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Like the time when he told us about the jumbies

(zombies) that lived in the passageway in his house

and only came out at night when he was alone. He

also told us about many buildings in Kingstown

that he had helped to build when he was a young
man in the 1930s and 1940s. He said that many

rich people also paid him to fix their furniture, and

he built the chairs in his living room for my Great

Grandma.

Because he lived so long, many people came from
all over St Vincent and the Grenadines to get

information about our island’s history and DaDa

was always happy to share. Students from the

Community College came to interview him many

th
times, and for his 100 birthday, they gave him a
very nice painting of himself.

DaDa lived in Rose Place, also known as Bottom

Town. Most people in Bottom Town knew, loved

and respected my Great Granddad, except the

people he scolded for stealing his yard fowls, or for

wearing their pants below their buttocks. He was a
proper gentleman.

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