{"id":1247,"date":"2003-05-27T11:39:42","date_gmt":"2003-05-27T11:39:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/houseofnehesipublish.com\/sxm\/?p=1247"},"modified":"2015-05-17T11:40:25","modified_gmt":"2015-05-17T11:40:25","slug":"1963-from-sleepy-paradise-to-boisterous-tourist-destination-in-40-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/houseofnehesipublish.com\/sxm\/2003\/05\/27\/1963-from-sleepy-paradise-to-boisterous-tourist-destination-in-40-years\/","title":{"rendered":"1963, from sleepy paradise to boisterous tourist destination in 40 years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>GREAT BAY, St. Martin\u00a0<\/strong>(May\u00a027, 2003)<strong>\u2014<\/strong>According to writer Fabian Badejo,\u00a0<em>1963 \u2013 A Landmark Year in St. Martin<\/em>by Daniella Jeffry is itself a cornerstone by which to measure developments realized and promises not kept. \u201cWhat has remained the same since 1963 is that quintessential St. Martin character of friendliness.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf 1963 can be considered the beginning of several transformational changes in the infrastructure and life of the island, its cosmopolitan nature has remained intact, or better still, intensified with the waves of immigrants that came to the island in the boom years that ensued.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In his epilogue to the new book, Badejo pointed out that \u201cA social anthropologist would quickly unearth the seeds of modernization that germinated into the tourist boom that flung this until 1963, sleepy, rural, peaceful slice of paradise into a boisterous tourist destination some 40 years later.\u201d But he was sure to note, \u201cNot all of the promises made in 1963 have been realized\u201d up to this day.<\/p>\n<p>The book\u2019s first chapter does indeed set up a background profile about the \u201csocial\u201d emergence of \u201cOld St. Martin\u201d and points to what was to come, as Jeffry weaned from her research sample in the other two chapters of\u00a0<em>1963<\/em>. \u201cIt is an account based, happily, on journalistic reports of the island\u2019s first modern newspaper, the\u00a0<em>Windward Islands\u2019 Opinion<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs a people with a rich oral tradition, 1963 may also mark the start of the written documentation of our history. This is by all means a major contribution to the historiography of our island,\u201d stated Badejo.<\/p>\n<p><em>1963 \u2013 A Landmark Year in St. Martin, <\/em>Jeffry\u2019s first book and the second House of Nehesi Publishers\u2019 title for 2003, follows the February publication of\u00a0<em>The House That Jack Built and Other Plays, <\/em>which also made playwright Louie Laveist a first-time author.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GREAT BAY, St. Martin\u00a0(May\u00a027, 2003)\u2014According to writer Fabian Badejo,\u00a01963 \u2013 A Landmark Year in St. Martinby Daniella Jeffry is itself a cornerstone by which to measure developments realized and promises not kept. \u201cWhat has remained the same since 1963 is that quintessential St. Martin character of friendliness. \u201cIf 1963 can be considered the beginning of [&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-1247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-2003"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/houseofnehesipublish.com\/sxm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1247","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=1247"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/houseofnehesipublish.com\/sxm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1247\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1248,"href":"http:\/\/houseofnehesipublish.com\/sxm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1247\/revisions\/1248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/houseofnehesipublish.com\/sxm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/houseofnehesipublish.com\/sxm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/houseofnehesipublish.com\/sxm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}