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Op-Ed: Thank You, Michael Connors and Others Trying to Save Whim Great House
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Op-Ed: Thank You, Michael Connors and Others Trying to Save Whim Great House

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Op-Ed: Remembering Harry A. Beatty, a Native Naturalist of the Virgin Islands
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Op-Ed: Remembering Harry A. Beatty, a Native Naturalist of the Virgin Islands

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Arturo Alfonso Schomburg (Photo courtesy Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture / New York Public Library)
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Op-Ed: As Arthur A. Schomburg Showed, Black History is Human History

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St. John’s Episcopal Church, also known as St. John’s Anglican Church, in Christiansted, St. Croix, was built by enslaved Africans and the so-called “free colored” people, who really were not free but just held to another standard of slavery in the Danish West Indies. (Photo by Olasee Davis)
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Op-Ed: St. John’s Episcopal Church on St. Croix Marks 264 Years

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Ambassador Terence Todman greeting people in Togo, a sub-Saharan West African country in 1967. (Photo courtesy Todman family archives)
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Op-Ed: Remembering Ambassador Terence A. Todman, a Brilliant Virgin Islander

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According to historical records, “ King Christian V gave the estate to the Brandenburg Company in 1695. The estate was owned by several owners between 1739 and 1854, when it was sold to Rasmus Wilhelm Rasmussen, whose family then sold the estate (though not the Great House) to the V.I Government in 1955.” (Photo courtesy Olasee Davis)
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Open Forum: How Estates Got Their Names, Part 3

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Plaskett Lauds St. Croix’s Designation as National Heritage Area
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Plaskett Lauds St. Croix’s Designation as National Heritage Area

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Leading a hike with teachers, archaeologists, medical doctors, parents, grandparents, students, hikers, etc., at Maroon Ridge for Emancipation Day. (Photo by Olasee Davis)
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Open Forum: Maroon Country Long Identified as Worthy of Preservation

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This is the northwest of Maroon Country where lands were exchanged hundred of times since the middle 1600s. (Photo courtesy of Olasee Davis)
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Open Forum: It’s Time to Reclaim Maroon Country

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Olasee Davis, left, leads hikers on a trek of Maroon Ridge, where they overlook the Maroon Hole. Enslaved people jumped from these cliffs and deep valleys in a bid for freedom, according to oral history. (Photo courtesy of Olasee Davis)
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Open Forum: A Maroon Territorial Park is Not an Option But a Must

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