Bob,

Thanks for taking the time to read the book! Many things have happened to the characters in the book, death being one of them. I have some photos of that time period but need to learn how to attach them on this post. As for the Jamaicans during that time period: Elkannah the fisherman died two days before I returned this past May but I went out in a canoe fishing with his life-long fisherman friend, Eli, who told me lots of good stories as we canoed along the West End from the Blue Cave Castle - it was while you were there with your daughters wedding. In fact, the land of the Blue Cave Castle was part of my old stumping grounds in the 70s - I have a picture of me sitting on a tree branch on that property. At one time I camped on the land across the road, Croton Grove, which is mentioned in the novel; and one of the characters in the book lives there, although in the book I change his name - his real name is Everton and his parents were Daisy (not Millie as in the book) and Charlie. I visited Lord Joseph's cave in May as well, and Lord Joseph's sister was there; she informed me that Lord Joseph had died and she took over the cave-land, and man, she had it all caged up - and they tried turning the cave in to sea-cave bar which took lots of concrete and a hurricane wiped it out - such a shame - I took nice pics of it though, which I will post on this thread once I figure out how to (I am a techno-idiot). Harold, the wood carver, I ran into in 1984 while strolling along the beach. He and Michelin (the Danish woman) went their separate ways. He told me that Karl lived in Jamaica for over 10 years and one day left never to return. Helena and Michelin returned to Denmark, taking her half Jamaican child with her. Nathaniel (renamed Patrick in the revised version of the book per his request) and Julie and there children now live in Bloomington, IN, on a farm inherited from Julie and Jamie's parents. Their twins, Francis and Jamie, both live in Bloomington, IN as well and have their own families. As for their property in Little Bay, they sold it awhile ago as their children went off to college in the states and decided to make a home there, the main reason that Nathaniel and Julie moved to Bloomington. As for the Ghetto Flower freinds, wow, so much to tell about them - a novel worth. They continued living in Jamaica for many years, owning and selling land, and some of them got the travel bug and went to points all over the globe; a few returned to Philadel
phia, to my surprise, eventually settling in Wildwood, NJ of all places.