The Summer the World Came Calling

In the summer of 1967, the island of Anguilla had just done something impossible. Six thousand people on thirty-five square miles of limestone had expelled the St. Kitts police force, held a referendum that went 1,813 to 5, and declared themselves a republic. They had no army, no navy, no international recognition, and almost no […]

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The Buccaneer of Anguilla

David C. Berglund arrived on Anguilla in the 1960s because the island needed a veterinarian and Dave needed somewhere that wouldn’t try to contain him. He was from Chicago. He flew his own planes. He grew hydroponic lettuce in Quonset huts before anyone had heard of vertical farming. He built furniture from experimental plastic composites

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