Model Boats
Mauvin’s Model Boat Shop
Address: Port Elizabeth, Bequia
St. Vincent, W.I.
Tel: (784) 458-3669
Sargeant Bros. Model Boats
Address: Port Elizabeth,
Bequia
St. Vincent, W.I.
Tel: (784) 458-3344
Offering authentically detailed wooden boats by craftsmen, that carry on in miniature the Bequia boat building tradition. They can also create a model from photos or plans, even creating HMY Britannia for presentation to the Queen on her visit in 1985. Not to be missed!
Music
**SVG Carnival **
St. Vincent and the Grenadines National Anthem
“Only in Bequia" – by Socony Windows Media 1.6MB
There are a number of good Bequia bands like Farine, The Elite Steel Band, The Country Relatives and the local string band – J.Gool & De Real Ting – who perform at various venues around the island almost every week. Check “Bequia This Week" , an informative weekly newsletter courtesy of Outhouse Graphics (pdf). Other acts like Kool Runnings, Twilight, Colin Peters & Brown Sugar, The Bequia Blues Band, and Socony, round out the musical offerings.
Publications
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“Bequia Sweet, Sweet" – Pat Mitchell
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“Bequia Reflections" – Julie Savage Lea
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Sailors Guide to the Windward Islands
by Chris Doyle
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Books of
Poetry by Silma Duncan
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The Complete Diving Guide
The Caribbean
(Vol. 1) Dominica, Martinique, St. Lucia, St Vincent & The Grenadines, Grenada, Tobago, Barbados
by Colleen Ryan, Brian Savage
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Scrimshaw Art in BequiaBy Norma Faria
(Caribbean Compass March 1998)
Galleries
Claude Victorine’s
Art Gallery Lower Bay
paintings on silk by Claude, watercolors by Louloune
Spring Pottery & Studio is moving to Level
contact Mike & Maggie
Oasis Art Gallery – Pt. Elizabeth
contact L.D. Lucy
featuring model boats-that-sail, paintings by LD
Lucy, prints and island souvenirs
The Banana Patch Studio – Paget Farm
Sam McDowell offering scrimshaw knives, paintings of whaling &
Bequia
Jolie Gallery
Prints of original paintings by Julie Savage Lea
History
Gem of the Antilles (from Argon Limited)
“ALONE IN THE CARIBBEAN" Frederic A. Fenger (1917)
A
Tribute to Athneal Ollivierre by Horace Beck
(Caribbean Compass August 2000)
St. Vincent
and the Grenadines Genealogy Research