"If a man dwells on the past, then he robs the present. But if a man ignores the past, he may rob the future. The seeds of our destiny are nurtured by the roots of our past." - Kwai Chang Caine (Kung Fu).

Friday 2 August 2019

The Eugenia Campo Photo.

Earlier today I posted the photo of Eugenia Campo in the sidebar. I previously had serious reservations about making it public. After some email discussions with my Co-Admin Patrick Vella, who is a relative of mine through the Govias, Patrick only had three words to say, "Go for it!" Hardly advice I could ignore.

While it's possible, even likely that someone else in the family has a copy, I got this original from a family album before I left Trinidad to migrate to Australia in February 1974. The handwritten note (which I'm pretty certain is my father's handwriting) on the back said it was taken in 1927, and the setting is obviously "Down the Islands", and almost certainly Gaspar Grande, or "Gasparee".

I privately passed it on to some relatives through emails in the past, but I thought it best to make it public and available to others who may not have seen it.

I previously provided some historical background to Eugenia Campo in a post done in 2015, which explains why I  describe her as Carib/Arawak.

Eugenia Campo