Pa Wes’ health continued to deteriorate, and Grandma Bessie made the decision to seek treatment in Nassau. Not knowing what the future would hold, she sold the homestead in Green Turtle Cay and with her son (my dad) and her dad (Pa Wes), set sail for Nassau, the country’s capital
Today, Dad celebrates his centennial birthday in heaven, a milestone that fills my heart with both reverence and gratitude. He remains the guiding inspiration behind Out Island Boy, a testament to the captivating stories he shared from his boyhood on Green Turtle Cay. Those recollections of a tight-knit New Plymouth
At the close of the nineteenth century, on the remote Bahamian island settlement of Governor’s Harbour, Eleuthera, my maternal grandmother, Amy A. Griffin, was born to Thomas Griffin and Mabel (Hall) Griffin. During this primitive medical era, Thomas and Mabel experienced the loss of four children, leaving Amy as the youngest child with older siblings,
