I want to be a thatcher man

The author is a native Virgin islander who grew up on the cusp of change between the traditional way of life and the social change to a prosperous economy. She has always held a fascination with the old way of life and all the things she was told that she was too small to do as a child - go to the ghut to wash clothes, go to the well for water, go on the bar fishing. She longed for those experiences not seeing them as drudgery, but as something exciting. Today Janice is a retired librarian who realized that not much was recorded about life in the Virgin Islands. She decided that before the information completely disappeared, she would record some of it for future generations of Virgin Islanders. Janice is a widow having lost her husband in January 2017 and her home in Hurricane Irma in September of the same year. She resides in her ancestral family home with her sister.