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The Numbers 7 and 11
Musings on this, the 11th day of the 7th month in the year 2011 … The numbers 7 and 11 have deep meaning in the casino game “Craps,” where a dice roll of 7 or 11 is considered a “natural” — and a win — if one bets on the “Pass Line.” Even though I’ve never [...]
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Anguilla Day
May 30th fell on the 5th Tuesday of the month back in 1967. There were no sailboat races in Anguilla that day. There wasn’t a single telephone on the island where one could phone home or call a friend. There were hardly any paved roads or cars in Anguilla back then. Dune Preserve, Straw Hat [...]
Tony Lee – British Commissioner During Anguilla Revolution
During Anguilla’s revolution, Anthony Lee, the British Commissioner to Anguilla (and St. Kitts & Nevis) played a prominent role as an antagonist. Forty-two years ago today, the NY Times featured an article about Tony on Page 3 (it can be seen on Anguilla Rising’s Facebook wall at www.facebook.com/anguillarising. Here’s a YouTube video showing Tony in [...]
Music & Writing
People ask me all the time about my love for music and whether or not it influences my passion to write. Not only have I written professionally (and as a hobby) since my teens, but from the ages of seven to fifteen I took regular weekly organ lessons from a world-reknowned organist who taught me [...]
Anguilla and America
To understand the relationship between Anguilla and America, one only has to visit the tiny island and spend some time with any Gumbs, Harrigan, Hodge, Richardson, or Rogers family member (or most any other Anguillian family name, for that matter). To frame a perspective of how important the connection was — and how poor (money-wise) their obscure [...]
Walter Cronkite 1969 Anguilla Invasion Report
Here’s some historic news archive footage of CBS’s Walter Cronkite reporting on Britain’s invasion of Anguilla. Enjoy! Anguilla Invasion News Footage on YouTube
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Anguilla Rhymes with Vanilla
Just about everyone who knows me knows I have a deep and passionate affection for Anguilla, the once obscure island located 200 miles east of Puerto Rico. I lived in Anguilla in 1984 and 1985, when I was sent there to renovate and reopen a small resort just as the island was “being discovered.” I [...]
Anguilla Liberty Dollar
When rebel Anguillians booted Robert Bradshaw’s police force from their obscure island back on May 30th of 1967, they essentially cut Anguilla off from most of its remaining lifelines to the outside world. Other than money that flowed in from relatives living abroad — which slowed to a trickle because Bradshaw put an embargo [...]
Mother England Invades Anguilla
On March 19, 1969, England invades Anguilla, its tiniest dependency. British soldiers, including 315 elite Red Devil Paratroopers, were transported by landing craft from the British frigates Rothesay and Minerva to Sandy Ground and Crocus Bay just before dawn. Much to the “battle-ready”soldiers surprise, they met little to no resistance from the Anguillians, most of whom were [...]
Anguilla Rising in Development
Announcement on Vimooz, one of the world’s leading independent film-related news/websites — about the epic feature film project Anguilla Rising in development. The link: http://www.vimooz.com/filmmaking/709-epic-feature-film-about-anguillas-1967-revolution-in-development-.html
Fountain of Youth
In 1984 while renovating the late Clayton Lloyd’s cottage colony at Corito, the ex-pat American veterinarian, cave explorer, wreck diver — and revolutionary gunrunner who serves as the basis for one of the principal characters in Anguilla Rising – quietly told me about an underground cavern located near Shoal Bay. Later that same day, one of my [...]
