Emancipation Day Parade

After the play everyone lit torches and we went in a huge parade around the town shouting "More Fire! Fire Fire!" because on emancipation day back then, the freed slaves burned down the towns and sugar fields they were enslaved to (we didn't burn down the town that night...just paraded around yelling with torches...) Photo: Manda Pendleton

The Hurricane Week!

October 18th 2008
Hello everyone! Well, this last week we had a hurricane come through here: Omar. We thought were just going to have a tropical storm, but on Monday we saw it developing on the radar saying it was going to be a category 1. Tuesday it developed more than expected and was supposed to be a category 3 straight over St. Croix for Wednesday night. So all Tuesday and Wednesday we prepared everything t ... read more

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During the 17th century, the archipelago was divided into two territorial units, one English and the other Danish. Sugarcane, produced by slave labor, drove the islands' economy during the 18th and early 19th centuries. In 1917, the US purchased the ... ... read more

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