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LOOK WE!- #3

Join us over the course of this year for our “Look We!” series as we spotlight familiar, and perhaps not so familiar, sights and sounds of Antigua and Barbuda, and publish updates on the Antigua and Barbuda ICH Project.

In this third edition of Look We!, we revisit that moment when a passionate farewell delivered at a November 2002 state funeral became the talk of the town and the region.

Do you remember it?  When, then former Foreign Minister of St. Lucia, George Odlum eulogised his friend, politician, political activist, educator, crusading journalist/newspaper publisher, sports administrator, and literary/music critic, Leonard “Tim”Hector?  More to the point, were you there?

(Video clips courtesy: ABS TV; remastered by Dr. James Knight.)

Date: November 19, 2002. Location: The Antigua Recreation Grounds.

Event: The State Funeral of Leonard “Tim” Hector.

Speaker: George Odlum Eulogy, then former Foreign Minister of St. Lucia.

To learn more about Tim Hector, see Conrad Luke’s Biography here.

To learn more about George Odlum, click here.

Look We!

Join us over the course of this year for our “Look We!” series as we spotlight familiar, and perhaps not so familiar, sights and sounds of Antigua and Barbuda, and publish updates on the Antigua and Barbuda ICH Project.

In this first edition of Look We!, we spotlight the familiar colourful sight and melodious sounds of Mark Washington, pan-maker and souvenir vendor, who plies his trade during the tourism high/peak season at his long-held spot on lower St. Mary’s Street in St. John’s, outside of the City Store.

I can make any size of pan, small tin pans or the regular steel pan,” Washington will be sure to tell you!

Check out the video below and click here to view Washington’s profile in our Map of Creatives!