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Article: St. Thomas: The swinging Virgin // For tourists, it's a hot spot of Caribbean
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- September 14, 1986
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CHARLOTTE AMALIE, U.S. Virgin Islands The old man stood alone on a
St. Thomas hillside overlooking Charlotte Amalie and a reddening
horizon. Sailboats nudged by trade winds moved gracefully through
the bay. In the harbor, inter-island steamers were unloading produce
and huge cruise liners stood at anchor.
The old man blinked. His watery eyes swept the hillside and the
town he remembered from other days and other times - quieter, more
contented times. When he was a boy, the Virgin Islands slumbered
peacefully in the hot Caribbean sun. The tourist was still a
stranger and on his island only three hotels welcomed guests:
Bluebeard's, the Grand and Hotel 1829.
The old man swam in the harbor ...