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Article: We be tourists: museum and outreach days.
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- African Arts
- Article date:
- September 22, 2001
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The roof, the roof, the roof is on fire! We don't have no water, let the whole thing burn!
"Tear Down De Roof" Jam Band, 2001
An astonishing fact: each and every day of the year, the population of St. Thomas swells by 33%. The source of this inflation? As you might have guessed, the behemoth floating condos / food factories / casinos / health clubs (a.k.a. cruise ships) that spew some 20,000 tourists daily onto the crowded streets of the tiny port town of Charlotte Amalie! During the last week in April, they poured off the Princess Sun and sister ships in continuous waves to make a quick dash for diamonds, Rolex watches, and cut-rate liquor--and were ...