In today’s Sunday Gleaner, Barbara Nelson reviews Yolanda N. Mittoo’s Falmouth Of My Childhood, a book about Mittoo’s childhood memories of life in Falmouth, the capital of Trelawny.
In the introduction to the 227-page book, she notes that many of the older folks in her grandmother’s and mother’s age group have passed on without recording the Falmouth they knew as children. So, now that she has “joined the older folk and may also ‘soon pass on’,” she was prompted to tell the history of that time … more here
September 7th, 2011 at 8:36 pm
Where can I find this book?
October 30th, 2011 at 10:23 pm
I agree with the writer that it is important for the seniors to leave some information about how things was when there were growing up in Jamaica. That’s what Backyardlabrish is all about, ‘Leaving a living legacy’ from the people who lived it. I would love to have Ms Mittoo as a guest on my radio show. Hope she will get in touch with me soon at: backyardlabrish@yahoo.com