ABOUT ME
Joy Lawrence OH is an educator, author of several books on Antigua & Barbuda’s folklore and history, and a poet. Her latest book Barbuda and Betty’s Hope: the Codrington Connection was released on 7 April 2015. Her first was Island Spice in 1996. Other publications include The Footprints of Parham: the History of a Small Antiguan Town and its Influence, The Way We Talk and other Antiguan Folkways, Caribbean Creoles, and Bethesda and Christian Hill our History and Culture. Her historical interest developed after learning that Bethesda, the village from which she hails, was home to the first slave school in the British West Indies. She continues her quest to document our history one village at a time by turning her attention to the Point area.
