johng - I was in Negril when they were filming "No Place Like Home" -- they all of the cast hung out where you might know of as 'Hungry Lion' but it was cottages in those times run by Bertram and GreerAnne. A portion of the film was done at Awee Maway Village, which turned into Pickled Parrot. They did hire some locals, mainly the ones I noticed were some of the Rasta's who used to live across from Ten Sing Pen, I think where Sharky's is now.
CapD - I used to be at Elvira's house quite often and knew Nard very well. Have you kept in touch with him? You might find this book very interesting: "38 Years a Fugitive" by E.D. Paull, the first third of the book focuses on the guys experiences in Vietnam with the later 2/3rd of the book about Negril in the 1970's and 80's a portion of the book takes place at Our Past Time. I almost fell out of my chair when the author had a picture of himself in the middle of the book. He was the guy who was my neighbor on and off when he stayed across from Whoopies Park and also stayed at Our Past Time for months at a time (when Ruthie and Hayden stayed there). Elvira was a hoot - most of the times off-island but perpetually there on and off.