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
“Bequia Sweet, Sweet" – Pat Mitchell
“Bequia Reflections" – Julie Savage Lea
Sailors Guide to the Windward Islands
by Chris Doyle
Books of
Poetry by Silma Duncan
The Complete Diving Guide
The Caribbean
(Vol. 1) Dominica, Martinique, St. Lucia, St Vincent & The Grenadines, Grenada, Tobago, Barbados
by Colleen Ryan, Brian Savage
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