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N°259 - December 6, 2012 2012 6, December - N°259 W

ACCENT ON THE HERITAGE OF SAINT BARTH

An interwiew with Romon Beal and a photo portfolio highlight the island's heritage week. Weekly 259:Mise en page 1 06/12/12 10:04 Page2

2 St Barth Weekly n°259 Rotary Club Benefit Auction

he Rotary Club of Saint Jaeger from Diamond Genesis Barthélemy is holding a and Carat, a watch with dia- Tbenefit gala on Saturday, monds from Bulgari, as well December 15 at the Christopher as a gold Saint Barth medal- Hotel, including an auction open lion by Donna del Sol, jew- to the public beginning at els from Cartier, cigars and 5:30pm. “Businesses on the island a humidor from Casa del really made an effort. There are Habana, Camus Cognac wonderful items to bid on,” from CCPF, paintings by assures François Tressières, presi- Francis Eck and Kay Quat- dent of the Rotary Club of Saint trocchi, a model boat from Barthélemy. The funds raised will Sea Memory, and an elec- allow this local service club to tric car and scooter from help finance its community serv- FBM Garage. There is ice projects, in favor of the Hospi- also a silent auction during the gala tal de Bruyn, among others. dinner with items from restaurants Ski Pilou, 10-day Mini Cooper and hotels including Do Brazil, La rental from Turbe, and others. Numerous businesses on the Table de Jules, Les Boucaniers, island donated very generously to Nikki Beach, Baie des Anges, For additional information, please the auction, including watches by Guanahani, Carl Gustaf, and Le call Abigaël Leese Audemars Piguet, Tonneau, and Sereno, a ½ day boat cruise with at 06 90 59 09 31 Weekly 259:Mise en page 1 03/12/12 19:18 Page3 Weekly 259:Mise en page 1 03/12/12 19:18 Page4

4 St Barth Weekly n°259 ACCENT ON THE HERITAGE OF SAINT BARTH From November 26-December 2, the island’s architecture, patois, culture, and natural heritage were showcased. The Collectivity, in con- who haven’t lived on junction with various the island very long to ROMON BEAL: associations on the discover its culture,” island, organized Saint adds Jacques. But in the Barth’s first “heritage long run, “Perhaps it AN OLD SALT days” from November will work in the other 26 through December 2. For many years Romon Beal exported salt from direction as well. That Saint Barth aboard his schooner. On Thursday, The goal was “a cultural new arrivals participate November 29 he was invited to share his stories exchange between long- in order to share their at the Wall House Museum as part of a cultural term residents on the culture as well,” she heritage week. island and more recent postures. We wanted to arrivals,” explains not only highlight tradi- Micheline Jacques, tional architecture but president of the cultural also local crafts, lan- commission. “The her- guage, and natural heritage days allow people itage.”

“I have some really boat full of salt. good stories,” Romon Speaking of salt, Beal Beal recounts. Young in transported it almost all spirit for a nonagenari- of his life. His father, an, Beal loves to tell his William Beal, was the stories and he still has a last person to exploit darn good memory. He the 12 salt flats in remembers everything. Saline, as late as 1971. Names, places, dates… Salt was produced dur- Like that day in June ing the dry period, from 1940 when Beal arrived January through July. in the Dominican To extract the harvest, Republic to pick up a the women of Saint cargo of meat. “Paris Barth plunged their just fell into the hands hands into the salt, risk- of the Germans,” he ing burns and chapping. recalls. But was he con- They preferred to work cerned with the events in the early morning to in France? No, his busi- avoid the hot sun. In ness continued as one week they collected planned that day, and he salt in one square of the set sail as usual with a flats. And the salt was Weekly 259:Mise en page 1 03/12/12 19:18 Page5

trator knew it was time. He said to me, my dear Beal, that’s enough, you need to retire,” recalls Beal with a smile. “The salt of Saint Barth was sold in Guadeloupe and in Martinique but residents of the island used it as well. Primarily to conserve meat and fish, as there was no electricity until the mid-60s so there weren’t any refrig- erators on the island. And salt also permitted the export of fish,” loaded onto the the voyage depended on you can’t fool around notes Beal. At least schooner “Roman the wind. Sometimes it with the sea. I experi- until the early 70s when Beal,” that William took 24 hours. Other enced a hurricane, here, the concession for Beal had named after times, three or four days in the harbor, with the Saline was finished. his oldest child. “No one at least,” notes the for- crew on board. But we And with it, came the wanted to go to Saline mer captain. Beal navi- held on. I never lost a end of salt production in to get the salt, they all gated throughout the man,” he asserts. “Even Saint Barth. said no, it was too dan- Caribbean, from Puerto the maritime adminis- gerous. But I went and Rico to British, French, got it easily,” Beal and Dutch Guyana, from recalls today with his Trinidad to the Virgin soft voice and a slight Islands. He later went drawl. As for the through the Panama schooner named for Canal on another boat, him, Beal was eventual- since in 1960 Beal lost ly its owner and skipper, his schooner in the port proud to have gotten his of Gustavia. The boat license in 1945. He was did not survive hurri- at the helm, with a crew cane Donna, which dev- of 10 or 12, and 80 tons astated Saint Barth 35 of merchandise heading years to the day before toward Guadeloupe or hurricane Luis. With his Martinique, where the brother Henri, Beal salt from Saint Barth replaced the old sailing was sold. It was bought, schooner with a cargo right on the dock, by the ship—complete with merchants: Cottrel in motor—purchased in Fort-de-France, Der- Norway. He continued avin, primarily, in to navigate, and trans- Pointe-à-Pitre. “We sold port salt, for several all the merchandise at more years. “With the same time,” says almost 30 years of Beal with a smile. The working, all that was left boat returned to Saint for me to do was retire,” Barthélemy with differ- he explains. “And you ent cargo, from rum to have to know when to cognac. “The length of stop,” he adds. “And Weekly 259:Mise en page 1 03/12/12 19:18 Page6

6 St Barth Weekly n°259 SAINT BARTH HERITAGE WEEK Photos : Rosemond Gréaux

A presentation of medicinal plants by students of the Mireille Choisy junior high school. A demonstration by the Ouanalao Girls majorettes in front of the Wall House musuem, opening heritage week on Sunday, November 25.

"The Story Of Salt In St Barthélemy," with partici- pants François Querrard (left) on the fabrication salt baskets, and Romon Beal on the exploitation of salt.

Making of traditional kites, led by the Lézards des Cayes Association.

ALC (Association Le Corossol) orgnized a straw-weaving work- shop on Wednesday, November 28

First annual singing of Christmas carols on the dock. Weekly 259:Mise en page 1 03/12/12 19:18 Page7

St Barth Weekly n°259 7 COOL PAPER, HOT PICTURES

A New Book, The Eye Of Saint Barth, A Ten-Year Retrospective On The Work of Jean-Philippe Piter In Saint Barthélemy

eductive shapes, a luxury 2013 edition has just come out). of light… For the past 10 S years, photographer Jean- Saint Barth as a metaphor for Philippe Piter has turned his lens the female form, or is it the oth- toward Saint Barth. His images er way around… one image that magnify the beauty of the pearl plays upon this metaphor sees of the Caribbean, its voluptuous Venus appearing from the water curves, enhanced by the equally in Saline. Marco Glaviano, the seductive shapes of the magnifi- renowned fashion photographer, cent models that pose nude for has also taken many images on Piter, who has two passions in the island: “Marco Glaviano is life: Saint Barthélemy and one of my inspirations. Like women. The two are united in a Patrick Demarchelier,” asserts handsome new book, The Eye Of Piter. “I was still in photogra- Saint Barth, available at Clic phy school in Marseille, when I Gallery in Gustavia, where discovered their work In maga- Piter’s large-format images are first nine editions of Pure, an zines. I noticed two small words also on exhibit. These photos, for annual magazine about Saint in the captions: Saint Barth. I the most part, are taken from the Barth published by Piter (the didn’t even know where that Weekly 259:Mise en page 1 03/12/12 19:18 Page8

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was,” Piter recalls. He then not the technique that’s the most years ago. Patrick Demarchelier worked as an assistant to important, it’s the interaction,” he helped him get his foot in the Dominique Isserman and Jacques says. “You have to be able to sur- door by authorizing Piter to pub- Dirand, a master of design and prise your model. That also goes lish one of his photographs on architecture photography, as well for the portraits that Piter has the cover of the first edition of as Yann Arthus-Bertrand, work- been taking for the past 10 years. Pure, in 2005. Since then, Piter ing with him in his studio on the Island figures such as Louis- has split his time between pub- celebrated animal series. Piter Joseph Lédée, or celebrities such lishing his magazine and com- has had images published in as Nicole Kidman, Rupert Mur- missions for private photo shoots. numerous magazines including doch, Johnny Halliday, Giorgio “I produced this book with a lot Citizen K, W, Vanity Fair, and Armani, Jimmy Buffett… You of love for Saint Barthélemy,” he Vogue. certainly need the right keys to notes. “To maintain the image of open these doors, especially to the island that I knew when I first But even if he evokes the names get a true portrait, one that got here. Since then, it has really of the great fashion photogra- reflects this level of people who changed,” he sincerely worries. phers, the runway is not Piter’s frequently want to control their Hoping that in fact it will never cup of tea. He prefers a more per- images. “Even if I have help,” lose its beauty. sonal milieu. “I worked all day considers Pier, “In Saint Barth, with people who didn’t even they feel good, they are relaxed. know my first name. They barely They are more likely to be in the A book signing for even spoke to me,” he remem- mood to be photographed. Many The Eye of Saint-Barth bers. But for Piter, personal con- of these shots, I wouldn’t be able will take place at Clic Gallery, tact and relationships are primor- to do any place else,” he feels. rue de la République, dial. That is his key to success à Gustavia, when photographing a nude. “It’s Piter first came to Saint Barth 15 on Saturday, December 29 Weekly 259:Mise en page 1 03/12/12 19:18 Page9

9 St Barth Weekly n°259 Happy 101st Birthday Dancing With Marie-Christine Lucile Lesley Charters Cotton Magras (née Laplace) celebrated her 101st birthday at her home on Wednesday, November 28. She was born in Saint Jean in 1911, and always lived in Saint Barth where her parents had a farm and sold milk. Then she met her future hus- band, Augustin “Bertin” Magras, a sailor. Mother of seven children, as well as grandmother and great-grandmother, she was surrounded by members of her family and close friends on this very special occasion. Leslie Charters Cotton from Mon- treal, who winters in Saint Barth, AMC Grocery Store in Gustavia has returned for the season and is once again offering her free dance Celebrates 50 Years lessons on Sundays from 4pm-5pm Late Saturday after- at LeVillage St Barth (Village St noon on the rue de la Jean). "This class will be different République, the staff of each week. It is designed for begin- the supermarket orga- ners or especially for anyone who nized a flash mob for loves to move to music. There will the large public that be no partners and no toes to step came to celebrate the on. It is a perfect place to dance store's 50th anniversary. with a great view of St Jean Bay and a refreshing breeze that comes into the space. There are places to sit and rest for those who want to take it easy. We will begin with a romantic Quick Step routine and move onto Rock-n-Roll. Future classes will include Rumba, Samba, Merengue, and Waltz." says Cotton. Let's dance! Weekly 259:Mise en page 1 03/12/12 19:18 Page10

St Barth Weekly n°258 10 TIME OUT IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII Where to go dancing? See an art exhibit? Listen to live music? Time Out keeps you up to date on local happenings. Let’s party ! Yo-One + Pole Dancing Bagatelle Restaurant Yacht Club, Gustavia Live Music By Cristina + Fire Show - DJ Yo One Sutter at Q Saturday December 8 Q Through December 15 by Cyril & Wild Side Bonito, Gustavia Night with DJ K-Rism at -Anduze, soul singer from Fashion Show - Lunch with Live Music Yacht Club, Gustavia 9pm to midnight, - Soley for Sunset & Din- with Robb, from 1pm at Q Wednesday Dec. 12 Bete A Z’Ailes, Gustavia ner, at Do Brazil, Gustavia Mango, Christopher Hotel «Laisse parler les Gens» Q Thursday December 6 - Acoustic guitar with - Soley at 8pm at Les Bou- with DJ EyeDol at Yacht - DJ Yo One Sutter at Robb, from7 to 9pm caniers, Gustavia Club, Gustavia Bonito, Gustavia at Isle de France, Q Sunday, December 9 - Diner Cabaret with Flamands - Brunch with Robb, show girls at Ti St Barth - DJ Maxx (Resident DJ Acoustic, 11am, Fashion Show - Live Music with Nikki beach) at Bonito, @ Toiny Hotel Q Daily Fashion Shows Christian, from 7pm at Gustavia - Jazz Manouche, from - Fashion Show: every Taïno, Christopher Hotel Q Saturday December 8 8:30pm at Bonito, Gustavia lunch & dinner, La Plage, - Live music & Fire Show, - Rock & Salsa Evenin, - Lunch on the beach St Jean Nikki Beach, St Jean from 8pm at Ti Zouk K’fé, with DJ Yo-One, Q Every Tuesday Q Friday December 7 Gustavia La Plage Restaurant 6:30pm: Fashion show by - Music live from 8pm - DJ Yo One Sutter at - Diner with Dj Greg the pool, from the bou- with Lawrence Cooley Bonito, Gustavia @ La Plage Restaurant tique at the Isle de at Bonito, Gustavia - Bikini Brunch, from - Lunch : Pirate of France - Ladys Night from 9pm 12pm until 5pm, Caribean party with DJ at Bagatelle Restaurant, DJ Yo-One @ La Plage Maxx-C at Nikki Beach, Gustavia Restaurant, St Jean St Jean Exhibitions - I Love Friday! With Dj - Disco Party from 8pm at Q Monday, December 10 Q Through December 31 - Chic &Deep House at Jean-Yves Lefort at Ti St Barth, Pointe Milou Les Artisans, Gustavia, Q Tuesday, December 11 Q Through December 16th - Dinner Live Music with Thais Beltrame, "Finding Robb from 8:30pm, Home", an exhibition of Ti Zouk K’fé, Gustavia work by the Brazilian - Soley for Sunset & Din- Artist at St Bart Gallery ner from 5pm at Do Val’n Team Gallery, Tom Brazil, Gustavia beach Hôtel, St Jean - Diner Cabaret with - Space SBH presents Michel and his staff are happy to welcome you show girls at Ti St Barth, an exhibition of work to their pool-side restaurant for lunch & dinner. Pointe Milou by Argentinian artist Q Wednesday Dec. 12 Andres Waissman. Holiday special, in addition to our regular menu. - Diner Cabaret with Q Permanent Exhibitions Lobsters Fresh From The Tank show girls at Ti St Barth, - Alain le Chatelier, 100 g for 7,00 euros Pointe Milou Dave Stevenson, - Cabaret evening, Les Artisans, Gustavia Paris / St Barth Folies - Photography by Wolf- at Nikki Beach, St Jean gang Ludes, Jean-Philippe - Soley from 8pm at PaCri Piter, Antoine Verglas at Tawana Hotel, Flamands Clic Bookstore and Gallery, Gustavia - Tony Caramanico at Clic Night Club Gallery, Gustavia Q - Group show at Pipiri Thursday December 6 Palace, Gustavia Deep House with Dj Lau- - Rose Murray, Comptoir rent Perrier at du Cigare, Gustavia Yacht Club, Gustavia Q - Sculptures by Timothy Friday December 7 Holmes, Comptoir Hôtel Baie des Anges • Flamands • 0590 27 63 61 Night with DJ K-Rism at du Cigare, Gustavia Weekly 259:Mise en page 1 03/12/12 19:18 Page11

St Barth Weekly n°259 11 I Classified ads Looking for This relatively flat plot Experienced of 1000 m² land, on personal VIP which stands a small chauffeur working villa that needs to be in Monaco looking torn down, is located in for a private posi- the desirable heights of tion in Europe or Lurin and near Gou- the United States. verneur Beach. A great Available immedi- opportunity to build a ately.Tel: dream villa. Contact : 06 82 24 66 71 or St. Barth Properties [email protected] Sotheby’s International Realty: 0590 29 75 05 Real Estate This nice commercial Set in a serene hilltop space, available for setting is this lovely 1 lease in a well main- bedroom villa situated tened area in the center in Grand Cul-de-Sac. of Gustavia, is located The property features a in a complex with other pretty garden in the well-known boutiques. rear, and there is ample Contact : parking for two vehi- St. Barth Properties cles. Contact : Sotheby’s International I Emergency numbers St. Barth Properties Realty: 0590 29 75 05 Sotheby’s International Rescue At Sea 05 90 27 57 58/ 06 90 64 08 07 Realty: 0590 29 75 05 Gendarmerie 05 90 27 11 70 Hospital 05 90 27 60 35 Fire dept. 18 / 05 90 27 62 31 Doctor on call 05 90 90 13 13 Pharmacy Airport 05 90 27 66 61 Gustavia 05 90 27 61 82 Saint Jean 05 90 29 02 12 Published by "Le Journal de Saint-Barth" I Useful numbers ISSN-1766-9278 -Ph. : 05.90.27.65.19 Tourism office 05 90 27 87 27 Harbour 05 90 27 66 97 [email protected] Boat company Voyager 05 90 87 10 68 Director & layout : Avigaël Haddad Airlines companyWinair 05 90 27 61 01 Chief Editor: Hugo Lattard SB Commuter 05 90 27 54 54 Air Caraïbes 05 90 27 71 90 English texts & Translations : Ellen Lampert Greaux American Airlines 005995452040 Photos : Rosemond Gréaux Taxis Gustavia 05 90 27 66 31 Advertising director : Avigaël Haddad Saint-Jean 05 90 27 75 81 Advertising : Nabil 0690 770 070 Town Hall 05 90 29 80 40 Impression :Prim Services EDF (electricity company office) 05 90 29 80 81 Water system 05 90 27 60 33 www.stbarthweekly.com Marine Reserve 06 90 31 70 73 Weekly 259:Mise en page 1 03/12/12 19:18 Page12