Archive for November, 2008
US History you have never heard
Last week was Statia Days… a celebration of the island and, ironically, of their important part in the American Revolution. It was strange to be in a totally non-American country but still I basically felt like I was at some go America patriotic celebration. So here’s the history, more or less. During the early American […]
Thoughts on Statia
I have now been here on Statia for 3 weeks… one strange hurricane week but now 2 weeks of settling into a routine and getting to now the area — the plants and animals and the culture, and what I’m going to be doing here. We’ll start with my routine: I am working at the […]