Daily Archives March 24, 2013

Clifford Isaac Chang deceased

Keyboards on the pipe-organ powered by bellows at Carmel Moravian Church, Westmoreland, and the old piano and twin pedal organ in the dilapidated wooden building that housed Beersheba Elementary School, New Market, Saint Elizabeth, Jamaica, West Indies; owned and operated by the Moravian Church – reverberated in sweet melody at the touch of the master’s fingers – have never sounded the same since the day that Clifford Isaac Chang, visionary, model teacher, musician, icon, legend, and philanthropist played his last masterpiece and exited the stage much to the regret of church choirs and school choirs that he trained and made them render several masterpieces to the delight of many audiences throughout Jamaica, West Indies over the years.

It is with much s...

George E. Russell, Winston and Marilyn

Samuels named to College of Agriculture and

Life Sciences 2013 Hall of Fame

The spirits of the Samuels and Dennis Ancestors who treaded the hilly terrain of “Dry Hill”, Glenbournie, Westmoreland, one hand holding crocus bags slung over their shoulders and agricultural forks in the fingers, cutlasses (machetes) held firmly in the other hand –tools of their peasant farming livelihood – who resided on the rocky terrain of “Mount Ease”, Flint Valley and Long Ground, Saint Elizabeth, Jamaica, West Indies to Cape Coast Castle, the Atlantic Slave Trade Seaport in G...