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People of the Islands is an oral history research project that seeks to record the unique lifestyles and cultures of people who live on Islands that is vanishing right under our noses.  The goal of the project is to create a permanent, publically accessible collection of interviews about the vanishing lifestyle, traditions and cultures of Islanders.

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Michael P. Pateman, PhD

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Vanessa Forbes-Pateman

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Featured Interviews

James Dean

Luther Ferguson

Thomas Curry

Boat Builder, Blue Hills, Providenciales, Turks and Caicos Islands

Thomas Curry

Luther Ferguson

Thomas Curry

Founder, Platinum Knights Junkanoo Group, Freeport, Grand Bahama, The Bahamas

Luther Ferguson

Luther Ferguson

Luther Ferguson

Boat Builder, Freeport, Grand Bahama, The Bahamas

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Traditionally, in the Turks and Caicos, everyone learned to swim, build model boats on the bay outside their homes and eventually graduated to building or sailing larger Caicos sloops. 

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