In 1955 the author flew off from Wisconsin with her new husband, Don, in their two-seater Piper Super Cub named "Grasshopper." Headed for British Guiana, South America, they would set up a diamond-mining operation and their home in the wilds along the Ireng River, 250 miles from the coast. They brought a daughter and son into this primitive world, here on the border of Brazil, to share an unusual life in the lush green valley they named Marquis.A Light on the Runway is the woman's side of the adventure described by her husband in his book, Bush Pilot in Diamond Country.

A Light on the Runway

Haack, Janet

Biographies & Memoirs

Pure Heart Pr

Who hasn't dreamed of moving to a tropical island and slowing the pace of life? The author and husband together with their four youngest children ages two to nine did just that in 1965 when they took up residence on the West Indian island of Grenada (pronounced Gre-nay-da.) For the next fourteen years, like the syncopation of Calypso, their lives played out in that rhythm of the Caribbean, providing both humorous and anxious moments in an unquestionably rich and satisfying experience. 
 Author of A Light on the Runway, a book describing her years living in the interior of British Guiana (now Guyana) with her adventurer / pilot husband Don, Janet Haack chronicles the fourteen topsy-turvy years they and their four children spent living on the twelve-by-twenty mile island of Grenada in the Caribbean, in The Calypso Years.

The Calypso Years

Community & Culture

Main Street Rag

Parenting & Relationships

Palmland Pub

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