Say it in Crucian! A Complete Guide to Today's Crucian for Speakers of Standard English is a guide to the English-based creole of St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands, as used by today's young people. The book features everyday phrases, a basic linguistics (i.e. how to form questions, use of subjective and objective pronouns, etc.), original stories and conversations, retold fairytales, a brief linguistic history of St. Croix, and a Crucian/Standard English dictionary. Novices will appreciate the handy (if tongue-in-cheek) Standard English translations throughout. This book is a result of several years of collaborative research between the author and her research-writing classes at the University of the Virgin Islands St. Croix campus. This book will make you kill self with laugh.

Say it in Crucian! A Complete Guide to Today's Crucian for Speakers of Standard English

Reference

Robin Sterns

Dictionaries & Thesauruses

Antilles Press

The author of Time Longa' Dan Twine presents another intimate look at the history of the Virgin Islands, here pursuing the long past of the town of Christiansted and the stories of some of the people who lived and died there. The reader will be surprised to read that the town is older than the great majority of American cities and towns, that it has been occupied by no less than seven different nations, and that at one time it served as the capital of the Danish West Indies. Equally fascinating are the chapters on the broad variety of people who at one time or another called the town home—Dove Braffith, perhaps the greatest of the island's painters; Adrian Bentzon, a governor of many talents and curious adventures; Ralph de Chabert, a labor leader and outstanding journalist; Fritz Henle, a world-class photographer; Charles Blair and Maureen O'Hara and their Antilles Airboats airlines that connected the islands of the Virgin group; and Socha Svender, a sculptress of fascinating creations. In addition, this work includes accounts of the lives of Ward Canaday, American industrialist and Crucian farmer; Frederik "Africanus" Svane, a Danish-African who left his home on the Gold Coast to serve in the household of Ludvig von Holberg, Denmark's greatest writer; Wulff Joseph Wulff, a Dane who lived his life and founded a family on the African Gold Coast; and Juan Garrido, perhaps the first African to set foot on St. Croix who later rode at the side of Hernán Cortes as he conquered Mexico. Also there are stories of local Pirates, Maroons, Jumbies, Carib Indians, and Obeah, along with a sketch of Virgin Islands culture. Attention is given to the recent Palestinian immigrants to these islands and to the complex relationship among Anna Heegaard, Peter von Scholten, and Anna's present Danish descendents. Finally, the author revisits the controversial question of the Columbus landing at Salt River in 1493. This book opens the door for the curious newcomer to the Virgin Islands who desires to become acquainted with these endlessly fascinating islands, and at the same time, it provides new insights to those long familiar with the local culture and history.

Sea Grapes and Kennips: The Story of Christiansted Town and Its People

History

Highfield, Arnold R.

Americas

An encyclopedic-styled study of the history of the Danish West Indies with more than 900 entries, all of which are cross referenced and sourced. This work covers people, events, useful terminology, cultural items, and much more. Covers the time from before Columbus through the American period.

The Cultural History of the American Virgin Islands and the Danish West Indies: A Companion Guide

Arnold R. Highfield

Time Longa' Dan Twine (Time's Longer than Twine) is an expression that reflects the wisdom of the people and culture of the Virgin Islands, meaning, in one sense, that the things of the world always dwarf the things of man. Virgin Islands scholar Arnold R. Highfield has taken this admonition as his starting point and his guide in his quest to reveal the foundations of local history. In these pages you will follow in the wake of Columbus on his second Caribbean voyage, visit the indigenous folk who lived here hundreds of years before his coming, feel the force of powerful hurricanes, take part in the early settlement of these islands by small bands of settlers, travel from Africa across the Atlantic on board abominable slave ships, and learn ultimately to appreciate the culture that was created over several centuries in the encounter between Europeans and Africans in the context of a plantation society dedicated to the production of sugar and rum. You will meet fascinating individuals whose lives have emerged from this vast story, people who dared look beyond the limitations that life and circumstances imposed upon them in order to travel the earth and to experience life to the fullest—ambassadors, athletes, adventurers, intellectuals, planters, and common folk. You will walk under the mighty spirit trees, among plantation ruins, through deserted sugar-mills, and along the streets of time-worn colonial towns. In a word, you will experience in these pages a Virgin Islands that has never before been so fully revealed. Arnold R. Highfield is Professor Emeritus of Linguistics and Social Sciences at the University of the Virgin Islands, St. Croix Campus. Among his numerous publications are St. Croix 1493, The Kamina Folk, The French Dialect of St. Thomas, Hans West's Accounts of St. Croix in the West Indies, J. L. Carstens' St. Thomas in Early Danish Times, Theoretical Orientations in Creole Studies, Under a Taino Moon, Sea Grapes and Kennips, Crucian Recollections, and St. Croix 1650–1733.

Time Longa' Dan Twine: Notes on the Culture, History, and People of the U.S. Virgin Islands

Highfield, Dr. Arnold R.

The diary of a young businessman on the island of St. Croix Danish West Indies (now US Virgin Islands), detailing his experiences and impressions of his first year of island life, recording the sights, sounds, observations and experiences over a period of almost 12 months, starting with the first entry on January 1, 1886.

Yankee Trader

Merwin, Robert Lorin

Yankee trader: The Diary of Robert Lorin Merwin, St. Croix, Danish West Indies 1886

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