What Kingston bed and breakfast guests share over dinner
Research is one of the reasons persons travel to Jamaica's capital city, Kingston, and Neita's Nest has had the pleasure of hosting guests who come to gather more on our history and culture. Over the years, this has included research on our track and field heroes, our international relations, our natural environment and even on their own geneology rooted right here in this country.
At the end of a day spent in libraries and museums, in archives and at conferences, in churches and their graveyards, and of interviews with some of our icons, the most interesting dinner conversaitons take place right here on our verandah.
Nowadays, as guests from all over mingle, the usual opening lines have more often than not been about the dead cold winters in the north, with guests from Boston and Wisconsin exchanging notes. We hear of the pleasant adjustment of experiencing a 90 degree increase in temperature from one end of a 4-hour flight to another.
Brrr!! Come visit us anytime!
But conversations with our guests coming from less severe climes, like Texas, where the average temperature in mid-February is 60 degrees, can be a lot different.
Not surprising then, with Out of Many, One People being our National Motto, the conversation with our guest, David, got into the common heritage Jamaica shares with the United States, that of being colonised by Europeans. The conversation topic went on to geneology, and the research this guest did because the spelling of his surname was unusual.
Brrr!! Come visit us anytime!
But conversations with our guests coming from less severe climes, like Texas, where the average temperature in mid-February is 60 degrees, can be a lot different.
Not surprising then, with Out of Many, One People being our National Motto, the conversation with our guest, David, got into the common heritage Jamaica shares with the United States, that of being colonised by Europeans. The conversation topic went on to geneology, and the research this guest did because the spelling of his surname was unusual.
 | Well, guess what he figured out from al the records available? His great grandmother changed the spelling of the family name because his great grandfather was a cousin of none other than Clyde Barrow of Bonnie and Clyde infamy! We all have a little excitement in our family history, and it can certainly be fun to dig a little deeper sometimes. |
