November 8, 1915 Attention!!!! listen up magets we are about to go to war o hey my name Major W. D. Neish and i just sent off the first Jamaican contingent to serve in the First World War. Some of you may be killed, many will be wounded, but in bidding you farewell, I hope that those who fall may fall gloriously, their faces to the foe, victory gleaming on their bayonets. band play "Soldiers of the King," will we pray for a safe return. me and my 500 sailed of. The world had been at war for over a year.
Thursday, April 4, 2013
Tragedy at Kendal
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Hello the day is Sunday, September 1, 1957 and im just on my way to Kington from Negril. i am about 100 yards away from the Kingston Railway Station. I see hundreds of members of the Holy Name Society of St. Anne's Roman Catholic Church and 100 known criminals just boarded the train. its about 11:30 and we just took a pit stop. o were leaving now a we are gaining speed. OMG!!!!!! the train just derailed!!!!!
its about 2:00 and im lucky to be alive i have several diffrent broken bones but im happy to be alive. as i wake up i see Fragments of human bodies and scores of twisted metal. I see about 200 people lieing dead, and about 700 sustained injuries. this was the worst rail disaster in Jamaica's history, and the second worst rail disaster in the world at that time
The dead bodies from the tragedy a kendal
Claude McKay: Jamaica's Poet Laureate 1890 – 1948
hi im Festus Claudius McKay and i was born in Clarendon in 1890. My parents are Thomas and Hannah McKay they are farmers. I am the youngest of eleven children and i am one of the leading figures of the Harlem Renaissance. i am an avid reader and i began writing poetry at the age of ten.
1906, i was apprenticed to a cabinetmaker after the trade school i was supposed to attend was destroyed by the 1907 earthquake. In that same year, something far more propitious occurred i acquired a mentor by the name of Walter Jekyll. Jekyll, an Englishman who became an avid collector of Jamaican folklore, encouraged McKay to write in Jamaican dialect.
Claudius McKay
Hurricane of 1780
today is a morning.o hey today is October 3,
1780. the sky is crisp and clear like a typical Jamaican day. my cousin In the southwestern part of jamica said
there was a slight wind and a few intermittent showers, but all in all things
were calm and looking to remain so. at about 12:00 all that changed. Colonel John Dalling who is the governor describes the change of events while in his official
report to London:
"The sky on a sudden became
very much overcast, and an uncommon elevation of the sea immediately followed.
Whilst the unhappy settlers at Savanna-la-Mar were observing this extraordinary
Phenomenon, the sea broke suddenly in upon the town, and on its retreat swept
every thing away with it, so as not to leave the smallest vestige of Man, Beast,
or House behind."
I was kind of nervous when i heard that, but as i look at theocean i can tell that was only the beginning
of the destruction. The catastrophe that i heard the governor talking about was followed by what
many called the most devastating hurricane to have hit the island up to that
point in its history. by about 2:00 buildings on the southwest coast of the island
began to sway back and forth as if they were balancing on a tightrope. Fires
broke out and spread. By 4 p.m. the full force of the hurricane had arrived and
the town of Savanna-la-Mar lay directly in its path. OMG, a mighty wave has
risen out of the boiling sea and is about to sweep over the coast. Along with the
debris of the homes and businesses, two ships and a schooner were carried along
and left stranded among mango trees. that is all isaw before i ran to shelter
The destruction from the hurricane of 1780
The Road To Freedom
Slaves in Jamaica
Martin Luther King Jr. visits Jamaica
Hellomy name is Anthony Allen, and i have a dream that one day Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King will visit Jamaica. i am a medical student at the University of the West Indies, and a member of the Chapel Management Committee. Actually i was one of those people who nominated Dr. King to deliver the sermon at the 1965 valedictory service. On the afternoon of Sunday, June 20, 1965 my dream came true, when Rev. Dr. King arrived in Jamaica with his wife, Coretta. while he was here he gave a speechthat was entitled "Facing the Challenge of a New Age"
"If it falls to our luck to be street-sweepers, sweep the streets, like Raphael painted pictures, like Michaelangelo carved marble, like Shakespeare wrote poetry, and like Beethoven composed music. Sweep the streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth would have to pause and say ... ...Here lived a great street sweeper"
Martin Luther King Arriving in Jamaica
The Earthquake of 1907
Hello the day is Monday,
January 14, 1907 and the timeis 3:30 p.m. i am about to go walking. It looks like a regular day,
sunny and hot with a cloudless sky and a faint breeze. just as was about to leave out the house at 3:32 p.m, a Sudden sound came rushing. it sounds like mighty
winds, followed by the sound of a train roaring in a tunnel and the violent
shaking of the earth. shortly after, while i was running back in the house, i saw men and buildings being tossed about like puppets. all i hear are loud screams that splits the air. I encounter alot terrifing shocks. I waited about a minute or two. when i go back out there thousands lay dead and dying buried beneath mounds of rubble and dust.
at 3:33 p.m. i felt three more shocks and every building in Kingston seemed to have had some damage.
The Damages From The Earthquake Of 1907
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