The Island That Doesn’t Need a Smoke Monster
Yucahu (also Jocahu), Petroglyph, Th Fountain Cavern, 1985
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Anguilla
Where Two Skies Meet
There are places on earth where the sky tells you something it won’t say anywhere else. Anguilla is one of them. The island sits at roughly 18 degrees north latitude — close enough to the equator that on certain nights, at certain times of year, something rare becomes visible to anyone standing on its southern
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From Pawn to Prince
Anguilla has now found itself touched by two revolutions in less than sixty years. The first was political. The second is technological. Both changed the island’s relationship with the world. In 1967, Anguilla rebelled against a forced political union with St. Kitts and Nevis. Men took up defensive positions along the island’s roads and coastline.
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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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