That’s the spirit. The magic, which for Junkanoo goes way deeper than a masked parade. Junkanoo speaks to the very soul of a people, a kaleidoscopic expression of cultural emancipation, the thumping heartbeat of a people displaced from their african motherland, then mixed up like conch salad with all the other ingredients of our Bahamian uniqueness. This same spirit is still alive today, jumping from one decade to the next, pulsating in our blood, “rushing” through our DNA like a troupe on Bay Street, boom, boom, boom, the children of our children shouting the timeless encore,“They comin! They comin!”

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The sun beats down overhead, and a welcome breeze rolls over the skinny island’s ridge, rustling the casuarinas and sweeping through the old bay windows of The Haynes Library, where musty novels and nautical maps now share the same space as computers and cafe lattes. Built in 1897, with glorious views of the azure harbour, this marvelously-maintained colonial relic is still open for business as a fully operational library and Internet cafe with many a tale to tell. Read on…

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