{"id":1245,"date":"2003-05-19T11:37:13","date_gmt":"2003-05-19T11:37:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/houseofnehesipublish.com\/sxm\/?p=1245"},"modified":"2015-05-17T11:37:51","modified_gmt":"2015-05-17T11:37:51","slug":"june-weddings-united-sports-teams-a-hunger-strike-a-new-status-and-more-in-daniella-jeffrys-1963-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/houseofnehesipublish.com\/sxm\/2003\/05\/19\/june-weddings-united-sports-teams-a-hunger-strike-a-new-status-and-more-in-daniella-jeffrys-1963-book\/","title":{"rendered":"June weddings, united sports teams, a hunger strike, a new status and more in Daniella Jeffry\u2019s 1963 book"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>GREAT BAY, St. Martin\u00a0(May\u00a019, 2003) \u2014 <\/strong>Talking or guessing about St. Martin\u2019s history without sound facts and is one thing, identifying and recording the proof of important parts of the nation\u2019s history makes a big difference.<\/p>\n<p>In her new book,\u00a0<em>1963 \u2013 A Landmark Year in St. Martin<\/em>,\u00a0Daniella Jeffry identifies the island\u2019s\u00a0first recorded\u00a0traffic jam; the number of eligible voters for the first modern Island Council election in Great Bay; a selection of weddings from February to December with the complete list of brides, grooms, bridesmaids and even guests; returning tourists that attended the private parties of St. Martiners; sports teams from Marigot and Great Bay uniting to compete abroad; a hunger strike; land developers and frozen food outlets; how did both sides of the island get full electricity at the same time; what was the new political status instituted in the North; and the names of who passed their St. Joseph school exams and more.<\/p>\n<p>The socio-cultural, economic, infrastructural and political\/constitutional changes in this reader-friendly book are identified for one and all to study further, to just enjoy or to be able to speak like experts about major developments that consolidated the ground floor of modern St. Martin (North and South).<\/p>\n<p>With copies of the book now at Van Dorp, Arnia and other bookstores,\u00a0<em>1963 \u2013 A Landmark Year in St. Martin<\/em>, comes complete with a French translation (<em>1963 \u2013 Ann\u00e9e Charni\u00e8re \u00e0 Saint-Martin<\/em>), chapter notes identifying source material, and a listing of captions and sources for over one hundred photos and images that are in the book from Amsterdam\u2019s royal Tropenmuseum, early photographers Guy Hodge and Diederick Cannegieter, paintings by Ruby Bute and private collections.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0<em>1963<\/em> retrospective look will be launched at the Philipsburg Jubilee Library on June 7, 2003, said Lasana M. Sekou, projects director at House of Nehesi, the book\u2019s publisher.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GREAT BAY, St. Martin\u00a0(May\u00a019, 2003) \u2014 Talking or guessing about St. Martin\u2019s history without sound facts and is one thing, identifying and recording the proof of important parts of the nation\u2019s history makes a big difference. In her new book,\u00a01963 \u2013 A Landmark Year in St. Martin,\u00a0Daniella Jeffry identifies the island\u2019s\u00a0first recorded\u00a0traffic jam; the number [&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-1245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-2003"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/houseofnehesipublish.com\/sxm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1245","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=1245"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/houseofnehesipublish.com\/sxm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1245\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1246,"href":"http:\/\/houseofnehesipublish.com\/sxm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1245\/revisions\/1246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/houseofnehesipublish.com\/sxm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/houseofnehesipublish.com\/sxm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/houseofnehesipublish.com\/sxm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}