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HISTORY TO HERITAGE: A HERITAGE ASSESSMENT OF TARPUM BAY ELEUTHERA, THE BAHAMAS By KELLY DELANCY A THESIS PRESENTED TO THE GRADUATE SCHOOL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE DEGREE OF MASTER OF ARTS UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA 2015 © 2015 Kelly Delancy To the people of Tarpum Bay and the generations to follow ACKNOWLEDGMENTS This heritage project was co-produced by the members and descendants of the community of Tarpum Bay on the island of Eleuthera and made possible only by their partnership. Francis Carey in particular provided much assistance by not only responding to my research questions, but also by providing the majority of the contacts for other members of the Tarpum Bay community. Among the members of the community who offered their time and valuable insight during the initial stages of this project were James Carey, Priscilla Clarke, Mae Brown and the Honorable Oswald Ingraham. Descendants and extended members of Tarpum Bay who contributed greatly to this project include Dorothy Moncur, Amanda Moncur, William ‘Al’ McCartney, Ivis Carey, Cislyn Simmons, Vashti Simmons, Deitra Delancy, William Delancy, Megan McCartney, Carmen Turner and the Honorable Philip Bethel. This project would not have been possible without their kindness and genuinely cooperative attitudes. At Tarpum Bay, I could not have completed this project without Iris and Herbert Carey, their children and employees at Bert’s for the Best grocery store, Eugene, Julian and Vera Carey, Valdrine, Ruby and Mary Knowles, Qurina and Esther Mingo, Samuel Johnson, Samuel Davis, David Victor Cartwright, Hilda Allen, Henry Allen, Brenda McCartney Carey, Henry McCartney, John McCartney and many other unnamed informants. My sister Lesa Delancy was a huge help in transcribing these interviews as I produced them. Robert and Janice Hall, and Andrew and Ashley Hall were sources of support at Tarpum Bay. I thank them for sharing their experiences of moving to the settlement and for their humor that made my work not feel like work. I am also extremely grateful for my friend, Gabrielle Misiewicz, who also doubled as proofreader. I thank my graduate committee of William Keegan, Charlie Cobb, James Davidson and Dixie Neilson, who were all supportive of my ambition to complete this work within an 4 accelerated timeframe. As a committee chair, William Keegan has gone above and beyond in support of my graduate career and I thank him for his patience and for allowing me the freedom to develop my curiosities. David Steadman was also a great help and a constant advocate of my graduate career. I thank him immensely for believing in me. I am also extremely grateful to the staff at the Samuel Proctor Oral History Program at the University of Florida for accommodating my interests and providing me access to their collections on Bahamian immigrants to Miami. Ryan Morini has been a great mentor and encouragement to me since my arrival at the University of Florida in 2014. I thank professors Whitney Battle-Baptiste and Elizabeth Chilton of the University of Massachusetts Amherst, and Dianne Smith of Sonoma University who were sources of encouragement while in Tarpum Bay, Eleuthera. They also assisted me by sharing past experiences and work, including oral history collections. Finally, I thank Audrey Carey and Shaun Ingraham of the One Eleuthera Foundation, Island Journeys and the Eleuthera Arts and Cultural Centre (EACC) for accommodating my research interests and providing me with an avenue through which to reach the extended community. 5 TABLE OF CONTENTS page ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ...............................................................................................................4 LIST OF TABLES ...........................................................................................................................8 LIST OF FIGURES .........................................................................................................................9 ABSTRACT ...................................................................................................................................10 CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION ..................................................................................................................12 2 A WRITTEN RECORD OF TARPUM BAY, ELEUTHERA ..............................................19 Settlement ...............................................................................................................................19 Society ....................................................................................................................................36 Industry ...................................................................................................................................39 3 PROJECT APPROACH .........................................................................................................51 Project Design .........................................................................................................................55 Methods ..................................................................................................................................58 The Project Area .....................................................................................................................62 Literature Review ...................................................................................................................68 4 JOINT RESEARCH DESIGN AND COMMUNITY COLLABORATION .........................70 5 A COMMUNITY HISTORY OF TARPUM BAY ................................................................74 Settlement ...............................................................................................................................74 Travel and Communications ...................................................................................................82 Society ....................................................................................................................................84 Dialect and Sayings ................................................................................................................97 Industry ...................................................................................................................................99 6 TARPUM BAY COMMUNITY HERITAGE VALUES ....................................................112 7 A TARPUM BAY COMMUNITY FAMILY TREE ...........................................................118 Allen/Knowles Family ..........................................................................................................118 Carey/McCartney Family .....................................................................................................119 Evans/Knowles Family .....................................................................................................120 Ingraham Family ...................................................................................................................120 Nottage Family .....................................................................................................................121 Culmer Family ......................................................................................................................121 6 Mingo Family .......................................................................................................................121 8 CONCLUSIONS AND FUTURE DIRECTIONS ...............................................................122 APPENDIX A ALLEN/KNOWLES FAMILY TREE .................................................................................128 B CAREY FAMILY TREE .....................................................................................................160 C MCCARTNEY FAMILY TREE ..........................................................................................162 D EVANS/KNOWLES FAMILY TREE .................................................................................167 E INGRAHAM FAMILY TREE .............................................................................................168 F NOTTAGE FAMILY TREE ................................................................................................169 G CULMER FAMILY TREE ..................................................................................................170 H MINGO FAMILY TREE .....................................................................................................171 I TARPUM BAY RESEARCH QUESTIONS .......................................................................172 J ORAL HISTORIES CONSULTED .....................................................................................175 LIST OF REFERENCES .............................................................................................................177 BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH .......................................................................................................185 7 LIST OF TABLES Table page 2-1 Early Inhabitants of Eleuthera. ..........................................................................................27 2-2 Chronology of events influencing the development of Eleuthera, Bahamas. ....................33 2-3 Population of South Eleuthera 1940 – 1969. .....................................................................35 8 LIST OF FIGURES Figure page 3-1 Interconnected and overlapping practices within a "collaborative continuum" ................52 3-2 Living heritage approach ...................................................................................................54