LEGACY TIME TRAVELLER: JAMAICA
(Archival Material)

An insider’s look at the mystique of Jamaica, past and present, through music, history, folklore, archaeology, culinary arts and channeling ancestral spirits.

These thirty-minute tours present little known facets of Jamaica unseen by most tourists, utilizing field and archival research allied with cutting-edge audio-visual technology.

Programs currently in production include:

I  A Visit to the Seville Great House and Plantation:
a locale where Spanish-Arawak-African cultures of fifteenth-century Jamaica intersected and now a living museum of history, archaeology and folkways.

II  A Visit to the town of Falmouth:
A Visit to Falmouth, site of abolitionist fervor during the days preceding
Emancipation, entrepot of the slave trade, once among the pre-eminent
examples of Georgian architecture and culture in the Caribbean.

 

III A Visit to Port Royal, or Pirates of the Caribbean, Revisited:
A Look at the tumultuous history, destruction and restoration of the locale once known as the “wickedest city in western Christendom.”

IV   The Tragic Tale of Martha Brae:
or the pleasures of river rafting in olde Jamaica.

V Portland Parish:
A visit to the haunts of Jamaica’s fabled Maroons and the impact of “yellow gold” on Jamaican history and culture.

VI   The Forgotten Negril:
being a compendium of local lore beyond the tourist façade of ten miles of world-famous white sand beaches to little known tales of whalers, naval fleets, pirates and nature preserves unknown to all but a few discriminating travellers.