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Long ago people uses to be afraid to die because sometimes dey were leaving surviving relatives wid not even nuff burial money foh ah breadfruit coffin, but deep inside dey wanted mahogany casket to show off. Strangely, dat “sham-pain taste wid mauby pocket” men-tell-ah-tea is still strangling us. Ah remember our senior villager “Charles “Pappy” Joyette, ah Boss on meking coffins from scratch, poor people were forced to buy ah … ....
Social Share We are at the bottom half of Murray’s Village where Edwin and about 50 of us spent our early childhood. At the lower end was nurse and mid-wife Maggie Stephens who delivered us all; then there was St Agathe and the Mc leans; next was Henry Smith family, and Sonny Joyette’s shop which sold snow-cone and potato pudding, Miss Dorcas and her gang in a small room adjacent to Mr Lee’s Private School; Sheller or ‘Boy foh Ms. Baby’ was on the right (present site of Dennis Joyette Auto Body Shop); opposite Dennis was Percy (Ole Mercury) Bonadie and his family; and above was Ms. Clarke (Anchor Chain) Private School. Later the home of Richards brothers’ Combo; then Ms. Inez and ‘Will’ who got drunk once a year on his birthday, Dec 1 shouting “Christmas!” Pappy Joyette built our cribs, houses and coffins; his son Leo, David’s dad was the village tailor; then “Boots-no-foot” school. Next, Ralph Clarke, (Edwin’s partner in crime) and fina ....