Category: Green Turtle Cay

CURRY, Thomas Herman (1890-1958)

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Green Turtle Cay’s pineapple industry was in decline by 1890.  The local men turned to the sea to harvest one of nature’s unique creatures, sponges.  The population of this seafaring, loyalist community known as New Plymouth had reached 1500. In April 1890, island residents – my great grandparents – Thomas Wesley Curry (1865-1940?) and Lilla Carleton Curry (1866) anticipated

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Mystery Roberts Photo

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My dad, John Wesley Lowe, enjoyed the simple, carefree island life that Green Turtle Cay, Abaco offered during the 1930s and 1940s.  A meager handful of his tattered photos remain to capture his experiences during that era.  Dad’s eyes gleamed in delight when he reminisced of the summer fun memories

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Boys will be boys

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Perhaps one of the most oft repeated boyhood stories Dad eagerly shared gave us a glimpse into the mischief and tomfoolery on the shores of Green Turtle Cay.   Before the days of television and  other electronics, the “great outdoors” occupied the kids on the Cay.  This particular story occurred amidst the excitement on a sunny, “mail

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