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Roland and I meet at the site of the demolition at 1630 hrs. We don our heavy leather gloves and I put on my steel shank boots for protection. The only way into the heart of the matter is to climb over a crushed steel fence and scramble over plywood that has been split against its will by the sheer weight of the crane which looms over the fallen house like a lion hovering over its prey. ]]> Thu, 10 Feb 2005 23:34:44 -0500 http://homepage.mac.com/nicob/iblog/C395831650/E856229815/index.html http://homepage.mac.com/nicob/iblog/C2061879455/E680525970/index.html So yesterday Margot and I go to the site to start to identify and reclaim some of the wood. It's not terribly easy, because there's this great big backhoe sitting on top of the house. ]]> Thu, 10 Feb 2005 23:15:13 -0500 http://homepage.mac.com/nicob/iblog/C2061879455/E680525970/index.html http://homepage.mac.com/nicob/iblog/C1364024922/E162688670/index.html Today is Ash Wednesday. It marks the beginning of forty days and nights of fasting, of discipline. At the end of it, at the Passover feast, Christ looked at the Temple and said that it would be torn down and rebuilt in three days. ]]> Wed, 09 Feb 2005 07:10:08 -0500 http://homepage.mac.com/nicob/iblog/C1364024922/E162688670/index.html http://homepage.mac.com/nicob/iblog/C1364024922/E179007671/index.html Miles Yallop is a consultant at the Ministry of Youth, Sports and Culture (where I work) who's had a vision for houses. It began when he started to restore his own grandmother's, moving in and placing a sign on the house. ]]> Tue, 08 Feb 2005 22:17:23 -0500 http://homepage.mac.com/nicob/iblog/C1364024922/E179007671/index.html http://homepage.mac.com/nicob/iblog/C1364024922/E819202736/index.html My cousin Margot is a carpenter.

Our grandfather, Eddie Bethel, was a carpenter and cabinet maker, the kind of woodworker who did big jobs like houses and little ones like furniture and carving. ]]> Tue, 08 Feb 2005 12:32:10 -0500 http://homepage.mac.com/nicob/iblog/C1364024922/E819202736/index.html http://homepage.mac.com/nicob/iblog/C2061879455/E1630145549/index.html The answer to a problem lies in the problem itself, or so they say.

So a 140-year-old house has been demolished. So it was supposed to be restored. So what? ]]> Tue, 08 Feb 2005 12:21:11 -0500 http://homepage.mac.com/nicob/iblog/C2061879455/E1630145549/index.html http://homepage.mac.com/nicob/iblog/C1364024922/E57428717/index.html

Legend has it that the house was built in the late 1860s, in the wake of the Great Bahama Hurricane that sank a fleet of ships in Nassau Harbour, of wood salvaged from the wrecks. ]]> Mon, 07 Feb 2005 22:58:48 -0500 http://homepage.mac.com/nicob/iblog/C1364024922/E57428717/index.html http://homepage.mac.com/nicob/iblog/C1364024922/E1293998195/index.html Poem written in February 1986 & November 1994 ]]> Mon, 07 Feb 2005 22:55:07 -0500 http://homepage.mac.com/nicob/iblog/C1364024922/E1293998195/index.html http://homepage.mac.com/nicob/iblog/C2061879455/E128578128/index.html On Friday past, driving a visiting scholar to Paradise Island to look for housing, I saw in the distance a man in the southern lane of East Bay Street, redirecting traffic. Beyond him, above the roofs of the houses, was the arm of a Caterpillar backhoe.

"That's in the wrong place," I thought, and hoped it was in the gas station. ]]> Mon, 07 Feb 2005 21:08:19 -0500 http://homepage.mac.com/nicob/iblog/C2061879455/E128578128/index.html http://homepage.mac.com/nicob/iblog/C2061879455/E1686476438/index.html Spence-o-rama ]]> Mon, 07 Feb 2005 00:00:00 -0500 http://homepage.mac.com/nicob/iblog/C2061879455/E1686476438/index.html