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A publication made in the Caribbean
Virgin Voice is a publication that celebrates the culture, lifestyle and commerce of the U.S.and British Virgin Islands and Old San Juan Puerto Rico. It's not some travel writer's concept of the region. It's written by people who actually live here.
Hope you like this on line version of our full color gloss magazine called Virgin Voice. Please email me at mcurley@islands.vi with your comments.
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| In Resort Reviews |
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Low key luxe at Biras Creek Resort
I’ve enjoyed high tea in London, slept at the Gritti Palace in Venice, and know that five stars aren’t all about generals.
Luxurious escapes are an indulgence. But often there’s that accompanying ache from too much conspicuous consumption and foolish formalities.
Some of us just want to slip into a relaxing realm - in a sublime setting of course - and connect or disconnect according to whim.
Biras Creek Resort, on a stunning peninsula, off Virgin Gorda’s North Sound, provides guests with a rare opportunity to feel in their own skin again.
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Heritage Inn: Authentic Island experience
Bananakeet Café at Heritage Inn in Tortola was the scene of an international photo shoot in April. Photographers arrived before the dinner guests to snap plates prepared by the restaurant’s Grenadian chef William “Spice” Mitchell, and the dining room’s sunset views of Carrot Bay and neighboring Jost Van Dyk, and other bays and cays.
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| In Antiques & Artifacts |
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Mortars milk: history speaks in stone
They may just seem like walls to us, but they are really windows to our past
Some are crumbling onback streets with trails of wandering
ivy creeping on their cracked stucco. Others have been
restored by architectural historians and stone masons. Restoration on the islands is an ongoing effort
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Investing in cultural creations
he’s traveled around the world and is now back home, promoting Virgin Islands crafts and culture in Frederiksted St. Croix.
Millie Calvin was born in St. Thomas, but moved to New York, where she finished high school, worked as a show room model, earned a degree in business management and accounting from Baruch College and a degree in designing from Parsons School of Design.
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BVI Music Festival in Tortola
Music is the message May 23, 24 and 25 when the BVI Music Fest delivers the sweet sounds of reggae, calypso, jazz, R&B, zouk, and more, on the beach at Tortola’s Cane Garden Bay.
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Thinking globally, acting locally
They don’t fit the fading stereotypes of sprout eating backpackers, wearing Birkenstocks. They’re old and young, artists, entrepreneurs and corporate citizens, from different islands with different, races, genders and social strata.
The only thing they have in common is their desire to conserve our natural resources, and help us live wisely into the 21st century and beyond.
Read on to learn more about members of what we call the region’s green team.
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Canvas and Clay at Mango Tango Gallery
Mango Tango Art Gallery is presenting Canvas and Clay during the month of May at its Yacht Haven Grande location in St. Thomas. The show includes oil paintings of Kathy Carlson and Patty Tacquard and the ceramics of Alison Davis and Merryn MacDonald.
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| In Nature |
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Dragon fruit
Dragon fruit is considered a cactus, though it climbs to sixty feet as a vine. It originates in the Caribbean and South America, and has spread into Asia.
This pink yellow and green cylindrical gourd has large scales that expose a reddish flesh, when peeled. In the Orient, the juice is fermented for a special wine.
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