{"id":1243,"date":"2003-05-06T11:35:10","date_gmt":"2003-05-06T11:35:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/houseofnehesipublish.com\/sxm\/?p=1243"},"modified":"2015-05-17T11:35:30","modified_gmt":"2015-05-17T11:35:30","slug":"in-daniella-jeffrys-new-book-2003-is-st-martins-40th-carnival-anniversary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/houseofnehesipublish.com\/sxm\/2003\/05\/06\/in-daniella-jeffrys-new-book-2003-is-st-martins-40th-carnival-anniversary\/","title":{"rendered":"In Daniella Jeffry\u2019s new book 2003 is St. Martin\u2019s 40th carnival anniversary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>GREAT BAY, St. Martin<\/strong> (May 6, 2003) \u2014 House of Nehesi Publishers is scheduled to launch <em>1963 \u2013 A Landmark Year in St. Martin<\/em> by Daniella Jeffry on June 7, 2003, said Lasana M. Sekou, the foundation\u2019s projects director.<\/p>\n<p>The 206-page book is a retrospective look at 1963 as the beginning of modern St. Martin. Using the\u00a0<em>Windward Islands Opinion<\/em> newspaper as her database along with other official and popular sources, Jeffry has catalogued a unique set of social, political, business and infrastructural developments on both parts of the island.<\/p>\n<p>In the wake of the island\u2019s two carnivals, planners and lovers of that grand f\u00eate might have missed celebrating 2003 as the apparent 40<sup>th<\/sup> anniversary year of carnival\u2019s modern beginnings in Marigot and Great Bay. The fact-based evidence, the role of French Quarter, the planning committee reported on in October 1963, the pre-1960s Mardi Gras held at private homes, and the moko jumbie all come together in a fascinating slice of reading about the beginnings of St. Martin\u2019s modern carnival tradition.<\/p>\n<p>In\u00a0<em>1963 \u2013 A Landmark Year in St. Martin<\/em>, Jeffry, a leading educator\/historian, has also encapsulated key features of the St. Martin identity in the chapter called \u201cOld St. Martin.\u201d With some 100 photos dating between 1901 and 1963, other chapters are \u201cPeople &amp; Places in 1963\u201d and \u201cChanges in 1963.\u201d The book includes a French translation (<em>1963 \u2013 Ann\u00e9e Charni\u00e8re \u00e0 Saint-Martin<\/em>) and should be in bookstores by the end of May 2003.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GREAT BAY, St. Martin (May 6, 2003) \u2014 House of Nehesi Publishers is scheduled to launch 1963 \u2013 A Landmark Year in St. Martin by Daniella Jeffry on June 7, 2003, said Lasana M. Sekou, the foundation\u2019s projects director. The 206-page book is a retrospective look at 1963 as the beginning of modern St. Martin. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-2003"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/houseofnehesipublish.com\/sxm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1243","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/houseofnehesipublish.com\/sxm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/houseofnehesipublish.com\/sxm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/houseofnehesipublish.com\/sxm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/houseofnehesipublish.com\/sxm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1243"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/houseofnehesipublish.com\/sxm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1243\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1244,"href":"http:\/\/houseofnehesipublish.com\/sxm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1243\/revisions\/1244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/houseofnehesipublish.com\/sxm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/houseofnehesipublish.com\/sxm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/houseofnehesipublish.com\/sxm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}