] </B></div> <div> <B>Source: http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/crimson1/kenKiesler </B></div> <div> <B>www.vavavoom.com </B></div> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <B><IMG SRC="30ebe5a0.png" border=0 width="446" height="90" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=CENTER BGCOLOR=#000000 WIDTH="212"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="2090" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="212" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></tD> </tR> </TABLE></B></div> <bR> <bR> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>