The Patriarch and stories in the street
Simeon Liburd is the farther of Kenneth Liburd (Duce) Duce was the father of my father Elvis Charles (Doucie)
Doucie or Angela is what they call me on market street.
Simeon was a bus driver and a mechanic of Stapleton Village close to the reservoir he used to live and Annie Charles lived in Stapleton as well.
So my father from Stapleton Proper!
This morning I walking nice and I saw and elder coming from a strange place but he was coming with the joy of morning so I slow down and walked with him.
He is going to his garden
I don’t see much growing but
It’s something to do
Walking by the airport I didn’t realize how high the road is at the entrance of the airport.
Is you go to far on the edge you can fall off
He said they had to raise it up because the trains use to pass under it. You see I belong to the needmus estate because I am from conaree.
Mr. We had more than one train?
He laugh
Yes
For some reason I thought we only had one train in the whole of St.Kitts carrying all the Cain so everyone body has to put all di cane deh cut into one train
I work these fields for years girls But we don’t have feels again. Look up monkey hill dere was fields
Where you from monkey Hill…
My father is from Monkey Hill
You know Simeon Liburd and Douce
Dem me people, he is an aged man he might know them.
Yea Simeon was a mechanic and His son Douce was a mechanic as well. Simeon use to drive a bus and Douce had a truck… I wonder if the truck Doucie had was his fathers truck
Tell me about him, I have one picture but I don’t know much about him. Tell me what you know about dem
He sling his hand over my shoulder and smile dis young girl gave his morning purpose and he told me stories about my
Father’s father and my father’s father father.
Every elder is a treasure and a living library of the lived history of St.Kitts and Nevis
The lived heritage!
